Pichu counters

#0172

electricTier 1

Lobby CP

1,858

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

Defense

Difficulty

0.04

Pokebattler scale

Beating Pichu should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 240-270.

Weak toground1.6x

Who to bring

IncludeMega Legendary Shadow

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Weather

★ boosts a type it is weak to

No boost Sunny or clear ★Rainy Partly cloudy Cloudy Windy Snow Fog

Friendship

every trainer in the lobby who is your friend

None Good friend (+3%)Great friend (+5%)Ultra friend (+7%)Best friend (+10%)

Mega in the lobby

a Mega boosts every trainer's attacks: 1.3x of its own type, 1.1x of others

Try a Ground Mega — most top counters attack with Ground

Party Power

Party Play: the charged move after a full meter does 2x

Off 2 trainers 3 trainers 4 trainers

Adventure Effects

only these three change a raid

Behemoth Blade (+10% attack)Behemoth Bash (+10% defense)Dynamic Punch+ (+15% attack vs Mega)

Of the game's eleven Adventure Effects only Behemoth Blade (Crowned Sword Zacian), Behemoth Bash (Crowned Shield Zamazenta) and Dynamic Punch+ (Mega Mewtwo X) change a raid; Roar of Time, Spacial Rend, Freeze Shock, Ice Burn, Sunsteel Strike, Moongeist Beam, Future Sight+ and Dynamax Cannon act outside raids. Dynamic Punch+ only counts against a Mega boss, so it changes nothing here. Sources: the full list, Behemoth Blade / Bash, Dynamic Punch+.

Best counters

Mega, Legendary, Shadow · level 40

The best Pichu counters are Mega Mewtwo Y, Shadow Flygon, Shadow Hippowdon, Shadow Excadrill, Excadrill & Shadow Garchomp.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Mewtwo Y
S. Flygon
S. Hippowdon
S. Excadrill
Excadrill
S. Garchomp

3 more Megas ranked inside the top six — a party can hold only one Mega, so the best one stays and the next non-Mega takes the slot.

Ranked by Estimator (trainers needed); small print: time to winOrder byEstimatorOverall %

1Mega Mewtwo YMegaLegendarypartyPsycho Cut / Psystrike0.030:06
2Mega Mewtwo XMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Psystrike0.030:06
3Shadow FlygonShadowpartySand Attack / Scorching Sands0.040:07
4Mega BlazikenMegaEmber / Aura Sphere0.040:07
5Shadow HippowdonShadowpartySand Attack / Earth Power0.040:07
6Shadow ExcadrillShadowpartyMud Shot / Drill Run0.040:07
7ExcadrillpartyMud Shot / Scorching Sands0.040:07
8Mega GarchompMegaMud Shot / Breaking Swipe0.040:07
9Shadow GarchompShadowpartyMud Shot / Breaking Swipe0.040:07
10Shadow RhyperiorShadowMud-Slap / Surf0.040:07

More orders under All settings (Sort by). The top 15 in detail.

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Raid tier — Solo Raid

Super Mega Legendary Super Mega Primal Mega Legendary Mega Elite Shadow Tier 5 Tier 5 Shadow Tier 3 Tier 3 Shadow Tier 1 Tier 1 Tier 4 Tier 2

Related countersShadow Pichu

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Top 15 Pichu counters in detail

Click a row for damage per move, breakpoints and the energy cycle. Click a column to sort. All 30 ranked attackers, with every column, are under All settings.

Trainers1soloable

#	Attacker	Moveset
1	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychicjoint top pick	psychicPsycho CutpsychicPsystrike	6,428	0:06	0.03	7160.0%
2	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfightingjoint top pick	psychicPsycho CutpsychicPsystrike	6,112	0:06	0.03	7160.0%
3	Shadow Flygongrounddragon	groundSand AttackgroundScorching Sands	2,661	0:07	0.04	6228.9%
4	Mega Blazikenfirefighting	fireEmberfightingAura Sphere	4,161	0:07	0.04	6228.9%
5	Shadow Hippowdonground	groundSand AttackgroundEarth Power	3,085	0:07	0.04	6149.8%
6	Shadow Excadrillgroundsteel	groundMud ShotgroundDrill Run	3,244	0:07	0.04	5860.4%
7	Excadrillgroundsteel	groundMud ShotgroundScorching Sands	3,244	0:07	0.04	5860.4%
8	Mega Garchompdragonground	groundMud ShotdragonBreaking Swipe	5,424	0:07	0.04	5813.6%
9	Shadow Garchompdragonground	groundMud ShotdragonBreaking Swipe	3,962	0:07	0.04	5813.6%
10	Shadow Rhyperiorgroundrock	groundMud-SlapwaterSurf	3,733	0:07	0.04	5813.6%
11	Shadow Golurkgroundghost	ghostAstonishgroundEarth Power	2,854	0:07	0.04	5813.6%
12	Shadow Mewtwopsychic	psychicPsycho CutpsychicPsystrike	4,178	0:07	0.04	5813.6%
13	Mega Gengarghostpoison	ghostLickghostShadow Ball	4,336	0:07	0.04	5813.6%
14	Mega Lucariofightingsteel	fightingCounterfightingAura Sphere	3,826	0:08	0.04	5589.9%
15	Shadow Landorus (Therian)groundflying	groundMud ShotgroundBulldoze	3,922	0:08	0.04	5491.3%

Ordered by Estimator alone, fewest trainers needed first. . The place badge names each row's Overall place on hover.

Times are one trainer with six copies of that attacker, level 40 at 15/15/15, no weather, no friendship, no dodging, Shadow / Mega / Legendary attackers hidden — the same defaults pokebattler.com's own counter pages open with. Open the full counter tool to change any of them. "Details" opens the per-move damage, breakpoints and energy cycle against Pichu.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Pichu's HP that six of that attacker remove inside one raid timer, so over 100% means they finish it with time to spare. Faints is how many of the six go down inside that timer.

“Joint top pick”: 2 attackers inside 2.1% of each other — this simulator's own accuracy against pokebattler.com (median 1.6% per attacker), so any of them is the right answer.

Hardest movesets to raid against

The same boss is a different fight depending on what it knows. Each row re-simulates the top 6 counters above against one specific moveset; the list is ordered hardest first, and clicking a row filters the whole page to that moveset — the ranking, the estimator and the share link all follow.

Boss moveset	Win % (1)	Overall	Power	Time to win	Estimator
Random (any moveset)showing	100%	2017%	6155.6%	0:07	0.04
Thunder Shock / Disarming Voice	100%	1918%	6095.8%	0:07	0.04
Thunder Shock / Thunder Punch	100%	2087%	6095.8%	0:07	0.04
Thunder Shock / Thunderbolt	100%	2162%	6143.6%	0:07	0.04
Quick Attack / Thunderbolt	100%	1914%	6192.1%	0:07	0.04
Quick Attack / Disarming Voice	100%	1946%	6192.1%	0:07	0.04
Quick Attack / Thunder Punch	100%	1998%	6192.1%	0:07	0.04

Measured over the top 6 attackers on the list above rather than by re-ranking the whole roster once per moveset — the ordering is what the table is for, and a full re-rank per moveset would cost ten times the page's whole simulation budget. Win % is the share of runs 1 trainers of those attackers finish inside the raid timer. Overall is Pokebattler's published blend on its own absolute scale (higher is easier), not a percentage of the best row the way the ranked table's Overall column is — which is why an easy boss reads well above 100% here.

Simulating each boss moveset…

Pichu weaknesses and resistances

Every one of the 18 attacking types against this boss's typing. GO multipliers: 1.6x super effective, 2.56x doubly, 0.625x resisted, 0.39x doubly resisted.

ground1.6x normal1x fighting1x poison1x rock1x bug1x ghost1x fire1x water1x grass1x psychic1x ice1x dragon1x dark1x fairy1x flying0.63x steel0.63x electric0.63x

Weak (1)
Neutral (14)
Resists (3)

It resists flying0.625xsteel0.625xelectric0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Pichu throws at you

Its standard movepool, with the damage window a dodge has to beat.

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
normalQuick Attack	10	+13	1.0s	0.45s
electricThunder ShockSTAB	4	+7	0.5s	0.20s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
electricThunderboltSTAB	80	-50	2.5s	1.80s
electricThunder PunchSTAB	50	-33	2.0s	1.90s
fairyDisarming Voice	70	-33	4.0s	3.30s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	240	300
11/11/11	246	307
12/12/12	252	315
13/13/13	258	322
14/14/14	264	330
15/15/15hundo	270	338

Caught CP range 240 - 270, or 300 - 338 when the weather boosts it.

A raid encounter is level 20 (level 25 weather boosted) and cannot roll an IV below 10/10/10. Anything outside the first range is not this raid's reward.

When it is in raids

From the raid schedule, refreshed daily.

Pichu is not on the raid schedule right now. The simulation above is still exact for the tier chosen — any boss can be simulated, current or not.

All settings

Tier 1: 600 HP, 3:00 timer, boss Attack 54 / Defense 40 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.5974).

Raid bossAttacker levelAttacker IVsWeatherFriendshipDodgingTrainers in the lobbyMega in the lobbyParty Play trainersBoss fast moveBoss charged moveSort by

Attackers allowed

ShadowMega and PrimalLegendary, Mythical, Ultra BeastLegacy and Elite TM moves

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Every column, and pokebattler.com's own rank

On a phone the list shows estimator, time to win and faints. Overall, Power, win chance, CP, DPS and TDO appear on a wider screen.

#	Attacker	Moveset	Overall	Power	Est.Estimator	TimeTime to win	Win % (1)	CP	DPS	TDO
1	Mega Mewtwo Y top pickpsychicmega Psycho Cut / Psystrike	Psycho Cut / Psystrike+26 more movesets	100%	7160.0%	0.03	0:06	100%	6,428	103.8	632
2	Mega Mewtwo X top pickpsychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Psystrike	Psycho Cut / Psystrike+26 more movesets	98%	7160.0%	0.03	0:06	100%	6,112	100.0	609
3	Shadow Flygon grounddragonshadow Sand Attack / Scorching Sands	Sand Attack / Scorching Sands+23 more movesets	82%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	2,661	86.3	604
4	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Ember / Aura Sphere	Ember / Aura Sphere+20 more movesets	82%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	4,161	86.7	607
5	Shadow Hippowdon groundshadow Sand Attack / Earth Power	Sand Attack / Earth Power+29 more movesets	86%	6149.8%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,085	88.7	629
6	Shadow Excadrill groundsteelshadow Mud Shot / Drill Run	Mud Shot / Drill Run+14 more movesets	80%	5860.4%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,244	99.1	737
7	Excadrill groundsteel Mud Shot / Scorching Sands	Mud Shot / Scorching Sands+14 more movesets	81%	5860.4%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,244	86.1	640
8	Mega Garchomp dragongroundmega Mud Shot / Breaking Swipe	Mud Shot / Breaking Swipe+13 more movesets	81%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	5,424	89.2	669
9	Shadow Garchomp dragongroundshadow Mud Shot / Breaking Swipe	Mud Shot / Breaking Swipe+13 more movesets	76%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,962	83.1	623
10	Shadow Rhyperior groundrockshadow Mud-Slap / Surf	Mud-Slap / Surf+15 more movesets	79%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,733	82.7	620
11	Shadow Golurk groundghostshadow Astonish / Earth Power	Astonish / Earth Power+7 more movesets	82%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	2,854	83.8	628
12	Shadow Mewtwo psychicshadow Psycho Cut / Psystrike	Psycho Cut / Psystrike+23 more movesets	70%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	4,178	80.0	600
13	Mega Gengar ghostpoisonmega Lick / Shadow Ball	Lick / Shadow Ball+31 more movesets	72%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	4,336	83.1	623
14	Mega Lucario fightingsteelmega Counter / Aura Sphere	Counter / Aura Sphere+23 more movesets	68%	5589.9%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,826	86.0	670
15	Shadow Landorus (Therian) groundflyingshadow Mud Shot / Bulldoze	Mud Shot / Bulldoze+9 more movesets	71%	5491.3%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,922	100.1	795
16	Shadow Landorus (Incarnate) groundflyingshadow Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+7 more movesets	72%	5491.3%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,588	106.0	841
17	Landorus (Therian) groundflying Mud Shot / Bulldoze	Mud Shot / Bulldoze+9 more movesets	71%	5491.3%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,922	83.1	659
18	Garchomp dragonground Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+13 more movesets	76%	5491.3%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,962	88.5	702
19	Shadow Heatran firesteelshadow Bug Bite / Earth Power	Bug Bite / Earth Power+11 more movesets	71%	5491.3%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,754	80.5	639
20	Landorus (Incarnate) groundflying Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+7 more movesets	73%	5491.3%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,588	88.5	702
21	Shadow Mamoswine icegroundshadow Mud-Slap / Icicle Spear	Mud-Slap / Icicle Spear+11 more movesets	70%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,328	81.3	650
22	Shadow Haxorus dragonshadow Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe	Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe+9 more movesets	64%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,593	75.3	602
23	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe	Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe+11 more movesets	69%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	5,713	82.6	661
24	Mega Camerupt firegroundmega Ember / Scorching Sands	Ember / Scorching Sands+17 more movesets	72%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,220	76.4	611
25	Shadow Nidoking poisongroundshadow Poison Sting / Earth Power	Poison Sting / Earth Power+29 more movesets	69%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	2,567	76.0	608
26	Mega Beedrill bugpoisonmega Bug Bite / Drill Run	Bug Bite / Drill Run+23 more movesets	63%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,383	77.1	617
27	Mega Latios dragonpsychicmega Zen Headbutt / Aura Sphere	Zen Headbutt / Aura Sphere+9 more movesets	69%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	5,007	76.4	611
28	Mega Alakazam psychicmega Psycho Cut / Psychic	Psycho Cut / Psychic+17 more movesets	65%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	4,510	75.5	604
29	Blacephalon fireghost Astonish / Mind Blown	Astonish / Mind Blown+7 more movesets	64%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,297	76.1	609
30	Shadow Blaziken firefightingshadow Counter / Aura Sphere	Counter / Aura Sphere+20 more movesets	62%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	2,848	80.0	640

How accurate is this? Same top pick as pokebattler.com on 26 of 27 lists checked, 90% of its top tens shared; weakest on Mewtwo's default list (7 of 10).

Ranking. Our full ranking against the page pokebattler.com serves for the same boss and settings, on 27 boss and filter combinations read live (2026-10-04): 242 of 270 top-ten places shared, the same #1 on 26. On the six fixed reference bosses (read 2026-10-03): 85% top-ten overlap with its default filters, 83% with Shadow, Mega and Legendary on. A close top three is shown as a tie because the order inside it is below what we can measure.

Time to win. Graded with Pokebattler's own movesets against every boss moveset, average per boss: Tier 1 and 3 +0.1% to +1.2%; Tier 5 −2.9% to +1.3%; Mega −1.1% to +2.6%; Shadow Tier 5 −1.8% to +0.3%. One attacker can be off by more: median 1.6%, worst 15%, RMS per boss moveset 2.05%.

Known weak spots.

Mewtwo (Tier 5, default filters) shares 7 of Pokebattler's top 10: Absol, Incineroar and Salamence sit just outside ours, Polteageist, Cursola and Hisuian Typhlosion just inside.
Groudon (Tier 5, default filters) shares 7 of 10; its Grass and Water counters run 2-6% fast here.
Tier 5 times run about 2-3% fast for attackers that faint often, and 2-3% slow on Mega Charizard Y and Mega Beedrill, whose counters resist the boss.
Tier 1 lists are the least checked: Combee (Tier 1) shares only 3 of Pokebattler's top 10, with Gigalith first here where Pokebattler puts Rhyperior.

This boss on pokebattler.com. Boss-by-boss accuracy report.

Ranked 30 attackers in 0.3 s (50 Monte Carlo runs each, seed 1). Same boss on pokebattler.com. The same ranking as JSON: /api/raids/rank.