Pupitar counters

#0247

rock groundTier 1

Lobby CP

5,065

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

101

Defense

Difficulty

0.04

Pokebattler scale

Beating Pupitar should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 949-1,009.

Weak towater2.56xgrass2.56xfighting1.6xground1.6xsteel1.6xice1.6x

Who to bring

IncludeMega Legendary Shadow

Improve your raidweather · friendship · Mega in the lobby · Party Power · Adventure EffectsShow ▾

Weather

★ boosts a type this boss 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 Water Mega — most top counters attack with Water

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 Pupitar counters are Mega Greninja, Kartana, Shadow Kingler, Shadow Kyogre, Shaymin (Sky) & Shadow Chesnaught.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Greninja
Kartana
S. Kingler
S. Kyogre
Shaymin (Sky)
S. Chesnaught

7 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 GreninjaMegapartyBubble / Hydro Cannon0.040:07
2Mega SceptileMegaBullet Seed / Frenzy Plant0.040:07
3Mega SwampertMegaWater Gun / Hydro Cannon0.040:07
4KartanaLegendarypartyRazor Leaf / Leaf Blade0.040:07
5Mega ChesnaughtMegaVine Whip / Frenzy Plant0.040:08
6Shadow KinglerShadowpartyBubble / Crabhammer0.040:08
7Mega Mewtwo XMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Dynamic Punch+0.040:08
8Primal KyogreMegaLegendaryWaterfall / Surf0.050:08
9Shadow KyogreShadowLegendarypartyWaterfall / Surf0.050:08
10Mega BlastoiseMegaWater Gun / Hydro Cannon0.050:08
11Shaymin (Sky)LegendarypartyMagical Leaf / Grass Knot0.050:08
13Shadow ChesnaughtShadowpartyVine Whip / Frenzy Plant0.050:08

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 Pupitar

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Top 15 Pupitar 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 Greninjawaterdarkjoint top pick	waterBubblewaterHydro Cannon	3,784	0:07	0.04	6228.9%
2	Mega Sceptilegrassdragon	grassBullet SeedgrassFrenzy Plant	4,056	0:07	0.04	5813.6%
3	Mega Swampertwaterground	waterWater GunwaterHydro Cannon	4,401	0:07	0.04	5813.6%
4	Kartanagrasssteel	grassRazor LeafgrassLeaf Blade	3,677	0:07	0.04	5813.6%
5	Mega Chesnaughtgrassfighting	grassVine WhipgrassFrenzy Plant	4,093	0:08	0.04	5450.1%
6	Shadow Kinglerwater	waterBubblewaterCrabhammer	2,829	0:08	0.04	5450.1%
7	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	psychicPsycho CutfightingDynamic Punch+	6,112	0:08	0.04	5441.9%
8	Primal Kyogrewater	waterWaterfallwaterSurf	5,902	0:08	0.05	5202.9%
9	Shadow Kyogrewater	waterWaterfallwaterSurf	4,115	0:08	0.05	5202.9%
10	Mega Blastoisewater	waterWater GunwaterHydro Cannon	3,941	0:08	0.05	5129.4%
11	Shaymin (Sky)grassflying	grassMagical LeafgrassGrass Knot	3,592	0:08	0.05	5129.4%
12	Mega Venusaurgrasspoison	grassVine WhipgrassFrenzy Plant	3,698	0:08	0.05	5129.4%
13	Shadow Chesnaughtgrassfighting	grassVine WhipgrassFrenzy Plant	2,954	0:08	0.05	5129.4%
14	Shadow Venusaurgrasspoison	grassVine WhipgrassFrenzy Plant	2,720	0:08	0.05	5129.4%
15	Inteleonwater	waterWater GunwaterHydro Cannon	2,964	0:08	0.05	5129.4%

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 Pupitar.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Pupitar'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.

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%	1205%	5469.1%	0:08	0.04
Bite / Dig	100%	1591%	5450.1%	0:08	0.04
Rock Smash / Dig	100%	1265%	5450.1%	0:08	0.04
Rock Smash / Crunch	100%	1212%	5450.1%	0:08	0.04
Rock Smash / Ancient Power	100%	1118%	5450.1%	0:08	0.04
Bite / Ancient Power	100%	1266%	5488.2%	0:08	0.04
Bite / Crunch	100%	1318%	5497.8%	0:08	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…

Pupitar 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.

water2.56x grass2.56x fighting1.6x ground1.6x steel1.6x ice1.6x bug1x ghost1x psychic1x dragon1x dark1x fairy1x normal0.63x flying0.63x rock0.63x fire0.63x poison0.39x electric0.39x

Double weak (2)
Weak (4)
Neutral (6)
Resists (6)

It resists poison0.39xelectric0.39xnormal0.625xflying0.625xrock0.625xfire0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Pupitar throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
darkBite	6	+4	0.5s	0.30s
fightingRock Smash	17	+12	1.5s	0.75s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
groundDigSTAB	100	-50	4.5s	2.60s
rockAncient PowerSTAB	70	-33	3.5s	2.85s
darkCrunch	65	-33	3.0s	1.10s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	949	1,187
11/11/11	961	1,202
12/12/12	973	1,216
13/13/13	985	1,231
14/14/14	997	1,246
15/15/15hundo	1,009	1,261

Caught CP range 949 - 1,009, or 1,187 - 1,261 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.

Pupitar 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 101 / Defense 88 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.5974).

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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 Greninja waterdarkmega Bubble / Hydro Cannon	Bubble / Hydro Cannon+17 more movesets	98%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,784	87.6	613
2	Mega Sceptile grassdragonmega Bullet Seed / Frenzy Plant	Bullet Seed / Frenzy Plant+11 more movesets	91%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	4,056	83.4	625
3	Mega Swampert watergroundmega Water Gun / Hydro Cannon	Water Gun / Hydro Cannon+11 more movesets	97%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	4,401	80.0	600
4	Kartana grasssteel Razor Leaf / Leaf Blade	Razor Leaf / Leaf Blade+14 more movesets	84%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,677	84.0	630
5	Mega Chesnaught grassfightingmega Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant	Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant+20 more movesets	94%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	4,093	75.0	600
6	Shadow Kingler watershadow Bubble / Crabhammer	Bubble / Crabhammer+14 more movesets	78%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	2,829	77.0	616
7	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Dynamic Punch+	Psycho Cut / Dynamic Punch++26 more movesets	100%	5441.9%	0.04	0:08	100%	6,112	91.7	734
8	Primal Kyogre watermega Waterfall / Surf	Waterfall / Surf+5 more movesets	86%	5202.9%	0.05	0:08	100%	5,902	90.5	758
9	Shadow Kyogre watershadow Waterfall / Surf	Waterfall / Surf+5 more movesets	80%	5202.9%	0.05	0:08	100%	4,115	84.6	709
10	Mega Blastoise watermega Water Gun / Hydro Cannon	Water Gun / Hydro Cannon+14 more movesets	80%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	3,941	71.2	605
11	Shaymin (Sky) grassflying Magical Leaf / Grass Knot	Magical Leaf / Grass Knot+11 more movesets	80%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	3,592	70.8	602
12	Mega Venusaur grasspoisonmega Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant	Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant+9 more movesets	82%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	3,698	72.5	616
13	Shadow Chesnaught grassfightingshadow Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant	Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant+17 more movesets	81%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	2,954	73.0	620
14	Shadow Venusaur grasspoisonshadow Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant	Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant+9 more movesets	76%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	2,720	72.4	615
15	Inteleon water Water Gun / Hydro Cannon	Water Gun / Hydro Cannon+9 more movesets	73%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	2,964	71.0	603
16	Shadow Empoleon watersteelshadow Waterfall / Hydro Cannon	Waterfall / Hydro Cannon+19 more movesets	71%	5069.8%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,900	76.6	657
17	Shadow Samurott watershadow Waterfall / Hydro Cannon	Waterfall / Hydro Cannon+11 more movesets	73%	5069.8%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,826	76.9	660
18	Shadow Crawdaunt waterdarkshadow Waterfall / Crabhammer	Waterfall / Crabhammer+11 more movesets	69%	5069.8%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,474	79.0	678
19	Shadow Feraligatr watershadow Waterfall / Hydro Cannon	Waterfall / Hydro Cannon+19 more movesets	71%	4909.9%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,857	74.1	657
20	Zarude darkgrass Vine Whip / Power Whip	Vine Whip / Power Whip+5 more movesets	76%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,833	67.1	604
21	Shadow Tangrowth grassshadow Vine Whip / Power Whip	Vine Whip / Power Whip+9 more movesets	73%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,030	68.5	616
22	Primarina waterfairy Waterfall / Hydro Cannon	Waterfall / Hydro Cannon+11 more movesets	77%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,200	69.0	621
23	Kingler water Bubble / Razor Shell	Bubble / Razor Shell+14 more movesets	70%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,829	66.9	602
24	Meowscarada grassdark Leafage / Frenzy Plant	Leafage / Frenzy Plant+11 more movesets	70%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,825	68.2	614
25	Mega Starmie waterpsychicmega Psywave / Liquidation+	Psywave / Liquidation++44 more movesets	80%	4838.0%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,701	116.0	1045
26	Shadow Greninja waterdarkshadow Bubble / Hydro Cannon	Bubble / Hydro Cannon+14 more movesets	68%	4812.3%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,654	71.8	652
27	Shadow Torterra grassgroundshadow Razor Leaf / Frenzy Plant	Razor Leaf / Frenzy Plant+14 more movesets	71%	4648.1%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,934	72.7	681
28	Roserade grasspoison Razor Leaf / Grass Knot	Razor Leaf / Grass Knot+29 more movesets	68%	4648.1%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,971	68.5	642
29	Kyogre water Waterfall / Surf	Waterfall / Surf+5 more movesets	71%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,115	67.7	643
30	Mega Victreebel grasspoisonmega Razor Leaf / Leaf Blade	Razor Leaf / Leaf Blade+23 more movesets	69%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,505	66.3	630

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