Alolan Sandshrew counters

#0027

ice steelTier 1

Lobby CP

4,115

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

Defense

Difficulty

0.04

Pokebattler scale

Beating Alolan Sandshrew should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 688-739.

Weak tofighting2.56xfire2.56xground1.6x

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 Fighting Mega — most top counters attack with Fighting

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 Alolan Sandshrew counters are Mega Lucario, Keldeo, Blacephalon, Shadow Blaziken, Shadow Heatran & Shadow Mewtwo.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Lucario
Keldeo
Blacephalon
S. Blaziken
S. Heatran
S. Mewtwo

6 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 LucarioMegapartyForce Palm / Aura Sphere0.030:06
2KeldeoLegendarypartyLow Kick / Secret Sword0.040:07
3Mega DelphoxMegaFire Spin / Mystical Fire0.040:07
4Mega BlazikenMegaEmber / Aura Sphere0.040:07
5BlacephalonLegendarypartyAstonish / Mind Blown0.040:07
6Shadow BlazikenShadowpartyEmber / Aura Sphere0.040:07
7Shadow HeatranShadowLegendarypartyFire Spin / Magma Storm0.040:07
8Mega Mewtwo XMegaLegendaryCounter / Flamethrower0.040:08
9Mega Mewtwo YMegaLegendaryCounter / Flamethrower0.040:08
10Mega Charizard YMegaFire Spin / Flamethrower0.040:08
12Shadow MewtwoShadowLegendarypartyCounter / Flamethrower0.040:08

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

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Raid tier — Solo Raid

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Related countersShadow Alolan Sandshrew Sandshrew

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Top 15 Alolan Sandshrew 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 Lucariofightingsteeljoint top pick	fightingForce PalmfightingAura Sphere	3,826	0:06	0.03	7267.4%
2	Keldeowaterfighting	fightingLow KickfightingSecret Sword	3,698	0:07	0.04	6255.7%
3	Mega Delphoxfirepsychic	fireFire SpinfireMystical Fire	4,783	0:07	0.04	6228.9%
4	Mega Blazikenfirefighting	fireEmberfightingAura Sphere	4,161	0:07	0.04	6228.9%
5	Blacephalonfireghost	ghostAstonishfireMind Blown	3,297	0:07	0.04	6228.9%
6	Shadow Blazikenfirefighting	fireEmberfightingAura Sphere	2,848	0:07	0.04	6228.9%
7	Shadow Heatranfiresteel	fireFire SpinfireMagma Storm	3,754	0:07	0.04	5813.6%
8	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	fightingCounterfireFlamethrower	6,112	0:08	0.04	5533.1%
9	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	fightingCounterfireFlamethrower	6,428	0:08	0.04	5533.1%
10	Mega Charizard Yfireflying	fireFire SpinfireFlamethrower	4,455	0:08	0.04	5533.1%
11	Mega Heracrossbugfighting	fightingCounterfightingUpper Hand	4,814	0:08	0.04	5450.1%
12	Shadow Mewtwopsychic	fightingCounterfireFlamethrower	4,178	0:08	0.04	5450.1%
13	Shadow Enteifire	fireFire SpinfireFlamethrower	3,473	0:08	0.04	5450.1%
14	Mega Houndoomdarkfire	fireFire FangfireFlamethrower	3,842	0:08	0.04	5450.1%
15	Shadow Hisuian Arcaninefirerock	fireFire FangfireFlamethrower	3,145	0:08	0.04	5450.1%

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 Alolan Sandshrew.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Alolan Sandshrew'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%	1858%	6161.7%	0:07	0.04
Metal Claw / Blizzard	100%	2039%	6155.6%	0:07	0.04
Metal Claw / Gyro Ball	100%	1863%	6155.6%	0:07	0.04
Powder Snow / Blizzard	100%	2052%	6155.6%	0:07	0.04
Powder Snow / Gyro Ball	100%	1880%	6155.6%	0:07	0.04
Powder Snow / Night Slash	100%	1822%	6155.6%	0:07	0.04
Metal Claw / Night Slash	100%	1751%	6179.9%	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…

Alolan Sandshrew 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.

fighting2.56x fire2.56x ground1.6x rock1x ghost1x steel1x water1x electric1x dark1x normal0.63x flying0.63x bug0.63x grass0.63x psychic0.63x dragon0.63x fairy0.63x poison0.39x ice0.39x

Double weak (2)
Weak (1)
Neutral (6)
Resists (9)

It resists poison0.39xice0.39xnormal0.625xflying0.625xbug0.625xgrass0.625xpsychic0.625xdragon0.625xfairy0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Alolan Sandshrew throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
steelMetal ClawSTAB	6	+5	0.5s	0.23s
icePowder SnowSTAB	6	+15	1.0s	0.85s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
iceBlizzardSTAB	130	-100	3.0s	1.40s
steelGyro BallSTAB	85	-50	3.5s	3.20s
darkNight Slash	45	-33	2.0s	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	688	860
11/11/11	698	873
12/12/12	708	885
13/13/13	718	898
14/14/14	728	911
15/15/15hundo	739	924

Caught CP range 688 - 739, or 860 - 924 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.

Alolan Sandshrew 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 83 / Defense 86 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.5974).

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Attackers allowed

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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 Lucario fightingsteelmega Force Palm / Aura Sphere	Force Palm / Aura Sphere+23 more movesets	100%	7267.4%	0.03	0:06	100%	3,826	107.2	643
2	Keldeo waterfighting Low Kick / Secret Sword	Low Kick / Secret Sword+11 more movesets	86%	6255.7%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,698	95.4	665
3	Mega Delphox firepsychicmega Fire Spin / Mystical Fire	Fire Spin / Mystical Fire+23 more movesets	85%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	4,783	88.9	622
4	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Ember / Aura Sphere	Ember / Aura Sphere+20 more movesets	84%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	4,161	104.5	731
5	Blacephalon fireghost Astonish / Mind Blown	Astonish / Mind Blown+7 more movesets	83%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,297	92.2	645
6	Shadow Blaziken firefightingshadow Ember / Aura Sphere	Ember / Aura Sphere+20 more movesets	83%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	2,848	93.2	652
7	Shadow Heatran firesteelshadow Fire Spin / Magma Storm	Fire Spin / Magma Storm+11 more movesets	81%	5813.6%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,754	84.4	633
8	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Counter / Flamethrower	Counter / Flamethrower+26 more movesets	74%	5533.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	6,112	98.3	774
9	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Counter / Flamethrower	Counter / Flamethrower+26 more movesets	73%	5533.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	6,428	92.2	726
10	Mega Charizard Y fireflyingmega Fire Spin / Flamethrower	Fire Spin / Flamethrower+29 more movesets	72%	5533.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	4,455	85.3	672
11	Mega Heracross bugfightingmega Counter / Upper Hand	Counter / Upper Hand+17 more movesets	70%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	4,814	79.6	637
12	Shadow Mewtwo psychicshadow Counter / Flamethrower	Counter / Flamethrower+23 more movesets	64%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	4,178	79.6	637
13	Shadow Entei fireshadow Fire Spin / Flamethrower	Fire Spin / Flamethrower+11 more movesets	70%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,473	76.5	612
14	Mega Houndoom darkfiremega Fire Fang / Flamethrower	Fire Fang / Flamethrower+17 more movesets	70%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,842	78.1	625
15	Shadow Hisuian Arcanine firerockshadow Fire Fang / Flamethrower	Fire Fang / Flamethrower+11 more movesets	65%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,145	75.3	602
16	Terrakion rockfighting Double Kick / Sacred Sword	Double Kick / Sacred Sword+11 more movesets	69%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,698	78.0	624
17	Blaziken firefighting Counter / Aura Sphere	Counter / Aura Sphere+20 more movesets	69%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	2,848	80.3	642
18	Lucario fightingsteel Counter / Aura Sphere	Counter / Aura Sphere+23 more movesets	68%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	2,703	79.6	637
19	Mega Gallade psychicfightingmega Low Kick / Sacred Sword	Low Kick / Sacred Sword+19 more movesets	65%	5234.1%	0.05	0:08	100%	4,521	95.9	799
20	Shadow Gallade psychicfightingshadow Low Kick / Sacred Sword	Low Kick / Sacred Sword+19 more movesets	59%	5209.1%	0.05	0:08	100%	3,093	84.7	708
21	Shadow Conkeldurr fightingshadow Counter / Dynamic Punch	Counter / Dynamic Punch+11 more movesets	62%	5202.9%	0.05	0:08	100%	3,337	84.5	707
22	Shadow Machamp fightingshadow Counter / Dynamic Punch	Counter / Dynamic Punch+23 more movesets	60%	5202.9%	0.05	0:08	100%	3,056	81.5	682
23	Shadow Emboar firefightingshadow Low Kick / Blast Burn	Low Kick / Blast Burn+9 more movesets	63%	5147.6%	0.05	0:08	100%	2,982	85.8	727
24	Mega Charizard X firedragonmega Ember / Blast Burn	Ember / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	64%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	3,850	81.5	693
25	Shadow Charizard fireflyingshadow Ember / Blast Burn	Ember / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	60%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	2,889	81.1	689
26	Shadow Typhlosion fireshadow Ember / Blast Burn	Ember / Blast Burn+14 more movesets	62%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	2,889	81.1	689
27	Urshifu (Rapid Strike) fightingwater Counter / Dynamic Punch	Counter / Dynamic Punch+11 more movesets	65%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	3,606	73.3	623
28	Urshifu (Single Strike) fightingdark Counter / Dynamic Punch	Counter / Dynamic Punch+11 more movesets	63%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	3,606	73.3	623
29	Shadow Hariyama fightingshadow Counter / Dynamic Punch	Counter / Dynamic Punch+14 more movesets	59%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	2,829	73.3	623
30	Shadow Toxicroak poisonfightingshadow Counter / Dynamic Punch	Counter / Dynamic Punch+19 more movesets	56%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	2,488	73.7	626

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.