Alolan Sandslash counters

#0028

ice steelTier 1In raids until Tue 6 Oct, 20:00

Lobby CP

6,815

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

114

Defense

125

Difficulty

0.05

Pokebattler scale

Beating Alolan Sandslash should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 1,320-1,390.

Weak tofighting2.56xfire2.56xground1.6x

Who to bring

IncludeMega Legendary Shadow

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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 Sandslash counters are Mega Mewtwo X, Blacephalon, Shadow Conkeldurr, Shadow Blaziken, Lucario & Shadow Delphox.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Mewtwo X
Blacephalon
S. Conkeldurr
S. Blaziken
Lucario
S. Delphox

5 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 XMegaLegendarypartyPsycho Cut / Dynamic Punch+0.040:08
2Mega BlazikenMegaCounter / Aura Sphere0.050:09
3Mega LucarioMegaCounter / Aura Sphere0.050:09
4BlacephalonLegendarypartyIncinerate / Mind Blown0.050:09
5Mega DelphoxMegaFire Spin / Blast Burn0.050:09
6Mega Charizard YMegaFire Spin / Blast Burn0.050:09
7Shadow ConkeldurrShadowpartyForce Palm / Focus Blast0.050:10
8Mega GalladeMegaLow Kick / Sacred Sword0.060:10
9Shadow BlazikenShadowpartyCounter / Aura Sphere0.060:10
10LucariopartyForce Palm / Aura Sphere0.060:10
11Shadow DelphoxShadowpartyFire Spin / Blast Burn0.060:10

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

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Related countersShadow Alolan Sandslash Sandslash

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Top 15 Alolan Sandslash 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 Xpsychicfightingjoint top pick	psychicPsycho CutfightingDynamic Punch+	6,112	0:08	0.04	5448.8%
2	Mega Blazikenfirefighting	fightingCounterfightingAura Sphere	4,161	0:09	0.05	4844.4%
3	Mega Lucariofightingsteel	fightingCounterfightingAura Sphere	3,826	0:09	0.05	4844.4%
4	Blacephalonfireghost	fireIncineratefireMind Blown	3,297	0:09	0.05	4844.4%
5	Mega Delphoxfirepsychic	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	4,783	0:09	0.05	4638.2%
6	Mega Charizard Yfireflying	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	4,455	0:09	0.05	4638.2%
7	Shadow Conkeldurrfighting	fightingForce PalmfightingFocus Blast	3,337	0:10	0.05	4570.1%
8	Mega Galladepsychicfighting	fightingLow KickfightingSacred Sword	4,521	0:10	0.06	4342.5%
9	Shadow Blazikenfirefighting	fightingCounterfightingAura Sphere	2,848	0:10	0.06	4291.2%
10	Lucariofightingsteel	fightingForce PalmfightingAura Sphere	2,703	0:10	0.06	4266.0%
11	Shadow Delphoxfirepsychic	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	3,059	0:10	0.06	4152.2%
12	Mega Heracrossbugfighting	fightingCounterfightingUpper Hand	4,814	0:11	0.06	4036.9%
13	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	fightingCounterfireFlamethrower	6,428	0:11	0.06	3963.4%
14	Terrakionrockfighting	fightingDouble KickfightingSacred Sword	3,698	0:11	0.06	3963.4%
15	Shadow Hariyamafighting	fightingForce PalmfightingDynamic Punch	2,829	0:11	0.06	3963.4%

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 Alolan Sandslash.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Alolan Sandslash'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%	1152%	4569.2%	0:10	0.05
Powder Snow / Bulldoze	100%	1121%	4523.1%	0:10	0.05
Powder Snow / Drill Run	100%	1096%	4523.1%	0:10	0.05
Metal Claw / Bulldoze	100%	1061%	4529.6%	0:10	0.05
Metal Claw / Drill Run	100%	1032%	4529.6%	0:10	0.05
Powder Snow / Gyro Ball	100%	1191%	4555.9%	0:10	0.05
Metal Claw / Gyro Ball	100%	1144%	4569.2%	0:10	0.05
Powder Snow / Blizzard	100%	1127%	4569.2%	0:10	0.05
Powder Snow / Ice Punch	100%	1108%	4575.8%	0:10	0.05
Powder Snow / Aerial Ace	100%	1139%	4575.8%	0:10	0.05
Metal Claw / Aerial Ace	100%	1093%	4582.5%	0:10	0.05
Metal Claw / Blizzard	100%	1181%	4589.2%	0:09	0.05
Metal Claw / Ice Punch	100%	1153%	4589.2%	0:09	0.05

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 Sandslash 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 Sandslash 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
iceIce PunchSTAB	50	-33	2.0s	1.40s
steelGyro BallSTAB	85	-50	3.5s	3.20s
groundDrill Run	85	-50	3.0s	1.90s
groundBulldoze	80	-50	3.5s	2.60s
flyingAerial Ace	55	-33	2.5s	2.00s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	1,320	1,650
11/11/11	1,334	1,668
12/12/12	1,348	1,685
13/13/13	1,362	1,702
14/14/14	1,376	1,720
15/15/15hundo	1,390	1,737

Caught CP range 1,320 - 1,390, or 1,650 - 1,737 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.

The raid schedule lists 1,266 - 1,390 normal and 1,582 - 1,737 boosted for this boss — which is not what our stat line gives, so one of the two is out of date. Trust the published band at the catch screen until this page is fixed.

When it is in raids

From the raid schedule, refreshed daily.

in raids nowShadow Alolan SandslashShadow Tier 3Shadowshiny availableWed 9 Sept, 06:00 – Tue 6 Oct, 20:00 · ends in 8 hours

All settings

Tier 1: 600 HP, 3:00 timer, boss Attack 114 / Defense 125 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.5974).

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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 Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Dynamic Punch+	Psycho Cut / Dynamic Punch++26 more movesets	100%	5448.8%	0.04	0:08	100%	6,112	92.8	742
2	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Counter / Aura Sphere	Counter / Aura Sphere+20 more movesets	73%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,161	71.2	641
3	Mega Lucario fightingsteelmega Counter / Aura Sphere	Counter / Aura Sphere+23 more movesets	72%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,826	66.9	602
4	Blacephalon fireghost Incinerate / Mind Blown	Incinerate / Mind Blown+7 more movesets	67%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,297	69.1	622
5	Mega Delphox firepsychicmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+23 more movesets	72%	4638.2%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,783	71.6	673
6	Mega Charizard Y fireflyingmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	71%	4638.2%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,455	68.3	642
7	Shadow Conkeldurr fightingshadow Force Palm / Focus Blast	Force Palm / Focus Blast+11 more movesets	64%	4570.1%	0.05	0:10	100%	3,337	63.0	601
8	Mega Gallade psychicfightingmega Low Kick / Sacred Sword	Low Kick / Sacred Sword+19 more movesets	62%	4342.5%	0.06	0:10	100%	4,521	61.1	614
9	Shadow Blaziken firefightingshadow Counter / Aura Sphere	Counter / Aura Sphere+20 more movesets	59%	4291.2%	0.06	0:10	100%	2,848	63.8	650
10	Lucario fightingsteel Force Palm / Aura Sphere	Force Palm / Aura Sphere+23 more movesets	61%	4266.0%	0.06	0:10	100%	2,703	62.9	642
11	Shadow Delphox firepsychicshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	59%	4152.2%	0.06	0:10	100%	3,059	57.2	601
12	Mega Heracross bugfightingmega Counter / Upper Hand	Counter / Upper Hand+17 more movesets	59%	4036.9%	0.06	0:11	100%	4,814	59.0	637
13	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Counter / Flamethrower	Counter / Flamethrower+26 more movesets	59%	3963.4%	0.06	0:11	100%	6,428	58.4	642
14	Terrakion rockfighting Double Kick / Sacred Sword	Double Kick / Sacred Sword+11 more movesets	56%	3963.4%	0.06	0:11	100%	3,698	56.2	618
15	Shadow Hariyama fightingshadow Force Palm / Dynamic Punch	Force Palm / Dynamic Punch+14 more movesets	56%	3963.4%	0.06	0:11	100%	2,829	55.1	606
16	Mega Falinks fightingmega Counter / Brick Break+	Counter / Brick Break++7 more movesets	60%	3962.7%	0.06	0:11	100%	3,670	82.9	910
17	Mega Lopunny normalfightingmega Double Kick / Focus Blast	Double Kick / Focus Blast+17 more movesets	55%	3858.2%	0.06	0:11	100%	3,745	55.7	629
18	Pheromosa bugfighting Low Kick / Close Combat	Low Kick / Close Combat+7 more movesets	48%	3855.1%	0.06	0:11	100%	2,842	56.3	629
19	Shadow Gallade psychicfightingshadow Low Kick / Sacred Sword	Low Kick / Sacred Sword+19 more movesets	52%	3797.7%	0.06	0:11	100%	3,093	60.8	695
20	Mega Charizard X firedragonmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	54%	3791.1%	0.06	0:11	100%	3,850	54.9	631
21	Shadow Charizard fireflyingshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	52%	3742.3%	0.06	0:12	100%	2,889	54.6	638
22	Shadow Galarian Zapdos fightingflyingshadow Low Kick / Close Combat	Low Kick / Close Combat+7 more movesets	50%	3697.8%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,548	52.9	623
23	Shadow Infernape firefightingshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+7 more movesets	49%	3669.8%	0.07	0:12	100%	2,683	55.7	665
24	Shadow Magmortar fireshadow Karate Chop / Fire Blast	Karate Chop / Fire Blast+11 more movesets	51%	3669.8%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,132	53.1	631
25	Shadow Heatran firesteelshadow Fire Spin / Flamethrower	Fire Spin / Flamethrower+11 more movesets	53%	3669.8%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,754	52.9	628
26	Keldeo waterfighting Low Kick / Sacred Sword	Low Kick / Sacred Sword+11 more movesets	53%	3645.3%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,698	54.7	653
27	Shadow Chandelure ghostfireshadow Hex / Overheat	Hex / Overheat+19 more movesets	52%	3633.1%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,268	51.7	620
28	Mega Alakazam psychicmega Counter / Fire Punch	Counter / Fire Punch+17 more movesets	49%	3633.1%	0.07	0:12	100%	4,510	53.2	638
29	Conkeldurr fighting Force Palm / Dynamic Punch	Force Palm / Dynamic Punch+11 more movesets	51%	3633.1%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,337	50.1	601
30	Cinderace fire Ember / Pyroball	Ember / Pyroball+14 more movesets	52%	3633.1%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,018	51.5	618

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