Sceptile counters

#0254

grassTier 1

Lobby CP

7,907

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

142

Defense

109

Difficulty

0.06

Pokebattler scale

Beating Sceptile should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 1,500-1,575.

Weak toflying1.6xpoison1.6xbug1.6xfire1.6xice1.6x

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 Flying Mega — most top counters attack with Flying

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 Sceptile counters are Mega Beedrill, Shadow Reshiram, Shadow Moltres, Blacephalon, Shadow Salamence & Shadow Toucannon.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Beedrill
S. Reshiram
S. Moltres
Blacephalon
S. Salamence
S. Toucannon

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 BeedrillMegapartyBug Bite / Fell Stinger+0.060:10
2Mega RayquazaMegaLegendaryAir Slash / Dragon Ascent0.060:10
3Mega StaraptorMegaGust / Brave Bird+0.060:11
4Mega DelphoxMegaFire Spin / Mystical Fire+0.060:12
5Mega VictreebelMegaAcid / Acid Spray+0.070:12
6Shadow ReshiramShadowLegendarypartyFire Fang / Fusion Flare0.070:12
7Shadow MoltresShadowLegendarypartyWing Attack / Fly0.070:13
8BlacephalonLegendarypartyAstonish / Mind Blown0.070:13
9Shadow SalamenceShadowpartyFire Fang / Fly0.080:14
10Mega SkarmoryMegaAir Slash / Drill Peck+0.080:14
12Shadow ToucannonShadowpartyPeck / Beak Blast0.080:14

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 Sceptile Mega Sceptile

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Top 15 Sceptile 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 Beedrillbugpoisonjoint top pick	bugBug BitebugFell Stinger+	3,383	0:10	0.06	0.0	4222.7%
2	Mega Rayquazadragonflyingjoint top pick	flyingAir SlashflyingDragon Ascent	5,713	0:10	0.06	0.0	4152.2%
3	Mega Staraptorfightingflying	flyingGustflyingBrave Bird+	3,979	0:11	0.06	0.0	3962.7%
4	Mega Delphoxfirepsychic	fireFire SpinfireMystical Fire+	4,783	0:12	0.06	0.0	3744.8%
5	Mega Victreebelgrasspoison	poisonAcidpoisonAcid Spray+	3,505	0:12	0.07	0.0	3674.2%
6	Shadow Reshiramdragonfire	fireFire FangfireFusion Flare	4,038	0:12	0.07	0.0	3585.3%
7	Shadow Moltresfireflying	flyingWing AttackflyingFly	3,465	0:13	0.07	0.0	3353.6%
8	Blacephalonfireghost	ghostAstonishfireMind Blown	3,297	0:13	0.07	0.1	3269.6%
9	Shadow Salamencedragonflying	fireFire FangflyingFly	3,749	0:14	0.08	0.0	3196.2%
10	Mega Skarmorysteelflying	flyingAir SlashflyingDrill Peck+	3,741	0:14	0.08	0.0	3177.1%
11	Mega Blazikenfirefighting	fireFire SpinfireBlaze Kick	4,161	0:14	0.08	0.0	3136.4%
12	Shadow Toucannonnormalflying	flyingPeckflyingBeak Blast	2,689	0:14	0.08	0.0	3122.9%
13	Mega Charizard Yfireflying	fireEmberfireOverheat	4,455	0:14	0.08	0.0	3114.0%
14	Reshiramdragonfire	fireFire FangfireFusion Flare	4,038	0:14	0.08	0.0	3114.0%
15	Shadow Staraptornormalflying	flyingGustflyingFly	2,825	0:14	0.08	0.0	3114.0%

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 Sceptile.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Sceptile'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	Faints	Estimator
Random (any moveset)showing	100%	680%	3429.3%	0:13	0.0	0.07
Fury Cutter / Earthquake	100%	870%	3243.7%	0:13	0.1	0.07
Bullet Seed / Earthquake	100%	869%	3246.0%	0:13	0.1	0.07
Fury Cutter / Leaf Blade	100%	816%	3429.0%	0:13	0.0	0.07
Bullet Seed / Leaf Blade	100%	811%	3432.0%	0:13	0.0	0.07
Bullet Seed / Aerial Ace	100%	675%	3439.6%	0:13	0.0	0.07
Fury Cutter / Aerial Ace	100%	686%	3459.3%	0:13	0.0	0.07
Fury Cutter / Dragon Claw	100%	663%	3493.9%	0:12	0.0	0.07
Bullet Seed / Dragon Claw	100%	666%	3521.4%	0:12	0.0	0.07
Fury Cutter / Breaking Swipe	100%	634%	3533.3%	0:12	0.0	0.07
Bullet Seed / Breaking Swipe	100%	607%	3545.2%	0:12	0.0	0.07

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…

Sceptile 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.

flying1.6x poison1.6x bug1.6x fire1.6x ice1.6x normal1x fighting1x rock1x ghost1x steel1x psychic1x dragon1x dark1x fairy1x ground0.63x water0.63x grass0.63x electric0.63x

Weak (5)
Neutral (9)
Resists (4)

It resists ground0.625xwater0.625xgrass0.625xelectric0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Sceptile throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
grassBullet SeedSTAB	7	+13	1.0s	0.75s
bugFury Cutter	4	+8	0.5s	0.20s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
dragonBreaking Swipe	45	-33	1.0s	0.47s
groundEarthquake	140	-100	3.5s	2.60s
grassLeaf BladeSTAB	70	-33	2.5s	1.35s
dragonDragon Claw	45	-33	1.5s	0.90s
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	1,500	1,876
11/11/11	1,515	1,894
12/12/12	1,530	1,913
13/13/13	1,545	1,931
14/14/14	1,560	1,950
15/15/15hundo	1,575	1,969

Caught CP range 1,500 - 1,575, or 1,876 - 1,969 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.

Sceptile 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 142 / Defense 109 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.5974).

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Attackers allowed

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

Share these exact settings

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	Faints	Win % (1)	CP	DPS	TDO
1	Mega Beedrill top pickbugpoisonmega Bug Bite / Fell Stinger+	Bug Bite / Fell Stinger++23 more movesets	95%	4222.7%	0.06	0:10	0.0	100%	3,383	59.0	609
2	Mega Rayquaza top pickdragonflyingmega Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	100%	4152.2%	0.06	0:10	0.0	100%	5,713	58.1	610
3	Mega Staraptor fightingflyingmega Gust / Brave Bird+	Gust / Brave Bird++19 more movesets	92%	3962.7%	0.06	0:11	0.0	100%	3,979	60.0	660
4	Mega Delphox firepsychicmega Fire Spin / Mystical Fire+	Fire Spin / Mystical Fire++23 more movesets	88%	3744.8%	0.06	0:12	0.0	100%	4,783	66.4	772
5	Mega Victreebel grasspoisonmega Acid / Acid Spray+	Acid / Acid Spray++23 more movesets	83%	3674.2%	0.07	0:12	0.0	100%	3,505	52.3	620
6	Shadow Reshiram dragonfireshadow Fire Fang / Fusion Flare	Fire Fang / Fusion Flare+9 more movesets	78%	3585.3%	0.07	0:12	0.0	100%	4,038	54.6	662
7	Shadow Moltres fireflyingshadow Wing Attack / Fly	Wing Attack / Fly+11 more movesets	75%	3353.6%	0.07	0:13	0.0	100%	3,465	46.5	605
8	Blacephalon fireghost Astonish / Mind Blown	Astonish / Mind Blown+7 more movesets	71%	3269.6%	0.07	0:13	0.1	100%	3,297	48.9	625
9	Shadow Salamence dragonflyingshadow Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	69%	3196.2%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	3,749	51.2	696
10	Mega Skarmory steelflyingmega Air Slash / Drill Peck+	Air Slash / Drill Peck++9 more movesets	76%	3177.1%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	3,741	54.0	741
11	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Fire Spin / Blaze Kick	Fire Spin / Blaze Kick+20 more movesets	63%	3136.4%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	4,161	46.0	638
12	Shadow Toucannon normalflyingshadow Peck / Beak Blast	Peck / Beak Blast+11 more movesets	66%	3122.9%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	2,689	48.2	671
13	Mega Charizard Y fireflyingmega Ember / Overheat	Ember / Overheat+29 more movesets	71%	3114.0%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	4,455	43.5	609
14	Reshiram dragonfire Fire Fang / Fusion Flare	Fire Fang / Fusion Flare+9 more movesets	66%	3114.0%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	4,038	43.2	605
15	Shadow Staraptor normalflyingshadow Gust / Fly	Gust / Fly+15 more movesets	64%	3114.0%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	2,825	45.1	632
16	Mega Salamence dragonflyingmega Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	71%	3078.8%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	5,031	46.5	658
17	Shadow Chandelure ghostfireshadow Fire Spin / Overheat	Fire Spin / Overheat+19 more movesets	61%	3061.5%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	3,268	49.0	697
18	Shadow Entei fireshadow Fire Spin / Overheat	Fire Spin / Overheat+11 more movesets	62%	3027.5%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	3,473	42.6	613
19	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Confusion / Future Sight+	Confusion / Future Sight++26 more movesets	66%	3006.6%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	6,428	43.4	629
20	Kyurem (Black) dragonice Dragon Tail / Freeze Shock	Dragon Tail / Freeze Shock+11 more movesets	65%	3006.6%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	4,605	42.7	619
21	Shadow Ho-Oh fireflyingshadow Incinerate / Brave Bird	Incinerate / Brave Bird+27 more movesets	68%	3006.6%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	3,863	42.4	614
22	Eternatus poisondragon Poison Jab / Dynamax Cannon	Poison Jab / Dynamax Cannon+7 more movesets	65%	3006.6%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	4,429	43.0	623
23	Shadow Tornadus (Therian) flyingshadow Gust / Bleakwind Storm	Gust / Bleakwind Storm+9 more movesets	63%	3006.6%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	3,215	43.7	633
24	Pheromosa bugfighting Bug Bite / Bug Buzz	Bug Bite / Bug Buzz+7 more movesets	56%	2999.3%	0.08	0:15	0.0	100%	2,842	42.3	601
25	Shadow Magmortar fireshadow Fire Spin / Fire Blast	Fire Spin / Fire Blast+11 more movesets	57%	2906.4%	0.08	0:15	0.0	100%	3,132	41.5	623
26	Mega Houndoom darkfiremega Fire Fang / Fire Blast	Fire Fang / Fire Blast+17 more movesets	59%	2906.4%	0.08	0:15	0.0	100%	3,842	40.4	606
27	Mega Charizard X firedragonmega Fire Spin / Overheat	Fire Spin / Overheat+29 more movesets	60%	2906.4%	0.08	0:15	0.0	100%	3,850	40.3	605
28	Salamence dragonflying Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	62%	2906.4%	0.08	0:15	0.0	100%	3,749	40.4	606
29	Shadow Charizard fireflyingshadow Fire Spin / Overheat	Fire Spin / Overheat+29 more movesets	60%	2906.4%	0.08	0:15	0.0	100%	2,889	40.1	602
30	Shadow Heatran firesteelshadow Bug Bite / Magma Storm	Bug Bite / Magma Storm+11 more movesets	61%	2899.3%	0.08	0:15	0.0	100%	3,754	43.2	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 0.1 s (50 Monte Carlo runs each, seed 1). Same boss on pokebattler.com. The same ranking as JSON: /api/raids/rank.