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Raid counters

Every attacker in the Game Master, simulated against this boss move by move. Change the tier, level, weather, friendship or filters and the ranking re-runs; the URL is the share link. Same boss on pokebattler.com. How accurate is this?

Shiftry
Tier 3 · CP 15,043
grassdark
HP
3,600
Raid timer
3:00
Attack / Defense
156 / 99
Difficulty rating
0.37
Catch CP
1,263 – 1,333
Boosted (Sunny or clear, Fog)
1,579 – 1,666

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Beating Shiftry should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters of this strength. The Win % column is quoted at 1 trainer — the count the Estimator rounds up to, because at a full lobby every counter on this list wins every run and the column stops telling you anything. Set a lobby size below to ask a different question.

Weak to
bug 2.56xfighting 1.60xflying 1.60xpoison 1.60xfire 1.60xice 1.60xfairy 1.60x
Resists
psychic 0.39xground 0.63xghost 0.63xwater 0.63xgrass 0.63xelectric 0.63xdark 0.63x
Related countersShadow Shiftry

The best Shiftry counters at level 40 are Volcarona, Vikavolt, Kleavor, Scizor, Yanmega & Heracross.

  1. #1
    Volcarona
    bugfire
    Bug Bite / Bug Buzz
    Power
    398.2%
    Estimator
    0.34
    Time
    0:59
  2. #2
    Vikavolt
    bugelectric
    Bug Bite / X-Scissor
    Power
    372.4%
    Estimator
    0.36
    Time
    1:03
  3. #3
    Kleavor
    bugrock
    Fury Cutter / X-Scissor
    Power
    372.7%
    Estimator
    0.36
    Time
    1:03
  4. #4
    Scizor
    bugsteel
    Fury Cutter / X-Scissor
    Power
    352.5%
    Estimator
    0.38
    Time
    1:07
  5. #5
    Yanmega
    bugflying
    Bug Bite / Bug Buzz
    Power
    348.4%
    Estimator
    0.38
    Time
    1:07
  6. #6
    Heracross
    bugfighting
    Fury Cutter / Megahorn
    Power
    345.5%
    Estimator
    0.39
    Time
    1:08

Top pick: Volcarona — the only attacker inside 2.1% of the leader, so this one is a real verdict rather than a tie.

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.

#AttackerEst.TimeFaints
1
Volcarona
bugfire
Bug Bite / Bug Buzz
0.340:590.9
2
Vikavolt
bugelectric
Bug Bite / X-Scissor
0.361:031.6
3
Kleavor
bugrock
Fury Cutter / X-Scissor
0.361:031.7
4
Scizor
bugsteel
Fury Cutter / X-Scissor
0.381:071.2
5
Yanmega
bugflying
Bug Bite / Bug Buzz
0.381:071.4
6
Heracross
bugfighting
Fury Cutter / Megahorn
0.391:081.6
7
Pinsir
bug
Bug Bite / X-Scissor
0.391:081.9
8
Escavalier
bugsteel
Bug Bite / Megahorn
0.411:121.4
9
Centiskorch
firebug
Bug Bite / Bug Buzz
0.411:121.3
10
Frosmoth
icebug
Bug Bite / Bug Buzz
0.401:111.9
11
Scyther
bugflying
Fury Cutter / Bug Buzz
0.411:131.7
12
Durant
bugsteel
Bug Bite / X-Scissor
0.421:131.6
13
Golisopod
bugwater
Fury Cutter / X-Scissor
0.411:121.9
14
Lucario
fightingsteel
Force Palm / Aura Sphere
0.431:151.9
15
Salamence
dragonflying
Fire Fang / Fly
0.451:201.5
16
Scolipede
bugpoison
Bug Bite / X-Scissor
0.451:181.9
17
Accelgor
bug
Infestation / Bug Buzz
0.431:162.4
18
Lokix
bugdark
Bug Bite / Bug Buzz
0.451:201.9
19
Blaziken
firefighting
Counter / Aura Sphere
0.461:201.9
20
Sneasler
fightingpoison
Poison Jab / X-Scissor
0.461:211.9
21
Galvantula
bugelectric
Fury Cutter / Bug Buzz
0.461:212.6
22
Toucannon
normalflying
Peck / Beak Blast
0.471:232.1
23
Leavanny
buggrass
Bug Bite / X-Scissor
0.471:222.8
24
Cinderace
fire
Fire Spin / Pyroball
0.491:261.9
25
Crustle
bugrock
Fury Cutter / X-Scissor
0.481:252.3
26
Ribombee
bugfairy
Struggle Bug / Bug Buzz
0.491:262.5
27
Samurott
water
Fury Cutter / Megahorn
0.491:262.8
28
Staraptor
normalflying
Gust / Fly
0.501:282.2
29
Hisuian Samurott
waterdark
Fury Cutter / X-Scissor
0.491:262.7
30
Ninjask
bugflying
Fury Cutter / Bug Buzz
0.511:293.5
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.

What the columns mean

Power and Estimator are printed on Pokebattler's own scale, converted from our simulated time to win by the per-tier constants measured off its published rows (Tier 5 / Mega / Shadow Tier 5: within ~3% of its numbers per attacker; Tier 1 and Tier 3 are a loose fit — read the ordering there, not the digits). Faints is our own solo-trainer count and is the column that still disagrees with Pokebattler's effectiveDeaths on which attackers are bulky — the same disagreement that puts a frail attacker a few places too high on this list; that is a simulator question, tracked in the accuracy report.

Overall is time to win discounted by how much damage the attacker deals per life, so a bulkier attacker can outrank a marginally faster glass cannon — Pokebattler's own published Overall blend (“Tier 5 Raids — 50% Power, 50% Time to Win. Time to Win goal is 300s. Raid size 8”) carried onto the one scale both simulators measure. It is the default sort, as on Pokebattler, and like Pokebattler's it is taken over a random boss moveset: each attacker's moveset is chosen, and every number on its row averaged, over the boss's whole movepool, not over one boss moveset. Power is the share of the boss one attacker removes in a single life. Estimator is the number of trainers of this attacker needed to finish inside the 3:00 raid timer — it is time to win ÷ timer, so sorting on it gives the same order as sorting on Time to win. Time to win, faints and TDO are one trainer soloing the boss with a party of six, relobbying after a wipe. Win % is the share of runs that beat the timer with 1 trainer of it. Open a moveset to see every alternative the simulator scored for that attacker.

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 movesetWin % (1)OverallPowerTime to winFaintsEstimator
Random (any moveset)showing100%233%364.2%1:041.40.37
Razor Leaf / Hurricane100%170%353.0%1:062.50.38
Feint Attack / Hurricane100%167%358.0%1:062.50.37
Snarl / Hurricane100%167%358.5%1:052.50.37
Snarl / Foul Play100%198%360.6%1:052.00.37
Feint Attack / Foul Play100%198%360.8%1:052.00.37
Razor Leaf / Foul Play100%207%361.0%1:051.80.37
Feint Attack / Leaf Blade100%272%365.8%1:041.10.37
Snarl / Leaf Blade100%272%365.8%1:041.10.37
Razor Leaf / Leaf Blade100%298%369.3%1:041.00.36
Feint Attack / Leaf Tornado100%339%369.3%1:040.70.36
Snarl / Leaf Tornado100%339%369.3%1:040.70.36
Razor Leaf / Leaf Tornado100%371%369.6%1:030.50.36

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.

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Schedule snapshot 2026-10-05 · 1 not in the Pokemon snapshot yet (Astronaut Pikachu)

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Shadow, Mega and Legendary start unchecked because that is the filter state pokebattler.com serves a visitor. Ranked 30 attackers in 0.3 s (50 Monte Carlo runs each, seed 1), moveset table 0.0 s. Update ranking re-reads the settings; Re-run simulation rolls a new seed on the same settings, so the difference between two runs is this table's own error bar. The same ranking, with the same cache and the same settings, is available as JSON at /api/raids/rank.