Sinistea counters

#0854

ghostTier 3

Lobby CP

9,418

3,600

Timer

3:00

Attack

108

Defense

Difficulty

0.32

Pokebattler scale

Beating Sinistea should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 603-650.

Weak toghost1.6xdark1.6x

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 Dark Mega — most top counters attack with Dark

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 Sinistea counters are Mega Houndoom, Necrozma (Dawn Wings), Shadow Darkrai, Shadow Absol, Shadow Hydreigon & Shadow Chandelure.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Houndoom
Necrozma (Dawn Wings)
S. Darkrai
S. Absol
S. Hydreigon
S. Chandelure

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 HoundoomMegapartySnarl / Dark Pulse+0.290:51
2Necrozma (Dawn Wings)LegendarypartyPsycho Cut / Moongeist Beam0.300:53
3Mega Mewtwo YMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Shadow Ball0.320:56
4Shadow DarkraiShadowLegendarypartySnarl / Foul Play0.320:56
5Mega GengarMegaLick / Shadow Ball0.320:57
6Mega AbsolMegaSnarl / Brutal Swing0.330:58
7Shadow AbsolShadowpartySnarl / Brutal Swing0.351:01
8Shadow HydreigonShadowpartyBite / Brutal Swing0.351:01
9Mega Mewtwo XMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Shadow Ball0.351:01
10Mega TyranitarMegaBite / Brutal Swing0.351:01
11Shadow ChandelureShadowpartyHex / Shadow Ball0.361:03

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

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Top 15 Sinistea 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 Houndoomdarkfirejoint top pick	darkSnarldarkDark Pulse+	3,842	0:51	0.29	0.2	458.5%
2	Necrozma (Dawn Wings)psychicghost	psychicPsycho CutghostMoongeist Beam	4,099	0:53	0.30	1.4	446.2%
3	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	psychicPsycho CutghostShadow Ball	6,428	0:56	0.32	0.8	421.8%
4	Shadow Darkraidark	darkSnarldarkFoul Play	3,739	0:56	0.32	0.5	421.5%
5	Mega Gengarghostpoison	ghostLickghostShadow Ball	4,336	0:57	0.32	2.0	415.3%
6	Mega Absoldark	darkSnarldarkBrutal Swing	3,301	0:58	0.33	0.9	404.7%
7	Shadow Absoldark	darkSnarldarkBrutal Swing	2,526	1:01	0.35	1.3	386.1%
8	Shadow Hydreigondarkdragon	darkBitedarkBrutal Swing	3,625	1:01	0.35	0.6	385.7%
9	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	psychicPsycho CutghostShadow Ball	6,112	1:01	0.35	0.8	385.3%
10	Mega Tyranitarrockdark	darkBitedarkBrutal Swing	5,347	1:01	0.35	0.0	383.9%
11	Shadow Chandelureghostfire	ghostHexghostShadow Ball	3,268	1:03	0.36	2.5	373.5%
12	Shadow Tyranitarrockdark	darkBitedarkBrutal Swing	3,834	1:03	0.36	0.3	372.1%
13	Shadow Gengarghostpoison	ghostLickghostShadow Ball	2,878	1:04	0.36	3.5	367.6%
14	Mega Banetteghost	ghostShadow ClawghostShadow Ball	3,594	1:05	0.37	2.7	361.2%
15	Shadow Giratina (Origin)ghostdragon	ghostShadow ClawghostShadow Force	3,683	1:05	0.37	1.5	361.0%

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 Sinistea.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Sinistea'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	Faints	Estimator
Random (any moveset)showing	100%	329%	409.1%	0:57	1.0	0.33
Astonish / Shadow Ball	100%	271%	401.8%	0:58	1.6	0.33
Sucker Punch / Shadow Ball	100%	261%	402.4%	0:58	1.7	0.33
Sucker Punch / Dark Pulse	100%	337%	411.3%	0:57	0.9	0.32
Astonish / Dark Pulse	100%	339%	412.6%	0:57	0.9	0.32
Astonish / Psychic	100%	408%	416.7%	0:56	0.5	0.32
Sucker Punch / Psychic	100%	411%	418.7%	0:56	0.4	0.32

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…

Sinistea 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.

ghost1.6x dark1.6x flying1x ground1x rock1x steel1x fire1x water1x grass1x electric1x psychic1x ice1x dragon1x fairy1x poison0.63x bug0.63x normal0.39x fighting0.39x

Weak (2)
Neutral (12)
Resists (4)

It resists normal0.39xfighting0.39xpoison0.625xbug0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Sinistea throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
darkSucker Punch	5	+6	0.5s	0.10s
ghostAstonishSTAB	7	+13	1.0s	0.60s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
ghostShadow BallSTAB	100	-50	3.0s	2.40s
psychicPsychic	95	-50	3.0s	1.50s
darkDark Pulse	80	-50	3.0s	1.40s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	603	754
11/11/11	612	765
12/12/12	622	777
13/13/13	631	789
14/14/14	641	801
15/15/15hundo	650	813

Caught CP range 603 - 650, or 754 - 813 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.

Sinistea 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 3: 3,600 HP, 3:00 timer, boss Attack 108 / Defense 81 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.73).

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Attackers allowed

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

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#	Attacker	Moveset	Overall	Power	Est.Estimator	TimeTime to win	Faints	Win % (1)	CP	DPS	TDO
1	Mega Houndoom darkfiremega Snarl / Dark Pulse+	Snarl / Dark Pulse++17 more movesets	100%	458.5%	0.29	0:51	0.2	100%	3,842	78.3	3603
2	Necrozma (Dawn Wings) psychicghost Psycho Cut / Moongeist Beam	Psycho Cut / Moongeist Beam+14 more movesets	82%	446.2%	0.30	0:53	1.3	100%	4,099	69.9	2025
3	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball	Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball+26 more movesets	83%	421.8%	0.32	0:56	0.7	100%	6,428	65.6	2361
4	Shadow Darkrai darkshadow Snarl / Foul Play	Snarl / Foul Play+14 more movesets	86%	421.5%	0.32	0:56	0.5	100%	3,739	66.2	2759
5	Mega Gengar ghostpoisonmega Lick / Shadow Ball	Lick / Shadow Ball+31 more movesets	74%	415.3%	0.32	0:57	1.8	100%	4,336	66.8	1298
6	Mega Absol darkmega Snarl / Brutal Swing	Snarl / Brutal Swing+9 more movesets	79%	404.7%	0.33	0:58	0.9	100%	3,301	63.2	2060
7	Shadow Absol darkshadow Snarl / Brutal Swing	Snarl / Brutal Swing+9 more movesets	72%	386.1%	0.35	1:01	1.2	100%	2,526	60.5	1680
8	Shadow Hydreigon darkdragonshadow Bite / Brutal Swing	Bite / Brutal Swing+9 more movesets	79%	385.7%	0.35	1:01	0.5	100%	3,625	59.8	2541
9	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball	Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball+26 more movesets	76%	385.3%	0.35	1:01	0.8	100%	6,112	63.1	2307
10	Mega Tyranitar rockdarkmega Bite / Brutal Swing	Bite / Brutal Swing+15 more movesets	87%	383.9%	0.35	1:01	0.0	100%	5,347	60.0	3665
11	Shadow Chandelure ghostfireshadow Hex / Shadow Ball	Hex / Shadow Ball+19 more movesets	64%	373.5%	0.36	1:03	2.3	100%	3,268	59.1	1125
12	Shadow Tyranitar rockdarkshadow Bite / Brutal Swing	Bite / Brutal Swing+15 more movesets	78%	372.1%	0.36	1:03	0.3	100%	3,834	58.3	3121
13	Shadow Gengar ghostpoisonshadow Lick / Shadow Ball	Lick / Shadow Ball+31 more movesets	60%	367.6%	0.36	1:04	3.2	100%	2,878	58.5	866
14	Mega Banette ghostmega Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball	Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball+5 more movesets	62%	361.2%	0.37	1:05	2.4	100%	3,594	57.0	1093
15	Shadow Giratina (Origin) ghostdragonshadow Shadow Claw / Shadow Force	Shadow Claw / Shadow Force+7 more movesets	67%	361.0%	0.37	1:05	1.4	100%	3,683	56.8	1567
16	Shadow Weavile darkiceshadow Snarl / Foul Play	Snarl / Foul Play+11 more movesets	68%	351.7%	0.38	1:07	0.9	100%	3,005	55.5	1990
17	Mega Greninja waterdarkmega Feint Attack / Surf+	Feint Attack / Surf++17 more movesets	71%	349.4%	0.38	1:07	0.5	100%	3,784	56.2	2717
18	Shadow Salamence dragonflyingshadow Bite / Brutal Swing	Bite / Brutal Swing+20 more movesets	64%	348.6%	0.38	1:07	1.4	100%	3,749	54.3	1509
19	Darkrai dark Snarl / Foul Play	Snarl / Foul Play+14 more movesets	71%	348.0%	0.38	1:07	0.5	100%	3,739	54.6	2611
20	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Dragon Tail / Dragon Ascent	Dragon Tail / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	68%	346.3%	0.39	1:08	0.9	100%	5,713	55.2	1898
21	Mega Alakazam psychicmega Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball	Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball+17 more movesets	61%	345.0%	0.39	1:08	1.8	100%	4,510	53.6	1316
22	Shadow Mewtwo psychicshadow Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball	Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball+23 more movesets	61%	341.2%	0.39	1:09	1.7	100%	4,178	55.6	1424
23	Shadow Hisuian Typhlosion fireghostshadow Hex / Shadow Ball	Hex / Shadow Ball+9 more movesets	57%	337.1%	0.40	1:10	2.5	100%	2,994	52.7	1054
24	Shadow Honchkrow darkflyingshadow Snarl / Dark Pulse	Snarl / Dark Pulse+7 more movesets	62%	330.6%	0.40	1:11	1.1	100%	2,711	52.0	1720
25	Shadow Houndoom darkfireshadow Snarl / Foul Play	Snarl / Foul Play+14 more movesets	63%	330.5%	0.40	1:11	1.1	100%	2,635	51.4	1727
26	Blacephalon fireghost Astonish / Shadow Ball	Astonish / Shadow Ball+7 more movesets	55%	329.8%	0.41	1:11	2.9	100%	3,297	53.7	950
27	Hydreigon darkdragon Bite / Brutal Swing	Bite / Brutal Swing+9 more movesets	66%	323.7%	0.41	1:13	0.4	100%	3,625	50.0	2751
28	Mega Salamence dragonflyingmega Bite / Brutal Swing	Bite / Brutal Swing+20 more movesets	63%	320.5%	0.42	1:13	0.9	100%	5,031	49.7	1808
29	Absol dark Snarl / Brutal Swing	Snarl / Brutal Swing+9 more movesets	60%	320.3%	0.42	1:13	1.2	100%	2,526	50.4	1706
30	Lunala psychicghost Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball	Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball+11 more movesets	56%	319.9%	0.42	1:13	2.0	100%	4,042	50.6	1307

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