Spinarak counters

#0167

bug poisonTier 5

Lobby CP

13,786

15,000

Timer

5:00

Attack

Defense

Difficulty

0.58

Pokebattler scale

Beating Spinarak should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 426-466.

Weak toflying1.6xrock1.6xfire1.6xpsychic1.6x

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 Psychic Mega — most top counters attack with Psychic

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 Spinarak counters are Mega Mewtwo Y, Shadow Mewtwo, Shadow Reshiram, Blacephalon, Shadow Salamence & Shadow Moltres.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Mewtwo Y
S. Mewtwo
S. Reshiram
Blacephalon
S. Salamence
S. Moltres

8 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 YMegaLegendarypartyPsycho Cut / Future Sight+0.472:10
2Mega RayquazaMegaLegendaryAir Slash / Dragon Ascent0.562:36
3Mega Mewtwo XMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Psystrike0.572:37
4Mega DelphoxMegaFire Spin / Mystical Fire+0.582:40
5Shadow MewtwoShadowLegendarypartyConfusion / Psystrike0.642:56
6Mega StaraptorMegaGust / Brave Bird+0.663:02
7Shadow ReshiramShadowLegendarypartyFire Fang / Fusion Flare0.673:06
8BlacephalonLegendarypartyIncinerate / Mind Blown0.693:09
9Mega BlazikenMegaFire Spin / Blast Burn0.693:10
10Mega AlakazamMegaConfusion / Psychic0.703:13
12Shadow SalamenceShadowpartyFire Fang / Fly0.703:14
14Shadow MoltresShadowLegendarypartyFire Spin / Fly0.723:18

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

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Top 15 Spinarak 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 Ypsychicjoint top pick	psychicPsycho CutpsychicFuture Sight+	6,428	2:10	0.47	1.7	233.7%
2	Mega Rayquazadragonflying	flyingAir SlashflyingDragon Ascent	5,713	2:36	0.56	1.1	195.3%
3	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	psychicPsycho CutpsychicPsystrike	6,112	2:37	0.57	1.5	193.5%
4	Mega Delphoxfirepsychic	fireFire SpinfireMystical Fire+	4,783	2:40	0.58	2.3	189.8%
5	Shadow Mewtwopsychic	psychicConfusionpsychicPsystrike	4,178	2:56	0.64	3.9	172.8%
6	Mega Staraptorfightingflying	flyingGustflyingBrave Bird+	3,979	3:02	0.66	1.3	167.2%
7	Shadow Reshiramdragonfire	fireFire FangfireFusion Flare	4,038	3:06	0.67	2.2	163.9%
8	Blacephalonfireghost	fireIncineratefireMind Blown	3,297	3:09	0.69	3.5	160.7%
9	Mega Blazikenfirefighting	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	4,161	3:10	0.69	2.0	160.0%
10	Mega Alakazampsychic	psychicConfusionpsychicPsychic	4,510	3:13	0.70	4.5	157.6%
11	Mega Charizard Yfireflying	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	4,455	3:14	0.70	1.8	157.0%
12	Shadow Salamencedragonflying	fireFire FangflyingFly	3,749	3:14	0.70	2.9	156.8%
13	Mega Skarmorysteelflying	flyingAir SlashflyingDrill Peck+	3,741	3:15	0.71	1.4	155.7%
14	Shadow Moltresfireflying	fireFire SpinflyingFly	3,465	3:18	0.72	2.4	153.9%
15	Shadow Galarian Articunopsychicflying	psychicConfusionflyingFly	3,590	3:20	0.73	3.7	151.9%

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 Spinarak.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Spinarak'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%	431%	170.1%	2:59	2.8	0.65
Poison Sting / Night Slash	100%	428%	168.9%	3:00	3.1	0.65
Bug Bite / Night Slash	100%	425%	169.3%	2:60	3.1	0.65
Bug Bite / Signal Beam	100%	448%	170.2%	2:59	2.9	0.65
Poison Sting / Cross Poison	100%	475%	170.6%	2:58	2.5	0.65
Poison Sting / Signal Beam	100%	445%	170.8%	2:58	2.8	0.64
Bug Bite / Cross Poison	100%	471%	170.9%	2:58	2.5	0.64

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…

Spinarak 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 rock1.6x fire1.6x psychic1.6x normal1x ground1x ghost1x steel1x water1x electric1x ice1x dragon1x dark1x poison0.63x bug0.63x fairy0.63x fighting0.39x grass0.39x

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

It resists fighting0.39xgrass0.39xpoison0.625xbug0.625xfairy0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Spinarak throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
bugBug BiteSTAB	5	+6	0.5s	0.25s
poisonPoison StingSTAB	4	+6	0.5s	0.28s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
poisonCross PoisonSTAB	40	-33	1.5s	0.90s
bugSignal BeamSTAB	75	-50	3.0s	1.90s
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	426	532
11/11/11	434	542
12/12/12	442	552
13/13/13	450	563
14/14/14	458	573
15/15/15hundo	466	583

Caught CP range 426 - 466, or 532 - 583 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.

Spinarak 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 5: 15,000 HP, 5:00 timer, boss Attack 94 / Defense 69 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.79).

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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	Faints	Win % (1)	CP	DPS	TDO
1	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Psycho Cut / Future Sight+	Psycho Cut / Future Sight++26 more movesets	100%	233.7%	0.47	2:10	1.6	100%	6,428	120.2	6335
2	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	85%	195.3%	0.56	2:36	1.1	100%	5,713	96.9	7294
3	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Psystrike	Psycho Cut / Psystrike+26 more movesets	83%	193.5%	0.57	2:37	1.4	100%	6,112	95.9	6357
4	Mega Delphox firepsychicmega Fire Spin / Mystical Fire+	Fire Spin / Mystical Fire++23 more movesets	79%	189.8%	0.58	2:40	2.2	100%	4,783	94.4	4661
5	Shadow Mewtwo psychicshadow Confusion / Psystrike	Confusion / Psystrike+23 more movesets	68%	172.8%	0.64	2:56	3.8	100%	4,178	86.6	3252
6	Mega Staraptor fightingflyingmega Gust / Brave Bird+	Gust / Brave Bird++19 more movesets	73%	167.2%	0.66	3:02	1.2	100%	3,979	83.1	6806
7	Shadow Reshiram dragonfireshadow Fire Fang / Fusion Flare	Fire Fang / Fusion Flare+9 more movesets	68%	163.9%	0.67	3:06	2.1	100%	4,038	81.6	4770
8	Blacephalon fireghost Incinerate / Mind Blown	Incinerate / Mind Blown+7 more movesets	64%	160.7%	0.69	3:09	3.4	100%	3,297	80.8	3768
9	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	68%	160.0%	0.69	3:10	1.9	100%	4,161	79.9	5450
10	Mega Alakazam psychicmega Confusion / Psychic	Confusion / Psychic+17 more movesets	61%	157.6%	0.70	3:13	4.6	100%	4,510	79.5	2842
11	Mega Charizard Y fireflyingmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	67%	157.0%	0.70	3:14	1.7	100%	4,455	78.0	5663
12	Shadow Salamence dragonflyingshadow Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	64%	156.8%	0.70	3:14	2.8	100%	3,749	78.0	3934
13	Mega Skarmory steelflyingmega Air Slash / Drill Peck+	Air Slash / Drill Peck++9 more movesets	68%	155.7%	0.71	3:15	1.3	100%	3,741	78.7	6763
14	Shadow Moltres fireflyingshadow Fire Spin / Fly	Fire Spin / Fly+11 more movesets	64%	153.9%	0.72	3:18	2.3	100%	3,465	76.4	4701
15	Shadow Galarian Articuno psychicflyingshadow Confusion / Fly	Confusion / Fly+7 more movesets	60%	151.9%	0.73	3:20	3.6	100%	3,590	75.4	3250
16	Shadow Toucannon normalflyingshadow Peck / Beak Blast	Peck / Beak Blast+11 more movesets	59%	148.9%	0.74	3:24	3.8	100%	2,689	74.5	3073
17	Rayquaza dragonflying Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	61%	147.3%	0.75	3:26	2.5	100%	3,835	73.4	4341
18	Mega Salamence dragonflyingmega Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	62%	145.5%	0.76	3:29	1.8	100%	5,031	72.0	5421
19	Mega Gardevoir psychicfairymega Confusion / Psychic	Confusion / Psychic+19 more movesets	58%	144.7%	0.76	3:30	3.4	100%	4,512	71.8	3459
20	Mega Gallade psychicfightingmega Confusion / Psychic	Confusion / Psychic+19 more movesets	58%	144.5%	0.76	3:30	3.0	100%	4,521	71.9	3838
21	Shadow Staraptor normalflyingshadow Gust / Fly	Gust / Fly+15 more movesets	56%	143.5%	0.77	3:32	3.9	100%	2,825	71.3	3011
22	Shadow Blaziken firefightingshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	58%	143.1%	0.77	3:32	3.2	100%	2,848	71.2	3679
23	Mewtwo psychic Confusion / Psystrike	Confusion / Psystrike+23 more movesets	56%	142.8%	0.77	3:33	4.2	100%	4,178	71.7	3084
24	Shadow Rampardos rockshadow Smack Down / Rock Slide	Smack Down / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	55%	142.7%	0.77	3:33	4.5	100%	3,298	71.8	2818
25	Shadow Chandelure ghostfireshadow Fire Spin / Overheat	Fire Spin / Overheat+19 more movesets	57%	142.5%	0.77	3:33	3.6	100%	3,268	72.0	3710
26	Shadow Darmanitan (Standard) fireshadow Fire Fang / Overheat	Fire Fang / Overheat+11 more movesets	56%	142.5%	0.77	3:33	4.1	100%	3,105	71.2	2938
27	Shadow Heatran firesteelshadow Fire Spin / Magma Storm	Fire Spin / Magma Storm+11 more movesets	61%	142.2%	0.77	3:34	1.5	100%	3,754	70.6	6162
28	Mega Latios dragonpsychicmega Zen Headbutt / Psychic	Zen Headbutt / Psychic+9 more movesets	56%	141.2%	0.78	3:35	3.6	100%	5,007	70.4	3405
29	Mega Diancie rockfairymega Rock Throw / Rock Slide	Rock Throw / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	57%	139.2%	0.79	3:38	2.6	100%	4,346	69.1	4193
30	Shadow Ho-Oh fireflyingshadow Incinerate / Sacred Fire++	Incinerate / Sacred Fire+++27 more movesets	59%	139.0%	0.79	3:39	1.8	100%	3,863	69.1	5542

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