Tarountula counters

#0917

bugElite

Lobby CP

11,529

20,000

Timer

5:00

Attack

Defense

Difficulty

1.12

Pokebattler scale

Beating Tarountula should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 292-326.

Weak toflying1.6xrock1.6xfire1.6x

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 Tarountula counters are Mega Rayquaza, Blacephalon, Shadow Reshiram, Shadow Salamence, Shadow Moltres & Rayquaza.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Rayquaza
Blacephalon
S. Reshiram
S. Salamence
S. Moltres
Rayquaza

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 RayquazaMegaLegendarypartyAir Slash / Dragon Ascent0.994:33
2Mega DelphoxMegaFire Spin / Mystical Fire+1.014:39
3Mega StaraptorMegaGust / Brave Bird+1.125:08
4BlacephalonLegendarypartyIncinerate / Mind Blown1.175:23
5Shadow ReshiramShadowLegendarypartyFire Fang / Fusion Flare1.175:24
6Mega BlazikenMegaFire Spin / Blast Burn1.185:26
7Mega SkarmoryMegaAir Slash / Drill Peck+1.215:35
8Shadow SalamenceShadowpartyFire Fang / Fly1.225:36
9Mega Charizard YMegaFire Spin / Blast Burn1.225:37
10Shadow MoltresShadowLegendarypartyFire Spin / Fly1.255:45
12RayquazaLegendarypartyAir Slash / Dragon Ascent1.285:55

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

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Raid tier — Elite Raid

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Top 15 Tarountula 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.

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#	Attacker	Moveset
1	Mega Rayquazadragonflyingjoint top pick	flyingAir SlashflyingDragon Ascent	5,713	4:33	0.99	1.7	111.5%
2	Mega Delphoxfirepsychic	fireFire SpinfireMystical Fire+	4,783	4:39	1.01	3.2	109.0%
3	Mega Staraptorfightingflying	flyingGustflyingBrave Bird+	3,979	5:08	1.12	1.7	98.6%
4	Blacephalonfireghost	fireIncineratefireMind Blown	3,297	5:23	1.17	3.8	94.0%
5	Shadow Reshiramdragonfire	fireFire FangfireFusion Flare	4,038	5:24	1.17	2.7	93.9%
6	Mega Blazikenfirefighting	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	4,161	5:26	1.18	2.7	93.2%
7	Mega Skarmorysteelflying	flyingAir SlashflyingDrill Peck+	3,741	5:35	1.21	1.7	90.7%
8	Shadow Salamencedragonflying	fireFire FangflyingFly	3,749	5:36	1.22	3.0	90.4%
9	Mega Charizard Yfireflying	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	4,455	5:37	1.22	1.5	90.2%
10	Shadow Moltresfireflying	fireFire SpinflyingFly	3,465	5:45	1.25	2.2	88.1%
11	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	psychicPsycho CutpsychicFuture Sight+	6,428	5:53	1.28	4.7	86.1%
12	Rayquazadragonflying	flyingAir SlashflyingDragon Ascent	3,835	5:55	1.28	2.8	85.7%
13	Shadow Chandelureghostfire	fireFire SpinfireOverheat	3,268	5:58	1.30	3.5	85.0%
14	Shadow Toucannonnormalflying	flyingPeckflyingBeak Blast	2,689	5:59	1.30	4.7	84.6%
15	Mega Salamencedragonflying	fireFire FangflyingFly	5,031	6:04	1.32	2.0	83.6%

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 Tarountula.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Tarountula'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	17%	367%	93.5%	5:25	2.7	1.18
Bug Bite / Grass Knot	17%	361%	93.1%	5:27	2.9	1.18
Struggle Bug / Grass Knot	17%	356%	93.1%	5:27	3.1	1.18
Bug Bite / X-Scissor	17%	381%	93.4%	5:25	2.6	1.18
Struggle Bug / X-Scissor	17%	372%	93.5%	5:25	2.6	1.18
Bug Bite / Lunge	17%	392%	93.5%	5:25	2.4	1.18
Struggle Bug / Lunge	17%	383%	93.6%	5:25	2.6	1.18

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…

Tarountula 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 normal1x poison1x bug1x ghost1x steel1x water1x electric1x psychic1x ice1x dragon1x dark1x fairy1x fighting0.63x ground0.63x grass0.63x

Weak (3)
Neutral (12)
Resists (3)

It resists fighting0.625xground0.625xgrass0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Tarountula 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
bugStruggle BugSTAB	15	+15	1.5s	1.20s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
bugX-ScissorSTAB	45	-33	1.5s	1.10s
grassGrass Knot	90	-50	2.5s	1.60s
bugLungeSTAB	55	-33	3.0s	2.50s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	292	366
11/11/11	299	374
12/12/12	306	382
13/13/13	312	391
14/14/14	319	399
15/15/15hundo	326	408

Caught CP range 292 - 326, or 366 - 408 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.

Tarountula 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

Elite: 20,000 HP, 5:00 timer, boss Attack 83 / Defense 90 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.985).

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Attackers allowed

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

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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 Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	100%	111.5%	0.99	4:33	1.7	100%	5,713	73.7	7641
2	Mega Delphox firepsychicmega Fire Spin / Mystical Fire+	Fire Spin / Mystical Fire++23 more movesets	92%	109.0%	1.01	4:39	3.0	100%	4,783	72.4	4884
3	Mega Staraptor fightingflyingmega Gust / Brave Bird+	Gust / Brave Bird++19 more movesets	87%	98.6%	1.12	5:08	1.7	4%	3,979	65.4	8252
4	Blacephalon fireghost Incinerate / Mind Blown	Incinerate / Mind Blown+7 more movesets	77%	94.0%	1.17	5:23	3.9	0%	3,297	62.7	4356
5	Shadow Reshiram dragonfireshadow Fire Fang / Fusion Flare	Fire Fang / Fusion Flare+9 more movesets	80%	93.9%	1.17	5:24	2.8	0%	4,038	62.1	5110
6	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	79%	93.2%	1.18	5:26	2.7	0%	4,161	61.6	5690
7	Mega Skarmory steelflyingmega Air Slash / Drill Peck+	Air Slash / Drill Peck++9 more movesets	80%	90.7%	1.21	5:35	2.0	0%	3,741	60.2	6598
8	Shadow Salamence dragonflyingshadow Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	75%	90.4%	1.22	5:36	3.3	0%	3,749	59.6	4552
9	Mega Charizard Y fireflyingmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	80%	90.2%	1.22	5:37	1.9	0%	4,455	59.7	6878
10	Shadow Moltres fireflyingshadow Fire Spin / Fly	Fire Spin / Fly+11 more movesets	76%	88.1%	1.25	5:45	2.3	0%	3,465	58.1	6099
11	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Psycho Cut / Future Sight+	Psycho Cut / Future Sight++26 more movesets	69%	86.1%	1.28	5:53	5.3	0%	6,428	57.9	3095
12	Rayquaza dragonflying Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	72%	85.7%	1.28	5:55	3.0	0%	3,835	56.6	4937
13	Shadow Chandelure ghostfireshadow Fire Spin / Overheat	Fire Spin / Overheat+19 more movesets	70%	85.0%	1.30	5:58	4.0	0%	3,268	56.6	4270
14	Shadow Toucannon normalflyingshadow Peck / Beak Blast	Peck / Beak Blast+11 more movesets	67%	84.6%	1.30	5:59	5.4	0%	2,689	56.4	3090
15	Mega Salamence dragonflyingmega Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	73%	83.6%	1.32	6:04	1.9	0%	5,031	55.1	6690
16	Shadow Darmanitan (Standard) fireshadow Fire Fang / Overheat	Fire Fang / Overheat+11 more movesets	66%	83.3%	1.32	6:05	5.5	0%	3,105	55.7	3082
17	Shadow Staraptor normalflyingshadow Gust / Fly	Gust / Fly+15 more movesets	66%	82.5%	1.34	6:09	5.4	0%	2,825	54.9	3101
18	Shadow Blaziken firefightingshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	67%	82.4%	1.34	6:09	4.2	0%	2,848	54.8	4141
19	Shadow Heatran firesteelshadow Fire Spin / Magma Storm	Fire Spin / Magma Storm+11 more movesets	71%	81.4%	1.35	6:14	2.2	0%	3,754	53.8	6294
20	Shadow Rampardos rockshadow Smack Down / Rock Slide	Smack Down / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	60%	81.0%	1.36	6:15	11.3	0%	3,298	55.2	1692
21	Shadow Tornadus (Therian) flyingshadow Gust / Bleakwind Storm	Gust / Bleakwind Storm+9 more movesets	65%	79.9%	1.38	6:21	4.6	0%	3,215	53.2	3579
22	Shadow Galarian Articuno psychicflyingshadow Psycho Cut / Fly	Psycho Cut / Fly+7 more movesets	63%	79.6%	1.38	6:22	5.4	0%	3,590	53.2	3055
23	Shadow Ho-Oh fireflyingshadow Incinerate / Sacred Fire++	Incinerate / Sacred Fire+++27 more movesets	70%	79.2%	1.39	6:24	2.0	0%	3,863	52.3	6552
24	Mega Diancie rockfairymega Rock Throw / Rock Slide	Rock Throw / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	62%	78.9%	1.40	6:26	6.6	0%	4,346	52.7	3191
25	Reshiram dragonfire Fire Fang / Fusion Flare	Fire Fang / Fusion Flare+9 more movesets	67%	78.7%	1.40	6:26	2.8	0%	4,038	52.0	5155
26	Mega Charizard X firedragonmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	66%	78.3%	1.41	6:29	2.9	0%	3,850	51.7	4984
27	Shadow Charizard fireflyingshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	65%	77.6%	1.42	6:32	3.2	0%	2,889	51.3	4697
28	Shadow Emboar firefightingshadow Ember / Blast Burn	Ember / Blast Burn+9 more movesets	63%	77.4%	1.42	6:33	4.0	0%	2,982	51.6	4210
29	Shadow Delphox firepsychicshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	60%	77.4%	1.42	6:33	6.5	0%	3,059	52.2	2602
30	Salamence dragonflying Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	63%	75.4%	1.46	6:43	3.5	0%	3,749	49.7	4333

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