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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?

Mega Victreebel
Mega · CP 37,188
grasspoison
HP
9,000
Raid timer
5:00
Attack / Defense
221 / 154
Difficulty rating
1.28
Catch CP
1,318 – 1,389
Boosted (Sunny or clear, Cloudy)
1,648 – 1,736

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Beating Mega Victreebel should take 2 trainers with level 40 counters of this strength. The Win % column is quoted at 2 trainers — 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
flying 1.60xfire 1.60xpsychic 1.60xice 1.60x
Resists
grass 0.39xfighting 0.63xwater 0.63xelectric 0.63xfairy 0.63x
Related countersVictreebel

Best attackers

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The best Mega Victreebel counters at level 40 are Salamence, Volcarona, Chandelure, Metagross, Toucannon & Braviary.

  1. #1
    Salamence
    dragonflying
    Fire Fang / Fly
    Power
    96.7%
    Estimator
    1.13
    Time
    5:15
  2. #2
    Volcarona
    bugfire
    Fire Spin / Overheat
    Power
    85.1%
    Estimator
    1.28
    Time
    5:58
  3. #3
    Chandelure
    ghostfire
    Fire Spin / Overheat
    Power
    84.6%
    Estimator
    1.29
    Time
    5:60
  4. #4
    Metagross
    steelpsychic
    Zen Headbutt / Psychic
    Power
    80.6%
    Estimator
    1.35
    Time
    6:18
  5. #5
    Toucannon
    normalflying
    Peck / Beak Blast
    Power
    83.5%
    Estimator
    1.31
    Time
    6:05
  6. #6
    Braviary
    normalflying
    Air Slash / Fly
    Power
    81.5%
    Estimator
    1.34
    Time
    6:13

Top pick: Salamence — 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
Salamence
dragonflying
Fire Fang / Fly
1.135:159.6
2
Volcarona
bugfire
Fire Spin / Overheat
1.285:5810.8
3
Chandelure
ghostfire
Fire Spin / Overheat
1.295:6012.9
4
Metagross
steelpsychic
Zen Headbutt / Psychic
1.356:189.0
5
Toucannon
normalflying
Peck / Beak Blast
1.316:0517.5
6
Braviary
normalflying
Air Slash / Fly
1.346:1315.0
7
Cinderace
fire
Fire Spin / Pyroball
1.336:1016.9
8
Baxcalibur
dragonice
Ice Fang / Avalanche
1.376:2313.1
9
Delphox
firepsychic
Fire Spin / Blast Burn
1.376:2315.6
10
Blaziken
firefighting
Fire Spin / Blast Burn
1.366:1817.9
11
Charizard
fireflying
Fire Spin / Blast Burn
1.396:2914.4
12
Staraptor
normalflying
Gust / Fly
1.366:2018.0
13
Incineroar
firedark
Fire Fang / Blast Burn
1.426:3714.1
14
Emboar
firefighting
Ember / Blast Burn
1.436:3917.4
15
Skeledirge
fireghost
Incinerate / Blast Burn
1.506:5812.2
16
Hisuian Braviary
psychicflying
Zen Headbutt / Fly
1.466:4617.1
17
Darmanitan (Standard)
fire
Fire Fang / Overheat
1.446:4219.3
18
Infernape
firefighting
Fire Spin / Blast Burn
1.456:4519.4
19
Honchkrow
darkflying
Peck / Sky Attack
1.476:4921.1
20
Ceruledge
fireghost
Incinerate / Flamethrower
1.557:1314.3
21
Hisuian Arcanine
firerock
Fire Fang / Flamethrower
1.547:0817.0
22
Typhlosion
fire
Incinerate / Blast Burn
1.537:0618.6
23
Alakazam
psychic
Confusion / Psychic
1.476:5126.2
24
Exeggutor
grasspsychic
Confusion / Psychic
1.517:0221.0
25
Arcanine
fire
Fire Fang / Flamethrower
1.557:1317.1
26
Espeon
psychic
Confusion / Psychic
1.506:5925.3
27
Flareon
fire
Fire Spin / Flamethrower
1.547:0921.1
28
Galarian Darmanitan (Standard)
ice
Ice Fang / Avalanche
1.537:0625.1
29
Unfezant
normalflying
Air Slash / Sky Attack
1.567:1521.2
30
Vikavolt
bugelectric
Bug Bite / Fly
1.567:1621.1
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 5:00 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 2 trainers 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 % (2)OverallPowerTime to winFaintsEstimator
Random (any moveset)showing100%115%85.2%5:575.61.28
Acid / Acid Spray+100%83%79.3%6:246.01.38
Sucker Punch / Acid Spray+100%85%79.6%6:226.01.37
Razor Leaf / Acid Spray+100%88%80.4%6:186.01.36
Sucker Punch / Sludge Bomb100%92%82.6%6:086.01.32
Razor Leaf / Sludge Bomb100%95%83.0%6:066.01.31
Sucker Punch / Solar Beam100%104%83.4%6:056.01.31
Razor Leaf / Solar Beam100%106%83.4%6:056.01.31
Acid / Sludge Bomb100%96%83.5%6:045.91.31
Acid / Solar Beam100%102%83.6%6:046.01.31
Razor Leaf / Leaf Blade100%132%86.1%5:535.91.27
Acid / Leaf Blade100%125%86.3%5:526.01.26
Sucker Punch / Leaf Blade100%131%86.4%5:526.01.26
Sucker Punch / Leaf Tornado100%173%88.3%5:445.21.24
Acid / Leaf Tornado100%163%88.4%5:445.41.23
Razor Leaf / Leaf Tornado100%173%88.6%5:445.21.23
Acid / Acid Spray100%202%88.8%5:424.81.23
Razor Leaf / Acid Spray100%203%90.0%5:384.31.21
Sucker Punch / Acid Spray100%206%90.1%5:384.31.21

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 2 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.

Custom raid

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Schedule snapshot 2026-10-04

Mega Raids
Mega VictreebelMega
5-Star Raids
XerneasTier 5Shadow Thundurus (Incarnate)Shadow Tier 5
3-Star Raids
MiltankTier 3Hisuian LilligantTier 3DondozoTier 3Shadow Alolan SandslashShadow Tier 3Shadow QuagsireShadow Tier 3Shadow LampentShadow Tier 3
1-Star Raids
Galarian Farfetch'dTier 1Galarian ZigzagoonTier 1CombeeTier 1HonedgeTier 1Shadow MachopShadow Tier 1Shadow BellsproutShadow Tier 1Shadow TorchicShadow Tier 1Shadow BagonShadow Tier 1
Raid tier — Easy Mega Raid, 9,000 HP, 5:00 timer
Super Mega LegendarySuper MegaPrimalMega LegendaryMegaEliteShadow Tier 5Tier 5Shadow Tier 3Tier 3Shadow Tier 1Tier 1Tier 4Tier 2
Attackers allowed
Share these exact settings

Shadow, Mega and Legendary start unchecked because that is the filter state pokebattler.com serves a visitor. This boss is in the current rotation, so its ranking at these default settings was simulated ahead of time (seed 1, 50 Monte Carlo runs each) and served instantly; any other setting ranks live. The moveset table below took 0.1 s. Re-run simulation rolls a new seed and genuinely re-simulates. The same ranking, with the same cache and the same settings, is available as JSON at /api/raids/rank.