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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?

Zapdos
Elite · CP 53,600
electricflying
HP
20,000
Raid timer
5:00
Attack / Defense
263 / 197
Difficulty rating
3.99
Catch CP
1,930 – 2,015
Boosted (Rainy, Windy)
2,413 – 2,519

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Beating Zapdos should take 4 trainers with level 40 counters of this strength. The Win % column is quoted at 4 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
rock 1.60xice 1.60x
Resists
fighting 0.63xflying 0.63xground 0.63xbug 0.63xsteel 0.63xgrass 0.63x
Related countersGalarian Zapdos

The best Zapdos counters at level 40 are Rhyperior, Glimmora, Tyrantrum, Mamoswine, Baxcalibur & Gigalith.

  1. #1
    Rhyperior
    groundrock
    Smack Down / Rock Wrecker
    Power
    28.5%
    Estimator
    3.86
    Time
    17:46
  2. #2
    Glimmora
    rockpoison
    Rock Throw / Meteor Beam
    Power
    28.8%
    Estimator
    3.82
    Time
    17:34
  3. #3
    Tyrantrum
    rockdragon
    Rock Throw / Meteor Beam
    Power
    27.5%
    Estimator
    4.00
    Time
    18:25
  4. #4
    Mamoswine
    iceground
    Powder Snow / Avalanche
    Power
    27.2%
    Estimator
    4.05
    Time
    18:37
  5. #5
    Baxcalibur
    dragonice
    Ice Fang / Avalanche
    Power
    27.4%
    Estimator
    4.01
    Time
    18:28
  6. #6
    Gigalith
    rock
    Smack Down / Meteor Beam
    Power
    26.3%
    Estimator
    4.19
    Time
    19:18

Top pick: Rhyperior — 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
Rhyperior
groundrock
Smack Down / Rock Wrecker
3.8617:4622.5
2
Glimmora
rockpoison
Rock Throw / Meteor Beam
3.8217:3450.4
3
Tyrantrum
rockdragon
Rock Throw / Meteor Beam
4.0018:2540.0
4
Mamoswine
iceground
Powder Snow / Avalanche
4.0518:3738.8
5
Baxcalibur
dragonice
Ice Fang / Avalanche
4.0118:2846.2
6
Gigalith
rock
Smack Down / Meteor Beam
4.1919:1849.6
7
Rampardos
rock
Smack Down / Rock Slide
4.0818:4673.4
8
Tyranitar
rockdark
Smack Down / Stone Edge
4.3319:5647.0
9
Aurorus
rockice
Rock Throw / Meteor Beam
4.6521:2353.2
10
Stonjourner
rock
Rock Throw / Rock Slide
4.7021:3754.2
11
Golem
rockground
Rock Throw / Stone Edge
4.8922:3137.3
12
Cetitan
ice
Powder Snow / Avalanche
4.6621:2660.0
13
Glaceon
ice
Frost Breath / Avalanche
4.6721:3175.4
14
Aggron
steelrock
Smack Down / Meteor Beam
4.9022:3253.8
15
Garchomp
dragonground
Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe
5.2424:0731.3
16
Alolan Golem
rockelectric
Rock Throw / Stone Edge
5.0323:0849.8
17
Ursaluna
groundnormal
Smack Down / Ice Punch
5.2424:0536.9
18
Galarian Darmanitan (Standard)
ice
Ice Fang / Avalanche
4.7922:0392.7
19
Haxorus
dragon
Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe
5.0223:0762.0
20
Avalugg
ice
Ice Fang / Avalanche
5.1523:4260.6
21
Hisuian Avalugg
icerock
Powder Snow / Rock Slide
5.2023:5655.7
22
Weavile
darkice
Ice Shard / Triple Axel
4.9622:5091.8
23
Mr. Rime
icepsychic
Ice Shard / Triple Axel
5.0823:2479.6
24
Hisuian Arcanine
firerock
Snarl / Rock Slide
5.2224:0166.5
25
Dragapult
dragonghost
Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe
5.3424:3460.1
26
Lycanroc (Dusk)
rock
Rock Throw / Stone Edge
5.3124:2591.9
27
Lycanroc (Midday)
rock
Rock Throw / Stone Edge
5.3324:3192.4
28
Jynx
icepsychic
Frost Breath / Avalanche
5.6025:45114.1
29
Omastar
rockwater
Rock Throw / Rock Slide
5.6726:06101.0
30
Aerodactyl
rockflying
Rock Throw / Rock Slide
5.6325:53109.2
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 4 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 % (4)OverallPowerTime to winFaintsEstimator
Random (any moveset)showing96%36%27.6%18:226.03.99
Charge Beam / Zap Cannon97%31%27.0%18:476.04.08
Charge Beam / Ancient Power100%39%27.5%18:265.94.01
Charge Beam / Thunder89%39%27.5%18:255.94.00
Charge Beam / Thunderbolt97%40%27.7%18:195.93.98
Charge Beam / Heat Wave100%42%28.1%18:026.03.92
Charge Beam / Drill Peck100%39%28.2%17:586.03.90

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 4 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

Raid bosses live right now

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

Attackers allowed
Share these exact settings

Shadow, Mega and Legendary start unchecked because that is the filter state pokebattler.com serves a visitor. Ranked 30 attackers in 1.8 s (50 Monte Carlo runs each, seed 1), moveset table 0.1 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.