Is your Galarian Zapdos a hundo?

Hundo check Zapdos

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Type the CP shown on the Galarian Zapdos encounter and you'll get an answer before you throw.

Galarian Zapdos is Fighting/Flying, which gives it two boosting weathers — the best odds of the three of landing on the boosted chart.

Which weather boosts Galarian Zapdos?

Fighting / Flying Boosted by Cloudy or Windy

Zapdos is the most likely of the three birds to turn up weather boosted. Fighting is boosted by Cloudy weather and Flying by Windy, and a boost from either type counts, so two of the game’s weather conditions put your encounter on the boosted chart instead of one. That matters more than it sounds: a boosted encounter rolls levels 6 to 35 and cannot have any IV below 4, which lifts the odds of a perfect bird from 1 in 4,096 to about 1 in 1,728.

Guaranteed hundo CPs for Galarian Zapdos

At these CPs no other level and IV combination is possible — see one of these and the bird is perfect, no percentages involved. The top number in each row is the one worth memorising.

Not weather boosted: 3042 at level 30 Also guaranteed: 157 · 264 · 371 · 478 · 585 · 692
Weather boosted: 3295 at level 35 Also guaranteed: 585 · 692 · 800 · 907

Galarian Zapdos perfect IV CP charts

Both charts in full. Rows lit green are guaranteed hundos. How to read these →

**Galarian Zapdos · not weather boosted** Levels 1–30. "Spreads" is how many level and IV combinations share that CP.
Level	100% CP	Spreads	Chance
1	50	4	25%
2	157	1	100%
3	264	1	100%
4	371	1	100%
5	478	1	100%
6	585	1	100%
7	692	1	100%
8	800	2	50%
9	907	15	6.7%
10	1014	34	2.9%
11	1115	46	2.2%
12	1216	43	2.3%
13	1318	46	2.2%
14	1419	49	2.0%
15	1521	44	2.3%
16	1622	44	2.3%
17	1723	42	2.4%
18	1825	49	2.0%
19	1926	46	2.2%
20	2027	49	2.0%
21	2129	51	2.0%
22	2230	40	2.5%
23	2332	42	2.4%
24	2433	41	2.4%
25	2534	44	2.3%
26	2636	48	2.1%
27	2737	50	2.0%
28	2839	40	2.5%
29	2940	14	7.1%
30	3042	1	100%

**Galarian Zapdos · weather boosted** Levels 6–35. Boosted by Cloudy or Windy weather, with a 4/4/4 IV floor. "Spreads" is how many level and IV combinations share that CP.
Level	100% CP	Spreads	Chance
6	585	1	100%
7	692	1	100%
8	800	1	100%
9	907	1	100%
10	1014	2	50%
11	1115	3	33%
12	1216	7	14%
13	1318	11	9.1%
14	1419	14	7.1%
15	1521	18	5.6%
16	1622	20	5.0%
17	1723	18	5.6%
18	1825	17	5.9%
19	1926	17	5.9%
20	2027	18	5.6%
21	2129	18	5.6%
22	2230	17	5.9%
23	2332	13	7.7%
24	2433	18	5.6%
25	2534	19	5.3%
26	2636	16	6.3%
27	2737	17	5.9%
28	2839	22	4.5%
29	2940	36	2.8%
30	3042	33	3.0%
31	3092	35	2.9%
32	3143	24	4.2%
33	3194	11	9.1%
34	3244	3	33%
35	3295	1	100%

Is a hundo actually worth it for Galarian Zapdos?

Galarian Zapdos has the highest attack stat of the three birds at 252, paired with the lowest defence at 189. It is the most glass-cannon of the set, and under a CP cap that is the least forgiving shape a Pokémon can have.

The rank-1 Great League spread is 3/15/14 and the rank-1 Ultra League spread is 1/15/15. Both want attack near the floor. The reason is arithmetic rather than strategy: CP charges you for attack, and a spread that spends less on attack reaches a higher level before it hits the cap, which buys back more defence and stamina than the attack was worth. With Zapdos’ already-thin defence, that trade is especially valuable, which is why a hundo Zapdos is a genuinely poor Great League pick despite being the best possible Zapdos on paper.

Highest stat product under each CP cap for Galarian Zapdos. A 15/15/15 bird is not close to rank 1 in either.
League	CP cap	Rank-1 IVs	At level	CP
Great League	1500	3 / 15 / 14	15.5	1497
Ultra League	2500	1 / 15 / 15	26	2498

Fighting/Flying is a notable offensive typing, though. Fighting is one of the more useful attacking types in the game, and the birds are among the very few Fighting-type legendaries available. In Master League and in raids — neither of which has a CP cap — attack is not a liability and a 15/15/15 Zapdos is straightforwardly the best one you can own. Its low defence keeps it out of the top tier for bulk-dependent formats, but as a damage dealer the attack stat does real work.

The double weather boost also changes the calculus on when to commit items. Because Cloudy and Windy are both common conditions in most regions, you will see boosted Zapdos encounters more often than boosted Articuno or Moltres. Boosted means the CP could reach 3295, and it means the 4/4/4 IV floor has already eliminated a large share of the bad spreads before you even look at the number.

Practical read: if the CP matches a lit row on the boosted chart, that is the single best-value throw any of the three birds offers, because you have both a guaranteed hundo and better-than-usual odds of having got there.

The other two Galarian birds

New to this? The home page covers what a hundo is and why the odds are 1 in 4,096, and there is a separate guide to how to get the Galarian birds if you have not found one yet.