Shadow raid

Shadow Absol counters

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darkShadow Tier 1

A Shadow raid boss hits harder than its normal form (Shadow Frenzy), and the Pokemon you catch afterwards is a Shadow. Purified Gems weaken it mid-fight; the simulation does not use them.

Lobby CP

7,428

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

155

Defense

Difficulty

0.08

Pokebattler scale

Beating Shadow Absol should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 1,312-1,443.

Weak tofighting1.6xbug1.6xfairy1.6x

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 Fighting Mega — most top counters attack with Fighting

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 Shadow Absol counters are Mega Mewtwo X, Kartana, Shadow Blaziken, Shadow Gallade, Keldeo & Shadow Conkeldurr.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Mewtwo X
Kartana
S. Blaziken
S. Gallade
Keldeo
S. Conkeldurr

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 XMegaLegendarypartyCounter / Dynamic Punch+0.060:11
2Mega BlazikenMegaCounter / Aura Sphere0.080:14
3Mega LucarioMegaForce Palm / Aura Sphere0.080:14
4Mega GalladeMegaLow Kick / Sacred Sword0.090:16
5Mega FalinksMegaCounter / Brick Break+0.090:16
6Mega Mewtwo YMegaLegendaryCounter / Focus Blast0.090:17
7KartanaLegendarypartyFury Cutter / Sacred Sword0.090:17
8Mega HeracrossMegaFury Cutter / Megahorn0.090:17
9Shadow BlazikenShadowpartyCounter / Aura Sphere0.100:17
10Mega BeedrillMegaBug Bite / Fell Stinger+0.100:18
11Shadow GalladeShadowpartyLow Kick / Sacred Sword0.100:18
12KeldeoLegendarypartyLow Kick / Secret Sword0.100:18
14Shadow ConkeldurrShadowpartyForce Palm / Focus Blast0.100:19

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

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Raid tier — Easy Shadow Raid

Super Mega Legendary Super Mega Primal Mega Legendary Mega Elite Shadow Tier 5 Tier 5 Shadow Tier 3 Tier 3 Shadow Tier 1 Tier 1 Tier 4 Tier 2

Related countersMega Absol

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Top 15 Shadow Absol 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 Mewtwo Xpsychicfightingjoint top pick	fightingCounterfightingDynamic Punch+	6,112	0:11	0.06	0.0	3991.8%
2	Mega Blazikenfirefighting	fightingCounterfightingAura Sphere	4,161	0:14	0.08	0.0	3114.0%
3	Mega Lucariofightingsteel	fightingForce PalmfightingAura Sphere	3,826	0:14	0.08	0.0	3019.1%
4	Mega Galladepsychicfighting	fightingLow KickfightingSacred Sword	4,521	0:16	0.09	0.0	2719.6%
5	Mega Falinksfighting	fightingCounterfightingBrick Break+	3,670	0:16	0.09	0.0	2642.1%
6	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	fightingCounterfightingFocus Blast	6,428	0:17	0.09	0.0	2637.6%
7	Kartanagrasssteel	bugFury CutterfightingSacred Sword	3,677	0:17	0.09	0.1	2566.1%
8	Mega Heracrossbugfighting	bugFury CutterbugMegahorn	4,814	0:17	0.09	0.0	2564.4%
9	Shadow Blazikenfirefighting	fightingCounterfightingAura Sphere	2,848	0:17	0.10	0.1	2508.0%
10	Mega Beedrillbugpoison	bugBug BitebugFell Stinger+	3,383	0:18	0.10	0.2	2463.2%
11	Shadow Galladepsychicfighting	fightingLow KickfightingSacred Sword	3,093	0:18	0.10	0.3	2415.5%
12	Keldeowaterfighting	fightingLow KickfightingSecret Sword	3,698	0:18	0.10	0.0	2394.6%
13	Mega Gardevoirpsychicfairy	fairyCharmfairyDazzling Gleam	4,512	0:18	0.10	0.0	2389.0%
14	Shadow Conkeldurrfighting	fightingForce PalmfightingFocus Blast	3,337	0:19	0.10	0.0	2351.4%
15	Terrakionrockfighting	fightingDouble KickfightingSacred Sword	3,698	0:19	0.11	0.0	2280.1%

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 Shadow Absol.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Shadow Absol'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%	426%	2613.5%	0:17	0.1	0.09
Psycho Cut / Megahorn	100%	461%	2574.9%	0:17	0.1	0.09
Psycho Cut / Payback	100%	444%	2577.0%	0:17	0.1	0.09
Snarl / Megahorn	100%	443%	2598.9%	0:17	0.1	0.09
Snarl / Payback	100%	422%	2600.1%	0:17	0.1	0.09
Psycho Cut / Thunder	100%	460%	2615.4%	0:17	0.1	0.09
Snarl / Dark Pulse	100%	446%	2619.6%	0:17	0.1	0.09
Snarl / Thunder	100%	416%	2631.8%	0:17	0.1	0.09
Psycho Cut / Dark Pulse	100%	439%	2637.3%	0:17	0.1	0.09

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…

Absol 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.

fighting1.6x bug1.6x fairy1.6x normal1x flying1x poison1x ground1x rock1x steel1x fire1x water1x grass1x electric1x ice1x dragon1x ghost0.63x dark0.63x psychic0.39x

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

It resists psychic0.39xghost0.625xdark0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Absol throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
darkSnarlSTAB	11	+13	1.0s	0.75s
psychicPsycho Cut	4	+7	0.5s	0.27s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
darkPaybackSTAB	95	-100	2.0s	0.90s
bugMegahorn	105	-100	2.0s	1.50s
electricThunder	100	-100	2.5s	1.30s
darkDark PulseSTAB	80	-50	3.0s	1.40s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
6/6/6floor	1,312	1,640
7/7/7	1,326	1,658
8/8/8	1,341	1,676
9/9/9	1,355	1,694
10/10/10	1,370	1,712
11/11/11	1,384	1,731
12/12/12	1,399	1,749
13/13/13	1,414	1,767
14/14/14	1,429	1,786
15/15/15hundo	1,443	1,805

Caught CP range 1,312 - 1,443, or 1,640 - 1,805 when the weather boosts it.

A raid encounter is level 20 (level 25 weather boosted) and cannot roll an IV below 6/6/6 — a Shadow raid's floor is 6, not the usual 10. Anything outside the first range is not this raid's reward.

Shadow raid floor. A Shadow Raid encounter rolls a minimum of 6/6/6, so this band starts at 1,312, not at the 1,370 a 10/10/10 catch would give. pokebattler.com's own page for a Shadow boss prints that 10/10/10 value as its floor — it is applying the standard-raid rule — so expect its range to start 58 CP higher than this one. LeekDuck's published band agrees with the table above.

When it is in raids

From the raid schedule, refreshed daily.

Absol 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

Shadow Tier 1: 600 HP, 3:00 timer, boss Attack 155 / Defense 80 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.5974).

Raid bossAttacker levelAttacker IVsWeatherFriendshipDodgingTrainers in the lobbyMega in the lobbyParty Play trainersBoss fast moveBoss charged moveSort by

Attackers allowed

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

Share these exact settings

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 Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Counter / Dynamic Punch+	Counter / Dynamic Punch++26 more movesets	100%	3991.8%	0.06	0:11	0.0	100%	6,112	62.4	679
2	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Counter / Aura Sphere	Counter / Aura Sphere+20 more movesets	72%	3114.0%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	4,161	44.3	620
3	Mega Lucario fightingsteelmega Force Palm / Aura Sphere	Force Palm / Aura Sphere+23 more movesets	69%	3019.1%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	3,826	46.9	677
4	Mega Gallade psychicfightingmega Low Kick / Sacred Sword	Low Kick / Sacred Sword+19 more movesets	58%	2719.6%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	4,521	39.0	626
5	Mega Falinks fightingmega Counter / Brick Break+	Counter / Brick Break++7 more movesets	60%	2642.1%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	3,670	36.4	600
6	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Counter / Focus Blast	Counter / Focus Blast+26 more movesets	56%	2637.6%	0.09	0:17	0.0	100%	6,428	36.9	604
7	Kartana grasssteel Fury Cutter / Sacred Sword	Fury Cutter / Sacred Sword+14 more movesets	53%	2566.1%	0.09	0:17	0.1	100%	3,677	35.8	570
8	Mega Heracross bugfightingmega Fury Cutter / Megahorn	Fury Cutter / Megahorn+17 more movesets	60%	2564.4%	0.09	0:17	0.0	100%	4,814	35.4	602
9	Shadow Blaziken firefightingshadow Counter / Aura Sphere	Counter / Aura Sphere+20 more movesets	53%	2508.0%	0.10	0:17	0.1	100%	2,848	38.8	649
10	Mega Beedrill bugpoisonmega Bug Bite / Fell Stinger+	Bug Bite / Fell Stinger++23 more movesets	53%	2463.2%	0.10	0:18	0.2	100%	3,383	47.3	782
11	Shadow Gallade psychicfightingshadow Low Kick / Sacred Sword	Low Kick / Sacred Sword+19 more movesets	49%	2415.5%	0.10	0:18	0.3	100%	3,093	35.3	543
12	Keldeo waterfighting Low Kick / Secret Sword	Low Kick / Secret Sword+11 more movesets	54%	2394.6%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	3,698	40.2	721
13	Mega Gardevoir psychicfairymega Charm / Dazzling Gleam	Charm / Dazzling Gleam+19 more movesets	51%	2389.0%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	4,512	35.3	636
14	Shadow Conkeldurr fightingshadow Force Palm / Focus Blast	Force Palm / Focus Blast+11 more movesets	52%	2351.4%	0.10	0:19	0.0	100%	3,337	35.7	662
15	Terrakion rockfighting Double Kick / Sacred Sword	Double Kick / Sacred Sword+11 more movesets	50%	2280.1%	0.11	0:19	0.0	100%	3,698	33.5	641
16	Mega Raichu Y electricmega Thunder Shock / Zap Cannon+	Thunder Shock / Zap Cannon++35 more movesets	47%	2268.6%	0.11	0:19	0.1	100%	3,780	33.0	609
17	Lucario fightingsteel Counter / Aura Sphere	Counter / Aura Sphere+23 more movesets	47%	2233.7%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	2,703	33.3	640
18	Blaziken firefighting Counter / Aura Sphere	Counter / Aura Sphere+20 more movesets	47%	2215.2%	0.11	0:20	0.1	100%	2,848	33.6	628
19	Mega Pinsir bugflyingmega Fury Cutter / X-Scissor	Fury Cutter / X-Scissor+14 more movesets	45%	2207.3%	0.11	0:20	0.1	100%	4,182	31.2	578
20	Shadow Vikavolt bugelectricshadow Bug Bite / X-Scissor	Bug Bite / X-Scissor+15 more movesets	44%	2203.7%	0.11	0:20	0.3	100%	3,117	31.3	514
21	Shadow Hariyama fightingshadow Force Palm / Dynamic Punch	Force Palm / Dynamic Punch+14 more movesets	46%	2194.8%	0.11	0:20	0.1	100%	2,829	32.2	603
22	Shadow Raikou electricshadow Thunder Shock / Aura Sphere	Thunder Shock / Aura Sphere+9 more movesets	46%	2188.0%	0.11	0:20	0.1	100%	3,452	33.7	642
23	Mega Latios dragonpsychicmega Dragon Breath / Aura Sphere	Dragon Breath / Aura Sphere+9 more movesets	46%	2187.4%	0.11	0:20	0.1	100%	5,007	34.5	648
24	Shadow Machamp fightingshadow Karate Chop / Dynamic Punch	Karate Chop / Dynamic Punch+23 more movesets	45%	2163.1%	0.11	0:20	0.1	100%	3,056	32.6	627
25	Shadow Galarian Zapdos fightingflyingshadow Counter / Fly	Counter / Fly+7 more movesets	45%	2145.0%	0.11	0:20	0.1	100%	3,548	30.4	586
26	Shadow Latios dragonpsychicshadow Dragon Breath / Aura Sphere	Dragon Breath / Aura Sphere+9 more movesets	43%	2137.8%	0.11	0:20	0.3	100%	3,812	32.3	560
27	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Dragon Tail / Dragon Ascent	Dragon Tail / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	47%	2131.7%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	5,713	31.6	647
28	Enamorus (Incarnate) fairyflying Fairy Wind / Dazzling Gleam	Fairy Wind / Dazzling Gleam+8 more movesets	45%	2127.5%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	3,425	30.7	616
29	Shadow Thundurus (Therian) electricflyingshadow Volt Switch / Focus Blast	Volt Switch / Focus Blast+9 more movesets	42%	2049.9%	0.12	0:21	0.1	100%	3,659	29.8	599
30	Pheromosa bugfighting Bug Bite / Close Combat	Bug Bite / Close Combat+7 more movesets	39%	1997.6%	0.12	0:22	0.4	100%	2,842	30.9	498

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 (its Shadow boss page; the ordinary boss's page is a different, easier fight). Boss-by-boss accuracy report.

Ranked 30 attackers in 0.1 s (50 Monte Carlo runs each, seed 1). Same boss on pokebattler.com. The same ranking as JSON: /api/raids/rank.