Shadow raid

Shadow Amoonguss counters

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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

5,167

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

101

Defense

Difficulty

0.09

Pokebattler scale

Beating Shadow Amoonguss should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 1,104-1,223.

Weak toflying1.6xfire1.6xpsychic1.6xice1.6x

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 Psychic Mega — most top counters attack with Psychic

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 Amoonguss counters are Mega Mewtwo Y, Shadow Mewtwo, Shadow Moltres, Blacephalon, Shadow Galarian Articuno & Shadow Reshiram.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Mewtwo Y
S. Mewtwo
S. Moltres
Blacephalon
S. Galarian Articuno
S. Reshiram

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 YMegaLegendarypartyConfusion / Future Sight+0.060:11
2Mega Mewtwo XMegaLegendaryConfusion / Psystrike0.080:15
3Mega DelphoxMegaFire Spin / Mystical Fire+0.090:16
4Shadow MewtwoShadowLegendarypartyPsycho Cut / Psystrike0.090:16
5Mega StaraptorMegaSand Attack / Brave Bird+0.090:17
6Mega BlazikenMegaFire Spin / Blast Burn0.100:17
7Mega AlakazamMegaPsycho Cut / Future Sight0.100:18
8Mega MalamarMegaPsycho Cut / Psybeam+0.100:18
9Mega RayquazaMegaLegendaryAir Slash / Dragon Ascent0.100:18
10Mega Charizard YMegaFire Spin / Blast Burn0.100:18
11Shadow MoltresShadowLegendarypartyWing Attack / Fly0.100:18
12BlacephalonLegendarypartyAstonish / Mind Blown0.100:19
13Shadow Galarian ArticunoShadowLegendarypartyConfusion / Fly0.100:19
14Shadow ReshiramShadowLegendarypartyFire Fang / Fusion Flare0.110:19

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

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Top 15 Shadow Amoonguss 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.

Trainers1soloable

#	Attacker	Moveset
1	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychicjoint top pick	psychicConfusionpsychicFuture Sight+	6,428	0:11	0.06	0.0	3969.9%
2	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	psychicConfusionpsychicPsystrike	6,112	0:15	0.08	0.0	2967.7%
3	Mega Delphoxfirepsychic	fireFire SpinfireMystical Fire+	4,783	0:16	0.09	0.0	2724.7%
4	Shadow Mewtwopsychic	psychicPsycho CutpsychicPsystrike	4,178	0:16	0.09	0.0	2692.7%
5	Mega Staraptorfightingflying	groundSand AttackflyingBrave Bird+	3,979	0:17	0.09	0.0	2633.8%
6	Mega Blazikenfirefighting	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	4,161	0:17	0.10	0.0	2522.9%
7	Mega Alakazampsychic	psychicPsycho CutpsychicFuture Sight	4,510	0:18	0.10	0.0	2457.4%
8	Mega Malamardarkpsychic	psychicPsycho CutpsychicPsybeam+	3,143	0:18	0.10	0.0	2456.1%
9	Mega Rayquazadragonflying	flyingAir SlashflyingDragon Ascent	5,713	0:18	0.10	0.0	2446.4%
10	Mega Charizard Yfireflying	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	4,455	0:18	0.10	0.0	2421.9%
11	Shadow Moltresfireflying	flyingWing AttackflyingFly	3,465	0:18	0.10	0.0	2398.0%
12	Blacephalonfireghost	ghostAstonishfireMind Blown	3,297	0:19	0.10	0.1	2324.0%
13	Shadow Galarian Articunopsychicflying	psychicConfusionflyingFly	3,590	0:19	0.10	0.0	2317.6%
14	Shadow Reshiramdragonfire	fireFire FangfireFusion Flare	4,038	0:19	0.11	0.0	2289.6%
15	Rayquazadragonflying	flyingAir SlashflyingDragon Ascent	3,835	0:19	0.11	0.0	2282.4%

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 Amoonguss.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Shadow Amoonguss'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	Estimator
Random (any moveset)showing	100%	469%	2562.0%	0:17	0.09
Astonish / Grass Knot	100%	523%	2533.5%	0:17	0.10
Astonish / Sludge Bomb	100%	467%	2549.0%	0:17	0.10
Astonish / Foul Play	100%	455%	2554.4%	0:17	0.10
Feint Attack / Grass Knot	100%	495%	2575.1%	0:17	0.09
Feint Attack / Foul Play	100%	427%	2584.9%	0:17	0.09
Feint Attack / Sludge Bomb	100%	446%	2585.7%	0:17	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…

Amoonguss 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 fire1.6x psychic1.6x ice1.6x normal1x poison1x ground1x rock1x bug1x ghost1x steel1x dragon1x dark1x fighting0.63x water0.63x electric0.63x fairy0.63x grass0.39x

Weak (4)
Neutral (9)
Resists (5)

It resists grass0.39xfighting0.625xwater0.625xelectric0.625xfairy0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Amoonguss throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
darkFeint Attack	11	+10	1.0s	0.85s
ghostAstonish	7	+13	1.0s	0.60s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
grassGrass KnotSTAB	90	-50	2.5s	1.60s
poisonSludge BombSTAB	85	-50	2.5s	1.30s
darkFoul Play	70	-50	2.0s	1.70s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
6/6/6floor	1,104	1,381
7/7/7	1,117	1,397
8/8/8	1,130	1,413
9/9/9	1,143	1,429
10/10/10	1,156	1,446
11/11/11	1,169	1,462
12/12/12	1,183	1,479
13/13/13	1,196	1,495
14/14/14	1,209	1,512
15/15/15hundo	1,223	1,529

Caught CP range 1,104 - 1,223, or 1,381 - 1,529 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 1,104, not at the 1,156 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 52 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.

Amoonguss 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 101 / Defense 91 (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 Y psychicmega Confusion / Future Sight+	Confusion / Future Sight++26 more movesets	100%	3969.9%	0.06	0:11	0.0	100%	6,428	57.2	626
2	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Confusion / Psystrike	Confusion / Psystrike+26 more movesets	71%	2967.7%	0.08	0:15	0.0	100%	6,112	42.4	621
3	Mega Delphox firepsychicmega Fire Spin / Mystical Fire+	Fire Spin / Mystical Fire++23 more movesets	61%	2724.7%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	4,783	38.1	609
4	Shadow Mewtwo psychicshadow Psycho Cut / Psystrike	Psycho Cut / Psystrike+23 more movesets	58%	2692.7%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	4,178	40.1	649
5	Mega Staraptor fightingflyingmega Sand Attack / Brave Bird+	Sand Attack / Brave Bird++19 more movesets	65%	2633.8%	0.09	0:17	0.0	100%	3,979	37.9	627
6	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	57%	2522.9%	0.10	0:17	0.0	100%	4,161	35.7	616
7	Mega Alakazam psychicmega Psycho Cut / Future Sight	Psycho Cut / Future Sight+17 more movesets	51%	2457.4%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	4,510	35.0	620
8	Mega Malamar darkpsychicmega Psycho Cut / Psybeam+	Psycho Cut / Psybeam++14 more movesets	56%	2456.1%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	3,143	34.1	604
9	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	60%	2446.4%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	5,713	43.1	767
10	Mega Charizard Y fireflyingmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	55%	2421.9%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	4,455	33.8	609
11	Shadow Moltres fireflyingshadow Wing Attack / Fly	Wing Attack / Fly+11 more movesets	52%	2398.0%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	3,465	33.2	603
12	Blacephalon fireghost Astonish / Mind Blown	Astonish / Mind Blown+7 more movesets	48%	2324.0%	0.10	0:19	0.1	100%	3,297	35.1	628
13	Shadow Galarian Articuno psychicflyingshadow Confusion / Fly	Confusion / Fly+7 more movesets	49%	2317.6%	0.10	0:19	0.0	100%	3,590	34.8	653
14	Shadow Reshiram dragonfireshadow Fire Fang / Fusion Flare	Fire Fang / Fusion Flare+9 more movesets	51%	2289.6%	0.11	0:19	0.0	100%	4,038	32.1	612
15	Rayquaza dragonflying Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	51%	2282.4%	0.11	0:19	0.0	100%	3,835	31.8	607
16	Shadow Toucannon normalflyingshadow Peck / Beak Blast	Peck / Beak Blast+11 more movesets	47%	2265.8%	0.11	0:19	0.0	100%	2,689	34.9	668
17	Shadow Salamence dragonflyingshadow Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	49%	2237.9%	0.11	0:19	0.0	100%	3,749	35.5	690
18	Mega Gallade psychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Psychic	Psycho Cut / Psychic+19 more movesets	48%	2235.6%	0.11	0:19	0.0	100%	4,521	31.1	606
19	Shadow Chandelure ghostfireshadow Fire Spin / Overheat	Fire Spin / Overheat+19 more movesets	43%	2156.2%	0.11	0:20	0.1	100%	3,268	30.2	568
20	Mewtwo psychic Confusion / Psystrike	Confusion / Psystrike+23 more movesets	46%	2152.8%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	4,178	33.3	673
21	Shadow Staraptor normalflyingshadow Gust / Fly	Gust / Fly+15 more movesets	44%	2151.1%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	2,825	31.4	623
22	Shadow Alakazam psychicshadow Psycho Cut / Psychic	Psycho Cut / Psychic+17 more movesets	41%	2142.8%	0.11	0:20	0.4	100%	3,057	30.1	473
23	Mega Skarmory steelflyingmega Air Slash / Drill Peck+	Air Slash / Drill Peck++9 more movesets	49%	2126.5%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	3,741	29.8	610
24	Mega Salamence dragonflyingmega Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	49%	2112.1%	0.12	0:21	0.0	100%	5,031	32.2	663
25	Shadow Darmanitan (Standard) fireshadow Fire Fang / Psychic	Fire Fang / Psychic+11 more movesets	42%	2089.2%	0.12	0:21	0.0	100%	3,105	29.9	611
26	Mega Gardevoir psychicfairymega Confusion / Synchronoise	Confusion / Synchronoise+19 more movesets	43%	2078.3%	0.12	0:21	0.0	100%	4,512	31.7	649
27	Kyurem (White) dragonice Ice Fang / Ice Burn	Ice Fang / Ice Burn+17 more movesets	47%	2054.4%	0.12	0:21	0.0	100%	4,605	33.5	710
28	Mega Pidgeot normalflyingmega Wing Attack / Brave Bird	Wing Attack / Brave Bird+27 more movesets	44%	2050.5%	0.12	0:21	0.0	100%	3,680	28.4	604
29	Shadow Galarian Darmanitan (Standard) iceshadow Ice Fang / Avalanche	Ice Fang / Avalanche+7 more movesets	41%	2035.6%	0.12	0:21	0.0	100%	3,105	31.8	664
30	Shadow Ho-Oh fireflyingshadow Extrasensory / Brave Bird	Extrasensory / Brave Bird+27 more movesets	46%	2035.2%	0.12	0:21	0.0	100%	3,863	28.9	618

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.