Shadow raid

Shadow Charjabug 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

5,199

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

Defense

105

Difficulty

0.12

Pokebattler scale

Beating Shadow Charjabug should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 867-970.

Weak torock1.6xfire1.6x

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 Fire Mega — most top counters attack with Fire

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 Charjabug counters are Mega Delphox, Shadow Rampardos, Blacephalon, Shadow Heatran, Shadow Emboar & Shadow Reshiram.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Delphox
S. Rampardos
Blacephalon
S. Heatran
S. Emboar
S. Reshiram

3 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 DelphoxMegapartyFire Spin / Mystical Fire+0.110:20
2Mega BlazikenMegaFire Spin / Blast Burn0.120:22
3Shadow RampardosShadowpartySmack Down / Rock Slide0.120:22
4BlacephalonLegendarypartyIncinerate / Mind Blown0.120:22
5Mega Mewtwo YMegaLegendaryConfusion / Future Sight+0.130:23
6Mega Charizard YMegaFire Spin / Blast Burn0.130:23
7Shadow HeatranShadowLegendarypartyFire Spin / Magma Storm0.130:23
8Shadow EmboarShadowpartyEmber / Blast Burn0.130:23
9Shadow ReshiramShadowLegendarypartyFire Fang / Fusion Flare0.130:23
10Shadow BlazikenShadowEmber / Blast Burn0.130:23

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 Charjabug 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 Delphoxfirepsychicjoint top pick	fireFire SpinfireMystical Fire+	4,783	0:20	0.11	0.0	2179.7%
2	Mega Blazikenfirefighting	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	4,161	0:22	0.12	0.0	2014.5%
3	Shadow Rampardosrock	rockSmack DownrockRock Slide	3,298	0:22	0.12	0.0	2000.6%
4	Blacephalonfireghost	fireIncineratefireMind Blown	3,297	0:22	0.12	0.1	1978.7%
5	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	psychicConfusionpsychicFuture Sight+	6,428	0:23	0.13	0.0	1923.7%
6	Mega Charizard Yfireflying	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	4,455	0:23	0.13	0.0	1922.5%
7	Shadow Heatranfiresteel	fireFire SpinfireMagma Storm	3,754	0:23	0.13	0.0	1922.1%
8	Shadow Emboarfirefighting	fireEmberfireBlast Burn	2,982	0:23	0.13	0.0	1870.2%
9	Shadow Reshiramdragonfire	fireFire FangfireFusion Flare	4,038	0:23	0.13	0.0	1863.0%
10	Shadow Blazikenfirefighting	fireEmberfireBlast Burn	2,848	0:23	0.13	0.0	1860.1%
11	Shadow Delphoxfirepsychic	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	3,059	0:24	0.13	0.0	1848.8%
12	Mega Diancierockfairy	rockRock ThrowrockRock Slide	4,346	0:24	0.13	0.0	1810.4%
13	Shadow Charizardfireflying	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	2,889	0:24	0.13	0.1	1803.5%
14	Shadow Infernapefirefighting	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	2,683	0:24	0.14	0.0	1798.7%
15	Mega Houndoomdarkfire	fireFire FangdarkDark Pulse+	3,842	0:24	0.14	0.0	1798.3%

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 Charjabug.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Shadow Charjabug'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%	384%	1975.9%	0:22	0.0	0.12
Bug Bite / Crunch	100%	372%	1939.3%	0:22	0.1	0.13
Spark / Crunch	100%	369%	1942.9%	0:22	0.1	0.13
Bug Bite / X-Scissor	100%	467%	1945.9%	0:22	0.0	0.12
Spark / X-Scissor	100%	453%	1953.2%	0:22	0.0	0.12
Bug Bite / Discharge	100%	364%	2000.6%	0:22	0.0	0.12
Spark / Discharge	100%	361%	2010.1%	0:22	0.0	0.12

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…

Charjabug 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.

rock1.6x fire1.6x normal1x flying1x poison1x ground1x bug1x ghost1x water1x psychic1x ice1x dragon1x dark1x fairy1x fighting0.63x steel0.63x grass0.63x electric0.63x

Weak (2)
Neutral (12)
Resists (4)

It resists fighting0.625xsteel0.625xgrass0.625xelectric0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Charjabug throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
bugBug BiteSTAB	5	+6	0.5s	0.25s
electricSparkSTAB	4	+6	0.5s	0.10s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
bugX-ScissorSTAB	45	-33	1.5s	1.10s
electricDischargeSTAB	65	-33	2.5s	1.70s
darkCrunch	65	-33	3.0s	1.10s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
6/6/6floor	867	1,083
7/7/7	878	1,097
8/8/8	889	1,111
9/9/9	900	1,126
10/10/10	912	1,140
11/11/11	923	1,154
12/12/12	935	1,168
13/13/13	946	1,183
14/14/14	958	1,198
15/15/15hundo	970	1,212

Caught CP range 867 - 970, or 1,083 - 1,212 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 867, not at the 912 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 45 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.

Charjabug 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 95 / Defense 105 (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 Delphox firepsychicmega Fire Spin / Mystical Fire+	Fire Spin / Mystical Fire++23 more movesets	100%	2179.7%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	4,783	30.3	605
2	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	95%	2014.5%	0.12	0:22	0.0	100%	4,161	29.9	649
3	Shadow Rampardos rockshadow Smack Down / Rock Slide	Smack Down / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	83%	2000.6%	0.12	0:22	0.0	100%	3,298	29.1	632
4	Blacephalon fireghost Incinerate / Mind Blown	Incinerate / Mind Blown+7 more movesets	84%	1978.7%	0.12	0:22	0.1	100%	3,297	31.8	661
5	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Confusion / Future Sight+	Confusion / Future Sight++26 more movesets	88%	1923.7%	0.13	0:23	0.0	100%	6,428	30.3	686
6	Mega Charizard Y fireflyingmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	88%	1922.5%	0.13	0:23	0.0	100%	4,455	29.3	658
7	Shadow Heatran firesteelshadow Fire Spin / Magma Storm	Fire Spin / Magma Storm+11 more movesets	90%	1922.1%	0.13	0:23	0.0	100%	3,754	27.5	624
8	Shadow Emboar firefightingshadow Ember / Blast Burn	Ember / Blast Burn+9 more movesets	84%	1870.2%	0.13	0:23	0.0	100%	2,982	26.4	616
9	Shadow Reshiram dragonfireshadow Fire Fang / Fusion Flare	Fire Fang / Fusion Flare+9 more movesets	89%	1863.0%	0.13	0:23	0.0	100%	4,038	30.8	722
10	Shadow Blaziken firefightingshadow Ember / Blast Burn	Ember / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	81%	1860.1%	0.13	0:23	0.0	100%	2,848	26.6	618
11	Shadow Delphox firepsychicshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	78%	1848.8%	0.13	0:24	0.0	100%	3,059	27.5	647
12	Mega Diancie rockfairymega Rock Throw / Rock Slide	Rock Throw / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	82%	1810.4%	0.13	0:24	0.0	100%	4,346	27.6	665
13	Shadow Charizard fireflyingshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	77%	1803.5%	0.13	0:24	0.1	100%	2,889	26.6	603
14	Shadow Infernape firefightingshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+7 more movesets	79%	1798.7%	0.14	0:24	0.0	100%	2,683	26.5	636
15	Mega Houndoom darkfiremega Fire Fang / Dark Pulse+	Fire Fang / Dark Pulse++17 more movesets	81%	1798.3%	0.14	0:24	0.0	100%	3,842	26.7	647
16	Reshiram dragonfire Fire Fang / Fusion Flare	Fire Fang / Fusion Flare+9 more movesets	85%	1775.0%	0.14	0:25	0.0	100%	4,038	27.1	665
17	Shadow Typhlosion fireshadow Incinerate / Blast Burn	Incinerate / Blast Burn+14 more movesets	76%	1761.4%	0.14	0:25	0.0	100%	2,889	26.0	643
18	Shadow Regigigas normalshadow Hidden Power / Crush Grip	Hidden Power / Crush Grip+7 more movesets	77%	1743.7%	0.14	0:25	0.0	100%	4,346	24.2	604
19	Cinderace fire Fire Spin / Pyroball	Fire Spin / Pyroball+14 more movesets	76%	1741.0%	0.14	0:25	0.0	100%	3,018	24.3	609
20	Shadow Chandelure ghostfireshadow Fire Spin / Overheat	Fire Spin / Overheat+19 more movesets	71%	1720.8%	0.14	0:25	0.4	100%	3,268	25.4	526
21	Mega Charizard X firedragonmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	82%	1720.3%	0.14	0:25	0.0	100%	3,850	26.3	666
22	Shadow Tyrantrum rockdragonshadow Rock Throw / Meteor Beam	Rock Throw / Meteor Beam+17 more movesets	76%	1720.3%	0.14	0:25	0.0	100%	3,128	26.8	677
23	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Flamethrower	Psycho Cut / Flamethrower+26 more movesets	78%	1679.3%	0.14	0:26	0.0	100%	6,112	24.3	630
24	Shadow Salamence dragonflyingshadow Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	72%	1674.1%	0.15	0:26	0.0	100%	3,749	23.7	617
25	Shadow Entei fireshadow Fire Spin / Flamethrower	Fire Spin / Flamethrower+11 more movesets	74%	1671.5%	0.15	0:26	0.0	100%	3,473	24.2	630
26	Glimmora rockpoison Rock Throw / Meteor Beam	Rock Throw / Meteor Beam+7 more movesets	72%	1652.5%	0.15	0:26	0.0	100%	3,273	23.3	615
27	Darmanitan (Standard) fire Fire Fang / Overheat	Fire Fang / Overheat+11 more movesets	70%	1651.3%	0.15	0:26	0.0	100%	3,105	24.4	644
28	Shadow Darmanitan (Standard) fireshadow Fire Fang / Rock Slide	Fire Fang / Rock Slide+11 more movesets	68%	1651.2%	0.15	0:26	0.1	100%	3,105	23.9	593
29	Shadow Ho-Oh fireflyingshadow Incinerate / Sacred Fire++	Incinerate / Sacred Fire+++27 more movesets	75%	1645.0%	0.15	0:26	0.0	100%	3,863	26.8	709
30	Blaziken firefighting Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	71%	1624.9%	0.15	0:27	0.1	100%	2,848	22.7	583

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.