Shadow raid

Shadow Darmanitan (Standard) counters

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fireShadow 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

7,734

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

166

Defense

Difficulty

0.09

Pokebattler scale

Beating Shadow Darmanitan (Standard) should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 1,625-1,774.

Weak toground1.6xrock1.6xwater1.6x

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 Water Mega — most top counters attack with Water

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 Darmanitan (Standard) counters are Primal Kyogre, Shadow Kyogre, Shadow Groudon, Shadow Kingler, Shadow Rhyperior & Shadow Greninja.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

Primal Kyogre
S. Kyogre
S. Groudon
S. Kingler
S. Rhyperior
S. Greninja

7 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 %

1Primal KyogreMegaLegendarypartyWaterfall / Origin Pulse0.080:15
2Mega StarmieMegaWater Gun / Liquidation+0.080:15
3Mega Mewtwo XMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Dynamic Punch+0.090:16
4Mega Mewtwo YMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Future Sight+0.090:16
5Mega GreninjaMegaWater Shuriken / Hydro Cannon0.090:16
6Shadow KyogreShadowLegendarypartyWaterfall / Origin Pulse0.090:16
7Mega SwampertMegaMud Shot / Hydro Cannon0.090:17
8Mega DiancieMegaLegendaryRock Throw / Rock Slide0.090:17
9Shadow GroudonShadowLegendarypartyMud Shot / Precipice Blades0.100:17
10Primal GroudonMegaLegendaryMud Shot / Precipice Blades0.100:18
11Shadow KinglerShadowpartyBubble / Crabhammer0.100:18
12Shadow RhyperiorShadowpartyMud-Slap / Rock Wrecker0.100:18
13Shadow GreninjaShadowpartyWater Shuriken / Hydro Cannon0.100:18

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

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Raid tier — Easy Shadow Raid

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Related countersGalarian Darmanitan (Standard)

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Top 15 Shadow Darmanitan (Standard) 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	Primal Kyogrewaterjoint top pick	waterWaterfallwaterOrigin Pulse	5,902	0:15	0.08	0.0	2969.8%
2	Mega Starmiewaterpsychic	waterWater GunwaterLiquidation+	3,701	0:15	0.08	0.0	2906.4%
3	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	psychicPsycho CutfightingDynamic Punch+	6,112	0:16	0.09	0.0	2727.8%
4	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	psychicPsycho CutpsychicFuture Sight+	6,428	0:16	0.09	0.0	2699.1%
5	Mega Greninjawaterdark	waterWater ShurikenwaterHydro Cannon	3,784	0:16	0.09	0.2	2654.2%
6	Shadow Kyogrewater	waterWaterfallwaterOrigin Pulse	4,115	0:16	0.09	0.0	2642.1%
7	Mega Swampertwaterground	groundMud ShotwaterHydro Cannon	4,401	0:17	0.09	0.0	2567.4%
8	Mega Diancierockfairy	rockRock ThrowrockRock Slide	4,346	0:17	0.09	0.0	2564.4%
9	Shadow Groudonground	groundMud ShotgroundPrecipice Blades	4,115	0:17	0.10	0.0	2547.9%
10	Primal Groudongroundfire	groundMud ShotgroundPrecipice Blades	5,902	0:18	0.10	0.0	2435.5%
11	Shadow Kinglerwater	waterBubblewaterCrabhammer	2,829	0:18	0.10	0.3	2433.0%
12	Shadow Rhyperiorgroundrock	groundMud-SlaprockRock Wrecker	3,733	0:18	0.10	0.1	2432.8%
13	Shadow Greninjawaterdark	waterWater ShurikenwaterHydro Cannon	2,654	0:18	0.10	0.3	2421.3%
14	Shadow Rampardosrock	rockSmack DownrockRock Slide	3,298	0:18	0.10	0.5	2405.0%
15	Mega Blastoisewater	waterWater GunwaterHydro Cannon	3,941	0:18	0.10	0.0	2390.1%

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 Darmanitan (Standard).

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Shadow Darmanitan (Standard)'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%	430%	2546.3%	0:17	0.1	0.10
Fire Fang / Focus Blast	100%	372%	2433.2%	0:18	0.3	0.10
Tackle / Focus Blast	100%	359%	2464.4%	0:18	0.2	0.10
Incinerate / Focus Blast	100%	351%	2541.9%	0:17	0.2	0.10
Tackle / Overheat	100%	410%	2561.3%	0:17	0.0	0.09
Incinerate / Overheat	100%	374%	2566.3%	0:17	0.2	0.09
Fire Fang / Rock Slide	100%	413%	2572.5%	0:17	0.1	0.09
Tackle / Rock Slide	100%	437%	2574.5%	0:17	0.1	0.09
Tackle / Psychic	100%	398%	2600.2%	0:17	0.0	0.09
Fire Fang / Psychic	100%	395%	2610.8%	0:17	0.1	0.09
Incinerate / Psychic	100%	367%	2613.3%	0:17	0.1	0.09
Fire Fang / Overheat	100%	423%	2616.8%	0:17	0.0	0.09
Incinerate / Rock Slide	100%	390%	2620.2%	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…

Darmanitan (Standard) 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.

ground1.6x rock1.6x water1.6x normal1x fighting1x flying1x poison1x ghost1x electric1x psychic1x dragon1x dark1x bug0.63x steel0.63x fire0.63x grass0.63x ice0.63x fairy0.63x

Weak (3)
Neutral (9)
Resists (6)

It resists bug0.625xsteel0.625xfire0.625xgrass0.625xice0.625xfairy0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Darmanitan (Standard) throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
fireFire FangSTAB	13	+9	1.0s	0.74s
fireIncinerateSTAB	32	+22	2.5s	0.70s
normalTackle	5	+5	0.5s	0.30s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
fireOverheatSTAB	160	-100	4.0s	2.60s
fightingFocus Blast	140	-100	3.5s	3.00s
psychicPsychic	95	-50	3.0s	1.50s
rockRock Slide	75	-50	2.5s	1.30s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
6/6/6floor	1,625	2,032
7/7/7	1,642	2,052
8/8/8	1,658	2,073
9/9/9	1,674	2,093
10/10/10	1,691	2,114
11/11/11	1,707	2,134
12/12/12	1,724	2,155
13/13/13	1,741	2,176
14/14/14	1,757	2,197
15/15/15hundo	1,774	2,218

Caught CP range 1,625 - 1,774, or 2,032 - 2,218 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 1,625, not at the 1,691 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 66 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.

Darmanitan (Standard) 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 166 / Defense 77 (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

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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	Primal Kyogre watermega Waterfall / Origin Pulse	Waterfall / Origin Pulse+5 more movesets	100%	2969.8%	0.08	0:15	0.0	100%	5,902	41.2	605
2	Mega Starmie waterpsychicmega Water Gun / Liquidation+	Water Gun / Liquidation++44 more movesets	94%	2906.4%	0.08	0:15	0.0	100%	3,701	40.3	604
3	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Dynamic Punch+	Psycho Cut / Dynamic Punch++26 more movesets	89%	2727.8%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	6,112	40.7	650
4	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Psycho Cut / Future Sight+	Psycho Cut / Future Sight++26 more movesets	89%	2699.1%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	6,428	45.3	730
5	Mega Greninja waterdarkmega Water Shuriken / Hydro Cannon	Water Shuriken / Hydro Cannon+17 more movesets	82%	2654.2%	0.09	0:16	0.2	100%	3,784	40.2	588
6	Shadow Kyogre watershadow Waterfall / Origin Pulse	Waterfall / Origin Pulse+5 more movesets	82%	2642.1%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	4,115	37.6	621
7	Mega Swampert watergroundmega Mud Shot / Hydro Cannon	Mud Shot / Hydro Cannon+11 more movesets	83%	2567.4%	0.09	0:17	0.0	100%	4,401	35.8	607
8	Mega Diancie rockfairymega Rock Throw / Rock Slide	Rock Throw / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	77%	2564.4%	0.09	0:17	0.0	100%	4,346	36.8	626
9	Shadow Groudon groundshadow Mud Shot / Precipice Blades	Mud Shot / Precipice Blades+9 more movesets	77%	2547.9%	0.10	0:17	0.0	100%	4,115	40.3	688
10	Primal Groudon groundfiremega Mud Shot / Precipice Blades	Mud Shot / Precipice Blades+9 more movesets	81%	2435.5%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	5,902	42.9	766
11	Shadow Kingler watershadow Bubble / Crabhammer	Bubble / Crabhammer+14 more movesets	69%	2433.0%	0.10	0:18	0.3	100%	2,829	36.5	536
12	Shadow Rhyperior groundrockshadow Mud-Slap / Rock Wrecker	Mud-Slap / Rock Wrecker+15 more movesets	74%	2432.8%	0.10	0:18	0.1	100%	3,733	34.8	599
13	Shadow Greninja waterdarkshadow Water Shuriken / Hydro Cannon	Water Shuriken / Hydro Cannon+14 more movesets	70%	2421.3%	0.10	0:18	0.3	100%	2,654	34.1	514
14	Shadow Rampardos rockshadow Smack Down / Rock Slide	Smack Down / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	67%	2405.0%	0.10	0:18	0.5	100%	3,298	35.9	488
15	Mega Blastoise watermega Water Gun / Hydro Cannon	Water Gun / Hydro Cannon+14 more movesets	73%	2390.1%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	3,941	34.2	622
16	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Dragon Tail / Dragon Ascent	Dragon Tail / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	74%	2368.0%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	5,713	33.8	617
17	Shadow Swampert watergroundshadow Water Gun / Hydro Cannon	Water Gun / Hydro Cannon+11 more movesets	70%	2353.6%	0.10	0:19	0.0	100%	2,974	33.1	602
18	Inteleon water Water Gun / Hydro Cannon	Water Gun / Hydro Cannon+9 more movesets	66%	2351.1%	0.10	0:19	0.2	100%	2,964	33.5	556
19	Groudon ground Mud Shot / Precipice Blades	Mud Shot / Precipice Blades+9 more movesets	71%	2350.1%	0.10	0:19	0.0	100%	4,115	32.5	604
20	Shadow Feraligatr watershadow Water Gun / Hydro Cannon	Water Gun / Hydro Cannon+19 more movesets	67%	2317.3%	0.10	0:19	0.1	100%	2,857	32.3	590
21	Mega Garchomp dragongroundmega Dragon Tail / Earth Power	Dragon Tail / Earth Power+13 more movesets	73%	2288.4%	0.11	0:19	0.0	100%	5,424	32.5	620
22	Necrozma (Dawn Wings) psychicghost Psycho Cut / Moongeist Beam	Psycho Cut / Moongeist Beam+14 more movesets	70%	2276.5%	0.11	0:19	0.0	100%	4,099	31.6	606
23	Shadow Landorus (Incarnate) groundflyingshadow Rock Throw / Earth Power	Rock Throw / Earth Power+7 more movesets	65%	2274.2%	0.11	0:19	0.2	100%	3,588	33.3	572
24	Shadow Excadrill groundsteelshadow Mud Shot / Scorching Sands	Mud Shot / Scorching Sands+14 more movesets	62%	2236.5%	0.11	0:19	0.5	100%	3,244	33.8	506
25	Mega Gyarados waterdarkmega Waterfall / Hydro Pump	Waterfall / Hydro Pump+23 more movesets	70%	2235.6%	0.11	0:19	0.0	100%	4,717	30.9	602
26	Landorus (Therian) groundflying Mud Shot / Sandsear Storm	Mud Shot / Sandsear Storm+9 more movesets	67%	2224.2%	0.11	0:20	0.1	100%	3,922	36.9	691
27	Mega Tyranitar rockdarkmega Smack Down / Stone Edge	Smack Down / Stone Edge+15 more movesets	69%	2219.1%	0.11	0:20	0.1	100%	5,347	30.7	579
28	Shadow Samurott watershadow Waterfall / Hydro Cannon	Waterfall / Hydro Cannon+11 more movesets	63%	2203.4%	0.11	0:20	0.2	100%	2,826	33.9	611
29	Quaquaval waterfighting Water Gun / Hydro Cannon	Water Gun / Hydro Cannon+17 more movesets	63%	2185.2%	0.11	0:20	0.1	100%	3,018	31.5	598
30	Mega Staraptor fightingflyingmega Sand Attack / Brave Bird+	Sand Attack / Brave Bird++19 more movesets	63%	2161.0%	0.11	0:20	0.1	100%	3,979	29.8	558

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.