Shadow raid

Shadow Drowzee counters

#0096

psychicShadow Tier 3

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

8,082

4,000

Timer

3:00

Attack

Defense

114

Difficulty

0.86

Pokebattler scale

Beating Shadow Drowzee should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 512-594.

Weak tobug1.6xghost1.6xdark1.6x

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 Dark Mega — most top counters attack with Dark

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 Drowzee counters are Mega Beedrill, Necrozma (Dawn Wings), Shadow Darkrai, Shadow Absol, Shadow Hydreigon & Shadow Tyranitar.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Beedrill
Necrozma (Dawn Wings)
S. Darkrai
S. Absol
S. Hydreigon
S. Tyranitar

5 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 BeedrillMegapartyBug Bite / Fell Stinger+0.762:13
2Mega HoundoomMegaSnarl / Dark Pulse+0.782:16
3Necrozma (Dawn Wings)LegendarypartyShadow Claw / Moongeist Beam0.852:30
4Shadow DarkraiShadowLegendarypartySnarl / Foul Play0.872:33
5Mega GengarMegaLick / Shadow Ball0.882:35
6Mega AbsolMegaSnarl / Brutal Swing0.902:38
7Shadow AbsolShadowpartySnarl / Brutal Swing0.932:43
8Mega HeracrossMegaFury Cutter / Megahorn0.932:44
9Mega Mewtwo YMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Shadow Ball0.942:45
10Shadow HydreigonShadowpartyBite / Brutal Swing0.942:46
11Shadow TyranitarShadowpartyBite / Brutal Swing0.952:47

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

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Raid tier — Easy Group Shadow Raid

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Top 15 Shadow Drowzee 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 Beedrillbugpoisonjoint top pick	bugBug BitebugFell Stinger+	3,383	2:13	0.76	5.1	176.0%
2	Mega Houndoomdarkfire	darkSnarldarkDark Pulse+	3,842	2:16	0.78	1.0	172.3%
3	Necrozma (Dawn Wings)psychicghost	ghostShadow ClawghostMoongeist Beam	4,099	2:30	0.85	1.3	156.5%
4	Shadow Darkraidark	darkSnarldarkFoul Play	3,739	2:33	0.87	1.3	153.1%
5	Mega Gengarghostpoison	ghostLickghostShadow Ball	4,336	2:35	0.88	5.1	151.5%
6	Mega Absoldark	darkSnarldarkBrutal Swing	3,301	2:38	0.90	2.1	148.6%
7	Shadow Absoldark	darkSnarldarkBrutal Swing	2,526	2:43	0.93	2.8	143.7%
8	Mega Heracrossbugfighting	bugFury CutterbugMegahorn	4,814	2:44	0.93	4.2	143.0%
9	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	psychicPsycho CutghostShadow Ball	6,428	2:45	0.94	1.2	141.9%
10	Shadow Hydreigondarkdragon	darkBitedarkBrutal Swing	3,625	2:46	0.94	1.2	141.6%
11	Shadow Tyranitarrockdark	darkBitedarkBrutal Swing	3,834	2:47	0.95	1.0	140.7%
12	Mega Tyranitarrockdark	darkBitedarkBrutal Swing	5,347	2:47	0.95	0.3	140.5%
13	Shadow Chandelureghostfire	ghostHexghostShadow Ball	3,268	2:47	0.95	4.6	140.4%
14	Mega Banetteghost	ghostShadow ClawghostShadow Ball	3,594	2:48	0.96	4.2	139.5%
15	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	psychicPsycho CutghostShadow Ball	6,112	2:51	0.97	2.3	137.5%

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 Drowzee.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Shadow Drowzee'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%	152%	150.8%	2:36	2.2	0.89
Confusion / Psychic	100%	139%	148.2%	2:38	2.6	0.90
Pound / Psychic	100%	135%	149.7%	2:37	2.8	0.89
Confusion / Psybeam	100%	165%	151.1%	2:35	1.9	0.88
Pound / Psybeam	100%	163%	152.0%	2:34	1.9	0.88
Confusion / Psyshock	100%	162%	152.2%	2:34	1.9	0.88
Pound / Psyshock	100%	162%	152.3%	2:34	1.8	0.88

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…

Drowzee 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.

bug1.6x ghost1.6x dark1.6x normal1x flying1x poison1x ground1x rock1x steel1x fire1x water1x grass1x electric1x ice1x dragon1x fairy1x fighting0.63x psychic0.63x

Weak (3)
Neutral (13)
Resists (2)

It resists fighting0.625xpsychic0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Drowzee throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
psychicConfusionSTAB	19	+14	1.5s	0.50s
normalPound	6	+5	0.5s	0.24s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
psychicPsychicSTAB	95	-50	3.0s	1.50s
psychicPsyshockSTAB	60	-33	2.5s	1.80s
psychicPsybeamSTAB	65	-50	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	512	640
7/7/7	521	651
8/8/8	530	663
9/9/9	539	674
10/10/10	548	685
11/11/11	557	696
12/12/12	566	708
13/13/13	575	719
14/14/14	585	731
15/15/15hundo	594	743

Caught CP range 512 - 594, or 640 - 743 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 512, not at the 548 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 36 CP higher than this one.

When it is in raids

From the raid schedule, refreshed daily.

Drowzee 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 3: 4,000 HP, 3:00 timer, boss Attack 79 / Defense 114 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.76).

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 Beedrill bugpoisonmega Bug Bite / Fell Stinger+	Bug Bite / Fell Stinger++23 more movesets	79%	176.0%	0.76	2:13	5.2	100%	3,383	31.1	654
2	Mega Houndoom darkfiremega Snarl / Dark Pulse+	Snarl / Dark Pulse++17 more movesets	100%	172.3%	0.78	2:16	1.0	100%	3,842	29.6	2042
3	Necrozma (Dawn Wings) psychicghost Shadow Claw / Moongeist Beam	Shadow Claw / Moongeist Beam+14 more movesets	87%	156.5%	0.85	2:30	1.2	100%	4,099	27.6	1895
4	Shadow Darkrai darkshadow Snarl / Foul Play	Snarl / Foul Play+14 more movesets	83%	153.1%	0.87	2:33	1.3	100%	3,739	26.4	1792
5	Mega Gengar ghostpoisonmega Lick / Shadow Ball	Lick / Shadow Ball+31 more movesets	69%	151.5%	0.88	2:35	5.0	100%	4,336	26.5	664
6	Mega Absol darkmega Snarl / Brutal Swing	Snarl / Brutal Swing+9 more movesets	78%	148.6%	0.90	2:38	2.0	100%	3,301	25.6	1344
7	Shadow Absol darkshadow Snarl / Brutal Swing	Snarl / Brutal Swing+9 more movesets	72%	143.7%	0.93	2:43	2.7	100%	2,526	24.7	1104
8	Mega Heracross bugfightingmega Fury Cutter / Megahorn	Fury Cutter / Megahorn+17 more movesets	67%	143.0%	0.93	2:44	4.1	100%	4,814	24.8	792
9	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball	Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball+26 more movesets	78%	141.9%	0.94	2:45	1.2	100%	6,428	24.6	1872
10	Shadow Hydreigon darkdragonshadow Bite / Brutal Swing	Bite / Brutal Swing+9 more movesets	78%	141.6%	0.94	2:46	1.2	100%	3,625	24.3	1849
11	Shadow Tyranitar rockdarkshadow Bite / Brutal Swing	Bite / Brutal Swing+15 more movesets	80%	140.7%	0.95	2:47	1.0	100%	3,834	24.1	1983
12	Mega Tyranitar rockdarkmega Bite / Brutal Swing	Bite / Brutal Swing+15 more movesets	86%	140.5%	0.95	2:47	0.3	100%	5,347	24.2	3357
13	Shadow Chandelure ghostfireshadow Hex / Shadow Ball	Hex / Shadow Ball+19 more movesets	65%	140.4%	0.95	2:47	4.5	96%	3,268	24.5	736
14	Mega Banette ghostmega Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball	Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball+5 more movesets	65%	139.5%	0.96	2:48	4.1	98%	3,594	24.1	792
15	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball	Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball+26 more movesets	70%	137.5%	0.97	2:51	2.2	100%	6,112	23.9	1264
16	Shadow Gengar ghostpoisonshadow Lick / Shadow Ball	Lick / Shadow Ball+31 more movesets	56%	134.2%	1.00	2:55	8.2	80%	2,878	24.3	441
17	Shadow Giratina (Origin) ghostdragonshadow Shadow Claw / Shadow Force	Shadow Claw / Shadow Force+7 more movesets	67%	134.0%	1.00	2:55	2.6	88%	3,683	23.0	1133
18	Mega Greninja waterdarkmega Feint Attack / Surf+	Feint Attack / Surf++17 more movesets	72%	132.4%	1.01	2:57	1.3	74%	3,784	22.8	1801
19	Shadow Weavile darkiceshadow Snarl / Foul Play	Snarl / Foul Play+11 more movesets	68%	130.9%	1.02	2:59	2.1	64%	3,005	22.4	1281
20	Darkrai dark Snarl / Foul Play	Snarl / Foul Play+14 more movesets	71%	129.5%	1.03	3:01	1.3	4%	3,739	22.2	1808
21	Mega Pinsir bugflyingmega Bug Bite / X-Scissor	Bug Bite / X-Scissor+14 more movesets	62%	128.8%	1.04	3:02	3.3	2%	4,182	22.0	925
22	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Dragon Tail / Dragon Ascent	Dragon Tail / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	64%	128.3%	1.04	3:03	2.6	10%	5,713	22.1	1137
23	Shadow Mewtwo psychicshadow Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball	Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball+23 more movesets	64%	127.6%	1.05	3:04	2.3	0%	4,178	21.9	1217
24	Shadow Vikavolt bugelectricshadow Bug Bite / X-Scissor	Bug Bite / X-Scissor+15 more movesets	58%	127.4%	1.05	3:04	5.0	14%	3,117	22.1	662
25	Shadow Hisuian Typhlosion fireghostshadow Hex / Shadow Ball	Hex / Shadow Ball+9 more movesets	59%	127.4%	1.05	3:04	4.6	24%	2,994	22.1	717
26	Shadow Salamence dragonflyingshadow Bite / Brutal Swing	Bite / Brutal Swing+20 more movesets	59%	127.3%	1.05	3:04	4.2	4%	3,749	21.9	775
27	Blacephalon fireghost Astonish / Shadow Ball	Astonish / Shadow Ball+7 more movesets	57%	127.1%	1.05	3:05	5.2	28%	3,297	22.5	656
28	Mega Alakazam psychicmega Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball	Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball+17 more movesets	62%	125.1%	1.07	3:08	2.5	0%	4,510	21.8	1169
29	Shadow Regigigas normalshadow Hidden Power / Crush Grip	Hidden Power / Crush Grip+7 more movesets	60%	124.6%	1.07	3:08	3.3	0%	4,346	21.3	935
30	Kyurem (Black) dragonice Shadow Claw / Freeze Shock	Shadow Claw / Freeze Shock+11 more movesets	61%	124.0%	1.08	3:09	2.8	0%	4,605	21.3	1073

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