Shadow raid

Shadow Empoleon 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

7,813

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

134

Defense

120

Difficulty

0.11

Pokebattler scale

Beating Shadow Empoleon should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 1,521-1,657.

Weak tofighting1.6xground1.6xelectric1.6x

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 Empoleon counters are Mega Raichu X, Shadow Thundurus (Therian), Keldeo, Shadow Landorus (Therian), Shadow Raikou & Shadow Blaziken.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Raichu X
S. Thundurus (Therian)
Keldeo
S. Landorus (Therian)
S. Raikou
S. Blaziken

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 %

1Mega Raichu XMegapartyThunder Shock / Volt Tackle+0.110:19
2Mega LucarioMegaForce Palm / Aura Sphere0.110:19
3Mega Raichu YMegaThunder Shock / Zap Cannon+0.110:20
4Mega Mewtwo XMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Dynamic Punch+0.110:20
5Mega BlazikenMegaCounter / Aura Sphere0.120:21
6Mega FalinksMegaCounter / Brick Break+0.120:22
7Mega GalladeMegaLow Kick / Sacred Sword0.130:23
8Shadow Thundurus (Therian)ShadowLegendarypartyVolt Switch / Wildbolt Storm0.130:23
9KeldeoLegendarypartyLow Kick / Secret Sword0.130:24
10Shadow Landorus (Therian)ShadowLegendarypartyMud Shot / Sandsear Storm0.140:24
12Shadow RaikouShadowLegendarypartyThunder Shock / Aura Sphere0.140:25
13Shadow BlazikenShadowpartyCounter / Aura Sphere0.140:25

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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Top 15 Shadow Empoleon 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 Raichu Xelectricjoint top pick	electricThunder ShockelectricVolt Tackle+	3,510	0:19	0.11	0.0	2262.8%
2	Mega Lucariofightingsteeljoint top pick	fightingForce PalmfightingAura Sphere	3,826	0:19	0.11	0.0	2257.7%
3	Mega Raichu Yelectric	electricThunder ShockelectricZap Cannon+	3,780	0:20	0.11	0.1	2207.4%
4	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	psychicPsycho CutfightingDynamic Punch+	6,112	0:20	0.11	0.0	2179.7%
5	Mega Blazikenfirefighting	fightingCounterfightingAura Sphere	4,161	0:21	0.12	0.2	2073.1%
6	Mega Falinksfighting	fightingCounterfightingBrick Break+	3,670	0:22	0.12	0.1	2011.6%
7	Mega Galladepsychicfighting	fightingLow KickfightingSacred Sword	4,521	0:23	0.13	0.2	1902.2%
8	Shadow Thundurus (Therian)electricflying	electricVolt SwitchelectricWildbolt Storm	3,659	0:23	0.13	0.3	1860.7%
9	Keldeowaterfighting	fightingLow KickfightingSecret Sword	3,698	0:24	0.13	0.0	1801.4%
10	Shadow Landorus (Therian)groundflying	groundMud ShotgroundSandsear Storm	3,922	0:24	0.14	0.5	1790.3%
11	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	fightingCounterelectricThunderbolt	6,428	0:25	0.14	0.0	1762.8%
12	Shadow Raikouelectric	electricThunder ShockfightingAura Sphere	3,452	0:25	0.14	0.1	1734.4%
13	Shadow Blazikenfirefighting	fightingCounterfightingAura Sphere	2,848	0:25	0.14	0.7	1712.4%
14	Lucariofightingsteel	fightingForce PalmfightingAura Sphere	2,703	0:26	0.14	0.3	1700.0%
15	Shadow Conkeldurrfighting	fightingForce PalmfightingDynamic Punch	3,337	0:26	0.14	0.4	1695.1%

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 Empoleon.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Shadow Empoleon'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.

“Joint top pick”: 2 attackers inside 2.1% of each other — this simulator's own accuracy against pokebattler.com (median 1.6% per attacker), so any of them is the right answer.

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%	271%	1841.2%	0:24	0.3	0.13
Metal Sound / Hydro Pump	100%	254%	1730.7%	0:25	0.5	0.14
Metal Claw / Hydro Pump	100%	247%	1743.4%	0:25	0.5	0.14
Waterfall / Hydro Pump	100%	238%	1762.7%	0:25	0.5	0.14
Metal Sound / Blizzard	100%	281%	1764.7%	0:25	0.3	0.14
Steel Wing / Blizzard	100%	263%	1766.3%	0:25	0.5	0.14
Waterfall / Blizzard	100%	249%	1769.9%	0:25	0.5	0.14
Metal Claw / Blizzard	100%	270%	1777.4%	0:25	0.3	0.14
Steel Wing / Hydro Pump	100%	254%	1802.4%	0:24	0.4	0.13
Steel Wing / Drill Peck	100%	286%	1900.8%	0:23	0.2	0.13
Waterfall / Flash Cannon	100%	286%	1903.3%	0:23	0.2	0.13
Waterfall / Drill Peck	100%	265%	1906.4%	0:23	0.3	0.13
Metal Sound / Flash Cannon	100%	356%	1912.8%	0:23	0.0	0.13
Metal Claw / Drill Peck	100%	309%	1913.9%	0:23	0.2	0.13
Metal Sound / Drill Peck	100%	313%	1915.4%	0:23	0.2	0.13
Metal Claw / Flash Cannon	100%	337%	1916.5%	0:23	0.0	0.13
Steel Wing / Flash Cannon	100%	316%	1923.4%	0:23	0.1	0.13

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…

Empoleon 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 ground1.6x electric1.6x ghost1x fire1x grass1x dark1x normal0.63x flying0.63x rock0.63x bug0.63x water0.63x psychic0.63x dragon0.63x fairy0.63x poison0.39x steel0.39x ice0.39x

Weak (3)
Neutral (4)
Resists (11)

It resists poison0.39xsteel0.39xice0.39xnormal0.625xflying0.625xrock0.625xbug0.625xwater0.625xpsychic0.625xdragon0.625xfairy0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Empoleon throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
steelSteel WingSTAB	14	+8	1.0s	0.70s
waterWaterfallSTAB	13	+7	1.0s	0.75s
steelMetal ClawSTAB	6	+5	0.5s	0.23s
steelMetal SoundSTAB	4	+6	0.5s	0.20s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
steelFlash CannonSTAB	100	-100	2.5s	1.40s
waterHydro PumpSTAB	135	-100	3.5s	1.10s
iceBlizzard	130	-100	3.0s	1.40s
flyingDrill Peck	70	-33	2.5s	1.90s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
6/6/6floor	1,521	1,902
7/7/7	1,536	1,920
8/8/8	1,551	1,939
9/9/9	1,566	1,958
10/10/10	1,581	1,976
11/11/11	1,596	1,995
12/12/12	1,611	2,014
13/13/13	1,626	2,033
14/14/14	1,642	2,052
15/15/15hundo	1,657	2,072

Caught CP range 1,521 - 1,657, or 1,902 - 2,072 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 1,521, not at the 1,581 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 60 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.

Empoleon 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 134 / Defense 120 (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 Raichu X top pickelectricmega Thunder Shock / Volt Tackle+	Thunder Shock / Volt Tackle++35 more movesets	100%	2262.8%	0.11	0:19	0.0	100%	3,510	31.4	605
2	Mega Lucario top pickfightingsteelmega Force Palm / Aura Sphere	Force Palm / Aura Sphere+23 more movesets	98%	2257.7%	0.11	0:19	0.0	100%	3,826	31.5	595
3	Mega Raichu Y electricmega Thunder Shock / Zap Cannon+	Thunder Shock / Zap Cannon++35 more movesets	96%	2207.4%	0.11	0:20	0.1	100%	3,780	35.7	676
4	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Dynamic Punch+	Psycho Cut / Dynamic Punch++26 more movesets	97%	2179.7%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	6,112	30.1	602
5	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Counter / Aura Sphere	Counter / Aura Sphere+20 more movesets	86%	2073.1%	0.12	0:21	0.2	100%	4,161	29.7	545
6	Mega Falinks fightingmega Counter / Brick Break+	Counter / Brick Break++7 more movesets	86%	2011.6%	0.12	0:22	0.1	100%	3,670	31.3	643
7	Mega Gallade psychicfightingmega Low Kick / Sacred Sword	Low Kick / Sacred Sword+19 more movesets	79%	1902.2%	0.13	0:23	0.2	100%	4,521	26.5	557
8	Shadow Thundurus (Therian) electricflyingshadow Volt Switch / Wildbolt Storm	Volt Switch / Wildbolt Storm+9 more movesets	77%	1860.7%	0.13	0:23	0.3	100%	3,659	26.6	513
9	Keldeo waterfighting Low Kick / Secret Sword	Low Kick / Secret Sword+11 more movesets	78%	1801.4%	0.13	0:24	0.0	100%	3,698	26.6	628
10	Shadow Landorus (Therian) groundflyingshadow Mud Shot / Sandsear Storm	Mud Shot / Sandsear Storm+9 more movesets	72%	1790.3%	0.14	0:24	0.4	100%	3,922	25.7	472
11	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Counter / Thunderbolt	Counter / Thunderbolt+26 more movesets	77%	1762.8%	0.14	0:25	0.0	100%	6,428	25.2	624
12	Shadow Raikou electricshadow Thunder Shock / Aura Sphere	Thunder Shock / Aura Sphere+9 more movesets	73%	1734.4%	0.14	0:25	0.1	100%	3,452	24.5	577
13	Shadow Blaziken firefightingshadow Counter / Aura Sphere	Counter / Aura Sphere+20 more movesets	67%	1712.4%	0.14	0:25	0.7	100%	2,848	24.9	421
14	Lucario fightingsteel Force Palm / Aura Sphere	Force Palm / Aura Sphere+23 more movesets	69%	1700.0%	0.14	0:26	0.3	100%	2,703	23.7	528
15	Shadow Conkeldurr fightingshadow Force Palm / Dynamic Punch	Force Palm / Dynamic Punch+11 more movesets	68%	1695.1%	0.14	0:26	0.3	100%	3,337	24.6	513
16	Regieleki electric Lock-On / Thunder Cage	Lock-On / Thunder Cage+11 more movesets	68%	1668.4%	0.15	0:26	0.3	100%	2,803	25.7	549
17	Mega Heracross bugfightingmega Counter / Close Combat	Counter / Close Combat+17 more movesets	66%	1659.7%	0.15	0:26	0.3	100%	4,814	23.5	520
18	Mega Garchomp dragongroundmega Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+13 more movesets	70%	1656.3%	0.15	0:26	0.0	100%	5,424	25.1	645
19	Primal Groudon groundfiremega Mud Shot / Earthquake	Mud Shot / Earthquake+9 more movesets	70%	1649.8%	0.15	0:26	0.2	100%	5,902	22.9	543
20	Shadow Gallade psychicfightingshadow Low Kick / Sacred Sword	Low Kick / Sacred Sword+19 more movesets	63%	1629.7%	0.15	0:27	0.6	100%	3,093	22.9	421
21	Zekrom dragonelectric Charge Beam / Fusion Bolt	Charge Beam / Fusion Bolt+9 more movesets	70%	1615.1%	0.15	0:27	0.1	100%	4,038	22.6	563
22	Zeraora electric Volt Switch / Plasma Fists	Volt Switch / Plasma Fists+9 more movesets	67%	1593.5%	0.15	0:27	0.1	100%	3,419	23.4	597
23	Xurkitree electric Thunder Shock / Discharge	Thunder Shock / Discharge+7 more movesets	65%	1588.2%	0.15	0:27	0.3	100%	3,937	22.3	523
24	Shadow Zapdos electricflyingshadow Thunder Shock / Thunderbolt	Thunder Shock / Thunderbolt+11 more movesets	63%	1549.5%	0.16	0:28	0.3	100%	3,527	22.0	528
25	Terrakion rockfighting Double Kick / Sacred Sword	Double Kick / Sacred Sword+11 more movesets	61%	1541.9%	0.16	0:28	0.6	100%	3,698	22.0	442
26	Shadow Mewtwo psychicshadow Counter / Focus Blast	Counter / Focus Blast+23 more movesets	62%	1530.9%	0.16	0:28	0.3	100%	4,178	22.3	528
27	Mega Manectric electricmega Thunder Fang / Wild Charge	Thunder Fang / Wild Charge+14 more movesets	61%	1485.6%	0.16	0:29	0.3	100%	3,580	22.3	558
28	Shadow Excadrill groundsteelshadow Mud-Slap / Earthquake	Mud-Slap / Earthquake+14 more movesets	58%	1474.8%	0.16	0:30	0.6	100%	3,244	21.7	460
29	Blaziken firefighting Counter / Aura Sphere	Counter / Aura Sphere+20 more movesets	57%	1472.8%	0.17	0:30	0.7	100%	2,848	20.9	406
30	Shadow Galarian Zapdos fightingflyingshadow Counter / Close Combat	Counter / Close Combat+7 more movesets	56%	1462.8%	0.17	0:30	0.7	100%	3,548	20.8	393

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