Shadow raid

Shadow Grovyle counters

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grassShadow 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

5,322

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

111

Defense

Difficulty

0.09

Pokebattler scale

Beating Shadow Grovyle should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 852-956.

Weak toflying1.6xpoison1.6xbug1.6xfire1.6xice1.6x

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 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 Grovyle counters are Mega Delphox, Blacephalon, Shadow Reshiram, Kyurem (White), Shadow Chandelure & Shadow Salamence.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Delphox
Blacephalon
S. Reshiram
Kyurem (White)
S. Chandelure
S. Salamence

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 DelphoxMegapartyFire Spin / Mystical Fire+0.070:13
2Mega BeedrillMegaPoison Jab / Fell Stinger+0.080:15
3BlacephalonLegendarypartyIncinerate / Mind Blown0.090:15
4Shadow ReshiramShadowLegendarypartyFire Fang / Overheat0.090:16
5Mega BlazikenMegaEmber / Blast Burn0.090:16
6Mega StaraptorMegaSand Attack / Brave Bird+0.090:16
7Mega Mewtwo XMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Dynamic Punch+0.090:16
8Mega SkarmoryMegaAir Slash / Drill Peck+0.090:16
9Kyurem (White)LegendarypartyIce Fang / Ice Burn0.090:17
10Mega Mewtwo YMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Future Sight+0.090:17
13Shadow ChandelureShadowpartyFire Spin / Overheat0.090:17
14Shadow SalamenceShadowpartyFire Fang / Fly0.100:17

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 Grovyle 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	0:13	0.07	3419.7%
2	Mega Beedrillbugpoison	poisonPoison JabbugFell Stinger+	3,383	0:15	0.08	2902.0%
3	Blacephalonfireghost	fireIncineratefireMind Blown	3,297	0:15	0.09	2812.6%
4	Shadow Reshiramdragonfire	fireFire FangfireOverheat	4,038	0:16	0.09	2724.7%
5	Mega Blazikenfirefighting	fireEmberfireBlast Burn	4,161	0:16	0.09	2717.9%
6	Mega Staraptorfightingflying	groundSand AttackflyingBrave Bird+	3,979	0:16	0.09	2675.9%
7	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	psychicPsycho CutfightingDynamic Punch+	6,112	0:16	0.09	2659.5%
8	Mega Skarmorysteelflying	flyingAir SlashflyingDrill Peck+	3,741	0:16	0.09	2642.1%
9	Kyurem (White)dragonice	iceIce FangiceIce Burn	4,605	0:17	0.09	2637.3%
10	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	psychicPsycho CutpsychicFuture Sight+	6,428	0:17	0.09	2590.0%
11	Mega Heracrossbugfighting	bugFury CutterbugMegahorn	4,814	0:17	0.09	2564.4%
12	Mega Charizard Yfireflying	fireFire SpinfireOverheat	4,455	0:17	0.09	2564.4%
13	Shadow Chandelureghostfire	fireFire SpinfireOverheat	3,268	0:17	0.09	2564.4%
14	Shadow Salamencedragonflying	fireFire FangflyingFly	3,749	0:17	0.10	2555.4%
15	Shadow Moltresfireflying	fireFire SpinflyingFly	3,465	0:17	0.10	2555.4%

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 Grovyle.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Shadow Grovyle'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%	584%	2758.2%	0:16	0.09
Bullet Seed / Aerial Ace	100%	575%	2746.9%	0:16	0.09
Bullet Seed / Leaf Blade	100%	622%	2749.3%	0:16	0.09
Quick Attack / Aerial Ace	100%	536%	2757.7%	0:16	0.09
Bullet Seed / Grass Knot	100%	606%	2758.0%	0:16	0.09
Quick Attack / Leaf Blade	100%	572%	2760.2%	0:16	0.09
Quick Attack / Grass Knot	100%	553%	2768.9%	0:16	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…

Grovyle 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 poison1.6x bug1.6x fire1.6x ice1.6x normal1x fighting1x rock1x ghost1x steel1x psychic1x dragon1x dark1x fairy1x ground0.63x water0.63x grass0.63x electric0.63x

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

It resists ground0.625xwater0.625xgrass0.625xelectric0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Grovyle throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
normalQuick Attack	10	+13	1.0s	0.45s
grassBullet SeedSTAB	7	+13	1.0s	0.75s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
grassGrass KnotSTAB	90	-50	2.5s	1.60s
grassLeaf BladeSTAB	70	-33	2.5s	1.35s
flyingAerial Ace	55	-33	2.5s	2.00s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
6/6/6floor	852	1,065
7/7/7	863	1,079
8/8/8	875	1,094
9/9/9	886	1,108
10/10/10	897	1,122
11/11/11	909	1,136
12/12/12	920	1,151
13/13/13	932	1,165
14/14/14	944	1,180
15/15/15hundo	956	1,195

Caught CP range 852 - 956, or 1,065 - 1,195 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 852, not at the 897 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.

Grovyle 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 111 / Defense 80 (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%	3419.7%	0.07	0:13	0.0	100%	4,783	48.5	618
2	Mega Beedrill bugpoisonmega Poison Jab / Fell Stinger+	Poison Jab / Fell Stinger++23 more movesets	75%	2902.0%	0.08	0:15	0.0	100%	3,383	40.9	609
3	Blacephalon fireghost Incinerate / Mind Blown	Incinerate / Mind Blown+7 more movesets	72%	2812.6%	0.09	0:15	0.0	100%	3,297	40.8	633
4	Shadow Reshiram dragonfireshadow Fire Fang / Overheat	Fire Fang / Overheat+9 more movesets	76%	2724.7%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	4,038	37.5	600
5	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Ember / Blast Burn	Ember / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	72%	2717.9%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	4,161	38.4	616
6	Mega Staraptor fightingflyingmega Sand Attack / Brave Bird+	Sand Attack / Brave Bird++19 more movesets	76%	2675.9%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	3,979	43.2	704
7	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Dynamic Punch+	Psycho Cut / Dynamic Punch++26 more movesets	71%	2659.5%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	6,112	38.6	633
8	Mega Skarmory steelflyingmega Air Slash / Drill Peck+	Air Slash / Drill Peck++9 more movesets	76%	2642.1%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	3,741	37.2	613
9	Kyurem (White) dragonice Ice Fang / Ice Burn	Ice Fang / Ice Burn+17 more movesets	73%	2637.3%	0.09	0:17	0.0	100%	4,605	37.6	621
10	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Psycho Cut / Future Sight+	Psycho Cut / Future Sight++26 more movesets	72%	2590.0%	0.09	0:17	0.0	100%	6,428	41.0	690
11	Mega Heracross bugfightingmega Fury Cutter / Megahorn	Fury Cutter / Megahorn+17 more movesets	67%	2564.4%	0.09	0:17	0.0	100%	4,814	35.4	602
12	Mega Charizard Y fireflyingmega Fire Spin / Overheat	Fire Spin / Overheat+29 more movesets	72%	2564.4%	0.09	0:17	0.0	100%	4,455	35.3	600
13	Shadow Chandelure ghostfireshadow Fire Spin / Overheat	Fire Spin / Overheat+19 more movesets	64%	2564.4%	0.09	0:17	0.0	100%	3,268	35.8	608
14	Shadow Salamence dragonflyingshadow Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	69%	2555.4%	0.10	0:17	0.0	100%	3,749	36.4	622
15	Shadow Moltres fireflyingshadow Fire Spin / Fly	Fire Spin / Fly+11 more movesets	69%	2555.4%	0.10	0:17	0.0	100%	3,465	36.1	617
16	Shadow Blaziken firefightingshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	61%	2546.8%	0.10	0:17	0.1	100%	2,848	36.1	598
17	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	77%	2540.5%	0.10	0:17	0.0	100%	5,713	46.3	799
18	Shadow Staraptor normalflyingshadow Wing Attack / Fly	Wing Attack / Fly+15 more movesets	63%	2519.9%	0.10	0:17	0.0	100%	2,825	36.3	627
19	Shadow Vikavolt bugelectricshadow Bug Bite / Fly	Bug Bite / Fly+15 more movesets	62%	2488.3%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	3,117	34.3	600
20	Shadow Toucannon normalflyingshadow Bullet Seed / Beak Blast	Bullet Seed / Beak Blast+11 more movesets	63%	2485.5%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	2,689	35.2	616
21	Shadow Heatran firesteelshadow Fire Spin / Magma Storm	Fire Spin / Magma Storm+11 more movesets	71%	2474.2%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	3,754	35.2	620
22	Rayquaza dragonflying Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	68%	2438.2%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	3,835	37.5	670
23	Shadow Darmanitan (Standard) fireshadow Fire Fang / Overheat	Fire Fang / Overheat+11 more movesets	59%	2421.9%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	3,105	34.6	623
24	Mega Charizard X firedragonmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	67%	2421.9%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	3,850	33.5	603
25	Shadow Delphox firepsychicshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	61%	2421.9%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	3,059	33.9	611
26	Shadow Honchkrow darkflyingshadow Snarl / Brave Bird	Snarl / Brave Bird+7 more movesets	58%	2411.2%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	2,711	33.4	603
27	Shadow Galarian Darmanitan (Standard) iceshadow Ice Fang / Avalanche	Ice Fang / Avalanche+7 more movesets	56%	2376.6%	0.10	0:18	0.2	100%	3,105	33.7	569
28	Mega Gengar ghostpoisonmega Hex / Sludge Bomb	Hex / Sludge Bomb+31 more movesets	63%	2361.6%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	4,336	33.1	611
29	Shadow Charizard fireflyingshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	59%	2276.5%	0.11	0:19	0.0	100%	2,889	32.3	620
30	Mega Salamence dragonflyingmega Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	65%	2272.9%	0.11	0:19	0.0	100%	5,031	32.6	626

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.