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Shadow Latios counters

dragonpsychicShadow 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
10,444
HP
600
Timer
3:00
Attack
169
Defense
135
Difficulty
0.14
Pokebattler scale

Beating Shadow Latios should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 2,021-2,178.

Weak tobug1.6xghost1.6xice1.6xdragon1.6xdark1.6xfairy1.6x

Who to bring

Improve your raidweather · friendship · Mega in the lobby · Party Power · Adventure EffectsShow ▾

Friendship

every trainer in the lobby who is your friend

Mega in the lobby

a Mega boosts every trainer's attacks: 1.3x of its own type, 1.1x of others
Try a Dragon Mega — most top counters attack with Dragon

Party Power

Party Play: the charged move after a full meter does 2x

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 Latios counters are Eternatus, Mega Rayquaza, Kyurem (Black), Shadow Haxorus, Kyurem (White) & Necrozma (Dawn Wings).

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega
  1. Eternatus
  2. M. Rayquaza
  3. Kyurem (Black)
  4. S. Haxorus
  5. Kyurem (White)
  6. Necrozma (Dawn Wings)

2 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 %

  1. 1EternatusLegendarypartyDragon Tail / Dynamax Cannon0.120:22
  2. 2Mega RayquazaMegaLegendarypartyDragon Tail / Breaking Swipe0.130:23
  3. 3Kyurem (Black)LegendarypartyDragon Tail / Freeze Shock0.130:24
  4. 4Shadow HaxorusShadowpartyDragon Tail / Breaking Swipe0.140:25
  5. 5Mega GarchompMegaDragon Tail / Breaking Swipe0.140:26
  6. 6Kyurem (White)LegendarypartyDragon Breath / Ice Burn0.140:26
  7. 7Mega HoundoomMegaSnarl / Dark Pulse+0.150:26
  8. 8Necrozma (Dawn Wings)LegendarypartyShadow Claw / Moongeist Beam0.150:26
  9. 9Mega DragoniteMegaDragon Breath / Outrage+0.150:27
  10. 10Shadow GarchompShadowDragon Tail / Breaking Swipe0.150:27

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

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Related countersMega Latios
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Top 15 Shadow Latios 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
#AttackerMoveset
1Eternatuspoisondragonjoint top pickdragonDragon TaildragonDynamax Cannon4,4290:220.120.11968.2%
2Mega RayquazadragonflyingdragonDragon TaildragonBreaking Swipe5,7130:230.130.11921.6%
3Kyurem (Black)dragonicedragonDragon TailiceFreeze Shock4,6050:240.130.41840.4%
4Shadow HaxorusdragondragonDragon TaildragonBreaking Swipe3,5930:250.140.91746.5%
5Mega GarchompdragongrounddragonDragon TaildragonBreaking Swipe5,4240:260.140.41695.5%
6Kyurem (White)dragonicedragonDragon BreathiceIce Burn4,6050:260.140.51677.1%
7Mega HoundoomdarkfiredarkSnarldarkDark Pulse+3,8420:260.150.31656.4%
8Necrozma (Dawn Wings)psychicghostghostShadow ClawghostMoongeist Beam4,0990:260.150.01653.1%
9Mega DragonitedragonflyingdragonDragon BreathdragonOutrage+4,8230:270.150.11637.6%
10Shadow GarchompdragongrounddragonDragon TaildragonBreaking Swipe3,9620:270.150.71620.8%
11Mega GengarghostpoisonghostLickghostShadow Ball4,3360:270.150.51604.9%
12Mega SceptilegrassdragonbugFury CutterdragonBreaking Swipe4,0560:280.160.81545.0%
13Shadow DarkraidarkdarkSnarldarkFoul Play3,7390:280.160.71544.9%
14Palkia (Origin)waterdragondragonDragon TaildragonSpacial Rend4,1420:280.160.51533.1%
15Mega SalamencedragonflyingdragonDragon TaildragonDraco Meteor5,0310:290.160.21526.1%

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 Latios.

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

Simulating each boss moveset…

Latios 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.

  • Weak (6)
  • Neutral (6)
  • Resists (6)

It resists fighting0.625xfire0.625xwater0.625xgrass0.625xelectric0.625xpsychic0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Latios throws at you

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

Fast moves

MovePowerEnergyDurationHits at
dragonDragon BreathSTAB6+40.5s0.30s
psychicZen HeadbuttSTAB11+91.0s0.75s

Charged moves

MovePowerEnergyDurationHits at
fightingAura Sphere100-502.0s1.20s
psychicPsychicSTAB95-503.0s1.50s
dragonDragon ClawSTAB45-331.5s0.90s
grassSolar Beam180-1005.0s2.80s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spreadCP at L20CP at L25 (weather boosted)
6/6/6floor2,0212,526
7/7/72,0382,548
8/8/82,0552,569
9/9/92,0732,591
10/10/102,0902,613
11/11/112,1082,635
12/12/122,1252,657
13/13/132,1432,679
14/14/142,1602,701
15/15/15hundo2,1782,723

Caught CP range 2,021 - 2,178, or 2,526 - 2,723 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 2,021, not at the 2,090 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 69 CP higher than this one.

When it is in raids

From the raid schedule, refreshed daily.

Latios 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 169 / Defense 135 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.5974).

Attackers allowed
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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.

#AttackerEst.TimeFaints
1
Eternatus
poisondragon
Dragon Tail / Dynamax Cannon
0.120:220.1
2
Mega Rayquaza
dragonflyingmega
Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe
0.130:230.1
3
Kyurem (Black)
dragonice
Dragon Tail / Freeze Shock
0.130:240.4
4
Shadow Haxorus
dragonshadow
Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe
0.140:250.9
5
Mega Garchomp
dragongroundmega
Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe
0.140:260.4
6
Kyurem (White)
dragonice
Dragon Breath / Ice Burn
0.140:260.5
7
Mega Houndoom
darkfiremega
Snarl / Dark Pulse+
0.150:260.3
8
Necrozma (Dawn Wings)
psychicghost
Shadow Claw / Moongeist Beam
0.150:260.0
9
Mega Dragonite
dragonflyingmega
Dragon Breath / Outrage+
0.150:270.1
10
Shadow Garchomp
dragongroundshadow
Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe
0.150:270.7
11
Mega Gengar
ghostpoisonmega
Lick / Shadow Ball
0.150:270.5
12
Mega Sceptile
grassdragonmega
Fury Cutter / Breaking Swipe
0.160:280.7
13
Shadow Darkrai
darkshadow
Snarl / Foul Play
0.160:280.7
14
Palkia (Origin)
waterdragon
Dragon Tail / Spacial Rend
0.160:280.5
15
Mega Salamence
dragonflyingmega
Dragon Tail / Draco Meteor
0.160:290.2
16
Shadow Salamence
dragonflyingshadow
Dragon Tail / Draco Meteor
0.160:290.6
17
Shadow Dialga
steeldragonshadow
Dragon Breath / Draco Meteor
0.160:290.3
18
Shadow Hydreigon
darkdragonshadow
Bite / Brutal Swing
0.160:290.6
19
Mega Tyranitar
rockdarkmega
Bite / Brutal Swing
0.160:290.3
20
Mega Mewtwo X
psychicfightingmega
Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball
0.160:290.1
21
Mega Mewtwo Y
psychicmega
Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball
0.160:290.1
22
Baxcalibur
dragonice
Dragon Breath / Glaive Rush
0.160:300.9
23
Rayquaza
dragonflying
Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe
0.160:300.7
24
Haxorus
dragon
Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe
0.170:301.0
25
Mega Gardevoir
psychicfairymega
Charm / Dazzling Gleam
0.170:300.1
26
Mega Beedrill
bugpoisonmega
Infestation / Fell Stinger+
0.170:301.2
27
Mega Latios
dragonpsychicmega
Dragon Breath / Dragon Claw
0.170:310.3
28
Dialga (Origin)
steeldragon
Dragon Breath / Roar of Time
0.170:310.4
29
Shadow Dragonite
dragonflyingshadow
Dragon Tail / Draco Meteor
0.170:310.6
30
Shadow Tyranitar
rockdarkshadow
Bite / Brutal Swing
0.180:310.9
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.

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