Shadow raid

Shadow Magneton counters

#0082

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

20,418

4,000

Timer

3:00

Attack

180

Defense

139

Difficulty

0.73

Pokebattler scale

Beating Shadow Magneton should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 1,292-1,420.

Weak toground2.56xfighting1.6xfire1.6x

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 Ground Mega — most top counters attack with Ground

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 Magneton counters are Primal Groudon, Shadow Landorus (Therian), Shadow Groudon, Shadow Excadrill, Landorus (Therian) & Shadow Garchomp.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

Primal Groudon
S. Landorus (Therian)
S. Groudon
S. Excadrill
Landorus (Therian)
S. Garchomp

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 %

1Primal GroudonMegaLegendarypartyMud Shot / Precipice Blades0.661:56
2Shadow Landorus (Therian)ShadowLegendarypartyMud Shot / Sandsear Storm0.671:57
3Mega GarchompMegaMud Shot / Earth Power0.722:07
4Shadow GroudonShadowLegendarypartyMud Shot / Precipice Blades0.752:12
5Shadow ExcadrillShadowpartyMud-Slap / Scorching Sands0.772:15
6Landorus (Therian)LegendarypartyMud Shot / Sandsear Storm0.782:17
7Mega Mewtwo XMegaLegendaryCounter / Dynamic Punch+0.782:17
8Shadow GarchompShadowpartyMud Shot / Earth Power0.802:21
9Shadow Landorus (Incarnate)ShadowLegendaryMud Shot / Earth Power0.822:24
10GroudonLegendaryMud Shot / Precipice Blades0.862:31

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 Magneton 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	Primal Groudongroundfirejoint top pick	groundMud ShotgroundPrecipice Blades	5,902	1:56	0.66	1.4	201.7%
2	Shadow Landorus (Therian)groundflyingjoint top pick	groundMud ShotgroundSandsear Storm	3,922	1:57	0.67	4.3	199.8%
3	Mega Garchompdragonground	groundMud ShotgroundEarth Power	5,424	2:07	0.72	2.2	184.6%
4	Shadow Groudonground	groundMud ShotgroundPrecipice Blades	4,115	2:12	0.75	3.7	177.2%
5	Shadow Excadrillgroundsteel	groundMud-SlapgroundScorching Sands	3,244	2:15	0.77	3.8	173.5%
6	Landorus (Therian)groundflying	groundMud ShotgroundSandsear Storm	3,922	2:17	0.78	4.3	171.4%
7	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	fightingCounterfightingDynamic Punch+	6,112	2:17	0.78	4.2	171.3%
8	Shadow Garchompdragonground	groundMud ShotgroundEarth Power	3,962	2:21	0.80	3.4	166.6%
9	Shadow Landorus (Incarnate)groundflying	groundMud ShotgroundEarth Power	3,588	2:24	0.82	5.3	162.4%
10	Groudonground	groundMud ShotgroundPrecipice Blades	4,115	2:31	0.86	3.2	155.9%
11	Mega Delphoxfirepsychic	fireFire SpinfireMystical Fire+	4,783	2:33	0.87	4.4	153.2%
12	Shadow Rhyperiorgroundrock	groundMud-SlapgroundDrill Run	3,733	2:34	0.87	4.1	152.8%
13	Shadow Mamoswineiceground	groundMud-SlapgroundHigh Horsepower	3,328	2:36	0.89	4.6	150.0%
14	Excadrillgroundsteel	groundMud-SlapgroundScorching Sands	3,244	2:40	0.91	3.8	146.6%
15	Mega Lucariofightingsteel	fightingForce PalmfightingAura Sphere	3,826	2:41	0.92	5.4	145.6%

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 Magneton.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Shadow Magneton'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%	124%	181.3%	2:09	3.4	0.74
Charge Beam / Flash Cannon	100%	106%	175.8%	2:13	4.4	0.76
Volt Switch / Flash Cannon	100%	106%	177.0%	2:13	4.4	0.76
Metal Sound / Flash Cannon	100%	106%	177.3%	2:12	4.3	0.75
Thunder Shock / Flash Cannon	100%	109%	178.1%	2:12	4.2	0.75
Metal Sound / Magnet Bomb	100%	101%	178.3%	2:12	4.7	0.75
Spark / Flash Cannon	100%	110%	178.6%	2:11	4.1	0.75
Spark / Magnet Bomb	100%	105%	179.2%	2:11	4.5	0.75
Thunder Shock / Magnet Bomb	100%	105%	179.2%	2:11	4.5	0.75
Volt Switch / Magnet Bomb	100%	105%	179.3%	2:11	4.4	0.75
Metal Sound / Zap Cannon	100%	131%	180.4%	2:10	3.2	0.74
Charge Beam / Magnet Bomb	100%	105%	180.7%	2:10	4.4	0.74
Volt Switch / Zap Cannon	100%	135%	180.8%	2:10	3.0	0.74
Charge Beam / Zap Cannon	100%	138%	182.6%	2:09	2.9	0.73
Thunder Shock / Zap Cannon	100%	137%	182.9%	2:08	3.0	0.73
Spark / Zap Cannon	100%	138%	182.9%	2:08	2.9	0.73
Thunder Shock / Discharge	100%	166%	184.0%	2:08	2.2	0.73
Spark / Discharge	100%	166%	184.1%	2:07	2.2	0.73
Volt Switch / Discharge	100%	163%	184.7%	2:07	2.2	0.72
Metal Sound / Discharge	100%	157%	185.2%	2:07	2.3	0.72
Charge Beam / Discharge	100%	167%	186.7%	2:06	2.1	0.72

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…

Magneton 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.

ground2.56x fighting1.6x fire1.6x ghost1x water1x dark1x normal0.63x rock0.63x bug0.63x grass0.63x electric0.63x psychic0.63x ice0.63x dragon0.63x fairy0.63x flying0.39x poison0.39x steel0.39x

Double weak (1)
Weak (2)
Neutral (3)
Resists (12)

It resists flying0.39xpoison0.39xsteel0.39xnormal0.625xrock0.625xbug0.625xgrass0.625xelectric0.625xpsychic0.625xice0.625xdragon0.625xfairy0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Magneton throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
electricVolt SwitchSTAB	13	+20	1.5s	0.60s
electricSparkSTAB	4	+6	0.5s	0.10s
electricThunder ShockSTAB	4	+7	0.5s	0.20s
steelMetal SoundSTAB	4	+6	0.5s	0.20s
electricCharge BeamSTAB	7	+14	1.0s	0.75s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
electricZap CannonSTAB	140	-100	3.5s	2.80s
steelFlash CannonSTAB	100	-100	2.5s	1.40s
electricDischargeSTAB	65	-33	2.5s	1.70s
steelMagnet BombSTAB	75	-33	3.0s	2.40s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
6/6/6floor	1,292	1,616
7/7/7	1,306	1,633
8/8/8	1,320	1,651
9/9/9	1,334	1,668
10/10/10	1,348	1,686
11/11/11	1,363	1,703
12/12/12	1,377	1,721
13/13/13	1,391	1,739
14/14/14	1,406	1,757
15/15/15hundo	1,420	1,775

Caught CP range 1,292 - 1,420, or 1,616 - 1,775 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 1,292, not at the 1,348 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 56 CP higher than this one.

When it is in raids

From the raid schedule, refreshed daily.

Magneton 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 180 / Defense 139 (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	Primal Groudon top pickgroundfiremega Mud Shot / Precipice Blades	Mud Shot / Precipice Blades+9 more movesets	100%	201.7%	0.66	1:56	1.4	100%	5,902	35.2	1750
2	Shadow Landorus (Therian) top pickgroundflyingshadow Mud Shot / Sandsear Storm	Mud Shot / Sandsear Storm+9 more movesets	85%	199.8%	0.67	1:57	4.2	100%	3,922	34.9	783
3	Mega Garchomp dragongroundmega Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+13 more movesets	86%	184.6%	0.72	2:07	2.2	100%	5,424	31.9	1462
4	Shadow Groudon groundshadow Mud Shot / Precipice Blades	Mud Shot / Precipice Blades+9 more movesets	77%	177.2%	0.75	2:12	3.6	100%	4,115	31.1	956
5	Shadow Excadrill groundsteelshadow Mud-Slap / Scorching Sands	Mud-Slap / Scorching Sands+14 more movesets	75%	173.5%	0.77	2:15	3.7	100%	3,244	30.1	877
6	Landorus (Therian) groundflying Mud Shot / Sandsear Storm	Mud Shot / Sandsear Storm+9 more movesets	72%	171.4%	0.78	2:17	4.2	100%	3,922	30.1	792
7	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Counter / Dynamic Punch+	Counter / Dynamic Punch++26 more movesets	73%	171.3%	0.78	2:17	4.1	100%	6,112	29.7	802
8	Shadow Garchomp dragongroundshadow Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+13 more movesets	73%	166.6%	0.80	2:21	3.3	100%	3,962	29.2	1163
9	Shadow Landorus (Incarnate) groundflyingshadow Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+7 more movesets	66%	162.4%	0.82	2:24	5.2	100%	3,588	28.8	652
10	Groudon ground Mud Shot / Precipice Blades	Mud Shot / Precipice Blades+9 more movesets	69%	155.9%	0.86	2:31	3.1	100%	4,115	26.8	1040
11	Mega Delphox firepsychicmega Fire Spin / Mystical Fire+	Fire Spin / Mystical Fire++23 more movesets	64%	153.2%	0.87	2:33	4.3	100%	4,783	26.8	787
12	Shadow Rhyperior groundrockshadow Mud-Slap / Drill Run	Mud-Slap / Drill Run+15 more movesets	63%	152.8%	0.87	2:34	5.0	98%	3,733	27.0	850
13	Shadow Mamoswine icegroundshadow Mud-Slap / High Horsepower	Mud-Slap / High Horsepower+11 more movesets	59%	150.0%	0.89	2:36	6.8	80%	3,328	27.1	660
14	Excadrill groundsteel Mud-Slap / Scorching Sands	Mud-Slap / Scorching Sands+14 more movesets	63%	146.6%	0.91	2:40	3.7	100%	3,244	25.2	859
15	Mega Lucario fightingsteelmega Force Palm / Aura Sphere	Force Palm / Aura Sphere+23 more movesets	58%	145.6%	0.92	2:41	5.9	100%	3,826	25.8	595
16	Shadow Golurk groundghostshadow Mud-Slap / Earth Power	Mud-Slap / Earth Power+7 more movesets	58%	144.9%	0.92	2:42	5.7	92%	2,854	25.6	683
17	Mega Swampert watergroundmega Mud Shot / Earthquake	Mud Shot / Earthquake+11 more movesets	64%	144.7%	0.92	2:42	3.1	100%	4,401	24.9	991
18	Garchomp dragonground Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+13 more movesets	64%	143.2%	0.93	2:44	2.7	100%	3,962	24.7	1275
19	Shadow Rhydon groundrockshadow Mud-Slap / Earthquake	Mud-Slap / Earthquake+9 more movesets	57%	142.5%	0.94	2:45	5.7	92%	3,179	25.2	717
20	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Counter / Aura Sphere	Counter / Aura Sphere+20 more movesets	56%	139.3%	0.96	2:48	5.8	96%	4,161	24.6	609
21	Shadow Donphan groundshadow Mud-Slap / Earthquake	Mud-Slap / Earthquake+19 more movesets	57%	137.0%	0.98	2:51	4.8	82%	3,013	24.1	739
22	Shadow Hippowdon groundshadow Sand Attack / Scorching Sands	Sand Attack / Scorching Sands+29 more movesets	57%	136.2%	0.98	2:52	4.4	80%	3,085	24.0	841
23	Mamoswine iceground Mud-Slap / High Horsepower	Mud-Slap / High Horsepower+11 more movesets	54%	135.2%	0.99	2:54	5.8	68%	3,328	23.9	731
24	Landorus (Incarnate) groundflying Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+7 more movesets	55%	135.1%	0.99	2:54	5.2	86%	3,588	23.9	654
25	Rhyperior groundrock Mud-Slap / Earthquake	Mud-Slap / Earthquake+15 more movesets	56%	133.7%	1.00	2:56	4.5	64%	3,733	23.5	888
26	Shadow Reshiram dragonfireshadow Fire Fang / Fusion Flare	Fire Fang / Fusion Flare+9 more movesets	55%	133.6%	1.00	2:56	4.7	80%	4,038	23.2	697
27	Shadow Flygon grounddragonshadow Sand Attack / Earth Power	Sand Attack / Earth Power+23 more movesets	54%	133.2%	1.00	2:56	5.5	66%	2,661	23.7	806
28	Shadow Torterra grassgroundshadow Mud-Slap / Earthquake	Mud-Slap / Earthquake+14 more movesets	56%	132.6%	1.01	2:57	4.2	60%	2,934	23.5	952
29	Mega Falinks fightingmega Counter / Brick Break+	Counter / Brick Break++7 more movesets	51%	128.4%	1.04	3:03	6.4	26%	3,670	23.1	536
30	Shadow Heatran firesteelshadow Fire Spin / Earth Power	Fire Spin / Earth Power+11 more movesets	52%	127.6%	1.05	3:04	5.0	40%	3,754	22.5	736

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