Shadow raid

Shadow Mr. Rime 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

7,744

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

135

Defense

115

Difficulty

0.12

Pokebattler scale

Beating Shadow Mr. Rime should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 1,481-1,615.

Weak torock1.6xbug1.6xghost1.6xsteel1.6xfire1.6xdark1.6x

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 Steel Mega — most top counters attack with Steel

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 Mr. Rime counters are Mega Beedrill, Shadow Metagross, Shadow Reshiram, Blacephalon, Shadow Chandelure & Zamazenta (Crowned Shield).

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Beedrill
S. Metagross
S. Reshiram
Blacephalon
S. Chandelure
Zamazenta (Crowned Shield)

4 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+0.100:19
2Mega HoundoomMegaSnarl / Dark Pulse+0.110:19
3Shadow MetagrossShadowpartyFury Cutter / Meteor Mash0.120:21
4Shadow ReshiramShadowLegendarypartyFire Fang / Fusion Flare0.120:22
5Mega Charizard YMegaEmber / Blast Burn0.130:23
6Mega HeracrossMegaFury Cutter / Megahorn0.130:23
7BlacephalonLegendarypartyIncinerate / Mind Blown0.130:23
8Shadow ChandelureShadowpartyFire Spin / Shadow Ball0.130:23
9Mega DelphoxMegaFire Spin / Mystical Fire+0.130:23
10Zamazenta (Crowned Shield)LegendarypartyMetal Claw / Behemoth Bash0.130:23

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 Mr. Rime 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	0:19	0.10	0.3	2339.0%
2	Mega Houndoomdarkfire	darkSnarldarkDark Pulse+	3,842	0:19	0.11	0.0	2253.9%
3	Shadow Metagrosssteelpsychic	bugFury CuttersteelMeteor Mash	3,791	0:21	0.12	0.0	2037.1%
4	Shadow Reshiramdragonfire	fireFire FangfireFusion Flare	4,038	0:22	0.12	0.0	1986.4%
5	Mega Charizard Yfireflying	fireEmberfireBlast Burn	4,455	0:23	0.13	0.0	1922.3%
6	Mega Heracrossbugfighting	bugFury CutterbugMegahorn	4,814	0:23	0.13	0.1	1896.7%
7	Blacephalonfireghost	fireIncineratefireMind Blown	3,297	0:23	0.13	0.3	1892.8%
8	Shadow Chandelureghostfire	fireFire SpinghostShadow Ball	3,268	0:23	0.13	0.2	1889.4%
9	Mega Delphoxfirepsychic	fireFire SpinfireMystical Fire+	4,783	0:23	0.13	0.0	1887.9%
10	Zamazenta (Crowned Shield)fightingsteel	steelMetal ClawsteelBehemoth Bash	4,172	0:23	0.13	0.0	1883.9%
11	Shadow Darkraidark	darkSnarldarkFoul Play	3,739	0:23	0.13	0.1	1876.0%
12	Necrozma (Dawn Wings)psychicghost	steelMetal ClawghostMoongeist Beam	4,099	0:23	0.13	0.0	1868.6%
13	Mega Blazikenfirefighting	fireFire SpinfireBlaze Kick	4,161	0:24	0.13	0.4	1817.0%
14	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	psychicPsycho CutghostShadow Ball	6,428	0:24	0.13	0.0	1805.1%
15	Reshiramdragonfire	fireFire FangfireFusion Flare	4,038	0:24	0.13	0.0	1803.9%

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 Mr. Rime.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Shadow Mr. Rime'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%	310%	1981.7%	0:22	0.2	0.12
Zen Headbutt / Psychic	100%	280%	1891.6%	0:23	0.4	0.13
Confusion / Psybeam	100%	311%	1895.2%	0:23	0.3	0.13
Confusion / Psychic	100%	270%	1913.3%	0:23	0.5	0.13
Ice Shard / Psychic	100%	284%	1943.2%	0:22	0.3	0.13
Zen Headbutt / Psybeam	100%	333%	1957.7%	0:22	0.2	0.12
Ice Shard / Psybeam	100%	339%	1980.8%	0:22	0.1	0.12
Ice Shard / Icy Wind	100%	380%	2015.6%	0:22	0.0	0.12
Ice Shard / Ice Punch	100%	374%	2018.2%	0:22	0.0	0.12
Zen Headbutt / Icy Wind	100%	361%	2035.2%	0:21	0.0	0.12
Confusion / Icy Wind	100%	339%	2041.1%	0:21	0.1	0.12
Ice Shard / Triple Axel	100%	350%	2041.8%	0:21	0.0	0.12
Zen Headbutt / Ice Punch	100%	354%	2054.5%	0:21	0.0	0.12
Zen Headbutt / Triple Axel	100%	334%	2070.8%	0:21	0.0	0.12
Confusion / Ice Punch	100%	338%	2082.6%	0:21	0.0	0.12
Confusion / Triple Axel	100%	323%	2120.6%	0:21	0.0	0.11

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…

Mr. Rime 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.

rock1.6x bug1.6x ghost1.6x steel1.6x fire1.6x dark1.6x normal1x fighting1x flying1x poison1x ground1x water1x grass1x electric1x dragon1x fairy1x psychic0.63x ice0.63x

Weak (6)
Neutral (10)
Resists (2)

It resists psychic0.625xice0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Mr. Rime 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
psychicZen HeadbuttSTAB	11	+9	1.0s	0.75s
iceIce ShardSTAB	10	+10	1.0s	0.40s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
psychicPsychicSTAB	95	-50	3.0s	1.50s
iceTriple AxelSTAB	60	-33	2.0s	1.50s
iceIce PunchSTAB	50	-33	2.0s	1.40s
psychicPsybeamSTAB	65	-50	3.0s	1.10s
iceIcy WindSTAB	65	-33	3.5s	2.20s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
6/6/6floor	1,481	1,851
7/7/7	1,496	1,870
8/8/8	1,510	1,888
9/9/9	1,525	1,907
10/10/10	1,540	1,925
11/11/11	1,555	1,944
12/12/12	1,570	1,962
13/13/13	1,585	1,981
14/14/14	1,600	2,000
15/15/15hundo	1,615	2,019

Caught CP range 1,481 - 1,615, or 1,851 - 2,019 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 1,481, not at the 1,540 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 59 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.

Mr. Rime 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 135 / Defense 115 (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 Beedrill bugpoisonmega Bug Bite / Fell Stinger+	Bug Bite / Fell Stinger++23 more movesets	84%	2339.0%	0.10	0:19	0.3	100%	3,383	35.2	551
2	Mega Houndoom darkfiremega Snarl / Dark Pulse+	Snarl / Dark Pulse++17 more movesets	100%	2253.9%	0.11	0:19	0.0	100%	3,842	33.3	644
3	Shadow Metagross steelpsychicshadow Fury Cutter / Meteor Mash	Fury Cutter / Meteor Mash+15 more movesets	87%	2037.1%	0.12	0:21	0.0	100%	3,791	28.3	606
4	Shadow Reshiram dragonfireshadow Fire Fang / Fusion Flare	Fire Fang / Fusion Flare+9 more movesets	76%	1986.4%	0.12	0:22	0.0	100%	4,038	30.5	662
5	Mega Charizard Y fireflyingmega Ember / Blast Burn	Ember / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	74%	1922.3%	0.13	0:23	0.0	100%	4,455	26.8	595
6	Mega Heracross bugfightingmega Fury Cutter / Megahorn	Fury Cutter / Megahorn+17 more movesets	70%	1896.7%	0.13	0:23	0.1	100%	4,814	26.9	570
7	Blacephalon fireghost Incinerate / Mind Blown	Incinerate / Mind Blown+7 more movesets	68%	1892.8%	0.13	0:23	0.3	100%	3,297	28.3	540
8	Shadow Chandelure ghostfireshadow Fire Spin / Shadow Ball	Fire Spin / Shadow Ball+19 more movesets	69%	1889.4%	0.13	0:23	0.2	100%	3,268	26.9	541
9	Mega Delphox firepsychicmega Fire Spin / Mystical Fire+	Fire Spin / Mystical Fire++23 more movesets	82%	1887.9%	0.13	0:23	0.0	100%	4,783	33.3	770
10	Zamazenta (Crowned Shield) fightingsteel Metal Claw / Behemoth Bash	Metal Claw / Behemoth Bash+7 more movesets	80%	1883.9%	0.13	0:23	0.0	100%	4,172	30.3	700
11	Shadow Darkrai darkshadow Snarl / Foul Play	Snarl / Foul Play+14 more movesets	72%	1876.0%	0.13	0:23	0.1	100%	3,739	26.3	592
12	Necrozma (Dawn Wings) psychicghost Metal Claw / Moongeist Beam	Metal Claw / Moongeist Beam+14 more movesets	78%	1868.6%	0.13	0:23	0.0	100%	4,099	30.5	712
13	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Fire Spin / Blaze Kick	Fire Spin / Blaze Kick+20 more movesets	65%	1817.0%	0.13	0:24	0.4	100%	4,161	25.4	492
14	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball	Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball+26 more movesets	75%	1805.1%	0.13	0:24	0.0	100%	6,428	25.6	617
15	Reshiram dragonfire Fire Fang / Fusion Flare	Fire Fang / Fusion Flare+9 more movesets	69%	1803.9%	0.13	0:24	0.0	100%	4,038	25.1	599
16	Mega Gengar ghostpoisonmega Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball	Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball+31 more movesets	64%	1797.8%	0.14	0:24	0.4	100%	4,336	27.7	509
17	Necrozma (Dusk Mane) psychicsteel Metal Claw / Sunsteel Strike	Metal Claw / Sunsteel Strike+14 more movesets	80%	1797.7%	0.14	0:24	0.0	100%	4,099	31.3	760
18	Shadow Delphox firepsychicshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	68%	1774.2%	0.14	0:25	0.0	100%	3,059	24.7	601
19	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Dynamic Punch+	Psycho Cut / Dynamic Punch++26 more movesets	70%	1768.4%	0.14	0:25	0.0	100%	6,112	24.8	610
20	Mega Charizard X firedragonmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	66%	1764.0%	0.14	0:25	0.1	100%	3,850	24.3	576
21	Zacian (Crowned Sword) fairysteel Metal Claw / Behemoth Blade	Metal Claw / Behemoth Blade+7 more movesets	77%	1759.9%	0.14	0:25	0.0	100%	4,979	32.5	804
22	Shadow Hydreigon darkdragonshadow Bite / Brutal Swing	Bite / Brutal Swing+9 more movesets	66%	1754.7%	0.14	0:25	0.2	100%	3,625	25.4	553
23	Shadow Ho-Oh fireflyingshadow Steel Wing / Sacred Fire++	Steel Wing / Sacred Fire+++27 more movesets	67%	1749.3%	0.14	0:25	0.0	100%	3,863	25.4	633
24	Mega Absol darkmega Snarl / Brutal Swing	Snarl / Brutal Swing+9 more movesets	65%	1747.8%	0.14	0:25	0.3	100%	3,301	26.3	568
25	Mega Banette ghostmega Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball	Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball+5 more movesets	62%	1742.8%	0.14	0:25	0.5	100%	3,594	24.5	438
26	Mega Diancie rockfairymega Rock Throw / Rock Slide	Rock Throw / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	64%	1742.2%	0.14	0:25	0.3	100%	4,346	24.4	518
27	Mega Lucario fightingsteelmega Bullet Punch / Meteor Mash	Bullet Punch / Meteor Mash+23 more movesets	65%	1735.7%	0.14	0:25	0.2	100%	3,826	27.1	624
28	Shadow Heatran firesteelshadow Fire Spin / Magma Storm	Fire Spin / Magma Storm+11 more movesets	71%	1724.4%	0.14	0:25	0.0	100%	3,754	24.5	620
29	Shadow Absol darkshadow Snarl / Brutal Swing	Snarl / Brutal Swing+9 more movesets	61%	1723.7%	0.14	0:25	0.5	100%	2,526	24.7	463
30	Shadow Entei fireshadow Fire Spin / Overheat	Fire Spin / Overheat+11 more movesets	64%	1680.7%	0.14	0:26	0.0	100%	3,473	24.3	613

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.