Shadow raid

Shadow Scizor counters

#0212

bug steelShadow Tier 3

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

22,224

4,000

Timer

3:00

Attack

190

Defense

148

Difficulty

0.69

Pokebattler scale

Beating Shadow Scizor should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 1,575-1,714.

Weak tofire2.56x

Who to bring

IncludeMega Legendary Shadow

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

Weather

★ boosts a type it 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 Scizor counters are Mega Delphox, Shadow Reshiram, Blacephalon, Shadow Heatran, Shadow Blaziken & Shadow Ho-Oh.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Delphox
S. Reshiram
Blacephalon
S. Heatran
S. Blaziken
S. Ho-Oh

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 %

1Mega DelphoxMegapartyFire Spin / Mystical Fire+0.581:41
2Shadow ReshiramShadowLegendarypartyFire Fang / Fusion Flare0.661:56
3Mega BlazikenMegaFire Spin / Blast Burn0.682:00
4Mega Charizard YMegaFire Spin / Blast Burn0.692:02
5BlacephalonLegendarypartyIncinerate / Mind Blown0.742:10
6Shadow HeatranShadowLegendarypartyFire Spin / Magma Storm0.762:13
7Shadow BlazikenShadowpartyFire Spin / Blast Burn0.792:18
8Shadow Ho-OhShadowLegendarypartyIncinerate / Sacred Fire++0.792:18
9ReshiramLegendaryFire Fang / Fusion Flare0.792:20
10Shadow MoltresShadowLegendaryFire Spin / Overheat0.812:22

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

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Raid tier — Easy Group 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

Related countersMega Scizor

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Top 15 Shadow Scizor 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	1:41	0.58	2.5	232.2%
2	Shadow Reshiramdragonfire	fireFire FangfireFusion Flare	4,038	1:56	0.66	2.7	201.9%
3	Mega Blazikenfirefighting	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	4,161	2:00	0.68	2.7	195.9%
4	Mega Charizard Yfireflying	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	4,455	2:02	0.69	2.2	193.1%
5	Blacephalonfireghost	fireIncineratefireMind Blown	3,297	2:10	0.74	4.7	179.9%
6	Shadow Heatranfiresteel	fireFire SpinfireMagma Storm	3,754	2:13	0.76	2.3	176.7%
7	Shadow Blazikenfirefighting	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	2,848	2:18	0.79	4.4	170.1%
8	Shadow Ho-Ohfireflying	fireIncineratefireSacred Fire++	3,863	2:18	0.79	2.4	169.8%
9	Reshiramdragonfire	fireFire FangfireFusion Flare	4,038	2:20	0.79	2.6	168.2%
10	Shadow Moltresfireflying	fireFire SpinfireOverheat	3,465	2:22	0.81	3.2	165.6%
11	Mega Charizard Xfiredragon	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	3,850	2:23	0.81	2.9	164.4%
12	Shadow Emboarfirefighting	fireEmberfireBlast Burn	2,982	2:23	0.82	4.0	163.9%
13	Shadow Darmanitan (Standard)fire	fireFire FangfireOverheat	3,105	2:24	0.82	5.4	163.5%
14	Shadow Charizardfireflying	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	2,889	2:25	0.83	3.9	162.0%
15	Shadow Enteifire	fireFire SpinfireOverheat	3,473	2:26	0.83	3.5	160.4%

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 Scizor.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Shadow Scizor'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%	125%	186.5%	2:06	3.2	0.72
Fury Cutter / Night Slash	94%	107%	177.2%	2:12	3.7	0.75
Bullet Punch / Night Slash	99%	103%	178.6%	2:11	3.9	0.75
Fury Cutter / Iron Head	100%	120%	182.6%	2:09	3.5	0.73
Bullet Punch / Trailblaze	100%	137%	183.8%	2:08	3.2	0.73
Bullet Punch / Iron Head	100%	121%	184.8%	2:07	3.5	0.72
Fury Cutter / Trailblaze	100%	145%	188.8%	2:04	2.7	0.71
Fury Cutter / X-Scissor	100%	147%	189.9%	2:04	2.4	0.70
Bullet Punch / X-Scissor	100%	139%	191.1%	2:03	2.6	0.70

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…

Scizor 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.

fire2.56x fighting1x flying1x ground1x rock1x ghost1x water1x electric1x dark1x normal0.63x bug0.63x steel0.63x psychic0.63x ice0.63x dragon0.63x fairy0.63x poison0.39x grass0.39x

Double weak (1)
Neutral (8)
Resists (9)

It resists poison0.39xgrass0.39xnormal0.625xbug0.625xsteel0.625xpsychic0.625xice0.625xdragon0.625xfairy0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Scizor throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
steelBullet PunchSTAB	10	+11	1.0s	0.40s
bugFury CutterSTAB	4	+8	0.5s	0.20s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
bugX-ScissorSTAB	45	-33	1.5s	1.10s
steelIron HeadSTAB	60	-50	2.0s	1.40s
grassTrailblaze	65	-50	2.0s	1.20s
darkNight Slash	45	-33	2.0s	1.10s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
6/6/6floor	1,575	1,969
7/7/7	1,590	1,988
8/8/8	1,606	2,007
9/9/9	1,621	2,026
10/10/10	1,636	2,046
11/11/11	1,652	2,065
12/12/12	1,667	2,085
13/13/13	1,683	2,104
14/14/14	1,699	2,124
15/15/15hundo	1,714	2,143

Caught CP range 1,575 - 1,714, or 1,969 - 2,143 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 1,575, not at the 1,636 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 61 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.

Scizor 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 190 / Defense 148 (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	Mega Delphox firepsychicmega Fire Spin / Mystical Fire+	Fire Spin / Mystical Fire++23 more movesets	100%	232.2%	0.58	1:41	2.4	100%	4,783	40.6	1210
2	Shadow Reshiram dragonfireshadow Fire Fang / Fusion Flare	Fire Fang / Fusion Flare+9 more movesets	87%	201.9%	0.66	1:56	2.6	100%	4,038	34.9	1140
3	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	84%	195.9%	0.68	1:60	2.6	100%	4,161	33.9	1144
4	Mega Charizard Y fireflyingmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	85%	193.1%	0.69	2:02	2.1	100%	4,455	33.4	1357
5	Blacephalon fireghost Incinerate / Mind Blown	Incinerate / Mind Blown+7 more movesets	69%	179.9%	0.74	2:10	5.3	100%	3,297	31.8	701
6	Shadow Heatran firesteelshadow Fire Spin / Magma Storm	Fire Spin / Magma Storm+11 more movesets	77%	176.7%	0.76	2:13	2.2	100%	3,754	30.4	1266
7	Shadow Blaziken firefightingshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	67%	170.1%	0.79	2:18	4.3	100%	2,848	29.8	780
8	Shadow Ho-Oh fireflyingshadow Incinerate / Sacred Fire++	Incinerate / Sacred Fire+++27 more movesets	74%	169.8%	0.79	2:18	2.3	100%	3,863	29.2	1228
9	Reshiram dragonfire Fire Fang / Fusion Flare	Fire Fang / Fusion Flare+9 more movesets	72%	168.2%	0.79	2:20	2.5	100%	4,038	29.0	1173
10	Shadow Moltres fireflyingshadow Fire Spin / Overheat	Fire Spin / Overheat+11 more movesets	69%	165.6%	0.81	2:22	3.1	100%	3,465	28.8	1023
11	Mega Charizard X firedragonmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	69%	164.4%	0.81	2:23	2.9	100%	3,850	28.5	1059
12	Shadow Emboar firefightingshadow Ember / Blast Burn	Ember / Blast Burn+9 more movesets	66%	163.9%	0.82	2:23	3.9	100%	2,982	28.3	845
13	Shadow Darmanitan (Standard) fireshadow Fire Fang / Overheat	Fire Fang / Overheat+11 more movesets	63%	163.5%	0.82	2:24	5.3	100%	3,105	29.1	638
14	Shadow Charizard fireflyingshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	65%	162.0%	0.83	2:25	3.8	100%	2,889	28.1	858
15	Shadow Entei fireshadow Fire Spin / Overheat	Fire Spin / Overheat+11 more movesets	66%	160.4%	0.83	2:26	3.4	100%	3,473	27.9	911
16	Shadow Infernape firefightingshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+7 more movesets	63%	159.8%	0.84	2:27	4.4	100%	2,683	27.9	767
17	Shadow Delphox firepsychicshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	60%	158.3%	0.84	2:28	5.6	100%	3,059	28.1	614
18	Shadow Chandelure ghostfireshadow Fire Spin / Overheat	Fire Spin / Overheat+19 more movesets	60%	157.7%	0.85	2:29	5.7	94%	3,268	28.4	678
19	Shadow Typhlosion fireshadow Incinerate / Blast Burn	Incinerate / Blast Burn+14 more movesets	60%	153.8%	0.87	2:33	4.8	100%	2,889	26.8	691
20	Mega Houndoom darkfiremega Fire Fang / Flamethrower	Fire Fang / Flamethrower+17 more movesets	60%	151.8%	0.88	2:35	4.1	100%	3,842	26.2	806
21	Cinderace fire Fire Spin / Pyroball	Fire Spin / Pyroball+14 more movesets	60%	151.6%	0.88	2:35	4.2	100%	3,018	26.3	766
22	Heatran firesteel Fire Spin / Magma Storm	Fire Spin / Magma Storm+11 more movesets	64%	147.8%	0.90	2:39	2.2	100%	3,754	25.5	1264
23	Shadow Magmortar fireshadow Fire Spin / Fire Blast	Fire Spin / Fire Blast+11 more movesets	56%	145.1%	0.92	2:42	5.2	100%	3,132	25.6	647
24	Volcarona bugfire Fire Spin / Overheat	Fire Spin / Overheat+7 more movesets	59%	145.0%	0.92	2:42	3.5	100%	3,632	25.1	909
25	Blaziken firefighting Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	58%	144.9%	0.92	2:42	4.1	100%	2,848	25.3	804
26	Moltres fireflying Fire Spin / Overheat	Fire Spin / Overheat+11 more movesets	59%	142.0%	0.94	2:45	3.2	100%	3,465	24.6	1007
27	Shadow Arcanine fireshadow Fire Fang / Flamethrower	Fire Fang / Flamethrower+27 more movesets	55%	141.9%	0.94	2:45	5.1	100%	3,029	24.7	650
28	Shadow Hisuian Arcanine firerockshadow Fire Fang / Flamethrower	Fire Fang / Flamethrower+11 more movesets	53%	141.4%	0.94	2:46	6.2	100%	3,145	25.0	570
29	Chandelure ghostfire Fire Spin / Overheat	Fire Spin / Overheat+19 more movesets	54%	140.4%	0.95	2:47	5.1	78%	3,268	24.9	711
30	Darmanitan (Standard) fire Fire Fang / Overheat	Fire Fang / Overheat+11 more movesets	54%	140.1%	0.95	2:48	5.2	98%	3,105	24.6	645

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