Shadow raid

Shadow Snover counters

#0459

grass iceShadow 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

3,488

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

Defense

Difficulty

0.05

Pokebattler scale

Beating Shadow Snover should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 577-662.

Weak tofire2.56xfighting1.6xflying1.6xpoison1.6xrock1.6xbug1.6xsteel1.6x

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 Snover counters are Blacephalon, Mega Charizard Y, Shadow Delphox, Shadow Blaziken, Shadow Charizard & Shadow Infernape.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

Blacephalon
M. Charizard Y
S. Delphox
S. Blaziken
S. Charizard
S. Infernape

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 %

1BlacephalonLegendarypartyIncinerate / Mind Blown0.050:09
2Mega Charizard YMegapartyFire Spin / Blast Burn0.050:09
3Mega DelphoxMegaFire Spin / Blast Burn0.050:09
4Mega BlazikenMegaFire Spin / Blast Burn0.050:09
5Shadow DelphoxShadowpartyFire Spin / Blast Burn0.060:10
6Shadow BlazikenShadowpartyFire Spin / Blast Burn0.060:10
7Mega Mewtwo XMegaLegendaryConfusion / Dynamic Punch+0.060:11
8Mega Charizard XMegaFire Spin / Blast Burn0.060:11
9Shadow CharizardShadowpartyFire Spin / Blast Burn0.060:11
10Shadow InfernapeShadowpartyFire Spin / Blast Burn0.060:11

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 Snover 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	Blacephalonfireghostjoint top pick	fireIncineratefireMind Blown	3,297	0:09	0.05	4844.4%
2	Mega Charizard Yfireflying	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	4,455	0:09	0.05	4638.2%
3	Mega Delphoxfirepsychic	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	4,783	0:09	0.05	4638.2%
4	Mega Blazikenfirefighting	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	4,161	0:09	0.05	4638.2%
5	Shadow Delphoxfirepsychic	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	3,059	0:10	0.06	4152.2%
6	Shadow Blazikenfirefighting	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	2,848	0:10	0.06	4152.2%
7	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	psychicConfusionfightingDynamic Punch+	6,112	0:11	0.06	3850.7%
8	Mega Charizard Xfiredragon	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	3,850	0:11	0.06	3791.1%
9	Shadow Charizardfireflying	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	2,889	0:11	0.06	3791.1%
10	Shadow Infernapefirefighting	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	2,683	0:11	0.06	3791.1%
11	Mega Houndoomdarkfire	fireFire FangdarkDark Pulse+	3,842	0:12	0.07	3675.4%
12	Shadow Heatranfiresteel	fireFire SpinfireFlamethrower	3,754	0:12	0.07	3633.1%
13	Shadow Chandelureghostfire	ghostHexfireOverheat	3,268	0:12	0.07	3633.1%
14	Shadow Magmortarfire	fireFire SpinfireFire Punch	3,132	0:12	0.07	3633.1%
15	Cinderacefire	fireEmberfirePyroball	3,018	0:12	0.07	3633.1%

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 Snover.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Shadow Snover'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%	1053%	4202.3%	0:10	0.06
Powder Snow / Ice Beam	100%	923%	4185.4%	0:10	0.06
Powder Snow / Energy Ball	100%	1074%	4185.4%	0:10	0.06
Ice Shard / Ice Beam	100%	933%	4185.4%	0:10	0.06
Ice Shard / Energy Ball	100%	1026%	4185.4%	0:10	0.06
Leafage / Ice Beam	100%	968%	4185.4%	0:10	0.06
Leafage / Energy Ball	100%	1124%	4185.4%	0:10	0.06
Leafage / Stomp	100%	1052%	4185.4%	0:10	0.06
Powder Snow / Stomp	100%	988%	4213.5%	0:10	0.06
Ice Shard / Stomp	100%	975%	4213.5%	0:10	0.06

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…

Snover 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 fighting1.6x flying1.6x poison1.6x rock1.6x bug1.6x steel1.6x normal1x ghost1x psychic1x ice1x dragon1x dark1x fairy1x ground0.63x water0.63x grass0.63x electric0.63x

Double weak (1)
Weak (6)
Neutral (7)
Resists (4)

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

What Snover throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
grassLeafageSTAB	6	+4	0.5s	0.20s
iceIce ShardSTAB	10	+10	1.0s	0.40s
icePowder SnowSTAB	6	+15	1.0s	0.85s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
normalStomp	50	-50	1.5s	0.90s
iceIce BeamSTAB	95	-50	3.5s	1.50s
grassEnergy BallSTAB	90	-50	4.0s	3.10s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
6/6/6floor	577	721
7/7/7	586	733
8/8/8	595	744
9/9/9	605	756
10/10/10	614	768
11/11/11	623	780
12/12/12	633	791
13/13/13	643	804
14/14/14	652	816
15/15/15hundo	662	828

Caught CP range 577 - 662, or 721 - 828 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 577, not at the 614 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 37 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.

Snover 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 77 / Defense 71 (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	Win % (1)	CP	DPS	TDO
1	Blacephalon fireghost Incinerate / Mind Blown	Incinerate / Mind Blown+7 more movesets	97%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,297	69.1	622
2	Mega Charizard Y fireflyingmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	96%	4638.2%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,455	68.3	642
3	Mega Delphox firepsychicmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+23 more movesets	100%	4638.2%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,783	71.6	673
4	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	96%	4638.2%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,161	70.2	660
5	Shadow Delphox firepsychicshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	82%	4152.2%	0.06	0:10	100%	3,059	57.2	601
6	Shadow Blaziken firefightingshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	79%	4152.2%	0.06	0:10	100%	2,848	59.9	629
7	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Confusion / Dynamic Punch+	Confusion / Dynamic Punch++26 more movesets	79%	3850.7%	0.06	0:11	100%	6,112	56.8	642
8	Mega Charizard X firedragonmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	76%	3791.1%	0.06	0:11	100%	3,850	54.9	631
9	Shadow Charizard fireflyingshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	71%	3791.1%	0.06	0:11	100%	2,889	53.9	620
10	Shadow Infernape firefightingshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+7 more movesets	71%	3791.1%	0.06	0:11	100%	2,683	53.8	619
11	Mega Houndoom darkfiremega Fire Fang / Dark Pulse+	Fire Fang / Dark Pulse++17 more movesets	73%	3675.4%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,842	53.6	635
12	Shadow Heatran firesteelshadow Fire Spin / Flamethrower	Fire Spin / Flamethrower+11 more movesets	78%	3633.1%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,754	50.9	611
13	Shadow Chandelure ghostfireshadow Hex / Overheat	Hex / Overheat+19 more movesets	73%	3633.1%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,268	51.7	620
14	Shadow Magmortar fireshadow Fire Spin / Fire Punch	Fire Spin / Fire Punch+11 more movesets	69%	3633.1%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,132	52.2	626
15	Cinderace fire Ember / Pyroball	Ember / Pyroball+14 more movesets	72%	3633.1%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,018	51.5	618
16	Mega Beedrill bugpoisonmega Poison Jab / Fell Stinger+	Poison Jab / Fell Stinger++23 more movesets	68%	3596.6%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,383	51.8	627
17	Shadow Reshiram dragonfireshadow Fire Fang / Fusion Flare	Fire Fang / Fusion Flare+9 more movesets	72%	3515.9%	0.07	0:12	100%	4,038	75.1	930
18	Heatran firesteel Fire Spin / Magma Storm	Fire Spin / Magma Storm+11 more movesets	78%	3510.2%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,754	51.6	640
19	Reshiram dragonfire Fire Fang / Fusion Flare	Fire Fang / Fusion Flare+9 more movesets	71%	3443.7%	0.07	0:13	100%	4,038	62.3	787
20	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Counter / Future Sight+	Counter / Future Sight++26 more movesets	69%	3434.1%	0.07	0:13	100%	6,428	48.8	618
21	Necrozma (Dusk Mane) psychicsteel Metal Claw / Sunsteel Strike	Metal Claw / Sunsteel Strike+14 more movesets	72%	3414.0%	0.07	0:13	100%	4,099	48.7	622
22	Shadow Moltres fireflyingshadow Wing Attack / Overheat	Wing Attack / Overheat+11 more movesets	66%	3384.8%	0.07	0:13	100%	3,465	52.3	673
23	Mega Lucario fightingsteelmega Force Palm / Blaze Kick	Force Palm / Blaze Kick+23 more movesets	65%	3353.6%	0.07	0:13	100%	3,826	46.2	600
24	Zamazenta (Crowned Shield) fightingsteel Metal Claw / Behemoth Bash	Metal Claw / Behemoth Bash+7 more movesets	73%	3353.6%	0.07	0:13	100%	4,172	46.3	602
25	Shadow Salamence dragonflyingshadow Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	57%	3322.9%	0.07	0:13	100%	3,749	55.0	719
26	Zacian (Crowned Sword) fairysteel Metal Claw / Behemoth Blade	Metal Claw / Behemoth Blade+7 more movesets	69%	3295.3%	0.07	0:13	100%	4,979	50.9	673
27	Blaziken firefighting Fire Spin / Blaze Kick	Fire Spin / Blaze Kick+20 more movesets	61%	3258.3%	0.07	0:13	100%	2,848	47.8	640
28	Shadow Typhlosion fireshadow Incinerate / Blast Burn	Incinerate / Blast Burn+14 more movesets	60%	3229.4%	0.08	0:13	100%	2,889	51.0	688
29	Volcarona bugfire Bug Bite / Overheat	Bug Bite / Overheat+7 more movesets	66%	3229.4%	0.08	0:13	100%	3,632	44.7	603
30	Shadow Darmanitan (Standard) fireshadow Tackle / Overheat	Tackle / Overheat+11 more movesets	60%	3215.1%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,105	46.6	632

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.