Shadow raid

Shadow Bagon counters

#0371

dragonShadow Tier 1In raids until Tue 6 Oct, 20:00

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

3,792

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

Defense

Difficulty

0.07

Pokebattler scale

Beating Shadow Bagon should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 575-660.

Weak toice1.6xdragon1.6xfairy1.6x

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 Dragon Mega — most top counters attack with Dragon

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 Bagon counters are Mega Rayquaza, Eternatus, Kyurem (Black), Shadow Haxorus, Shadow Garchomp & Palkia (Origin).

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Rayquaza
Eternatus
Kyurem (Black)
S. Haxorus
S. Garchomp
Palkia (Origin)

1 more Mega 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 RayquazaMegaLegendarypartyDragon Tail / Breaking Swipe0.070:12
2EternatusLegendarypartyPoison Jab / Dynamax Cannon0.070:12
3Kyurem (Black)LegendarypartyDragon Tail / Freeze Shock0.070:13
4Shadow HaxorusShadowpartyDragon Tail / Breaking Swipe0.080:13
5Mega GarchompMegaDragon Tail / Breaking Swipe0.080:14
6Shadow GarchompShadowpartyDragon Tail / Breaking Swipe0.080:14
7Palkia (Origin)LegendarypartyDragon Breath / Spacial Rend0.080:14
8Mega DragoniteMegaDragon Breath / Outrage+0.080:14
9Mega SceptileMegaFury Cutter / Breaking Swipe0.080:14
10Dialga (Origin)LegendaryDragon Breath / Roar of Time0.080:14

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 Bagon 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.

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#	Attacker	Moveset
1	Mega Rayquazadragonflyingjoint top pick	dragonDragon TaildragonBreaking Swipe	5,713	0:12	0.07	3633.1%
2	Eternatuspoisondragon	poisonPoison JabdragonDynamax Cannon	4,429	0:12	0.07	3487.8%
3	Kyurem (Black)dragonice	dragonDragon TailiceFreeze Shock	4,605	0:13	0.07	3416.7%
4	Shadow Haxorusdragon	dragonDragon TaildragonBreaking Swipe	3,593	0:13	0.08	3234.2%
5	Mega Garchompdragonground	dragonDragon TaildragonBreaking Swipe	5,424	0:14	0.08	3168.3%
6	Shadow Garchompdragonground	dragonDragon TaildragonBreaking Swipe	3,962	0:14	0.08	3136.4%
7	Palkia (Origin)waterdragon	dragonDragon BreathdragonSpacial Rend	4,142	0:14	0.08	3094.1%
8	Mega Dragonitedragonflying	dragonDragon BreathdragonOutrage+	4,823	0:14	0.08	3082.7%
9	Mega Sceptilegrassdragon	bugFury CutterdragonBreaking Swipe	4,056	0:14	0.08	3023.3%
10	Dialga (Origin)steeldragon	dragonDragon BreathdragonRoar of Time	4,090	0:14	0.08	3006.6%
11	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	psychicConfusionpsychicFuture Sight+	6,428	0:14	0.08	3006.6%
12	Shadow Dialgasteeldragon	dragonDragon BreathdragonDraco Meteor	4,038	0:15	0.08	2994.2%
13	Shadow Salamencedragonflying	dragonDragon TaildragonDraco Meteor	3,749	0:15	0.08	2986.0%
14	Kyurem (White)dragonice	dragonDragon BreathiceIce Burn	4,605	0:15	0.08	2981.9%
15	Baxcaliburdragonice	dragonDragon BreathdragonGlaive Rush	3,550	0:15	0.08	2981.9%

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 Bagon.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Shadow Bagon'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%	802%	3330.5%	0:13	0.07
Ember / Flamethrower	100%	907%	3262.9%	0:13	0.07
Bite / Flamethrower	100%	877%	3293.8%	0:13	0.07
Ember / Crunch	100%	828%	3316.4%	0:13	0.07
Bite / Crunch	100%	813%	3348.2%	0:13	0.07
Ember / Twister	100%	739%	3388.0%	0:13	0.07
Bite / Twister	100%	732%	3393.5%	0:13	0.07

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…

Bagon 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.

ice1.6x dragon1.6x fairy1.6x normal1x fighting1x flying1x poison1x ground1x rock1x bug1x ghost1x steel1x psychic1x dark1x fire0.63x water0.63x grass0.63x electric0.63x

Weak (3)
Neutral (11)
Resists (4)

It resists fire0.625xwater0.625xgrass0.625xelectric0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Bagon throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
darkBite	6	+4	0.5s	0.30s
fireEmber	10	+10	1.0s	0.60s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
fireFlamethrower	65	-50	2.0s	1.30s
darkCrunch	65	-33	3.0s	1.10s
dragonTwisterSTAB	50	-33	3.0s	1.15s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
6/6/6floor	575	719
7/7/7	584	730
8/8/8	593	742
9/9/9	603	754
10/10/10	612	765
11/11/11	622	777
12/12/12	631	789
13/13/13	641	801
14/14/14	651	813
15/15/15hundo	660	826

Caught CP range 575 - 660, or 719 - 826 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.

LeekDuck publishes 575 - 660 normal and 719 - 826 boosted for this boss — both match the table above exactly, computed from base stats rather than copied from it.

Shadow raid floor. A Shadow Raid encounter rolls a minimum of 6/6/6, so this band starts at 575, not at the 612 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.

in raids nowShadow BagonShadow Tier 1Shadowshiny availableWed 9 Sept, 06:00 – Tue 6 Oct, 20:00 · ends in 1 day

All settings

Shadow Tier 1: 600 HP, 3:00 timer, boss Attack 89 / Defense 64 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.5974).

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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	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe	Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe+11 more movesets	100%	3633.1%	0.07	0:12	100%	5,713	51.1	613
2	Eternatus poisondragon Poison Jab / Dynamax Cannon	Poison Jab / Dynamax Cannon+7 more movesets	98%	3487.8%	0.07	0:12	100%	4,429	48.0	600
3	Kyurem (Black) dragonice Dragon Tail / Freeze Shock	Dragon Tail / Freeze Shock+11 more movesets	91%	3416.7%	0.07	0:13	100%	4,605	54.8	699
4	Shadow Haxorus dragonshadow Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe	Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe+9 more movesets	80%	3234.2%	0.08	0:13	100%	3,593	49.6	667
5	Mega Garchomp dragongroundmega Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe	Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe+13 more movesets	87%	3168.3%	0.08	0:14	100%	5,424	48.1	660
6	Shadow Garchomp dragongroundshadow Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe	Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe+13 more movesets	81%	3136.4%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,962	46.9	652
7	Palkia (Origin) waterdragon Dragon Breath / Spacial Rend	Dragon Breath / Spacial Rend+9 more movesets	82%	3094.1%	0.08	0:14	100%	4,142	44.4	625
8	Mega Dragonite dragonflyingmega Dragon Breath / Outrage+	Dragon Breath / Outrage++26 more movesets	88%	3082.7%	0.08	0:14	100%	4,823	57.7	815
9	Mega Sceptile grassdragonmega Fury Cutter / Breaking Swipe	Fury Cutter / Breaking Swipe+11 more movesets	73%	3023.3%	0.08	0:14	100%	4,056	41.9	604
10	Dialga (Origin) steeldragon Dragon Breath / Roar of Time	Dragon Breath / Roar of Time+7 more movesets	80%	3006.6%	0.08	0:14	100%	4,090	41.9	607
11	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Confusion / Future Sight+	Confusion / Future Sight++26 more movesets	79%	3006.6%	0.08	0:14	100%	6,428	42.2	612
12	Shadow Dialga steeldragonshadow Dragon Breath / Draco Meteor	Dragon Breath / Draco Meteor+5 more movesets	77%	2994.2%	0.08	0:15	100%	4,038	46.9	683
13	Shadow Salamence dragonflyingshadow Dragon Tail / Draco Meteor	Dragon Tail / Draco Meteor+20 more movesets	75%	2986.0%	0.08	0:15	100%	3,749	49.4	720
14	Kyurem (White) dragonice Dragon Breath / Ice Burn	Dragon Breath / Ice Burn+17 more movesets	77%	2981.9%	0.08	0:15	100%	4,605	47.3	691
15	Baxcalibur dragonice Dragon Breath / Glaive Rush	Dragon Breath / Glaive Rush+11 more movesets	75%	2981.9%	0.08	0:15	100%	3,550	42.0	614
16	Shadow Dragonite dragonflyingshadow Dragon Breath / Draco Meteor	Dragon Breath / Draco Meteor+23 more movesets	76%	2979.9%	0.08	0:15	100%	3,792	44.4	649
17	Shadow Reshiram dragonfireshadow Dragon Breath / Draco Meteor	Dragon Breath / Draco Meteor+9 more movesets	76%	2947.7%	0.08	0:15	100%	4,038	46.7	690
18	Shadow Palkia waterdragonshadow Dragon Breath / Draco Meteor	Dragon Breath / Draco Meteor+7 more movesets	76%	2937.7%	0.08	0:15	100%	3,991	47.0	697
19	Shadow Alolan Exeggutor grassdragonshadow Dragon Tail / Draco Meteor	Dragon Tail / Draco Meteor+7 more movesets	70%	2937.7%	0.08	0:15	100%	3,014	41.4	615
20	Salamence dragonflying Dragon Tail / Draco Meteor	Dragon Tail / Draco Meteor+20 more movesets	74%	2922.0%	0.08	0:15	100%	3,749	41.2	615
21	Rayquaza dragonflying Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe	Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe+11 more movesets	73%	2906.4%	0.08	0:15	100%	3,835	41.4	621
22	Haxorus dragon Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe	Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe+9 more movesets	71%	2906.4%	0.08	0:15	100%	3,593	41.4	621
23	Palkia waterdragon Dragon Tail / Draco Meteor	Dragon Tail / Draco Meteor+7 more movesets	76%	2894.8%	0.08	0:15	100%	3,991	41.3	622
24	Mega Latios dragonpsychicmega Dragon Breath / Dragon Claw	Dragon Breath / Dragon Claw+9 more movesets	72%	2868.1%	0.08	0:15	100%	5,007	42.1	639
25	Mega Salamence dragonflyingmega Dragon Tail / Draco Meteor	Dragon Tail / Draco Meteor+20 more movesets	78%	2864.4%	0.08	0:15	100%	5,031	45.4	691
26	Shadow Latios dragonpsychicshadow Dragon Breath / Dragon Claw	Dragon Breath / Dragon Claw+9 more movesets	68%	2856.9%	0.09	0:15	100%	3,812	40.0	610
27	Dragonite dragonflying Dragon Tail / Draco Meteor	Dragon Tail / Draco Meteor+23 more movesets	72%	2812.6%	0.09	0:15	100%	3,792	39.0	605
28	Zacian (Crowned Sword) fairysteel Metal Claw / Play Rough	Metal Claw / Play Rough+7 more movesets	72%	2724.7%	0.09	0:16	100%	4,979	37.5	600
29	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Confusion / Dynamic Punch+	Confusion / Dynamic Punch++26 more movesets	71%	2724.7%	0.09	0:16	100%	6,112	37.8	604
30	Dragapult dragonghost Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe	Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe+7 more movesets	65%	2724.7%	0.09	0:16	100%	3,532	38.7	620

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 ahead of time for these settings (seed 1, 50 Monte Carlo runs each) and served instantly. Same boss on pokebattler.com. The same ranking as JSON: /api/raids/rank.