Shadow raid

Shadow Bellsprout counters

#0069

grass poisonShadow 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

3,288

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

Defense

Difficulty

0.05

Pokebattler scale

Beating Shadow Bellsprout should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 506-590.

Weak toflying1.6xfire1.6xpsychic1.6xice1.6x

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 Flying Mega — most top counters attack with Flying

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 Bellsprout counters are Mega Mewtwo Y, Shadow Mewtwo, Blacephalon, Rayquaza, Shadow Galarian Articuno & Shadow Staraptor.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Mewtwo Y
S. Mewtwo
Blacephalon
Rayquaza
S. Galarian Articuno
S. Staraptor

10 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 Mewtwo YMegaLegendarypartyPsycho Cut / Future Sight+0.040:08
2Mega StaraptorMegaSand Attack / Brave Bird+0.040:08
3Mega MalamarMegaPsycho Cut / Psybeam+0.050:08
4Mega Mewtwo XMegaLegendaryConfusion / Psystrike0.050:08
5Shadow MewtwoShadowLegendarypartyConfusion / Psystrike0.050:08
6BlacephalonLegendarypartyIncinerate / Mind Blown0.050:09
7Mega AlakazamMegaConfusion / Psychic0.050:09
8Mega BlazikenMegaFire Spin / Blast Burn0.050:09
9Mega Charizard YMegaFire Spin / Blast Burn0.050:09
10Mega DelphoxMegaFire Spin / Blast Burn0.050:09
11RayquazaLegendarypartyAir Slash / Dragon Ascent0.050:09
13Shadow Galarian ArticunoShadowLegendarypartyPsycho Cut / Brave Bird0.060:10
16Shadow StaraptorShadowpartyWing Attack / Brave Bird0.060:10

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 Bellsprout 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 Mewtwo Ypsychicjoint top pick	psychicPsycho CutpsychicFuture Sight+	6,428	0:08	0.04	5455.6%
2	Mega Staraptorfightingflyingjoint top pick	groundSand AttackflyingBrave Bird+	3,979	0:08	0.04	5448.8%
3	Mega Malamardarkpsychicjoint top pick	psychicPsycho CutpsychicPsybeam+	3,143	0:08	0.05	5356.4%
4	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	psychicConfusionpsychicPsystrike	6,112	0:08	0.05	5129.4%
5	Shadow Mewtwopsychic	psychicConfusionpsychicPsystrike	4,178	0:08	0.05	5129.4%
6	Blacephalonfireghost	fireIncineratefireMind Blown	3,297	0:09	0.05	4844.4%
7	Mega Alakazampsychic	psychicConfusionpsychicPsychic	4,510	0:09	0.05	4844.4%
8	Mega Blazikenfirefighting	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	4,161	0:09	0.05	4728.8%
9	Mega Charizard Yfireflying	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	4,455	0:09	0.05	4589.4%
10	Mega Delphoxfirepsychic	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	4,783	0:09	0.05	4589.4%
11	Rayquazadragonflying	flyingAir SlashflyingDragon Ascent	3,835	0:09	0.05	4589.4%
12	Mega Rayquazadragonflying	flyingAir SlashflyingDragon Ascent	5,713	0:10	0.05	4485.5%
13	Shadow Galarian Articunopsychicflying	psychicPsycho CutflyingBrave Bird	3,590	0:10	0.06	4359.9%
14	Mega Galladepsychicfighting	psychicConfusionpsychicPsychic	4,521	0:10	0.06	4152.2%
15	Mega Gardevoirpsychicfairy	psychicConfusionpsychicPsychic	4,512	0:10	0.06	4152.2%

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 Bellsprout.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Shadow Bellsprout'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”: 3 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	Estimator
Random (any moveset)showing	100%	1077%	4728.2%	0:09	0.05
Vine Whip / Power Whip	100%	1120%	4696.4%	0:09	0.05
Vine Whip / Sludge Bomb	100%	1032%	4696.4%	0:09	0.05
Vine Whip / Wrap	100%	1189%	4714.0%	0:09	0.05
Acid / Wrap	100%	1144%	4735.3%	0:09	0.05
Acid / Power Whip	100%	1034%	4746.1%	0:09	0.05
Acid / Sludge Bomb	100%	986%	4746.1%	0:09	0.05

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…

Bellsprout 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.

flying1.6x fire1.6x psychic1.6x ice1.6x normal1x poison1x ground1x rock1x bug1x ghost1x steel1x dragon1x dark1x fighting0.63x water0.63x electric0.63x fairy0.63x grass0.39x

Weak (4)
Neutral (9)
Resists (5)

It resists grass0.39xfighting0.625xwater0.625xelectric0.625xfairy0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Bellsprout throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
grassVine WhipSTAB	6	+5	0.5s	0.25s
poisonAcidSTAB	11	+10	1.0s	0.60s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
grassPower WhipSTAB	90	-50	2.5s	1.15s
poisonSludge BombSTAB	85	-50	2.5s	1.30s
normalWrap	60	-33	3.0s	2.15s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
6/6/6floor	506	633
7/7/7	515	644
8/8/8	524	655
9/9/9	533	667
10/10/10	543	679
11/11/11	552	690
12/12/12	562	702
13/13/13	571	714
14/14/14	581	726
15/15/15hundo	590	738

Caught CP range 506 - 590, or 633 - 738 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 506 - 590 normal and 633 - 738 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 506, not at the 543 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 BellsproutShadow 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 91 / Defense 45 (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	Mega Mewtwo Y top pickpsychicmega Psycho Cut / Future Sight+	Psycho Cut / Future Sight++26 more movesets	98%	5455.6%	0.04	0:08	100%	6,428	123.5	985
2	Mega Staraptor top pickfightingflyingmega Sand Attack / Brave Bird+	Sand Attack / Brave Bird++19 more movesets	100%	5448.8%	0.04	0:08	100%	3,979	79.6	637
3	Mega Malamar top pickdarkpsychicmega Psycho Cut / Psybeam+	Psycho Cut / Psybeam++14 more movesets	91%	5356.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	3,143	74.2	603
4	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Confusion / Psystrike	Confusion / Psystrike+26 more movesets	86%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	6,112	81.1	689
5	Shadow Mewtwo psychicshadow Confusion / Psystrike	Confusion / Psystrike+23 more movesets	79%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	4,178	72.8	619
6	Blacephalon fireghost Incinerate / Mind Blown	Incinerate / Mind Blown+7 more movesets	75%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,297	68.0	612
7	Mega Alakazam psychicmega Confusion / Psychic	Confusion / Psychic+17 more movesets	72%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,510	69.7	627
8	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	74%	4728.8%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,161	69.6	641
9	Mega Charizard Y fireflyingmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	74%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,455	66.9	635
10	Mega Delphox firepsychicmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+23 more movesets	74%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,783	70.1	666
11	Rayquaza dragonflying Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	73%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,835	64.2	610
12	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	77%	4485.5%	0.05	0:10	100%	5,713	82.9	805
13	Shadow Galarian Articuno psychicflyingshadow Psycho Cut / Brave Bird	Psycho Cut / Brave Bird+7 more movesets	68%	4359.9%	0.06	0:10	100%	3,590	60.3	603
14	Mega Gallade psychicfightingmega Confusion / Psychic	Confusion / Psychic+19 more movesets	62%	4152.2%	0.06	0:10	100%	4,521	59.1	620
15	Mega Gardevoir psychicfairymega Confusion / Psychic	Confusion / Psychic+19 more movesets	59%	4152.2%	0.06	0:10	100%	4,512	59.1	620
16	Shadow Staraptor normalflyingshadow Wing Attack / Brave Bird	Wing Attack / Brave Bird+15 more movesets	59%	4152.2%	0.06	0:10	100%	2,825	58.9	618
17	Shadow Blaziken firefightingshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	58%	4152.2%	0.06	0:10	100%	2,848	58.8	617
18	Shadow Alakazam psychicshadow Psycho Cut / Future Sight	Psycho Cut / Future Sight+17 more movesets	56%	4152.2%	0.06	0:10	100%	3,057	57.2	601
19	Galarian Articuno psychicflying Psycho Cut / Fly	Psycho Cut / Fly+7 more movesets	63%	3963.4%	0.06	0:11	100%	3,590	55.5	610
20	Shadow Ho-Oh fireflyingshadow Extrasensory / Brave Bird	Extrasensory / Brave Bird+27 more movesets	62%	3963.4%	0.06	0:11	100%	3,863	56.6	622
21	Mega Latios dragonpsychicmega Zen Headbutt / Psychic	Zen Headbutt / Psychic+9 more movesets	61%	3963.4%	0.06	0:11	100%	5,007	55.8	614
22	Mega Pidgeot normalflyingmega Wing Attack / Brave Bird	Wing Attack / Brave Bird+27 more movesets	59%	3963.4%	0.06	0:11	100%	3,680	57.1	628
23	Shadow Moltres fireflyingshadow Fire Spin / Fly	Fire Spin / Fly+11 more movesets	58%	3949.1%	0.06	0:11	100%	3,465	58.3	644
24	Shadow Salamence dragonflyingshadow Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	58%	3941.9%	0.06	0:11	100%	3,749	58.8	651
25	Kyurem (White) dragonice Ice Fang / Ice Burn	Ice Fang / Ice Burn+17 more movesets	63%	3831.1%	0.06	0:11	100%	4,605	65.7	747
26	Necrozma (Dusk Mane) psychicsteel Psycho Cut / Sunsteel Strike	Psycho Cut / Sunsteel Strike+14 more movesets	64%	3791.1%	0.06	0:11	100%	4,099	52.6	605
27	Necrozma (Dawn Wings) psychicghost Psycho Cut / Moongeist Beam	Psycho Cut / Moongeist Beam+14 more movesets	60%	3791.1%	0.06	0:11	100%	4,099	52.6	605
28	Mewtwo psychic Confusion / Psystrike	Confusion / Psystrike+23 more movesets	56%	3791.1%	0.06	0:11	100%	4,178	55.1	634
29	Shadow Galarian Darmanitan (Standard) iceshadow Ice Fang / Overheat	Ice Fang / Overheat+7 more movesets	53%	3791.1%	0.06	0:11	100%	3,105	53.9	620
30	Mega Houndoom darkfiremega Fire Fang / Dark Pulse+	Fire Fang / Dark Pulse++17 more movesets	58%	3783.9%	0.06	0:12	100%	3,842	65.5	754

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.