Shadow raid

Shadow Carracosta counters

#0565

water rockShadow 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

7,382

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

123

Defense

126

Difficulty

0.11

Pokebattler scale

Beating Shadow Carracosta should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 1,369-1,498.

Weak tograss2.56xfighting1.6xground1.6xelectric1.6x

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 Grass Mega — most top counters attack with Grass

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 Carracosta counters are Mega Sceptile, Kartana, Shadow Venusaur, Shadow Tangrowth, Shadow Sceptile & Shaymin (Sky).

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Sceptile
Kartana
S. Venusaur
S. Tangrowth
S. Sceptile
Shaymin (Sky)

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 SceptileMegapartyFury Cutter / Frenzy Plant0.090:16
2Mega Raichu YMegaThunder Shock / Zap Cannon+0.110:19
3KartanaLegendarypartyRazor Leaf / Leaf Blade0.110:19
4Shadow VenusaurShadowpartyVine Whip / Frenzy Plant0.110:19
5Shadow TangrowthShadowpartyVine Whip / Power Whip0.110:19
6Mega Mewtwo XMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Dynamic Punch+0.110:19
7Shadow SceptileShadowpartyBullet Seed / Frenzy Plant0.110:20
8Shaymin (Sky)LegendarypartyMagical Leaf / Grass Knot0.110:20
9Shadow ChesnaughtShadowVine Whip / Frenzy Plant0.110:20
10Mega ChesnaughtMegaVine Whip / Seed Bomb+0.110:20

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 Carracosta 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 Sceptilegrassdragonjoint top pick	bugFury CuttergrassFrenzy Plant	4,056	0:16	0.09	2714.5%
2	Mega Raichu Yelectric	electricThunder ShockelectricZap Cannon+	3,780	0:19	0.11	2313.1%
3	Kartanagrasssteel	grassRazor LeafgrassLeaf Blade	3,677	0:19	0.11	2301.7%
4	Shadow Venusaurgrasspoison	grassVine WhipgrassFrenzy Plant	2,720	0:19	0.11	2250.6%
5	Shadow Tangrowthgrass	grassVine WhipgrassPower Whip	3,030	0:19	0.11	2239.1%
6	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	psychicPsycho CutfightingDynamic Punch+	6,112	0:19	0.11	2235.6%
7	Shadow Sceptilegrass	grassBullet SeedgrassFrenzy Plant	2,757	0:20	0.11	2225.3%
8	Shaymin (Sky)grassflying	grassMagical LeafgrassGrass Knot	3,592	0:20	0.11	2220.5%
9	Shadow Chesnaughtgrassfighting	grassVine WhipgrassFrenzy Plant	2,954	0:20	0.11	2188.5%
10	Mega Chesnaughtgrassfighting	grassVine WhipgrassSeed Bomb+	4,093	0:20	0.11	2171.9%
11	Zarudedarkgrass	grassVine WhipgrassPower Whip	3,833	0:20	0.11	2154.9%
12	Mega Venusaurgrasspoison	grassVine WhipgrassFrenzy Plant	3,698	0:20	0.11	2148.6%
13	Mega Victreebelgrasspoison	grassMagical LeafgrassLeaf Blade	3,505	0:21	0.11	2123.4%
14	Roseradegrasspoison	grassMagical LeafgrassGrass Knot	2,971	0:21	0.12	2075.9%
15	Mega Lucariofightingsteel	fightingForce PalmfightingAura Sphere	3,826	0:21	0.12	2062.4%

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 Carracosta.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Shadow Carracosta'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%	415%	2307.1%	0:19	0.11
Water Gun / Liquidation	100%	478%	2285.3%	0:19	0.11
Water Gun / Body Slam	100%	444%	2291.1%	0:19	0.11
Water Gun / Surf	100%	455%	2307.1%	0:19	0.11
Water Gun / Ancient Power	100%	391%	2313.1%	0:19	0.11
Rock Throw / Ancient Power	100%	345%	2315.3%	0:19	0.11
Rock Throw / Liquidation	100%	406%	2328.5%	0:19	0.10
Rock Throw / Body Slam	100%	378%	2332.0%	0:19	0.10
Rock Throw / Surf	100%	382%	2337.2%	0:19	0.10

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…

Carracosta 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.

grass2.56x fighting1.6x ground1.6x electric1.6x rock1x bug1x ghost1x steel1x water1x psychic1x dragon1x dark1x fairy1x normal0.63x flying0.63x poison0.63x ice0.63x fire0.39x

Double weak (1)
Weak (3)
Neutral (9)
Resists (5)

It resists fire0.39xnormal0.625xflying0.625xpoison0.625xice0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Carracosta throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
rockRock ThrowSTAB	13	+8	1.0s	0.60s
waterWater GunSTAB	5	+5	0.5s	0.30s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
waterSurfSTAB	60	-50	1.5s	1.20s
waterLiquidationSTAB	70	-33	3.0s	2.00s
normalBody Slam	50	-33	2.0s	1.30s
rockAncient PowerSTAB	70	-33	3.5s	2.85s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
6/6/6floor	1,369	1,711
7/7/7	1,383	1,729
8/8/8	1,397	1,747
9/9/9	1,411	1,764
10/10/10	1,425	1,782
11/11/11	1,440	1,800
12/12/12	1,454	1,818
13/13/13	1,469	1,836
14/14/14	1,483	1,854
15/15/15hundo	1,498	1,872

Caught CP range 1,369 - 1,498, or 1,711 - 1,872 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 1,369, not at the 1,425 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 56 CP higher than this one.

When it is in raids

From the raid schedule, refreshed daily.

Carracosta 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 123 / Defense 126 (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	Faints	Win % (1)	CP	DPS	TDO
1	Mega Sceptile grassdragonmega Fury Cutter / Frenzy Plant	Fury Cutter / Frenzy Plant+11 more movesets	100%	2714.5%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	4,056	37.6	603
2	Mega Raichu Y electricmega Thunder Shock / Zap Cannon+	Thunder Shock / Zap Cannon++35 more movesets	76%	2313.1%	0.11	0:19	0.0	100%	3,780	33.9	630
3	Kartana grasssteel Razor Leaf / Leaf Blade	Razor Leaf / Leaf Blade+14 more movesets	81%	2301.7%	0.11	0:19	0.0	100%	3,677	35.7	676
4	Shadow Venusaur grasspoisonshadow Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant	Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant+9 more movesets	77%	2250.6%	0.11	0:19	0.0	100%	2,720	32.7	634
5	Shadow Tangrowth grassshadow Vine Whip / Power Whip	Vine Whip / Power Whip+9 more movesets	77%	2239.1%	0.11	0:19	0.0	100%	3,030	31.4	611
6	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Dynamic Punch+	Psycho Cut / Dynamic Punch++26 more movesets	82%	2235.6%	0.11	0:19	0.0	100%	6,112	30.9	602
7	Shadow Sceptile grassshadow Bullet Seed / Frenzy Plant	Bullet Seed / Frenzy Plant+11 more movesets	74%	2225.3%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	2,757	31.2	612
8	Shaymin (Sky) grassflying Magical Leaf / Grass Knot	Magical Leaf / Grass Knot+11 more movesets	76%	2220.5%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	3,592	31.8	618
9	Shadow Chesnaught grassfightingshadow Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant	Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant+17 more movesets	78%	2188.5%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	2,954	32.6	650
10	Mega Chesnaught grassfightingmega Vine Whip / Seed Bomb+	Vine Whip / Seed Bomb++20 more movesets	83%	2171.9%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	4,093	31.6	634
11	Zarude darkgrass Vine Whip / Power Whip	Vine Whip / Power Whip+5 more movesets	78%	2154.9%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	3,833	30.2	610
12	Mega Venusaur grasspoisonmega Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant	Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant+9 more movesets	78%	2148.6%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	3,698	32.2	653
13	Mega Victreebel grasspoisonmega Magical Leaf / Leaf Blade	Magical Leaf / Leaf Blade+23 more movesets	74%	2123.4%	0.11	0:21	0.0	100%	3,505	30.5	626
14	Roserade grasspoison Magical Leaf / Grass Knot	Magical Leaf / Grass Knot+29 more movesets	69%	2075.9%	0.12	0:21	0.0	100%	2,971	29.0	609
15	Mega Lucario fightingsteelmega Force Palm / Aura Sphere	Force Palm / Aura Sphere+23 more movesets	70%	2062.4%	0.12	0:21	0.0	100%	3,826	28.9	598
16	Breloom grassfighting Force Palm / Grass Knot	Force Palm / Grass Knot+11 more movesets	67%	2039.0%	0.12	0:21	0.0	100%	2,628	28.6	610
17	Meowscarada grassdark Leafage / Frenzy Plant	Leafage / Frenzy Plant+11 more movesets	67%	2024.8%	0.12	0:22	0.0	100%	2,825	30.7	661
18	Xurkitree electric Thunder Shock / Power Whip	Thunder Shock / Power Whip+7 more movesets	66%	2015.5%	0.12	0:22	0.0	100%	3,937	31.7	669
19	Mega Falinks fightingmega Counter / Brick Break+	Counter / Brick Break++7 more movesets	68%	1979.6%	0.12	0:22	0.0	100%	3,670	29.1	640
20	Shadow Torterra grassgroundshadow Razor Leaf / Frenzy Plant	Razor Leaf / Frenzy Plant+14 more movesets	67%	1963.7%	0.12	0:22	0.0	100%	2,934	30.5	678
21	Shadow Shiftry grassdarkshadow Razor Leaf / Leaf Blade	Razor Leaf / Leaf Blade+15 more movesets	62%	1962.2%	0.12	0:22	0.1	100%	2,333	28.1	585
22	Shadow Victreebel grasspoisonshadow Razor Leaf / Leaf Blade	Razor Leaf / Leaf Blade+19 more movesets	62%	1950.0%	0.12	0:22	0.1	100%	2,431	28.8	617
23	Mega Raichu X electricmega Spark / Volt Tackle+	Spark / Volt Tackle++35 more movesets	63%	1948.6%	0.12	0:22	0.0	100%	3,510	27.0	603
24	Mega Gallade psychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Leaf Blade	Psycho Cut / Leaf Blade+19 more movesets	65%	1934.9%	0.13	0:23	0.0	100%	4,521	26.9	605
25	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Counter / Future Sight+	Counter / Future Sight++26 more movesets	67%	1932.2%	0.13	0:23	0.0	100%	6,428	29.2	659
26	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Counter / Aura Sphere	Counter / Aura Sphere+20 more movesets	60%	1929.4%	0.13	0:23	0.3	100%	4,161	27.5	509
27	Shadow Porygon-Z normalshadow Charge Beam / Solar Beam	Charge Beam / Solar Beam+14 more movesets	62%	1927.6%	0.13	0:23	0.0	100%	3,266	28.4	633
28	Decidueye grassghost Leafage / Frenzy Plant	Leafage / Frenzy Plant+19 more movesets	66%	1917.9%	0.13	0:23	0.0	100%	2,775	27.1	616
29	Rillaboom grass Razor Leaf / Frenzy Plant	Razor Leaf / Frenzy Plant+9 more movesets	66%	1915.4%	0.13	0:23	0.0	100%	3,324	30.0	684
30	Shadow Meganium grassshadow Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant	Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant+11 more movesets	63%	1913.7%	0.13	0:23	0.0	100%	2,410	27.2	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 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.