Shadow raid

Shadow Charizard counters

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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

7,993

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

142

Defense

112

Difficulty

0.09

Pokebattler scale

Beating Shadow Charizard should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 1,515-1,651.

Weak torock2.56xwater1.6xelectric1.6x

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 Rock Mega — most top counters attack with Rock

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 Charizard counters are Shadow Rampardos, Mega Diancie, Shadow Gigalith, Shadow Tyrantrum, Shadow Rhyperior & Rampardos.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

S. Rampardos
M. Diancie
S. Gigalith
S. Tyrantrum
S. Rhyperior
Rampardos

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 %

1Shadow RampardosShadowpartySmack Down / Rock Slide0.080:15
2Mega DiancieMegaLegendarypartyRock Throw / Rock Slide0.090:16
3Shadow GigalithShadowpartySmack Down / Meteor Beam0.090:17
4Shadow TyrantrumShadowpartyRock Throw / Meteor Beam0.100:17
5Mega TyranitarMegaSmack Down / Stone Edge0.100:17
6Mega AerodactylMegaRock Throw / Rock Slide0.100:18
7Shadow RhyperiorShadowpartySmack Down / Rock Wrecker0.100:18
8Mega GreninjaMegaBubble / Surf+0.100:18
9Mega StarmieMegaPsywave / Liquidation+0.100:18
10RampardospartySmack Down / Rock Slide0.100:18

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

Related countersMega Charizard X Mega Charizard Y

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Top 15 Shadow Charizard 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	Shadow Rampardosrockjoint top pick	rockSmack DownrockRock Slide	3,298	0:15	0.08	2860.6%
2	Mega Diancierockfairy	rockRock ThrowrockRock Slide	4,346	0:16	0.09	2694.4%
3	Shadow Gigalithrock	rockSmack DownrockMeteor Beam	3,228	0:17	0.09	2564.4%
4	Shadow Tyrantrumrockdragon	rockRock ThrowrockMeteor Beam	3,128	0:17	0.10	2558.8%
5	Mega Tyranitarrockdark	rockSmack DownrockStone Edge	5,347	0:17	0.10	2491.1%
6	Mega Aerodactylrockflying	rockRock ThrowrockRock Slide	4,118	0:18	0.10	2421.9%
7	Shadow Rhyperiorgroundrock	rockSmack DownrockRock Wrecker	3,733	0:18	0.10	2392.7%
8	Mega Greninjawaterdark	waterBubblewaterSurf+	3,784	0:18	0.10	2392.2%
9	Mega Starmiewaterpsychic	psychicPsywavewaterLiquidation+	3,701	0:18	0.10	2384.6%
10	Rampardosrock	rockSmack DownrockRock Slide	3,298	0:18	0.10	2368.4%
11	Shadow Tyranitarrockdark	rockSmack DownrockStone Edge	3,834	0:18	0.10	2356.5%
12	Mega Raichu Xelectric	electricThunder ShockelectricVolt Tackle+	3,510	0:19	0.10	2328.5%
13	Rhyperiorgroundrock	rockSmack DownrockRock Wrecker	3,733	0:19	0.11	2242.5%
14	Glimmorarockpoison	rockRock ThrowrockMeteor Beam	3,273	0:20	0.11	2177.5%
15	Shadow Aggronsteelrock	rockSmack DownrockMeteor Beam	3,000	0:20	0.11	2177.3%

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 Charizard.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Shadow Charizard'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%	428%	2551.2%	0:17	0.10
Air Slash / Overheat	100%	404%	2531.3%	0:17	0.10
Fire Spin / Overheat	100%	402%	2535.0%	0:17	0.10
Air Slash / Fire Blast	100%	424%	2556.1%	0:17	0.10
Air Slash / Air Cutter	100%	488%	2558.1%	0:17	0.10
Fire Spin / Fire Blast	100%	424%	2564.4%	0:17	0.09
Fire Spin / Air Cutter	100%	484%	2577.1%	0:17	0.09
Fire Spin / Dragon Claw	100%	420%	2598.7%	0:17	0.09
Air Slash / Dragon Claw	100%	439%	2600.9%	0:17	0.09

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…

Charizard 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.

rock2.56x water1.6x electric1.6x normal1x flying1x poison1x ghost1x psychic1x ice1x dragon1x dark1x fighting0.63x ground0.63x steel0.63x fire0.63x fairy0.63x bug0.39x grass0.39x

Double weak (1)
Weak (2)
Neutral (8)
Resists (7)

It resists bug0.39xgrass0.39xfighting0.625xground0.625xsteel0.625xfire0.625xfairy0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Charizard throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
fireFire SpinSTAB	13	+9	1.0s	0.75s
flyingAir SlashSTAB	12	+8	1.0s	0.80s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
fireOverheatSTAB	160	-100	4.0s	2.60s
fireFire BlastSTAB	140	-100	4.0s	2.90s
dragonDragon Claw	45	-33	1.5s	0.90s
flyingAir CutterSTAB	55	-50	2.5s	1.60s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
6/6/6floor	1,515	1,893
7/7/7	1,529	1,912
8/8/8	1,544	1,931
9/9/9	1,559	1,949
10/10/10	1,574	1,968
11/11/11	1,589	1,987
12/12/12	1,605	2,006
13/13/13	1,620	2,025
14/14/14	1,635	2,044
15/15/15hundo	1,651	2,064

Caught CP range 1,515 - 1,651, or 1,893 - 2,064 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 1,515, not at the 1,574 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 59 CP higher than this one.

When it is in raids

From the raid schedule, refreshed daily.

Charizard 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 142 / Defense 112 (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	Faints	Win % (1)	CP	DPS	TDO
1	Shadow Rampardos rockshadow Smack Down / Rock Slide	Smack Down / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	97%	2860.6%	0.08	0:15	0.0	100%	3,298	42.9	653
2	Mega Diancie rockfairymega Rock Throw / Rock Slide	Rock Throw / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	100%	2694.4%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	4,346	40.6	656
3	Shadow Gigalith rockshadow Smack Down / Meteor Beam	Smack Down / Meteor Beam+14 more movesets	93%	2564.4%	0.09	0:17	0.0	100%	3,228	35.9	611
4	Shadow Tyrantrum rockdragonshadow Rock Throw / Meteor Beam	Rock Throw / Meteor Beam+17 more movesets	93%	2558.8%	0.10	0:17	0.0	100%	3,128	35.9	606
5	Mega Tyranitar rockdarkmega Smack Down / Stone Edge	Smack Down / Stone Edge+15 more movesets	99%	2491.1%	0.10	0:17	0.0	100%	5,347	35.2	616
6	Mega Aerodactyl rockflyingmega Rock Throw / Rock Slide	Rock Throw / Rock Slide+23 more movesets	89%	2421.9%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	4,118	33.9	611
7	Shadow Rhyperior groundrockshadow Smack Down / Rock Wrecker	Smack Down / Rock Wrecker+15 more movesets	90%	2392.7%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	3,733	38.4	699
8	Mega Greninja waterdarkmega Bubble / Surf+	Bubble / Surf++17 more movesets	85%	2392.2%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	3,784	33.9	617
9	Mega Starmie waterpsychicmega Psywave / Liquidation+	Psywave / Liquidation++44 more movesets	85%	2384.6%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	3,701	33.6	614
10	Rampardos rock Smack Down / Rock Slide	Smack Down / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	81%	2368.4%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	3,298	34.8	635
11	Shadow Tyranitar rockdarkshadow Smack Down / Stone Edge	Smack Down / Stone Edge+15 more movesets	86%	2356.5%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	3,834	33.7	624
12	Mega Raichu X electricmega Thunder Shock / Volt Tackle+	Thunder Shock / Volt Tackle++35 more movesets	80%	2328.5%	0.10	0:19	0.0	100%	3,510	34.1	637
13	Rhyperior groundrock Smack Down / Rock Wrecker	Smack Down / Rock Wrecker+15 more movesets	84%	2242.5%	0.11	0:19	0.0	100%	3,733	31.3	609
14	Glimmora rockpoison Rock Throw / Meteor Beam	Rock Throw / Meteor Beam+7 more movesets	76%	2177.5%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	3,273	30.4	608
15	Shadow Aggron steelrockshadow Smack Down / Meteor Beam	Smack Down / Meteor Beam+23 more movesets	76%	2177.3%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	3,000	30.0	594
16	Shadow Landorus (Incarnate) groundflyingshadow Rock Throw / Rock Slide	Rock Throw / Rock Slide+7 more movesets	71%	2170.4%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	3,588	32.9	647
17	Terrakion rockfighting Smack Down / Rock Slide	Smack Down / Rock Slide+11 more movesets	76%	2168.9%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	3,698	30.3	609
18	Shadow Aerodactyl rockflyingshadow Rock Throw / Rock Slide	Rock Throw / Rock Slide+23 more movesets	73%	2152.8%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	2,783	32.9	667
19	Gigalith rock Lock-On / Meteor Beam	Lock-On / Meteor Beam+14 more movesets	79%	2148.6%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	3,228	32.3	656
20	Shadow Alolan Golem rockelectricshadow Rollout / Stone Edge	Rollout / Stone Edge+8 more movesets	76%	2138.0%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	2,949	30.4	619
21	Shadow Golem rockgroundshadow Rock Throw / Rock Blast	Rock Throw / Rock Blast+11 more movesets	72%	2109.3%	0.12	0:21	0.0	100%	2,949	29.7	602
22	Mega Raichu Y electricmega Thunder Shock / Zap Cannon+	Thunder Shock / Zap Cannon++35 more movesets	72%	2100.7%	0.12	0:21	0.2	100%	3,780	36.6	664
23	Shadow Omastar rockwatershadow Rock Throw / Rock Blast	Rock Throw / Rock Blast+11 more movesets	71%	2046.7%	0.12	0:21	0.0	100%	2,786	29.3	625
24	Shadow Aurorus rockiceshadow Rock Throw / Meteor Beam	Rock Throw / Meteor Beam+17 more movesets	70%	2033.2%	0.12	0:21	0.0	100%	2,802	32.9	689
25	Shadow Thundurus (Therian) electricflyingshadow Volt Switch / Wildbolt Storm	Volt Switch / Wildbolt Storm+9 more movesets	66%	2005.9%	0.12	0:22	0.3	100%	3,659	30.0	545
26	Tyrantrum rockdragon Rock Throw / Meteor Beam	Rock Throw / Meteor Beam+17 more movesets	69%	1975.1%	0.12	0:22	0.1	100%	3,128	28.2	604
27	Stonjourner rock Rock Throw / Rock Slide	Rock Throw / Rock Slide+2 more movesets	69%	1951.4%	0.12	0:22	0.0	100%	3,218	28.1	627
28	Tyranitar rockdark Smack Down / Stone Edge	Smack Down / Stone Edge+15 more movesets	69%	1937.5%	0.13	0:22	0.0	100%	3,834	27.2	613
29	Landorus (Incarnate) groundflying Rock Throw / Rock Slide	Rock Throw / Rock Slide+7 more movesets	63%	1920.4%	0.13	0:23	0.1	100%	3,588	26.8	590
30	Shadow Crustle bugrockshadow Smack Down / Rock Wrecker	Smack Down / Rock Wrecker+7 more movesets	61%	1905.8%	0.13	0:23	0.4	100%	2,542	28.2	500

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.