Shadow raid

Shadow Crustle counters

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bug rockShadow Tier 5

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

36,455

15,000

Timer

5:00

Attack

166

Defense

176

Difficulty

2.90

Pokebattler scale

Beating Shadow Crustle should take 3 trainers with level 40 counters. Caught CP 1,325-1,452.

Weak torock1.6xsteel1.6xwater1.6x

Who to bring

IncludeMega Legendary Shadow

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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 Steel Mega — most top counters attack with Steel

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 Crustle counters are Zacian (Crowned Sword), Necrozma (Dusk Mane), Zamazenta (Crowned Shield), Mega Greninja, Shadow Metagross & Shadow Dialga.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

Zacian (Crowned Sword)
Necrozma (Dusk Mane)
Zamazenta (Crowned Shield)
M. Greninja
S. Metagross
S. Dialga

6 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 %

1Zacian (Crowned Sword)LegendarypartyMetal Claw / Behemoth Blade2.5912:15
2Necrozma (Dusk Mane)LegendarypartyMetal Claw / Sunsteel Strike2.7512:58
3Zamazenta (Crowned Shield)LegendarypartyMetal Claw / Behemoth Bash2.8013:15
4Mega GreninjaMegapartyWater Shuriken / Surf+2.8613:30
5Mega StarmieMegaWater Gun / Liquidation+3.1114:41
6Primal KyogreMegaLegendaryWaterfall / Origin Pulse3.1514:52
7Shadow MetagrossShadowpartyBullet Punch / Meteor Mash3.1915:03
8Mega LucarioMegaForce Palm / Meteor Mash3.2215:13
9Mega Mewtwo YMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Future Sight+3.2715:26
10Mega MetagrossMegaBullet Punch / Meteor Mash3.3315:45
12Shadow DialgaShadowLegendarypartyMetal Claw / Iron Head3.4516:18

More orders under All settings (Sort by). The top 15 in detail.

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Raid tier — Shadow Legendary Raid

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Top 15 Shadow Crustle 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	Zacian (Crowned Sword)fairysteeljoint top pick	steelMetal ClawsteelBehemoth Blade	4,979	12:15	2.59	5.2	43.5%
2	Necrozma (Dusk Mane)psychicsteel	steelMetal ClawsteelSunsteel Strike	4,099	12:58	2.75	6.0	41.1%
3	Zamazenta (Crowned Shield)fightingsteel	steelMetal ClawsteelBehemoth Bash	4,172	13:15	2.80	3.4	40.2%
4	Mega Greninjawaterdark	waterWater ShurikenwaterSurf+	3,784	13:30	2.86	6.0	39.5%
5	Mega Starmiewaterpsychic	waterWater GunwaterLiquidation+	3,701	14:41	3.11	6.0	36.3%
6	Primal Kyogrewater	waterWaterfallwaterOrigin Pulse	5,902	14:52	3.15	6.0	35.9%
7	Shadow Metagrosssteelpsychic	steelBullet PunchsteelMeteor Mash	3,791	15:03	3.19	6.0	35.4%
8	Mega Lucariofightingsteel	fightingForce PalmsteelMeteor Mash	3,826	15:13	3.22	5.6	35.1%
9	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	psychicPsycho CutpsychicFuture Sight+	6,428	15:26	3.27	6.0	34.5%
10	Mega Metagrosssteelpsychic	steelBullet PunchsteelMeteor Mash	4,911	15:45	3.33	5.6	33.9%
11	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	psychicPsycho CutfightingDynamic Punch+	6,112	16:12	3.43	5.8	32.9%
12	Shadow Dialgasteeldragon	steelMetal ClawsteelIron Head	4,038	16:18	3.45	6.0	32.7%
13	Mega Swampertwaterground	waterWater GunwaterHydro Cannon	4,401	16:30	3.49	5.8	32.3%
14	Shadow Kyogrewater	waterWaterfallwaterOrigin Pulse	4,115	16:50	3.56	6.0	31.7%
15	Mega Diancierockfairy	rockRock ThrowrockRock Slide	4,346	17:14	3.65	6.0	30.9%

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 Crustle.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Shadow Crustle'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 % (3)	Overall	Power	Time to win	Faints	Estimator
Random (any moveset)showing	74%	72%	38.4%	13:54	5.4	2.94
Fury Cutter / Rock Wrecker	67%	57%	37.4%	14:16	5.7	3.02
Smack Down / Rock Wrecker	69%	57%	37.7%	14:08	5.8	2.99
Smack Down / Rock Slide	69%	68%	38.2%	13:58	5.6	2.96
Smack Down / X-Scissor	69%	81%	38.4%	13:53	5.2	2.94
Fury Cutter / Rock Slide	79%	71%	38.6%	13:48	5.5	2.92
Fury Cutter / X-Scissor	72%	89%	38.7%	13:47	4.9	2.92
Smack Down / Rock Blast	83%	84%	39.0%	13:41	5.4	2.90
Fury Cutter / Rock Blast	83%	89%	39.0%	13:40	5.2	2.89

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 3 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…

Crustle 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.

rock1.6x steel1.6x water1.6x fighting1x flying1x ground1x bug1x ghost1x fire1x grass1x electric1x psychic1x ice1x dragon1x dark1x fairy1x normal0.63x poison0.63x

Weak (3)
Neutral (13)
Resists (2)

It resists normal0.625xpoison0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Crustle throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
rockSmack DownSTAB	13	+7	1.0s	0.60s
bugFury CutterSTAB	4	+8	0.5s	0.20s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
rockRock WreckerSTAB	110	-50	3.5s	1.90s
bugX-ScissorSTAB	45	-33	1.5s	1.10s
rockRock SlideSTAB	75	-50	2.5s	1.30s
rockRock BlastSTAB	50	-33	2.0s	1.50s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
6/6/6floor	1,325	1,657
7/7/7	1,339	1,674
8/8/8	1,353	1,691
9/9/9	1,367	1,709
10/10/10	1,381	1,726
11/11/11	1,395	1,744
12/12/12	1,409	1,762
13/13/13	1,423	1,780
14/14/14	1,438	1,797
15/15/15hundo	1,452	1,815

Caught CP range 1,325 - 1,452, or 1,657 - 1,815 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 1,325, not at the 1,381 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. LeekDuck's published band agrees with the table above.

When it is in raids

From the raid schedule, refreshed daily.

Crustle 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 5: 15,000 HP, 5:00 timer, boss Attack 166 / Defense 176 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.82).

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Attackers allowed

ShadowMega and PrimalLegendary, Mythical, Ultra BeastLegacy and Elite TM moves

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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 % (3)	CP	DPS	TDO
1	Zacian (Crowned Sword) fairysteel Metal Claw / Behemoth Blade	Metal Claw / Behemoth Blade+7 more movesets	100%	43.5%	2.59	12:15	14.7	100%	4,979	20.9	1032
2	Necrozma (Dusk Mane) psychicsteel Metal Claw / Sunsteel Strike	Metal Claw / Sunsteel Strike+14 more movesets	92%	41.1%	2.75	12:58	19.5	100%	4,099	20.0	732
3	Zamazenta (Crowned Shield) fightingsteel Metal Claw / Behemoth Bash	Metal Claw / Behemoth Bash+7 more movesets	97%	40.2%	2.80	13:15	9.3	100%	4,172	19.2	1480
4	Mega Greninja waterdarkmega Water Shuriken / Surf+	Water Shuriken / Surf++17 more movesets	82%	39.5%	2.86	13:30	38.7	100%	3,784	19.8	380
5	Mega Starmie waterpsychicmega Water Gun / Liquidation+	Water Gun / Liquidation++44 more movesets	75%	36.3%	3.11	14:41	39.9	68%	3,701	18.2	374
6	Primal Kyogre watermega Waterfall / Origin Pulse	Waterfall / Origin Pulse+5 more movesets	78%	35.9%	3.15	14:52	24.2	80%	5,902	17.4	603
7	Shadow Metagross steelpsychicshadow Bullet Punch / Meteor Mash	Bullet Punch / Meteor Mash+15 more movesets	76%	35.4%	3.19	15:03	27.1	40%	3,791	17.3	535
8	Mega Lucario fightingsteelmega Force Palm / Meteor Mash	Force Palm / Meteor Mash+23 more movesets	78%	35.1%	3.22	15:13	19.0	16%	3,826	16.9	754
9	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Psycho Cut / Future Sight+	Psycho Cut / Future Sight++26 more movesets	73%	34.5%	3.27	15:26	31.0	14%	6,428	17.0	469
10	Mega Metagross steelpsychicmega Bullet Punch / Meteor Mash	Bullet Punch / Meteor Mash+15 more movesets	76%	33.9%	3.33	15:45	19.5	0%	4,911	16.3	731
11	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Dynamic Punch+	Psycho Cut / Dynamic Punch++26 more movesets	73%	32.9%	3.43	16:12	21.7	0%	6,112	15.9	659
12	Shadow Dialga steeldragonshadow Metal Claw / Iron Head	Metal Claw / Iron Head+5 more movesets	70%	32.7%	3.45	16:18	26.9	0%	4,038	15.9	543
13	Mega Swampert watergroundmega Water Gun / Hydro Cannon	Water Gun / Hydro Cannon+11 more movesets	71%	32.3%	3.49	16:30	23.1	0%	4,401	15.6	623
14	Shadow Kyogre watershadow Waterfall / Origin Pulse	Waterfall / Origin Pulse+5 more movesets	66%	31.7%	3.56	16:50	39.0	0%	4,115	15.7	383
15	Mega Diancie rockfairymega Rock Throw / Rock Slide	Rock Throw / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	63%	30.9%	3.65	17:14	42.3	0%	4,346	15.3	370
16	Shadow Rampardos rockshadow Smack Down / Rock Slide	Smack Down / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	61%	30.8%	3.66	17:17	61.6	0%	3,298	15.7	239
17	Shadow Rhyperior groundrockshadow Smack Down / Rock Wrecker	Smack Down / Rock Wrecker+15 more movesets	66%	30.8%	3.66	17:17	28.3	0%	3,733	15.0	511
18	Shadow Empoleon watersteelshadow Steel Wing / Hydro Cannon	Steel Wing / Hydro Cannon+19 more movesets	65%	30.6%	3.68	17:24	32.3	0%	2,900	15.0	452
19	Mega Skarmory steelflyingmega Steel Wing / Drill Peck+	Steel Wing / Drill Peck++9 more movesets	64%	30.4%	3.71	17:31	35.7	0%	3,741	14.9	497
20	Mega Blastoise watermega Water Gun / Hydro Cannon	Water Gun / Hydro Cannon+14 more movesets	63%	30.3%	3.72	17:36	34.9	0%	3,941	14.9	415
21	Shadow Swampert watergroundshadow Water Gun / Hydro Cannon	Water Gun / Hydro Cannon+11 more movesets	63%	30.1%	3.75	17:41	34.1	0%	2,974	14.8	428
22	Shadow Excadrill groundsteelshadow Metal Claw / Iron Head	Metal Claw / Iron Head+14 more movesets	63%	29.3%	3.86	18:13	28.0	0%	3,244	14.2	516
23	Metagross steelpsychic Fury Cutter / Meteor Mash	Fury Cutter / Meteor Mash+15 more movesets	63%	29.3%	3.86	18:13	27.9	0%	3,791	14.2	516
24	Shadow Samurott watershadow Fury Cutter / Hydro Cannon	Fury Cutter / Hydro Cannon+11 more movesets	59%	29.2%	3.86	18:14	51.4	0%	2,826	14.6	285
25	Shadow Kingler watershadow Bubble / Crabhammer	Bubble / Crabhammer+14 more movesets	57%	29.2%	3.87	18:17	62.8	0%	2,829	14.8	235
26	Shadow Tyrantrum rockdragonshadow Rock Throw / Meteor Beam	Rock Throw / Meteor Beam+17 more movesets	59%	29.1%	3.88	18:19	49.6	0%	3,128	14.5	297
27	Shadow Greninja waterdarkshadow Water Shuriken / Hydro Cannon	Water Shuriken / Hydro Cannon+14 more movesets	56%	28.9%	3.90	18:25	70.7	0%	2,654	14.9	211
28	Dialga (Origin) steeldragon Metal Claw / Roar of Time	Metal Claw / Roar of Time+7 more movesets	63%	28.9%	3.90	18:26	24.3	0%	4,090	14.0	600
29	Shadow Feraligatr watershadow Water Gun / Hydro Cannon	Water Gun / Hydro Cannon+19 more movesets	58%	28.8%	3.92	18:30	49.9	0%	2,857	14.4	296
30	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Dragon Tail / Dragon Ascent	Dragon Tail / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	59%	28.8%	3.92	18:30	45.5	0%	5,713	14.3	382

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 1.9 s (50 Monte Carlo runs each, seed 1). Same boss on pokebattler.com. The same ranking as JSON: /api/raids/rank.