Shadow raid

Shadow Dragonair counters

#0148

dragonShadow 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

5,340

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

106

Defense

Difficulty

0.09

Pokebattler scale

Beating Shadow Dragonair should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 911-1,017.

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 Dragonair counters are Mega Dragonite, Eternatus, Shadow Haxorus, Kyurem (Black), Shadow Garchomp & Shadow Salamence.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Dragonite
Eternatus
S. Haxorus
Kyurem (Black)
S. Garchomp
S. Salamence

3 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 DragoniteMegapartyDragon Tail / Outrage+0.080:14
2Mega RayquazaMegaLegendaryDragon Tail / Breaking Swipe0.090:16
3EternatusLegendarypartyDragon Tail / Dynamax Cannon0.090:16
4Mega Mewtwo YMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Future Sight+0.100:17
5Shadow HaxorusShadowpartyDragon Tail / Breaking Swipe0.100:17
6Kyurem (Black)LegendarypartyDragon Tail / Freeze Shock0.100:17
7Shadow GarchompShadowpartyDragon Tail / Breaking Swipe0.100:18
8Mega GarchompMegaDragon Tail / Breaking Swipe0.100:18
9Shadow SalamenceShadowpartyDragon Tail / Outrage0.100:18
10Shadow PalkiaShadowLegendaryDragon Tail / Draco Meteor0.100:19

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 Dragonair 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 Dragonitedragonflyingjoint top pick	dragonDragon TaildragonOutrage+	4,823	0:14	0.08	0.0	3038.1%
2	Mega Rayquazadragonflying	dragonDragon TaildragonBreaking Swipe	5,713	0:16	0.09	0.0	2724.7%
3	Eternatuspoisondragon	dragonDragon TaildragonDynamax Cannon	4,429	0:16	0.09	0.0	2642.1%
4	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	psychicPsycho CutpsychicFuture Sight+	6,428	0:17	0.10	0.0	2555.1%
5	Shadow Haxorusdragon	dragonDragon TaildragonBreaking Swipe	3,593	0:17	0.10	0.0	2534.0%
6	Kyurem (Black)dragonice	dragonDragon TailiceFreeze Shock	4,605	0:17	0.10	0.0	2491.1%
7	Shadow Garchompdragonground	dragonDragon TaildragonBreaking Swipe	3,962	0:18	0.10	0.0	2421.9%
8	Mega Garchompdragonground	dragonDragon TaildragonBreaking Swipe	5,424	0:18	0.10	0.0	2421.9%
9	Shadow Salamencedragonflying	dragonDragon TaildragonOutrage	3,749	0:18	0.10	0.0	2396.6%
10	Shadow Palkiawaterdragon	dragonDragon TaildragonDraco Meteor	3,991	0:19	0.10	0.1	2346.4%
11	Shadow Dragonitedragonflying	dragonDragon TaildragonOutrage	3,792	0:19	0.11	0.1	2276.2%
12	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	psychicPsycho CutfightingDynamic Punch+	6,112	0:19	0.11	0.0	2235.6%
13	Shadow Dialgasteeldragon	dragonDragon BreathdragonDraco Meteor	4,038	0:19	0.11	0.0	2235.6%
14	Shadow Reshiramdragonfire	dragonDragon BreathdragonDraco Meteor	4,038	0:19	0.11	0.0	2235.6%
15	Mega Salamencedragonflying	dragonDragon TaildragonDraco Meteor	5,031	0:19	0.11	0.0	2235.6%

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 Dragonair.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Shadow Dragonair'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	Faints	Estimator
Random (any moveset)showing	100%	507%	2565.7%	0:17	0.0	0.09
Dragon Breath / Dragon Pulse	100%	346%	2538.9%	0:17	0.2	0.10
Dragon Breath / Aqua Tail	100%	577%	2555.6%	0:17	0.0	0.10
Iron Tail / Dragon Pulse	100%	387%	2561.0%	0:17	0.1	0.09
Iron Tail / Aqua Tail	100%	572%	2561.9%	0:17	0.0	0.09
Iron Tail / Wrap	100%	542%	2580.8%	0:17	0.0	0.09
Iron Tail / Body Slam	100%	527%	2582.9%	0:17	0.0	0.09
Dragon Breath / Body Slam	100%	524%	2582.9%	0:17	0.0	0.09
Dragon Breath / Wrap	100%	533%	2589.3%	0:17	0.0	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…

Dragonair 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 Dragonair throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
dragonDragon BreathSTAB	6	+4	0.5s	0.30s
steelIron Tail	14	+6	1.0s	0.75s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
dragonDragon PulseSTAB	90	-50	3.5s	2.05s
waterAqua Tail	50	-33	2.0s	1.30s
normalBody Slam	50	-33	2.0s	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	911	1,139
7/7/7	923	1,153
8/8/8	934	1,168
9/9/9	946	1,182
10/10/10	957	1,197
11/11/11	969	1,212
12/12/12	981	1,226
13/13/13	993	1,241
14/14/14	1,005	1,256
15/15/15hundo	1,017	1,271

Caught CP range 911 - 1,017, or 1,139 - 1,271 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 911, not at the 957 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 46 CP higher than this one.

When it is in raids

From the raid schedule, refreshed daily.

Dragonair 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 106 / Defense 89 (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	Mega Dragonite dragonflyingmega Dragon Tail / Outrage+	Dragon Tail / Outrage++26 more movesets	100%	3038.1%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	4,823	43.7	626
2	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe	Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe+11 more movesets	85%	2724.7%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	5,713	38.7	618
3	Eternatus poisondragon Dragon Tail / Dynamax Cannon	Dragon Tail / Dynamax Cannon+7 more movesets	83%	2642.1%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	4,429	36.7	605
4	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Psycho Cut / Future Sight+	Psycho Cut / Future Sight++26 more movesets	82%	2555.1%	0.10	0:17	0.0	100%	6,428	37.4	638
5	Shadow Haxorus dragonshadow Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe	Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe+9 more movesets	72%	2534.0%	0.10	0:17	0.0	100%	3,593	37.4	630
6	Kyurem (Black) dragonice Dragon Tail / Freeze Shock	Dragon Tail / Freeze Shock+11 more movesets	75%	2491.1%	0.10	0:17	0.0	100%	4,605	35.4	620
7	Shadow Garchomp dragongroundshadow Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe	Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe+13 more movesets	71%	2421.9%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	3,962	34.2	616
8	Mega Garchomp dragongroundmega Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe	Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe+13 more movesets	75%	2421.9%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	5,424	36.0	648
9	Shadow Salamence dragonflyingshadow Dragon Tail / Outrage	Dragon Tail / Outrage+20 more movesets	68%	2396.6%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	3,749	34.0	605
10	Shadow Palkia waterdragonshadow Dragon Tail / Draco Meteor	Dragon Tail / Draco Meteor+7 more movesets	69%	2346.4%	0.10	0:19	0.1	100%	3,991	33.2	598
11	Shadow Dragonite dragonflyingshadow Dragon Tail / Outrage	Dragon Tail / Outrage+23 more movesets	65%	2276.2%	0.11	0:19	0.1	100%	3,792	31.9	593
12	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Dynamic Punch+	Psycho Cut / Dynamic Punch++26 more movesets	69%	2235.6%	0.11	0:19	0.0	100%	6,112	31.0	604
13	Shadow Dialga steeldragonshadow Dragon Breath / Draco Meteor	Dragon Breath / Draco Meteor+5 more movesets	68%	2235.6%	0.11	0:19	0.0	100%	4,038	31.0	605
14	Shadow Reshiram dragonfireshadow Dragon Breath / Draco Meteor	Dragon Breath / Draco Meteor+9 more movesets	63%	2235.6%	0.11	0:19	0.0	100%	4,038	31.0	605
15	Mega Salamence dragonflyingmega Dragon Tail / Draco Meteor	Dragon Tail / Draco Meteor+20 more movesets	68%	2235.6%	0.11	0:19	0.0	100%	5,031	31.0	604
16	Rayquaza dragonflying Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe	Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe+11 more movesets	62%	2192.9%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	3,835	30.6	608
17	Mega Latios dragonpsychicmega Dragon Breath / Dragon Claw	Dragon Breath / Dragon Claw+9 more movesets	64%	2181.9%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	5,007	31.0	620
18	Mega Sceptile grassdragonmega Fury Cutter / Breaking Swipe	Fury Cutter / Breaking Swipe+11 more movesets	61%	2175.6%	0.11	0:20	0.1	100%	4,056	30.7	577
19	Haxorus dragon Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe	Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe+9 more movesets	60%	2163.8%	0.11	0:20	0.1	100%	3,593	30.0	575
20	Baxcalibur dragonice Dragon Breath / Glaive Rush	Dragon Breath / Glaive Rush+11 more movesets	62%	2157.1%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	3,550	31.6	638
21	Kyurem (White) dragonice Dragon Breath / Ice Burn	Dragon Breath / Ice Burn+17 more movesets	64%	2150.7%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	4,605	34.7	703
22	Mega Gardevoir psychicfairymega Charm / Dazzling Gleam	Charm / Dazzling Gleam+19 more movesets	63%	2126.5%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	4,512	30.6	627
23	Palkia (Origin) waterdragon Dragon Tail / Spacial Rend	Dragon Tail / Spacial Rend+9 more movesets	63%	2126.5%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	4,142	29.8	611
24	Shadow Mamoswine icegroundshadow Powder Snow / Avalanche	Powder Snow / Avalanche+11 more movesets	58%	2110.1%	0.12	0:21	0.0	100%	3,328	30.4	627
25	Shadow Galarian Darmanitan (Standard) iceshadow Ice Fang / Avalanche	Ice Fang / Avalanche+7 more movesets	54%	2033.6%	0.12	0:21	0.0	100%	3,105	32.8	696
26	Garchomp dragonground Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe	Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe+13 more movesets	58%	2014.5%	0.12	0:22	0.0	100%	3,962	28.8	623
27	Dragapult dragonghost Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe	Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe+7 more movesets	58%	2004.1%	0.12	0:22	0.1	100%	3,532	28.3	597
28	Shadow Latios dragonpsychicshadow Dragon Breath / Dragon Claw	Dragon Breath / Dragon Claw+9 more movesets	55%	1996.2%	0.12	0:22	0.1	100%	3,812	28.2	573
29	Shadow Regigigas normalshadow Hidden Power / Crush Grip	Hidden Power / Crush Grip+7 more movesets	58%	1981.5%	0.12	0:22	0.0	100%	4,346	30.3	666
30	Shadow Weavile darkiceshadow Ice Shard / Triple Axel	Ice Shard / Triple Axel+11 more movesets	51%	1927.5%	0.13	0:23	0.0	100%	3,005	28.3	625

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.