Shadow raid

Shadow Drowzee counters

#0096

psychicShadow 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

3,130

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

Defense

Difficulty

0.11

Pokebattler scale

Beating Shadow Drowzee should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 512-594.

Weak tobug1.6xghost1.6xdark1.6x

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 Ghost Mega — most top counters attack with Ghost

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 Drowzee counters are Mega Gengar, Shadow Darkrai, Necrozma (Dawn Wings), Shadow Gengar, Shadow Chandelure & Blacephalon.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Gengar
S. Darkrai
Necrozma (Dawn Wings)
S. Gengar
S. Chandelure
Blacephalon

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 %

1Mega GengarMegapartyShadow Claw / Shadow Ball0.100:18
2Mega BeedrillMegaInfestation / Fell Stinger+0.100:18
3Shadow DarkraiShadowLegendarypartySnarl / Foul Play0.100:18
4Necrozma (Dawn Wings)LegendarypartyShadow Claw / Moongeist Beam0.100:18
5Mega AbsolMegaSnarl / Brutal Swing0.110:19
6Shadow GengarShadowpartyLick / Shadow Ball0.110:19
7Mega Mewtwo YMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Shadow Ball0.110:19
8Shadow ChandelureShadowpartyHex / Shadow Ball0.110:20
9Mega BanetteMegaHex / Shadow Ball0.110:20
10BlacephalonLegendarypartyAstonish / Shadow Ball0.110:20

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

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Top 15 Shadow Drowzee 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 Gengarghostpoisonjoint top pick	ghostShadow ClawghostShadow Ball	4,336	0:18	0.10	2477.0%
2	Mega Beedrillbugpoisonjoint top pick	bugInfestationbugFell Stinger+	3,383	0:18	0.10	2454.4%
3	Shadow Darkraidark	darkSnarldarkFoul Play	3,739	0:18	0.10	2421.9%
4	Necrozma (Dawn Wings)psychicghost	ghostShadow ClawghostMoongeist Beam	4,099	0:18	0.10	2356.5%
5	Mega Absoldark	darkSnarldarkBrutal Swing	3,301	0:19	0.11	2294.5%
6	Shadow Gengarghostpoison	ghostLickghostShadow Ball	2,878	0:19	0.11	2268.8%
7	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	psychicPsycho CutghostShadow Ball	6,428	0:19	0.11	2263.5%
8	Shadow Chandelureghostfire	ghostHexghostShadow Ball	3,268	0:20	0.11	2228.8%
9	Mega Banetteghost	ghostHexghostShadow Ball	3,594	0:20	0.11	2224.2%
10	Blacephalonfireghost	ghostAstonishghostShadow Ball	3,297	0:20	0.11	2168.9%
11	Mega Houndoomdarkfire	darkSnarldarkDark Pulse+	3,842	0:20	0.11	2151.5%
12	Mega Tyranitarrockdark	darkBitedarkBrutal Swing	5,347	0:21	0.12	2075.9%
13	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	psychicPsycho CutghostShadow Ball	6,112	0:21	0.12	2071.0%
14	Shadow Tyranitarrockdark	darkBitedarkBrutal Swing	3,834	0:21	0.12	2059.2%
15	Shadow Hydreigondarkdragon	darkBitedarkBrutal Swing	3,625	0:21	0.12	2045.7%

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 Drowzee.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Shadow Drowzee'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”: 2 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%	510%	2319.9%	0:19	0.10
Pound / Psybeam	100%	558%	2297.0%	0:19	0.11
Pound / Psychic	100%	488%	2305.4%	0:19	0.11
Confusion / Psychic	100%	479%	2317.7%	0:19	0.10
Pound / Psyshock	100%	532%	2320.7%	0:19	0.10
Confusion / Psybeam	100%	530%	2333.7%	0:19	0.10
Confusion / Psyshock	100%	501%	2351.2%	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…

Drowzee 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.

bug1.6x ghost1.6x dark1.6x normal1x flying1x poison1x ground1x rock1x steel1x fire1x water1x grass1x electric1x ice1x dragon1x fairy1x fighting0.63x psychic0.63x

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

It resists fighting0.625xpsychic0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Drowzee throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
psychicConfusionSTAB	19	+14	1.5s	0.50s
normalPound	6	+5	0.5s	0.24s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
psychicPsychicSTAB	95	-50	3.0s	1.50s
psychicPsyshockSTAB	60	-33	2.5s	1.80s
psychicPsybeamSTAB	65	-50	3.0s	1.10s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
6/6/6floor	512	640
7/7/7	521	651
8/8/8	530	663
9/9/9	539	674
10/10/10	548	685
11/11/11	557	696
12/12/12	566	708
13/13/13	575	719
14/14/14	585	731
15/15/15hundo	594	743

Caught CP range 512 - 594, or 640 - 743 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 512, not at the 548 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 36 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.

Drowzee 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 62 / Defense 90 (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 Gengar top pickghostpoisonmega Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball	Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball+31 more movesets	85%	2477.0%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	4,336	34.4	605
2	Mega Beedrill top pickbugpoisonmega Infestation / Fell Stinger+	Infestation / Fell Stinger++23 more movesets	87%	2454.4%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	3,383	43.0	762
3	Shadow Darkrai darkshadow Snarl / Foul Play	Snarl / Foul Play+14 more movesets	100%	2421.9%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	3,739	33.7	606
4	Necrozma (Dawn Wings) psychicghost Shadow Claw / Moongeist Beam	Shadow Claw / Moongeist Beam+14 more movesets	99%	2356.5%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	4,099	32.5	602
5	Mega Absol darkmega Snarl / Brutal Swing	Snarl / Brutal Swing+9 more movesets	91%	2294.5%	0.11	0:19	0.0	100%	3,301	32.1	610
6	Shadow Gengar ghostpoisonshadow Lick / Shadow Ball	Lick / Shadow Ball+31 more movesets	74%	2268.8%	0.11	0:19	0.0	100%	2,878	33.5	629
7	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball	Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball+26 more movesets	96%	2263.5%	0.11	0:19	0.0	100%	6,428	31.4	604
8	Shadow Chandelure ghostfireshadow Hex / Shadow Ball	Hex / Shadow Ball+19 more movesets	80%	2228.8%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	3,268	32.9	643
9	Mega Banette ghostmega Hex / Shadow Ball	Hex / Shadow Ball+5 more movesets	80%	2224.2%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	3,594	31.2	612
10	Blacephalon fireghost Astonish / Shadow Ball	Astonish / Shadow Ball+7 more movesets	76%	2168.9%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	3,297	30.4	610
11	Mega Houndoom darkfiremega Snarl / Dark Pulse+	Snarl / Dark Pulse++17 more movesets	96%	2151.5%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	3,842	41.8	848
12	Mega Tyranitar rockdarkmega Bite / Brutal Swing	Bite / Brutal Swing+15 more movesets	94%	2075.9%	0.12	0:21	0.0	100%	5,347	28.9	606
13	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball	Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball+26 more movesets	80%	2071.0%	0.12	0:21	0.0	100%	6,112	28.7	603
14	Shadow Tyranitar rockdarkshadow Bite / Brutal Swing	Bite / Brutal Swing+15 more movesets	88%	2059.2%	0.12	0:21	0.0	100%	3,834	28.8	611
15	Shadow Hydreigon darkdragonshadow Bite / Brutal Swing	Bite / Brutal Swing+9 more movesets	84%	2045.7%	0.12	0:21	0.0	100%	3,625	29.3	626
16	Shadow Salamence dragonflyingshadow Bite / Brutal Swing	Bite / Brutal Swing+20 more movesets	72%	2027.6%	0.12	0:21	0.0	100%	3,749	28.4	611
17	Shadow Absol darkshadow Snarl / Brutal Swing	Snarl / Brutal Swing+9 more movesets	76%	2003.4%	0.12	0:22	0.0	100%	2,526	31.7	690
18	Pheromosa bugfighting Bug Bite / Bug Buzz	Bug Bite / Bug Buzz+7 more movesets	62%	1997.5%	0.12	0:22	0.4	100%	2,842	28.7	501
19	Mega Pinsir bugflyingmega Fury Cutter / X-Scissor	Fury Cutter / X-Scissor+14 more movesets	71%	1969.0%	0.12	0:22	0.0	100%	4,182	27.6	611
20	Mega Raichu Y electricmega Spark / Zap Cannon+	Spark / Zap Cannon++35 more movesets	67%	1952.5%	0.12	0:22	0.0	100%	3,780	27.1	604
21	Mega Greninja waterdarkmega Feint Attack / Surf+	Feint Attack / Surf++17 more movesets	79%	1932.2%	0.13	0:23	0.0	100%	3,784	29.3	662
22	Shadow Houndoom darkfireshadow Snarl / Foul Play	Snarl / Foul Play+14 more movesets	73%	1923.8%	0.13	0:23	0.0	100%	2,635	27.5	623
23	Shadow Vikavolt bugelectricshadow Bug Bite / X-Scissor	Bug Bite / X-Scissor+15 more movesets	65%	1918.7%	0.13	0:23	0.0	100%	3,117	28.1	639
24	Shadow Weavile darkiceshadow Snarl / Foul Play	Snarl / Foul Play+11 more movesets	76%	1908.7%	0.13	0:23	0.0	100%	3,005	29.4	672
25	Darkrai dark Snarl / Foul Play	Snarl / Foul Play+14 more movesets	78%	1895.4%	0.13	0:23	0.0	100%	3,739	28.0	644
26	Eternatus poisondragon Poison Jab / Dynamax Cannon	Poison Jab / Dynamax Cannon+7 more movesets	67%	1890.5%	0.13	0:23	0.0	100%	4,429	26.9	621
27	Mega Heracross bugfightingmega Struggle Bug / Megahorn	Struggle Bug / Megahorn+17 more movesets	66%	1888.8%	0.13	0:23	0.0	100%	4,814	29.7	685
28	Shadow Pinsir bugshadow Bug Bite / X-Scissor	Bug Bite / X-Scissor+14 more movesets	64%	1887.2%	0.13	0:23	0.0	100%	2,959	26.9	622
29	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Dragon Tail / Dragon Ascent	Dragon Tail / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	70%	1873.4%	0.13	0:23	0.0	100%	5,713	26.7	621
30	Shadow Regigigas normalshadow Hidden Power / Crush Grip	Hidden Power / Crush Grip+7 more movesets	69%	1855.1%	0.13	0:23	0.0	100%	4,346	28.9	679

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.