Shadow raid

Shadow Exploud counters

#0295

normalShadow 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

5,858

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

115

Defense

Difficulty

0.09

Pokebattler scale

Beating Shadow Exploud should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 1,218-1,341.

Weak tofighting1.6x

Who to bring

IncludeMega Legendary Shadow

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Weather

★ boosts a type it 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 Fighting Mega — most top counters attack with Fighting

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 Exploud counters are Mega Mewtwo X, Keldeo, Lucario, Shadow Blaziken, Shadow Conkeldurr & Shadow Gallade.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Mewtwo X
Keldeo
Lucario
S. Blaziken
S. Conkeldurr
S. Gallade

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 Mewtwo XMegaLegendarypartyCounter / Dynamic Punch+0.070:12
2Mega LucarioMegaForce Palm / Aura Sphere0.080:15
3Mega Mewtwo YMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Future Sight+0.090:17
4Mega BlazikenMegaCounter / Aura Sphere0.100:17
5Mega GalladeMegaLow Kick / Sacred Sword0.100:18
6KeldeoLegendarypartyLow Kick / Secret Sword0.100:19
7LucariopartyForce Palm / Aura Sphere0.110:19
8Shadow BlazikenShadowpartyCounter / Aura Sphere0.110:19
9Shadow ConkeldurrShadowpartyForce Palm / Focus Blast0.110:20
10Shadow GalladeShadowpartyLow Kick / Sacred Sword0.110:20

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 Exploud 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 Mewtwo Xpsychicfightingjoint top pick	fightingCounterfightingDynamic Punch+	6,112	0:12	0.07	0.0	3681.7%
2	Mega Lucariofightingsteel	fightingForce PalmfightingAura Sphere	3,826	0:15	0.08	0.0	2875.7%
3	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	psychicPsycho CutpsychicFuture Sight+	6,428	0:17	0.09	0.0	2607.1%
4	Mega Blazikenfirefighting	fightingCounterfightingAura Sphere	4,161	0:17	0.10	0.0	2537.9%
5	Mega Galladepsychicfighting	fightingLow KickfightingSacred Sword	4,521	0:18	0.10	0.0	2369.3%
6	Keldeowaterfighting	fightingLow KickfightingSecret Sword	3,698	0:19	0.10	0.0	2340.0%
7	Lucariofightingsteel	fightingForce PalmfightingAura Sphere	2,703	0:19	0.11	0.0	2277.7%
8	Shadow Blazikenfirefighting	fightingCounterfightingAura Sphere	2,848	0:19	0.11	0.0	2263.5%
9	Shadow Conkeldurrfighting	fightingForce PalmfightingFocus Blast	3,337	0:20	0.11	0.0	2179.7%
10	Shadow Galladepsychicfighting	fightingLow KickfightingSacred Sword	3,093	0:20	0.11	0.2	2141.6%
11	Mega Falinksfighting	fightingCounterfightingBrick Break+	3,670	0:20	0.11	0.0	2138.1%
12	Mega Heracrossbugfighting	fightingCounterfightingUpper Hand	4,814	0:21	0.11	0.0	2124.9%
13	Shadow Latiosdragonpsychic	dragonDragon BreathfightingAura Sphere	3,812	0:21	0.12	0.1	2100.6%
14	Mega Latiosdragonpsychic	dragonDragon BreathfightingAura Sphere	5,007	0:21	0.12	0.0	2089.8%
15	Terrakionrockfighting	fightingDouble KickfightingSacred Sword	3,698	0:21	0.12	0.0	2075.9%

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 Exploud.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Shadow Exploud'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%	428%	2391.4%	0:18	0.0	0.10
Bite / Crunch	100%	534%	2353.8%	0:19	0.0	0.10
Astonish / Crunch	100%	514%	2374.3%	0:18	0.0	0.10
Astonish / Fire Blast	100%	469%	2388.8%	0:18	0.1	0.10
Astonish / Disarming Voice	100%	426%	2390.6%	0:18	0.0	0.10
Bite / Fire Blast	100%	507%	2391.6%	0:18	0.0	0.10
Bite / Disarming Voice	100%	438%	2407.0%	0:18	0.0	0.10
Astonish / Boomburst	100%	363%	2435.7%	0:18	0.1	0.10
Bite / Boomburst	100%	401%	2443.6%	0:18	0.1	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…

Exploud 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.

fighting1.6x normal1x flying1x poison1x ground1x rock1x bug1x steel1x fire1x water1x grass1x electric1x psychic1x ice1x dragon1x dark1x fairy1x ghost0.39x

Weak (1)
Neutral (16)
Resists (1)

It resists ghost0.39x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Exploud throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
darkBite	6	+4	0.5s	0.30s
ghostAstonish	7	+13	1.0s	0.60s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
normalBoomburstSTAB	150	-100	2.5s	1.20s
fireFire Blast	140	-100	4.0s	2.90s
darkCrunch	65	-33	3.0s	1.10s
fairyDisarming Voice	70	-33	4.0s	3.30s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
6/6/6floor	1,218	1,522
7/7/7	1,231	1,539
8/8/8	1,244	1,556
9/9/9	1,258	1,573
10/10/10	1,272	1,590
11/11/11	1,285	1,607
12/12/12	1,299	1,624
13/13/13	1,313	1,642
14/14/14	1,327	1,659
15/15/15hundo	1,341	1,677

Caught CP range 1,218 - 1,341, or 1,522 - 1,677 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 1,218, not at the 1,272 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 54 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.

Exploud 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 115 / Defense 90 (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 Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Counter / Dynamic Punch+	Counter / Dynamic Punch++26 more movesets	100%	3681.7%	0.07	0:12	0.0	100%	6,112	52.9	625
2	Mega Lucario fightingsteelmega Force Palm / Aura Sphere	Force Palm / Aura Sphere+23 more movesets	72%	2875.7%	0.08	0:15	0.0	100%	3,826	40.6	615
3	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Psycho Cut / Future Sight+	Psycho Cut / Future Sight++26 more movesets	67%	2607.1%	0.09	0:17	0.0	100%	6,428	37.6	628
4	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Counter / Aura Sphere	Counter / Aura Sphere+20 more movesets	64%	2537.9%	0.10	0:17	0.0	100%	4,161	37.1	625
5	Mega Gallade psychicfightingmega Low Kick / Sacred Sword	Low Kick / Sacred Sword+19 more movesets	56%	2369.3%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	4,521	35.3	641
6	Keldeo waterfighting Low Kick / Secret Sword	Low Kick / Secret Sword+11 more movesets	59%	2340.0%	0.10	0:19	0.0	100%	3,698	35.0	651
7	Lucario fightingsteel Force Palm / Aura Sphere	Force Palm / Aura Sphere+23 more movesets	53%	2277.7%	0.11	0:19	0.0	100%	2,703	32.1	614
8	Shadow Blaziken firefightingshadow Counter / Aura Sphere	Counter / Aura Sphere+20 more movesets	53%	2263.5%	0.11	0:19	0.0	100%	2,848	36.1	693
9	Shadow Conkeldurr fightingshadow Force Palm / Focus Blast	Force Palm / Focus Blast+11 more movesets	51%	2179.7%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	3,337	30.5	609
10	Shadow Gallade psychicfightingshadow Low Kick / Sacred Sword	Low Kick / Sacred Sword+19 more movesets	47%	2141.6%	0.11	0:20	0.2	100%	3,093	30.4	545
11	Mega Falinks fightingmega Counter / Brick Break+	Counter / Brick Break++7 more movesets	51%	2138.1%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	3,670	31.8	640
12	Mega Heracross bugfightingmega Counter / Upper Hand	Counter / Upper Hand+17 more movesets	50%	2124.9%	0.11	0:21	0.0	100%	4,814	30.0	609
13	Shadow Latios dragonpsychicshadow Dragon Breath / Aura Sphere	Dragon Breath / Aura Sphere+9 more movesets	47%	2100.6%	0.12	0:21	0.1	100%	3,812	29.6	588
14	Mega Latios dragonpsychicmega Dragon Breath / Aura Sphere	Dragon Breath / Aura Sphere+9 more movesets	50%	2089.8%	0.12	0:21	0.0	100%	5,007	30.2	628
15	Terrakion rockfighting Double Kick / Sacred Sword	Double Kick / Sacred Sword+11 more movesets	51%	2075.9%	0.12	0:21	0.0	100%	3,698	29.4	617
16	Shadow Machamp fightingshadow Counter / Dynamic Punch	Counter / Dynamic Punch+23 more movesets	47%	2053.8%	0.12	0:21	0.1	100%	3,056	29.4	593
17	Blaziken firefighting Counter / Aura Sphere	Counter / Aura Sphere+20 more movesets	48%	2045.9%	0.12	0:21	0.1	100%	2,848	28.6	578
18	Shadow Raikou electricshadow Thunder Shock / Aura Sphere	Thunder Shock / Aura Sphere+9 more movesets	47%	2010.2%	0.12	0:22	0.1	100%	3,452	27.7	564
19	Shadow Mewtwo psychicshadow Counter / Psystrike	Counter / Psystrike+23 more movesets	44%	1992.8%	0.12	0:22	0.2	100%	4,178	27.7	545
20	Mega Lopunny normalfightingmega Double Kick / Focus Blast	Double Kick / Focus Blast+17 more movesets	47%	1990.2%	0.12	0:22	0.0	100%	3,745	28.4	613
21	Shadow Regigigas normalshadow Hidden Power / Crush Grip	Hidden Power / Crush Grip+7 more movesets	48%	1944.4%	0.13	0:22	0.0	100%	4,346	29.7	665
22	Mega Raichu Y electricmega Spark / Zap Cannon+	Spark / Zap Cannon++35 more movesets	44%	1942.3%	0.13	0:22	0.0	100%	3,780	26.8	590
23	Mega Delphox firepsychicmega Fire Spin / Mystical Fire+	Fire Spin / Mystical Fire++23 more movesets	46%	1923.7%	0.13	0:23	0.0	100%	4,783	28.9	653
24	Kartana grasssteel Fury Cutter / Sacred Sword	Fury Cutter / Sacred Sword+14 more movesets	41%	1900.7%	0.13	0:23	0.3	100%	3,677	27.8	539
25	Gallade psychicfighting Low Kick / Sacred Sword	Low Kick / Sacred Sword+19 more movesets	42%	1866.9%	0.13	0:23	0.2	100%	3,093	26.1	559
26	Necrozma (Dusk Mane) psychicsteel Metal Claw / Sunsteel Strike	Metal Claw / Sunsteel Strike+14 more movesets	44%	1860.6%	0.13	0:23	0.0	100%	4,099	26.1	611
27	Shadow Galarian Zapdos fightingflyingshadow Counter / Fly	Counter / Fly+7 more movesets	42%	1855.2%	0.13	0:23	0.2	100%	3,548	26.0	544
28	Shadow Annihilape fightingghostshadow Counter / Close Combat	Counter / Close Combat+11 more movesets	43%	1848.8%	0.13	0:24	0.0	100%	3,268	26.2	618
29	Urshifu (Single Strike) fightingdark Counter / Dynamic Punch	Counter / Dynamic Punch+11 more movesets	43%	1843.9%	0.13	0:24	0.0	100%	3,606	26.4	618
30	Shadow Hariyama fightingshadow Counter / Dynamic Punch	Counter / Dynamic Punch+14 more movesets	41%	1819.9%	0.13	0:24	0.2	100%	2,829	26.4	563

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.