Shadow raid

Shadow Gallade 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

8,945

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

150

Defense

125

Difficulty

0.13

Pokebattler scale

Beating Shadow Gallade should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 1,626-1,767.

Weak toflying1.6xghost1.6xfairy1.6x

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 Flying Mega — most top counters attack with Flying

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 Gallade counters are Mega Rayquaza, Necrozma (Dawn Wings), Rayquaza, Shadow Moltres, Shadow Chandelure & Shadow Salamence.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Rayquaza
Necrozma (Dawn Wings)
Rayquaza
S. Moltres
S. Chandelure
S. Salamence

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 RayquazaMegaLegendarypartyAir Slash / Dragon Ascent0.110:21
2Mega StaraptorMegaGust / Brave Bird+0.120:22
3Necrozma (Dawn Wings)LegendarypartyMetal Claw / Moongeist Beam0.130:24
4Mega GengarMegaShadow Claw / Shadow Ball0.140:24
5Mega Mewtwo YMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Shadow Ball0.140:25
6RayquazaLegendarypartyAir Slash / Dragon Ascent0.140:25
7Shadow MoltresShadowLegendarypartyWing Attack / Fly0.140:26
8Mega SkarmoryMegaAir Slash / Drill Peck+0.140:26
9Shadow ChandelureShadowpartyHex / Shadow Ball0.150:26
10Shadow SalamenceShadowpartyDragon Tail / Fly0.150:27

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 Gallade

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Top 15 Shadow Gallade 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 Rayquazadragonflyingjoint top pick	flyingAir SlashflyingDragon Ascent	5,713	0:21	0.11	0.0	2114.9%
2	Mega Staraptorfightingflying	flyingGustflyingBrave Bird+	3,979	0:22	0.12	0.1	2016.5%
3	Necrozma (Dawn Wings)psychicghost	steelMetal ClawghostMoongeist Beam	4,099	0:24	0.13	0.0	1810.4%
4	Mega Gengarghostpoison	ghostShadow ClawghostShadow Ball	4,336	0:24	0.14	0.3	1780.7%
5	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	psychicPsycho CutghostShadow Ball	6,428	0:25	0.14	0.0	1770.7%
6	Rayquazadragonflying	flyingAir SlashflyingDragon Ascent	3,835	0:25	0.14	0.1	1747.1%
7	Shadow Moltresfireflying	flyingWing AttackflyingFly	3,465	0:26	0.14	0.3	1700.4%
8	Mega Skarmorysteelflying	flyingAir SlashflyingDrill Peck+	3,741	0:26	0.14	0.0	1688.8%
9	Shadow Chandelureghostfire	ghostHexghostShadow Ball	3,268	0:26	0.15	0.3	1668.4%
10	Shadow Salamencedragonflying	dragonDragon TailflyingFly	3,749	0:27	0.15	0.3	1630.2%
11	Shadow Toucannonnormalflying	flyingPeckflyingBeak Blast	2,689	0:27	0.15	0.6	1630.1%
12	Enamorus (Incarnate)fairyflying	fairyFairy WindflyingFly	3,425	0:27	0.15	0.2	1628.7%
13	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	psychicPsycho CutghostShadow Ball	6,112	0:28	0.15	0.1	1580.7%
14	Mega Gardevoirpsychicfairy	fairyCharmfairyDazzling Gleam	4,512	0:28	0.15	0.1	1575.0%
15	Shadow Tornadus (Therian)flying	flyingGustflyingBleakwind Storm	3,215	0:28	0.15	0.3	1569.1%

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 Gallade.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Shadow Gallade'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%	285%	1766.4%	0:25	0.2	0.14
Low Kick / Psychic	100%	248%	1672.3%	0:26	0.5	0.15
Psycho Cut / Psychic	100%	238%	1698.0%	0:26	0.5	0.14
Confusion / Psychic	100%	228%	1729.4%	0:25	0.6	0.14
Charm / Psychic	100%	224%	1745.9%	0:25	0.5	0.14
Psycho Cut / Leaf Blade	100%	373%	1752.0%	0:25	0.0	0.14
Low Kick / Close Combat	100%	395%	1752.0%	0:25	0.0	0.14
Low Kick / Leaf Blade	100%	386%	1759.9%	0:25	0.0	0.14
Confusion / Close Combat	100%	289%	1762.1%	0:25	0.3	0.14
Psycho Cut / Close Combat	100%	365%	1764.8%	0:25	0.0	0.14
Low Kick / Sacred Sword	100%	378%	1772.0%	0:25	0.0	0.14
Psycho Cut / Sacred Sword	100%	360%	1779.1%	0:25	0.0	0.14
Charm / Sacred Sword	100%	286%	1779.4%	0:24	0.1	0.14
Charm / Close Combat	100%	279%	1780.4%	0:24	0.1	0.14
Confusion / Leaf Blade	100%	306%	1788.3%	0:24	0.1	0.14
Confusion / Sacred Sword	100%	302%	1823.4%	0:24	0.1	0.13
Charm / Leaf Blade	100%	304%	1845.8%	0:24	0.0	0.13

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…

Gallade 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.

flying1.6x ghost1.6x fairy1.6x normal1x poison1x ground1x bug1x steel1x fire1x water1x grass1x electric1x psychic1x ice1x dragon1x dark1x fighting0.63x rock0.63x

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

It resists fighting0.625xrock0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Gallade 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
fairyCharm	20	+11	1.5s	0.90s
fightingLow KickSTAB	5	+5	0.5s	0.20s
psychicPsycho CutSTAB	4	+7	0.5s	0.27s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
fightingSacred SwordSTAB	50	-33	1.0s	0.30s
fightingClose CombatSTAB	105	-100	2.5s	1.20s
psychicPsychicSTAB	95	-50	3.0s	1.50s
grassLeaf Blade	70	-33	2.5s	1.35s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
6/6/6floor	1,626	2,033
7/7/7	1,641	2,052
8/8/8	1,657	2,071
9/9/9	1,672	2,091
10/10/10	1,688	2,110
11/11/11	1,704	2,130
12/12/12	1,720	2,150
13/13/13	1,735	2,170
14/14/14	1,751	2,189
15/15/15hundo	1,767	2,209

Caught CP range 1,626 - 1,767, or 2,033 - 2,209 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 1,626, not at the 1,688 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 62 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.

Gallade 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 150 / Defense 125 (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 Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	100%	2114.9%	0.11	0:21	0.0	100%	5,713	31.2	638
2	Mega Staraptor fightingflyingmega Gust / Brave Bird+	Gust / Brave Bird++19 more movesets	89%	2016.5%	0.12	0:22	0.1	100%	3,979	29.7	599
3	Necrozma (Dawn Wings) psychicghost Metal Claw / Moongeist Beam	Metal Claw / Moongeist Beam+14 more movesets	88%	1810.4%	0.13	0:24	0.0	100%	4,099	25.4	611
4	Mega Gengar ghostpoisonmega Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball	Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball+31 more movesets	76%	1780.7%	0.14	0:24	0.3	100%	4,336	25.3	552
5	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball	Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball+26 more movesets	83%	1770.7%	0.14	0:25	0.0	100%	6,428	24.4	601
6	Rayquaza dragonflying Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	76%	1747.1%	0.14	0:25	0.1	100%	3,835	25.0	577
7	Shadow Moltres fireflyingshadow Wing Attack / Fly	Wing Attack / Fly+11 more movesets	73%	1700.4%	0.14	0:26	0.3	100%	3,465	23.9	532
8	Mega Skarmory steelflyingmega Air Slash / Drill Peck+	Air Slash / Drill Peck++9 more movesets	78%	1688.8%	0.14	0:26	0.0	100%	3,741	28.0	714
9	Shadow Chandelure ghostfireshadow Hex / Shadow Ball	Hex / Shadow Ball+19 more movesets	70%	1668.4%	0.15	0:26	0.3	100%	3,268	23.6	532
10	Shadow Salamence dragonflyingshadow Dragon Tail / Fly	Dragon Tail / Fly+20 more movesets	69%	1630.2%	0.15	0:27	0.3	100%	3,749	24.0	554
11	Shadow Toucannon normalflyingshadow Peck / Beak Blast	Peck / Beak Blast+11 more movesets	65%	1630.1%	0.15	0:27	0.6	100%	2,689	24.4	442
12	Enamorus (Incarnate) fairyflying Fairy Wind / Fly	Fairy Wind / Fly+8 more movesets	69%	1628.7%	0.15	0:27	0.2	100%	3,425	23.6	565
13	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball	Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball+26 more movesets	71%	1580.7%	0.15	0:28	0.1	100%	6,112	23.8	626
14	Mega Gardevoir psychicfairymega Charm / Dazzling Gleam	Charm / Dazzling Gleam+19 more movesets	70%	1575.0%	0.15	0:28	0.1	100%	4,512	22.7	602
15	Shadow Tornadus (Therian) flyingshadow Gust / Bleakwind Storm	Gust / Bleakwind Storm+9 more movesets	65%	1569.1%	0.15	0:28	0.3	100%	3,215	22.2	510
16	Shadow Galarian Articuno psychicflyingshadow Psycho Cut / Fly	Psycho Cut / Fly+7 more movesets	70%	1567.8%	0.16	0:28	0.1	100%	3,590	22.3	596
17	Shadow Staraptor normalflyingshadow Gust / Fly	Gust / Fly+15 more movesets	61%	1561.0%	0.16	0:28	0.8	100%	2,825	22.1	381
18	Mega Banette ghostmega Hex / Shadow Ball	Hex / Shadow Ball+5 more movesets	64%	1560.8%	0.16	0:28	0.5	100%	3,594	21.8	467
19	Mega Salamence dragonflyingmega Dragon Tail / Fly	Dragon Tail / Fly+20 more movesets	69%	1521.9%	0.16	0:29	0.0	100%	5,031	21.4	602
20	Shadow Gengar ghostpoisonshadow Lick / Shadow Ball	Lick / Shadow Ball+31 more movesets	59%	1518.9%	0.16	0:29	1.0	100%	2,878	22.2	432
21	Zacian (Crowned Sword) fairysteel Metal Claw / Play Rough	Metal Claw / Play Rough+7 more movesets	66%	1494.7%	0.16	0:29	0.0	100%	4,979	20.7	591
22	Shadow Mewtwo psychicshadow Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball	Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball+23 more movesets	63%	1479.5%	0.16	0:29	0.2	100%	4,178	22.4	598
23	Moltres fireflying Wing Attack / Fly	Wing Attack / Fly+11 more movesets	63%	1473.0%	0.17	0:30	0.2	100%	3,465	20.6	548
24	Shadow Giratina (Origin) ghostdragonshadow Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball	Shadow Claw / Shadow Ball+7 more movesets	63%	1433.5%	0.17	0:30	0.2	100%	3,683	20.3	556
25	Galarian Articuno psychicflying Psycho Cut / Fly	Psycho Cut / Fly+7 more movesets	64%	1429.2%	0.17	0:31	0.1	100%	3,590	20.0	590
26	Shadow Zapdos electricflyingshadow Thunder Shock / Drill Peck	Thunder Shock / Drill Peck+11 more movesets	59%	1422.9%	0.17	0:31	0.4	100%	3,527	20.3	506
27	Yveltal darkflying Gust / Oblivion Wing	Gust / Oblivion Wing+17 more movesets	61%	1400.6%	0.17	0:31	0.1	100%	3,781	20.3	592
28	Mega Pidgeot normalflyingmega Air Slash / Brave Bird	Air Slash / Brave Bird+27 more movesets	57%	1392.3%	0.17	0:31	0.7	100%	3,680	19.4	400
29	Mega Alakazam psychicmega Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball	Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball+17 more movesets	58%	1383.7%	0.18	0:32	0.3	100%	4,510	21.7	557
30	Gholdengo steelghost Hex / Shadow Ball	Hex / Shadow Ball+7 more movesets	59%	1357.2%	0.18	0:32	0.0	100%	3,517	18.7	589

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