Shadow raid

Shadow Alolan Golem 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

8,079

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

135

Defense

127

Difficulty

0.11

Pokebattler scale

Beating Shadow Alolan Golem should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 1,548-1,685.

Weak toground2.56xfighting1.6xwater1.6xgrass1.6x

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 Ground Mega — most top counters attack with Ground

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 Alolan Golem counters are Shadow Groudon, Primal Groudon, Shadow Landorus (Therian), Landorus (Therian), Shadow Excadrill & Groudon.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

S. Groudon
Primal Groudon
S. Landorus (Therian)
Landorus (Therian)
S. Excadrill
Groudon

1 more Mega 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 %

1Shadow GroudonShadowLegendarypartyMud Shot / Precipice Blades0.100:18
2Primal GroudonMegaLegendarypartyMud Shot / Precipice Blades0.100:18
3Shadow Landorus (Therian)ShadowLegendarypartyMud Shot / Sandsear Storm0.110:19
4Landorus (Therian)LegendarypartyMud Shot / Sandsear Storm0.110:19
5Mega Mewtwo XMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Dynamic Punch+0.110:19
6Shadow ExcadrillShadowpartyMud Shot / Drill Run0.110:19
7GroudonLegendarypartyMud Shot / Precipice Blades0.110:20
8Shadow Landorus (Incarnate)ShadowLegendaryMud Shot / Earth Power0.110:20
9Shadow MamoswineShadowMud-Slap / High Horsepower0.120:21
10Landorus (Incarnate)LegendaryMud Shot / Earth Power0.120:21

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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Related countersGolem

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Top 15 Shadow Alolan Golem 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	Shadow Groudongroundjoint top pick	groundMud ShotgroundPrecipice Blades	4,115	0:18	0.10	0.0	2390.1%
2	Primal Groudongroundfirejoint top pick	groundMud ShotgroundPrecipice Blades	5,902	0:18	0.10	0.0	2374.4%
3	Shadow Landorus (Therian)groundflying	groundMud ShotgroundSandsear Storm	3,922	0:19	0.11	0.0	2303.0%
4	Landorus (Therian)groundflying	groundMud ShotgroundSandsear Storm	3,922	0:19	0.11	0.0	2262.3%
5	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	psychicPsycho CutfightingDynamic Punch+	6,112	0:19	0.11	0.0	2235.6%
6	Shadow Excadrillgroundsteel	groundMud ShotgroundDrill Run	3,244	0:19	0.11	0.0	2235.6%
7	Groudonground	groundMud ShotgroundPrecipice Blades	4,115	0:20	0.11	0.0	2234.5%
8	Shadow Landorus (Incarnate)groundflying	groundMud ShotgroundEarth Power	3,588	0:20	0.11	0.0	2191.8%
9	Shadow Mamoswineiceground	groundMud-SlapgroundHigh Horsepower	3,328	0:21	0.12	0.0	2097.7%
10	Landorus (Incarnate)groundflying	groundMud ShotgroundEarth Power	3,588	0:21	0.12	0.0	2070.0%
11	Shadow Garchompdragonground	groundMud ShotgroundEarth Power	3,962	0:21	0.12	0.0	2044.8%
12	Mega Lucariofightingsteel	fightingForce PalmfightingAura Sphere	3,826	0:21	0.12	0.2	2044.0%
13	Shadow Rhyperiorgroundrock	groundMud-SlapgroundDrill Run	3,733	0:22	0.12	0.0	2023.9%
14	Mega Garchompdragonground	groundMud ShotgroundEarth Power	5,424	0:22	0.12	0.0	2012.7%
15	Garchompdragonground	groundMud ShotgroundEarth Power	3,962	0:22	0.12	0.0	2011.7%

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 Alolan Golem.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Shadow Alolan Golem'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%	490%	2295.3%	0:19	0.11
Volt Switch / Wild Charge	100%	532%	2267.9%	0:19	0.11
Volt Switch / Stone Edge	100%	472%	2292.4%	0:19	0.11
Volt Switch / Rock Blast	100%	507%	2300.3%	0:19	0.11
Rock Throw / Rock Blast	100%	467%	2302.9%	0:19	0.11
Rock Throw / Stone Edge	100%	445%	2305.4%	0:19	0.11
Rock Throw / Wild Charge	100%	481%	2311.3%	0:19	0.11

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…

Alolan Golem 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.

ground2.56x fighting1.6x water1.6x grass1.6x rock1x bug1x ghost1x steel1x psychic1x ice1x dragon1x dark1x fairy1x normal0.63x poison0.63x fire0.63x electric0.63x flying0.39x

Double weak (1)
Weak (3)
Neutral (9)
Resists (5)

It resists flying0.39xnormal0.625xpoison0.625xfire0.625xelectric0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Alolan Golem throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
rockRock ThrowSTAB	13	+8	1.0s	0.60s
electricVolt SwitchSTAB	13	+20	1.5s	0.60s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
rockStone EdgeSTAB	105	-100	2.5s	0.90s
electricWild ChargeSTAB	90	-50	2.5s	1.60s
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	1,548	1,935
7/7/7	1,563	1,954
8/8/8	1,578	1,973
9/9/9	1,593	1,992
10/10/10	1,608	2,010
11/11/11	1,623	2,029
12/12/12	1,639	2,049
13/13/13	1,654	2,068
14/14/14	1,669	2,087
15/15/15hundo	1,685	2,106

Caught CP range 1,548 - 1,685, or 1,935 - 2,106 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 1,548, not at the 1,608 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 60 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.

Alolan Golem 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 135 / Defense 127 (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	Shadow Groudon top pickgroundshadow Mud Shot / Precipice Blades	Mud Shot / Precipice Blades+9 more movesets	99%	2390.1%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	4,115	38.0	692
2	Primal Groudon top pickgroundfiremega Mud Shot / Precipice Blades	Mud Shot / Precipice Blades+9 more movesets	100%	2374.4%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	5,902	41.4	758
3	Shadow Landorus (Therian) groundflyingshadow Mud Shot / Sandsear Storm	Mud Shot / Sandsear Storm+9 more movesets	87%	2303.0%	0.11	0:19	0.0	100%	3,922	43.2	809
4	Landorus (Therian) groundflying Mud Shot / Sandsear Storm	Mud Shot / Sandsear Storm+9 more movesets	85%	2262.3%	0.11	0:19	0.0	100%	3,922	36.2	698
5	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Dynamic Punch+	Psycho Cut / Dynamic Punch++26 more movesets	88%	2235.6%	0.11	0:19	0.0	100%	6,112	30.8	600
6	Shadow Excadrill groundsteelshadow Mud Shot / Drill Run	Mud Shot / Drill Run+14 more movesets	89%	2235.6%	0.11	0:19	0.0	100%	3,244	31.9	621
7	Groudon ground Mud Shot / Precipice Blades	Mud Shot / Precipice Blades+9 more movesets	92%	2234.5%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	4,115	31.0	605
8	Shadow Landorus (Incarnate) groundflyingshadow Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+7 more movesets	80%	2191.8%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	3,588	34.9	693
9	Shadow Mamoswine icegroundshadow Mud-Slap / High Horsepower	Mud-Slap / High Horsepower+11 more movesets	76%	2097.7%	0.12	0:21	0.0	100%	3,328	32.1	652
10	Landorus (Incarnate) groundflying Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+7 more movesets	75%	2070.0%	0.12	0:21	0.0	100%	3,588	28.5	601
11	Shadow Garchomp dragongroundshadow Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+13 more movesets	84%	2044.8%	0.12	0:21	0.0	100%	3,962	33.6	716
12	Mega Lucario fightingsteelmega Force Palm / Aura Sphere	Force Palm / Aura Sphere+23 more movesets	75%	2044.0%	0.12	0:21	0.2	100%	3,826	28.2	546
13	Shadow Rhyperior groundrockshadow Mud-Slap / Drill Run	Mud-Slap / Drill Run+15 more movesets	81%	2023.9%	0.12	0:22	0.0	100%	3,733	30.1	649
14	Mega Garchomp dragongroundmega Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+13 more movesets	87%	2012.7%	0.12	0:22	0.0	100%	5,424	35.0	758
15	Garchomp dragonground Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+13 more movesets	83%	2011.7%	0.12	0:22	0.0	100%	3,962	28.1	609
16	Mega Swampert watergroundmega Mud Shot / Earthquake	Mud Shot / Earthquake+11 more movesets	79%	1991.5%	0.12	0:22	0.0	100%	4,401	30.4	664
17	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Counter / Future Sight+	Counter / Future Sight++26 more movesets	72%	1963.2%	0.12	0:22	0.0	100%	6,428	28.4	630
18	Mega Starmie waterpsychicmega Water Gun / Liquidation+	Water Gun / Liquidation++44 more movesets	68%	1961.1%	0.12	0:22	0.2	100%	3,701	30.5	617
19	Mega Falinks fightingmega Counter / Brick Break+	Counter / Brick Break++7 more movesets	72%	1951.8%	0.12	0:22	0.1	100%	3,670	28.8	619
20	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Counter / Aura Sphere	Counter / Aura Sphere+20 more movesets	66%	1939.2%	0.13	0:22	0.3	100%	4,161	27.3	527
21	Shadow Golem rockgroundshadow Mud Shot / Earthquake	Mud Shot / Earthquake+11 more movesets	73%	1932.4%	0.13	0:23	0.0	100%	2,949	26.6	601
22	Excadrill groundsteel Mud Shot / Earthquake	Mud Shot / Earthquake+14 more movesets	76%	1932.4%	0.13	0:23	0.0	100%	3,244	26.6	601
23	Mamoswine iceground Mud-Slap / High Horsepower	Mud-Slap / High Horsepower+11 more movesets	71%	1929.8%	0.13	0:23	0.0	100%	3,328	29.5	666
24	Shadow Swampert watergroundshadow Mud Shot / Earthquake	Mud Shot / Earthquake+11 more movesets	70%	1895.4%	0.13	0:23	0.0	100%	2,974	26.2	602
25	Shadow Golurk groundghostshadow Mud-Slap / Earth Power	Mud-Slap / Earth Power+7 more movesets	69%	1876.6%	0.13	0:23	0.0	100%	2,854	30.3	704
26	Shadow Rhydon groundrockshadow Mud-Slap / Earthquake	Mud-Slap / Earthquake+9 more movesets	71%	1872.6%	0.13	0:23	0.0	100%	3,179	27.2	634
27	Shadow Flygon grounddragonshadow Mud Shot / Earthquake	Mud Shot / Earthquake+23 more movesets	69%	1855.1%	0.13	0:23	0.0	100%	2,661	25.6	602
28	Shadow Sandslash groundshadow Sand Attack / Scorching Sands	Sand Attack / Scorching Sands+14 more movesets	66%	1817.9%	0.13	0:24	0.0	100%	2,374	25.4	608
29	Shadow Hippowdon groundshadow Sand Attack / Earthquake	Sand Attack / Earthquake+29 more movesets	70%	1816.4%	0.13	0:24	0.0	100%	3,085	25.0	600
30	Rhyperior groundrock Mud-Slap / Drill Run	Mud-Slap / Drill Run+15 more movesets	72%	1811.9%	0.13	0:24	0.0	100%	3,733	26.1	628

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.