Shadow raid

Shadow Groudon counters

#0383

groundShadow 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

10,882

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

170

Defense

145

Difficulty

0.16

Pokebattler scale

Beating Shadow Groudon should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 2,188-2,351.

Weak towater1.6xgrass1.6xice1.6x

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 Water Mega — most top counters attack with Water

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 Groudon counters are Mega Starmie, Kyurem (White), Shadow Kyogre, Shadow Kingler, Kyurem (Black) & Kartana.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Starmie
Kyurem (White)
S. Kyogre
S. Kingler
Kyurem (Black)
Kartana

10 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 StarmieMegapartyWater Gun / Liquidation+0.150:27
2Primal KyogreMegaLegendaryWaterfall / Origin Pulse0.150:27
3Mega Mewtwo YMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Future Sight+0.150:28
4Mega GreninjaMegaWater Shuriken / Surf+0.150:28
5Mega SceptileMegaFury Cutter / Frenzy Plant0.170:30
6Kyurem (White)LegendarypartyIce Fang / Ice Burn0.170:31
7Mega ChesnaughtMegaVine Whip / Seed Bomb+0.180:32
8Shadow KyogreShadowLegendarypartyWaterfall / Origin Pulse0.180:32
9Mega Mewtwo XMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Dynamic Punch+0.190:34
10Mega RayquazaMegaLegendaryDragon Tail / Dragon Ascent0.190:34
12Shadow KinglerShadowpartyBubble / Crabhammer0.190:34
15Kyurem (Black)LegendarypartyDragon Tail / Freeze Shock0.200:36
16KartanaLegendarypartyRazor Leaf / Leaf Blade0.200:36

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 countersPrimal Groudon

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Top 15 Shadow Groudon 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 Starmiewaterpsychicjoint top pick	waterWater GunwaterLiquidation+	3,701	0:27	0.15	0.5	1641.1%
2	Primal Kyogrewaterjoint top pick	waterWaterfallwaterOrigin Pulse	5,902	0:27	0.15	0.1	1624.4%
3	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	psychicPsycho CutpsychicFuture Sight+	6,428	0:28	0.15	0.3	1579.5%
4	Mega Greninjawaterdark	waterWater ShurikenwaterSurf+	3,784	0:28	0.15	0.7	1570.6%
5	Mega Sceptilegrassdragon	bugFury CuttergrassFrenzy Plant	4,056	0:30	0.17	0.6	1457.3%
6	Kyurem (White)dragonice	iceIce FangiceIce Burn	4,605	0:31	0.17	0.5	1390.4%
7	Mega Chesnaughtgrassfighting	grassVine WhipgrassSeed Bomb+	4,093	0:32	0.18	0.3	1361.8%
8	Shadow Kyogrewater	waterWaterfallwaterOrigin Pulse	4,115	0:32	0.18	0.8	1344.3%
9	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	psychicPsycho CutfightingDynamic Punch+	6,112	0:34	0.19	0.7	1295.9%
10	Mega Rayquazadragonflying	dragonDragon TailflyingDragon Ascent	5,713	0:34	0.19	0.1	1294.1%
11	Mega Swampertwaterground	waterWater GunwaterHydro Cannon	4,401	0:34	0.19	0.8	1288.7%
12	Shadow Kinglerwater	waterBubblewaterCrabhammer	2,829	0:34	0.19	1.2	1269.8%
13	Mega Blastoisewater	waterWater GunwaterHydro Cannon	3,941	0:35	0.20	0.8	1236.4%
14	Mega Venusaurgrasspoison	grassVine WhipgrassFrenzy Plant	3,698	0:36	0.20	0.6	1224.0%
15	Kyurem (Black)dragonice	dragonDragon TailiceFreeze Shock	4,605	0:36	0.20	0.8	1223.5%

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 Groudon.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Shadow Groudon'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	Faints	Estimator
Random (any moveset)showing	100%	183%	1328.6%	0:33	0.9	0.18
Mud Shot / Solar Beam	100%	195%	1264.4%	0:34	0.8	0.19
Dragon Tail / Solar Beam	100%	177%	1288.9%	0:34	1.0	0.19
Mud Shot / Earthquake	100%	178%	1314.6%	0:33	1.1	0.18
Dragon Tail / Earthquake	100%	169%	1323.0%	0:33	1.2	0.18
Dragon Tail / Fire Blast	100%	192%	1363.5%	0:32	0.7	0.18
Mud Shot / Fire Blast	100%	222%	1365.8%	0:32	0.7	0.18

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…

Groudon 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.

water1.6x grass1.6x ice1.6x normal1x fighting1x flying1x ground1x bug1x ghost1x steel1x fire1x psychic1x dragon1x dark1x fairy1x poison0.63x rock0.63x electric0.39x

Weak (3)
Neutral (12)
Resists (3)

It resists electric0.39xpoison0.625xrock0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Groudon throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
dragonDragon Tail	14	+8	1.0s	0.75s
groundMud ShotSTAB	4	+6	0.5s	0.25s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
groundEarthquakeSTAB	140	-100	3.5s	2.60s
grassSolar Beam	180	-100	5.0s	2.80s
fireFire Blast	140	-100	4.0s	2.90s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
6/6/6floor	2,188	2,736
7/7/7	2,206	2,758
8/8/8	2,224	2,780
9/9/9	2,242	2,803
10/10/10	2,260	2,825
11/11/11	2,278	2,848
12/12/12	2,296	2,871
13/13/13	2,315	2,893
14/14/14	2,333	2,916
15/15/15hundo	2,351	2,939

Caught CP range 2,188 - 2,351, or 2,736 - 2,939 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 2,188, not at the 2,260 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 72 CP higher than this one.

When it is in raids

From the raid schedule, refreshed daily.

Groudon 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 170 / Defense 145 (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 Starmie top pickwaterpsychicmega Water Gun / Liquidation+	Water Gun / Liquidation++44 more movesets	98%	1641.1%	0.15	0:27	0.4	100%	3,701	23.3	471
2	Primal Kyogre top pickwatermega Waterfall / Origin Pulse	Waterfall / Origin Pulse+5 more movesets	100%	1624.4%	0.15	0:27	0.1	100%	5,902	23.0	580
3	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Psycho Cut / Future Sight+	Psycho Cut / Future Sight++26 more movesets	94%	1579.5%	0.15	0:28	0.3	100%	6,428	22.0	519
4	Mega Greninja waterdarkmega Water Shuriken / Surf+	Water Shuriken / Surf++17 more movesets	90%	1570.6%	0.15	0:28	0.7	100%	3,784	24.9	463
5	Mega Sceptile grassdragonmega Fury Cutter / Frenzy Plant	Fury Cutter / Frenzy Plant+11 more movesets	84%	1457.3%	0.17	0:30	0.6	100%	4,056	21.1	444
6	Kyurem (White) dragonice Ice Fang / Ice Burn	Ice Fang / Ice Burn+17 more movesets	82%	1390.4%	0.17	0:31	0.5	100%	4,605	20.9	494
7	Mega Chesnaught grassfightingmega Vine Whip / Seed Bomb+	Vine Whip / Seed Bomb++20 more movesets	84%	1361.8%	0.18	0:32	0.3	100%	4,093	21.8	611
8	Shadow Kyogre watershadow Waterfall / Origin Pulse	Waterfall / Origin Pulse+5 more movesets	76%	1344.3%	0.18	0:32	0.8	100%	4,115	19.2	423
9	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Dynamic Punch+	Psycho Cut / Dynamic Punch++26 more movesets	75%	1295.9%	0.19	0:34	0.6	100%	6,112	18.9	433
10	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Dragon Tail / Dragon Ascent	Dragon Tail / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	79%	1294.1%	0.19	0:34	0.1	100%	5,713	18.6	595
11	Mega Swampert watergroundmega Water Gun / Hydro Cannon	Water Gun / Hydro Cannon+11 more movesets	73%	1288.7%	0.19	0:34	0.8	100%	4,401	18.6	421
12	Shadow Kingler watershadow Bubble / Crabhammer	Bubble / Crabhammer+14 more movesets	68%	1269.8%	0.19	0:34	1.2	100%	2,829	17.9	294
13	Mega Blastoise watermega Water Gun / Hydro Cannon	Water Gun / Hydro Cannon+14 more movesets	69%	1236.4%	0.20	0:35	0.8	100%	3,941	17.4	404
14	Mega Venusaur grasspoisonmega Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant	Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant+9 more movesets	71%	1224.0%	0.20	0:36	0.6	100%	3,698	17.1	423
15	Kyurem (Black) dragonice Dragon Tail / Freeze Shock	Dragon Tail / Freeze Shock+11 more movesets	70%	1223.5%	0.20	0:36	0.7	100%	4,605	18.0	401
16	Kartana grasssteel Razor Leaf / Leaf Blade	Razor Leaf / Leaf Blade+14 more movesets	65%	1209.2%	0.20	0:36	1.4	100%	3,677	17.3	294
17	Shadow Greninja waterdarkshadow Bubble / Hydro Cannon	Bubble / Hydro Cannon+14 more movesets	64%	1208.3%	0.20	0:36	1.3	100%	2,654	17.3	284
18	Shaymin (Sky) grassflying Magical Leaf / Grass Knot	Magical Leaf / Grass Knot+11 more movesets	70%	1201.8%	0.20	0:36	0.4	100%	3,592	17.2	514
19	Kyogre water Waterfall / Origin Pulse	Waterfall / Origin Pulse+5 more movesets	66%	1176.3%	0.21	0:37	0.7	100%	4,115	16.7	427
20	Shadow Gyarados waterflyingshadow Waterfall / Hydro Pump	Waterfall / Hydro Pump+23 more movesets	66%	1151.0%	0.21	0:38	0.6	100%	3,391	16.0	441
21	Zarude darkgrass Vine Whip / Power Whip	Vine Whip / Power Whip+5 more movesets	68%	1143.7%	0.21	0:38	0.3	100%	3,833	16.5	525
22	Shadow Samurott watershadow Fury Cutter / Hydro Cannon	Fury Cutter / Hydro Cannon+11 more movesets	61%	1141.0%	0.21	0:38	1.3	100%	2,826	16.2	274
23	Shadow Chesnaught grassfightingshadow Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant	Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant+17 more movesets	62%	1137.6%	0.21	0:38	1.2	100%	2,954	16.3	308
24	Mega Victreebel grasspoisonmega Magical Leaf / Leaf Blade	Magical Leaf / Leaf Blade+23 more movesets	61%	1131.9%	0.21	0:39	1.0	100%	3,505	16.0	356
25	Eternatus poisondragon Dragon Tail / Dynamax Cannon	Dragon Tail / Dynamax Cannon+7 more movesets	65%	1130.7%	0.22	0:39	0.4	100%	4,429	16.2	501
26	Shadow Swampert watergroundshadow Water Gun / Hydro Cannon	Water Gun / Hydro Cannon+11 more movesets	61%	1130.3%	0.22	0:39	1.0	100%	2,974	16.2	360
27	Mega Gyarados waterdarkmega Waterfall / Hydro Pump	Waterfall / Hydro Pump+23 more movesets	64%	1126.3%	0.22	0:39	0.6	100%	4,717	15.9	440
28	Shadow Venusaur grasspoisonshadow Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant	Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant+9 more movesets	59%	1113.3%	0.22	0:39	1.3	100%	2,720	16.0	325
29	Shadow Sceptile grassshadow Bullet Seed / Frenzy Plant	Bullet Seed / Frenzy Plant+11 more movesets	59%	1104.6%	0.22	0:39	1.2	100%	2,757	16.5	325
30	Rillaboom grass Razor Leaf / Frenzy Plant	Razor Leaf / Frenzy Plant+9 more movesets	59%	1078.2%	0.23	0:40	0.8	100%	3,324	15.5	400

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