Shadow raid

Shadow Heatran counters

#0485

fire steelShadow 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

9,838

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

158

Defense

136

Difficulty

0.11

Pokebattler scale

Beating Shadow Heatran should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 1,990-2,145.

Weak toground2.56xfighting1.6xwater1.6x

Who to bring

IncludeMega Legendary Shadow

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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 Heatran counters are Shadow Groudon, Primal Groudon, Landorus (Therian), Shadow Landorus (Therian), Shadow Garchomp & Shadow Landorus (Incarnate).

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

S. Groudon
Primal Groudon
Landorus (Therian)
S. Landorus (Therian)
S. Garchomp
S. Landorus (Incarnate)

Ranked by Estimator (trainers needed); small print: time to winOrder byEstimatorOverall %

1Shadow GroudonShadowLegendarypartyMud Shot / Precipice Blades0.100:17
2Primal GroudonMegaLegendarypartyMud Shot / Precipice Blades0.100:18
3Landorus (Therian)LegendarypartyMud Shot / Sandsear Storm0.110:19
4Shadow Landorus (Therian)ShadowLegendarypartyMud Shot / Sandsear Storm0.110:20
5Shadow GarchompShadowpartyMud Shot / Earth Power0.110:20
6Shadow Landorus (Incarnate)ShadowLegendarypartyMud Shot / Earth Power0.110:21
7Mega GarchompMegaMud Shot / Earth Power0.120:21
8Mega Mewtwo XMegaLegendaryCounter / Dynamic Punch+0.120:22
9Mega SwampertMegaMud Shot / Earthquake0.120:22
10Shadow RhyperiorShadowMud-Slap / Drill Run0.120:22

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 Heatran 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	0:17	0.10	0.0	2509.8%
2	Primal Groudongroundfire	groundMud ShotgroundPrecipice Blades	5,902	0:18	0.10	0.0	2394.0%
3	Landorus (Therian)groundflying	groundMud ShotgroundSandsear Storm	3,922	0:19	0.11	0.0	2240.2%
4	Shadow Landorus (Therian)groundflying	groundMud ShotgroundSandsear Storm	3,922	0:20	0.11	0.1	2232.2%
5	Shadow Garchompdragonground	groundMud ShotgroundEarth Power	3,962	0:20	0.11	0.0	2149.6%
6	Shadow Landorus (Incarnate)groundflying	groundMud ShotgroundEarth Power	3,588	0:21	0.11	0.1	2120.2%
7	Mega Garchompdragonground	groundMud ShotgroundEarth Power	5,424	0:21	0.12	0.0	2099.9%
8	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	fightingCounterfightingDynamic Punch+	6,112	0:22	0.12	0.0	2018.1%
9	Mega Swampertwaterground	groundMud ShotgroundEarthquake	4,401	0:22	0.12	0.0	1995.1%
10	Shadow Rhyperiorgroundrock	groundMud-SlapgroundDrill Run	3,733	0:22	0.12	0.1	1972.9%
11	Mega Starmiewaterpsychic	waterWater GunwaterLiquidation+	3,701	0:22	0.12	0.0	1954.7%
12	Shadow Mamoswineiceground	groundMud-SlapgroundHigh Horsepower	3,328	0:23	0.13	0.9	1909.6%
13	Shadow Excadrillgroundsteel	groundMud ShotgroundScorching Sands	3,244	0:23	0.13	0.8	1907.5%
14	Groudonground	groundMud ShotgroundEarthquake	4,115	0:23	0.13	0.0	1895.4%
15	Shadow Hippowdonground	groundSand AttackgroundScorching Sands	3,085	0:23	0.13	0.1	1885.2%

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 Heatran.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Shadow Heatran'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%	382%	2256.6%	0:19	0.1	0.11
Fire Spin / Fire Blast	100%	345%	2140.2%	0:20	0.2	0.11
Bug Bite / Fire Blast	100%	390%	2242.8%	0:19	0.0	0.11
Bug Bite / Earth Power	100%	451%	2242.8%	0:19	0.0	0.11
Bug Bite / Stone Edge	100%	434%	2258.1%	0:19	0.0	0.11
Bug Bite / Flamethrower	100%	404%	2270.0%	0:19	0.0	0.11
Bug Bite / Iron Head	100%	409%	2287.8%	0:19	0.0	0.11
Fire Spin / Stone Edge	100%	384%	2319.0%	0:19	0.0	0.10
Fire Spin / Earth Power	100%	393%	2321.6%	0:19	0.0	0.10
Fire Spin / Iron Head	100%	376%	2343.7%	0:19	0.0	0.10
Fire Spin / Flamethrower	100%	379%	2351.6%	0:19	0.0	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…

Heatran 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 rock1x ghost1x fire1x electric1x dark1x normal0.63x flying0.63x psychic0.63x dragon0.63x poison0.39x bug0.39x steel0.39x grass0.39x ice0.39x fairy0.39x

Double weak (1)
Weak (2)
Neutral (5)
Resists (10)

It resists poison0.39xbug0.39xsteel0.39xgrass0.39xice0.39xfairy0.39xnormal0.625xflying0.625xpsychic0.625xdragon0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Heatran throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
fireFire SpinSTAB	13	+9	1.0s	0.75s
bugBug Bite	5	+6	0.5s	0.25s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
fireFire BlastSTAB	140	-100	4.0s	2.90s
rockStone Edge	105	-100	2.5s	0.90s
fireFlamethrowerSTAB	65	-50	2.0s	1.30s
steelIron HeadSTAB	60	-50	2.0s	1.40s
groundEarth Power	100	-50	3.5s	2.60s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
6/6/6floor	1,990	2,487
7/7/7	2,007	2,509
8/8/8	2,024	2,530
9/9/9	2,041	2,551
10/10/10	2,058	2,573
11/11/11	2,075	2,594
12/12/12	2,093	2,616
13/13/13	2,110	2,638
14/14/14	2,127	2,659
15/15/15hundo	2,145	2,681

Caught CP range 1,990 - 2,145, or 2,487 - 2,681 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 1,990, not at the 2,058 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 68 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.

Heatran 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 158 / Defense 136 (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

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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 groundshadow Mud Shot / Precipice Blades	Mud Shot / Precipice Blades+9 more movesets	95%	2509.8%	0.10	0:17	0.0	100%	4,115	35.8	621
2	Primal Groudon groundfiremega Mud Shot / Precipice Blades	Mud Shot / Precipice Blades+9 more movesets	100%	2394.0%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	5,902	38.1	693
3	Landorus (Therian) groundflying Mud Shot / Sandsear Storm	Mud Shot / Sandsear Storm+9 more movesets	85%	2240.2%	0.11	0:19	0.0	100%	3,922	34.4	668
4	Shadow Landorus (Therian) groundflyingshadow Mud Shot / Sandsear Storm	Mud Shot / Sandsear Storm+9 more movesets	84%	2232.2%	0.11	0:20	0.1	100%	3,922	39.7	733
5	Shadow Garchomp dragongroundshadow Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+13 more movesets	83%	2149.6%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	3,962	31.8	644
6	Shadow Landorus (Incarnate) groundflyingshadow Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+7 more movesets	77%	2120.2%	0.11	0:21	0.1	100%	3,588	31.6	608
7	Mega Garchomp dragongroundmega Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+13 more movesets	85%	2099.9%	0.12	0:21	0.0	100%	5,424	34.1	707
8	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Counter / Dynamic Punch+	Counter / Dynamic Punch++26 more movesets	78%	2018.1%	0.12	0:22	0.0	100%	6,112	35.9	774
9	Mega Swampert watergroundmega Mud Shot / Earthquake	Mud Shot / Earthquake+11 more movesets	79%	1995.1%	0.12	0:22	0.0	100%	4,401	29.0	634
10	Shadow Rhyperior groundrockshadow Mud-Slap / Drill Run	Mud-Slap / Drill Run+15 more movesets	71%	1972.9%	0.12	0:22	0.1	100%	3,733	29.8	614
11	Mega Starmie waterpsychicmega Water Gun / Liquidation+	Water Gun / Liquidation++44 more movesets	73%	1954.7%	0.12	0:22	0.0	100%	3,701	27.5	613
12	Shadow Mamoswine icegroundshadow Mud-Slap / High Horsepower	Mud-Slap / High Horsepower+11 more movesets	62%	1909.6%	0.13	0:23	0.8	100%	3,328	28.5	411
13	Shadow Excadrill groundsteelshadow Mud Shot / Scorching Sands	Mud Shot / Scorching Sands+14 more movesets	63%	1907.5%	0.13	0:23	0.7	100%	3,244	28.3	430
14	Groudon ground Mud Shot / Earthquake	Mud Shot / Earthquake+9 more movesets	69%	1895.4%	0.13	0:23	0.0	100%	4,115	26.1	600
15	Shadow Hippowdon groundshadow Sand Attack / Scorching Sands	Sand Attack / Scorching Sands+29 more movesets	67%	1885.2%	0.13	0:23	0.1	100%	3,085	26.3	590
16	Mega Falinks fightingmega Counter / Brick Break+	Counter / Brick Break++7 more movesets	65%	1808.7%	0.13	0:24	0.1	100%	3,670	25.3	584
17	Shadow Flygon grounddragonshadow Sand Attack / Scorching Sands	Sand Attack / Scorching Sands+23 more movesets	63%	1793.2%	0.14	0:24	0.2	100%	2,661	26.0	550
18	Garchomp dragonground Mud Shot / Earthquake	Mud Shot / Earthquake+13 more movesets	67%	1779.3%	0.14	0:24	0.0	100%	3,962	24.7	604
19	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Counter / Aura Sphere	Counter / Aura Sphere+20 more movesets	63%	1774.4%	0.14	0:25	0.2	100%	4,161	26.1	566
20	Mega Greninja waterdarkmega Water Shuriken / Surf+	Water Shuriken / Surf++17 more movesets	62%	1734.7%	0.14	0:25	0.3	100%	3,784	28.4	615
21	Shadow Golurk groundghostshadow Mud-Slap / Earth Power	Mud-Slap / Earth Power+7 more movesets	58%	1725.6%	0.14	0:25	0.5	100%	2,854	27.1	504
22	Excadrill groundsteel Mud-Slap / Scorching Sands	Mud-Slap / Scorching Sands+14 more movesets	55%	1688.2%	0.14	0:26	0.8	100%	3,244	24.8	424
23	Shadow Swampert watergroundshadow Mud Shot / Earthquake	Mud Shot / Earthquake+11 more movesets	61%	1687.8%	0.14	0:26	0.1	100%	2,974	23.7	575
24	Mamoswine iceground Mud-Slap / High Horsepower	Mud-Slap / High Horsepower+11 more movesets	55%	1678.0%	0.14	0:26	0.7	100%	3,328	24.9	414
25	Shadow Golem rockgroundshadow Mud Shot / Earthquake	Mud Shot / Earthquake+11 more movesets	57%	1677.2%	0.14	0:26	0.4	100%	2,949	23.5	489
26	Rhyperior groundrock Mud-Slap / Drill Run	Mud-Slap / Drill Run+15 more movesets	60%	1673.1%	0.15	0:26	0.2	100%	3,733	24.0	556
27	Mega Gallade psychicfightingmega Low Kick / Sacred Sword	Low Kick / Sacred Sword+19 more movesets	57%	1659.2%	0.15	0:26	0.3	100%	4,521	23.3	506
28	Shadow Blaziken firefightingshadow Counter / Aura Sphere	Counter / Aura Sphere+20 more movesets	54%	1617.2%	0.15	0:27	0.6	100%	2,848	23.4	449
29	Landorus (Incarnate) groundflying Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+7 more movesets	57%	1615.7%	0.15	0:27	0.3	100%	3,588	25.7	600
30	Mega Heracross bugfightingmega Counter / Earthquake	Counter / Earthquake+17 more movesets	56%	1608.4%	0.15	0:27	0.3	100%	4,814	26.1	602

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.