Shadow raid

Shadow Houndour counters

#0228

dark fireShadow 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

4,049

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

Defense

Difficulty

0.06

Pokebattler scale

Beating Shadow Houndour should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 615-705.

Weak tofighting1.6xground1.6xrock1.6xwater1.6x

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 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 Houndour counters are Mega Lucario, Shadow Landorus (Therian), Shadow Mewtwo, Keldeo, Shadow Excadrill & Shadow Tyrantrum.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Lucario
S. Landorus (Therian)
S. Mewtwo
Keldeo
S. Excadrill
S. Tyrantrum

9 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 LucarioMegapartyForce Palm / Aura Sphere0.060:10
2Mega StarmieMegaQuick Attack / Liquidation+0.060:10
3Mega GreninjaMegaBubble / Surf+0.060:10
4Mega Mewtwo XMegaLegendaryCounter / Dynamic Punch+0.060:11
5Mega FalinksMegaCounter / Brick Break+0.060:11
6Shadow Landorus (Therian)ShadowLegendarypartyMud Shot / Sandsear Storm0.060:11
7Mega GalladeMegaLow Kick / Sacred Sword0.070:12
8Mega HeracrossMegaCounter / Close Combat0.070:13
9Mega SwampertMegaWater Gun / Hydro Cannon0.070:13
10Shadow MewtwoShadowLegendarypartyCounter / Focus Blast0.070:13
11KeldeoLegendarypartyLow Kick / Secret Sword0.070:13
14Shadow ExcadrillShadowpartyMud-Slap / Earthquake0.070:13
15Shadow TyrantrumShadowpartyRock Throw / Meteor Beam0.070:13

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 Houndour 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 Lucariofightingsteeljoint top pick	fightingForce PalmfightingAura Sphere	3,826	0:10	0.06	4359.9%
2	Mega Starmiewaterpsychicjoint top pick	normalQuick AttackwaterLiquidation+	3,701	0:10	0.06	4282.1%
3	Mega Greninjawaterdark	waterBubblewaterSurf+	3,784	0:10	0.06	4180.7%
4	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	fightingCounterfightingDynamic Punch+	6,112	0:11	0.06	3920.0%
5	Mega Falinksfighting	fightingCounterfightingBrick Break+	3,670	0:11	0.06	3905.9%
6	Shadow Landorus (Therian)groundflying	groundMud ShotgroundSandsear Storm	3,922	0:11	0.06	3791.1%
7	Mega Galladepsychicfighting	fightingLow KickfightingSacred Sword	4,521	0:12	0.07	3697.8%
8	Mega Heracrossbugfighting	fightingCounterfightingClose Combat	4,814	0:13	0.07	3406.0%
9	Mega Swampertwaterground	waterWater GunwaterHydro Cannon	4,401	0:13	0.07	3379.6%
10	Shadow Mewtwopsychic	fightingCounterfightingFocus Blast	4,178	0:13	0.07	3348.4%
11	Keldeowaterfighting	fightingLow KickfightingSecret Sword	3,698	0:13	0.07	3320.4%
12	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	fightingCounterfightingFocus Blast	6,428	0:13	0.07	3312.8%
13	Mega Alakazampsychic	fightingCounterfightingFocus Blast	4,510	0:13	0.07	3312.8%
14	Shadow Excadrillgroundsteel	groundMud-SlapgroundEarthquake	3,244	0:13	0.07	3312.8%
15	Shadow Tyrantrumrockdragon	rockRock ThrowrockMeteor Beam	3,128	0:13	0.07	3287.8%

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 Houndour.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Shadow Houndour'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%	671%	3509.2%	0:12	0.07
Ember / Flamethrower	100%	708%	3460.8%	0:13	0.07
Ember / Dark Pulse	100%	700%	3468.5%	0:13	0.07
Ember / Crunch	100%	684%	3509.2%	0:12	0.07
Feint Attack / Dark Pulse	100%	703%	3515.1%	0:12	0.07
Feint Attack / Flamethrower	100%	680%	3519.0%	0:12	0.07
Feint Attack / Crunch	100%	692%	3532.9%	0:12	0.07

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…

Houndour 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 ground1.6x rock1.6x water1.6x normal1x flying1x poison1x bug1x electric1x dragon1x fairy1x ghost0.63x steel0.63x fire0.63x grass0.63x ice0.63x dark0.63x psychic0.39x

Weak (4)
Neutral (7)
Resists (7)

It resists psychic0.39xghost0.625xsteel0.625xfire0.625xgrass0.625xice0.625xdark0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Houndour throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
darkFeint AttackSTAB	11	+10	1.0s	0.85s
fireEmberSTAB	10	+10	1.0s	0.60s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
fireFlamethrowerSTAB	65	-50	2.0s	1.30s
darkDark PulseSTAB	80	-50	3.0s	1.40s
darkCrunchSTAB	65	-33	3.0s	1.10s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
6/6/6floor	615	769
7/7/7	625	781
8/8/8	635	794
9/9/9	645	806
10/10/10	654	818
11/11/11	664	831
12/12/12	674	843
13/13/13	685	856
14/14/14	695	869
15/15/15hundo	705	881

Caught CP range 615 - 705, or 769 - 881 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 615, not at the 654 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 39 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.

Houndour 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 99 / Defense 58 (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 Lucario top pickfightingsteelmega Force Palm / Aura Sphere	Force Palm / Aura Sphere+23 more movesets	98%	4359.9%	0.06	0:10	0.0	100%	3,826	63.2	632
2	Mega Starmie top pickwaterpsychicmega Quick Attack / Liquidation+	Quick Attack / Liquidation++44 more movesets	94%	4282.1%	0.06	0:10	0.0	100%	3,701	59.7	607
3	Mega Greninja waterdarkmega Bubble / Surf+	Bubble / Surf++17 more movesets	100%	4180.7%	0.06	0:10	0.0	100%	3,784	58.9	614
4	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Counter / Dynamic Punch+	Counter / Dynamic Punch++26 more movesets	97%	3920.0%	0.06	0:11	0.0	100%	6,112	84.7	940
5	Mega Falinks fightingmega Counter / Brick Break+	Counter / Brick Break++7 more movesets	92%	3905.9%	0.06	0:11	0.0	100%	3,670	63.3	706
6	Shadow Landorus (Therian) groundflyingshadow Mud Shot / Sandsear Storm	Mud Shot / Sandsear Storm+9 more movesets	81%	3791.1%	0.06	0:11	0.0	100%	3,922	52.5	604
7	Mega Gallade psychicfightingmega Low Kick / Sacred Sword	Low Kick / Sacred Sword+19 more movesets	82%	3697.8%	0.07	0:12	0.0	100%	4,521	51.7	610
8	Mega Heracross bugfightingmega Counter / Close Combat	Counter / Close Combat+17 more movesets	75%	3406.0%	0.07	0:13	0.0	100%	4,814	48.6	622
9	Mega Swampert watergroundmega Water Gun / Hydro Cannon	Water Gun / Hydro Cannon+11 more movesets	78%	3379.6%	0.07	0:13	0.0	100%	4,401	47.4	612
10	Shadow Mewtwo psychicshadow Counter / Focus Blast	Counter / Focus Blast+23 more movesets	67%	3348.4%	0.07	0:13	0.0	100%	4,178	47.8	622
11	Keldeo waterfighting Low Kick / Secret Sword	Low Kick / Secret Sword+11 more movesets	80%	3320.4%	0.07	0:13	0.0	100%	3,698	52.6	691
12	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Counter / Focus Blast	Counter / Focus Blast+26 more movesets	73%	3312.8%	0.07	0:13	0.0	100%	6,428	54.2	713
13	Mega Alakazam psychicmega Counter / Focus Blast	Counter / Focus Blast+17 more movesets	65%	3312.8%	0.07	0:13	0.0	100%	4,510	48.0	630
14	Shadow Excadrill groundsteelshadow Mud-Slap / Earthquake	Mud-Slap / Earthquake+14 more movesets	65%	3312.8%	0.07	0:13	0.0	100%	3,244	48.1	632
15	Shadow Tyrantrum rockdragonshadow Rock Throw / Meteor Beam	Rock Throw / Meteor Beam+17 more movesets	71%	3287.8%	0.07	0:13	0.0	100%	3,128	46.6	617
16	Shadow Blaziken firefightingshadow Counter / Aura Sphere	Counter / Aura Sphere+20 more movesets	72%	3268.1%	0.07	0:13	0.0	100%	2,848	55.1	734
17	Primal Groudon groundfiremega Mud Shot / Earthquake	Mud Shot / Earthquake+9 more movesets	76%	3229.4%	0.08	0:13	0.0	100%	5,902	44.6	602
18	Shadow Mamoswine icegroundshadow Mud-Slap / High Horsepower	Mud-Slap / High Horsepower+11 more movesets	64%	3220.2%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	3,328	44.7	599
19	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Counter / Aura Sphere	Counter / Aura Sphere+20 more movesets	75%	3210.3%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	4,161	57.6	783
20	Shadow Haxorus dragonshadow Counter / Earthquake	Counter / Earthquake+9 more movesets	66%	3205.6%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	3,593	44.3	603
21	Pheromosa bugfighting Low Kick / Focus Blast	Low Kick / Focus Blast+7 more movesets	61%	3199.9%	0.08	0:14	0.1	100%	2,842	44.4	574
22	Shadow Conkeldurr fightingshadow Counter / Focus Blast	Counter / Focus Blast+11 more movesets	69%	3186.9%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	3,337	45.8	626
23	Blaziken firefighting Counter / Aura Sphere	Counter / Aura Sphere+20 more movesets	69%	3150.0%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	2,848	45.1	624
24	Shadow Landorus (Incarnate) groundflyingshadow Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+7 more movesets	66%	3150.0%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	3,588	45.5	629
25	Shadow Latios dragonpsychicshadow Dragon Breath / Aura Sphere	Dragon Breath / Aura Sphere+9 more movesets	64%	3147.7%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	3,812	44.6	617
26	Shadow Kingler watershadow Bubble / Crabhammer	Bubble / Crabhammer+14 more movesets	63%	3114.0%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	2,829	44.0	616
27	Terrakion rockfighting Double Kick / Sacred Sword	Double Kick / Sacred Sword+11 more movesets	73%	3114.0%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	3,698	44.1	618
28	Shadow Greninja waterdarkshadow Bubble / Hydro Cannon	Bubble / Hydro Cannon+14 more movesets	67%	3114.0%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	2,654	43.0	602
29	Shadow Rampardos rockshadow Smack Down / Rock Slide	Smack Down / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	63%	3107.4%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	3,298	50.1	704
30	Kartana grasssteel Fury Cutter / Sacred Sword	Fury Cutter / Sacred Sword+14 more movesets	58%	3096.3%	0.08	0:14	0.1	100%	3,677	45.0	587

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.