Shadow raid

Shadow Mareep counters

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electricShadow 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

3,063

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

Defense

Difficulty

0.07

Pokebattler scale

Beating Shadow Mareep should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 486-566.

Weak toground1.6x

Who to bring

IncludeMega Legendary Shadow

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Weather

★ boosts a type it 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 Mareep counters are Shadow Landorus (Therian), Mega Mewtwo X, Shadow Mamoswine, Shadow Excadrill, Shadow Groudon & Shadow Garchomp.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

S. Landorus (Therian)
M. Mewtwo X
S. Mamoswine
S. Excadrill
S. Groudon
S. Garchomp

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 %

1Shadow Landorus (Therian)ShadowLegendarypartyMud Shot / Sandsear Storm0.060:10
2Mega Mewtwo XMegaLegendarypartyConfusion / Dynamic Punch+0.060:12
3Mega Mewtwo YMegaLegendaryConfusion / Future Sight+0.070:12
4Primal GroudonMegaLegendaryMud Shot / Earthquake0.070:12
5Mega GarchompMegaMud Shot / Earthquake0.080:13
6Shadow MamoswineShadowpartyMud-Slap / High Horsepower0.080:13
7Shadow ExcadrillShadowpartyMud Shot / Scorching Sands0.080:14
8Shadow GroudonShadowLegendarypartyMud Shot / Earthquake0.080:14
9Mega DragoniteMegaDragon Tail / Outrage+0.080:14
10Shadow GarchompShadowpartyMud Shot / Earthquake0.080:14

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 Mareep 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 Landorus (Therian)groundflyingjoint top pick	groundMud ShotgroundSandsear Storm	3,922	0:10	0.06	4176.1%
2	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	psychicConfusionfightingDynamic Punch+	6,112	0:12	0.06	3790.4%
3	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	psychicConfusionpsychicFuture Sight+	6,428	0:12	0.07	3725.6%
4	Primal Groudongroundfire	groundMud ShotgroundEarthquake	5,902	0:12	0.07	3633.1%
5	Mega Garchompdragonground	groundMud ShotgroundEarthquake	5,424	0:13	0.08	3229.4%
6	Shadow Mamoswineiceground	groundMud-SlapgroundHigh Horsepower	3,328	0:13	0.08	3229.4%
7	Shadow Excadrillgroundsteel	groundMud ShotgroundScorching Sands	3,244	0:14	0.08	3191.5%
8	Shadow Groudonground	groundMud ShotgroundEarthquake	4,115	0:14	0.08	3114.0%
9	Mega Dragonitedragonflying	dragonDragon TaildragonOutrage+	4,823	0:14	0.08	3031.3%
10	Shadow Garchompdragonground	groundMud ShotgroundEarthquake	3,962	0:14	0.08	3006.6%
11	Shadow Landorus (Incarnate)groundflying	groundMud ShotgroundEarth Power	3,588	0:15	0.08	2981.9%
12	Shadow Rhydongroundrock	groundMud-SlapgroundEarthquake	3,179	0:15	0.08	2961.7%
13	Shadow Rhyperiorgroundrock	groundMud-SlapgroundEarthquake	3,733	0:15	0.08	2937.7%
14	Landorus (Therian)groundflying	groundMud ShotgroundSandsear Storm	3,922	0:15	0.08	2906.4%
15	Mega Lucariofightingsteel	fightingForce PalmfightingAura Sphere	3,826	0:15	0.08	2868.1%

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 Mareep.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Shadow Mareep'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	Estimator
Random (any moveset)showing	100%	872%	3364.3%	0:13	0.07
Thunder Shock / Discharge	100%	993%	3346.4%	0:13	0.07
Thunder Shock / Body Slam	100%	900%	3348.1%	0:13	0.07
Thunder Shock / Thunderbolt	100%	958%	3357.1%	0:13	0.07
Tackle / Discharge	100%	952%	3360.7%	0:13	0.07
Tackle / Thunderbolt	100%	926%	3364.3%	0:13	0.07
Tackle / Body Slam	100%	878%	3369.7%	0:13	0.07
Thunder Shock / Trailblaze	100%	802%	3377.0%	0:13	0.07
Tackle / Trailblaze	100%	785%	3384.2%	0:13	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…

Mareep 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.

ground1.6x normal1x fighting1x poison1x rock1x bug1x ghost1x fire1x water1x grass1x psychic1x ice1x dragon1x dark1x fairy1x flying0.63x steel0.63x electric0.63x

Weak (1)
Neutral (14)
Resists (3)

It resists flying0.625xsteel0.625xelectric0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Mareep throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
normalTackle	5	+5	0.5s	0.30s
electricThunder ShockSTAB	4	+7	0.5s	0.20s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
electricThunderboltSTAB	80	-50	2.5s	1.80s
grassTrailblaze	65	-50	2.0s	1.20s
electricDischargeSTAB	65	-33	2.5s	1.70s
normalBody Slam	50	-33	2.0s	1.30s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
6/6/6floor	486	608
7/7/7	495	619
8/8/8	503	630
9/9/9	512	640
10/10/10	521	651
11/11/11	530	662
12/12/12	539	674
13/13/13	548	685
14/14/14	557	696
15/15/15hundo	566	708

Caught CP range 486 - 566, or 608 - 708 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 486, not at the 521 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 35 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.

Mareep 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 77 / Defense 56 (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	Win % (1)	CP	DPS	TDO
1	Shadow Landorus (Therian) groundflyingshadow Mud Shot / Sandsear Storm	Mud Shot / Sandsear Storm+9 more movesets	100%	4176.1%	0.06	0:10	100%	3,922	58.8	614
2	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Confusion / Dynamic Punch+	Confusion / Dynamic Punch++26 more movesets	93%	3790.4%	0.06	0:12	100%	6,112	53.5	615
3	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Confusion / Future Sight+	Confusion / Future Sight++26 more movesets	93%	3725.6%	0.07	0:12	100%	6,428	56.5	661
4	Primal Groudon groundfiremega Mud Shot / Earthquake	Mud Shot / Earthquake+9 more movesets	94%	3633.1%	0.07	0:12	100%	5,902	50.2	602
5	Mega Garchomp dragongroundmega Mud Shot / Earthquake	Mud Shot / Earthquake+13 more movesets	83%	3229.4%	0.08	0:13	100%	5,424	44.7	603
6	Shadow Mamoswine icegroundshadow Mud-Slap / High Horsepower	Mud-Slap / High Horsepower+11 more movesets	74%	3229.4%	0.08	0:13	100%	3,328	46.7	631
7	Shadow Excadrill groundsteelshadow Mud Shot / Scorching Sands	Mud Shot / Scorching Sands+14 more movesets	75%	3191.5%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,244	45.5	621
8	Shadow Groudon groundshadow Mud Shot / Earthquake	Mud Shot / Earthquake+9 more movesets	74%	3114.0%	0.08	0:14	100%	4,115	42.9	601
9	Mega Dragonite dragonflyingmega Dragon Tail / Outrage+	Dragon Tail / Outrage++26 more movesets	73%	3031.3%	0.08	0:14	100%	4,823	43.8	629
10	Shadow Garchomp dragongroundshadow Mud Shot / Earthquake	Mud Shot / Earthquake+13 more movesets	74%	3006.6%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,962	41.4	600
11	Shadow Landorus (Incarnate) groundflyingshadow Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+7 more movesets	68%	2981.9%	0.08	0:15	100%	3,588	46.5	680
12	Shadow Rhydon groundrockshadow Mud-Slap / Earthquake	Mud-Slap / Earthquake+9 more movesets	66%	2961.7%	0.08	0:15	100%	3,179	42.3	622
13	Shadow Rhyperior groundrockshadow Mud-Slap / Earthquake	Mud-Slap / Earthquake+15 more movesets	69%	2937.7%	0.08	0:15	100%	3,733	46.0	681
14	Landorus (Therian) groundflying Mud Shot / Sandsear Storm	Mud Shot / Sandsear Storm+9 more movesets	67%	2906.4%	0.08	0:15	100%	3,922	40.2	603
15	Mega Lucario fightingsteelmega Force Palm / Aura Sphere	Force Palm / Aura Sphere+23 more movesets	64%	2868.1%	0.08	0:15	100%	3,826	40.7	618
16	Shadow Haxorus dragonshadow Dragon Tail / Earthquake	Dragon Tail / Earthquake+9 more movesets	62%	2812.6%	0.09	0:15	100%	3,593	40.3	624
17	Shadow Donphan groundshadow Mud-Slap / Earthquake	Mud-Slap / Earthquake+19 more movesets	63%	2812.6%	0.09	0:15	100%	3,013	40.4	626
18	Excadrill groundsteel Mud-Slap / Earthquake	Mud-Slap / Earthquake+14 more movesets	66%	2812.6%	0.09	0:15	100%	3,244	39.5	612
19	Shadow Regigigas normalshadow Hidden Power / Crush Grip	Hidden Power / Crush Grip+7 more movesets	63%	2812.6%	0.09	0:15	100%	4,346	39.4	611
20	Shadow Golem rockgroundshadow Mud-Slap / Earthquake	Mud-Slap / Earthquake+11 more movesets	61%	2805.3%	0.09	0:16	100%	2,949	39.5	608
21	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe	Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe+11 more movesets	62%	2724.7%	0.09	0:16	100%	5,713	38.1	609
22	Mega Delphox firepsychicmega Fire Spin / Mystical Fire+	Fire Spin / Mystical Fire++23 more movesets	61%	2724.7%	0.09	0:16	100%	4,783	38.5	616
23	Mega Greninja waterdarkmega Water Shuriken / Surf+	Water Shuriken / Surf++17 more movesets	57%	2717.6%	0.09	0:16	100%	3,784	44.1	707
24	Mega Heracross bugfightingmega Counter / Earthquake	Counter / Earthquake+17 more movesets	58%	2642.1%	0.09	0:16	100%	4,814	36.4	601
25	Mamoswine iceground Mud-Slap / High Horsepower	Mud-Slap / High Horsepower+11 more movesets	58%	2642.1%	0.09	0:16	100%	3,328	36.5	603
26	Mega Alakazam psychicmega Confusion / Psychic	Confusion / Psychic+17 more movesets	55%	2642.1%	0.09	0:16	100%	4,510	36.6	604
27	Eternatus poisondragon Dragon Tail / Dynamax Cannon	Dragon Tail / Dynamax Cannon+7 more movesets	64%	2642.1%	0.09	0:16	100%	4,429	36.6	604
28	Garchomp dragonground Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+13 more movesets	61%	2564.4%	0.09	0:17	100%	3,962	35.8	608
29	Landorus (Incarnate) groundflying Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+7 more movesets	57%	2564.4%	0.09	0:17	100%	3,588	35.8	608
30	Rhyperior groundrock Mud-Slap / Earthquake	Mud-Slap / Earthquake+15 more movesets	58%	2564.4%	0.09	0:17	100%	3,733	36.4	619

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.