Shadow raid

Shadow Nidorina counters

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poisonShadow Tier 3

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

9,699

4,000

Timer

3:00

Attack

100

Defense

102

Difficulty

0.67

Pokebattler scale

Beating Shadow Nidorina should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 657-748.

Weak toground1.6xpsychic1.6x

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 Psychic Mega — most top counters attack with Psychic

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 Nidorina counters are Mega Mewtwo Y, Shadow Mewtwo, Shadow Landorus (Therian), Mewtwo, Shadow Regigigas & Shadow Groudon.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Mewtwo Y
S. Mewtwo
S. Landorus (Therian)
Mewtwo
S. Regigigas
S. Groudon

6 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 Mewtwo YMegaLegendarypartyPsycho Cut / Future Sight+0.491:26
2Mega Mewtwo XMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Psystrike0.611:48
3Shadow MewtwoShadowLegendarypartyConfusion / Psystrike0.692:00
4Shadow Landorus (Therian)ShadowLegendarypartyMud Shot / Sandsear Storm0.742:09
5Mega AlakazamMegaConfusion / Psychic0.752:12
6Primal GroudonMegaLegendaryMud Shot / Precipice Blades0.762:13
7MewtwoLegendarypartyConfusion / Psystrike0.822:24
8Mega GalladeMegaConfusion / Psychic0.822:25
9Mega LatiosMegaLegendaryZen Headbutt / Psychic0.832:26
10Shadow RegigigasShadowLegendarypartyZen Headbutt / Crush Grip0.842:27
12Shadow GroudonShadowLegendarypartyMud Shot / Precipice Blades0.842:28

More orders under All settings (Sort by). The top 15 in detail.

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Raid tier — Easy Group Shadow Raid

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Top 15 Shadow Nidorina 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 Mewtwo Ypsychicjoint top pick	psychicPsycho CutpsychicFuture Sight+	6,428	1:26	0.49	1.1	272.0%
2	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	psychicPsycho CutpsychicPsystrike	6,112	1:48	0.61	1.5	218.1%
3	Shadow Mewtwopsychic	psychicConfusionpsychicPsystrike	4,178	2:00	0.69	2.9	194.9%
4	Shadow Landorus (Therian)groundflying	groundMud ShotgroundSandsear Storm	3,922	2:09	0.74	1.6	181.4%
5	Mega Alakazampsychic	psychicConfusionpsychicPsychic	4,510	2:12	0.75	3.2	177.7%
6	Primal Groudongroundfire	groundMud ShotgroundPrecipice Blades	5,902	2:13	0.76	1.3	175.9%
7	Mewtwopsychic	psychicConfusionpsychicPsystrike	4,178	2:24	0.82	2.8	163.0%
8	Mega Galladepsychicfighting	psychicConfusionpsychicPsychic	4,521	2:25	0.82	2.8	162.0%
9	Mega Latiosdragonpsychic	psychicZen HeadbuttpsychicPsychic	5,007	2:26	0.83	2.3	160.5%
10	Shadow Regigigasnormal	psychicZen HeadbuttnormalCrush Grip	4,346	2:27	0.84	2.8	159.8%
11	Mega Gardevoirpsychicfairy	psychicConfusionpsychicPsychic	4,512	2:27	0.84	3.7	159.1%
12	Shadow Groudonground	groundMud ShotgroundPrecipice Blades	4,115	2:28	0.84	1.8	158.7%
13	Mega Delphoxfirepsychic	psychicZen HeadbuttpsychicPsychic	4,783	2:29	0.85	3.0	157.9%
14	Hoopa (Unbound)psychicdark	psychicConfusionpsychicPsychic	4,006	2:31	0.86	3.5	155.0%
15	Mega Malamardarkpsychic	psychicPsycho CutpsychicPsybeam+	3,143	2:32	0.86	2.4	154.9%

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 Nidorina.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Shadow Nidorina'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%	151%	182.1%	2:09	2.2	0.73
Bite / Sludge Bomb	100%	125%	180.3%	2:10	3.2	0.74
Bite / Dig	100%	153%	180.5%	2:10	2.3	0.74
Poison Sting / Dig	100%	158%	181.0%	2:10	2.2	0.74
Poison Sting / Sludge Bomb	100%	131%	181.4%	2:09	3.0	0.74
Bite / Thunderbolt	100%	151%	182.0%	2:09	2.2	0.73
Bite / Poison Fang	100%	190%	182.3%	2:09	1.5	0.73
Poison Sting / Thunderbolt	100%	158%	182.3%	2:09	2.2	0.73
Poison Sting / Poison Fang	100%	202%	183.6%	2:08	1.2	0.73

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…

Nidorina 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 psychic1.6x normal1x flying1x rock1x ghost1x steel1x fire1x water1x electric1x ice1x dragon1x dark1x fighting0.63x poison0.63x bug0.63x grass0.63x fairy0.63x

Weak (2)
Neutral (11)
Resists (5)

It resists fighting0.625xpoison0.625xbug0.625xgrass0.625xfairy0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Nidorina throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
darkBite	6	+4	0.5s	0.30s
poisonPoison StingSTAB	4	+6	0.5s	0.28s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
poisonSludge BombSTAB	85	-50	2.5s	1.30s
electricThunderbolt	80	-50	2.5s	1.80s
poisonPoison FangSTAB	30	-33	1.5s	0.70s
groundDig	100	-50	4.5s	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	657	821
7/7/7	667	834
8/8/8	677	846
9/9/9	687	858
10/10/10	697	871
11/11/11	707	884
12/12/12	717	896
13/13/13	727	909
14/14/14	738	922
15/15/15hundo	748	935

Caught CP range 657 - 748, or 821 - 935 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 657, not at the 697 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 40 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.

Nidorina 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 3: 4,000 HP, 3:00 timer, boss Attack 100 / Defense 102 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.76).

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 Mewtwo Y psychicmega Psycho Cut / Future Sight+	Psycho Cut / Future Sight++26 more movesets	100%	272.0%	0.49	1:26	1.0	100%	6,428	46.9	2063
2	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Psystrike	Psycho Cut / Psystrike+26 more movesets	78%	218.1%	0.61	1:48	1.5	100%	6,112	37.8	1694
3	Shadow Mewtwo psychicshadow Confusion / Psystrike	Confusion / Psystrike+23 more movesets	63%	194.9%	0.69	2:00	2.8	100%	4,178	33.6	1082
4	Shadow Landorus (Therian) groundflyingshadow Mud Shot / Sandsear Storm	Mud Shot / Sandsear Storm+9 more movesets	63%	181.4%	0.74	2:09	1.6	100%	3,922	32.0	1693
5	Mega Alakazam psychicmega Confusion / Psychic	Confusion / Psychic+17 more movesets	56%	177.7%	0.75	2:12	3.1	100%	4,510	30.7	1010
6	Primal Groudon groundfiremega Mud Shot / Precipice Blades	Mud Shot / Precipice Blades+9 more movesets	63%	175.9%	0.76	2:13	1.3	100%	5,902	30.4	2124
7	Mewtwo psychic Confusion / Psystrike	Confusion / Psystrike+23 more movesets	53%	163.0%	0.82	2:24	2.7	100%	4,178	28.1	1111
8	Mega Gallade psychicfightingmega Confusion / Psychic	Confusion / Psychic+19 more movesets	53%	162.0%	0.82	2:25	2.7	100%	4,521	27.9	1114
9	Mega Latios dragonpsychicmega Zen Headbutt / Psychic	Zen Headbutt / Psychic+9 more movesets	54%	160.5%	0.83	2:26	2.2	100%	5,007	27.6	1335
10	Shadow Regigigas normalshadow Zen Headbutt / Crush Grip	Zen Headbutt / Crush Grip+7 more movesets	52%	159.8%	0.84	2:27	2.7	100%	4,346	27.6	1094
11	Mega Gardevoir psychicfairymega Confusion / Psychic	Confusion / Psychic+19 more movesets	50%	159.1%	0.84	2:27	3.6	100%	4,512	27.6	912
12	Shadow Groudon groundshadow Mud Shot / Precipice Blades	Mud Shot / Precipice Blades+9 more movesets	55%	158.7%	0.84	2:28	1.7	100%	4,115	27.6	1598
13	Mega Delphox firepsychicmega Zen Headbutt / Psychic	Zen Headbutt / Psychic+23 more movesets	51%	157.9%	0.85	2:29	2.9	100%	4,783	27.3	1090
14	Hoopa (Unbound) psychicdark Confusion / Psychic	Confusion / Psychic+5 more movesets	49%	155.0%	0.86	2:31	3.4	100%	4,006	26.6	948
15	Mega Malamar darkpsychicmega Psycho Cut / Psybeam+	Psycho Cut / Psybeam++14 more movesets	51%	154.9%	0.86	2:32	2.3	100%	3,143	26.7	1298
16	Landorus (Therian) groundflying Mud Shot / Sandsear Storm	Mud Shot / Sandsear Storm+9 more movesets	53%	154.0%	0.87	2:32	1.6	100%	3,922	26.8	1658
17	Shadow Latios dragonpsychicshadow Zen Headbutt / Psychic	Zen Headbutt / Psychic+9 more movesets	48%	152.5%	0.88	2:34	3.2	100%	3,812	26.4	1016
18	Shadow Alakazam psychicshadow Confusion / Psychic	Confusion / Psychic+17 more movesets	45%	152.5%	0.88	2:34	5.4	100%	3,057	27.1	659
19	Mega Garchomp dragongroundmega Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+13 more movesets	55%	152.0%	0.88	2:34	1.2	100%	5,424	26.5	2142
20	Shadow Metagross steelpsychicshadow Zen Headbutt / Psychic	Zen Headbutt / Psychic+15 more movesets	48%	148.5%	0.90	2:38	2.9	100%	3,791	25.7	1273
21	Shadow Mamoswine icegroundshadow Mud-Slap / High Horsepower	Mud-Slap / High Horsepower+11 more movesets	48%	147.1%	0.91	2:40	2.6	100%	3,328	25.4	1207
22	Shadow Excadrill groundsteelshadow Mud-Slap / Earthquake	Mud-Slap / Earthquake+14 more movesets	47%	146.2%	0.91	2:41	3.0	92%	3,244	25.5	1644
23	Shadow Garchomp dragongroundshadow Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+13 more movesets	50%	145.8%	0.92	2:41	1.8	100%	3,962	25.2	1555
24	Shadow Landorus (Incarnate) groundflyingshadow Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+7 more movesets	48%	144.4%	0.93	2:42	2.2	100%	3,588	25.0	1321
25	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Dragon Tail / Dragon Ascent	Dragon Tail / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	48%	144.2%	0.93	2:43	2.1	100%	5,713	24.9	1414
26	Mega Metagross steelpsychicmega Zen Headbutt / Psychic	Zen Headbutt / Psychic+15 more movesets	49%	142.8%	0.94	2:44	1.9	100%	4,911	24.6	1753
27	Mega Staraptor fightingflyingmega Sand Attack / Brave Bird+	Sand Attack / Brave Bird++19 more movesets	45%	141.3%	0.95	2:46	2.9	100%	3,979	24.4	1238
28	Shadow Gallade psychicfightingshadow Confusion / Psychic	Confusion / Psychic+19 more movesets	43%	141.3%	0.95	2:46	4.4	100%	3,093	24.6	770
29	Mega Latias dragonpsychicmega Zen Headbutt / Psychic	Zen Headbutt / Psychic+14 more movesets	47%	140.3%	0.95	2:47	2.1	100%	4,801	24.1	1348
30	Mega Starmie waterpsychicmega Psywave / Liquidation+	Psywave / Liquidation++44 more movesets	43%	139.9%	0.96	2:48	3.7	94%	3,701	24.4	911

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.