Shadow raid

Shadow Palkia counters

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water dragonShadow Tier 1Next in raids Wed 21 Oct, 06:00 (starts in 16 days)

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

10,958

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

176

Defense

137

Difficulty

0.14

Pokebattler scale

Beating Shadow Palkia should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 2,118-2,280.

Weak todragon1.6xfairy1.6x

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 Dragon Mega — most top counters attack with Dragon

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 Palkia counters are Mega Rayquaza, Eternatus, Shadow Haxorus, Shadow Garchomp, Shadow Dialga & Shadow Palkia.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Rayquaza
Eternatus
S. Haxorus
S. Garchomp
S. Dialga
S. Palkia

3 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 RayquazaMegaLegendarypartyDragon Tail / Breaking Swipe0.130:24
2EternatusLegendarypartyDragon Tail / Dynamax Cannon0.130:24
3Mega Mewtwo YMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Future Sight+0.140:26
4Mega GarchompMegaDragon Tail / Breaking Swipe0.140:26
5Mega DragoniteMegaDragon Tail / Outrage+0.150:27
6Shadow HaxorusShadowpartyDragon Tail / Breaking Swipe0.150:27
7Shadow GarchompShadowpartyDragon Tail / Breaking Swipe0.150:28
8Shadow DialgaShadowLegendarypartyDragon Breath / Draco Meteor0.160:29
9Shadow PalkiaShadowLegendarypartyDragon Breath / Draco Meteor0.160:29
10Mega SalamenceMegaDragon Tail / Draco Meteor0.160:29

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 countersPalkia (Origin)

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Top 15 Shadow Palkia 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 Rayquazadragonflyingjoint top pick	dragonDragon TaildragonBreaking Swipe	5,713	0:24	0.13	0.3	1847.4%
2	Eternatuspoisondragonjoint top pick	dragonDragon TaildragonDynamax Cannon	4,429	0:24	0.13	0.2	1822.2%
3	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	psychicPsycho CutpsychicFuture Sight+	6,428	0:26	0.14	0.2	1694.0%
4	Mega Garchompdragonground	dragonDragon TaildragonBreaking Swipe	5,424	0:26	0.14	0.4	1693.4%
5	Mega Dragonitedragonflying	dragonDragon TaildragonOutrage+	4,823	0:27	0.15	0.2	1642.9%
6	Shadow Haxorusdragon	dragonDragon TaildragonBreaking Swipe	3,593	0:27	0.15	1.0	1609.6%
7	Shadow Garchompdragonground	dragonDragon TaildragonBreaking Swipe	3,962	0:28	0.15	0.8	1576.6%
8	Shadow Dialgasteeldragon	dragonDragon BreathdragonDraco Meteor	4,038	0:29	0.16	0.3	1520.8%
9	Shadow Palkiawaterdragon	dragonDragon BreathdragonDraco Meteor	3,991	0:29	0.16	0.5	1516.1%
10	Mega Salamencedragonflying	dragonDragon TaildragonDraco Meteor	5,031	0:29	0.16	0.3	1515.2%
11	Palkia (Origin)waterdragon	dragonDragon TaildragonSpacial Rend	4,142	0:29	0.16	0.3	1504.9%
12	Shadow Salamencedragonflying	dragonDragon TaildragonDraco Meteor	3,749	0:30	0.17	0.7	1460.7%
13	Dialga (Origin)steeldragon	dragonDragon BreathdragonRoar of Time	4,090	0:30	0.17	0.3	1435.1%
14	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	psychicPsycho CutfightingDynamic Punch+	6,112	0:31	0.17	0.6	1412.1%
15	Mega Gardevoirpsychicfairy	fairyCharmfairyDazzling Gleam	4,512	0:31	0.17	0.3	1411.7%

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 Palkia.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Shadow Palkia'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%	228%	1630.9%	0:27	0.5	0.15
Dragon Breath / Draco Meteor	100%	170%	1414.5%	0:31	1.2	0.17
Dragon Tail / Draco Meteor	100%	162%	1461.6%	0:30	1.2	0.17
Dragon Tail / Fire Blast	100%	221%	1637.9%	0:27	0.5	0.15
Dragon Tail / Hydro Pump	100%	208%	1647.4%	0:26	0.5	0.15
Dragon Breath / Hydro Pump	100%	256%	1699.8%	0:26	0.3	0.14
Dragon Breath / Fire Blast	100%	269%	1710.3%	0:25	0.2	0.14
Dragon Breath / Aqua Tail	100%	284%	1712.8%	0:25	0.2	0.14
Dragon Tail / Aqua Tail	100%	244%	1730.6%	0:25	0.3	0.14

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…

Palkia 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.

dragon1.6x fairy1.6x normal1x fighting1x flying1x poison1x ground1x rock1x bug1x ghost1x grass1x electric1x psychic1x ice1x dark1x steel0.63x fire0.39x water0.39x

Weak (2)
Neutral (13)
Resists (3)

It resists fire0.39xwater0.39xsteel0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Palkia throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
dragonDragon TailSTAB	14	+8	1.0s	0.75s
dragonDragon BreathSTAB	6	+4	0.5s	0.30s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
dragonDraco MeteorSTAB	150	-100	3.5s	2.90s
waterHydro PumpSTAB	135	-100	3.5s	1.10s
fireFire Blast	140	-100	4.0s	2.90s
waterAqua TailSTAB	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	2,118	2,648
7/7/7	2,136	2,670
8/8/8	2,154	2,693
9/9/9	2,172	2,715
10/10/10	2,190	2,737
11/11/11	2,207	2,760
12/12/12	2,225	2,782
13/13/13	2,244	2,805
14/14/14	2,262	2,828
15/15/15hundo	2,280	2,850

Caught CP range 2,118 - 2,280, or 2,648 - 2,850 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 2,118, not at the 2,190 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. LeekDuck's published band agrees with the table above.

When it is in raids

From the raid schedule, refreshed daily.

comingPalkiaTier 5shiny availableWed 21 Oct, 06:00 – Tue 27 Oct, 22:00 · starts in 16 days

All settings

Shadow Tier 1: 600 HP, 3:00 timer, boss Attack 176 / Defense 137 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.5974).

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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 Rayquaza top pickdragonflyingmega Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe	Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe+11 more movesets	97%	1847.4%	0.13	0:24	0.3	100%	5,713	26.2	538
2	Eternatus top pickpoisondragon Dragon Tail / Dynamax Cannon	Dragon Tail / Dynamax Cannon+7 more movesets	100%	1822.2%	0.13	0:24	0.2	100%	4,429	28.1	590
3	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Psycho Cut / Future Sight+	Psycho Cut / Future Sight++26 more movesets	90%	1694.0%	0.14	0:26	0.2	100%	6,428	24.4	550
4	Mega Garchomp dragongroundmega Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe	Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe+13 more movesets	87%	1693.4%	0.14	0:26	0.4	100%	5,424	24.0	505
5	Mega Dragonite dragonflyingmega Dragon Tail / Outrage+	Dragon Tail / Outrage++26 more movesets	90%	1642.9%	0.15	0:27	0.2	100%	4,823	28.2	680
6	Shadow Haxorus dragonshadow Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe	Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe+9 more movesets	78%	1609.6%	0.15	0:27	1.0	100%	3,593	22.7	319
7	Shadow Garchomp dragongroundshadow Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe	Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe+13 more movesets	77%	1576.6%	0.15	0:28	0.8	100%	3,962	22.2	397
8	Shadow Dialga steeldragonshadow Dragon Breath / Draco Meteor	Dragon Breath / Draco Meteor+5 more movesets	78%	1520.8%	0.16	0:29	0.3	100%	4,038	22.0	513
9	Shadow Palkia waterdragonshadow Dragon Breath / Draco Meteor	Dragon Breath / Draco Meteor+7 more movesets	78%	1516.1%	0.16	0:29	0.4	100%	3,991	22.0	485
10	Mega Salamence dragonflyingmega Dragon Tail / Draco Meteor	Dragon Tail / Draco Meteor+20 more movesets	79%	1515.2%	0.16	0:29	0.3	100%	5,031	21.7	536
11	Palkia (Origin) waterdragon Dragon Tail / Spacial Rend	Dragon Tail / Spacial Rend+9 more movesets	78%	1504.9%	0.16	0:29	0.3	100%	4,142	21.8	536
12	Shadow Salamence dragonflyingshadow Dragon Tail / Draco Meteor	Dragon Tail / Draco Meteor+20 more movesets	72%	1460.7%	0.17	0:30	0.7	100%	3,749	22.3	434
13	Dialga (Origin) steeldragon Dragon Breath / Roar of Time	Dragon Breath / Roar of Time+7 more movesets	75%	1435.1%	0.17	0:30	0.3	100%	4,090	19.8	510
14	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Dynamic Punch+	Psycho Cut / Dynamic Punch++26 more movesets	72%	1412.1%	0.17	0:31	0.5	100%	6,112	19.6	434
15	Mega Gardevoir psychicfairymega Charm / Dazzling Gleam	Charm / Dazzling Gleam+19 more movesets	75%	1411.7%	0.17	0:31	0.3	100%	4,512	19.9	508
16	Baxcalibur dragonice Dragon Breath / Glaive Rush	Dragon Breath / Glaive Rush+11 more movesets	68%	1407.5%	0.17	0:31	1.0	100%	3,550	20.0	354
17	Kyurem (Black) dragonice Dragon Tail / Freeze Shock	Dragon Tail / Freeze Shock+11 more movesets	70%	1401.4%	0.17	0:31	0.6	100%	4,605	19.8	422
18	Rayquaza dragonflying Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe	Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe+11 more movesets	68%	1396.9%	0.17	0:31	1.0	100%	3,835	19.7	340
19	Shadow Dragonite dragonflyingshadow Dragon Breath / Draco Meteor	Dragon Breath / Draco Meteor+23 more movesets	70%	1396.5%	0.17	0:31	0.6	100%	3,792	20.5	427
20	Haxorus dragon Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe	Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe+9 more movesets	66%	1381.5%	0.18	0:32	1.1	100%	3,593	19.6	310
21	Mega Sceptile grassdragonmega Fury Cutter / Breaking Swipe	Fury Cutter / Breaking Swipe+11 more movesets	67%	1376.3%	0.18	0:32	1.0	100%	4,056	19.6	358
22	Mega Latios dragonpsychicmega Dragon Breath / Dragon Claw	Dragon Breath / Dragon Claw+9 more movesets	67%	1366.3%	0.18	0:32	0.7	100%	5,007	19.3	430
23	Shadow Reshiram dragonfireshadow Dragon Breath / Draco Meteor	Dragon Breath / Draco Meteor+9 more movesets	67%	1362.1%	0.18	0:32	0.8	100%	4,038	20.6	383
24	Shadow Latios dragonpsychicshadow Dragon Breath / Dragon Claw	Dragon Breath / Dragon Claw+9 more movesets	64%	1335.5%	0.18	0:33	1.0	100%	3,812	19.0	330
25	Garchomp dragonground Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe	Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe+13 more movesets	64%	1326.5%	0.18	0:33	0.9	100%	3,962	18.7	366
26	Dragapult dragonghost Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe	Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe+7 more movesets	62%	1298.1%	0.19	0:34	1.1	100%	3,532	18.2	316
27	Kyurem (White) dragonice Dragon Breath / Dragon Pulse	Dragon Breath / Dragon Pulse+17 more movesets	62%	1266.7%	0.19	0:34	0.9	100%	4,605	18.3	392
28	Shadow Alolan Exeggutor grassdragonshadow Dragon Tail / Draco Meteor	Dragon Tail / Draco Meteor+7 more movesets	60%	1265.0%	0.19	0:34	1.0	100%	3,014	17.9	318
29	Shadow Hydreigon darkdragonshadow Dragon Breath / Dragon Pulse	Dragon Breath / Dragon Pulse+9 more movesets	59%	1244.9%	0.20	0:35	1.1	100%	3,625	18.0	313
30	Enamorus (Incarnate) fairyflying Fairy Wind / Dazzling Gleam	Fairy Wind / Dazzling Gleam+8 more movesets	61%	1233.5%	0.20	0:35	0.6	100%	3,425	17.6	426

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.