Shadow raid

Shadow Sceptile counters

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grassShadow 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

7,907

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

142

Defense

109

Difficulty

0.11

Pokebattler scale

Beating Shadow Sceptile should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 1,442-1,575.

Weak toflying1.6xpoison1.6xbug1.6xfire1.6xice1.6x

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 Flying Mega — most top counters attack with Flying

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 Sceptile counters are Mega Rayquaza, Shadow Salamence, Kyurem (White), Shadow Moltres, Eternatus & Blacephalon.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Rayquaza
S. Salamence
Kyurem (White)
S. Moltres
Eternatus
Blacephalon

8 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 RayquazaMegaLegendarypartyAir Slash / Dragon Ascent0.100:18
2Mega BeedrillMegaInfestation / Fell Stinger+0.100:18
3Mega StaraptorMegaWing Attack / Brave Bird+0.110:20
4Shadow SalamenceShadowpartyFire Fang / Fly0.120:21
5Kyurem (White)LegendarypartyIce Fang / Ice Burn0.120:22
6Mega DelphoxMegaFire Spin / Mystical Fire+0.120:22
7Shadow MoltresShadowLegendarypartyFire Spin / Fly0.120:22
8Mega BlazikenMegaEmber / Blast Burn0.120:22
9EternatusLegendarypartyPoison Jab / Dynamax Cannon0.130:23
10Mega Charizard YMegaWing Attack / Blast Burn0.130:23
14BlacephalonLegendarypartyIncinerate / Mind Blown0.130:23

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

Related countersMega Sceptile

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Top 15 Shadow Sceptile 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.

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#	Attacker	Moveset
1	Mega Rayquazadragonflyingjoint top pick	flyingAir SlashflyingDragon Ascent	5,713	0:18	0.10	0.0	2460.2%
2	Mega Beedrillbugpoison	bugInfestationbugFell Stinger+	3,383	0:18	0.10	0.0	2405.6%
3	Mega Staraptorfightingflying	flyingWing AttackflyingBrave Bird+	3,979	0:20	0.11	0.0	2217.2%
4	Shadow Salamencedragonflying	fireFire FangflyingFly	3,749	0:21	0.12	0.1	2037.2%
5	Kyurem (White)dragonice	iceIce FangiceIce Burn	4,605	0:22	0.12	0.0	2018.1%
6	Mega Delphoxfirepsychic	fireFire SpinfireMystical Fire+	4,783	0:22	0.12	0.0	1993.6%
7	Shadow Moltresfireflying	fireFire SpinflyingFly	3,465	0:22	0.12	0.0	1979.7%
8	Mega Blazikenfirefighting	fireEmberfireBlast Burn	4,161	0:22	0.12	0.0	1950.0%
9	Eternatuspoisondragon	poisonPoison JabdragonDynamax Cannon	4,429	0:23	0.13	0.1	1928.5%
10	Mega Charizard Yfireflying	flyingWing AttackfireBlast Burn	4,455	0:23	0.13	0.0	1927.2%
11	Mega Victreebelgrasspoison	poisonAcidpoisonAcid Spray+	3,505	0:23	0.13	0.0	1927.1%
12	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	fightingCounterfightingDynamic Punch+	6,112	0:23	0.13	0.0	1919.4%
13	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	psychicConfusionpsychicFuture Sight+	6,428	0:23	0.13	0.0	1916.0%
14	Blacephalonfireghost	fireIncineratefireMind Blown	3,297	0:23	0.13	0.3	1908.2%
15	Shadow Toucannonnormalflying	grassBullet SeedflyingBeak Blast	2,689	0:23	0.13	0.0	1897.5%

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 Sceptile.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Shadow Sceptile'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%	386%	2064.7%	0:21	0.0	0.12
Bullet Seed / Earthquake	100%	390%	1914.5%	0:23	0.3	0.13
Fury Cutter / Earthquake	100%	395%	1919.7%	0:23	0.3	0.13
Bullet Seed / Leaf Blade	100%	473%	2044.8%	0:21	0.0	0.12
Bullet Seed / Aerial Ace	100%	411%	2060.9%	0:21	0.0	0.12
Fury Cutter / Leaf Blade	100%	456%	2067.0%	0:21	0.0	0.12
Bullet Seed / Breaking Swipe	100%	334%	2077.5%	0:21	0.1	0.12
Fury Cutter / Dragon Claw	100%	332%	2087.2%	0:21	0.1	0.12
Fury Cutter / Aerial Ace	100%	390%	2089.0%	0:21	0.0	0.12
Fury Cutter / Breaking Swipe	100%	313%	2090.0%	0:21	0.1	0.12
Bullet Seed / Dragon Claw	100%	352%	2099.1%	0:21	0.0	0.12

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…

Sceptile 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.

flying1.6x poison1.6x bug1.6x fire1.6x ice1.6x normal1x fighting1x rock1x ghost1x steel1x psychic1x dragon1x dark1x fairy1x ground0.63x water0.63x grass0.63x electric0.63x

Weak (5)
Neutral (9)
Resists (4)

It resists ground0.625xwater0.625xgrass0.625xelectric0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Sceptile throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
grassBullet SeedSTAB	7	+13	1.0s	0.75s
bugFury Cutter	4	+8	0.5s	0.20s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
dragonBreaking Swipe	45	-33	1.0s	0.47s
groundEarthquake	140	-100	3.5s	2.60s
grassLeaf BladeSTAB	70	-33	2.5s	1.35s
dragonDragon Claw	45	-33	1.5s	0.90s
flyingAerial Ace	55	-33	2.5s	2.00s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
6/6/6floor	1,442	1,803
7/7/7	1,456	1,821
8/8/8	1,471	1,839
9/9/9	1,486	1,857
10/10/10	1,500	1,876
11/11/11	1,515	1,894
12/12/12	1,530	1,913
13/13/13	1,545	1,931
14/14/14	1,560	1,950
15/15/15hundo	1,575	1,969

Caught CP range 1,442 - 1,575, or 1,803 - 1,969 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 1,442, not at the 1,500 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 58 CP higher than this one.

When it is in raids

From the raid schedule, refreshed daily.

Sceptile 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 142 / Defense 109 (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	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	100%	2460.2%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	5,713	36.1	638
2	Mega Beedrill bugpoisonmega Infestation / Fell Stinger+	Infestation / Fell Stinger++23 more movesets	88%	2405.6%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	3,383	35.3	638
3	Mega Staraptor fightingflyingmega Wing Attack / Brave Bird+	Wing Attack / Brave Bird++19 more movesets	88%	2217.2%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	3,979	33.5	658
4	Shadow Salamence dragonflyingshadow Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	73%	2037.2%	0.12	0:21	0.1	100%	3,749	28.5	567
5	Kyurem (White) dragonice Ice Fang / Ice Burn	Ice Fang / Ice Burn+17 more movesets	74%	2018.1%	0.12	0:22	0.0	100%	4,605	28.2	603
6	Mega Delphox firepsychicmega Fire Spin / Mystical Fire+	Fire Spin / Mystical Fire++23 more movesets	76%	1993.6%	0.12	0:22	0.0	100%	4,783	33.8	724
7	Shadow Moltres fireflyingshadow Fire Spin / Fly	Fire Spin / Fly+11 more movesets	73%	1979.7%	0.12	0:22	0.0	100%	3,465	28.0	616
8	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Ember / Blast Burn	Ember / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	69%	1950.0%	0.12	0:22	0.0	100%	4,161	29.3	648
9	Eternatus poisondragon Poison Jab / Dynamax Cannon	Poison Jab / Dynamax Cannon+7 more movesets	71%	1928.5%	0.13	0:23	0.1	100%	4,429	27.7	603
10	Mega Charizard Y fireflyingmega Wing Attack / Blast Burn	Wing Attack / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	74%	1927.2%	0.13	0:23	0.0	100%	4,455	28.6	647
11	Mega Victreebel grasspoisonmega Acid / Acid Spray+	Acid / Acid Spray++23 more movesets	71%	1927.1%	0.13	0:23	0.0	100%	3,505	30.7	694
12	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Counter / Dynamic Punch+	Counter / Dynamic Punch++26 more movesets	71%	1919.4%	0.13	0:23	0.0	100%	6,112	27.2	617
13	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Confusion / Future Sight+	Confusion / Future Sight++26 more movesets	72%	1916.0%	0.13	0:23	0.0	100%	6,428	28.9	657
14	Blacephalon fireghost Incinerate / Mind Blown	Incinerate / Mind Blown+7 more movesets	65%	1908.2%	0.13	0:23	0.3	100%	3,297	29.7	588
15	Shadow Toucannon normalflyingshadow Bullet Seed / Beak Blast	Bullet Seed / Beak Blast+11 more movesets	66%	1897.5%	0.13	0:23	0.0	100%	2,689	26.3	590
16	Shadow Reshiram dragonfireshadow Fire Fang / Fusion Flare	Fire Fang / Fusion Flare+9 more movesets	67%	1871.4%	0.13	0:23	0.1	100%	4,038	30.6	664
17	Shadow Staraptor normalflyingshadow Wing Attack / Fly	Wing Attack / Fly+15 more movesets	64%	1869.9%	0.13	0:23	0.1	100%	2,825	26.2	586
18	Kyurem (Black) dragonice Shadow Claw / Freeze Shock	Shadow Claw / Freeze Shock+11 more movesets	68%	1867.8%	0.13	0:23	0.0	100%	4,605	26.4	615
19	Shadow Tornadus (Therian) flyingshadow Gust / Bleakwind Storm	Gust / Bleakwind Storm+9 more movesets	66%	1853.5%	0.13	0:24	0.0	100%	3,215	27.2	638
20	Mega Heracross bugfightingmega Fury Cutter / Megahorn	Fury Cutter / Megahorn+17 more movesets	67%	1823.0%	0.13	0:24	0.1	100%	4,814	27.2	621
21	Mega Pidgeot normalflyingmega Gust / Brave Bird	Gust / Brave Bird+27 more movesets	66%	1816.4%	0.13	0:24	0.0	100%	3,680	25.2	604
22	Mega Gengar ghostpoisonmega Lick / Sludge Bomb	Lick / Sludge Bomb+31 more movesets	63%	1813.9%	0.13	0:24	0.1	100%	4,336	26.3	611
23	Shadow Vikavolt bugelectricshadow Bug Bite / Fly	Bug Bite / Fly+15 more movesets	61%	1809.1%	0.13	0:24	0.3	100%	3,117	25.3	519
24	Mega Salamence dragonflyingmega Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	69%	1803.2%	0.13	0:24	0.0	100%	5,031	25.8	619
25	Shadow Charizard fireflyingshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	64%	1801.7%	0.13	0:24	0.0	100%	2,889	25.3	599
26	Shadow Heatran firesteelshadow Fire Spin / Magma Storm	Fire Spin / Magma Storm+11 more movesets	63%	1784.0%	0.14	0:24	0.3	100%	3,754	25.1	531
27	Reshiram dragonfire Fire Fang / Fusion Flare	Fire Fang / Fusion Flare+9 more movesets	63%	1778.2%	0.14	0:25	0.2	100%	4,038	25.6	573
28	Mega Charizard X firedragonmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	63%	1778.2%	0.14	0:25	0.0	100%	3,850	25.3	607
29	Shadow Delphox firepsychicshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	61%	1769.1%	0.14	0:25	0.2	100%	3,059	25.7	575
30	Shadow Blaziken firefightingshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	58%	1741.8%	0.14	0:25	0.4	100%	2,848	25.8	515

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.