Shadow raid

Shadow Scolipede counters

#0545

bug poisonShadow 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

7,360

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

130

Defense

113

Difficulty

0.11

Pokebattler scale

Beating Shadow Scolipede should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 1,273-1,398.

Weak toflying1.6xrock1.6xfire1.6xpsychic1.6x

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 Scolipede counters are Mega Mewtwo Y, Shadow Mewtwo, Blacephalon, Shadow Salamence, Shadow Galarian Articuno & Shadow Reshiram.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Mewtwo Y
S. Mewtwo
Blacephalon
S. Salamence
S. Galarian Articuno
S. Reshiram

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+0.090:16
2Mega RayquazaMegaLegendaryAir Slash / Dragon Ascent0.100:18
3Mega Mewtwo XMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Psystrike0.100:18
4Shadow MewtwoShadowLegendarypartyConfusion / Psystrike0.110:19
5Mega StaraptorMegaWing Attack / Brave Bird+0.110:20
6Mega DelphoxMegaFire Spin / Mystical Fire+0.120:22
7BlacephalonLegendarypartyIncinerate / Mind Blown0.120:22
8Shadow SalamenceShadowpartyFire Fang / Fly0.120:22
9Mega Charizard YMegaWing Attack / Blast Burn0.120:22
10Mega AlakazamMegaConfusion / Psychic0.130:23
11Shadow Galarian ArticunoShadowLegendarypartyConfusion / Brave Bird0.130:23
12Shadow ReshiramShadowLegendarypartyFire Fang / Fusion Flare0.130:23

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

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Top 15 Shadow Scolipede 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	0:16	0.09	0.0	2643.4%
2	Mega Rayquazadragonflying	flyingAir SlashflyingDragon Ascent	5,713	0:18	0.10	0.0	2457.4%
3	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	psychicPsycho CutpsychicPsystrike	6,112	0:18	0.10	0.0	2405.9%
4	Shadow Mewtwopsychic	psychicConfusionpsychicPsystrike	4,178	0:19	0.11	0.0	2249.5%
5	Mega Staraptorfightingflying	flyingWing AttackflyingBrave Bird+	3,979	0:20	0.11	0.0	2208.2%
6	Mega Delphoxfirepsychic	fireFire SpinfireMystical Fire+	4,783	0:22	0.12	0.0	2009.4%
7	Blacephalonfireghost	fireIncineratefireMind Blown	3,297	0:22	0.12	0.0	1988.7%
8	Shadow Salamencedragonflying	fireFire FangflyingFly	3,749	0:22	0.12	0.1	1969.3%
9	Mega Charizard Yfireflying	flyingWing AttackfireBlast Burn	4,455	0:22	0.12	0.0	1946.2%
10	Mega Alakazampsychic	psychicConfusionpsychicPsychic	4,510	0:23	0.13	0.2	1928.9%
11	Shadow Galarian Articunopsychicflying	psychicConfusionflyingBrave Bird	3,590	0:23	0.13	0.0	1898.2%
12	Shadow Reshiramdragonfire	fireFire FangfireFusion Flare	4,038	0:23	0.13	0.0	1897.0%
13	Mega Blazikenfirefighting	fireEmberfireBlast Burn	4,161	0:23	0.13	0.0	1890.9%
14	Shadow Moltresfireflying	flyingWing AttackflyingFly	3,465	0:23	0.13	0.0	1888.1%
15	Shadow Regigigasnormal	psychicZen HeadbuttnormalCrush Grip	4,346	0:23	0.13	0.0	1864.8%

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 Scolipede.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Shadow Scolipede'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%	358%	2107.8%	0:21	0.0	0.12
Poison Jab / Sludge Bomb	100%	305%	2033.5%	0:21	0.2	0.12
Poison Sting / Aqua Tail	100%	402%	2033.9%	0:21	0.1	0.12
Poison Sting / Gyro Ball	100%	405%	2046.9%	0:21	0.0	0.12
Bug Bite / Aqua Tail	100%	393%	2049.2%	0:21	0.1	0.12
Poison Jab / Gyro Ball	100%	359%	2052.2%	0:21	0.0	0.12
Bug Bite / Gyro Ball	100%	391%	2058.3%	0:21	0.0	0.12
Poison Jab / Aqua Tail	100%	369%	2066.2%	0:21	0.1	0.12
Poison Jab / X-Scissor	100%	355%	2082.4%	0:21	0.0	0.12
Poison Jab / Megahorn	100%	314%	2084.0%	0:21	0.1	0.12
Poison Sting / X-Scissor	100%	393%	2089.1%	0:21	0.0	0.12
Bug Bite / X-Scissor	100%	392%	2089.2%	0:21	0.0	0.12
Poison Sting / Sludge Bomb	100%	344%	2103.5%	0:21	0.1	0.12
Bug Bite / Megahorn	100%	357%	2116.6%	0:21	0.0	0.11
Poison Sting / Megahorn	100%	361%	2116.6%	0:21	0.0	0.11
Bug Bite / Sludge Bomb	100%	338%	2134.7%	0:20	0.1	0.11

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…

Scolipede 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 rock1.6x fire1.6x psychic1.6x normal1x ground1x ghost1x steel1x water1x electric1x ice1x dragon1x dark1x poison0.63x bug0.63x fairy0.63x fighting0.39x grass0.39x

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

It resists fighting0.39xgrass0.39xpoison0.625xbug0.625xfairy0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Scolipede throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
poisonPoison JabSTAB	13	+9	1.0s	0.40s
bugBug BiteSTAB	5	+6	0.5s	0.25s
poisonPoison StingSTAB	4	+6	0.5s	0.28s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
bugMegahornSTAB	105	-100	2.0s	1.50s
poisonSludge BombSTAB	85	-50	2.5s	1.30s
bugX-ScissorSTAB	45	-33	1.5s	1.10s
waterAqua Tail	50	-33	2.0s	1.30s
steelGyro Ball	85	-50	3.5s	3.20s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
6/6/6floor	1,273	1,591
7/7/7	1,286	1,608
8/8/8	1,300	1,625
9/9/9	1,314	1,642
10/10/10	1,328	1,660
11/11/11	1,342	1,677
12/12/12	1,355	1,695
13/13/13	1,369	1,712
14/14/14	1,384	1,730
15/15/15hundo	1,398	1,747

Caught CP range 1,273 - 1,398, or 1,591 - 1,747 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 1,273, not at the 1,328 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 55 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.

Scolipede 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 130 / Defense 113 (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 Mewtwo Y psychicmega Psycho Cut / Future Sight+	Psycho Cut / Future Sight++26 more movesets	100%	2643.4%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	6,428	47.6	783
2	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	94%	2457.4%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	5,713	34.6	613
3	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Psystrike	Psycho Cut / Psystrike+26 more movesets	88%	2405.9%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	6,112	33.9	615
4	Shadow Mewtwo psychicshadow Confusion / Psystrike	Confusion / Psystrike+23 more movesets	74%	2249.5%	0.11	0:19	0.0	100%	4,178	32.8	622
5	Mega Staraptor fightingflyingmega Wing Attack / Brave Bird+	Wing Attack / Brave Bird++19 more movesets	81%	2208.2%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	3,979	32.6	643
6	Mega Delphox firepsychicmega Fire Spin / Mystical Fire+	Fire Spin / Mystical Fire++23 more movesets	70%	2009.4%	0.12	0:22	0.0	100%	4,783	33.6	726
7	Blacephalon fireghost Incinerate / Mind Blown	Incinerate / Mind Blown+7 more movesets	66%	1988.7%	0.12	0:22	0.0	100%	3,297	29.9	647
8	Shadow Salamence dragonflyingshadow Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	66%	1969.3%	0.12	0:22	0.1	100%	3,749	28.0	602
9	Mega Charizard Y fireflyingmega Wing Attack / Blast Burn	Wing Attack / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	67%	1946.2%	0.12	0:22	0.0	100%	4,455	27.5	617
10	Mega Alakazam psychicmega Confusion / Psychic	Confusion / Psychic+17 more movesets	61%	1928.9%	0.13	0:23	0.2	100%	4,510	29.2	595
11	Shadow Galarian Articuno psychicflyingshadow Confusion / Brave Bird	Confusion / Brave Bird+7 more movesets	62%	1898.2%	0.13	0:23	0.0	100%	3,590	27.0	603
12	Shadow Reshiram dragonfireshadow Fire Fang / Fusion Flare	Fire Fang / Fusion Flare+9 more movesets	66%	1897.0%	0.13	0:23	0.0	100%	4,038	31.2	716
13	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Ember / Blast Burn	Ember / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	64%	1890.9%	0.13	0:23	0.0	100%	4,161	28.2	634
14	Shadow Moltres fireflyingshadow Wing Attack / Fly	Wing Attack / Fly+11 more movesets	63%	1888.1%	0.13	0:23	0.0	100%	3,465	27.6	629
15	Shadow Regigigas normalshadow Zen Headbutt / Crush Grip	Zen Headbutt / Crush Grip+7 more movesets	62%	1864.8%	0.13	0:23	0.0	100%	4,346	26.3	609
16	Shadow Lugia psychicflyingshadow Extrasensory / Aeroblast++	Extrasensory / Aeroblast+++15 more movesets	66%	1845.6%	0.13	0:24	0.0	100%	3,703	26.0	613
17	Mega Gallade psychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Psychic	Psycho Cut / Psychic+19 more movesets	60%	1826.3%	0.13	0:24	0.0	100%	4,521	26.8	638
18	Shadow Rampardos rockshadow Smack Down / Rock Slide	Smack Down / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	55%	1821.1%	0.13	0:24	0.5	100%	3,298	25.9	448
19	Shadow Tornadus (Therian) flyingshadow Gust / Bleakwind Storm	Gust / Bleakwind Storm+9 more movesets	59%	1812.9%	0.13	0:24	0.1	100%	3,215	26.0	600
20	Reshiram dragonfire Fire Fang / Fusion Flare	Fire Fang / Fusion Flare+9 more movesets	62%	1801.8%	0.13	0:24	0.0	100%	4,038	25.4	608
21	Mega Latios dragonpsychicmega Zen Headbutt / Psychic	Zen Headbutt / Psychic+9 more movesets	59%	1782.2%	0.14	0:24	0.2	100%	5,007	25.0	555
22	Shadow Blaziken firefightingshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	56%	1772.2%	0.14	0:25	0.3	100%	2,848	26.0	541
23	Shadow Staraptor normalflyingshadow Wing Attack / Fly	Wing Attack / Fly+15 more movesets	55%	1768.0%	0.14	0:25	0.3	100%	2,825	24.7	510
24	Mega Charizard X firedragonmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	60%	1762.9%	0.14	0:25	0.0	100%	3,850	24.7	600
25	Mega Gardevoir psychicfairymega Confusion / Psychic	Confusion / Psychic+19 more movesets	56%	1760.8%	0.14	0:25	0.3	100%	4,512	25.4	544
26	Rayquaza dragonflying Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	60%	1759.2%	0.14	0:25	0.0	100%	3,835	27.5	680
27	Galarian Articuno psychicflying Psycho Cut / Fly	Psycho Cut / Fly+7 more movesets	58%	1758.2%	0.14	0:25	0.0	100%	3,590	24.5	595
28	Shadow Heatran firesteelshadow Fire Spin / Magma Storm	Fire Spin / Magma Storm+11 more movesets	62%	1743.7%	0.14	0:25	0.0	100%	3,754	24.8	620
29	Mega Salamence dragonflyingmega Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	61%	1734.0%	0.14	0:25	0.0	100%	5,031	25.0	629
30	Mega Diancie rockfairymega Rock Throw / Rock Slide	Rock Throw / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	53%	1719.9%	0.14	0:25	0.4	100%	4,346	24.5	499

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.