Shelgon counters

#0372

dragonTier 3

Lobby CP

14,629

3,600

Timer

3:00

Attack

136

Defense

124

Difficulty

0.44

Pokebattler scale

Beating Shelgon should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 1,097-1,160.

Weak toice1.6xdragon1.6xfairy1.6x

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 Shelgon counters are Mega Rayquaza, Eternatus, Kyurem (Black), Shadow Haxorus, Shadow Garchomp & Kyurem (White).

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Rayquaza
Eternatus
Kyurem (Black)
S. Haxorus
S. Garchomp
Kyurem (White)

2 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 Swipe0.421:13
2EternatusLegendarypartyDragon Tail / Dynamax Cannon0.421:13
3Mega DragoniteMegaDragon Tail / Outrage+0.441:17
4Kyurem (Black)LegendarypartyDragon Tail / Freeze Shock0.441:17
5Mega GarchompMegaDragon Tail / Breaking Swipe0.451:20
6Shadow HaxorusShadowpartyDragon Tail / Breaking Swipe0.461:21
7Shadow GarchompShadowpartyDragon Tail / Breaking Swipe0.481:24
8Kyurem (White)LegendarypartyIce Fang / Ice Burn0.481:25
9Shadow PalkiaShadowLegendaryDragon Tail / Draco Meteor0.491:26
10Mega Mewtwo YMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Future Sight+0.501:27

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

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Top 15 Shelgon 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	1:13	0.42	1.4	321.2%
2	Eternatuspoisondragonjoint top pick	dragonDragon TaildragonDynamax Cannon	4,429	1:13	0.42	1.2	321.1%
3	Mega Dragonitedragonflying	dragonDragon TaildragonOutrage+	4,823	1:17	0.44	1.1	303.7%
4	Kyurem (Black)dragonice	dragonDragon TailiceFreeze Shock	4,605	1:17	0.44	1.6	303.1%
5	Mega Garchompdragonground	dragonDragon TaildragonBreaking Swipe	5,424	1:20	0.45	1.3	293.8%
6	Shadow Haxorusdragon	dragonDragon TaildragonBreaking Swipe	3,593	1:21	0.46	2.8	288.5%
7	Shadow Garchompdragonground	dragonDragon TaildragonBreaking Swipe	3,962	1:24	0.48	1.9	278.3%
8	Kyurem (White)dragonice	iceIce FangiceIce Burn	4,605	1:25	0.48	1.7	276.3%
9	Shadow Palkiawaterdragon	dragonDragon TaildragonDraco Meteor	3,991	1:26	0.49	2.2	272.1%
10	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	psychicPsycho CutpsychicFuture Sight+	6,428	1:27	0.50	1.3	269.2%
11	Palkia (Origin)waterdragon	dragonDragon TaildragonSpacial Rend	4,142	1:31	0.52	1.8	257.8%
12	Shadow Salamencedragonflying	dragonDragon TaildragonDraco Meteor	3,749	1:31	0.52	2.8	257.6%
13	Shadow Dragonitedragonflying	dragonDragon TaildragonDraco Meteor	3,792	1:32	0.52	2.4	256.3%
14	Baxcaliburdragonice	iceIce FangdragonGlaive Rush	3,550	1:32	0.52	2.3	255.6%
15	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	psychicPsycho CutfightingDynamic Punch+	6,112	1:33	0.53	1.3	253.5%

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 Shelgon.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Shelgon'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%	206%	297.7%	1:19	1.7	0.45
Ember / Crunch	100%	252%	295.7%	1:19	1.2	0.45
Dragon Breath / Dragon Pulse	100%	148%	295.9%	1:19	2.9	0.45
Ember / Flamethrower	100%	278%	296.1%	1:19	0.8	0.45
Ember / Twister	100%	206%	296.2%	1:19	1.7	0.45
Dragon Breath / Crunch	100%	234%	296.9%	1:19	1.3	0.45
Ember / Dragon Pulse	100%	157%	297.0%	1:19	2.6	0.45
Dragon Breath / Flamethrower	100%	251%	298.2%	1:19	1.2	0.45
Dragon Breath / Twister	100%	196%	299.8%	1:18	1.8	0.45

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…

Shelgon 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.

ice1.6x dragon1.6x fairy1.6x normal1x fighting1x flying1x poison1x ground1x rock1x bug1x ghost1x steel1x psychic1x dark1x fire0.63x water0.63x grass0.63x electric0.63x

Weak (3)
Neutral (11)
Resists (4)

It resists fire0.625xwater0.625xgrass0.625xelectric0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Shelgon throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
dragonDragon BreathSTAB	6	+4	0.5s	0.30s
fireEmber	10	+10	1.0s	0.60s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
fireFlamethrower	65	-50	2.0s	1.30s
dragonDragon PulseSTAB	90	-50	3.5s	2.05s
darkCrunch	65	-33	3.0s	1.10s
dragonTwisterSTAB	50	-33	3.0s	1.15s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	1,097	1,371
11/11/11	1,109	1,387
12/12/12	1,122	1,403
13/13/13	1,135	1,419
14/14/14	1,148	1,435
15/15/15hundo	1,160	1,451

Caught CP range 1,097 - 1,160, or 1,371 - 1,451 when the weather boosts it.

A raid encounter is level 20 (level 25 weather boosted) and cannot roll an IV below 10/10/10. Anything outside the first range is not this raid's reward.

When it is in raids

From the raid schedule, refreshed daily.

Shelgon 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

Tier 3: 3,600 HP, 3:00 timer, boss Attack 136 / Defense 124 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.73).

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 Rayquaza top pickdragonflyingmega Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe	Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe+11 more movesets	99%	321.2%	0.42	1:13	1.3	100%	5,713	49.9	1731
2	Eternatus top pickpoisondragon Dragon Tail / Dynamax Cannon	Dragon Tail / Dynamax Cannon+7 more movesets	100%	321.1%	0.42	1:13	1.1	100%	4,429	50.7	1953
3	Mega Dragonite dragonflyingmega Dragon Tail / Outrage+	Dragon Tail / Outrage++26 more movesets	95%	303.7%	0.44	1:17	1.0	100%	4,823	49.5	2046
4	Kyurem (Black) dragonice Dragon Tail / Freeze Shock	Dragon Tail / Freeze Shock+11 more movesets	91%	303.1%	0.44	1:17	1.5	100%	4,605	48.0	1524
5	Mega Garchomp dragongroundmega Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe	Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe+13 more movesets	90%	293.8%	0.45	1:20	1.2	100%	5,424	45.6	1770
6	Shadow Haxorus dragonshadow Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe	Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe+9 more movesets	80%	288.5%	0.46	1:21	2.6	100%	3,593	44.8	1065
7	Shadow Garchomp dragongroundshadow Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe	Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe+13 more movesets	81%	278.3%	0.48	1:24	1.7	100%	3,962	43.0	1357
8	Kyurem (White) dragonice Ice Fang / Ice Burn	Ice Fang / Ice Burn+17 more movesets	81%	276.3%	0.48	1:25	1.6	100%	4,605	43.1	1453
9	Shadow Palkia waterdragonshadow Dragon Tail / Draco Meteor	Dragon Tail / Draco Meteor+7 more movesets	78%	272.1%	0.49	1:26	2.0	100%	3,991	42.7	1470
10	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Psycho Cut / Future Sight+	Psycho Cut / Future Sight++26 more movesets	82%	269.2%	0.50	1:27	1.2	100%	6,428	41.6	1608
11	Palkia (Origin) waterdragon Dragon Tail / Spacial Rend	Dragon Tail / Spacial Rend+9 more movesets	76%	257.8%	0.52	1:31	1.7	100%	4,142	40.3	1599
12	Shadow Salamence dragonflyingshadow Dragon Tail / Draco Meteor	Dragon Tail / Draco Meteor+20 more movesets	71%	257.6%	0.52	1:31	2.6	100%	3,749	41.0	1118
13	Shadow Dragonite dragonflyingshadow Dragon Tail / Draco Meteor	Dragon Tail / Draco Meteor+23 more movesets	72%	256.3%	0.52	1:32	2.2	100%	3,792	40.4	1255
14	Baxcalibur dragonice Ice Fang / Glaive Rush	Ice Fang / Glaive Rush+11 more movesets	73%	255.6%	0.52	1:32	2.1	100%	3,550	39.9	1167
15	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Dynamic Punch+	Psycho Cut / Dynamic Punch++26 more movesets	78%	253.5%	0.53	1:33	1.1	100%	6,112	39.5	1669
16	Shadow Reshiram dragonfireshadow Dragon Breath / Draco Meteor	Dragon Breath / Draco Meteor+9 more movesets	72%	251.3%	0.53	1:33	2.0	100%	4,038	39.7	1446
17	Shadow Dialga steeldragonshadow Dragon Breath / Draco Meteor	Dragon Breath / Draco Meteor+5 more movesets	73%	250.9%	0.53	1:34	1.8	100%	4,038	39.6	1298
18	Mega Salamence dragonflyingmega Dragon Tail / Draco Meteor	Dragon Tail / Draco Meteor+20 more movesets	75%	248.3%	0.54	1:35	1.5	100%	5,031	39.6	1595
19	Rayquaza dragonflying Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe	Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe+11 more movesets	70%	247.4%	0.54	1:35	2.1	100%	3,835	38.3	1212
20	Mega Gardevoir psychicfairymega Charm / Dazzling Gleam	Charm / Dazzling Gleam+19 more movesets	77%	246.5%	0.54	1:35	1.2	100%	4,512	38.4	1806
21	Dialga (Origin) steeldragon Dragon Breath / Roar of Time	Dragon Breath / Roar of Time+7 more movesets	74%	245.2%	0.55	1:36	1.3	100%	4,090	38.7	1582
22	Shadow Galarian Darmanitan (Standard) iceshadow Ice Fang / Avalanche	Ice Fang / Avalanche+7 more movesets	64%	240.9%	0.55	1:37	3.4	100%	3,105	37.8	799
23	Mega Sceptile grassdragonmega Fury Cutter / Breaking Swipe	Fury Cutter / Breaking Swipe+11 more movesets	65%	240.9%	0.55	1:37	2.9	100%	4,056	37.9	961
24	Mega Latios dragonpsychicmega Dragon Breath / Dragon Claw	Dragon Breath / Dragon Claw+9 more movesets	69%	239.5%	0.56	1:38	2.0	100%	5,007	37.0	1263
25	Haxorus dragon Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe	Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe+9 more movesets	66%	238.9%	0.56	1:38	2.8	100%	3,593	37.4	1043
26	Dragapult dragonghost Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe	Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe+7 more movesets	65%	233.9%	0.57	1:40	2.6	100%	3,532	36.2	1025
27	Shadow Latios dragonpsychicshadow Dragon Breath / Dragon Claw	Dragon Breath / Dragon Claw+9 more movesets	64%	233.2%	0.57	1:41	2.9	100%	3,812	36.2	987
28	Primal Groudon groundfiremega Dragon Tail / Precipice Blades	Dragon Tail / Precipice Blades+9 more movesets	72%	229.5%	0.58	1:42	1.0	100%	5,902	35.5	1815
29	Regidrago dragon Dragon Breath / Dragon Energy	Dragon Breath / Dragon Energy+11 more movesets	65%	226.5%	0.59	1:44	2.0	100%	2,973	35.6	1274
30	Shadow Mamoswine icegroundshadow Powder Snow / Avalanche	Powder Snow / Avalanche+11 more movesets	62%	225.9%	0.59	1:44	2.9	100%	3,328	35.5	947

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. 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.