Shelmet counters

#0616

bugTier 1

Lobby CP

2,653

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

Defense

Difficulty

0.06

Pokebattler scale

Beating Shelmet should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 434-476.

Weak toflying1.6xrock1.6xfire1.6x

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 Shelmet counters are Mega Rayquaza, Blacephalon, Shadow Staraptor, Shadow Tornadus (Therian), Rayquaza & Shadow Heatran.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Rayquaza
Blacephalon
S. Staraptor
S. Tornadus (Therian)
Rayquaza
S. Heatran

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 Ascent0.060:10
2Mega StaraptorMegaWing Attack / Brave Bird+0.060:10
3Mega DelphoxMegaFire Spin / Blast Burn0.060:10
4Mega Charizard YMegaFire Spin / Blast Burn0.060:11
5Mega BlazikenMegaFire Spin / Blast Burn0.060:11
6BlacephalonLegendarypartyIncinerate / Mind Blown0.060:11
7Mega Mewtwo YMegaLegendaryConfusion / Future Sight+0.070:12
8Mega PidgeotMegaGust / Brave Bird0.070:12
9Shadow StaraptorShadowpartyGust / Brave Bird0.070:12
10Mega HoundoomMegaFire Fang / Dark Pulse+0.070:12
12Shadow Tornadus (Therian)ShadowLegendarypartyGust / Bleakwind Storm0.070:12
13RayquazaLegendarypartyAir Slash / Dragon Ascent0.070:12
14Shadow HeatranShadowLegendarypartyFire Spin / Magma Storm0.070:13

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

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Raid tier — Solo Raid

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Related countersShadow Shelmet

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Top 15 Shelmet 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	flyingAir SlashflyingDragon Ascent	5,713	0:10	0.06	4395.0%
2	Mega Staraptorfightingflyingjoint top pick	flyingWing AttackflyingBrave Bird+	3,979	0:10	0.06	4359.0%
3	Mega Delphoxfirepsychic	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	4,783	0:10	0.06	4152.2%
4	Mega Charizard Yfireflying	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	4,455	0:11	0.06	3791.1%
5	Mega Blazikenfirefighting	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	4,161	0:11	0.06	3791.1%
6	Blacephalonfireghost	fireIncineratefireMind Blown	3,297	0:11	0.06	3791.1%
7	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	psychicConfusionpsychicFuture Sight+	6,428	0:12	0.07	3725.6%
8	Mega Pidgeotnormalflying	flyingGustflyingBrave Bird	3,680	0:12	0.07	3633.1%
9	Shadow Staraptornormalflying	flyingGustflyingBrave Bird	2,825	0:12	0.07	3633.1%
10	Mega Houndoomdarkfire	fireFire FangdarkDark Pulse+	3,842	0:12	0.07	3567.1%
11	Mega Diancierockfairy	rockRock ThrowrockRock Slide	4,346	0:12	0.07	3487.8%
12	Shadow Tornadus (Therian)flying	flyingGustflyingBleakwind Storm	3,215	0:12	0.07	3487.8%
13	Rayquazadragonflying	flyingAir SlashflyingDragon Ascent	3,835	0:12	0.07	3487.8%
14	Shadow Heatranfiresteel	fireFire SpinfireMagma Storm	3,754	0:13	0.07	3476.6%
15	Shadow Rampardosrock	rockSmack DownrockRock Slide	3,298	0:13	0.07	3471.1%

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 Shelmet.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Shelmet'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	Estimator
Random (any moveset)showing	100%	1164%	3680.0%	0:12	0.07
Infestation / Bug Buzz	100%	1160%	3650.0%	0:12	0.07
Infestation / Signal Beam	100%	1183%	3671.4%	0:12	0.07
Infestation / Body Slam	100%	1160%	3688.6%	0:12	0.07
Acid / Bug Buzz	100%	1155%	3697.3%	0:12	0.07
Acid / Signal Beam	100%	1165%	3701.7%	0:12	0.07
Acid / Body Slam	100%	1125%	3719.2%	0:12	0.07

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…

Shelmet 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 normal1x poison1x bug1x ghost1x steel1x water1x electric1x psychic1x ice1x dragon1x dark1x fairy1x fighting0.63x ground0.63x grass0.63x

Weak (3)
Neutral (12)
Resists (3)

It resists fighting0.625xground0.625xgrass0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Shelmet throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
poisonAcid	11	+10	1.0s	0.60s
bugInfestationSTAB	9	+13	1.0s	0.75s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
bugBug BuzzSTAB	95	-50	3.5s	1.80s
bugSignal BeamSTAB	75	-50	3.0s	1.90s
normalBody Slam	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)
10/10/10floor	434	543
11/11/11	442	553
12/12/12	451	563
13/13/13	459	574
14/14/14	468	585
15/15/15hundo	476	595

Caught CP range 434 - 476, or 543 - 595 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.

Shelmet 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 1: 600 HP, 3:00 timer, boss Attack 51 / Defense 92 (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	Win % (1)	CP	DPS	TDO
1	Mega Rayquaza top pickdragonflyingmega Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	100%	4395.0%	0.06	0:10	100%	5,713	70.7	700
2	Mega Staraptor top pickfightingflyingmega Wing Attack / Brave Bird+	Wing Attack / Brave Bird++19 more movesets	98%	4359.0%	0.06	0:10	100%	3,979	70.0	700
3	Mega Delphox firepsychicmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+23 more movesets	85%	4152.2%	0.06	0:10	100%	4,783	58.2	611
4	Mega Charizard Y fireflyingmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	82%	3791.1%	0.06	0:11	100%	4,455	53.7	617
5	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	81%	3791.1%	0.06	0:11	100%	4,161	55.2	635
6	Blacephalon fireghost Incinerate / Mind Blown	Incinerate / Mind Blown+7 more movesets	78%	3791.1%	0.06	0:11	100%	3,297	53.3	613
7	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Confusion / Future Sight+	Confusion / Future Sight++26 more movesets	77%	3725.6%	0.07	0:12	100%	6,428	60.3	705
8	Mega Pidgeot normalflyingmega Gust / Brave Bird	Gust / Brave Bird+27 more movesets	75%	3633.1%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,680	51.7	620
9	Shadow Staraptor normalflyingshadow Gust / Brave Bird	Gust / Brave Bird+15 more movesets	71%	3633.1%	0.07	0:12	100%	2,825	52.4	629
10	Mega Houndoom darkfiremega Fire Fang / Dark Pulse+	Fire Fang / Dark Pulse++17 more movesets	72%	3567.1%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,842	54.4	665
11	Mega Diancie rockfairymega Rock Throw / Rock Slide	Rock Throw / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	70%	3487.8%	0.07	0:12	100%	4,346	48.8	610
12	Shadow Tornadus (Therian) flyingshadow Gust / Bleakwind Storm	Gust / Bleakwind Storm+9 more movesets	70%	3487.8%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,215	55.1	689
13	Rayquaza dragonflying Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	72%	3487.8%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,835	49.0	613
14	Shadow Heatran firesteelshadow Fire Spin / Magma Storm	Fire Spin / Magma Storm+11 more movesets	79%	3476.6%	0.07	0:13	100%	3,754	51.9	650
15	Shadow Rampardos rockshadow Smack Down / Rock Slide	Smack Down / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	62%	3471.1%	0.07	0:13	100%	3,298	50.7	637
16	Shadow Reshiram dragonfireshadow Fire Fang / Fusion Flare	Fire Fang / Fusion Flare+9 more movesets	71%	3384.8%	0.07	0:13	100%	4,038	63.2	813
17	Shadow Blaziken firefightingshadow Fire Spin / Brave Bird	Fire Spin / Brave Bird+20 more movesets	66%	3384.8%	0.07	0:13	100%	2,848	49.0	631
18	Shadow Toucannon normalflyingshadow Bullet Seed / Beak Blast	Bullet Seed / Beak Blast+11 more movesets	66%	3358.8%	0.07	0:13	100%	2,689	48.7	632
19	Shadow Archeops rockflyingshadow Wing Attack / Ancient Power	Wing Attack / Ancient Power+5 more movesets	64%	3353.6%	0.07	0:13	100%	3,331	46.9	610
20	Shadow Moltres fireflyingshadow Wing Attack / Fire Blast	Wing Attack / Fire Blast+11 more movesets	68%	3353.6%	0.07	0:13	100%	3,465	46.9	610
21	Reshiram dragonfire Fire Fang / Fusion Flare	Fire Fang / Fusion Flare+9 more movesets	71%	3353.6%	0.07	0:13	100%	4,038	51.9	674
22	Shadow Honchkrow darkflyingshadow Peck / Brave Bird	Peck / Brave Bird+7 more movesets	60%	3353.6%	0.07	0:13	100%	2,711	47.4	616
23	Cinderace fire Fire Spin / Pyroball	Fire Spin / Pyroball+14 more movesets	65%	3353.6%	0.07	0:13	100%	3,018	46.8	608
24	Shadow Salamence dragonflyingshadow Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	65%	3268.1%	0.07	0:13	100%	3,749	51.4	688
25	Shadow Rhyperior groundrockshadow Smack Down / Rock Wrecker	Smack Down / Rock Wrecker+15 more movesets	65%	3229.4%	0.08	0:13	100%	3,733	45.0	607
26	Shadow Galarian Articuno psychicflyingshadow Psycho Cut / Fly	Psycho Cut / Fly+7 more movesets	61%	3229.4%	0.08	0:13	100%	3,590	44.7	603
27	Shadow Lugia psychicflyingshadow Extrasensory / Aeroblast++	Extrasensory / Aeroblast+++15 more movesets	67%	3229.4%	0.08	0:13	100%	3,703	45.3	611
28	Shadow Delphox firepsychicshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	59%	3205.6%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,059	45.6	620
29	Shadow Tyrantrum rockdragonshadow Rock Throw / Meteor Beam	Rock Throw / Meteor Beam+17 more movesets	62%	3168.3%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,128	50.8	699
30	Shadow Chandelure ghostfireshadow Hex / Overheat	Hex / Overheat+19 more movesets	64%	3114.0%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,268	42.9	600

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 0.3 s (50 Monte Carlo runs each, seed 1). Same boss on pokebattler.com. The same ranking as JSON: /api/raids/rank.