Shelmet counters

#0616

bugTier 3

Lobby CP

6,498

3,600

Timer

3:00

Attack

Defense

113

Difficulty

0.40

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 Fire Mega — most top counters attack with Fire

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 Delphox, Shadow Reshiram, Blacephalon, Shadow Salamence, Shadow Moltres & Shadow Toucannon.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Delphox
S. Reshiram
Blacephalon
S. Salamence
S. Moltres
S. Toucannon

5 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 DelphoxMegapartyFire Spin / Mystical Fire+0.351:02
2Mega RayquazaMegaLegendaryAir Slash / Dragon Ascent0.361:03
3Mega StaraptorMegaGust / Brave Bird+0.401:11
4Mega SkarmoryMegaAir Slash / Drill Peck+0.411:13
5Shadow ReshiramShadowLegendarypartyFire Fang / Fusion Flare0.421:14
6BlacephalonLegendarypartyIncinerate / Mind Blown0.421:14
7Shadow SalamenceShadowpartyFire Fang / Fly0.431:16
8Mega BlazikenMegaFire Spin / Blast Burn0.431:16
9Mega Charizard YMegaFire Spin / Blast Burn0.441:17
10Shadow MoltresShadowLegendarypartyFire Spin / Fly0.441:17
11Shadow ToucannonShadowpartyPeck / Beak Blast0.451:19

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

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Raid tier — Group 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 Delphoxfirepsychicjoint top pick	fireFire SpinfireMystical Fire+	4,783	1:02	0.35	0.1	381.0%
2	Mega Rayquazadragonflyingjoint top pick	flyingAir SlashflyingDragon Ascent	5,713	1:03	0.36	0.0	373.5%
3	Mega Staraptorfightingflying	flyingGustflyingBrave Bird+	3,979	1:11	0.40	0.0	330.6%
4	Mega Skarmorysteelflying	flyingAir SlashflyingDrill Peck+	3,741	1:13	0.41	0.0	323.7%
5	Shadow Reshiramdragonfire	fireFire FangfireFusion Flare	4,038	1:14	0.42	0.0	317.9%
6	Blacephalonfireghost	fireIncineratefireMind Blown	3,297	1:14	0.42	0.0	317.8%
7	Shadow Salamencedragonflying	fireFire FangflyingFly	3,749	1:16	0.43	0.3	308.8%
8	Mega Blazikenfirefighting	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	4,161	1:16	0.43	0.0	308.1%
9	Mega Charizard Yfireflying	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	4,455	1:17	0.44	0.0	304.2%
10	Shadow Moltresfireflying	fireFire SpinflyingFly	3,465	1:17	0.44	0.1	303.7%
11	Shadow Toucannonnormalflying	flyingPeckflyingBeak Blast	2,689	1:19	0.45	0.9	298.0%
12	Shadow Chandelureghostfire	fireFire SpinfireOverheat	3,268	1:19	0.45	0.0	296.9%
13	Rayquazadragonflying	flyingAir SlashflyingDragon Ascent	3,835	1:20	0.45	0.1	295.1%
14	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	psychicPsycho CutpsychicFuture Sight+	6,428	1:20	0.46	0.6	292.5%
15	Mega Salamencedragonflying	fireFire FangflyingFly	5,031	1:22	0.47	0.0	286.2%

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	Faints	Estimator
Random (any moveset)showing	100%	374%	318.7%	1:14	0.2	0.42
Acid / Body Slam	100%	379%	316.8%	1:14	0.3	0.42
Infestation / Body Slam	100%	385%	317.5%	1:14	0.2	0.42
Acid / Signal Beam	100%	377%	317.7%	1:14	0.2	0.42
Infestation / Signal Beam	100%	388%	318.5%	1:14	0.1	0.42
Infestation / Bug Buzz	100%	368%	321.4%	1:13	0.2	0.42
Acid / Bug Buzz	100%	361%	321.6%	1:13	0.3	0.42

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 3: 3,600 HP, 3:00 timer, boss Attack 63 / Defense 113 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.73).

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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 Delphox top pickfirepsychicmega Fire Spin / Mystical Fire+	Fire Spin / Mystical Fire++23 more movesets	96%	381.0%	0.35	1:02	0.1	100%	4,783	61.1	3643
2	Mega Rayquaza top pickdragonflyingmega Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	100%	373.5%	0.36	1:03	0.0	100%	5,713	60.5	3803
3	Mega Staraptor fightingflyingmega Gust / Brave Bird+	Gust / Brave Bird++19 more movesets	90%	330.6%	0.40	1:11	0.0	100%	3,979	53.9	3828
4	Mega Skarmory steelflyingmega Air Slash / Drill Peck+	Air Slash / Drill Peck++9 more movesets	88%	323.7%	0.41	1:13	0.0	100%	3,741	49.9	3619
5	Shadow Reshiram dragonfireshadow Fire Fang / Fusion Flare	Fire Fang / Fusion Flare+9 more movesets	79%	317.9%	0.42	1:14	0.0	100%	4,038	51.4	3719
6	Blacephalon fireghost Incinerate / Mind Blown	Incinerate / Mind Blown+7 more movesets	80%	317.8%	0.42	1:14	0.0	100%	3,297	51.9	3799
7	Shadow Salamence dragonflyingshadow Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	75%	308.8%	0.43	1:16	0.3	100%	3,749	48.7	3187
8	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	79%	308.1%	0.43	1:16	0.0	100%	4,161	50.1	3742
9	Mega Charizard Y fireflyingmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	80%	304.2%	0.44	1:17	0.0	100%	4,455	49.1	3791
10	Shadow Moltres fireflyingshadow Fire Spin / Fly	Fire Spin / Fly+11 more movesets	76%	303.7%	0.44	1:17	0.1	100%	3,465	47.4	3481
11	Shadow Toucannon normalflyingshadow Peck / Beak Blast	Peck / Beak Blast+11 more movesets	68%	298.0%	0.45	1:19	0.8	100%	2,689	46.0	2029
12	Shadow Chandelure ghostfireshadow Fire Spin / Overheat	Fire Spin / Overheat+19 more movesets	74%	296.9%	0.45	1:19	0.0	100%	3,268	45.7	3543
13	Rayquaza dragonflying Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	72%	295.1%	0.45	1:20	0.1	100%	3,835	46.9	3613
14	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Psycho Cut / Future Sight+	Psycho Cut / Future Sight++26 more movesets	68%	292.5%	0.46	1:20	0.6	100%	6,428	45.4	2470
15	Mega Salamence dragonflyingmega Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	74%	286.2%	0.47	1:22	0.0	100%	5,031	44.0	3610
16	Shadow Staraptor normalflyingshadow Gust / Fly	Gust / Fly+15 more movesets	65%	286.0%	0.47	1:22	0.9	100%	2,825	44.0	1912
17	Shadow Rampardos rockshadow Smack Down / Rock Slide	Smack Down / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	62%	284.9%	0.47	1:22	1.2	100%	3,298	44.4	1787
18	Shadow Darmanitan (Standard) fireshadow Fire Fang / Overheat	Fire Fang / Overheat+11 more movesets	64%	281.8%	0.47	1:23	0.9	100%	3,105	44.3	1921
19	Mega Diancie rockfairymega Rock Throw / Rock Slide	Rock Throw / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	67%	279.9%	0.48	1:24	0.4	100%	4,346	43.4	2872
20	Shadow Blaziken firefightingshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	66%	279.6%	0.48	1:24	0.5	100%	2,848	44.4	2768
21	Shadow Heatran firesteelshadow Fire Spin / Magma Storm	Fire Spin / Magma Storm+11 more movesets	74%	279.3%	0.48	1:24	0.0	100%	3,754	43.2	3629
22	Shadow Gigalith rockshadow Lock-On / Meteor Beam	Lock-On / Meteor Beam+14 more movesets	65%	277.1%	0.48	1:25	0.6	100%	3,228	42.8	2427
23	Shadow Galarian Articuno psychicflyingshadow Psycho Cut / Fly	Psycho Cut / Fly+7 more movesets	63%	276.1%	0.48	1:25	0.7	100%	3,590	43.5	2179
24	Mega Charizard X firedragonmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	67%	275.0%	0.49	1:25	0.1	100%	3,850	42.5	3442
25	Shadow Delphox firepsychicshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	61%	272.4%	0.49	1:26	0.9	100%	3,059	42.4	1912
26	Shadow Tornadus (Therian) flyingshadow Gust / Bleakwind Storm	Gust / Bleakwind Storm+9 more movesets	63%	270.7%	0.49	1:27	0.7	100%	3,215	41.8	2136
27	Shadow Entei fireshadow Fire Spin / Overheat	Fire Spin / Overheat+11 more movesets	65%	269.3%	0.50	1:27	0.3	100%	3,473	41.6	3038
28	Shadow Emboar firefightingshadow Ember / Blast Burn	Ember / Blast Burn+9 more movesets	65%	268.9%	0.50	1:27	0.3	100%	2,982	42.0	3005
29	Shadow Charizard fireflyingshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	64%	267.7%	0.50	1:28	0.3	100%	2,889	41.1	2916
30	Reshiram dragonfire Fire Fang / Fusion Flare	Fire Fang / Fusion Flare+9 more movesets	66%	267.4%	0.50	1:28	0.0	100%	4,038	43.3	3766

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