Shadow raid

Shadow Shelmet counters

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bugShadow 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

2,653

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

Defense

Difficulty

0.10

Pokebattler scale

Beating Shadow Shelmet should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 402-476.

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 Shadow Shelmet counters are Mega Delphox, Blacephalon, Shadow Reshiram, Shadow Moltres, Rayquaza & Shadow Rampardos.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Delphox
Blacephalon
S. Reshiram
S. Moltres
Rayquaza
S. Rampardos

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+0.090:16
2Mega Mewtwo YMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Future Sight+0.100:17
3Mega Charizard YMegaFire Spin / Blast Burn0.100:18
4Mega BlazikenMegaFire Spin / Blast Burn0.100:18
5BlacephalonLegendarypartyIncinerate / Mind Blown0.100:18
6Mega StaraptorMegaSand Attack / Brave Bird+0.100:18
7Mega RayquazaMegaLegendaryAir Slash / Dragon Ascent0.110:19
8Shadow ReshiramShadowLegendarypartyFire Fang / Fusion Flare0.110:19
9Shadow MoltresShadowLegendarypartyWing Attack / Fly0.110:19
10RayquazaLegendarypartyAir Slash / Dragon Ascent0.110:20
11Shadow RampardosShadowpartySmack Down / Rock Slide0.110:20

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 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	0:16	0.09	2724.7%
2	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	psychicPsycho CutpsychicFuture Sight+	6,428	0:17	0.10	2531.4%
3	Mega Charizard Yfireflying	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	4,455	0:18	0.10	2421.9%
4	Mega Blazikenfirefighting	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	4,161	0:18	0.10	2421.9%
5	Blacephalonfireghost	fireIncineratefireMind Blown	3,297	0:18	0.10	2421.9%
6	Mega Staraptorfightingflying	groundSand AttackflyingBrave Bird+	3,979	0:18	0.10	2408.4%
7	Mega Rayquazadragonflying	flyingAir SlashflyingDragon Ascent	5,713	0:19	0.11	2304.2%
8	Shadow Reshiramdragonfire	fireFire FangfireFusion Flare	4,038	0:19	0.11	2294.5%
9	Shadow Moltresfireflying	flyingWing AttackflyingFly	3,465	0:19	0.11	2292.0%
10	Rayquazadragonflying	flyingAir SlashflyingDragon Ascent	3,835	0:20	0.11	2179.7%
11	Shadow Rampardosrock	rockSmack DownrockRock Slide	3,298	0:20	0.11	2176.5%
12	Shadow Staraptornormalflying	flyingGustflyingFly	2,825	0:20	0.11	2175.4%
13	Mega Skarmorysteelflying	flyingAir SlashflyingDrill Peck+	3,741	0:20	0.11	2126.5%
14	Shadow Gigalithrock	normalLock-OnrockMeteor Beam	3,228	0:21	0.12	2099.9%
15	Mega Diancierockfairy	rockRock ThrowrockRock Slide	4,346	0:21	0.12	2075.9%

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 Shelmet.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Shadow 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.

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%	624%	2335.4%	0:19	0.10
Infestation / Bug Buzz	100%	614%	2332.0%	0:19	0.10
Infestation / Body Slam	100%	631%	2332.0%	0:19	0.10
Infestation / Signal Beam	100%	635%	2332.0%	0:19	0.10
Acid / Bug Buzz	100%	601%	2335.4%	0:19	0.10
Acid / Body Slam	100%	633%	2335.4%	0:19	0.10
Acid / Signal Beam	100%	619%	2335.4%	0:19	0.10

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)
6/6/6floor	402	502
7/7/7	410	512
8/8/8	418	522
9/9/9	426	532
10/10/10	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 402 - 476, or 502 - 595 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 402, not at the 434 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 32 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.

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

Shadow 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

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	Win % (1)	CP	DPS	TDO
1	Mega Delphox firepsychicmega Fire Spin / Mystical Fire+	Fire Spin / Mystical Fire++23 more movesets	100%	2724.7%	0.09	0:16	100%	4,783	37.9	607
2	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Psycho Cut / Future Sight+	Psycho Cut / Future Sight++26 more movesets	90%	2531.4%	0.10	0:17	100%	6,428	36.3	624
3	Mega Charizard Y fireflyingmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	92%	2421.9%	0.10	0:18	100%	4,455	33.7	607
4	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	89%	2421.9%	0.10	0:18	100%	4,161	34.4	619
5	Blacephalon fireghost Incinerate / Mind Blown	Incinerate / Mind Blown+7 more movesets	88%	2421.9%	0.10	0:18	100%	3,297	33.4	602
6	Mega Staraptor fightingflyingmega Sand Attack / Brave Bird+	Sand Attack / Brave Bird++19 more movesets	95%	2408.4%	0.10	0:18	100%	3,979	33.2	600
7	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	90%	2304.2%	0.11	0:19	100%	5,713	41.7	788
8	Shadow Reshiram dragonfireshadow Fire Fang / Fusion Flare	Fire Fang / Fusion Flare+9 more movesets	81%	2294.5%	0.11	0:19	100%	4,038	31.7	603
9	Shadow Moltres fireflyingshadow Wing Attack / Fly	Wing Attack / Fly+11 more movesets	82%	2292.0%	0.11	0:19	100%	3,465	31.6	600
10	Rayquaza dragonflying Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	77%	2179.7%	0.11	0:20	100%	3,835	30.7	613
11	Shadow Rampardos rockshadow Smack Down / Rock Slide	Smack Down / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	69%	2176.5%	0.11	0:20	100%	3,298	30.4	609
12	Shadow Staraptor normalflyingshadow Gust / Fly	Gust / Fly+15 more movesets	72%	2175.4%	0.11	0:20	100%	2,825	31.1	624
13	Mega Skarmory steelflyingmega Air Slash / Drill Peck+	Air Slash / Drill Peck++9 more movesets	81%	2126.5%	0.11	0:20	100%	3,741	29.7	608
14	Shadow Gigalith rockshadow Lock-On / Meteor Beam	Lock-On / Meteor Beam+14 more movesets	73%	2099.9%	0.12	0:21	100%	3,228	30.3	629
15	Mega Diancie rockfairymega Rock Throw / Rock Slide	Rock Throw / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	72%	2075.9%	0.12	0:21	100%	4,346	28.8	604
16	Shadow Chandelure ghostfireshadow Fire Spin / Overheat	Fire Spin / Overheat+19 more movesets	74%	2075.9%	0.12	0:21	100%	3,268	29.3	615
17	Shadow Darmanitan (Standard) fireshadow Fire Fang / Overheat	Fire Fang / Overheat+11 more movesets	67%	2075.9%	0.12	0:21	100%	3,105	28.9	607
18	Shadow Galarian Articuno psychicflyingshadow Psycho Cut / Fly	Psycho Cut / Fly+7 more movesets	69%	2073.9%	0.12	0:21	100%	3,590	30.5	640
19	Shadow Toucannon normalflyingshadow Peck / Beak Blast	Peck / Beak Blast+11 more movesets	69%	2072.0%	0.12	0:21	100%	2,689	32.8	691
20	Shadow Blaziken firefightingshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	69%	2071.0%	0.12	0:21	100%	2,848	29.1	613
21	Shadow Salamence dragonflyingshadow Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	72%	2048.6%	0.12	0:21	100%	3,749	33.8	719
22	Shadow Heatran firesteelshadow Fire Spin / Magma Storm	Fire Spin / Magma Storm+11 more movesets	77%	2022.0%	0.12	0:22	100%	3,754	28.9	623
23	Mega Salamence dragonflyingmega Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	74%	1985.2%	0.12	0:22	100%	5,031	31.1	682
24	Shadow Rhyperior groundrockshadow Smack Down / Rock Wrecker	Smack Down / Rock Wrecker+15 more movesets	68%	1981.5%	0.12	0:22	100%	3,733	27.4	603
25	Salamence dragonflying Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	68%	1981.5%	0.12	0:22	100%	3,749	27.8	612
26	Mega Pidgeot normalflyingmega Wing Attack / Brave Bird	Wing Attack / Brave Bird+27 more movesets	68%	1981.5%	0.12	0:22	100%	3,680	27.8	612
27	Moltres fireflying Fire Spin / Fly	Fire Spin / Fly+11 more movesets	71%	1981.5%	0.12	0:22	100%	3,465	27.8	611
28	Shadow Honchkrow darkflyingshadow Peck / Brave Bird	Peck / Brave Bird+7 more movesets	60%	1974.4%	0.12	0:22	100%	2,711	29.4	649
29	Shadow Vikavolt bugelectricshadow Bug Bite / Fly	Bug Bite / Fly+15 more movesets	59%	1905.3%	0.13	0:23	100%	3,117	26.4	605
30	Shadow Delphox firepsychicshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	60%	1886.4%	0.13	0:23	100%	3,059	28.9	669

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.