Shadow raid

Shadow Sneasel counters

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dark iceShadow 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

6,340

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

121

Defense

Difficulty

0.06

Pokebattler scale

Beating Shadow Sneasel should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 1,057-1,172.

Weak tofighting2.56xrock1.6xbug1.6xsteel1.6xfire1.6xfairy1.6x

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 Fighting Mega — most top counters attack with Fighting

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 Sneasel counters are Mega Lucario, Keldeo, Shadow Blaziken, Shadow Mewtwo, Shadow Conkeldurr & Kartana.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Lucario
Keldeo
S. Blaziken
S. Mewtwo
S. Conkeldurr
Kartana

7 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 LucarioMegapartyForce Palm / Aura Sphere0.060:10
2Mega Mewtwo XMegaLegendaryCounter / Dynamic Punch+0.060:11
3Mega FalinksMegaCounter / Brick Break+0.060:11
4Mega GalladeMegaLow Kick / Sacred Sword0.070:12
5Mega Mewtwo YMegaLegendaryCounter / Focus Blast0.070:13
6KeldeoLegendarypartyLow Kick / Secret Sword0.070:13
7Mega BlazikenMegaEmber / Aura Sphere0.070:13
8Shadow BlazikenShadowpartyCounter / Aura Sphere0.070:13
9Mega HeracrossMegaCounter / Close Combat0.080:13
10Shadow MewtwoShadowLegendarypartyCounter / Focus Blast0.080:14
11Shadow ConkeldurrShadowpartyCounter / Focus Blast0.080:14
13KartanaLegendarypartyFury Cutter / Sacred Sword0.080:14

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

Related countersHisuian Sneasel

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Top 15 Shadow Sneasel 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.

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#	Attacker	Moveset
1	Mega Lucariofightingsteeljoint top pick	fightingForce PalmfightingAura Sphere	3,826	0:10	0.06	4359.9%
2	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	fightingCounterfightingDynamic Punch+	6,112	0:11	0.06	4089.1%
3	Mega Falinksfighting	fightingCounterfightingBrick Break+	3,670	0:11	0.06	4021.2%
4	Mega Galladepsychicfighting	fightingLow KickfightingSacred Sword	4,521	0:12	0.07	3612.0%
5	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	fightingCounterfightingFocus Blast	6,428	0:13	0.07	3343.3%
6	Keldeowaterfighting	fightingLow KickfightingSecret Sword	3,698	0:13	0.07	3330.5%
7	Mega Blazikenfirefighting	fireEmberfightingAura Sphere	4,161	0:13	0.07	3322.9%
8	Shadow Blazikenfirefighting	fightingCounterfightingAura Sphere	2,848	0:13	0.07	3312.8%
9	Mega Heracrossbugfighting	fightingCounterfightingClose Combat	4,814	0:13	0.08	3229.4%
10	Shadow Mewtwopsychic	fightingCounterfightingFocus Blast	4,178	0:14	0.08	3221.1%
11	Shadow Conkeldurrfighting	fightingCounterfightingFocus Blast	3,337	0:14	0.08	3210.3%
12	Mega Alakazampsychic	fightingCounterfightingFocus Blast	4,510	0:14	0.08	3190.1%
13	Kartanagrasssteel	bugFury CutterfightingSacred Sword	3,677	0:14	0.08	3150.0%
14	Terrakionrockfighting	fightingDouble KickfightingSacred Sword	3,698	0:14	0.08	3114.0%
15	Shadow Machampfighting	fightingCounterfightingDynamic Punch	3,056	0:14	0.08	3109.6%

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 Sneasel.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Shadow Sneasel'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%	612%	3378.9%	0:13	0.07
Feint Attack / Foul Play	100%	616%	3368.0%	0:13	0.07
Feint Attack / Ice Punch	100%	622%	3373.4%	0:13	0.07
Feint Attack / Triple Axel	100%	581%	3377.0%	0:13	0.07
Ice Shard / Foul Play	100%	630%	3380.7%	0:13	0.07
Feint Attack / Avalanche	100%	605%	3382.5%	0:13	0.07
Ice Shard / Ice Punch	100%	639%	3382.5%	0:13	0.07
Ice Shard / Triple Axel	100%	596%	3386.2%	0:13	0.07
Ice Shard / Avalanche	100%	617%	3393.5%	0:13	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…

Sneasel 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.

fighting2.56x rock1.6x bug1.6x steel1.6x fire1.6x fairy1.6x normal1x flying1x poison1x ground1x water1x grass1x electric1x dragon1x ghost0.63x ice0.63x dark0.63x psychic0.39x

Double weak (1)
Weak (5)
Neutral (8)
Resists (4)

It resists psychic0.39xghost0.625xice0.625xdark0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Sneasel throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
darkFeint AttackSTAB	11	+10	1.0s	0.85s
iceIce ShardSTAB	10	+10	1.0s	0.40s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
darkFoul PlaySTAB	70	-50	2.0s	1.70s
iceAvalancheSTAB	85	-50	2.5s	1.50s
iceTriple AxelSTAB	60	-33	2.0s	1.50s
iceIce PunchSTAB	50	-33	2.0s	1.40s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
6/6/6floor	1,057	1,322
7/7/7	1,070	1,337
8/8/8	1,082	1,353
9/9/9	1,095	1,369
10/10/10	1,107	1,384
11/11/11	1,120	1,400
12/12/12	1,133	1,416
13/13/13	1,146	1,432
14/14/14	1,159	1,449
15/15/15hundo	1,172	1,465

Caught CP range 1,057 - 1,172, or 1,322 - 1,465 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 1,057, not at the 1,107 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 50 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.

Sneasel 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 121 / Defense 96 (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 Lucario fightingsteelmega Force Palm / Aura Sphere	Force Palm / Aura Sphere+23 more movesets	100%	4359.9%	0.06	0:10	0.0	100%	3,826	61.4	614
2	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Counter / Dynamic Punch+	Counter / Dynamic Punch++26 more movesets	96%	4089.1%	0.06	0:11	0.0	100%	6,112	84.4	897
3	Mega Falinks fightingmega Counter / Brick Break+	Counter / Brick Break++7 more movesets	90%	4021.2%	0.06	0:11	0.0	100%	3,670	62.5	676
4	Mega Gallade psychicfightingmega Low Kick / Sacred Sword	Low Kick / Sacred Sword+19 more movesets	77%	3612.0%	0.07	0:12	0.0	100%	4,521	50.1	605
5	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Counter / Focus Blast	Counter / Focus Blast+26 more movesets	72%	3343.3%	0.07	0:13	0.0	100%	6,428	53.0	689
6	Keldeo waterfighting Low Kick / Secret Sword	Low Kick / Secret Sword+11 more movesets	77%	3330.5%	0.07	0:13	0.0	100%	3,698	50.3	658
7	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Ember / Aura Sphere	Ember / Aura Sphere+20 more movesets	74%	3322.9%	0.07	0:13	0.0	100%	4,161	49.1	644
8	Shadow Blaziken firefightingshadow Counter / Aura Sphere	Counter / Aura Sphere+20 more movesets	71%	3312.8%	0.07	0:13	0.0	100%	2,848	53.9	708
9	Mega Heracross bugfightingmega Counter / Close Combat	Counter / Close Combat+17 more movesets	69%	3229.4%	0.08	0:13	0.0	100%	4,814	46.5	628
10	Shadow Mewtwo psychicshadow Counter / Focus Blast	Counter / Focus Blast+23 more movesets	63%	3221.1%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	4,178	45.8	613
11	Shadow Conkeldurr fightingshadow Counter / Focus Blast	Counter / Focus Blast+11 more movesets	65%	3210.3%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	3,337	45.3	615
12	Mega Alakazam psychicmega Counter / Focus Blast	Counter / Focus Blast+17 more movesets	61%	3190.1%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	4,510	45.8	620
13	Kartana grasssteel Fury Cutter / Sacred Sword	Fury Cutter / Sacred Sword+14 more movesets	61%	3150.0%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	3,677	44.6	616
14	Terrakion rockfighting Double Kick / Sacred Sword	Double Kick / Sacred Sword+11 more movesets	67%	3114.0%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	3,698	42.9	600
15	Shadow Machamp fightingshadow Counter / Dynamic Punch	Counter / Dynamic Punch+23 more movesets	62%	3109.6%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	3,056	45.0	630
16	Blaziken firefighting Counter / Aura Sphere	Counter / Aura Sphere+20 more movesets	66%	3105.1%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	2,848	43.4	609
17	Lucario fightingsteel Counter / Aura Sphere	Counter / Aura Sphere+23 more movesets	65%	3105.1%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	2,703	43.1	605
18	Shadow Gallade psychicfightingshadow Low Kick / Sacred Sword	Low Kick / Sacred Sword+19 more movesets	59%	3038.1%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	3,093	46.6	668
19	Shadow Galarian Zapdos fightingflyingshadow Counter / Close Combat	Counter / Close Combat+7 more movesets	56%	2975.4%	0.08	0:15	0.1	100%	3,548	42.0	584
20	Shadow Raikou electricshadow Thunder Shock / Aura Sphere	Thunder Shock / Aura Sphere+9 more movesets	58%	2904.5%	0.08	0:15	0.0	100%	3,452	41.8	627
21	Shadow Hariyama fightingshadow Force Palm / Dynamic Punch	Force Palm / Dynamic Punch+14 more movesets	58%	2894.8%	0.08	0:15	0.0	100%	2,829	43.0	646
22	Pheromosa bugfighting Low Kick / Focus Blast	Low Kick / Focus Blast+7 more movesets	51%	2857.6%	0.09	0:15	0.2	100%	2,842	40.1	544
23	Shadow Sirfetch'd fightingshadow Counter / Close Combat	Counter / Close Combat+7 more movesets	53%	2805.7%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	2,985	40.5	623
24	Conkeldurr fighting Force Palm / Dynamic Punch	Force Palm / Dynamic Punch+11 more movesets	57%	2773.3%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	3,337	40.3	633
25	Urshifu (Rapid Strike) fightingwater Counter / Dynamic Punch	Counter / Dynamic Punch+11 more movesets	59%	2724.7%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	3,606	38.5	616
26	Urshifu (Single Strike) fightingdark Counter / Dynamic Punch	Counter / Dynamic Punch+11 more movesets	57%	2724.7%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	3,606	38.5	616
27	Gallade psychicfighting Low Kick / Sacred Sword	Low Kick / Sacred Sword+19 more movesets	53%	2719.6%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	3,093	38.0	609
28	Shadow Sneasler fightingpoisonshadow Rock Smash / Close Combat	Rock Smash / Close Combat+8 more movesets	52%	2716.5%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	3,222	38.5	612
29	Breloom grassfighting Force Palm / Dynamic Punch	Force Palm / Dynamic Punch+11 more movesets	48%	2661.7%	0.09	0:16	0.2	100%	2,628	38.9	552
30	Shadow Alakazam psychicshadow Counter / Focus Blast	Counter / Focus Blast+17 more movesets	45%	2571.3%	0.09	0:17	0.3	100%	3,057	37.5	522

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.