Shadow raid

Shadow Torchic counters

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fireShadow Tier 1In raids until Tue 6 Oct, 20:00

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

3,587

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

Defense

Difficulty

0.07

Pokebattler scale

Beating Shadow Torchic should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 541-624.

Weak toground1.6xrock1.6xwater1.6x

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 Ground Mega — most top counters attack with Ground

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 Torchic counters are Mega Greninja, Shadow Landorus (Therian), Shadow Gigalith, Shadow Tyrantrum, Shadow Excadrill & Shadow Landorus (Incarnate).

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Greninja
S. Landorus (Therian)
S. Gigalith
S. Tyrantrum
S. Excadrill
S. Landorus (Incarnate)

3 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 GreninjaMegapartyBubble / Surf+0.060:11
2Mega StarmieMegaWater Gun / Liquidation+0.060:12
3Mega Mewtwo YMegaLegendaryConfusion / Future Sight+0.070:12
4Shadow Landorus (Therian)ShadowLegendarypartyMud Shot / Sandsear Storm0.070:12
5Shadow GigalithShadowpartyLock-On / Meteor Beam0.080:14
6Mega SwampertMegaWater Gun / Hydro Cannon0.080:14
7Shadow TyrantrumShadowpartyRock Throw / Meteor Beam0.080:14
8Shadow ExcadrillShadowpartyMud-Slap / Earthquake0.080:14
9Shadow Landorus (Incarnate)ShadowLegendarypartyMud Shot / Earth Power0.080:14
10Primal GroudonMegaLegendaryMud Shot / Earthquake0.080:14

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

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Raid tier — Easy Shadow Raid

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Top 15 Shadow Torchic 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 Greninjawaterdarkjoint top pick	waterBubblewaterSurf+	3,784	0:11	0.06	3791.1%
2	Mega Starmiewaterpsychicjoint top pick	waterWater GunwaterLiquidation+	3,701	0:12	0.06	3744.9%
3	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	psychicConfusionpsychicFuture Sight+	6,428	0:12	0.07	3701.0%
4	Shadow Landorus (Therian)groundflying	groundMud ShotgroundSandsear Storm	3,922	0:12	0.07	3487.8%
5	Shadow Gigalithrock	normalLock-OnrockMeteor Beam	3,228	0:14	0.08	3145.5%
6	Mega Swampertwaterground	waterWater GunwaterHydro Cannon	4,401	0:14	0.08	3114.0%
7	Shadow Tyrantrumrockdragon	rockRock ThrowrockMeteor Beam	3,128	0:14	0.08	3100.7%
8	Shadow Excadrillgroundsteel	groundMud-SlapgroundEarthquake	3,244	0:14	0.08	3061.5%
9	Shadow Landorus (Incarnate)groundflying	groundMud ShotgroundEarth Power	3,588	0:14	0.08	3035.9%
10	Primal Groudongroundfire	groundMud ShotgroundEarthquake	5,902	0:14	0.08	3006.6%
11	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	psychicConfusionfightingDynamic Punch+	6,112	0:14	0.08	3006.6%
12	Primal Kyogrewater	waterWaterfallwaterSurf	5,902	0:15	0.08	3000.4%
13	Shadow Kyogrewater	waterWaterfallwaterOrigin Pulse	4,115	0:15	0.08	2998.3%
14	Shadow Rhyperiorgroundrock	groundMud-SlapgroundEarthquake	3,733	0:15	0.08	2992.2%
15	Shadow Garchompdragonground	groundMud ShotgroundEarth Power	3,962	0:15	0.08	2965.7%

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 Torchic.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Shadow Torchic'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%	740%	3237.7%	0:13	0.08
Scratch / Blast Burn	100%	670%	3204.2%	0:14	0.08
Scratch / Rock Tomb	100%	798%	3216.1%	0:14	0.08
Scratch / Flame Charge	100%	829%	3217.8%	0:14	0.08
Scratch / Flamethrower	100%	738%	3232.7%	0:13	0.08
Ember / Rock Tomb	100%	787%	3252.8%	0:13	0.07
Ember / Blast Burn	100%	716%	3256.2%	0:13	0.07
Ember / Flamethrower	100%	767%	3262.9%	0:13	0.07
Ember / Flame Charge	100%	772%	3266.3%	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…

Torchic 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.

ground1.6x rock1.6x water1.6x normal1x fighting1x flying1x poison1x ghost1x electric1x psychic1x dragon1x dark1x bug0.63x steel0.63x fire0.63x grass0.63x ice0.63x fairy0.63x

Weak (3)
Neutral (9)
Resists (6)

It resists bug0.625xsteel0.625xfire0.625xgrass0.625xice0.625xfairy0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Torchic throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
normalScratch	6	+4	0.5s	0.30s
fireEmberSTAB	10	+10	1.0s	0.60s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
fireBlast BurnSTAB	120	-50	3.5s	2.95s
fireFlamethrowerSTAB	65	-50	2.0s	1.30s
rockRock Tomb	65	-50	3.0s	2.05s
fireFlame ChargeSTAB	70	-33	4.0s	3.10s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
6/6/6floor	541	677
7/7/7	550	688
8/8/8	559	699
9/9/9	568	711
10/10/10	578	722
11/11/11	587	734
12/12/12	596	745
13/13/13	606	757
14/14/14	615	769
15/15/15hundo	624	781

Caught CP range 541 - 624, or 677 - 781 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.

LeekDuck publishes 541 - 624 normal and 677 - 781 boosted for this boss — both match the table above exactly, computed from base stats rather than copied from it.

Shadow raid floor. A Shadow Raid encounter rolls a minimum of 6/6/6, so this band starts at 541, not at the 578 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 37 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.

in raids nowShadow TorchicShadow Tier 1Shadowshiny availableWed 9 Sept, 06:00 – Tue 6 Oct, 20:00 · ends in 1 day

All settings

Shadow Tier 1: 600 HP, 3:00 timer, boss Attack 86 / Defense 60 (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 Greninja top pickwaterdarkmega Bubble / Surf+	Bubble / Surf++17 more movesets	98%	3791.1%	0.06	0:11	100%	3,784	53.3	613
2	Mega Starmie top pickwaterpsychicmega Water Gun / Liquidation+	Water Gun / Liquidation++44 more movesets	100%	3744.8%	0.06	0:12	100%	3,701	60.4	703
3	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Confusion / Future Sight+	Confusion / Future Sight++26 more movesets	96%	3701.0%	0.07	0:12	100%	6,428	51.8	610
4	Shadow Landorus (Therian) groundflyingshadow Mud Shot / Sandsear Storm	Mud Shot / Sandsear Storm+9 more movesets	82%	3487.8%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,922	48.8	610
5	Shadow Gigalith rockshadow Lock-On / Meteor Beam	Lock-On / Meteor Beam+14 more movesets	81%	3145.5%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,228	46.0	637
6	Mega Swampert watergroundmega Water Gun / Hydro Cannon	Water Gun / Hydro Cannon+11 more movesets	81%	3114.0%	0.08	0:14	100%	4,401	43.0	602
7	Shadow Tyrantrum rockdragonshadow Rock Throw / Meteor Beam	Rock Throw / Meteor Beam+17 more movesets	79%	3100.7%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,128	43.8	616
8	Shadow Excadrill groundsteelshadow Mud-Slap / Earthquake	Mud-Slap / Earthquake+14 more movesets	65%	3061.5%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,244	44.8	638
9	Shadow Landorus (Incarnate) groundflyingshadow Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+7 more movesets	69%	3035.9%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,588	43.2	619
10	Primal Groudon groundfiremega Mud Shot / Earthquake	Mud Shot / Earthquake+9 more movesets	79%	3006.6%	0.08	0:14	100%	5,902	42.0	609
11	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Confusion / Dynamic Punch+	Confusion / Dynamic Punch++26 more movesets	74%	3006.6%	0.08	0:14	100%	6,112	41.7	604
12	Primal Kyogre watermega Waterfall / Surf	Waterfall / Surf+5 more movesets	79%	3000.4%	0.08	0:15	100%	5,902	42.7	620
13	Shadow Kyogre watershadow Waterfall / Origin Pulse	Waterfall / Origin Pulse+5 more movesets	76%	2998.3%	0.08	0:15	100%	4,115	48.8	709
14	Shadow Rhyperior groundrockshadow Mud-Slap / Earthquake	Mud-Slap / Earthquake+15 more movesets	76%	2992.2%	0.08	0:15	100%	3,733	42.3	616
15	Shadow Garchomp dragongroundshadow Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+13 more movesets	75%	2965.7%	0.08	0:15	100%	3,962	42.6	626
16	Mega Garchomp dragongroundmega Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+13 more movesets	78%	2941.7%	0.08	0:15	100%	5,424	45.6	676
17	Shadow Kingler watershadow Bubble / Crabhammer	Bubble / Crabhammer+14 more movesets	65%	2902.5%	0.08	0:15	100%	2,829	41.1	617
18	Shadow Mamoswine icegroundshadow Mud-Slap / High Horsepower	Mud-Slap / High Horsepower+11 more movesets	61%	2891.2%	0.08	0:15	100%	3,328	41.3	610
19	Shadow Sharpedo waterdarkshadow Waterfall / Hydro Pump	Waterfall / Hydro Pump+5 more movesets	59%	2876.5%	0.08	0:15	100%	2,181	42.0	629
20	Shadow Rampardos rockshadow Smack Down / Rock Slide	Smack Down / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	66%	2875.7%	0.08	0:15	100%	3,298	46.7	709
21	Kyogre water Waterfall / Origin Pulse	Waterfall / Origin Pulse+5 more movesets	70%	2812.6%	0.09	0:15	100%	4,115	40.1	622
22	Shadow Palkia waterdragonshadow Dragon Tail / Hydro Pump	Dragon Tail / Hydro Pump+7 more movesets	70%	2801.8%	0.09	0:16	100%	3,991	39.8	618
23	Shadow Tyranitar rockdarkshadow Smack Down / Stone Edge	Smack Down / Stone Edge+15 more movesets	68%	2766.2%	0.09	0:16	100%	3,834	40.4	637
24	Mega Diancie rockfairymega Rock Throw / Power Gem	Rock Throw / Power Gem+5 more movesets	67%	2745.3%	0.09	0:16	100%	4,346	43.1	687
25	Shadow Greninja waterdarkshadow Water Shuriken / Hydro Cannon	Water Shuriken / Hydro Cannon+14 more movesets	64%	2731.5%	0.09	0:16	100%	2,654	46.3	738
26	Glimmora rockpoison Rock Throw / Meteor Beam	Rock Throw / Meteor Beam+7 more movesets	65%	2724.7%	0.09	0:16	100%	3,273	38.1	610
27	Mega Tyranitar rockdarkmega Smack Down / Stone Edge	Smack Down / Stone Edge+15 more movesets	72%	2721.3%	0.09	0:16	100%	5,347	40.5	649
28	Shadow Crawdaunt waterdarkshadow Snarl / Razor Shell	Snarl / Razor Shell+11 more movesets	59%	2721.3%	0.09	0:16	100%	2,474	37.8	606
29	Shadow Aerodactyl rockflyingshadow Rock Throw / Rock Slide	Rock Throw / Rock Slide+23 more movesets	60%	2691.1%	0.09	0:16	100%	2,783	37.4	606
30	Mega Blastoise watermega Water Gun / Hydro Cannon	Water Gun / Hydro Cannon+14 more movesets	65%	2642.1%	0.09	0:16	100%	3,941	36.9	608

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 ahead of time for these settings (seed 1, 50 Monte Carlo runs each) and served instantly. Same boss on pokebattler.com. The same ranking as JSON: /api/raids/rank.