Shadow raid

Shadow Victreebel counters

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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

6,660

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

132

Defense

Difficulty

0.09

Pokebattler scale

Beating Shadow Victreebel should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 1,263-1,389.

Weak toflying1.6xfire1.6xpsychic1.6xice1.6x

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 Shadow Victreebel counters are Mega Mewtwo Y, Shadow Mewtwo, Rayquaza, Blacephalon, Shadow Moltres & Shadow Galarian Articuno.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Mewtwo Y
S. Mewtwo
Rayquaza
Blacephalon
S. Moltres
S. Galarian Articuno

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 Mewtwo YMegaLegendarypartyConfusion / Future Sight+0.060:11
2Mega Mewtwo XMegaLegendaryConfusion / Psystrike0.080:15
3Mega DelphoxMegaFire Spin / Mystical Fire+0.080:15
4Shadow MewtwoShadowLegendarypartyPsycho Cut / Psystrike0.090:16
5Mega StaraptorMegaSand Attack / Brave Bird+0.090:16
6Mega AlakazamMegaConfusion / Psychic0.090:17
7Mega BlazikenMegaFire Spin / Blast Burn0.100:17
8Mega MalamarMegaPsycho Cut / Psybeam+0.100:17
9Mega Charizard YMegaFire Spin / Blast Burn0.100:17
10Mega RayquazaMegaLegendaryAir Slash / Dragon Ascent0.100:18
11RayquazaLegendarypartyAir Slash / Dragon Ascent0.100:18
12BlacephalonLegendarypartyIncinerate / Mind Blown0.100:18
13Shadow MoltresShadowLegendarypartyWing Attack / Fly0.100:18
14Shadow Galarian ArticunoShadowLegendarypartyPsycho Cut / Brave Bird0.100:19

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 countersMega Victreebel

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Top 15 Shadow Victreebel 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 Mewtwo Ypsychicjoint top pick	psychicConfusionpsychicFuture Sight+	6,428	0:11	0.06	3854.1%
2	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	psychicConfusionpsychicPsystrike	6,112	0:15	0.08	2914.2%
3	Mega Delphoxfirepsychic	fireFire SpinfireMystical Fire+	4,783	0:15	0.08	2906.4%
4	Shadow Mewtwopsychic	psychicPsycho CutpsychicPsystrike	4,178	0:16	0.09	2674.6%
5	Mega Staraptorfightingflying	groundSand AttackflyingBrave Bird+	3,979	0:16	0.09	2649.8%
6	Mega Alakazampsychic	psychicConfusionpsychicPsychic	4,510	0:17	0.09	2611.5%
7	Mega Blazikenfirefighting	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	4,161	0:17	0.10	2546.4%
8	Mega Malamardarkpsychic	psychicPsycho CutpsychicPsybeam+	3,143	0:17	0.10	2526.1%
9	Mega Charizard Yfireflying	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	4,455	0:17	0.10	2511.2%
10	Mega Rayquazadragonflying	flyingAir SlashflyingDragon Ascent	5,713	0:18	0.10	2395.3%
11	Rayquazadragonflying	flyingAir SlashflyingDragon Ascent	3,835	0:18	0.10	2387.4%
12	Blacephalonfireghost	fireIncineratefireMind Blown	3,297	0:18	0.10	2381.5%
13	Shadow Moltresfireflying	flyingWing AttackflyingFly	3,465	0:18	0.10	2375.0%
14	Shadow Galarian Articunopsychicflying	psychicPsycho CutflyingBrave Bird	3,590	0:19	0.10	2353.2%
15	Mega Galladepsychicfighting	psychicPsycho CutpsychicPsychic	4,521	0:19	0.10	2335.0%

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 Victreebel.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Shadow Victreebel'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	Faints	Estimator
Random (any moveset)showing	100%	491%	2598.6%	0:17	0.0	0.09
Sucker Punch / Solar Beam	100%	556%	2554.1%	0:17	0.0	0.10
Sucker Punch / Acid Spray	100%	649%	2554.1%	0:17	0.0	0.10
Razor Leaf / Acid Spray	100%	615%	2557.3%	0:17	0.0	0.10
Razor Leaf / Solar Beam	100%	542%	2563.5%	0:17	0.0	0.09
Sucker Punch / Leaf Tornado	100%	590%	2573.0%	0:17	0.0	0.09
Sucker Punch / Sludge Bomb	100%	413%	2577.8%	0:17	0.1	0.09
Acid / Acid Spray	100%	604%	2583.6%	0:17	0.0	0.09
Razor Leaf / Leaf Tornado	100%	590%	2584.6%	0:17	0.0	0.09
Razor Leaf / Sludge Bomb	100%	402%	2588.1%	0:17	0.1	0.09
Razor Leaf / Leaf Blade	100%	502%	2599.6%	0:17	0.0	0.09
Acid / Sludge Bomb	100%	397%	2599.8%	0:17	0.1	0.09
Sucker Punch / Leaf Blade	100%	504%	2600.7%	0:17	0.0	0.09
Acid / Solar Beam	100%	465%	2601.8%	0:17	0.0	0.09
Acid / Leaf Tornado	100%	561%	2602.9%	0:17	0.0	0.09
Acid / Leaf Blade	100%	478%	2615.9%	0:17	0.0	0.09

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…

Victreebel 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 fire1.6x psychic1.6x ice1.6x normal1x poison1x ground1x rock1x bug1x ghost1x steel1x dragon1x dark1x fighting0.63x water0.63x electric0.63x fairy0.63x grass0.39x

Weak (4)
Neutral (9)
Resists (5)

It resists grass0.39xfighting0.625xwater0.625xelectric0.625xfairy0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Victreebel throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
grassRazor LeafSTAB	13	+7	1.0s	0.60s
poisonAcidSTAB	11	+10	1.0s	0.60s
darkSucker Punch	5	+6	0.5s	0.10s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
grassSolar BeamSTAB	180	-100	5.0s	2.80s
poisonSludge BombSTAB	85	-50	2.5s	1.30s
grassLeaf BladeSTAB	70	-33	2.5s	1.35s
grassLeaf TornadoSTAB	45	-33	3.0s	1.90s
poisonAcid SpraySTAB	20	-50	3.0s	2.10s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
6/6/6floor	1,263	1,579
7/7/7	1,277	1,596
8/8/8	1,291	1,614
9/9/9	1,304	1,631
10/10/10	1,318	1,648
11/11/11	1,332	1,666
12/12/12	1,346	1,683
13/13/13	1,360	1,701
14/14/14	1,375	1,718
15/15/15hundo	1,389	1,736

Caught CP range 1,263 - 1,389, or 1,579 - 1,736 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 1,263, not at the 1,318 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 55 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.

Victreebel 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.

Related bosses that are live: Mega Victreebel.

All settings

Shadow Tier 1: 600 HP, 3:00 timer, boss Attack 132 / Defense 89 (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	Faints	Win % (1)	CP	DPS	TDO
1	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Confusion / Future Sight+	Confusion / Future Sight++26 more movesets	100%	3854.1%	0.06	0:11	0.0	100%	6,428	57.7	652
2	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Confusion / Psystrike	Confusion / Psystrike+26 more movesets	70%	2914.2%	0.08	0:15	0.0	100%	6,112	43.2	645
3	Mega Delphox firepsychicmega Fire Spin / Mystical Fire+	Fire Spin / Mystical Fire++23 more movesets	69%	2906.4%	0.08	0:15	0.0	100%	4,783	40.5	608
4	Shadow Mewtwo psychicshadow Psycho Cut / Psystrike	Psycho Cut / Psystrike+23 more movesets	58%	2674.6%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	4,178	40.7	663
5	Mega Staraptor fightingflyingmega Sand Attack / Brave Bird+	Sand Attack / Brave Bird++19 more movesets	65%	2649.8%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	3,979	39.0	641
6	Mega Alakazam psychicmega Confusion / Psychic	Confusion / Psychic+17 more movesets	56%	2611.5%	0.09	0:17	0.0	100%	4,510	36.4	599
7	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	57%	2546.4%	0.10	0:17	0.0	100%	4,161	36.4	623
8	Mega Malamar darkpsychicmega Psycho Cut / Psybeam+	Psycho Cut / Psybeam++14 more movesets	57%	2526.1%	0.10	0:17	0.0	100%	3,143	35.7	615
9	Mega Charizard Y fireflyingmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	60%	2511.2%	0.10	0:17	0.0	100%	4,455	35.5	616
10	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	61%	2395.3%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	5,713	43.4	790
11	Rayquaza dragonflying Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	56%	2387.4%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	3,835	33.3	609
12	Blacephalon fireghost Incinerate / Mind Blown	Incinerate / Mind Blown+7 more movesets	51%	2381.5%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	3,297	35.4	643
13	Shadow Moltres fireflyingshadow Wing Attack / Fly	Wing Attack / Fly+11 more movesets	54%	2375.0%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	3,465	33.5	608
14	Shadow Galarian Articuno psychicflyingshadow Psycho Cut / Brave Bird	Psycho Cut / Brave Bird+7 more movesets	52%	2353.2%	0.10	0:19	0.0	100%	3,590	32.7	599
15	Mega Gallade psychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Psychic	Psycho Cut / Psychic+19 more movesets	50%	2335.0%	0.10	0:19	0.0	100%	4,521	32.5	606
16	Shadow Staraptor normalflyingshadow Gust / Fly	Gust / Fly+15 more movesets	48%	2301.4%	0.11	0:19	0.0	100%	2,825	33.4	619
17	Shadow Reshiram dragonfireshadow Fire Fang / Overheat	Fire Fang / Overheat+9 more movesets	52%	2286.3%	0.11	0:19	0.0	100%	4,038	31.5	588
18	Mega Skarmory steelflyingmega Air Slash / Drill Peck+	Air Slash / Drill Peck++9 more movesets	55%	2235.6%	0.11	0:19	0.0	100%	3,741	30.8	601
19	Shadow Heatran firesteelshadow Fire Spin / Magma Storm	Fire Spin / Magma Storm+11 more movesets	54%	2232.2%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	3,754	30.8	602
20	Shadow Toucannon normalflyingshadow Peck / Beak Blast	Peck / Beak Blast+11 more movesets	46%	2201.3%	0.11	0:20	0.1	100%	2,689	34.8	665
21	Shadow Salamence dragonflyingshadow Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	50%	2199.5%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	3,749	36.5	722
22	Shadow Alakazam psychicshadow Psycho Cut / Psychic	Psycho Cut / Psychic+17 more movesets	43%	2185.6%	0.11	0:20	0.4	100%	3,057	31.2	498
23	Shadow Chandelure ghostfireshadow Fire Spin / Overheat	Fire Spin / Overheat+19 more movesets	46%	2176.2%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	3,268	30.9	612
24	Mewtwo psychic Psycho Cut / Psystrike	Psycho Cut / Psystrike+23 more movesets	47%	2174.3%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	4,178	33.3	668
25	Mega Gardevoir psychicfairymega Confusion / Psychic	Confusion / Psychic+19 more movesets	45%	2161.2%	0.11	0:20	0.1	100%	4,512	31.7	597
26	Galarian Articuno psychicflying Psycho Cut / Fly	Psycho Cut / Fly+7 more movesets	47%	2132.8%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	3,590	30.0	613
27	Shadow Blaziken firefightingshadow Fire Spin / Blaze Kick	Fire Spin / Blaze Kick+20 more movesets	43%	2131.6%	0.11	0:20	0.1	100%	2,848	29.7	564
28	Salamence dragonflying Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	48%	2118.3%	0.11	0:21	0.0	100%	3,749	30.1	619
29	Kyurem (White) dragonice Ice Fang / Blizzard	Ice Fang / Blizzard+17 more movesets	47%	2075.9%	0.12	0:21	0.0	100%	4,605	28.6	600
30	Hoopa (Unbound) psychicdark Confusion / Psychic	Confusion / Psychic+5 more movesets	43%	2056.7%	0.12	0:21	0.0	100%	4,006	31.7	665

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.