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

33,300

15,000

Timer

5:00

Attack

182

Defense

122

Difficulty

1.83

Pokebattler scale

Beating Shadow Victreebel should take 2 trainers with level 40 counters. Caught CP 1,263-1,389.

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

Who to bring

IncludeMega Legendary Shadow

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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 Psychic Mega — most top counters attack with Psychic

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 Reshiram, Shadow Salamence, Shadow Mewtwo, Shadow Moltres & Kyurem (White).

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Mewtwo Y
S. Reshiram
S. Salamence
S. Mewtwo
S. Moltres
Kyurem (White)

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 Mewtwo YMegaLegendarypartyPsycho Cut / Future Sight+1.436:44
2Mega RayquazaMegaLegendaryAir Slash / Dragon Ascent1.738:11
3Mega Mewtwo XMegaLegendaryConfusion / Psystrike1.778:21
4Mega DelphoxMegaFire Spin / Mystical Fire+1.828:35
5Mega StaraptorMegaSand Attack / Brave Bird+2.089:49
6Shadow ReshiramShadowLegendarypartyFire Fang / Fusion Flare2.1210:01
7Mega SkarmoryMegaAir Slash / Drill Peck+2.1410:06
8Shadow SalamenceShadowpartyFire Fang / Fly2.1610:12
9Mega Charizard YMegaFire Spin / Blast Burn2.1610:13
10Shadow MewtwoShadowLegendarypartyPsycho Cut / Psystrike2.1710:16
12Shadow MoltresShadowLegendarypartyFire Spin / Fly2.2210:28
13Kyurem (White)LegendarypartyIce Fang / Ice Burn2.2210:29

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

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Raid tier — Shadow Legendary Raid

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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.

Trainers2duo

#	Attacker	Moveset
1	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychicjoint top pick	psychicPsycho CutpsychicFuture Sight+	6,428	6:44	1.43	5.5	79.1%
2	Mega Rayquazadragonflying	flyingAir SlashflyingDragon Ascent	5,713	8:11	1.73	4.7	65.2%
3	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	psychicConfusionpsychicPsystrike	6,112	8:21	1.77	5.5	63.9%
4	Mega Delphoxfirepsychic	fireFire SpinfireMystical Fire+	4,783	8:35	1.82	5.5	62.2%
5	Mega Staraptorfightingflying	groundSand AttackflyingBrave Bird+	3,979	9:49	2.08	5.4	54.3%
6	Shadow Reshiramdragonfire	fireFire FangfireFusion Flare	4,038	10:01	2.12	5.4	53.2%
7	Mega Skarmorysteelflying	flyingAir SlashflyingDrill Peck+	3,741	10:06	2.14	4.6	52.8%
8	Shadow Salamencedragonflying	fireFire FangflyingFly	3,749	10:12	2.16	5.7	52.3%
9	Mega Charizard Yfireflying	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	4,455	10:13	2.16	5.2	52.2%
10	Shadow Mewtwopsychic	psychicPsycho CutpsychicPsystrike	4,178	10:16	2.17	6.0	51.9%
11	Mega Blazikenfirefighting	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	4,161	10:26	2.21	5.9	51.1%
12	Shadow Moltresfireflying	fireFire SpinflyingFly	3,465	10:28	2.22	5.7	50.9%
13	Kyurem (White)dragonice	iceIce FangiceIce Burn	4,605	10:29	2.22	5.4	50.8%
14	Shadow Galarian Articunopsychicflying	psychicPsycho CutflyingFly	3,590	10:34	2.24	5.9	50.4%
15	Mega Salamencedragonflying	fireFire FangflyingFly	5,031	10:43	2.27	4.5	49.8%

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 % (2)	Overall	Power	Time to win	Faints	Estimator
Random (any moveset)showing	46%	76%	54.8%	9:43	5.8	2.06
Sucker Punch / Solar Beam	22%	62%	50.6%	10:32	6.0	2.23
Acid / Solar Beam	22%	60%	51.0%	10:27	6.0	2.21
Razor Leaf / Solar Beam	18%	63%	51.2%	10:25	6.0	2.20
Sucker Punch / Sludge Bomb	31%	51%	52.9%	10:05	6.0	2.13
Acid / Sludge Bomb	26%	51%	53.0%	10:04	6.0	2.13
Razor Leaf / Sludge Bomb	29%	52%	53.3%	10:00	6.0	2.12
Razor Leaf / Leaf Blade	54%	91%	56.1%	9:30	6.0	2.01
Sucker Punch / Leaf Blade	50%	90%	56.2%	9:29	6.0	2.01
Acid / Leaf Blade	63%	84%	56.4%	9:28	6.0	2.00
Acid / Leaf Tornado	67%	115%	56.8%	9:23	5.7	1.99
Razor Leaf / Leaf Tornado	65%	128%	57.1%	9:20	5.0	1.98
Sucker Punch / Leaf Tornado	67%	130%	57.2%	9:20	5.0	1.97
Razor Leaf / Acid Spray	65%	147%	57.3%	9:19	4.7	1.97
Acid / Acid Spray	60%	138%	57.4%	9:17	5.2	1.97
Sucker Punch / Acid Spray	67%	155%	57.6%	9:16	4.5	1.96

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 2 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 5: 15,000 HP, 5:00 timer, boss Attack 182 / Defense 122 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.82).

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 % (2)	CP	DPS	TDO
1	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Psycho Cut / Future Sight+	Psycho Cut / Future Sight++26 more movesets	100%	79.1%	1.43	6:44	11.6	100%	6,428	38.4	1402
2	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	84%	65.2%	1.73	8:11	10.1	100%	5,713	31.4	1623
3	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Confusion / Psystrike	Confusion / Psystrike+26 more movesets	78%	63.9%	1.77	8:21	15.4	100%	6,112	31.2	1103
4	Mega Delphox firepsychicmega Fire Spin / Mystical Fire+	Fire Spin / Mystical Fire++23 more movesets	77%	62.2%	1.82	8:35	14.6	100%	4,783	30.3	1123
5	Mega Staraptor fightingflyingmega Sand Attack / Brave Bird+	Sand Attack / Brave Bird++19 more movesets	66%	54.3%	2.08	9:49	16.0	72%	3,979	26.5	1031
6	Shadow Reshiram dragonfireshadow Fire Fang / Fusion Flare	Fire Fang / Fusion Flare+9 more movesets	65%	53.2%	2.12	10:01	15.6	56%	4,038	25.8	1064
7	Mega Skarmory steelflyingmega Air Slash / Drill Peck+	Air Slash / Drill Peck++9 more movesets	67%	52.8%	2.14	10:06	10.4	48%	3,741	25.3	1563
8	Shadow Salamence dragonflyingshadow Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	63%	52.3%	2.16	10:12	19.2	54%	3,749	25.5	915
9	Mega Charizard Y fireflyingmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	64%	52.2%	2.16	10:13	14.9	28%	4,455	25.3	1127
10	Shadow Mewtwo psychicshadow Psycho Cut / Psystrike	Psycho Cut / Psystrike+23 more movesets	59%	51.9%	2.17	10:16	30.0	76%	4,178	26.5	634
11	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	60%	51.1%	2.21	10:26	22.1	18%	4,161	25.1	767
12	Shadow Moltres fireflyingshadow Fire Spin / Fly	Fire Spin / Fly+11 more movesets	61%	50.9%	2.22	10:28	19.0	0%	3,465	24.8	903
13	Kyurem (White) dragonice Ice Fang / Ice Burn	Ice Fang / Ice Burn+17 more movesets	62%	50.8%	2.22	10:29	16.9	0%	4,605	24.6	986
14	Shadow Galarian Articuno psychicflyingshadow Psycho Cut / Fly	Psycho Cut / Fly+7 more movesets	60%	50.4%	2.24	10:34	21.9	0%	3,590	24.8	754
15	Mega Salamence dragonflyingmega Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	63%	49.8%	2.27	10:43	11.8	0%	5,031	23.9	1368
16	Rayquaza dragonflying Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	60%	49.4%	2.28	10:47	16.1	0%	3,835	24.0	1025
17	Shadow Toucannon normalflyingshadow Peck / Beak Blast	Peck / Beak Blast+11 more movesets	55%	48.2%	2.34	11:03	29.7	0%	2,689	24.1	558
18	Shadow Heatran firesteelshadow Fire Spin / Magma Storm	Fire Spin / Magma Storm+11 more movesets	60%	47.8%	2.36	11:10	12.3	0%	3,754	22.9	1345
19	Blacephalon fireghost Incinerate / Mind Blown	Incinerate / Mind Blown+7 more movesets	54%	47.5%	2.38	11:14	30.1	20%	3,297	23.9	615
20	Mewtwo psychic Confusion / Psystrike	Confusion / Psystrike+23 more movesets	55%	47.3%	2.39	11:17	25.2	0%	4,178	23.3	668
21	Kyurem (Black) dragonice Dragon Tail / Freeze Shock	Dragon Tail / Freeze Shock+11 more movesets	56%	46.9%	2.41	11:22	18.5	0%	4,605	22.8	914
22	Mega Latios dragonpsychicmega Zen Headbutt / Psychic	Zen Headbutt / Psychic+9 more movesets	56%	46.7%	2.42	11:25	18.7	0%	5,007	22.7	885
23	Mega Malamar darkpsychicmega Psycho Cut / Psybeam+	Psycho Cut / Psybeam++14 more movesets	55%	46.2%	2.44	11:32	21.9	0%	3,143	22.6	767
24	Mega Alakazam psychicmega Confusion / Psychic	Confusion / Psychic+17 more movesets	52%	46.0%	2.45	11:36	35.9	8%	4,510	23.5	552
25	Reshiram dragonfire Fire Fang / Fusion Flare	Fire Fang / Fusion Flare+9 more movesets	56%	45.8%	2.47	11:39	16.0	0%	4,038	22.1	1069
26	Shadow Lugia psychicflyingshadow Extrasensory / Aeroblast++	Extrasensory / Aeroblast+++15 more movesets	56%	45.7%	2.47	11:41	14.5	0%	3,703	22.0	1109
27	Shadow Ho-Oh fireflyingshadow Incinerate / Sacred Fire++	Incinerate / Sacred Fire+++27 more movesets	55%	45.5%	2.48	11:43	16.2	0%	3,863	22.0	1058
28	Shadow Staraptor normalflyingshadow Gust / Fly	Gust / Fly+15 more movesets	51%	45.2%	2.49	11:47	31.5	0%	2,825	22.5	526
29	Mega Charizard X firedragonmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	54%	45.0%	2.51	11:51	17.3	0%	3,850	21.8	983
30	Shadow Latios dragonpsychicshadow Zen Headbutt / Psychic	Zen Headbutt / Psychic+9 more movesets	52%	44.8%	2.52	11:54	24.7	0%	3,812	22.0	671

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