Shadow raid

Shadow Vigoroth counters

#0288

normalShadow 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

5,391

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

103

Defense

Difficulty

0.10

Pokebattler scale

Beating Shadow Vigoroth should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 1,013-1,124.

Weak tofighting1.6x

Who to bring

IncludeMega Legendary Shadow

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Weather

★ boosts a type it 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 Vigoroth counters are Mega Mewtwo X, Shadow Blaziken, Keldeo, Lucario, Shadow Conkeldurr & Shadow Machamp.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Mewtwo X
S. Blaziken
Keldeo
Lucario
S. Conkeldurr
S. Machamp

4 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 XMegaLegendarypartyCounter / Dynamic Punch+0.080:14
2Mega LucarioMegaForce Palm / Aura Sphere0.100:17
3Mega BlazikenMegaCounter / Aura Sphere0.100:18
4Shadow BlazikenShadowpartyCounter / Aura Sphere0.100:19
5KeldeoLegendarypartyLow Kick / Secret Sword0.110:19
6Mega GalladeMegaLow Kick / Sacred Sword0.110:20
7LucariopartyForce Palm / Aura Sphere0.110:20
8Mega Mewtwo YMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Future Sight+0.110:20
9Shadow ConkeldurrShadowpartyForce Palm / Dynamic Punch0.120:21
10Shadow MachampShadowpartyCounter / Dynamic Punch0.120:22

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 Vigoroth 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 Xpsychicfightingjoint top pick	fightingCounterfightingDynamic Punch+	6,112	0:14	0.08	0.0	3006.6%
2	Mega Lucariofightingsteel	fightingForce PalmfightingAura Sphere	3,826	0:17	0.10	0.0	2540.5%
3	Mega Blazikenfirefighting	fightingCounterfightingAura Sphere	4,161	0:18	0.10	0.0	2366.7%
4	Shadow Blazikenfirefighting	fightingCounterfightingAura Sphere	2,848	0:19	0.10	0.1	2323.6%
5	Keldeowaterfighting	fightingLow KickfightingSecret Sword	3,698	0:19	0.11	0.0	2288.4%
6	Mega Galladepsychicfighting	fightingLow KickfightingSacred Sword	4,521	0:20	0.11	0.0	2226.5%
7	Lucariofightingsteel	fightingForce PalmfightingAura Sphere	2,703	0:20	0.11	0.0	2167.7%
8	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	psychicPsycho CutpsychicFuture Sight+	6,428	0:20	0.11	0.0	2126.5%
9	Shadow Conkeldurrfighting	fightingForce PalmfightingDynamic Punch	3,337	0:21	0.12	0.0	2085.8%
10	Shadow Machampfighting	fightingCounterfightingDynamic Punch	3,056	0:22	0.12	0.0	2023.9%
11	Mega Heracrossbugfighting	fightingCounterfightingUpper Hand	4,814	0:22	0.12	0.0	1979.7%
12	Shadow Galladepsychicfighting	psychicPsycho CutfightingSacred Sword	3,093	0:22	0.12	0.0	1977.1%
13	Shadow Regigigasnormal	normalHidden PowernormalCrush Grip	4,346	0:22	0.12	0.0	1968.1%
14	Mega Falinksfighting	fightingCounterfightingBrick Break+	3,670	0:22	0.12	0.0	1964.6%
15	Blazikenfirefighting	fightingCounterfightingAura Sphere	2,848	0:22	0.12	0.0	1964.0%

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 Vigoroth.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Shadow Vigoroth'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%	452%	2282.0%	0:19	0.0	0.11
Scratch / Bulldoze	100%	425%	2246.9%	0:19	0.1	0.11
Counter / Bulldoze	100%	437%	2252.2%	0:19	0.1	0.11
Scratch / Brick Break	100%	491%	2267.1%	0:19	0.0	0.11
Scratch / Rock Slide	100%	505%	2267.9%	0:19	0.0	0.11
Counter / Rock Slide	100%	485%	2273.7%	0:19	0.0	0.11
Counter / Brick Break	100%	473%	2274.5%	0:19	0.0	0.11
Scratch / Body Slam	100%	443%	2297.8%	0:19	0.0	0.11
Counter / Body Slam	100%	424%	2302.0%	0:19	0.0	0.11

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…

Vigoroth 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.

fighting1.6x normal1x flying1x poison1x ground1x rock1x bug1x steel1x fire1x water1x grass1x electric1x psychic1x ice1x dragon1x dark1x fairy1x ghost0.39x

Weak (1)
Neutral (16)
Resists (1)

It resists ghost0.39x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Vigoroth throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
normalScratchSTAB	6	+4	0.5s	0.30s
fightingCounter	13	+9	1.0s	0.80s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
normalBody SlamSTAB	50	-33	2.0s	1.30s
rockRock Slide	75	-50	2.5s	1.30s
fightingBrick Break	40	-33	1.5s	0.70s
groundBulldoze	80	-50	3.5s	2.60s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
6/6/6floor	1,013	1,266
7/7/7	1,025	1,281
8/8/8	1,037	1,296
9/9/9	1,049	1,312
10/10/10	1,061	1,327
11/11/11	1,074	1,343
12/12/12	1,086	1,358
13/13/13	1,099	1,374
14/14/14	1,111	1,390
15/15/15hundo	1,124	1,405

Caught CP range 1,013 - 1,124, or 1,266 - 1,405 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 1,013, not at the 1,061 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 48 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.

Vigoroth 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 103 / Defense 95 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.5974).

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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 X psychicfightingmega Counter / Dynamic Punch+	Counter / Dynamic Punch++26 more movesets	100%	3006.6%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	6,112	42.9	622
2	Mega Lucario fightingsteelmega Force Palm / Aura Sphere	Force Palm / Aura Sphere+23 more movesets	74%	2540.5%	0.10	0:17	0.0	100%	3,826	36.7	630
3	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Counter / Aura Sphere	Counter / Aura Sphere+20 more movesets	68%	2366.7%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	4,161	37.1	684
4	Shadow Blaziken firefightingshadow Counter / Aura Sphere	Counter / Aura Sphere+20 more movesets	63%	2323.6%	0.10	0:19	0.1	100%	2,848	35.0	634
5	Keldeo waterfighting Low Kick / Secret Sword	Low Kick / Secret Sword+11 more movesets	70%	2288.4%	0.11	0:19	0.0	100%	3,698	33.2	633
6	Mega Gallade psychicfightingmega Low Kick / Sacred Sword	Low Kick / Sacred Sword+19 more movesets	67%	2226.5%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	4,521	31.9	623
7	Lucario fightingsteel Force Palm / Aura Sphere	Force Palm / Aura Sphere+23 more movesets	59%	2167.7%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	2,703	29.9	588
8	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Psycho Cut / Future Sight+	Psycho Cut / Future Sight++26 more movesets	67%	2126.5%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	6,428	29.4	603
9	Shadow Conkeldurr fightingshadow Force Palm / Dynamic Punch	Force Palm / Dynamic Punch+11 more movesets	60%	2085.8%	0.12	0:21	0.0	100%	3,337	30.8	644
10	Shadow Machamp fightingshadow Counter / Dynamic Punch	Counter / Dynamic Punch+23 more movesets	55%	2023.9%	0.12	0:22	0.0	100%	3,056	27.9	601
11	Mega Heracross bugfightingmega Counter / Upper Hand	Counter / Upper Hand+17 more movesets	59%	1979.7%	0.12	0:22	0.0	100%	4,814	27.9	615
12	Shadow Gallade psychicfightingshadow Psycho Cut / Sacred Sword	Psycho Cut / Sacred Sword+19 more movesets	55%	1977.1%	0.12	0:22	0.0	100%	3,093	27.4	603
13	Shadow Regigigas normalshadow Hidden Power / Crush Grip	Hidden Power / Crush Grip+7 more movesets	55%	1968.1%	0.12	0:22	0.0	100%	4,346	28.3	626
14	Mega Falinks fightingmega Counter / Brick Break+	Counter / Brick Break++7 more movesets	58%	1964.6%	0.12	0:22	0.0	100%	3,670	34.3	759
15	Blaziken firefighting Counter / Aura Sphere	Counter / Aura Sphere+20 more movesets	52%	1964.0%	0.12	0:22	0.0	100%	2,848	28.1	617
16	Terrakion rockfighting Double Kick / Sacred Sword	Double Kick / Sacred Sword+11 more movesets	55%	1947.9%	0.12	0:22	0.0	100%	3,698	28.7	641
17	Kartana grasssteel Fury Cutter / Sacred Sword	Fury Cutter / Sacred Sword+14 more movesets	52%	1937.8%	0.13	0:22	0.0	100%	3,677	27.9	622
18	Mega Lopunny normalfightingmega Double Kick / Focus Blast	Double Kick / Focus Blast+17 more movesets	52%	1895.4%	0.13	0:23	0.0	100%	3,745	26.2	602
19	Mega Latios dragonpsychicmega Dragon Breath / Aura Sphere	Dragon Breath / Aura Sphere+9 more movesets	56%	1892.1%	0.13	0:23	0.0	100%	5,007	26.2	603
20	Shadow Emboar firefightingshadow Low Kick / Focus Blast	Low Kick / Focus Blast+9 more movesets	49%	1860.7%	0.13	0:23	0.1	100%	2,982	26.1	592
21	Shadow Mewtwo psychicshadow Counter / Psystrike	Counter / Psystrike+23 more movesets	51%	1854.3%	0.13	0:24	0.0	100%	4,178	26.0	611
22	Mega Delphox firepsychicmega Fire Spin / Mystical Fire+	Fire Spin / Mystical Fire++23 more movesets	52%	1849.7%	0.13	0:24	0.0	100%	4,783	26.5	617
23	Shadow Galarian Zapdos fightingflyingshadow Low Kick / Close Combat	Low Kick / Close Combat+7 more movesets	53%	1849.5%	0.13	0:24	0.0	100%	3,548	25.6	603
24	Mega Greninja waterdarkmega Water Shuriken / Surf+	Water Shuriken / Surf++17 more movesets	50%	1833.1%	0.13	0:24	0.0	100%	3,784	26.7	635
25	Shadow Latios dragonpsychicshadow Dragon Breath / Aura Sphere	Dragon Breath / Aura Sphere+9 more movesets	50%	1812.6%	0.13	0:24	0.0	100%	3,812	25.3	608
26	Shadow Haxorus dragonshadow Counter / Breaking Swipe	Counter / Breaking Swipe+9 more movesets	47%	1799.8%	0.14	0:24	0.1	100%	3,593	24.9	584
27	Shadow Sirfetch'd fightingshadow Counter / Close Combat	Counter / Close Combat+7 more movesets	47%	1782.6%	0.14	0:24	0.1	100%	2,985	27.1	635
28	Shadow Hariyama fightingshadow Force Palm / Close Combat	Force Palm / Close Combat+14 more movesets	48%	1775.0%	0.14	0:25	0.0	100%	2,829	24.8	609
29	Pheromosa bugfighting Low Kick / Close Combat	Low Kick / Close Combat+7 more movesets	45%	1763.9%	0.14	0:25	0.3	100%	2,842	25.4	511
30	Shadow Raikou electricshadow Thunder Shock / Aura Sphere	Thunder Shock / Aura Sphere+9 more movesets	48%	1758.6%	0.14	0:25	0.0	100%	3,452	28.1	685

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.