Shadow raid

Shadow Whismur counters

#0293

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

1,978

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

Defense

Difficulty

0.04

Pokebattler scale

Beating Shadow Whismur should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 314-383.

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 Whismur counters are Mega Lucario, Keldeo, Shadow Blaziken, Shadow Gallade, Shadow Mewtwo & Shadow Conkeldurr.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

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

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 LucarioMegapartyForce Palm / Aura Sphere0.040:07
2KeldeoLegendarypartyLow Kick / Secret Sword0.040:07
3Mega BlazikenMegaCounter / Aura Sphere0.040:08
4Shadow BlazikenShadowpartyCounter / Aura Sphere0.040:08
5Mega Mewtwo XMegaLegendaryCounter / Flamethrower0.040:08
6Mega Mewtwo YMegaLegendaryCounter / Psystrike0.050:08
7Shadow GalladeShadowpartyLow Kick / Sacred Sword0.050:08
8Mega GalladeMegaLow Kick / Sacred Sword0.050:08
9Shadow MewtwoShadowLegendarypartyCounter / Psystrike0.050:08
10Shadow ConkeldurrShadowpartyCounter / Dynamic Punch0.050:08

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

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Top 15 Shadow Whismur 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 Lucariofightingsteeljoint top pick	fightingForce PalmfightingAura Sphere	3,826	0:07	0.04	6228.9%
2	Keldeowaterfightingjoint top pick	fightingLow KickfightingSecret Sword	3,698	0:07	0.04	6228.9%
3	Mega Blazikenfirefighting	fightingCounterfightingAura Sphere	4,161	0:08	0.04	5662.5%
4	Shadow Blazikenfirefighting	fightingCounterfightingAura Sphere	2,848	0:08	0.04	5662.5%
5	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	fightingCounterfireFlamethrower	6,112	0:08	0.04	5450.1%
6	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	fightingCounterpsychicPsystrike	6,428	0:08	0.05	5317.2%
7	Shadow Galladepsychicfighting	fightingLow KickfightingSacred Sword	3,093	0:08	0.05	5265.8%
8	Mega Galladepsychicfighting	fightingLow KickfightingSacred Sword	4,521	0:08	0.05	5234.1%
9	Shadow Mewtwopsychic	fightingCounterpsychicPsystrike	4,178	0:08	0.05	5129.4%
10	Shadow Conkeldurrfighting	fightingCounterfightingDynamic Punch	3,337	0:08	0.05	5129.4%
11	Shadow Machampfighting	fightingCounterfightingDynamic Punch	3,056	0:08	0.05	5129.4%
12	Mega Staraptorfightingflying	normalQuick AttackflyingBrave Bird+	3,979	0:09	0.05	4865.0%
13	Mega Heracrossbugfighting	bugFury CutterfightingClose Combat	4,814	0:09	0.05	4844.4%
14	Shadow Galarian Zapdosfightingflying	fightingCounterflyingFly	3,548	0:09	0.05	4844.4%
15	Mega Latiosdragonpsychic	dragonDragon BreathfightingAura Sphere	5,007	0:09	0.05	4844.4%

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 Whismur.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Shadow Whismur'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%	1388%	5571.0%	0:08	0.04
Astonish / Disarming Voice	100%	1382%	5531.8%	0:08	0.04
Pound / Disarming Voice	100%	1326%	5551.3%	0:08	0.04
Pound / Flamethrower	100%	1407%	5576.0%	0:08	0.04
Pound / Stomp	100%	1367%	5580.9%	0:08	0.04
Astonish / Stomp	100%	1358%	5590.9%	0:08	0.04
Astonish / Flamethrower	100%	1406%	5600.9%	0:08	0.04

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…

Whismur 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 Whismur throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
normalPoundSTAB	6	+5	0.5s	0.24s
ghostAstonish	7	+13	1.0s	0.60s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
normalStompSTAB	50	-50	1.5s	0.90s
fireFlamethrower	65	-50	2.0s	1.30s
fairyDisarming Voice	70	-33	4.0s	3.30s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
6/6/6floor	314	392
7/7/7	321	401
8/8/8	329	411
9/9/9	336	420
10/10/10	344	430
11/11/11	351	440
12/12/12	359	449
13/13/13	367	459
14/14/14	375	469
15/15/15hundo	383	479

Caught CP range 314 - 383, or 392 - 479 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 314, not at the 344 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 30 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.

Whismur 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 63 / Defense 34 (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	Win % (1)	CP	DPS	TDO
1	Mega Lucario top pickfightingsteelmega Force Palm / Aura Sphere	Force Palm / Aura Sphere+23 more movesets	97%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,826	89.2	624
2	Keldeo top pickwaterfighting Low Kick / Secret Sword	Low Kick / Secret Sword+11 more movesets	100%	6228.9%	0.04	0:07	100%	3,698	85.9	601
3	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Counter / Aura Sphere	Counter / Aura Sphere+20 more movesets	87%	5662.5%	0.04	0:08	100%	4,161	99.3	763
4	Shadow Blaziken firefightingshadow Counter / Aura Sphere	Counter / Aura Sphere+20 more movesets	80%	5662.5%	0.04	0:08	100%	2,848	88.6	681
5	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Counter / Flamethrower	Counter / Flamethrower+26 more movesets	81%	5450.1%	0.04	0:08	100%	6,112	75.1	601
6	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Counter / Psystrike	Counter / Psystrike+26 more movesets	81%	5317.2%	0.05	0:08	100%	6,428	81.8	670
7	Shadow Gallade psychicfightingshadow Low Kick / Sacred Sword	Low Kick / Sacred Sword+19 more movesets	72%	5265.8%	0.05	0:08	100%	3,093	77.0	637
8	Mega Gallade psychicfightingmega Low Kick / Sacred Sword	Low Kick / Sacred Sword+19 more movesets	77%	5234.1%	0.05	0:08	100%	4,521	85.8	715
9	Shadow Mewtwo psychicshadow Counter / Psystrike	Counter / Psystrike+23 more movesets	71%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	4,178	71.1	604
10	Shadow Conkeldurr fightingshadow Counter / Dynamic Punch	Counter / Dynamic Punch+11 more movesets	71%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	3,337	76.3	648
11	Shadow Machamp fightingshadow Counter / Dynamic Punch	Counter / Dynamic Punch+23 more movesets	69%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	3,056	73.4	624
12	Mega Staraptor fightingflyingmega Quick Attack / Brave Bird+	Quick Attack / Brave Bird++19 more movesets	72%	4865.0%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,979	69.2	620
13	Mega Heracross bugfightingmega Fury Cutter / Close Combat	Fury Cutter / Close Combat+17 more movesets	70%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,814	69.2	623
14	Shadow Galarian Zapdos fightingflyingshadow Counter / Fly	Counter / Fly+7 more movesets	66%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,548	67.6	608
15	Mega Latios dragonpsychicmega Dragon Breath / Aura Sphere	Dragon Breath / Aura Sphere+9 more movesets	71%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	5,007	67.8	610
16	Mega Alakazam psychicmega Counter / Psychic	Counter / Psychic+17 more movesets	66%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,510	67.5	607
17	Shadow Haxorus dragonshadow Counter / Breaking Swipe	Counter / Breaking Swipe+9 more movesets	65%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,593	67.6	608
18	Terrakion rockfighting Double Kick / Sacred Sword	Double Kick / Sacred Sword+11 more movesets	73%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,698	67.1	604
19	Blaziken firefighting Counter / Aura Sphere	Counter / Aura Sphere+20 more movesets	68%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,848	69.6	626
20	Lucario fightingsteel Counter / Aura Sphere	Counter / Aura Sphere+23 more movesets	66%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,703	68.2	614
21	Kartana grasssteel Fury Cutter / Sacred Sword	Fury Cutter / Sacred Sword+14 more movesets	66%	4844.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,677	72.1	648
22	Mega Starmie waterpsychicmega Psywave / Liquidation+	Psywave / Liquidation++44 more movesets	72%	4821.9%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,701	76.3	690
23	Mega Raichu X electricmega Thunder Shock / Volt Tackle+	Thunder Shock / Volt Tackle++35 more movesets	70%	4769.1%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,510	72.3	661
24	Mega Houndoom darkfiremega Snarl / Dark Pulse+	Snarl / Dark Pulse++17 more movesets	71%	4677.0%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,842	74.3	692
25	Mega Beedrill bugpoisonmega Infestation / Fell Stinger+	Infestation / Fell Stinger++23 more movesets	63%	4598.1%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,383	69.3	656
26	Shadow Latios dragonpsychicshadow Dragon Breath / Aura Sphere	Dragon Breath / Aura Sphere+9 more movesets	65%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,812	64.9	616
27	Urshifu (Rapid Strike) fightingwater Counter / Dynamic Punch	Counter / Dynamic Punch+11 more movesets	66%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,606	63.9	607
28	Urshifu (Single Strike) fightingdark Counter / Dynamic Punch	Counter / Dynamic Punch+11 more movesets	63%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,606	63.9	607
29	Shadow Hariyama fightingshadow Counter / Dynamic Punch	Counter / Dynamic Punch+14 more movesets	61%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,829	63.8	606
30	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	69%	4522.7%	0.05	0:10	100%	5,713	69.6	670

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