Shadow raid

Shadow Charmeleon counters

#0005

fireShadow Tier 5

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

25,159

15,000

Timer

5:00

Attack

141

Defense

115

Difficulty

1.97

Pokebattler scale

Beating Shadow Charmeleon should take 2 trainers with level 40 counters. Caught CP 842-944.

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 Water Mega — most top counters attack with Water

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 Charmeleon counters are Mega Greninja, Shadow Landorus (Therian), Shadow Groudon, Shadow Kyogre, Shadow Rampardos & Shadow Gigalith.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Greninja
S. Landorus (Therian)
S. Groudon
S. Kyogre
S. Rampardos
S. Gigalith

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 GreninjaMegapartyWater Shuriken / Surf+1.778:23
2Mega StarmieMegaPsywave / Liquidation+1.898:54
3Primal GroudonMegaLegendaryMud Shot / Precipice Blades2.019:28
4Primal KyogreMegaLegendaryWaterfall / Origin Pulse2.039:34
5Shadow Landorus (Therian)ShadowLegendarypartyMud Shot / Sandsear Storm2.069:43
6Mega Mewtwo YMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Future Sight+2.069:44
7Shadow GroudonShadowLegendarypartyMud Shot / Precipice Blades2.1910:19
8Shadow KyogreShadowLegendarypartyWaterfall / Origin Pulse2.2010:23
9Shadow RampardosShadowpartySmack Down / Rock Slide2.2110:27
10Mega GarchompMegaMud Shot / Earth Power2.2410:35
13Shadow GigalithShadowpartyLock-On / Meteor Beam2.3411:02

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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Top 15 Shadow Charmeleon 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.

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#	Attacker	Moveset
1	Mega Greninjawaterdarkjoint top pick	waterWater ShurikenwaterSurf+	3,784	8:23	1.77	6.0	63.6%
2	Mega Starmiewaterpsychic	psychicPsywavewaterLiquidation+	3,701	8:54	1.89	5.9	59.9%
3	Primal Groudongroundfire	groundMud ShotgroundPrecipice Blades	5,902	9:28	2.01	4.2	56.3%
4	Primal Kyogrewater	waterWaterfallwaterOrigin Pulse	5,902	9:34	2.03	4.3	55.7%
5	Shadow Landorus (Therian)groundflying	groundMud ShotgroundSandsear Storm	3,922	9:43	2.06	6.0	54.9%
6	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	psychicPsycho CutpsychicFuture Sight+	6,428	9:44	2.06	6.0	54.7%
7	Shadow Groudonground	groundMud ShotgroundPrecipice Blades	4,115	10:19	2.19	6.0	51.7%
8	Shadow Kyogrewater	waterWaterfallwaterOrigin Pulse	4,115	10:23	2.20	5.8	51.4%
9	Shadow Rampardosrock	rockSmack DownrockRock Slide	3,298	10:27	2.21	6.0	51.0%
10	Mega Garchompdragonground	groundMud ShotgroundEarth Power	5,424	10:35	2.24	4.8	50.4%
11	Mega Swampertwaterground	groundMud ShotwaterHydro Cannon	4,401	10:47	2.28	5.1	49.4%
12	Mega Diancierockfairy	rockRock ThrowrockRock Slide	4,346	10:50	2.29	6.0	49.2%
13	Shadow Gigalithrock	normalLock-OnrockMeteor Beam	3,228	11:02	2.34	6.0	48.3%
14	Shadow Greninjawaterdark	waterWater ShurikenwaterHydro Cannon	2,654	11:04	2.34	6.0	48.2%
15	Shadow Tyrantrumrockdragon	rockRock ThrowrockMeteor Beam	3,128	11:06	2.35	4.9	48.1%

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 Charmeleon.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Shadow Charmeleon'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	33%	81%	53.0%	10:03	6.0	2.13
Fire Fang / Flamethrower	29%	75%	52.7%	10:07	6.0	2.14
Fire Fang / Flame Burst	29%	76%	52.8%	10:06	6.0	2.14
Ember / Flame Burst	31%	79%	52.8%	10:06	6.0	2.14
Ember / Flamethrower	33%	79%	53.0%	10:03	6.0	2.13
Fire Fang / Fire Punch	31%	89%	53.1%	10:02	6.0	2.12
Ember / Fire Punch	35%	95%	53.7%	9:56	5.8	2.10

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…

Charmeleon 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 Charmeleon throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
fireFire FangSTAB	13	+9	1.0s	0.74s
fireEmberSTAB	10	+10	1.0s	0.60s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
fireFlamethrowerSTAB	65	-50	2.0s	1.30s
fireFlame BurstSTAB	70	-50	2.5s	0.90s
fireFire PunchSTAB	50	-33	2.0s	1.30s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
6/6/6floor	842	1,053
7/7/7	853	1,067
8/8/8	864	1,081
9/9/9	875	1,094
10/10/10	887	1,109
11/11/11	898	1,123
12/12/12	909	1,137
13/13/13	921	1,151
14/14/14	932	1,166
15/15/15hundo	944	1,180

Caught CP range 842 - 944, or 1,053 - 1,180 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 842, not at the 887 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 45 CP higher than this one.

When it is in raids

From the raid schedule, refreshed daily.

Charmeleon 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 5: 15,000 HP, 5:00 timer, boss Attack 141 / Defense 115 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.82).

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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 % (2)	CP	DPS	TDO
1	Mega Greninja waterdarkmega Water Shuriken / Surf+	Water Shuriken / Surf++17 more movesets	100%	63.6%	1.77	8:23	12.2	100%	3,784	30.9	1124
2	Mega Starmie waterpsychicmega Psywave / Liquidation+	Psywave / Liquidation++44 more movesets	95%	59.9%	1.89	8:54	11.4	100%	3,701	29.0	1191
3	Primal Groudon groundfiremega Mud Shot / Precipice Blades	Mud Shot / Precipice Blades+9 more movesets	92%	56.3%	2.01	9:28	8.1	100%	5,902	26.9	1639
4	Primal Kyogre watermega Waterfall / Origin Pulse	Waterfall / Origin Pulse+5 more movesets	91%	55.7%	2.03	9:34	8.1	100%	5,902	26.6	1620
5	Shadow Landorus (Therian) groundflyingshadow Mud Shot / Sandsear Storm	Mud Shot / Sandsear Storm+9 more movesets	81%	54.9%	2.06	9:43	22.4	88%	3,922	27.2	634
6	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Psycho Cut / Future Sight+	Psycho Cut / Future Sight++26 more movesets	85%	54.7%	2.06	9:44	14.3	94%	6,428	26.5	970
7	Shadow Groudon groundshadow Mud Shot / Precipice Blades	Mud Shot / Precipice Blades+9 more movesets	77%	51.7%	2.19	10:19	19.8	8%	4,115	25.2	712
8	Shadow Kyogre watershadow Waterfall / Origin Pulse	Waterfall / Origin Pulse+5 more movesets	80%	51.4%	2.20	10:23	12.9	0%	4,115	24.7	1069
9	Shadow Rampardos rockshadow Smack Down / Rock Slide	Smack Down / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	75%	51.0%	2.21	10:27	22.7	0%	3,298	25.1	622
10	Mega Garchomp dragongroundmega Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+13 more movesets	81%	50.4%	2.24	10:35	10.1	0%	5,424	24.1	1331
11	Mega Swampert watergroundmega Mud Shot / Hydro Cannon	Mud Shot / Hydro Cannon+11 more movesets	78%	49.4%	2.28	10:47	11.0	0%	4,401	23.7	1237
12	Mega Diancie rockfairymega Rock Throw / Rock Slide	Rock Throw / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	75%	49.2%	2.29	10:50	16.3	0%	4,346	23.8	852
13	Shadow Gigalith rockshadow Lock-On / Meteor Beam	Lock-On / Meteor Beam+14 more movesets	74%	48.3%	2.34	11:02	15.7	0%	3,228	23.4	885
14	Shadow Greninja waterdarkshadow Water Shuriken / Hydro Cannon	Water Shuriken / Hydro Cannon+14 more movesets	71%	48.2%	2.34	11:04	22.1	0%	2,654	23.6	637
15	Shadow Tyrantrum rockdragonshadow Rock Throw / Meteor Beam	Rock Throw / Meteor Beam+17 more movesets	76%	48.1%	2.35	11:06	11.0	0%	3,128	23.0	1238
16	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Dynamic Punch+	Psycho Cut / Dynamic Punch++26 more movesets	73%	48.0%	2.35	11:06	17.1	0%	6,112	23.4	817
17	Shadow Kingler watershadow Bubble / Crabhammer	Bubble / Crabhammer+14 more movesets	71%	48.0%	2.35	11:07	22.5	0%	2,829	23.5	630
18	Shadow Rhyperior groundrockshadow Mud-Slap / Rock Wrecker	Mud-Slap / Rock Wrecker+15 more movesets	74%	47.7%	2.37	11:11	13.9	0%	3,733	22.9	998
19	Mega Blastoise watermega Water Gun / Hydro Cannon	Water Gun / Hydro Cannon+14 more movesets	73%	46.7%	2.41	11:24	12.8	0%	3,941	22.5	1066
20	Landorus (Therian) groundflying Mud Shot / Sandsear Storm	Mud Shot / Sandsear Storm+9 more movesets	68%	46.2%	2.45	11:33	22.9	0%	3,922	22.7	619
21	Shadow Swampert watergroundshadow Water Gun / Hydro Cannon	Water Gun / Hydro Cannon+11 more movesets	70%	45.9%	2.46	11:37	17.0	0%	2,974	22.2	819
22	Shadow Garchomp dragongroundshadow Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+13 more movesets	71%	45.9%	2.46	11:37	14.8	0%	3,962	22.1	936
23	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Dragon Tail / Dragon Ascent	Dragon Tail / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	72%	45.8%	2.47	11:39	12.1	0%	5,713	21.9	1129
24	Inteleon water Water Gun / Hydro Cannon	Water Gun / Hydro Cannon+9 more movesets	67%	45.5%	2.48	11:43	21.7	0%	2,964	22.3	650
25	Shadow Samurott watershadow Waterfall / Hydro Cannon	Waterfall / Hydro Cannon+11 more movesets	66%	44.6%	2.53	11:58	19.8	0%	2,826	21.6	710
26	Mega Tyranitar rockdarkmega Smack Down / Stone Edge	Smack Down / Stone Edge+15 more movesets	71%	44.0%	2.56	12:07	9.9	0%	5,347	20.9	1360
27	Shadow Landorus (Incarnate) groundflyingshadow Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+7 more movesets	62%	43.5%	2.60	12:16	28.4	0%	3,588	21.5	503
28	Rampardos rock Smack Down / Rock Slide	Smack Down / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	64%	43.3%	2.61	12:19	22.8	0%	3,298	21.1	621
29	Shadow Regigigas normalshadow Hidden Power / Crush Grip	Hidden Power / Crush Grip+7 more movesets	63%	43.2%	2.61	12:20	23.4	0%	4,346	21.2	606
30	Shadow Tyranitar rockdarkshadow Smack Down / Stone Edge	Smack Down / Stone Edge+15 more movesets	66%	43.1%	2.62	12:22	15.6	0%	3,834	20.8	893

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.