Shadow raid

Shadow Ekans counters

#0023

poisonShadow 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

3,240

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

Defense

Difficulty

0.07

Pokebattler scale

Beating Shadow Ekans should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 454-529.

Weak toground1.6xpsychic1.6x

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 Ekans counters are Mega Mewtwo Y, Shadow Mewtwo, Shadow Landorus (Therian), Shadow Alakazam, Mewtwo & Shadow Excadrill.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Mewtwo Y
S. Mewtwo
S. Landorus (Therian)
S. Alakazam
Mewtwo
S. Excadrill

5 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+0.050:08
2Mega Mewtwo XMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Psystrike0.070:12
3Shadow MewtwoShadowLegendarypartyPsycho Cut / Psystrike0.070:12
4Mega AlakazamMegaPsycho Cut / Psychic0.070:13
5Shadow Landorus (Therian)ShadowLegendarypartyExtrasensory / Sandsear Storm0.080:14
6Shadow AlakazamShadowpartyConfusion / Future Sight0.080:14
7Mega GardevoirMegaConfusion / Synchronoise0.080:15
8Mega GarchompMegaMud Shot / Earth Power0.080:15
9MewtwoLegendarypartyConfusion / Psystrike0.080:15
10Mega GalladeMegaConfusion / Synchronoise0.090:15
11Shadow ExcadrillShadowpartyMud-Slap / Earthquake0.090:15

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 Ekans 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	psychicPsycho CutpsychicFuture Sight+	6,428	0:08	0.05	5335.4%
2	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	psychicPsycho CutpsychicPsystrike	6,112	0:12	0.07	3704.1%
3	Shadow Mewtwopsychic	psychicPsycho CutpsychicPsystrike	4,178	0:12	0.07	3633.1%
4	Mega Alakazampsychic	psychicPsycho CutpsychicPsychic	4,510	0:13	0.07	3408.7%
5	Shadow Landorus (Therian)groundflying	psychicExtrasensorygroundSandsear Storm	3,922	0:14	0.08	3006.6%
6	Shadow Alakazampsychic	psychicConfusionpsychicFuture Sight	3,057	0:14	0.08	3006.6%
7	Mega Gardevoirpsychicfairy	psychicConfusionpsychicSynchronoise	4,512	0:15	0.08	2908.3%
8	Mega Garchompdragonground	groundMud ShotgroundEarth Power	5,424	0:15	0.08	2902.5%
9	Mewtwopsychic	psychicConfusionpsychicPsystrike	4,178	0:15	0.08	2879.5%
10	Mega Galladepsychicfighting	psychicConfusionpsychicSynchronoise	4,521	0:15	0.09	2845.7%
11	Shadow Excadrillgroundsteel	groundMud-SlapgroundEarthquake	3,244	0:15	0.09	2812.6%
12	Shadow Gardevoirpsychicfairy	psychicConfusionpsychicPsychic	3,093	0:16	0.09	2778.6%
13	Shadow Galladepsychicfighting	psychicConfusionpsychicPsychic	3,093	0:16	0.09	2736.7%
14	Mega Delphoxfirepsychic	psychicZen HeadbuttfireMystical Fire+	4,783	0:16	0.09	2724.7%
15	Shadow Regigigasnormal	psychicZen HeadbuttnormalCrush Grip	4,346	0:16	0.09	2724.7%

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 Ekans.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Shadow Ekans'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	Estimator
Random (any moveset)showing	100%	888%	3276.8%	0:13	0.07
Poison Sting / Wrap	100%	890%	3261.5%	0:13	0.07
Poison Sting / Poison Fang	100%	964%	3261.5%	0:13	0.07
Acid / Poison Fang	100%	893%	3261.5%	0:13	0.07
Acid / Wrap	100%	841%	3270.0%	0:13	0.07
Acid / Sludge Bomb	100%	849%	3292.3%	0:13	0.07
Poison Sting / Sludge Bomb	100%	833%	3302.7%	0:13	0.07

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…

Ekans 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 psychic1.6x normal1x flying1x rock1x ghost1x steel1x fire1x water1x electric1x ice1x dragon1x dark1x fighting0.63x poison0.63x bug0.63x grass0.63x fairy0.63x

Weak (2)
Neutral (11)
Resists (5)

It resists fighting0.625xpoison0.625xbug0.625xgrass0.625xfairy0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Ekans throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
poisonAcidSTAB	11	+10	1.0s	0.60s
poisonPoison StingSTAB	4	+6	0.5s	0.28s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
poisonSludge BombSTAB	85	-50	2.5s	1.30s
poisonPoison FangSTAB	30	-33	1.5s	0.70s
normalWrap	60	-33	3.0s	2.15s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
6/6/6floor	454	568
7/7/7	462	578
8/8/8	470	588
9/9/9	478	598
10/10/10	487	609
11/11/11	495	619
12/12/12	504	630
13/13/13	512	640
14/14/14	521	651
15/15/15hundo	529	662

Caught CP range 454 - 529, or 568 - 662 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 454, not at the 487 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 33 CP higher than this one.

When it is in raids

From the raid schedule, refreshed daily.

Ekans 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 74 / Defense 66 (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	Win % (1)	CP	DPS	TDO
1	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Psycho Cut / Future Sight+	Psycho Cut / Future Sight++26 more movesets	100%	5335.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	6,428	83.2	679
2	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Psystrike	Psycho Cut / Psystrike+26 more movesets	63%	3704.1%	0.07	0:12	100%	6,112	56.7	667
3	Shadow Mewtwo psychicshadow Psycho Cut / Psystrike	Psycho Cut / Psystrike+23 more movesets	58%	3633.1%	0.07	0:12	100%	4,178	50.5	606
4	Mega Alakazam psychicmega Psycho Cut / Psychic	Psycho Cut / Psychic+17 more movesets	52%	3408.7%	0.07	0:13	100%	4,510	47.5	608
5	Shadow Landorus (Therian) groundflyingshadow Extrasensory / Sandsear Storm	Extrasensory / Sandsear Storm+9 more movesets	48%	3006.6%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,922	42.7	619
6	Shadow Alakazam psychicshadow Confusion / Future Sight	Confusion / Future Sight+17 more movesets	42%	3006.6%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,057	41.4	600
7	Mega Gardevoir psychicfairymega Confusion / Synchronoise	Confusion / Synchronoise+19 more movesets	43%	2908.3%	0.08	0:15	100%	4,512	42.3	634
8	Mega Garchomp dragongroundmega Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+13 more movesets	50%	2902.5%	0.08	0:15	100%	5,424	41.3	620
9	Mewtwo psychic Confusion / Psystrike	Confusion / Psystrike+23 more movesets	45%	2879.5%	0.08	0:15	100%	4,178	43.1	652
10	Mega Gallade psychicfightingmega Confusion / Synchronoise	Confusion / Synchronoise+19 more movesets	44%	2845.7%	0.09	0:15	100%	4,521	42.0	643
11	Shadow Excadrill groundsteelshadow Mud-Slap / Earthquake	Mud-Slap / Earthquake+14 more movesets	49%	2812.6%	0.09	0:15	100%	3,244	39.6	614
12	Shadow Gardevoir psychicfairyshadow Confusion / Psychic	Confusion / Psychic+19 more movesets	38%	2778.6%	0.09	0:16	100%	3,093	39.5	619
13	Shadow Gallade psychicfightingshadow Confusion / Psychic	Confusion / Psychic+19 more movesets	40%	2736.7%	0.09	0:16	100%	3,093	39.3	626
14	Mega Delphox firepsychicmega Zen Headbutt / Mystical Fire+	Zen Headbutt / Mystical Fire++23 more movesets	42%	2724.7%	0.09	0:16	100%	4,783	38.1	609
15	Shadow Regigigas normalshadow Zen Headbutt / Crush Grip	Zen Headbutt / Crush Grip+7 more movesets	42%	2724.7%	0.09	0:16	100%	4,346	38.6	617
16	Shadow Latios dragonpsychicshadow Zen Headbutt / Psychic	Zen Headbutt / Psychic+9 more movesets	41%	2714.5%	0.09	0:16	100%	3,812	41.8	672
17	Hoopa (Unbound) psychicdark Confusion / Psychic	Confusion / Psychic+5 more movesets	41%	2701.1%	0.09	0:16	100%	4,006	42.1	679
18	Mega Latios dragonpsychicmega Zen Headbutt / Psychic	Zen Headbutt / Psychic+9 more movesets	42%	2664.8%	0.09	0:16	100%	5,007	42.3	691
19	Shadow Garchomp dragongroundshadow Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+13 more movesets	42%	2642.1%	0.09	0:16	100%	3,962	36.4	601
20	Shadow Landorus (Incarnate) groundflyingshadow Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+7 more movesets	41%	2642.1%	0.09	0:16	100%	3,588	36.4	601
21	Shadow Mamoswine icegroundshadow Mud-Slap / High Horsepower	Mud-Slap / High Horsepower+11 more movesets	40%	2642.1%	0.09	0:16	100%	3,328	36.6	604
22	Alakazam psychic Confusion / Psychic	Confusion / Psychic+17 more movesets	37%	2642.1%	0.09	0:16	100%	3,057	36.7	606
23	Mega Staraptor fightingflyingmega Sand Attack / Brave Bird+	Sand Attack / Brave Bird++19 more movesets	41%	2638.6%	0.09	0:17	100%	3,979	39.9	659
24	Shadow Exeggutor grasspsychicshadow Confusion / Psychic	Confusion / Psychic+11 more movesets	35%	2614.8%	0.09	0:17	100%	3,014	38.3	632
25	Mega Greninja waterdarkmega Water Shuriken / Surf+	Water Shuriken / Surf++17 more movesets	38%	2594.4%	0.09	0:17	100%	3,784	36.0	604
26	Shadow Metagross steelpsychicshadow Zen Headbutt / Psychic	Zen Headbutt / Psychic+15 more movesets	44%	2576.5%	0.09	0:17	100%	3,791	39.3	664
27	Primal Groudon groundfiremega Mud Shot / Earthquake	Mud Shot / Earthquake+9 more movesets	43%	2564.4%	0.09	0:17	100%	5,902	35.5	604
28	Mega Metagross steelpsychicmega Zen Headbutt / Psychic	Zen Headbutt / Psychic+15 more movesets	46%	2564.4%	0.09	0:17	100%	4,911	37.7	641
29	Mega Latias dragonpsychicmega Zen Headbutt / Psychic	Zen Headbutt / Psychic+14 more movesets	41%	2564.4%	0.09	0:17	100%	4,801	36.4	618
30	Shadow Rhyperior groundrockshadow Mud-Slap / Earthquake	Mud-Slap / Earthquake+15 more movesets	44%	2564.4%	0.09	0:17	100%	3,733	36.5	621

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.