Shadow raid

Shadow Escavalier counters

#0589

bug steelShadow 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

41,428

15,000

Timer

5:00

Attack

195

Defense

165

Difficulty

1.88

Pokebattler scale

Beating Shadow Escavalier should take 2 trainers with level 40 counters. Caught CP 1,514-1,650.

Weak tofire2.56x

Who to bring

IncludeMega Legendary Shadow

Improve your raidweather · friendship · Mega in the lobby · Party Power · Adventure EffectsShow ▾

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 Fire Mega — most top counters attack with Fire

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 Escavalier counters are Mega Delphox, Shadow Reshiram, Shadow Ho-Oh, Shadow Heatran, Shadow Moltres & Shadow Chandelure.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Delphox
S. Reshiram
S. Ho-Oh
S. Heatran
S. Moltres
S. Chandelure

2 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 DelphoxMegapartyFire Spin / Mystical Fire+1.577:25
2Mega Charizard YMegaFire Spin / Blast Burn1.828:37
3Shadow ReshiramShadowLegendarypartyFire Fang / Fusion Flare1.838:38
4Mega BlazikenMegaFire Spin / Blast Burn1.868:47
5Shadow Ho-OhShadowLegendarypartyIncinerate / Sacred Fire++2.089:48
6Shadow HeatranShadowLegendarypartyFire Spin / Magma Storm2.109:56
7Shadow MoltresShadowLegendarypartyFire Spin / Overheat2.119:58
8Shadow ChandelureShadowpartyFire Spin / Overheat2.1310:04
9Shadow DelphoxShadowFire Spin / Blast Burn2.2010:25
10ReshiramLegendaryFire Fang / Fusion Flare2.2010:25

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

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Raid tier — Shadow Legendary 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 Escavalier 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 Delphoxfirepsychicjoint top pick	fireFire SpinfireMystical Fire+	4,783	7:25	1.57	5.3	71.9%
2	Mega Charizard Yfireflying	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	4,455	8:37	1.82	5.4	61.9%
3	Shadow Reshiramdragonfire	fireFire FangfireFusion Flare	4,038	8:38	1.83	5.6	61.7%
4	Mega Blazikenfirefighting	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	4,161	8:47	1.86	5.7	60.7%
5	Shadow Ho-Ohfireflying	fireIncineratefireSacred Fire++	3,863	9:48	2.08	5.3	54.4%
6	Shadow Heatranfiresteel	fireFire SpinfireMagma Storm	3,754	9:56	2.10	5.2	53.7%
7	Shadow Moltresfireflying	fireFire SpinfireOverheat	3,465	9:58	2.11	5.6	53.5%
8	Shadow Chandelureghostfire	fireFire SpinfireOverheat	3,268	10:04	2.13	5.5	53.0%
9	Shadow Delphoxfirepsychic	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	3,059	10:25	2.20	5.9	51.2%
10	Reshiramdragonfire	fireFire FangfireFusion Flare	4,038	10:25	2.20	5.4	51.2%
11	Shadow Charizardfireflying	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	2,889	10:30	2.22	5.8	50.8%
12	Mega Charizard Xfiredragon	fireFire SpinfireBlast Burn	3,850	10:32	2.23	5.5	50.6%
13	Shadow Darmanitan (Standard)fire	fireFire FangfireOverheat	3,105	10:40	2.26	6.0	50.0%
14	Shadow Enteifire	fireFire SpinfireOverheat	3,473	10:45	2.27	5.6	49.6%
15	Shadow Emboarfirefighting	fireEmberfireBlast Burn	2,982	10:56	2.31	5.8	48.8%

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 Escavalier.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Shadow Escavalier'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	75%	79%	57.3%	9:19	5.5	1.97
Counter / Drill Run	47%	53%	52.6%	10:08	6.0	2.15
Bug Bite / Drill Run	53%	55%	54.1%	9:51	6.0	2.09
Bug Bite / Aerial Ace	61%	86%	57.3%	9:18	6.0	1.97
Counter / Aerial Ace	56%	80%	57.4%	9:17	6.0	1.97
Counter / Megahorn	89%	77%	57.8%	9:14	6.0	1.95
Bug Bite / Megahorn	97%	88%	57.9%	9:13	6.0	1.95
Counter / Acid Spray	99%	165%	60.8%	8:47	4.3	1.86
Bug Bite / Acid Spray	100%	206%	61.1%	8:44	3.4	1.85

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…

Escavalier 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.

fire2.56x fighting1x flying1x ground1x rock1x ghost1x water1x electric1x dark1x normal0.63x bug0.63x steel0.63x psychic0.63x ice0.63x dragon0.63x fairy0.63x poison0.39x grass0.39x

Double weak (1)
Neutral (8)
Resists (9)

It resists poison0.39xgrass0.39xnormal0.625xbug0.625xsteel0.625xpsychic0.625xice0.625xdragon0.625xfairy0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Escavalier throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
fightingCounter	13	+9	1.0s	0.80s
bugBug BiteSTAB	5	+6	0.5s	0.25s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
bugMegahornSTAB	105	-100	2.0s	1.50s
groundDrill Run	85	-50	3.0s	1.90s
flyingAerial Ace	55	-33	2.5s	2.00s
poisonAcid Spray	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	1,514	1,893
7/7/7	1,529	1,912
8/8/8	1,544	1,930
9/9/9	1,559	1,949
10/10/10	1,574	1,968
11/11/11	1,589	1,987
12/12/12	1,604	2,006
13/13/13	1,620	2,025
14/14/14	1,635	2,044
15/15/15hundo	1,650	2,063

Caught CP range 1,514 - 1,650, or 1,893 - 2,063 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 1,514, not at the 1,574 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 60 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.

Escavalier 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 195 / Defense 165 (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

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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 Delphox firepsychicmega Fire Spin / Mystical Fire+	Fire Spin / Mystical Fire++23 more movesets	100%	71.9%	1.57	7:25	16.3	100%	4,783	35.3	1222
2	Mega Charizard Y fireflyingmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	89%	61.9%	1.82	8:37	11.6	100%	4,455	29.9	1283
3	Shadow Reshiram dragonfireshadow Fire Fang / Fusion Flare	Fire Fang / Fusion Flare+9 more movesets	85%	61.7%	1.83	8:38	18.7	100%	4,038	30.4	959
4	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	82%	60.7%	1.86	8:47	20.2	100%	4,161	29.9	896
5	Shadow Ho-Oh fireflyingshadow Incinerate / Sacred Fire++	Incinerate / Sacred Fire+++27 more movesets	78%	54.4%	2.08	9:48	12.1	72%	3,863	26.2	1259
6	Shadow Heatran firesteelshadow Fire Spin / Magma Storm	Fire Spin / Magma Storm+11 more movesets	72%	53.7%	2.10	9:56	22.3	76%	3,754	26.5	1197
7	Shadow Moltres fireflyingshadow Fire Spin / Overheat	Fire Spin / Overheat+11 more movesets	74%	53.5%	2.11	9:58	16.3	54%	3,465	26.0	939
8	Shadow Chandelure ghostfireshadow Fire Spin / Overheat	Fire Spin / Overheat+19 more movesets	71%	53.0%	2.13	10:04	24.0	54%	3,268	26.3	850
9	Shadow Delphox firepsychicshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	67%	51.2%	2.20	10:25	27.2	30%	3,059	25.5	661
10	Reshiram dragonfire Fire Fang / Fusion Flare	Fire Fang / Fusion Flare+9 more movesets	69%	51.2%	2.20	10:25	21.0	38%	4,038	25.1	901
11	Shadow Charizard fireflyingshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	69%	50.8%	2.22	10:30	20.6	18%	2,889	24.9	780
12	Mega Charizard X firedragonmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	68%	50.6%	2.23	10:32	22.1	26%	3,850	24.9	854
13	Shadow Darmanitan (Standard) fireshadow Fire Fang / Overheat	Fire Fang / Overheat+11 more movesets	64%	50.0%	2.26	10:40	33.5	32%	3,105	25.4	574
14	Shadow Entei fireshadow Fire Spin / Overheat	Fire Spin / Overheat+11 more movesets	66%	49.6%	2.27	10:45	23.0	4%	3,473	24.4	778
15	Shadow Emboar firefightingshadow Ember / Blast Burn	Ember / Blast Burn+9 more movesets	63%	48.8%	2.31	10:56	30.7	22%	2,982	24.5	625
16	Shadow Blaziken firefightingshadow Fire Spin / Blaze Kick	Fire Spin / Blaze Kick+20 more movesets	62%	48.4%	2.33	11:00	34.9	0%	2,848	24.4	540
17	Blacephalon fireghost Incinerate / Mind Blown	Incinerate / Mind Blown+7 more movesets	61%	48.4%	2.33	11:02	41.4	76%	3,297	26.6	824
18	Cinderace fire Fire Spin / Pyroball	Fire Spin / Pyroball+14 more movesets	61%	46.2%	2.44	11:33	26.8	0%	3,018	22.9	659
19	Mega Houndoom darkfiremega Fire Fang / Flamethrower	Fire Fang / Flamethrower+17 more movesets	60%	46.1%	2.45	11:34	30.2	0%	3,842	22.9	612
20	Ho-Oh fireflying Incinerate / Sacred Fire++	Incinerate / Sacred Fire+++27 more movesets	66%	46.1%	2.45	11:34	12.3	0%	3,863	22.2	1230
21	Shadow Typhlosion fireshadow Incinerate / Blast Burn	Incinerate / Blast Burn+14 more movesets	60%	46.0%	2.45	11:35	31.2	2%	2,889	23.0	580
22	Heatran firesteel Fire Spin / Magma Storm	Fire Spin / Magma Storm+11 more movesets	62%	46.0%	2.46	11:36	21.1	0%	3,754	22.4	1189
23	Shadow Magmortar fireshadow Fire Spin / Fire Blast	Fire Spin / Fire Blast+11 more movesets	59%	45.9%	2.46	11:38	31.7	0%	3,132	22.9	559
24	Shadow Infernape firefightingshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+7 more movesets	59%	45.8%	2.46	11:38	36.5	6%	2,683	23.3	549
25	Volcarona bugfire Fire Spin / Overheat	Fire Spin / Overheat+7 more movesets	62%	45.8%	2.46	11:38	22.3	0%	3,632	22.5	794
26	Darmanitan (Standard) fire Fire Fang / Overheat	Fire Fang / Overheat+11 more movesets	59%	45.2%	2.50	11:48	30.7	0%	3,105	22.5	580
27	Moltres fireflying Fire Spin / Overheat	Fire Spin / Overheat+11 more movesets	63%	45.2%	2.50	11:48	16.6	0%	3,465	21.9	930
28	Chandelure ghostfire Fire Spin / Overheat	Fire Spin / Overheat+19 more movesets	60%	44.8%	2.52	11:55	24.6	0%	3,268	22.1	844
29	Shadow Arcanine fireshadow Fire Fang / Flamethrower	Fire Fang / Flamethrower+27 more movesets	58%	44.6%	2.53	11:57	30.1	0%	3,029	22.1	582
30	Shadow Hisuian Typhlosion fireghostshadow Ember / Overheat	Ember / Overheat+9 more movesets	58%	44.1%	2.56	12:06	26.3	0%	2,994	21.8	779

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