Shadow raid

Shadow Geodude counters

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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

4,365

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

Defense

Difficulty

0.06

Pokebattler scale

Beating Shadow Geodude should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 649-739.

Weak towater2.56xgrass2.56xfighting1.6xground1.6xsteel1.6xice1.6x

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 Geodude counters are Mega Starmie, Shadow Kingler, Shadow Greninja, Kartana, Inteleon & Shadow Venusaur.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Starmie
S. Kingler
S. Greninja
Kartana
Inteleon
S. Venusaur

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 StarmieMegapartyPsywave / Liquidation+0.050:09
2Mega GreninjaMegaWater Shuriken / Surf+0.050:09
3Mega ChesnaughtMegaVine Whip / Seed Bomb+0.060:11
4Mega Mewtwo XMegaLegendaryCounter / Dynamic Punch+0.060:12
5Shadow KinglerShadowpartyBubble / Crabhammer0.070:12
6Mega SceptileMegaBullet Seed / Frenzy Plant0.070:13
7Shadow GreninjaShadowpartyBubble / Hydro Cannon0.070:13
8Mega BlastoiseMegaWater Gun / Hydro Cannon0.070:13
9KartanaLegendarypartyFury Cutter / Leaf Blade0.070:13
10Mega SwampertMegaWater Gun / Hydro Cannon0.070:13
11InteleonpartyWater Gun / Hydro Cannon0.080:14
13Shadow VenusaurShadowpartyVine Whip / Frenzy Plant0.080:14

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

Related countersAlolan Geodude

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Top 15 Shadow Geodude 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 Starmiewaterpsychicjoint top pick	psychicPsywavewaterLiquidation+	3,701	0:09	0.05	4843.3%
2	Mega Greninjawaterdark	waterWater ShurikenwaterSurf+	3,784	0:09	0.05	4589.4%
3	Mega Chesnaughtgrassfighting	grassVine WhipgrassSeed Bomb+	4,093	0:11	0.06	4006.4%
4	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	fightingCounterfightingDynamic Punch+	6,112	0:12	0.06	3751.3%
5	Shadow Kinglerwater	waterBubblewaterCrabhammer	2,829	0:12	0.07	3633.1%
6	Mega Sceptilegrassdragon	grassBullet SeedgrassFrenzy Plant	4,056	0:13	0.07	3476.6%
7	Shadow Greninjawaterdark	waterBubblewaterHydro Cannon	2,654	0:13	0.07	3353.6%
8	Mega Blastoisewater	waterWater GunwaterHydro Cannon	3,941	0:13	0.07	3353.6%
9	Kartanagrasssteel	bugFury CuttergrassLeaf Blade	3,677	0:13	0.07	3300.3%
10	Mega Swampertwaterground	waterWater GunwaterHydro Cannon	4,401	0:13	0.07	3285.3%
11	Inteleonwater	waterWater GunwaterHydro Cannon	2,964	0:14	0.08	3227.0%
12	Primal Kyogrewater	waterWaterfallwaterSurf	5,902	0:14	0.08	3219.8%
13	Shadow Venusaurgrasspoison	grassVine WhipgrassFrenzy Plant	2,720	0:14	0.08	3200.9%
14	Shadow Tangrowthgrass	grassVine WhipgrassPower Whip	3,030	0:14	0.08	3161.4%
15	Shadow Kyogrewater	waterWaterfallwaterOrigin Pulse	4,115	0:14	0.08	3131.9%

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 Geodude.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Shadow Geodude'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%	733%	3520.9%	0:12	0.07
Tackle / Rock Tomb	100%	817%	3493.5%	0:12	0.07
Rock Throw / Dig	100%	674%	3511.1%	0:12	0.07
Tackle / Dig	100%	789%	3511.1%	0:12	0.07
Tackle / Rock Slide	100%	781%	3518.9%	0:12	0.07
Rock Throw / Rock Slide	100%	675%	3522.9%	0:12	0.07
Rock Throw / Rock Tomb	100%	711%	3522.9%	0:12	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…

Geodude 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.

water2.56x grass2.56x fighting1.6x ground1.6x steel1.6x ice1.6x bug1x ghost1x psychic1x dragon1x dark1x fairy1x normal0.63x flying0.63x rock0.63x fire0.63x poison0.39x electric0.39x

Double weak (2)
Weak (4)
Neutral (6)
Resists (6)

It resists poison0.39xelectric0.39xnormal0.625xflying0.625xrock0.625xfire0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Geodude throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
rockRock ThrowSTAB	13	+8	1.0s	0.60s
normalTackle	5	+5	0.5s	0.30s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
rockRock SlideSTAB	75	-50	2.5s	1.30s
groundDigSTAB	100	-50	4.5s	2.60s
rockRock TombSTAB	65	-50	3.0s	2.05s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
6/6/6floor	649	811
7/7/7	659	823
8/8/8	668	836
9/9/9	678	848
10/10/10	688	860
11/11/11	698	873
12/12/12	708	885
13/13/13	718	898
14/14/14	728	911
15/15/15hundo	739	923

Caught CP range 649 - 739, or 811 - 923 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 649, not at the 688 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 39 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.

Geodude 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 87 / Defense 87 (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 Starmie waterpsychicmega Psywave / Liquidation+	Psywave / Liquidation++44 more movesets	100%	4843.3%	0.05	0:09	0.0	100%	3,701	66.8	601
2	Mega Greninja waterdarkmega Water Shuriken / Surf+	Water Shuriken / Surf++17 more movesets	87%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	0.0	100%	3,784	64.1	609
3	Mega Chesnaught grassfightingmega Vine Whip / Seed Bomb+	Vine Whip / Seed Bomb++20 more movesets	84%	4006.4%	0.06	0:11	0.0	100%	4,093	60.2	655
4	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Counter / Dynamic Punch+	Counter / Dynamic Punch++26 more movesets	75%	3751.3%	0.06	0:12	0.0	100%	6,112	54.8	637
5	Shadow Kingler watershadow Bubble / Crabhammer	Bubble / Crabhammer+14 more movesets	61%	3633.1%	0.07	0:12	0.0	100%	2,829	51.0	612
6	Mega Sceptile grassdragonmega Bullet Seed / Frenzy Plant	Bullet Seed / Frenzy Plant+11 more movesets	64%	3476.6%	0.07	0:13	0.0	100%	4,056	53.8	673
7	Shadow Greninja waterdarkshadow Bubble / Hydro Cannon	Bubble / Hydro Cannon+14 more movesets	54%	3353.6%	0.07	0:13	0.0	100%	2,654	47.3	615
8	Mega Blastoise watermega Water Gun / Hydro Cannon	Water Gun / Hydro Cannon+14 more movesets	60%	3353.6%	0.07	0:13	0.0	100%	3,941	47.3	614
9	Kartana grasssteel Fury Cutter / Leaf Blade	Fury Cutter / Leaf Blade+14 more movesets	57%	3300.3%	0.07	0:13	0.0	100%	3,677	46.0	607
10	Mega Swampert watergroundmega Water Gun / Hydro Cannon	Water Gun / Hydro Cannon+11 more movesets	63%	3285.3%	0.07	0:13	0.0	100%	4,401	48.8	646
11	Inteleon water Water Gun / Hydro Cannon	Water Gun / Hydro Cannon+9 more movesets	52%	3227.0%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	2,964	44.7	603
12	Primal Kyogre watermega Waterfall / Surf	Waterfall / Surf+5 more movesets	60%	3219.8%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	5,902	47.4	642
13	Shadow Venusaur grasspoisonshadow Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant	Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant+9 more movesets	54%	3200.9%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	2,720	46.2	628
14	Shadow Tangrowth grassshadow Vine Whip / Power Whip	Vine Whip / Power Whip+9 more movesets	55%	3161.4%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	3,030	44.1	609
15	Shadow Kyogre watershadow Waterfall / Origin Pulse	Waterfall / Origin Pulse+5 more movesets	57%	3131.9%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	4,115	55.5	772
16	Shaymin (Sky) grassflying Magical Leaf / Grass Knot	Magical Leaf / Grass Knot+11 more movesets	52%	3114.0%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	3,592	44.4	622
17	Mega Victreebel grasspoisonmega Magical Leaf / Solar Beam	Magical Leaf / Solar Beam+23 more movesets	53%	3114.0%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	3,505	45.6	638
18	Shadow Swampert watergroundshadow Water Gun / Hydro Cannon	Water Gun / Hydro Cannon+11 more movesets	55%	3114.0%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	2,974	43.0	602
19	Mega Venusaur grasspoisonmega Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant	Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant+9 more movesets	56%	3085.4%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	3,698	45.6	643
20	Shadow Chesnaught grassfightingshadow Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant	Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant+17 more movesets	57%	3078.8%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	2,954	45.8	648
21	Kyogre water Waterfall / Origin Pulse	Waterfall / Origin Pulse+5 more movesets	55%	3074.5%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	4,115	46.0	651
22	Zarude darkgrass Vine Whip / Power Whip	Vine Whip / Power Whip+5 more movesets	56%	3074.5%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	3,833	42.7	605
23	Shadow Samurott watershadow Fury Cutter / Hydro Cannon	Fury Cutter / Hydro Cannon+11 more movesets	51%	3055.1%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	2,826	44.3	632
24	Shadow Feraligatr watershadow Water Gun / Hydro Cannon	Water Gun / Hydro Cannon+19 more movesets	50%	3006.6%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	2,857	41.9	607
25	Shadow Crawdaunt waterdarkshadow Waterfall / Razor Shell	Waterfall / Razor Shell+11 more movesets	46%	2953.7%	0.08	0:15	0.0	100%	2,474	45.2	667
26	Shadow Sceptile grassshadow Bullet Seed / Frenzy Plant	Bullet Seed / Frenzy Plant+11 more movesets	49%	2900.6%	0.08	0:15	0.0	100%	2,757	41.0	616
27	Mega Lucario fightingsteelmega Force Palm / Aura Sphere	Force Palm / Aura Sphere+23 more movesets	51%	2894.8%	0.08	0:15	0.0	100%	3,826	42.3	637
28	Shadow Sharpedo waterdarkshadow Waterfall / Hydro Pump	Waterfall / Hydro Pump+5 more movesets	43%	2892.3%	0.08	0:15	0.1	100%	2,181	45.9	646
29	Shadow Hisuian Samurott waterdarkshadow Waterfall / Razor Shell	Waterfall / Razor Shell+14 more movesets	47%	2873.8%	0.08	0:15	0.0	100%	2,802	44.5	674
30	Primal Groudon groundfiremega Mud Shot / Solar Beam	Mud Shot / Solar Beam+9 more movesets	51%	2812.6%	0.09	0:15	0.0	100%	5,902	39.0	605

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.