Shadow raid

Shadow Alolan Golem 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

20,860

4,000

Timer

3:00

Attack

171

Defense

161

Difficulty

0.83

Pokebattler scale

Beating Shadow Alolan Golem should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 1,548-1,685.

Weak toground2.56xfighting1.6xwater1.6xgrass1.6x

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 Ground Mega — most top counters attack with Ground

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 Alolan Golem counters are Primal Groudon, Shadow Landorus (Therian), Shadow Groudon, Shadow Excadrill, Landorus (Therian) & Shadow Garchomp.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

Primal Groudon
S. Landorus (Therian)
S. Groudon
S. Excadrill
Landorus (Therian)
S. Garchomp

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 %

1Primal GroudonMegaLegendarypartyMud Shot / Precipice Blades0.762:13
2Shadow Landorus (Therian)ShadowLegendarypartyMud Shot / Sandsear Storm0.792:19
3Mega GarchompMegaMud Shot / Earth Power0.832:25
4Shadow GroudonShadowLegendarypartyMud Shot / Precipice Blades0.842:27
5Mega Mewtwo XMegaLegendaryCounter / Dynamic Punch+0.882:35
6Shadow ExcadrillShadowpartyMud-Slap / Earthquake0.902:38
7Landorus (Therian)LegendarypartyMud Shot / Sandsear Storm0.902:38
8Shadow GarchompShadowpartyMud Shot / Earth Power0.912:40
9Shadow RhyperiorShadowMud-Slap / Earthquake0.942:45
10Shadow MamoswineShadowMud-Slap / High Horsepower0.952:46

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

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Raid tier — Easy Group Shadow Raid

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Top 15 Shadow Alolan Golem 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	Primal Groudongroundfirejoint top pick	groundMud ShotgroundPrecipice Blades	5,902	2:13	0.76	2.6	176.8%
2	Shadow Landorus (Therian)groundflying	groundMud ShotgroundSandsear Storm	3,922	2:19	0.79	5.3	169.3%
3	Mega Garchompdragonground	groundMud ShotgroundEarth Power	5,424	2:25	0.83	1.8	161.8%
4	Shadow Groudonground	groundMud ShotgroundPrecipice Blades	4,115	2:27	0.84	3.1	159.4%
5	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	fightingCounterfightingDynamic Punch+	6,112	2:35	0.88	3.6	151.1%
6	Shadow Excadrillgroundsteel	groundMud-SlapgroundEarthquake	3,244	2:38	0.90	3.5	148.1%
7	Landorus (Therian)groundflying	groundMud ShotgroundSandsear Storm	3,922	2:38	0.90	5.2	148.1%
8	Shadow Garchompdragonground	groundMud ShotgroundEarth Power	3,962	2:40	0.91	3.0	146.8%
9	Shadow Rhyperiorgroundrock	groundMud-SlapgroundEarthquake	3,733	2:45	0.94	3.3	142.6%
10	Shadow Mamoswineiceground	groundMud-SlapgroundHigh Horsepower	3,328	2:46	0.95	5.3	141.3%
11	Shadow Landorus (Incarnate)groundflying	groundMud ShotgroundEarth Power	3,588	2:51	0.97	5.8	137.6%
12	Groudonground	groundMud ShotgroundPrecipice Blades	4,115	2:56	1.00	3.2	133.0%
13	Shadow Rhydongroundrock	groundMud-SlapgroundEarthquake	3,179	2:58	1.02	4.3	131.5%
14	Mega Swampertwaterground	groundMud ShotgroundEarthquake	4,401	2:59	1.02	3.5	131.1%
15	Shadow Golurkgroundghost	groundMud-SlapgroundEarth Power	2,854	3:04	1.05	5.3	127.8%

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 Alolan Golem.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Shadow Alolan Golem'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	Faints	Estimator
Random (any moveset)showing	100%	104%	157.5%	2:29	3.9	0.85
Volt Switch / Stone Edge	100%	97%	153.5%	2:33	4.3	0.87
Rock Throw / Stone Edge	100%	92%	154.5%	2:32	4.6	0.87
Rock Throw / Rock Blast	100%	105%	158.3%	2:28	3.9	0.84
Volt Switch / Rock Blast	100%	116%	159.6%	2:27	3.3	0.84
Rock Throw / Wild Charge	100%	111%	159.9%	2:27	3.7	0.84
Volt Switch / Wild Charge	100%	128%	159.9%	2:27	3.2	0.84

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…

Alolan Golem 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.

ground2.56x fighting1.6x water1.6x grass1.6x rock1x bug1x ghost1x steel1x psychic1x ice1x dragon1x dark1x fairy1x normal0.63x poison0.63x fire0.63x electric0.63x flying0.39x

Double weak (1)
Weak (3)
Neutral (9)
Resists (5)

It resists flying0.39xnormal0.625xpoison0.625xfire0.625xelectric0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Alolan Golem 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
electricVolt SwitchSTAB	13	+20	1.5s	0.60s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
rockStone EdgeSTAB	105	-100	2.5s	0.90s
electricWild ChargeSTAB	90	-50	2.5s	1.60s
rockRock BlastSTAB	50	-33	2.0s	1.50s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
6/6/6floor	1,548	1,935
7/7/7	1,563	1,954
8/8/8	1,578	1,973
9/9/9	1,593	1,992
10/10/10	1,608	2,010
11/11/11	1,623	2,029
12/12/12	1,639	2,049
13/13/13	1,654	2,068
14/14/14	1,669	2,087
15/15/15hundo	1,685	2,106

Caught CP range 1,548 - 1,685, or 1,935 - 2,106 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 1,548, not at the 1,608 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.

When it is in raids

From the raid schedule, refreshed daily.

Alolan Golem 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 3: 4,000 HP, 3:00 timer, boss Attack 171 / Defense 161 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.76).

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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	Primal Groudon groundfiremega Mud Shot / Precipice Blades	Mud Shot / Precipice Blades+9 more movesets	100%	176.8%	0.76	2:13	2.5	100%	5,902	30.5	1241
2	Shadow Landorus (Therian) groundflyingshadow Mud Shot / Sandsear Storm	Mud Shot / Sandsear Storm+9 more movesets	86%	169.3%	0.79	2:19	5.2	100%	3,922	30.5	663
3	Mega Garchomp dragongroundmega Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+13 more movesets	95%	161.8%	0.83	2:25	1.8	100%	5,424	27.9	1531
4	Shadow Groudon groundshadow Mud Shot / Precipice Blades	Mud Shot / Precipice Blades+9 more movesets	88%	159.4%	0.84	2:27	3.0	100%	4,115	27.7	1022
5	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Counter / Dynamic Punch+	Counter / Dynamic Punch++26 more movesets	81%	151.1%	0.88	2:35	3.5	100%	6,112	26.5	974
6	Shadow Excadrill groundsteelshadow Mud-Slap / Earthquake	Mud-Slap / Earthquake+14 more movesets	80%	148.1%	0.90	2:38	3.4	100%	3,244	25.5	917
7	Landorus (Therian) groundflying Mud Shot / Sandsear Storm	Mud Shot / Sandsear Storm+9 more movesets	75%	148.1%	0.90	2:38	5.1	100%	3,922	26.4	664
8	Shadow Garchomp dragongroundshadow Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+13 more movesets	82%	146.8%	0.91	2:40	2.9	100%	3,962	25.3	1084
9	Shadow Rhyperior groundrockshadow Mud-Slap / Earthquake	Mud-Slap / Earthquake+15 more movesets	78%	142.6%	0.94	2:45	3.2	100%	3,733	24.6	955
10	Shadow Mamoswine icegroundshadow Mud-Slap / High Horsepower	Mud-Slap / High Horsepower+11 more movesets	71%	141.3%	0.95	2:46	5.8	98%	3,328	25.0	615
11	Shadow Landorus (Incarnate) groundflyingshadow Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+7 more movesets	68%	137.6%	0.97	2:51	6.2	92%	3,588	24.7	551
12	Groudon ground Mud Shot / Precipice Blades	Mud Shot / Precipice Blades+9 more movesets	73%	133.0%	1.00	2:56	3.1	82%	4,115	23.1	1000
13	Shadow Rhydon groundrockshadow Mud-Slap / Earthquake	Mud-Slap / Earthquake+9 more movesets	69%	131.5%	1.02	2:58	4.2	60%	3,179	22.7	773
14	Mega Swampert watergroundmega Mud Shot / Earthquake	Mud Shot / Earthquake+11 more movesets	71%	131.1%	1.02	2:59	3.4	52%	4,401	22.8	921
15	Shadow Golurk groundghostshadow Mud-Slap / Earth Power	Mud-Slap / Earth Power+7 more movesets	65%	127.8%	1.05	3:04	5.2	42%	2,854	22.5	642
16	Excadrill groundsteel Mud-Slap / Scorching Sands	Mud-Slap / Scorching Sands+14 more movesets	69%	126.4%	1.06	3:06	3.3	0%	3,244	21.8	956
17	Mega Lucario fightingsteelmega Force Palm / Aura Sphere	Force Palm / Aura Sphere+23 more movesets	62%	125.4%	1.07	3:07	6.1	36%	3,826	22.0	670
18	Shadow Donphan groundshadow Mud-Slap / Earthquake	Mud-Slap / Earthquake+19 more movesets	64%	124.6%	1.07	3:08	4.5	2%	3,013	21.5	723
19	Garchomp dragonground Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+13 more movesets	68%	123.2%	1.08	3:10	2.9	0%	3,962	21.2	1076
20	Shadow Golem rockgroundshadow Mud-Slap / Earthquake	Mud-Slap / Earthquake+11 more movesets	63%	122.8%	1.09	3:11	4.8	0%	2,949	21.3	698
21	Shadow Hippowdon groundshadow Sand Attack / Earth Power	Sand Attack / Earth Power+29 more movesets	64%	121.2%	1.10	3:14	4.1	0%	3,085	20.9	784
22	Shadow Torterra grassgroundshadow Mud-Slap / Earthquake	Mud-Slap / Earthquake+14 more movesets	63%	119.2%	1.12	3:17	4.0	0%	2,934	20.7	852
23	Mamoswine iceground Mud-Slap / High Horsepower	Mud-Slap / High Horsepower+11 more movesets	59%	118.8%	1.12	3:18	6.0	0%	3,328	20.9	599
24	Shadow Flygon grounddragonshadow Sand Attack / Scorching Sands	Sand Attack / Scorching Sands+23 more movesets	60%	118.2%	1.13	3:19	5.0	0%	2,661	20.6	689
25	Rhyperior groundrock Mud-Slap / Earthquake	Mud-Slap / Earthquake+15 more movesets	64%	117.7%	1.14	3:19	3.3	0%	3,733	20.3	937
26	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Counter / Aura Sphere	Counter / Aura Sphere+20 more movesets	55%	117.5%	1.14	3:20	8.6	0%	4,161	21.2	420
27	Mega Greninja waterdarkmega Water Shuriken / Surf+	Water Shuriken / Surf++17 more movesets	54%	116.7%	1.15	3:21	9.7	0%	3,784	21.3	386
28	Mega Falinks fightingmega Counter / Brick Break+	Counter / Brick Break++7 more movesets	58%	116.0%	1.15	3:22	5.9	0%	3,670	20.4	608
29	Landorus (Incarnate) groundflying Mud Shot / Earth Power	Mud Shot / Earth Power+7 more movesets	57%	115.9%	1.15	3:23	6.4	0%	3,588	20.7	543
30	Mega Chesnaught grassfightingmega Vine Whip / Seed Bomb+	Vine Whip / Seed Bomb++20 more movesets	62%	114.7%	1.16	3:25	3.5	0%	4,093	19.8	904

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