Shadow raid

Shadow Ho-Oh 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

10,012

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

151

Defense

154

Difficulty

0.13

Pokebattler scale

Beating Shadow Ho-Oh should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 2,050-2,207.

Weak torock2.56xwater1.6xelectric1.6x

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 Rock Mega — most top counters attack with Rock

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 Ho-Oh counters are Shadow Rampardos, Mega Diancie, Shadow Tyrantrum, Shadow Rhyperior, Rampardos & Glimmora.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

S. Rampardos
M. Diancie
S. Tyrantrum
S. Rhyperior
Rampardos
Glimmora

1 more Mega 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 %

1Shadow RampardosShadowpartySmack Down / Rock Slide0.120:21
2Mega DiancieMegaLegendarypartyRock Throw / Rock Slide0.130:24
3Mega AerodactylMegaRock Throw / Rock Slide0.130:24
4Shadow TyrantrumShadowpartyRock Throw / Meteor Beam0.140:24
5Shadow RhyperiorShadowpartySmack Down / Rock Wrecker0.140:25
6RampardospartySmack Down / Rock Slide0.140:25
7GlimmorapartyRock Throw / Meteor Beam0.140:25
8TyrantrumRock Throw / Meteor Beam0.140:26
9Mega GreninjaMegaWater Shuriken / Surf+0.150:26
10Shadow AurorusShadowRock Throw / Meteor Beam0.150:26

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 Ho-Oh 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	Shadow Rampardosrockjoint top pick	rockSmack DownrockRock Slide	3,298	0:21	0.12	0.5	2042.3%
2	Mega Diancierockfairy	rockRock ThrowrockRock Slide	4,346	0:24	0.13	0.5	1840.2%
3	Mega Aerodactylrockflying	rockRock ThrowrockRock Slide	4,118	0:24	0.13	0.1	1834.7%
4	Shadow Tyrantrumrockdragon	rockRock ThrowrockMeteor Beam	3,128	0:24	0.14	0.2	1782.3%
5	Shadow Rhyperiorgroundrock	rockSmack DownrockRock Wrecker	3,733	0:25	0.14	0.2	1768.9%
6	Rampardosrock	rockSmack DownrockRock Slide	3,298	0:25	0.14	0.6	1751.5%
7	Glimmorarockpoison	rockRock ThrowrockMeteor Beam	3,273	0:25	0.14	0.2	1742.9%
8	Tyrantrumrockdragon	rockRock ThrowrockMeteor Beam	3,128	0:26	0.14	0.1	1701.6%
9	Mega Greninjawaterdark	waterWater ShurikenwaterSurf+	3,784	0:26	0.15	0.4	1655.2%
10	Shadow Aurorusrockice	rockRock ThrowrockMeteor Beam	2,802	0:26	0.15	0.7	1654.4%
11	Mega Tyranitarrockdark	rockSmack DownrockStone Edge	5,347	0:27	0.15	0.0	1634.5%
12	Mega Raichu Yelectric	electricThunder ShockelectricZap Cannon+	3,780	0:27	0.15	0.9	1611.7%
13	Shadow Gigalithrock	rockSmack DownrockMeteor Beam	3,228	0:27	0.15	0.6	1599.8%
14	Shadow Tyranitarrockdark	rockSmack DownrockStone Edge	3,834	0:27	0.15	0.4	1590.6%
15	Gigalithrock	normalLock-OnrockMeteor Beam	3,228	0:28	0.16	0.3	1562.9%

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 Ho-Oh.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Shadow Ho-Oh'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%	247%	1836.7%	0:24	0.3	0.13
Steel Wing / Solar Beam	100%	179%	1623.8%	0:27	1.1	0.15
Hidden Power / Solar Beam	100%	221%	1722.2%	0:25	0.7	0.14
Incinerate / Solar Beam	100%	229%	1760.8%	0:25	0.6	0.14
Incinerate / Sacred Fire++	100%	255%	1767.4%	0:25	0.4	0.14
Extrasensory / Solar Beam	100%	212%	1781.6%	0:24	0.7	0.14
Steel Wing / Brave Bird	100%	205%	1806.6%	0:24	0.6	0.13
Incinerate / Brave Bird	100%	255%	1820.3%	0:24	0.3	0.13
Incinerate / Fire Blast	100%	280%	1824.6%	0:24	0.2	0.13
Hidden Power / Brave Bird	100%	280%	1829.8%	0:24	0.1	0.13
Steel Wing / Sacred Fire++	100%	209%	1845.0%	0:24	0.6	0.13
Extrasensory / Brave Bird	100%	246%	1845.4%	0:24	0.3	0.13
Hidden Power / Fire Blast	100%	311%	1847.4%	0:24	0.0	0.13
Steel Wing / Fire Blast	100%	232%	1853.0%	0:24	0.4	0.13
Extrasensory / Sacred Fire++	100%	251%	1861.1%	0:23	0.3	0.13
Extrasensory / Fire Blast	100%	284%	1867.7%	0:23	0.1	0.13
Hidden Power / Sacred Fire++	100%	274%	1867.8%	0:23	0.2	0.13

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…

Ho-Oh 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.

rock2.56x water1.6x electric1.6x normal1x flying1x poison1x ghost1x psychic1x ice1x dragon1x dark1x fighting0.63x ground0.63x steel0.63x fire0.63x fairy0.63x bug0.39x grass0.39x

Double weak (1)
Weak (2)
Neutral (8)
Resists (7)

It resists bug0.39xgrass0.39xfighting0.625xground0.625xsteel0.625xfire0.625xfairy0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Ho-Oh throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
fireIncinerateSTAB	32	+22	2.5s	0.70s
steelSteel Wing	14	+8	1.0s	0.70s
psychicExtrasensory	11	+11	1.0s	0.75s
normalHidden Power	15	+15	1.5s	1.10s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
flyingBrave BirdSTAB	130	-100	2.0s	1.00s
fireSacred Fire++STAB	155	-100	2.5s	1.10s
fireFire BlastSTAB	140	-100	4.0s	2.90s
grassSolar Beam	180	-100	5.0s	2.80s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
6/6/6floor	2,050	2,563
7/7/7	2,067	2,584
8/8/8	2,084	2,606
9/9/9	2,102	2,628
10/10/10	2,119	2,649
11/11/11	2,137	2,671
12/12/12	2,154	2,693
13/13/13	2,172	2,715
14/14/14	2,189	2,737
15/15/15hundo	2,207	2,759

Caught CP range 2,050 - 2,207, or 2,563 - 2,759 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 2,050, not at the 2,119 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 69 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.

Ho-Oh 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 151 / Defense 154 (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	Faints	Win % (1)	CP	DPS	TDO
1	Shadow Rampardos rockshadow Smack Down / Rock Slide	Smack Down / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	100%	2042.3%	0.12	0:21	0.5	100%	3,298	29.7	469
2	Mega Diancie rockfairymega Rock Throw / Rock Slide	Rock Throw / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	92%	1840.2%	0.13	0:24	0.4	100%	4,346	27.9	509
3	Mega Aerodactyl rockflyingmega Rock Throw / Rock Slide	Rock Throw / Rock Slide+23 more movesets	95%	1834.7%	0.13	0:24	0.1	100%	4,118	25.4	583
4	Shadow Tyrantrum rockdragonshadow Rock Throw / Meteor Beam	Rock Throw / Meteor Beam+17 more movesets	93%	1782.3%	0.14	0:24	0.2	100%	3,128	28.4	639
5	Shadow Rhyperior groundrockshadow Smack Down / Rock Wrecker	Smack Down / Rock Wrecker+15 more movesets	92%	1768.9%	0.14	0:25	0.2	100%	3,733	27.6	610
6	Rampardos rock Smack Down / Rock Slide	Smack Down / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	85%	1751.5%	0.14	0:25	0.6	100%	3,298	24.9	440
7	Glimmora rockpoison Rock Throw / Meteor Beam	Rock Throw / Meteor Beam+7 more movesets	88%	1742.9%	0.14	0:25	0.2	100%	3,273	26.0	575
8	Tyrantrum rockdragon Rock Throw / Meteor Beam	Rock Throw / Meteor Beam+17 more movesets	89%	1701.6%	0.14	0:26	0.1	100%	3,128	24.4	603
9	Mega Greninja waterdarkmega Water Shuriken / Surf+	Water Shuriken / Surf++17 more movesets	82%	1655.2%	0.15	0:26	0.4	100%	3,784	25.0	521
10	Shadow Aurorus rockiceshadow Rock Throw / Meteor Beam	Rock Throw / Meteor Beam+17 more movesets	81%	1654.4%	0.15	0:26	0.7	100%	2,802	23.5	411
11	Mega Tyranitar rockdarkmega Smack Down / Stone Edge	Smack Down / Stone Edge+15 more movesets	89%	1634.5%	0.15	0:27	0.0	100%	5,347	25.4	678
12	Mega Raichu Y electricmega Thunder Shock / Zap Cannon+	Thunder Shock / Zap Cannon++35 more movesets	78%	1611.7%	0.15	0:27	0.8	100%	3,780	22.7	354
13	Shadow Gigalith rockshadow Smack Down / Meteor Beam	Smack Down / Meteor Beam+14 more movesets	79%	1599.8%	0.15	0:27	0.6	100%	3,228	24.7	493
14	Shadow Tyranitar rockdarkshadow Smack Down / Stone Edge	Smack Down / Stone Edge+15 more movesets	80%	1590.6%	0.15	0:27	0.3	100%	3,834	24.3	554
15	Gigalith rock Lock-On / Meteor Beam	Lock-On / Meteor Beam+14 more movesets	78%	1562.9%	0.16	0:28	0.3	100%	3,228	23.4	558
16	Shadow Landorus (Incarnate) groundflyingshadow Rock Throw / Rock Slide	Rock Throw / Rock Slide+7 more movesets	74%	1555.5%	0.16	0:28	0.8	100%	3,588	22.0	357
17	Rhyperior groundrock Smack Down / Rock Wrecker	Smack Down / Rock Wrecker+15 more movesets	78%	1549.8%	0.16	0:28	0.4	100%	3,733	22.2	517
18	Terrakion rockfighting Smack Down / Rock Slide	Smack Down / Rock Slide+11 more movesets	76%	1532.2%	0.16	0:28	0.5	100%	3,698	22.1	470
19	Shadow Aerodactyl rockflyingshadow Rock Throw / Rock Slide	Rock Throw / Rock Slide+23 more movesets	74%	1531.0%	0.16	0:28	0.8	100%	2,783	22.3	386
20	Tyranitar rockdark Smack Down / Stone Edge	Smack Down / Stone Edge+15 more movesets	77%	1509.7%	0.16	0:29	0.2	100%	3,834	21.6	564
21	Mega Starmie waterpsychicmega Water Gun / Liquidation+	Water Gun / Liquidation++44 more movesets	75%	1504.8%	0.16	0:29	0.4	100%	3,701	21.3	470
22	Primal Kyogre watermega Waterfall / Origin Pulse	Waterfall / Origin Pulse+5 more movesets	78%	1496.5%	0.16	0:29	0.1	100%	5,902	21.0	594
23	Shadow Aggron steelrockshadow Smack Down / Meteor Beam	Smack Down / Meteor Beam+23 more movesets	74%	1491.5%	0.16	0:29	0.4	100%	3,000	22.8	527
24	Shadow Alolan Golem rockelectricshadow Rock Throw / Stone Edge	Rock Throw / Stone Edge+8 more movesets	72%	1464.2%	0.17	0:30	0.4	100%	2,949	20.9	490
25	Shadow Omastar rockwatershadow Rock Throw / Rock Slide	Rock Throw / Rock Slide+11 more movesets	72%	1448.5%	0.17	0:30	0.5	100%	2,786	21.5	508
26	Shadow Golem rockgroundshadow Rock Throw / Stone Edge	Rock Throw / Stone Edge+11 more movesets	68%	1412.4%	0.17	0:31	0.6	100%	2,949	20.3	429
27	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Psycho Cut / Future Sight+	Psycho Cut / Future Sight++26 more movesets	69%	1398.4%	0.17	0:31	0.5	100%	6,428	19.4	460
28	Mega Aggron steelmega Smack Down / Meteor Beam	Smack Down / Meteor Beam+23 more movesets	68%	1372.1%	0.18	0:32	0.4	100%	4,162	19.8	483
29	Aggron steelrock Smack Down / Meteor Beam	Smack Down / Meteor Beam+23 more movesets	67%	1357.1%	0.18	0:32	0.5	100%	3,000	19.4	468
30	Shadow Archeops rockflyingshadow Wing Attack / Ancient Power	Wing Attack / Ancient Power+5 more movesets	62%	1342.3%	0.18	0:32	1.1	100%	3,331	20.7	343

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.