Shadow raid

Shadow Inkay 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

2,903

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

Defense

Difficulty

0.06

Pokebattler scale

Beating Shadow Inkay should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 453-529.

Weak tobug2.56xfairy1.6x

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 Bug Mega — most top counters attack with Bug

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 Inkay counters are Mega Beedrill, Shadow Scizor, Shadow Pinsir, Shadow Escavalier, Shadow Vikavolt & Vikavolt.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Beedrill
S. Scizor
S. Pinsir
S. Escavalier
S. Vikavolt
Vikavolt

3 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 BeedrillMegapartyBug Bite / Fell Stinger+0.050:09
2Mega HeracrossMegaFury Cutter / Megahorn0.050:09
3Mega PinsirMegaFury Cutter / X-Scissor0.060:10
4Shadow ScizorShadowpartyFury Cutter / X-Scissor0.060:11
5Shadow PinsirShadowpartyFury Cutter / X-Scissor0.060:11
6Shadow EscavalierShadowpartyBug Bite / Megahorn0.060:11
7Mega ScizorMegaFury Cutter / X-Scissor0.060:11
8Shadow VikavoltShadowpartyBug Bite / X-Scissor0.070:12
9VikavoltpartyBug Bite / X-Scissor0.070:12
10PheromosaLegendaryBug Bite / Lunge0.070:13

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 Inkay 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 Beedrillbugpoisonjoint top pick	bugBug BitebugFell Stinger+	3,383	0:09	0.05	4657.1%
2	Mega Heracrossbugfightingjoint top pick	bugFury CutterbugMegahorn	4,814	0:09	0.05	4589.4%
3	Mega Pinsirbugflying	bugFury CutterbugX-Scissor	4,182	0:10	0.06	4168.1%
4	Shadow Scizorbugsteel	bugFury CutterbugX-Scissor	3,001	0:11	0.06	3963.4%
5	Shadow Pinsirbug	bugFury CutterbugX-Scissor	2,959	0:11	0.06	3963.4%
6	Shadow Escavalierbugsteel	bugBug BitebugMegahorn	2,889	0:11	0.06	3963.4%
7	Mega Scizorbugsteel	bugFury CutterbugX-Scissor	4,087	0:11	0.06	3791.1%
8	Shadow Vikavoltbugelectric	bugBug BitebugX-Scissor	3,117	0:12	0.07	3679.1%
9	Vikavoltbugelectric	bugBug BitebugX-Scissor	3,117	0:12	0.07	3570.6%
10	Pheromosabugfighting	bugBug BitebugLunge	2,842	0:13	0.07	3414.0%
11	Shadow Galvantulabugelectric	bugFury CutterbugBug Buzz	2,206	0:13	0.07	3406.0%
12	Shadow Scytherbugflying	bugFury CutterbugBug Buzz	2,706	0:13	0.07	3374.4%
13	Shadow Scolipedebugpoison	bugBug BitebugX-Scissor	2,447	0:13	0.07	3353.6%
14	Pinsirbug	bugBug BitebugX-Scissor	2,959	0:13	0.07	3353.6%
15	Shadow Accelgorbug	bugInfestationbugSignal Beam	2,441	0:13	0.07	3297.8%

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 Inkay.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Shadow Inkay'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.

“Joint top pick”: 2 attackers inside 2.1% of each other — this simulator's own accuracy against pokebattler.com (median 1.6% per attacker), so any of them is the right answer.

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%	923%	3935.0%	0:11	0.06
Tackle / Psybeam	100%	1003%	3893.5%	0:11	0.06
Psywave / Psybeam	100%	998%	3903.2%	0:11	0.06
Peck / Night Slash	100%	875%	3932.5%	0:11	0.06
Tackle / Night Slash	100%	942%	3935.0%	0:11	0.06
Psywave / Night Slash	100%	909%	3947.4%	0:11	0.06
Peck / Psybeam	100%	868%	3957.3%	0:11	0.06

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…

Inkay 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.

bug2.56x fairy1.6x normal1x fighting1x flying1x poison1x ground1x rock1x ghost1x steel1x fire1x water1x grass1x electric1x ice1x dragon1x dark1x psychic0.24x

Double weak (1)
Weak (1)
Neutral (15)
Double resists (1)

It resists psychic0.24x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Inkay throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
flyingPeck	10	+10	1.0s	0.45s
normalTackle	5	+5	0.5s	0.30s
psychicPsywaveSTAB	4	+7	0.5s	0.30s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
darkNight SlashSTAB	45	-33	2.0s	1.10s
psychicPsybeamSTAB	65	-50	3.0s	1.10s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
6/6/6floor	453	567
7/7/7	461	577
8/8/8	470	587
9/9/9	478	598
10/10/10	486	608
11/11/11	495	619
12/12/12	503	629
13/13/13	512	640
14/14/14	521	651
15/15/15hundo	529	662

Caught CP range 453 - 529, or 567 - 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 453, not at the 486 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. LeekDuck's published band agrees with the table above.

When it is in raids

From the raid schedule, refreshed daily.

Inkay 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 67 / Defense 65 (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 Beedrill top pickbugpoisonmega Bug Bite / Fell Stinger+	Bug Bite / Fell Stinger++23 more movesets	99%	4657.1%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,383	94.6	883
2	Mega Heracross top pickbugfightingmega Fury Cutter / Megahorn	Fury Cutter / Megahorn+17 more movesets	100%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	4,814	64.4	612
3	Mega Pinsir bugflyingmega Fury Cutter / X-Scissor	Fury Cutter / X-Scissor+14 more movesets	89%	4168.1%	0.06	0:10	100%	4,182	59.9	626
4	Shadow Scizor bugsteelshadow Fury Cutter / X-Scissor	Fury Cutter / X-Scissor+7 more movesets	84%	3963.4%	0.06	0:11	100%	3,001	54.6	601
5	Shadow Pinsir bugshadow Fury Cutter / X-Scissor	Fury Cutter / X-Scissor+14 more movesets	81%	3963.4%	0.06	0:11	100%	2,959	54.9	604
6	Shadow Escavalier bugsteelshadow Bug Bite / Megahorn	Bug Bite / Megahorn+9 more movesets	84%	3963.4%	0.06	0:11	100%	2,889	55.0	605
7	Mega Scizor bugsteelmega Fury Cutter / X-Scissor	Fury Cutter / X-Scissor+7 more movesets	85%	3791.1%	0.06	0:11	100%	4,087	52.4	602
8	Shadow Vikavolt bugelectricshadow Bug Bite / X-Scissor	Bug Bite / X-Scissor+15 more movesets	74%	3679.1%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,117	61.4	727
9	Vikavolt bugelectric Bug Bite / X-Scissor	Bug Bite / X-Scissor+15 more movesets	73%	3570.6%	0.07	0:12	100%	3,117	50.4	615
10	Pheromosa bugfighting Bug Bite / Lunge	Bug Bite / Lunge+7 more movesets	60%	3414.0%	0.07	0:13	100%	2,842	51.6	660
11	Shadow Galvantula bugelectricshadow Fury Cutter / Bug Buzz	Fury Cutter / Bug Buzz+9 more movesets	66%	3406.0%	0.07	0:13	100%	2,206	50.6	648
12	Shadow Scyther bugflyingshadow Fury Cutter / Bug Buzz	Fury Cutter / Bug Buzz+14 more movesets	68%	3374.4%	0.07	0:13	100%	2,706	54.5	704
13	Shadow Scolipede bugpoisonshadow Bug Bite / X-Scissor	Bug Bite / X-Scissor+14 more movesets	62%	3353.6%	0.07	0:13	100%	2,447	47.2	613
14	Pinsir bug Bug Bite / X-Scissor	Bug Bite / X-Scissor+14 more movesets	66%	3353.6%	0.07	0:13	100%	2,959	46.2	601
15	Shadow Accelgor bugshadow Infestation / Signal Beam	Infestation / Signal Beam+14 more movesets	62%	3297.8%	0.07	0:13	100%	2,441	48.7	643
16	Kartana grasssteel Fury Cutter / X-Scissor	Fury Cutter / X-Scissor+14 more movesets	65%	3166.0%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,677	51.6	711
17	Shadow Crustle bugrockshadow Fury Cutter / X-Scissor	Fury Cutter / X-Scissor+7 more movesets	63%	3163.7%	0.08	0:14	100%	2,542	46.1	635
18	Kleavor bugrock Fury Cutter / X-Scissor	Fury Cutter / X-Scissor+11 more movesets	64%	3159.2%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,146	50.7	699
19	Scizor bugsteel Fury Cutter / X-Scissor	Fury Cutter / X-Scissor+7 more movesets	65%	3125.2%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,001	47.0	655
20	Genesect bugsteel Fury Cutter / X-Scissor	Fury Cutter / X-Scissor+7 more movesets	67%	3120.7%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,353	50.1	699
21	Genesect (Burn) bugsteel Fury Cutter / X-Scissor	Fury Cutter / X-Scissor+7 more movesets	67%	3120.7%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,353	50.1	699
22	Genesect (Chill) bugsteel Fury Cutter / X-Scissor	Fury Cutter / X-Scissor+7 more movesets	67%	3120.7%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,353	50.1	699
23	Genesect (Douse) bugsteel Fury Cutter / X-Scissor	Fury Cutter / X-Scissor+7 more movesets	67%	3120.7%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,353	50.1	699
24	Genesect (Shock) bugsteel Fury Cutter / X-Scissor	Fury Cutter / X-Scissor+7 more movesets	67%	3120.7%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,353	50.1	699
25	Golisopod bugwater Fury Cutter / X-Scissor	Fury Cutter / X-Scissor+19 more movesets	63%	3114.0%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,162	43.1	604
26	Scyther bugflying Fury Cutter / X-Scissor	Fury Cutter / X-Scissor+14 more movesets	61%	3114.0%	0.08	0:14	100%	2,706	43.1	604
27	Shadow Hisuian Samurott waterdarkshadow Fury Cutter / X-Scissor	Fury Cutter / X-Scissor+14 more movesets	66%	3107.4%	0.08	0:14	100%	2,802	43.1	605
28	Shadow Venomoth bugpoisonshadow Infestation / Bug Buzz	Infestation / Bug Buzz+15 more movesets	56%	3105.1%	0.08	0:14	100%	2,082	44.9	630
29	Accelgor bug Infestation / Bug Buzz	Infestation / Bug Buzz+14 more movesets	59%	3074.5%	0.08	0:14	100%	2,441	45.0	637
30	Shadow Butterfree bugflyingshadow Bug Bite / Bug Buzz	Bug Bite / Bug Buzz+8 more movesets	55%	3019.1%	0.08	0:14	100%	1,827	42.9	619

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.