Shadow raid

Shadow Natu counters

#0177

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

3,722

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

Defense

Difficulty

0.06

Pokebattler scale

Beating Shadow Natu should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 546-630.

Weak torock1.6xghost1.6xelectric1.6xice1.6xdark1.6x

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 Ghost Mega — most top counters attack with Ghost

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 Natu counters are Mega Raichu Y, Kyurem (Black), Necrozma (Dawn Wings), Shadow Gengar, Shadow Darkrai & Shadow Absol.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Raichu Y
Kyurem (Black)
Necrozma (Dawn Wings)
S. Gengar
S. Darkrai
S. Absol

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 Raichu YMegapartyThunder Shock / Zap Cannon+0.050:10
2Mega HoundoomMegaSnarl / Dark Pulse+0.050:10
3Mega Raichu XMegaSpark / Volt Tackle+0.060:10
4Kyurem (Black)LegendarypartyShadow Claw / Freeze Shock0.070:13
5Necrozma (Dawn Wings)LegendarypartyMetal Claw / Moongeist Beam0.070:13
6Mega AbsolMegaSnarl / Brutal Swing0.070:13
7Shadow GengarShadowpartyLick / Shadow Ball0.070:13
8Shadow DarkraiShadowLegendarypartySnarl / Foul Play0.070:13
9Shadow AbsolShadowpartySnarl / Brutal Swing0.070:13
10Shadow ChandelureShadowHex / Shadow Ball0.070:13

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 Natu 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.

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#	Attacker	Moveset
1	Mega Raichu Yelectricjoint top pick	electricThunder ShockelectricZap Cannon+	3,780	0:10	0.05	4531.2%
2	Mega Houndoomdarkfirejoint top pick	darkSnarldarkDark Pulse+	3,842	0:10	0.05	4529.4%
3	Mega Raichu Xelectric	electricSparkelectricVolt Tackle+	3,510	0:10	0.06	4178.6%
4	Kyurem (Black)dragonice	ghostShadow ClawiceFreeze Shock	4,605	0:13	0.07	3476.6%
5	Necrozma (Dawn Wings)psychicghost	steelMetal ClawghostMoongeist Beam	4,099	0:13	0.07	3468.3%
6	Mega Absoldark	darkSnarldarkBrutal Swing	3,301	0:13	0.07	3395.4%
7	Shadow Gengarghostpoison	ghostLickghostShadow Ball	2,878	0:13	0.07	3366.5%
8	Shadow Darkraidark	darkSnarldarkFoul Play	3,739	0:13	0.07	3353.6%
9	Shadow Absoldark	darkSnarldarkBrutal Swing	2,526	0:13	0.07	3323.0%
10	Shadow Chandelureghostfire	ghostHexghostShadow Ball	3,268	0:13	0.07	3317.9%
11	Shadow Thundurus (Therian)electricflying	darkBiteelectricWildbolt Storm	3,659	0:13	0.07	3255.9%
12	Mega Gengarghostpoison	ghostLickghostShadow Ball	4,336	0:13	0.08	3236.6%
13	Shadow Gigalithrock	normalLock-OnrockMeteor Beam	3,228	0:14	0.08	3168.3%
14	Mega Banetteghost	ghostHexghostShadow Ball	3,594	0:14	0.08	3114.0%
15	Shadow Tyrantrumrockdragon	rockRock ThrowrockMeteor Beam	3,128	0:14	0.08	3114.0%

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 Natu.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Shadow Natu'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%	735%	3522.5%	0:12	0.07
Quick Attack / Night Shade	100%	772%	3500.9%	0:12	0.07
Quick Attack / Drill Peck	100%	711%	3530.5%	0:12	0.07
Peck / Night Shade	100%	745%	3536.4%	0:12	0.07
Peck / Drill Peck	100%	691%	3552.4%	0:12	0.07
Quick Attack / Psyshock	100%	808%	3572.6%	0:12	0.07
Peck / Psyshock	100%	764%	3584.9%	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…

Natu 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.

rock1.6x ghost1.6x electric1.6x ice1.6x dark1.6x normal1x flying1x poison1x bug1x steel1x fire1x water1x dragon1x fairy1x grass0.63x psychic0.63x fighting0.39x ground0.39x

Weak (5)
Neutral (9)
Resists (4)

It resists fighting0.39xground0.39xgrass0.625xpsychic0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Natu throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
flyingPeckSTAB	10	+10	1.0s	0.45s
normalQuick Attack	10	+13	1.0s	0.45s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
flyingDrill PeckSTAB	70	-33	2.5s	1.90s
psychicPsyshockSTAB	60	-33	2.5s	1.80s
ghostNight Shade	60	-50	2.5s	2.00s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
6/6/6floor	546	683
7/7/7	555	694
8/8/8	564	705
9/9/9	573	717
10/10/10	583	728
11/11/11	592	740
12/12/12	601	752
13/13/13	611	763
14/14/14	620	775
15/15/15hundo	630	787

Caught CP range 546 - 630, or 683 - 787 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 546, not at the 583 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 37 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.

Natu 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 89 / Defense 62 (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 Raichu Y top pickelectricmega Thunder Shock / Zap Cannon+	Thunder Shock / Zap Cannon++35 more movesets	98%	4531.2%	0.05	0:10	100%	3,780	69.8	671
2	Mega Houndoom top pickdarkfiremega Snarl / Dark Pulse+	Snarl / Dark Pulse++17 more movesets	100%	4529.4%	0.05	0:10	100%	3,842	63.7	611
3	Mega Raichu X electricmega Spark / Volt Tackle+	Spark / Volt Tackle++35 more movesets	89%	4178.6%	0.06	0:10	100%	3,510	57.8	601
4	Kyurem (Black) dragonice Shadow Claw / Freeze Shock	Shadow Claw / Freeze Shock+11 more movesets	73%	3476.6%	0.07	0:13	100%	4,605	50.1	628
5	Necrozma (Dawn Wings) psychicghost Metal Claw / Moongeist Beam	Metal Claw / Moongeist Beam+14 more movesets	73%	3468.3%	0.07	0:13	100%	4,099	48.0	603
6	Mega Absol darkmega Snarl / Brutal Swing	Snarl / Brutal Swing+9 more movesets	66%	3395.4%	0.07	0:13	100%	3,301	48.9	628
7	Shadow Gengar ghostpoisonshadow Lick / Shadow Ball	Lick / Shadow Ball+31 more movesets	61%	3366.5%	0.07	0:13	100%	2,878	48.8	631
8	Shadow Darkrai darkshadow Snarl / Foul Play	Snarl / Foul Play+14 more movesets	68%	3353.6%	0.07	0:13	100%	3,739	46.5	604
9	Shadow Absol darkshadow Snarl / Brutal Swing	Snarl / Brutal Swing+9 more movesets	61%	3323.0%	0.07	0:13	100%	2,526	46.6	605
10	Shadow Chandelure ghostfireshadow Hex / Shadow Ball	Hex / Shadow Ball+19 more movesets	64%	3317.9%	0.07	0:13	100%	3,268	47.5	623
11	Shadow Thundurus (Therian) electricflyingshadow Bite / Wildbolt Storm	Bite / Wildbolt Storm+9 more movesets	65%	3255.9%	0.07	0:13	100%	3,659	50.3	673
12	Mega Gengar ghostpoisonmega Lick / Shadow Ball	Lick / Shadow Ball+31 more movesets	63%	3236.6%	0.08	0:13	100%	4,336	52.2	702
13	Shadow Gigalith rockshadow Lock-On / Meteor Beam	Lock-On / Meteor Beam+14 more movesets	67%	3168.3%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,228	45.4	625
14	Mega Banette ghostmega Hex / Shadow Ball	Hex / Shadow Ball+5 more movesets	59%	3114.0%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,594	43.6	610
15	Shadow Tyrantrum rockdragonshadow Rock Throw / Meteor Beam	Rock Throw / Meteor Beam+17 more movesets	62%	3114.0%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,128	43.4	608
16	Xurkitree electric Thunder Shock / Discharge	Thunder Shock / Discharge+7 more movesets	60%	3100.7%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,937	42.8	602
17	Shadow Giratina (Origin) ghostdragonshadow Shadow Claw / Shadow Force	Shadow Claw / Shadow Force+7 more movesets	60%	3006.6%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,683	41.9	607
18	Zeraora electric Volt Switch / Plasma Fists	Volt Switch / Plasma Fists+9 more movesets	62%	3006.6%	0.08	0:14	100%	3,419	43.4	629
19	Kyurem (White) dragonice Ice Fang / Ice Burn	Ice Fang / Ice Burn+17 more movesets	61%	3000.4%	0.08	0:15	100%	4,605	42.4	617
20	Shadow Rampardos rockshadow Smack Down / Rock Slide	Smack Down / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	55%	2923.9%	0.08	0:15	100%	3,298	46.6	694
21	Mega Tyranitar rockdarkmega Smack Down / Brutal Swing	Smack Down / Brutal Swing+15 more movesets	67%	2906.4%	0.08	0:15	100%	5,347	41.6	624
22	Thundurus (Therian) electricflying Bite / Wildbolt Storm	Bite / Wildbolt Storm+9 more movesets	57%	2906.4%	0.08	0:15	100%	3,659	40.0	600
23	Shadow Weavile darkiceshadow Feint Attack / Avalanche	Feint Attack / Avalanche+11 more movesets	55%	2906.4%	0.08	0:15	100%	3,005	40.5	608
24	Blacephalon fireghost Astonish / Shadow Ball	Astonish / Shadow Ball+7 more movesets	53%	2906.4%	0.08	0:15	100%	3,297	41.0	615
25	Mega Manectric electricmega Thunder Fang / Wild Charge	Thunder Fang / Wild Charge+14 more movesets	57%	2906.4%	0.08	0:15	100%	3,580	40.0	600
26	Shadow Tyranitar rockdarkshadow Smack Down / Brutal Swing	Smack Down / Brutal Swing+15 more movesets	62%	2902.5%	0.08	0:15	100%	3,834	40.7	611
27	Regieleki electric Volt Switch / Thunder Cage	Volt Switch / Thunder Cage+11 more movesets	54%	2812.6%	0.09	0:15	100%	2,803	39.2	607
28	Shadow Hydreigon darkdragonshadow Bite / Brutal Swing	Bite / Brutal Swing+9 more movesets	57%	2800.0%	0.09	0:16	100%	3,625	43.7	681
29	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball	Psycho Cut / Shadow Ball+26 more movesets	59%	2794.6%	0.09	0:16	100%	6,428	39.1	611
30	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Confusion / Shadow Ball	Confusion / Shadow Ball+26 more movesets	55%	2778.6%	0.09	0:16	100%	6,112	40.2	630

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.