Shadow raid

Shadow Onix counters

#0095

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

3,849

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

Defense

147

Difficulty

0.11

Pokebattler scale

Beating Shadow Onix should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 541-629.

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 Onix counters are Mega Greninja, Kartana, Shadow Greninja, Shadow Kyogre, Shadow Kingler & Shadow Chesnaught.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Greninja
Kartana
S. Greninja
S. Kyogre
S. Kingler
S. Chesnaught

6 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 GreninjaMegapartyWater Shuriken / Surf+0.090:17
2Mega SceptileMegaBullet Seed / Frenzy Plant0.100:19
3Mega StarmieMegaPsywave / Liquidation+0.110:19
4Primal KyogreMegaLegendaryWaterfall / Hydro Pump0.110:19
5Mega SwampertMegaWater Gun / Hydro Cannon0.110:20
6KartanaLegendarypartyRazor Leaf / Leaf Blade0.110:21
7Shadow GreninjaShadowpartyWater Shuriken / Hydro Cannon0.120:21
8Shadow KyogreShadowLegendarypartyWaterfall / Origin Pulse0.120:21
9Shadow KinglerShadowpartyBubble / Razor Shell0.120:22
10Mega ChesnaughtMegaVine Whip / Frenzy Plant0.120:22
12Shadow ChesnaughtShadowpartyVine Whip / Frenzy Plant0.130:22

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 Onix 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 Greninjawaterdarkjoint top pick	waterWater ShurikenwaterSurf+	3,784	0:17	0.09	2622.7%
2	Mega Sceptilegrassdragon	grassBullet SeedgrassFrenzy Plant	4,056	0:19	0.10	2346.3%
3	Mega Starmiewaterpsychic	psychicPsywavewaterLiquidation+	3,701	0:19	0.11	2284.6%
4	Primal Kyogrewater	waterWaterfallwaterHydro Pump	5,902	0:19	0.11	2235.6%
5	Mega Swampertwaterground	waterWater GunwaterHydro Cannon	4,401	0:20	0.11	2167.8%
6	Kartanagrasssteel	grassRazor LeafgrassLeaf Blade	3,677	0:21	0.11	2116.2%
7	Shadow Greninjawaterdark	waterWater ShurikenwaterHydro Cannon	2,654	0:21	0.12	2077.9%
8	Shadow Kyogrewater	waterWaterfallwaterOrigin Pulse	4,115	0:21	0.12	2027.6%
9	Shadow Kinglerwater	waterBubblewaterRazor Shell	2,829	0:22	0.12	2024.8%
10	Mega Chesnaughtgrassfighting	grassVine WhipgrassFrenzy Plant	4,093	0:22	0.12	1979.7%
11	Mega Venusaurgrasspoison	grassVine WhipgrassFrenzy Plant	3,698	0:22	0.13	1937.5%
12	Shadow Chesnaughtgrassfighting	grassVine WhipgrassFrenzy Plant	2,954	0:22	0.13	1937.5%
13	Shadow Venusaurgrasspoison	grassVine WhipgrassFrenzy Plant	2,720	0:22	0.13	1937.5%
14	Shadow Crawdauntwaterdark	waterWaterfallwaterRazor Shell	2,474	0:23	0.13	1888.8%
15	Mega Blastoisewater	waterWater GunwaterHydro Cannon	3,941	0:24	0.13	1845.6%

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 Onix.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Shadow Onix'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%	485%	2117.3%	0:21	0.11
Tackle / Sand Tomb	100%	535%	2107.4%	0:21	0.12
Tackle / Breaking Swipe	100%	499%	2110.2%	0:21	0.12
Rock Throw / Sand Tomb	100%	508%	2111.6%	0:21	0.12
Tackle / Heavy Slam	100%	525%	2111.6%	0:21	0.12
Rock Throw / Heavy Slam	100%	490%	2114.5%	0:21	0.11
Tackle / Stone Edge	100%	478%	2114.5%	0:21	0.11
Rock Throw / Breaking Swipe	100%	472%	2117.3%	0:21	0.11
Rock Throw / Stone Edge	100%	446%	2136.8%	0:20	0.11

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…

Onix 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 Onix 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
rockStone EdgeSTAB	105	-100	2.5s	0.90s
dragonBreaking Swipe	45	-33	1.0s	0.47s
steelHeavy Slam	70	-50	2.0s	1.40s
groundSand TombSTAB	60	-33	4.0s	1.70s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
6/6/6floor	541	677
7/7/7	551	689
8/8/8	560	701
9/9/9	570	713
10/10/10	580	725
11/11/11	589	737
12/12/12	599	749
13/13/13	609	762
14/14/14	619	774
15/15/15hundo	629	787

Caught CP range 541 - 629, or 677 - 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 541, not at the 580 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.

Onix 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 59 / Defense 147 (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 Greninja waterdarkmega Water Shuriken / Surf+	Water Shuriken / Surf++17 more movesets	100%	2622.7%	0.09	0:17	100%	3,784	42.2	701
2	Mega Sceptile grassdragonmega Bullet Seed / Frenzy Plant	Bullet Seed / Frenzy Plant+11 more movesets	83%	2346.3%	0.10	0:19	100%	4,056	32.7	607
3	Mega Starmie waterpsychicmega Psywave / Liquidation+	Psywave / Liquidation++44 more movesets	89%	2284.6%	0.11	0:19	100%	3,701	38.5	734
4	Primal Kyogre watermega Waterfall / Hydro Pump	Waterfall / Hydro Pump+5 more movesets	88%	2235.6%	0.11	0:19	100%	5,902	30.9	602
5	Mega Swampert watergroundmega Water Gun / Hydro Cannon	Water Gun / Hydro Cannon+11 more movesets	85%	2167.8%	0.11	0:20	100%	4,401	30.2	607
6	Kartana grasssteel Razor Leaf / Leaf Blade	Razor Leaf / Leaf Blade+14 more movesets	76%	2116.2%	0.11	0:21	100%	3,677	29.7	611
7	Shadow Greninja waterdarkshadow Water Shuriken / Hydro Cannon	Water Shuriken / Hydro Cannon+14 more movesets	70%	2077.9%	0.12	0:21	100%	2,654	31.1	653
8	Shadow Kyogre watershadow Waterfall / Origin Pulse	Waterfall / Origin Pulse+5 more movesets	73%	2027.6%	0.12	0:21	100%	4,115	28.5	613
9	Shadow Kingler watershadow Bubble / Razor Shell	Bubble / Razor Shell+14 more movesets	67%	2024.8%	0.12	0:22	100%	2,829	28.5	614
10	Mega Chesnaught grassfightingmega Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant	Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant+20 more movesets	78%	1979.7%	0.12	0:22	100%	4,093	27.3	601
11	Mega Venusaur grasspoisonmega Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant	Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant+9 more movesets	71%	1937.5%	0.13	0:22	100%	3,698	26.8	603
12	Shadow Chesnaught grassfightingshadow Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant	Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant+17 more movesets	70%	1937.5%	0.13	0:22	100%	2,954	26.9	606
13	Shadow Venusaur grasspoisonshadow Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant	Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant+9 more movesets	66%	1937.5%	0.13	0:22	100%	2,720	26.8	603
14	Shadow Crawdaunt waterdarkshadow Waterfall / Razor Shell	Waterfall / Razor Shell+11 more movesets	60%	1888.8%	0.13	0:23	100%	2,474	26.5	611
15	Mega Blastoise watermega Water Gun / Hydro Cannon	Water Gun / Hydro Cannon+14 more movesets	67%	1845.6%	0.13	0:24	100%	3,941	25.9	611
16	Shadow Sceptile grassshadow Bullet Seed / Frenzy Plant	Bullet Seed / Frenzy Plant+11 more movesets	61%	1825.5%	0.13	0:24	100%	2,757	28.4	679
17	Shadow Hisuian Samurott waterdarkshadow Waterfall / Razor Shell	Waterfall / Razor Shell+14 more movesets	61%	1818.7%	0.13	0:24	100%	2,802	25.9	620
18	Kingler water Bubble / Crabhammer	Bubble / Crabhammer+14 more movesets	60%	1816.4%	0.13	0:24	100%	2,829	25.0	600
19	Shadow Samurott watershadow Waterfall / Hydro Cannon	Waterfall / Hydro Cannon+11 more movesets	62%	1811.9%	0.13	0:24	100%	2,826	27.2	655
20	Shaymin (Sky) grassflying Magical Leaf / Grass Knot	Magical Leaf / Grass Knot+11 more movesets	62%	1792.5%	0.14	0:24	100%	3,592	26.6	648
21	Shadow Tangrowth grassshadow Vine Whip / Power Whip	Vine Whip / Power Whip+9 more movesets	62%	1792.5%	0.14	0:24	100%	3,030	25.5	621
22	Shadow Feraligatr watershadow Waterfall / Hydro Cannon	Waterfall / Hydro Cannon+19 more movesets	62%	1788.1%	0.14	0:24	100%	2,857	26.6	648
23	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Confusion / Dynamic Punch+	Confusion / Dynamic Punch++26 more movesets	68%	1781.4%	0.14	0:24	100%	6,112	25.7	628
24	Kyogre water Waterfall / Surf	Waterfall / Surf+5 more movesets	65%	1777.9%	0.14	0:25	100%	4,115	24.6	603
25	Shadow Alolan Exeggutor grassdragonshadow Bullet Seed / Solar Beam	Bullet Seed / Solar Beam+7 more movesets	60%	1773.5%	0.14	0:25	100%	3,014	26.2	644
26	Shadow Exeggutor grasspsychicshadow Bullet Seed / Solar Beam	Bullet Seed / Solar Beam+11 more movesets	61%	1766.4%	0.14	0:25	100%	3,014	26.4	651
27	Inteleon water Water Gun / Hydro Cannon	Water Gun / Hydro Cannon+9 more movesets	59%	1755.0%	0.14	0:25	100%	2,964	27.8	692
28	Mega Lucario fightingsteelmega Force Palm / Aura Sphere	Force Palm / Aura Sphere+23 more movesets	62%	1746.5%	0.14	0:25	100%	3,826	25.2	630
29	Shadow Empoleon watersteelshadow Waterfall / Hydro Cannon	Waterfall / Hydro Cannon+19 more movesets	62%	1745.1%	0.14	0:25	100%	2,900	26.7	668
30	Shadow Swampert watergroundshadow Water Gun / Hydro Cannon	Water Gun / Hydro Cannon+11 more movesets	62%	1734.0%	0.14	0:25	100%	2,974	26.7	672

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.