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Shadow Palkia (Origin) counters

waterdragonShadow Tier 5

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
56,872
HP
15,000
Timer
5:00
Attack
246
Defense
195
Difficulty
3.53
Pokebattler scale

Beating Shadow Palkia (Origin) should take 4 trainers with level 40 counters. Caught CP 2,202-2,367.

Weak todragon1.6xfairy1.6x

Who to bring

IncludeMegaLegendaryShadow
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Weather

★ boosts a type this boss is weak to
No boostSunny or clearRainyPartly cloudyCloudy ★Windy ★SnowFog

Friendship

every trainer in the lobby who is your friend
NoneGood 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 Dragon Mega — most top counters attack with Dragon

Party Power

Party Play: the charged move after a full meter does 2x
Off2 trainers3 trainers4 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 Palkia (Origin) counters are Mega Rayquaza, Eternatus, Shadow Haxorus, Shadow Garchomp, Shadow Palkia & Palkia (Origin).

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega
  1. M. Rayquaza
  2. Eternatus
  3. S. Haxorus
  4. S. Garchomp
  5. S. Palkia
  6. Palkia (Origin)

5 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 %

  1. 1Mega RayquazaMegaLegendarypartyDragon Tail / Breaking Swipe3.2515:20
  2. 2EternatusLegendarypartyDragon Tail / Dynamax Cannon3.4416:16
  3. 3Mega GarchompMegaDragon Tail / Breaking Swipe3.5316:42
  4. 4Mega Mewtwo YMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Future Sight+3.6417:12
  5. 5Mega DragoniteMegaDragon Breath / Outrage+3.6517:14
  6. 6Shadow HaxorusShadowpartyDragon Tail / Breaking Swipe3.6917:27
  7. 7Mega Mewtwo XMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Dynamic Punch+3.8818:21
  8. 8Shadow GarchompShadowpartyDragon Tail / Breaking Swipe3.9518:40
  9. 9Shadow PalkiaShadowLegendarypartyDragon Tail / Draco Meteor4.0919:18
  10. 10Mega GardevoirMegaCharm / Dazzling Gleam4.1519:36
  11. 11Palkia (Origin)LegendarypartyDragon Breath / Spacial Rend4.2219:55

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

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Raid tier — Shadow Legendary Raid
Super Mega LegendarySuper MegaPrimalMega LegendaryMegaEliteShadow Tier 5Tier 5Shadow Tier 3Tier 3Shadow Tier 1Tier 1Tier 4Tier 2
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Top 15 Shadow Palkia (Origin) 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.

Trainers4small group
#AttackerMoveset
1Mega Rayquazadragonflyingjoint top pickdragonDragon TaildragonBreaking Swipe5,71315:203.256.034.8%
2EternatuspoisondragondragonDragon TaildragonDynamax Cannon4,42916:163.446.032.8%
3Mega GarchompdragongrounddragonDragon TaildragonBreaking Swipe5,42416:423.536.031.9%
4Mega Mewtwo YpsychicpsychicPsycho CutpsychicFuture Sight+6,42817:123.646.031.0%
5Mega DragonitedragonflyingdragonDragon BreathdragonOutrage+4,82317:143.656.030.9%
6Shadow HaxorusdragondragonDragon TaildragonBreaking Swipe3,59317:273.696.030.6%
7Mega Mewtwo XpsychicfightingpsychicPsycho CutfightingDynamic Punch+6,11218:213.886.029.1%
8Shadow GarchompdragongrounddragonDragon TaildragonBreaking Swipe3,96218:403.956.028.6%
9Shadow PalkiawaterdragondragonDragon TaildragonDraco Meteor3,99119:184.096.027.6%
10Mega GardevoirpsychicfairyfairyCharmfairyDazzling Gleam4,51219:364.156.027.2%
11Palkia (Origin)waterdragondragonDragon BreathdragonSpacial Rend4,14219:554.226.026.8%
12RayquazadragonflyingdragonDragon TaildragonBreaking Swipe3,83520:204.306.026.2%
13Dialga (Origin)steeldragondragonDragon BreathdragonRoar of Time4,09020:204.316.026.2%
14Mega SceptilegrassdragonbugFury CutterdragonBreaking Swipe4,05620:274.336.026.1%
15BaxcaliburdragonicedragonDragon BreathdragonGlaive Rush3,55020:334.356.025.9%

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 Palkia (Origin).

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Shadow Palkia (Origin)'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.

Simulating each boss moveset…

Palkia (Origin) 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.

dragon1.6xfairy1.6xnormal1xfighting1xflying1xpoison1xground1xrock1xbug1xghost1xgrass1xelectric1xpsychic1xice1xdark1xsteel0.63xfire0.39xwater0.39x
  • Weak (2)
  • Neutral (13)
  • Resists (3)

It resists fire0.39xwater0.39xsteel0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Palkia (Origin) throws at you

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

Fast moves

MovePowerEnergyDurationHits at
dragonDragon TailSTAB14+81.0s0.75s
dragonDragon BreathSTAB6+40.5s0.30s

Charged moves

MovePowerEnergyDurationHits at
dragonDraco MeteorSTAB150-1003.5s2.90s
waterHydro PumpSTAB135-1003.5s1.10s
fireFire Blast140-1004.0s2.90s
waterAqua TailSTAB50-332.0s1.30s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spreadCP at L20CP at L25 (weather boosted)
6/6/6floor2,2022,752
7/7/72,2202,775
8/8/82,2382,798
9/9/92,2562,820
10/10/102,2742,843
11/11/112,2932,866
12/12/122,3112,889
13/13/132,3292,912
14/14/142,3482,935
15/15/15hundo2,3672,958

Caught CP range 2,202 - 2,367, or 2,752 - 2,958 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 2,202, not at the 2,274 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 72 CP higher than this one.

When it is in raids

From the raid schedule, refreshed daily.

Palkia (Origin) 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 5: 15,000 HP, 5:00 timer, boss Attack 246 / Defense 195 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.82).

Attackers allowed
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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.

#AttackerEst.TimeFaints
1
Mega Rayquaza
dragonflyingmega
Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe
3.2515:2053.2
2
Eternatus
poisondragon
Dragon Tail / Dynamax Cannon
3.4416:1649.8
3
Mega Garchomp
dragongroundmega
Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe
3.5316:4260.1
4
Mega Mewtwo Y
psychicmega
Psycho Cut / Future Sight+
3.6417:1245.7
5
Mega Dragonite
dragonflyingmega
Dragon Breath / Outrage+
3.6517:1452.8
6
Shadow Haxorus
dragonshadow
Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe
3.6917:2775.7
7
Mega Mewtwo X
psychicfightingmega
Psycho Cut / Dynamic Punch+
3.8818:2149.8
8
Shadow Garchomp
dragongroundshadow
Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe
3.9518:4079.8
9
Shadow Palkia
waterdragonshadow
Dragon Tail / Draco Meteor
4.0919:1865.2
10
Mega Gardevoir
psychicfairymega
Charm / Dazzling Gleam
4.1519:3652.6
11
Palkia (Origin)
waterdragon
Dragon Breath / Spacial Rend
4.2219:5561.4
12
Rayquaza
dragonflying
Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe
4.3020:2077.1
13
Dialga (Origin)
steeldragon
Dragon Breath / Roar of Time
4.3120:2053.2
14
Mega Sceptile
grassdragonmega
Fury Cutter / Breaking Swipe
4.3320:2777.3
15
Baxcalibur
dragonice
Dragon Breath / Glaive Rush
4.3520:3378.0
16
Mega Salamence
dragonflyingmega
Dragon Tail / Draco Meteor
4.3620:3566.1
17
Kyurem (Black)
dragonice
Dragon Tail / Freeze Shock
4.4020:4775.2
18
Shadow Dragonite
dragonflyingshadow
Dragon Tail / Dragon Claw
4.4020:4882.4
19
Shadow Salamence
dragonflyingshadow
Dragon Tail / Draco Meteor
4.4120:4983.2
20
Mega Latios
dragonpsychicmega
Dragon Breath / Dragon Claw
4.4220:5273.3
21
Haxorus
dragon
Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe
4.4420:5786.2
22
Shadow Latios
dragonpsychicshadow
Dragon Breath / Dragon Claw
4.5621:3185.0
23
Shadow Dialga
steeldragonshadow
Dragon Breath / Draco Meteor
4.6722:0278.1
24
Dragapult
dragonghost
Dragon Tail / Breaking Swipe
4.6922:0887.4
25
Regidrago
dragon
Dragon Breath / Dragon Energy
4.7022:1174.4
26
Mega Latias
dragonpsychicmega
Dragon Breath / Outrage
4.7922:3771.1
27
Kyurem (White)
dragonice
Dragon Breath / Dragon Pulse
4.8122:4380.1
28
Palkia
waterdragon
Dragon Tail / Draco Meteor
4.8222:4671.9
29
Salamence
dragonflying
Dragon Tail / Draco Meteor
4.9123:1285.6
30
Shadow Reshiram
dragonfireshadow
Dragon Breath / Draco Meteor
4.9423:2195.0
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 2.1 s (50 Monte Carlo runs each, seed 1). Same boss on pokebattler.com. The same ranking as JSON: /api/raids/rank.

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