Shadow raid

Shadow Swellow counters

#0277

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

5,775

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

119

Defense

Difficulty

0.09

Pokebattler scale

Beating Shadow Swellow should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 986-1,097.

Weak torock1.6xelectric1.6xice1.6x

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 an Electric Mega — most top counters attack with Electric

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 Swellow counters are Mega Mewtwo X, Kyurem (White), Regieleki, Shadow Rampardos, Shadow Thundurus (Therian) & Xurkitree.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Mewtwo X
Kyurem (White)
Regieleki
S. Rampardos
S. Thundurus (Therian)
Xurkitree

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 Mewtwo XMegaLegendarypartyPsycho Cut / Dynamic Punch+0.090:16
2Kyurem (White)LegendarypartyIce Fang / Ice Burn0.090:16
3RegielekiLegendarypartyLock-On / Thunder Cage0.090:17
4Mega Mewtwo YMegaLegendaryPsycho Cut / Future Sight+0.090:17
5Mega Raichu YMegaThunder Shock / Volt Tackle0.090:17
6Shadow RampardosShadowpartySmack Down / Rock Slide0.100:17
7Shadow Thundurus (Therian)ShadowLegendarypartyVolt Switch / Thunderbolt0.100:17
8Mega DiancieMegaLegendaryRock Throw / Rock Slide0.100:18
9XurkitreeLegendarypartyThunder Shock / Discharge0.100:18
10Mega ManectricMegaThunder Fang / Wild Charge0.100:18

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 Swellow 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 Mewtwo Xpsychicfightingjoint top pick	psychicPsycho CutfightingDynamic Punch+	6,112	0:16	0.09	0.0	2694.1%
2	Kyurem (White)dragonicejoint top pick	iceIce FangiceIce Burn	4,605	0:16	0.09	0.0	2642.1%
3	Regielekielectric	normalLock-OnelectricThunder Cage	2,803	0:17	0.09	0.0	2634.2%
4	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	psychicPsycho CutpsychicFuture Sight+	6,428	0:17	0.09	0.0	2632.2%
5	Mega Raichu Yelectric	electricThunder ShockelectricVolt Tackle	3,780	0:17	0.09	0.0	2608.9%
6	Shadow Rampardosrock	rockSmack DownrockRock Slide	3,298	0:17	0.10	0.1	2511.7%
7	Shadow Thundurus (Therian)electricflying	electricVolt SwitchelectricThunderbolt	3,659	0:17	0.10	0.0	2492.6%
8	Mega Diancierockfairy	rockRock ThrowrockRock Slide	4,346	0:18	0.10	0.0	2417.4%
9	Xurkitreeelectric	electricThunder ShockelectricDischarge	3,937	0:18	0.10	0.0	2386.1%
10	Mega Manectricelectric	electricThunder FangelectricWild Charge	3,580	0:18	0.10	0.0	2356.5%
11	Mega Raichu Xelectric	electricThunder ShockelectricVolt Tackle+	3,510	0:19	0.10	0.0	2326.0%
12	Shadow Electivireelectric	electricThunder ShockelectricWild Charge	3,079	0:19	0.10	0.0	2322.6%
13	Shadow Rhyperiorgroundrock	rockSmack DownrockRock Wrecker	3,733	0:19	0.11	0.0	2275.3%
14	Thundurus (Therian)electricflying	electricVolt SwitchelectricWildbolt Storm	3,659	0:19	0.11	0.0	2261.1%
15	Shadow Raikouelectric	electricVolt SwitchelectricWild Charge	3,452	0:20	0.11	0.0	2233.3%

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 Swellow.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Shadow Swellow'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	Faints	Estimator
Random (any moveset)showing	100%	409%	2537.6%	0:17	0.0	0.10
Steel Wing / Brave Bird	100%	352%	2505.6%	0:17	0.1	0.10
Steel Wing / Sky Attack	100%	392%	2548.9%	0:17	0.0	0.10
Wing Attack / Brave Bird	100%	377%	2549.5%	0:17	0.0	0.10
Wing Attack / Aerial Ace	100%	489%	2561.2%	0:17	0.0	0.09
Steel Wing / Aerial Ace	100%	463%	2561.2%	0:17	0.0	0.09
Wing Attack / Sky Attack	100%	402%	2562.3%	0:17	0.0	0.09

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…

Swellow 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 electric1.6x ice1.6x normal1x fighting1x flying1x poison1x steel1x fire1x water1x psychic1x dragon1x dark1x fairy1x bug0.63x grass0.63x ground0.39x ghost0.39x

Weak (3)
Neutral (11)
Resists (4)

It resists ground0.39xghost0.39xbug0.625xgrass0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Swellow throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
steelSteel Wing	14	+8	1.0s	0.70s
flyingWing AttackSTAB	10	+11	1.0s	0.75s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
flyingBrave BirdSTAB	130	-100	2.0s	1.00s
flyingSky AttackSTAB	80	-50	2.0s	1.50s
flyingAerial AceSTAB	55	-33	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	986	1,232
7/7/7	998	1,247
8/8/8	1,010	1,263
9/9/9	1,022	1,278
10/10/10	1,034	1,293
11/11/11	1,047	1,309
12/12/12	1,059	1,324
13/13/13	1,072	1,340
14/14/14	1,084	1,355
15/15/15hundo	1,097	1,371

Caught CP range 986 - 1,097, or 1,232 - 1,371 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 986, not at the 1,034 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 48 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.

Swellow 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 119 / Defense 83 (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	Mega Mewtwo X top pickpsychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Dynamic Punch+	Psycho Cut / Dynamic Punch++26 more movesets	94%	2694.1%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	6,112	37.9	613
2	Kyurem (White) top pickdragonice Ice Fang / Ice Burn	Ice Fang / Ice Burn+17 more movesets	96%	2642.1%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	4,605	36.7	606
3	Regieleki electric Lock-On / Thunder Cage	Lock-On / Thunder Cage+11 more movesets	98%	2634.2%	0.09	0:17	0.0	100%	2,803	39.2	648
4	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Psycho Cut / Future Sight+	Psycho Cut / Future Sight++26 more movesets	100%	2632.2%	0.09	0:17	0.0	100%	6,428	40.5	670
5	Mega Raichu Y electricmega Thunder Shock / Volt Tackle	Thunder Shock / Volt Tackle+35 more movesets	94%	2608.9%	0.09	0:17	0.0	100%	3,780	36.4	609
6	Shadow Rampardos rockshadow Smack Down / Rock Slide	Smack Down / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	84%	2511.7%	0.10	0:17	0.1	100%	3,298	35.6	580
7	Shadow Thundurus (Therian) electricflyingshadow Volt Switch / Thunderbolt	Volt Switch / Thunderbolt+9 more movesets	90%	2492.6%	0.10	0:17	0.0	100%	3,659	36.7	641
8	Mega Diancie rockfairymega Rock Throw / Rock Slide	Rock Throw / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	84%	2417.4%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	4,346	33.6	599
9	Xurkitree electric Thunder Shock / Discharge	Thunder Shock / Discharge+7 more movesets	85%	2386.1%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	3,937	33.3	609
10	Mega Manectric electricmega Thunder Fang / Wild Charge	Thunder Fang / Wild Charge+14 more movesets	85%	2356.5%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	3,580	32.5	602
11	Mega Raichu X electricmega Thunder Shock / Volt Tackle+	Thunder Shock / Volt Tackle++35 more movesets	90%	2326.0%	0.10	0:19	0.0	100%	3,510	46.3	868
12	Shadow Electivire electricshadow Thunder Shock / Wild Charge	Thunder Shock / Wild Charge+9 more movesets	80%	2322.6%	0.10	0:19	0.0	100%	3,079	33.1	623
13	Shadow Rhyperior groundrockshadow Smack Down / Rock Wrecker	Smack Down / Rock Wrecker+15 more movesets	83%	2275.3%	0.11	0:19	0.0	100%	3,733	31.8	609
14	Thundurus (Therian) electricflying Volt Switch / Wildbolt Storm	Volt Switch / Wildbolt Storm+9 more movesets	84%	2261.1%	0.11	0:19	0.0	100%	3,659	36.1	695
15	Shadow Raikou electricshadow Volt Switch / Wild Charge	Volt Switch / Wild Charge+9 more movesets	81%	2233.3%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	3,452	31.0	605
16	Shadow Weavile darkiceshadow Ice Shard / Avalanche	Ice Shard / Avalanche+11 more movesets	69%	2188.0%	0.11	0:20	0.3	100%	3,005	31.0	516
17	Shadow Zapdos electricflyingshadow Thunder Shock / Zap Cannon	Thunder Shock / Zap Cannon+11 more movesets	80%	2185.2%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	3,527	32.8	653
18	Zekrom dragonelectric Charge Beam / Fusion Bolt	Charge Beam / Fusion Bolt+9 more movesets	83%	2179.7%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	4,038	30.0	600
19	Shadow Magnezone electricsteelshadow Spark / Wild Charge	Spark / Wild Charge+15 more movesets	83%	2179.7%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	3,205	30.2	604
20	Shadow Gigalith rockshadow Lock-On / Meteor Beam	Lock-On / Meteor Beam+14 more movesets	78%	2174.3%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	3,228	34.6	692
21	Shadow Thundurus (Incarnate) electricflyingshadow Thunder Shock / Thunder Punch	Thunder Shock / Thunder Punch+7 more movesets	73%	2146.4%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	3,345	30.3	610
22	Zeraora electric Volt Switch / Plasma Fists	Volt Switch / Plasma Fists+9 more movesets	79%	2137.0%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	3,419	34.0	692
23	Mega Ampharos electricdragonmega Charge Beam / Zap Cannon	Charge Beam / Zap Cannon+15 more movesets	80%	2128.6%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	4,245	30.0	614
24	Shadow Mamoswine icegroundshadow Powder Snow / Avalanche	Powder Snow / Avalanche+11 more movesets	70%	2121.2%	0.11	0:21	0.2	100%	3,328	32.4	607
25	Shadow Luxray electricshadow Spark / Wild Charge	Spark / Wild Charge+14 more movesets	72%	2090.2%	0.12	0:21	0.0	100%	2,888	30.2	625
26	Shadow Galarian Darmanitan (Standard) iceshadow Ice Fang / Avalanche	Ice Fang / Avalanche+7 more movesets	66%	2088.1%	0.12	0:21	0.4	100%	3,105	32.1	521
27	Shadow Mewtwo psychicshadow Confusion / Thunderbolt	Confusion / Thunderbolt+23 more movesets	65%	1995.5%	0.12	0:22	0.3	100%	4,178	28.3	517
28	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Dragon Tail / Dragon Ascent	Dragon Tail / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	70%	1992.4%	0.12	0:22	0.0	100%	5,713	30.7	675
29	Shadow Magneton electricsteelshadow Volt Switch / Zap Cannon	Volt Switch / Zap Cannon+19 more movesets	71%	1981.5%	0.12	0:22	0.0	100%	2,485	28.1	618
30	Shadow Tyrantrum rockdragonshadow Rock Throw / Meteor Beam	Rock Throw / Meteor Beam+17 more movesets	67%	1956.1%	0.12	0:22	0.1	100%	3,128	30.6	664

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.