Shadow raid

Shadow Tangrowth counters

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grassShadow Tier 1

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

7,671

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

132

Defense

118

Difficulty

0.12

Pokebattler scale

Beating Shadow Tangrowth should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 1,592-1,731.

Weak toflying1.6xpoison1.6xbug1.6xfire1.6xice1.6x

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 Flying Mega — most top counters attack with Flying

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 Tangrowth counters are Mega Rayquaza, Shadow Reshiram, Kyurem (Black), Shadow Salamence, Blacephalon & Shadow Moltres.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Rayquaza
S. Reshiram
Kyurem (Black)
S. Salamence
Blacephalon
S. Moltres

7 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 RayquazaMegaLegendarypartyAir Slash / Dragon Ascent0.100:18
2Mega BeedrillMegaBug Bite / Fell Stinger+0.110:20
3Mega StaraptorMegaWing Attack / Brave Bird+0.110:20
4Mega DelphoxMegaFire Spin / Mystical Fire+0.130:23
5Mega BlazikenMegaEmber / Blast Burn0.130:23
6Mega VictreebelMegaAcid / Acid Spray+0.130:23
7Shadow ReshiramShadowLegendarypartyFire Fang / Fusion Flare0.130:23
8Mega HeracrossMegaFury Cutter / Megahorn0.130:24
9Kyurem (Black)LegendarypartyDragon Tail / Freeze Shock0.130:24
10Shadow SalamenceShadowpartyFire Fang / Fly0.130:24
12BlacephalonLegendarypartyIncinerate / Mind Blown0.130:24
13Shadow MoltresShadowLegendarypartyWing Attack / Fly0.140:24

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

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Raid tier — Easy Shadow Raid

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Top 15 Shadow Tangrowth 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 Rayquazadragonflyingjoint top pick	flyingAir SlashflyingDragon Ascent	5,713	0:18	0.10	0.0	2377.0%
2	Mega Beedrillbugpoison	bugBug BitebugFell Stinger+	3,383	0:20	0.11	0.2	2211.6%
3	Mega Staraptorfightingflying	flyingWing AttackflyingBrave Bird+	3,979	0:20	0.11	0.0	2126.4%
4	Mega Delphoxfirepsychic	fireFire SpinfireMystical Fire+	4,783	0:23	0.13	0.0	1921.8%
5	Mega Blazikenfirefighting	fireEmberfireBlast Burn	4,161	0:23	0.13	0.0	1894.0%
6	Mega Victreebelgrasspoison	poisonAcidpoisonAcid Spray+	3,505	0:23	0.13	0.0	1872.4%
7	Shadow Reshiramdragonfire	fireFire FangfireFusion Flare	4,038	0:23	0.13	0.0	1858.1%
8	Mega Heracrossbugfighting	bugFury CutterbugMegahorn	4,814	0:24	0.13	0.0	1837.1%
9	Kyurem (Black)dragonice	dragonDragon TailiceFreeze Shock	4,605	0:24	0.13	0.0	1836.3%
10	Shadow Salamencedragonflying	fireFire FangflyingFly	3,749	0:24	0.13	0.1	1834.8%
11	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	psychicConfusionpsychicFuture Sight+	6,428	0:24	0.13	0.1	1819.1%
12	Blacephalonfireghost	fireIncineratefireMind Blown	3,297	0:24	0.13	0.4	1805.5%
13	Shadow Moltresfireflying	flyingWing AttackflyingFly	3,465	0:24	0.14	0.4	1781.2%
14	Mega Charizard Yfireflying	flyingWing AttackfireBlast Burn	4,455	0:25	0.14	0.4	1772.0%
15	Shadow Galarian Articunopsychicflying	psychicPsycho CutflyingFly	3,590	0:25	0.14	0.1	1769.8%

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 Tangrowth.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Shadow Tangrowth'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	Faints	Estimator
Random (any moveset)showing	100%	302%	1890.2%	0:23	0.2	0.13
Infestation / Rock Slide	100%	243%	1859.7%	0:23	0.4	0.13
Infestation / Ancient Power	100%	278%	1863.3%	0:23	0.3	0.13
Infestation / Power Whip	100%	383%	1875.3%	0:23	0.1	0.13
Vine Whip / Rock Slide	100%	249%	1880.1%	0:23	0.4	0.13
Vine Whip / Ancient Power	100%	266%	1887.5%	0:23	0.3	0.13
Infestation / Solar Beam	100%	400%	1888.0%	0:23	0.0	0.13
Vine Whip / Solar Beam	100%	409%	1901.1%	0:23	0.0	0.13
Vine Whip / Power Whip	100%	401%	1914.2%	0:23	0.0	0.13
Infestation / Sludge Bomb	100%	311%	1950.7%	0:22	0.1	0.12
Vine Whip / Sludge Bomb	100%	326%	1963.0%	0:22	0.0	0.12

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…

Tangrowth 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.

flying1.6x poison1.6x bug1.6x fire1.6x ice1.6x normal1x fighting1x rock1x ghost1x steel1x psychic1x dragon1x dark1x fairy1x ground0.63x water0.63x grass0.63x electric0.63x

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

It resists ground0.625xwater0.625xgrass0.625xelectric0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Tangrowth throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
grassVine WhipSTAB	6	+5	0.5s	0.25s
bugInfestation	9	+13	1.0s	0.75s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
grassSolar BeamSTAB	180	-100	5.0s	2.80s
grassPower WhipSTAB	90	-50	2.5s	1.15s
poisonSludge Bomb	85	-50	2.5s	1.30s
rockRock Slide	75	-50	2.5s	1.30s
rockAncient Power	70	-33	3.5s	2.85s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
6/6/6floor	1,592	1,990
7/7/7	1,607	2,009
8/8/8	1,622	2,028
9/9/9	1,638	2,047
10/10/10	1,653	2,067
11/11/11	1,669	2,086
12/12/12	1,684	2,105
13/13/13	1,700	2,125
14/14/14	1,715	2,144
15/15/15hundo	1,731	2,164

Caught CP range 1,592 - 1,731, or 1,990 - 2,164 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 1,592, not at the 1,653 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 61 CP higher than this one.

When it is in raids

From the raid schedule, refreshed daily.

Tangrowth 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 132 / Defense 118 (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

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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.

#	Attacker	Moveset	Overall	Power	Est.Estimator	TimeTime to win	Faints	Win % (1)	CP	DPS	TDO
1	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	100%	2377.0%	0.10	0:18	0.0	100%	5,713	33.1	606
2	Mega Beedrill bugpoisonmega Bug Bite / Fell Stinger+	Bug Bite / Fell Stinger++23 more movesets	85%	2211.6%	0.11	0:20	0.2	100%	3,383	31.5	559
3	Mega Staraptor fightingflyingmega Wing Attack / Brave Bird+	Wing Attack / Brave Bird++19 more movesets	87%	2126.4%	0.11	0:20	0.0	100%	3,979	29.8	611
4	Mega Delphox firepsychicmega Fire Spin / Mystical Fire+	Fire Spin / Mystical Fire++23 more movesets	78%	1921.8%	0.13	0:23	0.0	100%	4,783	34.7	780
5	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Ember / Blast Burn	Ember / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	73%	1894.0%	0.13	0:23	0.0	100%	4,161	26.7	609
6	Mega Victreebel grasspoisonmega Acid / Acid Spray+	Acid / Acid Spray++23 more movesets	75%	1872.4%	0.13	0:23	0.0	100%	3,505	27.9	650
7	Shadow Reshiram dragonfireshadow Fire Fang / Fusion Flare	Fire Fang / Fusion Flare+9 more movesets	73%	1858.1%	0.13	0:23	0.0	100%	4,038	29.1	667
8	Mega Heracross bugfightingmega Fury Cutter / Megahorn	Fury Cutter / Megahorn+17 more movesets	73%	1837.1%	0.13	0:24	0.0	100%	4,814	25.9	615
9	Kyurem (Black) dragonice Dragon Tail / Freeze Shock	Dragon Tail / Freeze Shock+11 more movesets	71%	1836.3%	0.13	0:24	0.0	100%	4,605	25.6	608
10	Shadow Salamence dragonflyingshadow Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	69%	1834.8%	0.13	0:24	0.1	100%	3,749	27.0	615
11	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Confusion / Future Sight+	Confusion / Future Sight++26 more movesets	71%	1819.1%	0.13	0:24	0.1	100%	6,428	25.4	590
12	Blacephalon fireghost Incinerate / Mind Blown	Incinerate / Mind Blown+7 more movesets	65%	1805.5%	0.13	0:24	0.4	100%	3,297	26.8	520
13	Shadow Moltres fireflyingshadow Wing Attack / Fly	Wing Attack / Fly+11 more movesets	64%	1781.2%	0.14	0:24	0.4	100%	3,465	25.0	498
14	Mega Charizard Y fireflyingmega Wing Attack / Blast Burn	Wing Attack / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	65%	1772.0%	0.14	0:25	0.4	100%	4,455	25.1	503
15	Shadow Galarian Articuno psychicflyingshadow Psycho Cut / Fly	Psycho Cut / Fly+7 more movesets	65%	1769.8%	0.14	0:25	0.1	100%	3,590	24.9	580
16	Rayquaza dragonflying Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	68%	1759.8%	0.14	0:25	0.0	100%	3,835	26.6	644
17	Mega Gengar ghostpoisonmega Lick / Sludge Bomb	Lick / Sludge Bomb+31 more movesets	66%	1719.5%	0.14	0:25	0.1	100%	4,336	23.9	579
18	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Psycho Cut / Dynamic Punch+	Psycho Cut / Dynamic Punch++26 more movesets	68%	1709.1%	0.14	0:26	0.1	100%	6,112	25.2	621
19	Kyurem (White) dragonice Ice Fang / Ice Burn	Ice Fang / Ice Burn+17 more movesets	66%	1707.5%	0.14	0:26	0.0	100%	4,605	27.0	689
20	Shadow Blaziken firefightingshadow Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	61%	1705.2%	0.14	0:26	0.4	100%	2,848	24.2	499
21	Eternatus poisondragon Poison Jab / Dynamax Cannon	Poison Jab / Dynamax Cannon+7 more movesets	70%	1676.7%	0.14	0:26	0.0	100%	4,429	23.5	610
22	Reshiram dragonfire Fire Fang / Fusion Flare	Fire Fang / Fusion Flare+9 more movesets	64%	1670.5%	0.15	0:26	0.1	100%	4,038	23.2	588
23	Shadow Staraptor normalflyingshadow Gust / Fly	Gust / Fly+15 more movesets	58%	1670.5%	0.15	0:26	0.5	100%	2,825	24.3	458
24	Shadow Galarian Zapdos fightingflyingshadow Counter / Fly	Counter / Fly+7 more movesets	61%	1659.4%	0.15	0:26	0.1	100%	3,548	23.1	588
25	Mega Salamence dragonflyingmega Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	66%	1657.5%	0.15	0:26	0.0	100%	5,031	25.4	666
26	Shadow Heatran firesteelshadow Fire Spin / Magma Storm	Fire Spin / Magma Storm+11 more movesets	67%	1657.5%	0.15	0:26	0.0	100%	3,754	24.4	642
27	Mega Skarmory steelflyingmega Air Slash / Drill Peck+	Air Slash / Drill Peck++9 more movesets	67%	1626.5%	0.15	0:27	0.0	100%	3,741	28.5	763
28	Salamence dragonflying Fire Fang / Fly	Fire Fang / Fly+20 more movesets	60%	1610.8%	0.15	0:27	0.3	100%	3,749	22.4	516
29	Mega Charizard X firedragonmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+29 more movesets	61%	1609.3%	0.15	0:27	0.3	100%	3,850	22.5	517
30	Shadow Toucannon normalflyingshadow Peck / Beak Blast	Peck / Beak Blast+11 more movesets	56%	1606.4%	0.15	0:27	0.6	100%	2,689	25.8	500

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 0.2 s (50 Monte Carlo runs each, seed 1). Same boss on pokebattler.com. The same ranking as JSON: /api/raids/rank.