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Shadow Treecko counters

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
3,554
HP
600
Timer
3:00
Attack
83
Defense
65
Difficulty
0.07
Pokebattler scale

Beating Shadow Treecko should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 520-601.

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

Who to bring

Improve your raidweather · friendship · Mega in the lobby · Party Power · Adventure EffectsShow ▾

Friendship

every trainer in the lobby who is your friend

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

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 Treecko counters are Mega Staraptor, Shadow Reshiram, Blacephalon, Shadow Moltres, Shadow Staraptor & Shadow Darmanitan (Standard).

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega
  1. M. Staraptor
  2. S. Reshiram
  3. Blacephalon
  4. S. Moltres
  5. S. Staraptor
  6. S. Darmanitan (Standard)

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 %

  1. 1Mega StaraptorMegapartyGust / Brave Bird+0.060:11
  2. 2Mega RayquazaMegaLegendaryAir Slash / Dragon Ascent0.060:11
  3. 3Mega BeedrillMegaBug Bite / Fell Stinger+0.060:11
  4. 4Mega DelphoxMegaFire Spin / Mystical Fire+0.070:12
  5. 5Mega VictreebelMegaAcid / Acid Spray+0.070:12
  6. 6Shadow ReshiramShadowLegendarypartyFire Fang / Fusion Flare0.070:13
  7. 7BlacephalonLegendarypartyAstonish / Mind Blown0.070:13
  8. 8Mega BlazikenMegaFire Spin / Brave Bird0.080:14
  9. 9Shadow MoltresShadowLegendarypartyWing Attack / Fly0.080:14
  10. 10Shadow StaraptorShadowpartyGust / Fly0.080:14
  11. 12Shadow Darmanitan (Standard)ShadowpartyFire Fang / Overheat0.080:14

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

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Top 15 Shadow Treecko 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
#AttackerMoveset
1Mega Staraptorfightingflyingjoint top pickflyingGustflyingBrave Bird+3,9790:110.060.03962.7%
2Mega RayquazadragonflyingflyingAir SlashflyingDragon Ascent5,7130:110.060.03791.1%
3Mega BeedrillbugpoisonbugBug BitebugFell Stinger+3,3830:110.060.03791.1%
4Mega DelphoxfirepsychicfireFire SpinfireMystical Fire+4,7830:120.070.03663.0%
5Mega VictreebelgrasspoisonpoisonAcidpoisonAcid Spray+3,5050:120.070.03549.8%
6Shadow ReshiramdragonfirefireFire FangfireFusion Flare4,0380:130.070.03443.7%
7BlacephalonfireghostghostAstonishfireMind Blown3,2970:130.070.03353.6%
8Mega BlazikenfirefightingfireFire SpinflyingBrave Bird4,1610:140.080.03114.0%
9Shadow MoltresfireflyingflyingWing AttackflyingFly3,4650:140.080.03114.0%
10Shadow StaraptornormalflyingflyingGustflyingFly2,8250:140.080.03114.0%
11Mega SkarmorysteelflyingsteelSteel WingflyingDrill Peck+3,7410:140.080.03074.0%
12Shadow Darmanitan (Standard)firefireFire FangfireOverheat3,1050:140.080.03065.8%
13Shadow ToucannonnormalflyingflyingPeckflyingBeak Blast2,6890:140.080.03065.8%
14Shadow SalamencedragonflyingfireFire FangflyingFly3,7490:140.080.03061.5%
15Shadow ChandelureghostfirefireFire SpinfireOverheat3,2680:140.080.03010.8%

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 Treecko.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Shadow Treecko'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…

Treecko 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.

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

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

What Treecko throws at you

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

Fast moves

MovePowerEnergyDurationHits at
normalPound6+50.5s0.24s
grassBullet SeedSTAB7+131.0s0.75s

Charged moves

MovePowerEnergyDurationHits at
grassGrass KnotSTAB90-502.5s1.60s
grassEnergy BallSTAB90-504.0s3.10s
flyingAerial Ace55-332.5s2.00s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spreadCP at L20CP at L25 (weather boosted)
6/6/6floor520651
7/7/7529661
8/8/8538672
9/9/9547683
10/10/10556695
11/11/11565706
12/12/12574717
13/13/13583729
14/14/14592740
15/15/15hundo601752

Caught CP range 520 - 601, or 651 - 752 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 520, not at the 556 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 36 CP higher than this one.

When it is in raids

From the raid schedule, refreshed daily.

Treecko 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 83 / Defense 65 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.5974).

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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 Staraptor
fightingflyingmega
Gust / Brave Bird+
0.060:110.0
2
Mega Rayquaza
dragonflyingmega
Air Slash / Dragon Ascent
0.060:110.0
3
Mega Beedrill
bugpoisonmega
Bug Bite / Fell Stinger+
0.060:110.0
4
Mega Delphox
firepsychicmega
Fire Spin / Mystical Fire+
0.070:120.0
5
Mega Victreebel
grasspoisonmega
Acid / Acid Spray+
0.070:120.0
6
Shadow Reshiram
dragonfireshadow
Fire Fang / Fusion Flare
0.070:130.0
7
Blacephalon
fireghost
Astonish / Mind Blown
0.070:130.0
8
Mega Blaziken
firefightingmega
Fire Spin / Brave Bird
0.080:140.0
9
Shadow Moltres
fireflyingshadow
Wing Attack / Fly
0.080:140.0
10
Shadow Staraptor
normalflyingshadow
Gust / Fly
0.080:140.0
11
Mega Skarmory
steelflyingmega
Steel Wing / Drill Peck+
0.080:140.0
12
Shadow Darmanitan (Standard)
fireshadow
Fire Fang / Overheat
0.080:140.0
13
Shadow Toucannon
normalflyingshadow
Peck / Beak Blast
0.080:140.0
14
Shadow Salamence
dragonflyingshadow
Fire Fang / Fly
0.080:140.0
15
Shadow Chandelure
ghostfireshadow
Fire Spin / Overheat
0.080:140.0
16
Mega Mewtwo Y
psychicmega
Confusion / Future Sight+
0.080:140.0
17
Eternatus
poisondragon
Poison Jab / Dynamax Cannon
0.080:140.0
18
Shadow Tornadus (Therian)
flyingshadow
Gust / Bleakwind Storm
0.080:140.0
19
Mega Salamence
dragonflyingmega
Fire Fang / Fly
0.080:150.0
20
Mega Charizard Y
fireflyingmega
Fire Spin / Fire Blast
0.080:150.0
21
Pheromosa
bugfighting
Bug Bite / Bug Buzz
0.080:150.1
22
Shadow Heatran
firesteelshadow
Fire Spin / Fire Blast
0.080:150.0
23
Shadow Ho-Oh
fireflyingshadow
Incinerate / Sacred Fire++
0.080:150.0
24
Shadow Entei
fireshadow
Fire Spin / Overheat
0.080:150.0
25
Shadow Magmortar
fireshadow
Fire Spin / Fire Blast
0.080:150.0
26
Reshiram
dragonfire
Fire Fang / Fusion Flare
0.080:150.0
27
Shadow Blaziken
firefightingshadow
Fire Spin / Overheat
0.080:150.0
28
Shadow Sirfetch'd
fightingshadow
Fury Cutter / Brave Bird
0.090:150.0
29
Shadow Emboar
firefightingshadow
Ember / Blast Burn
0.090:150.0
30
Kyurem (Black)
dragonice
Dragon Tail / Freeze Shock
0.090:150.0
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 0.1 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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