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Shadow Treecko counters

grassShadow Tier 3

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
9,178
HP
4,000
Timer
3:00
Attack
105
Defense
82
Difficulty
0.55
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 Rayquaza, Shadow Reshiram, Blacephalon, Shadow Salamence, Kyurem (White) & Shadow Moltres.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega
  1. M. Rayquaza
  2. S. Reshiram
  3. Blacephalon
  4. S. Salamence
  5. Kyurem (White)
  6. S. Moltres

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 RayquazaMegaLegendarypartyAir Slash / Dragon Ascent0.511:29
  2. 2Mega DelphoxMegaFire Spin / Mystical Fire+0.511:29
  3. 3Mega BeedrillMegaBug Bite / Fell Stinger+0.531:33
  4. 4Mega StaraptorMegaWing Attack / Brave Bird+0.571:41
  5. 5Shadow ReshiramShadowLegendarypartyFire Fang / Fusion Flare0.591:44
  6. 6Mega BlazikenMegaFire Spin / Blast Burn0.601:46
  7. 7Mega SkarmoryMegaAir Slash / Drill Peck+0.611:46
  8. 8BlacephalonLegendarypartyIncinerate / Mind Blown0.611:48
  9. 9Shadow SalamenceShadowpartyFire Fang / Fly0.621:48
  10. 10Kyurem (White)LegendarypartyIce Fang / Ice Burn0.621:50
  11. 11Shadow MoltresShadowLegendarypartyFire Spin / Fly0.621:50

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

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Raid tier — Easy Group Shadow Raid
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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 Rayquazadragonflyingjoint top pickflyingAir SlashflyingDragon Ascent5,7131:290.510.6264.6%
2Mega Delphoxfirepsychicjoint top pickfireFire SpinfireMystical Fire+4,7831:290.511.1262.4%
3Mega BeedrillbugpoisonbugBug BitebugFell Stinger+3,3831:330.531.8252.5%
4Mega StaraptorfightingflyingflyingWing AttackflyingBrave Bird+3,9791:410.571.6233.0%
5Shadow ReshiramdragonfirefireFire FangfireFusion Flare4,0381:440.591.2226.1%
6Mega BlazikenfirefightingfireFire SpinfireBlast Burn4,1611:460.602.3222.0%
7Mega SkarmorysteelflyingflyingAir SlashflyingDrill Peck+3,7411:460.611.0220.9%
8BlacephalonfireghostfireIncineratefireMind Blown3,2971:480.612.7218.1%
9Shadow SalamencedragonflyingfireFire FangflyingFly3,7491:480.621.4216.9%
10Kyurem (White)dragoniceiceIce FangiceIce Burn4,6051:500.621.3214.3%
11Shadow MoltresfireflyingfireFire SpinflyingFly3,4651:500.621.4213.9%
12Mega Mewtwo YpsychicpsychicPsycho CutpsychicFuture Sight+6,4281:510.631.6211.6%
13Mega Charizard YfireflyingflyingWing AttackfireBlast Burn4,4551:510.631.2211.2%
14Mega VictreebelgrasspoisonpoisonAcidpoisonAcid Spray+3,5051:540.651.6206.4%
15Shadow ToucannonnormalflyingflyingPeckflyingBeak Blast2,6891:540.652.8206.2%

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.

“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.

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. LeekDuck's published band agrees with the table above.

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 3: 4,000 HP, 3:00 timer, boss Attack 105 / Defense 82 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.76).

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
top pickdragonflyingmega
Air Slash / Dragon Ascent
0.511:290.6
2
Mega Delphox
top pickfirepsychicmega
Fire Spin / Mystical Fire+
0.511:291.0
3
Mega Beedrill
bugpoisonmega
Bug Bite / Fell Stinger+
0.531:331.7
4
Mega Staraptor
fightingflyingmega
Wing Attack / Brave Bird+
0.571:411.5
5
Shadow Reshiram
dragonfireshadow
Fire Fang / Fusion Flare
0.591:441.1
6
Mega Blaziken
firefightingmega
Fire Spin / Blast Burn
0.601:462.3
7
Mega Skarmory
steelflyingmega
Air Slash / Drill Peck+
0.611:461.0
8
Blacephalon
fireghost
Incinerate / Mind Blown
0.611:482.6
9
Shadow Salamence
dragonflyingshadow
Fire Fang / Fly
0.621:481.4
10
Kyurem (White)
dragonice
Ice Fang / Ice Burn
0.621:501.2
11
Shadow Moltres
fireflyingshadow
Fire Spin / Fly
0.621:501.3
12
Mega Mewtwo Y
psychicmega
Psycho Cut / Future Sight+
0.631:511.6
13
Mega Charizard Y
fireflyingmega
Wing Attack / Blast Burn
0.631:511.2
14
Mega Victreebel
grasspoisonmega
Acid / Acid Spray+
0.651:541.6
15
Shadow Toucannon
normalflyingshadow
Peck / Beak Blast
0.651:542.7
16
Mega Salamence
dragonflyingmega
Fire Fang / Fly
0.651:550.7
17
Rayquaza
dragonflying
Air Slash / Dragon Ascent
0.661:551.2
18
Shadow Staraptor
normalflyingshadow
Gust / Fly
0.671:572.9
19
Shadow Galarian Articuno
psychicflyingshadow
Psycho Cut / Fly
0.671:582.0
20
Shadow Heatran
firesteelshadow
Fire Spin / Magma Storm
0.681:591.0
21
Shadow Chandelure
ghostfireshadow
Fire Spin / Overheat
0.681:592.9
22
Mega Heracross
bugfightingmega
Fury Cutter / Megahorn
0.681:602.3
23
Eternatus
poisondragon
Poison Jab / Dynamax Cannon
0.682:001.0
24
Mega Mewtwo X
psychicfightingmega
Psycho Cut / Dynamic Punch+
0.682:002.2
25
Shadow Blaziken
firefightingshadow
Fire Spin / Blast Burn
0.692:013.7
26
Kyurem (Black)
dragonice
Dragon Tail / Freeze Shock
0.692:011.5
27
Shadow Ho-Oh
fireflyingshadow
Incinerate / Sacred Fire++
0.692:011.2
28
Shadow Delphox
firepsychicshadow
Fire Spin / Blast Burn
0.702:032.4
29
Shadow Vikavolt
bugelectricshadow
Bug Bite / Fly
0.702:032.9
30
Reshiram
dragonfire
Fire Fang / Fusion Flare
0.712:051.2
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 0.4 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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