Shadow raid

Shadow Wailord counters

#0321

waterShadow 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

4,700

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

113

Defense

Difficulty

0.06

Pokebattler scale

Beating Shadow Wailord should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 1,170-1,302.

Weak tograss1.6xelectric1.6x

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 Wailord counters are Mega Raichu X, Shadow Thundurus (Therian), Xurkitree, Kartana, Zeraora & Shadow Vikavolt.

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Raichu X
S. Thundurus (Therian)
Xurkitree
Kartana
Zeraora
S. Vikavolt

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 %

1Mega Raichu XMegapartyVolt Switch / Volt Tackle+0.050:10
2Mega Raichu YMegaThunder Shock / Zap Cannon+0.050:10
3Shadow Thundurus (Therian)ShadowLegendarypartyVolt Switch / Wildbolt Storm0.060:11
4Mega ChesnaughtMegaVine Whip / Seed Bomb+0.060:12
5Mega Mewtwo YMegaLegendaryConfusion / Future Sight+0.070:12
6XurkitreeLegendarypartyThunder Shock / Discharge0.080:14
7Mega SceptileMegaBullet Seed / Frenzy Plant0.080:14
8KartanaLegendarypartyRazor Leaf / Leaf Blade0.080:14
9ZeraoraLegendarypartyVolt Switch / Plasma Fists0.080:14
10Mega Mewtwo XMegaLegendaryConfusion / Dynamic Punch+0.080:14
11Shadow VikavoltShadowpartyVolt Switch / Discharge0.080:15

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 Wailord 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 Raichu Xelectricjoint top pick	electricVolt SwitchelectricVolt Tackle+	3,510	0:10	0.05	0.0	4540.6%
2	Mega Raichu Yelectricjoint top pick	electricThunder ShockelectricZap Cannon+	3,780	0:10	0.05	0.0	4484.6%
3	Shadow Thundurus (Therian)electricflying	electricVolt SwitchelectricWildbolt Storm	3,659	0:11	0.06	0.0	3791.1%
4	Mega Chesnaughtgrassfighting	grassVine WhipgrassSeed Bomb+	4,093	0:12	0.06	0.0	3768.5%
5	Mega Mewtwo Ypsychic	psychicConfusionpsychicFuture Sight+	6,428	0:12	0.07	0.0	3668.7%
6	Xurkitreeelectric	electricThunder ShockelectricDischarge	3,937	0:14	0.08	0.0	3166.0%
7	Mega Sceptilegrassdragon	grassBullet SeedgrassFrenzy Plant	4,056	0:14	0.08	0.2	3145.5%
8	Kartanagrasssteel	grassRazor LeafgrassLeaf Blade	3,677	0:14	0.08	0.0	3114.0%
9	Zeraoraelectric	electricVolt SwitchelectricPlasma Fists	3,419	0:14	0.08	0.0	3038.1%
10	Mega Mewtwo Xpsychicfighting	psychicConfusionfightingDynamic Punch+	6,112	0:14	0.08	0.0	3006.6%
11	Shadow Vikavoltbugelectric	electricVolt SwitchelectricDischarge	3,117	0:15	0.08	0.0	2878.6%
12	Shadow Chesnaughtgrassfighting	grassVine WhipgrassFrenzy Plant	2,954	0:15	0.08	0.0	2864.4%
13	Shadow Sceptilegrass	bugFury CuttergrassFrenzy Plant	2,757	0:15	0.09	0.0	2853.1%
14	Mega Victreebelgrasspoison	grassMagical LeafgrassSolar Beam	3,505	0:15	0.09	0.0	2812.6%
15	Regielekielectric	electricVolt SwitchelectricThunder Cage	2,803	0:15	0.09	0.0	2812.6%

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 Wailord.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Shadow Wailord'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	Estimator
Random (any moveset)showing	100%	617%	3334.2%	0:13	0.07
Zen Headbutt / Hyper Beam	100%	677%	3309.9%	0:13	0.07
Rollout / Blizzard	100%	571%	3313.4%	0:13	0.07
Rollout / Hyper Beam	100%	606%	3322.6%	0:13	0.07
Water Gun / Hyper Beam	100%	773%	3329.7%	0:13	0.07
Water Gun / Blizzard	100%	691%	3332.4%	0:13	0.07
Water Gun / Scald	100%	629%	3336.7%	0:13	0.07
Zen Headbutt / Blizzard	100%	635%	3338.5%	0:13	0.07
Rollout / Scald	100%	646%	3338.5%	0:13	0.07
Rollout / Surf	100%	555%	3352.7%	0:13	0.07
Zen Headbutt / Scald	100%	643%	3354.6%	0:13	0.07
Water Gun / Surf	100%	574%	3363.6%	0:13	0.07
Zen Headbutt / Surf	100%	561%	3369.0%	0:13	0.07

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…

Wailord 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.

grass1.6x electric1.6x normal1x fighting1x flying1x poison1x ground1x rock1x bug1x ghost1x psychic1x dragon1x dark1x fairy1x steel0.63x fire0.63x water0.63x ice0.63x

Weak (2)
Neutral (12)
Resists (4)

It resists steel0.625xfire0.625xwater0.625xice0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Wailord throws at you

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

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
waterWater GunSTAB	5	+5	0.5s	0.30s
psychicZen Headbutt	11	+9	1.0s	0.75s
rockRollout	15	+19	1.5s	1.06s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
waterSurfSTAB	60	-50	1.5s	1.20s
iceBlizzard	130	-100	3.0s	1.40s
normalHyper Beam	150	-100	4.0s	3.50s
waterScaldSTAB	75	-50	3.5s	1.10s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
6/6/6floor	1,170	1,463
7/7/7	1,184	1,481
8/8/8	1,199	1,499
9/9/9	1,213	1,517
10/10/10	1,228	1,535
11/11/11	1,243	1,554
12/12/12	1,258	1,572
13/13/13	1,273	1,591
14/14/14	1,287	1,610
15/15/15hundo	1,302	1,628

Caught CP range 1,170 - 1,302, or 1,463 - 1,628 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 1,170, not at the 1,228 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 58 CP higher than this one.

When it is in raids

From the raid schedule, refreshed daily.

Wailord 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 113 / Defense 60 (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 Raichu X top pickelectricmega Volt Switch / Volt Tackle+	Volt Switch / Volt Tackle++35 more movesets	100%	4540.6%	0.05	0:10	0.0	100%	3,510	63.0	605
2	Mega Raichu Y top pickelectricmega Thunder Shock / Zap Cannon+	Thunder Shock / Zap Cannon++35 more movesets	97%	4484.6%	0.05	0:10	0.0	100%	3,780	70.3	683
3	Shadow Thundurus (Therian) electricflyingshadow Volt Switch / Wildbolt Storm	Volt Switch / Wildbolt Storm+9 more movesets	73%	3791.1%	0.06	0:11	0.0	100%	3,659	52.9	608
4	Mega Chesnaught grassfightingmega Vine Whip / Seed Bomb+	Vine Whip / Seed Bomb++20 more movesets	84%	3768.5%	0.06	0:12	0.0	100%	4,093	52.1	602
5	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Confusion / Future Sight+	Confusion / Future Sight++26 more movesets	80%	3668.7%	0.07	0:12	0.0	100%	6,428	51.4	610
6	Xurkitree electric Thunder Shock / Discharge	Thunder Shock / Discharge+7 more movesets	59%	3166.0%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	3,937	44.0	605
7	Mega Sceptile grassdragonmega Bullet Seed / Frenzy Plant	Bullet Seed / Frenzy Plant+11 more movesets	60%	3145.5%	0.08	0:14	0.2	100%	4,056	45.5	563
8	Kartana grasssteel Razor Leaf / Leaf Blade	Razor Leaf / Leaf Blade+14 more movesets	61%	3114.0%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	3,677	44.7	626
9	Zeraora electric Volt Switch / Plasma Fists	Volt Switch / Plasma Fists+9 more movesets	61%	3038.1%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	3,419	44.4	637
10	Mega Mewtwo X psychicfightingmega Confusion / Dynamic Punch+	Confusion / Dynamic Punch++26 more movesets	62%	3006.6%	0.08	0:14	0.0	100%	6,112	41.7	604
11	Shadow Vikavolt bugelectricshadow Volt Switch / Discharge	Volt Switch / Discharge+15 more movesets	51%	2878.6%	0.08	0:15	0.0	100%	3,117	40.4	606
12	Shadow Chesnaught grassfightingshadow Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant	Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant+17 more movesets	55%	2864.4%	0.08	0:15	0.0	100%	2,954	41.3	630
13	Shadow Sceptile grassshadow Fury Cutter / Frenzy Plant	Fury Cutter / Frenzy Plant+11 more movesets	51%	2853.1%	0.09	0:15	0.0	100%	2,757	45.3	690
14	Mega Victreebel grasspoisonmega Magical Leaf / Solar Beam	Magical Leaf / Solar Beam+23 more movesets	54%	2812.6%	0.09	0:15	0.0	100%	3,505	39.3	609
15	Regieleki electric Volt Switch / Thunder Cage	Volt Switch / Thunder Cage+11 more movesets	52%	2812.6%	0.09	0:15	0.0	100%	2,803	39.7	615
16	Shadow Thundurus (Incarnate) electricflyingshadow Thunder Shock / Thunder Punch	Thunder Shock / Thunder Punch+7 more movesets	48%	2811.7%	0.09	0:16	0.1	100%	3,345	40.6	601
17	Shadow Electivire electricshadow Thunder Shock / Wild Charge	Thunder Shock / Wild Charge+9 more movesets	52%	2803.6%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	3,079	47.5	739
18	Mega Manectric electricmega Thunder Fang / Wild Charge	Thunder Fang / Wild Charge+14 more movesets	52%	2789.2%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	3,580	43.2	678
19	Shadow Tangrowth grassshadow Vine Whip / Solar Beam	Vine Whip / Solar Beam+9 more movesets	51%	2724.7%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	3,030	37.9	606
20	Mega Venusaur grasspoisonmega Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant	Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant+9 more movesets	53%	2711.2%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	3,698	38.2	615
21	Mega Staraptor fightingflyingmega Sand Attack / Brave Bird+	Sand Attack / Brave Bird++19 more movesets	52%	2707.5%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	3,979	40.3	647
22	Pawmot electricfighting Thunder Shock / Wild Charge	Thunder Shock / Wild Charge+23 more movesets	46%	2686.1%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	2,634	38.0	617
23	Shadow Venusaur grasspoisonshadow Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant	Vine Whip / Frenzy Plant+9 more movesets	49%	2679.5%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	2,720	39.6	645
24	Shadow Mewtwo psychicshadow Psycho Cut / Thunderbolt	Psycho Cut / Thunderbolt+23 more movesets	49%	2664.8%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	4,178	40.7	664
25	Shadow Manectric electricshadow Charge Beam / Wild Charge	Charge Beam / Wild Charge+14 more movesets	45%	2656.5%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	2,340	40.2	640
26	Shadow Raikou electricshadow Thunder Shock / Thunderbolt	Thunder Shock / Thunderbolt+9 more movesets	49%	2648.6%	0.09	0:16	0.0	100%	3,452	41.8	686
27	Electivire electric Thunder Shock / Wild Charge	Thunder Shock / Wild Charge+9 more movesets	48%	2638.9%	0.09	0:17	0.0	100%	3,079	39.7	654
28	Primal Groudon groundfiremega Dragon Tail / Solar Beam	Dragon Tail / Solar Beam+9 more movesets	49%	2629.4%	0.09	0:17	0.0	100%	5,902	37.7	625
29	Raikou electric Thunder Shock / Wild Charge	Thunder Shock / Wild Charge+9 more movesets	49%	2610.5%	0.09	0:17	0.0	100%	3,452	38.3	639
30	Breloom grassfighting Force Palm / Grass Knot	Force Palm / Grass Knot+11 more movesets	44%	2588.9%	0.09	0:17	0.1	100%	2,628	35.8	565

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.