Species comparison

Normal, Shadow, Mega or Dynamax — which form do I bring?

Every form of one species, against one boss, on one scale. Shadow trades defense for attack, a Mega is faster still and boosts the rest of the lobby, and the Dynamax forms fight in a different game mode entirely — which is why they get their own panel rather than a row in the same table.

SpeciesAgainst bossTierAttacker levelIVsWeatherFriendship

Bring Mega Charizard Y — 28.6% faster than the plain form

Mega Charizard Y finishes Machamp in 2:03 against Charizard's 2:52, and both need 1 trainer. Remember only one Mega can be active per trainer — and it boosts everyone else's damage too, which this table does not count.

Machamp · Tier 3

fighting

Weak to

flyingpsychicfairy

Forms compared: 6
Boss HP: 3,600

In a raid against Machamp

Scroll sideways for DPS, damage per life and faints.

Every raid-legal form of Charizard against Machamp
Form	Types	Best moveset	Time to win	vs normal	Trainers	DPS	Damage per life	Faints
Mega Charizard Y Mega	fireflying	Air Slash + Blast Burn	2:03	+28.6%	1	30.0	953	3.1
Shadow Charizard Shadow	fireflying	Air Slash + Blast Burn	2:27	+14.8%	1	25.2	613	4.6
Mega Charizard X Mega	firedragon	Wing Attack + Blast Burn	2:35	+9.8%	1	24.0	686	4.6
Charizard Normal	fireflying	Air Slash + Air Cutter	2:52	0.0%	1	21.4	619	4.6

Mega: one per lobby, and it also boosts every ally's damage (1.3x on its own types, 1.1x otherwise).
Shadow: 1.2x attack, 0.8333x defense — more damage, dies sooner.
The plain form, for reference.

In a Max Battle against Machamp

Dynamax Charizard

measured against Dynamax Machamp · boss CP 46,450

Rank: #21 of 99
Max Attack: Max Attack
Solo time to win: 2:48
Estimator: 0.43
Moveset: Wing Attack + Overheat
Boss CP: 46,450

Gigantamax Charizard

measured against Gigantamax Machamp · boss CP 103,866

Rank: #19 of 99
Max Attack: G-Max Wildfire
Solo time to win: 21:54
Estimator: 7.66
Moveset: Dragon Breath only (no charged move)
Boss CP: 103,866

These come from the Max Battle simulator in src/engine/max, not the raid one, and the two scales are not interchangeable: a Max Battle is three Pokemon per trainer with a Max meter, Max Guard and Max Spirit. Machamp has a Max Battle of its own, so this panel is the same opponent as the table above it, fought in the other format.

How this is worked out

Each raid-legal form is given its own best moveset by the same cheap deterministic pass rankAttackers uses (one fixed-seed battle per moveset against the boss's first variant), then measured with a 16-run Monte Carlo against the boss's full standard movepool. The Shadow row applies the Game Master's own 1.2x attack / 0.8333x defense; the Mega rows are separate species entries with their own stats and types. The Mega's aura on its allies is deliberately not in this table — it does not change the Mega's own time to win, and the mega planner is where the lobby-wide effect is measured.