Best Shadow Rhydon counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Shadow Rhydon counters in Pokémon GO with their Fast Attacks, Charged Attacks, DPS (damage per second), TDO (total damage output), faints, TTW (time to win), and score. The list is sorted by the score, which is calculated based on the DPS and TDO.

Simulation settings

Weather

Extreme↓

Raid Difficulty

3-Star Raid (3600 HP)↓

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Best overall 👑

Primal Kyogre

Waterfall Origin Pulse *

Best performing move types

• 48.0%
• 41.5%
• 2.5%
• 2.0%
• 2.0%
• 1.5%
• 1.0%
• 0.5%
• 0.5%
• 0.5%

#	Name	Fast Attack	Charged Attack	DPS	TDO	Faints	TTW	Score
1	Primal Kyogre	Waterfall	Origin Pulse *	81.03	2694.03	1	49.8s	164.5
2	Mega Swampert	Water Gun	Hydro Cannon *	73.94	2115.34	1	55.5s	145.6
3	Mega Sceptile	Bullet Seed	Frenzy Plant *	78.77	1540.80	2	55.0s	143.5
4	Mega Blastoise	Water Gun	Hydro Cannon *	68.34	1774.47	2	60.8s	131.9
5	Kartana	Razor Leaf	Leaf Blade	74.74	1187.93	3	60.3s	130.6
6	Shaymin (Sky)	Magical Leaf	Grass Knot	64.60	1884.61	1	63.4s	127.7
7	Shadow Kingler	Bubble	Crabhammer	75.38	1025.52	3	61.8s	127.6
8	Shadow Swampert	Water Gun	Hydro Cannon *	69.61	1375.46	2	62.2s	127.1
9	Mega Venusaur	Vine Whip	Frenzy Plant *	62.89	1795.77	2	65.3s	123.8
10	Kyogre	Waterfall	Origin Pulse *	63.01	1712.97	2	65.5s	122.8
11	Shadow Feraligatr	Water Gun *	Hydro Cannon *	67.65	1259.57	2	64.6s	122.0
12	Mega Gyarados	Waterfall	Hydro Pump	62.20	1650.52	2	66.6s	120.6
13	Shadow Sceptile	Bullet Seed	Frenzy Plant *	68.80	1082.23	3	65.6s	119.9
14	Shadow Torterra	Razor Leaf	Frenzy Plant *	63.86	1369.57	2	66.9s	118.6
15	Shadow Tangrowth	Vine Whip	Power Whip	63.62	1384.98	2	67.0s	118.5
16	Shadow Gyarados	Waterfall	Hydro Pump	61.34	1592.50	2	67.7s	118.4
17	Shadow Venusaur	Vine Whip	Frenzy Plant *	65.10	1235.97	2	66.9s	117.9
18	Zarude	Vine Whip	Power Whip	60.76	1540.52	2	68.6s	116.7
19	Primal Groudon	Mud Shot	Solar Beam	59.69	1424.24	2	70.4s	113.3
20	Greninja	Water Shuriken	Hydro Cannon *	64.56	918.87	3	71.4s	110.3
21	Tapu Bulu	Bullet Seed	Grass Knot	55.46	1621.51	2	73.8s	109.7
22	Kingler	Bubble	Crabhammer	62.01	1005.17	3	72.4s	108.8
23	Roserade	Magical Leaf	Grass Knot	59.88	1101.50	3	73.2s	107.8
24	Swampert	Water Gun	Hydro Cannon *	56.93	1340.53	2	74.0s	107.7
25	Shadow Victreebel	Razor Leaf	Leaf Blade	62.91	887.32	4	73.5s	107.3
26	Shadow Exeggutor	Bullet Seed	Solar Beam	60.78	983.86	3	73.9s	106.6
27	Exeggutor (Alola Shadow)	Bullet Seed	Solar Beam	59.94	1022.38	3	74.1s	106.2
28	Chesnaught	Vine Whip	Frenzy Plant *	53.46	1596.81	2	76.4s	106.2
29	Samurott	Waterfall	Hydro Cannon *	57.46	1178.98	3	74.9s	105.7
30	Shadow Shiftry	Razor Leaf	Leaf Blade	64.34	735.63	4	75.5s	105.1
31	Shaymin (Land)	Magical Leaf	Grass Knot	52.77	1537.81	2	77.6s	104.3
32	Feraligatr	Water Gun *	Hydro Cannon *	55.46	1229.99	2	76.6s	103.7
33	Meowscarada	Leafage	Grass Knot	59.89	895.97	4	76.2s	103.3
34	Shadow Blastoise	Water Gun	Hydro Cannon *	56.66	1095.64	3	76.7s	103.0
35	Tsareena	Magical Leaf	Grass Knot	55.24	1199.73	3	77.2s	102.8
36	Shadow Meganium	Magical Leaf	Frenzy Plant *	56.04	1132.38	3	77.0s	102.8
37	Clawitzer	Water Gun	Crabhammer	57.21	1035.37	3	76.8s	102.6
38	Empoleon	Waterfall	Hydro Cannon *	56.52	1083.71	3	77.0s	102.6
39	Sceptile	Bullet Seed	Frenzy Plant *	56.39	1056.86	3	77.5s	101.9
40	Gyarados	Waterfall	Hydro Pump	50.89	1570.46	2	79.9s	101.8
41	Xurkitree	Thunder Shock	Power Whip	59.64	820.96	4	77.9s	101.2
42	Tangrowth	Vine Whip	Power Whip	52.30	1355.98	2	79.5s	100.9
43	Torterra	Razor Leaf	Frenzy Plant *	52.30	1335.51	2	79.6s	100.6
44	Venusaur	Vine Whip	Frenzy Plant *	53.52	1209.90	2	79.2s	100.4
45	Shadow Sirfetch'd	Counter	Leaf Blade	57.66	866.70	4	79.0s	99.6
46	Mega Slowbro	Water Gun	Surf *	49.22	1537.69	2	82.5s	98.7
47	Shadow Porygon-Z	Lock-On	Solar Beam	58.27	785.36	4	80.1s	98.4
48	Celebi	Magical Leaf *	Leaf Storm	50.41	1369.59	2	81.9s	98.2
49	Breloom	Bullet Seed	Grass Knot *	55.25	944.95	3	80.4s	98.0
50	Crawdaunt	Waterfall	Crabhammer	59.05	725.29	4	80.8s	97.9

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Shadow Rhydon type chart

When fighting Shadow Rhydon, keep in mind the following that Ground and Rock-type Pokémon are weak to Grass, Water, Fighting, Ground, Ice, and Steel type moves. They take reduced damage from Fire, Flying, Normal, Rock, Electric, and Poison type moves.

Weaknesses

Grass	256.0%
Water	256.0%
Fighting	160.0%
Ground	160.0%
Ice	160.0%
Steel	160.0%

Resistances

Electric	39.1%
Poison	39.1%
Fire	62.5%
Flying	62.5%
Normal	62.5%
Rock	62.5%

Type chart shows the percentage (%) of damage taken from an incoming attack of a particular type.

About the results

Our guide provides detailed information on recommended Pokémon and moves that are most effective against Shadow Rhydon in Raid Battles. Whether you're looking for the best counters to take Shadow Rhydon down quickly with high DPS, or the tankiest counters that can withstand its attacks, our guide has something for every trainer.

The top-ranked Shadow Rhydon counter is Primal Kyogre, followed by Mega Swampert, Mega Sceptile, and Mega Blastoise. The table also includes Kartana, Shaymin (Sky), Shadow Kingler, and Shadow Swampert, among others. Each Pokemon's move type is indicated by an icon beside the move name.

The most effective move-types to use against Shadow Rhydon are:

About our ranking methodology

When calculating the best counters for any Pokémon, our simulator takes into account various factors, such as the defender's typing and average DPS against each attacker, the weather's influence, energy left over from using charge moves, Shadow Pokémon attack and defense stat changes, and more. During the initial phase of simulations, we calculate DPS and TDO for each attacker that is currently available in the game, and then we continue to rank them.

We use a ranking method developed by a Reddit user named /u/Elastic_Space, which is described in detail in this Reddit post. It is a fairly complicated, but very well thought-out mathematical model for predicting simulation results without actually running the simulations. It also correlates with field data almost too well not to be used.

Our Time to Win (TTW) and Faint numbers are also estimated, and should be taken with a grain of salt. Since we do not account for factors like Friendship and Mega damage boost, they will differ from actual experience in the field.