Best Shadow Articuno counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Shadow Articuno 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

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Raid Difficulty

5-Star Raid (15000 HP)↓

Attacker typing

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Best overall 👑

Mega Diancie

Rock Throw Rock Slide

Best performing move types

• 49.0%
• 22.5%
• 14.5%
• 7.0%
• 2.0%
• 1.5%
• 1.0%
• 1.0%
• 0.5%
• 0.5%
• 0.5%

#	Name	Fast Attack	Charged Attack	DPS	TDO	Faints	TTW	Score
1	Mega Diancie	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	50.73	1135.93	13	348.5s	95.0
2	Shadow Rhyperior	Smack Down	Rock Wrecker *	50.54	994.43	15	357.1s	92.2
3	Mega Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	42.96	1752.48	8	383.4s	90.9
4	Shadow Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	42.97	1139.82	13	401.7s	83.3
5	Rampardos	Smack Down	Rock Slide	46.14	810.39	18	399.1s	82.3
6	Mega Aerodactyl	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	45.75	835.67	17	399.6s	82.2
7	Shadow Aggron	Smack Down	Meteor Beam	38.85	1516.43	9	425.6s	81.5
8	Rhyperior	Smack Down	Rock Wrecker *	41.24	968.51	15	425.7s	78.0
9	Terrakion	Smack Down	Rock Slide	39.19	1057.96	14	439.5s	76.3
10	Shadow Omastar	Rock Throw *	Rock Slide *	38.36	1054.51	14	447.9s	74.9
11	Mega Aggron	Smack Down	Meteor Beam	33.14	1774.31	8	486.5s	74.2
12	Gigalith	Smack Down	Meteor Beam *	37.56	1025.62	14	457.8s	73.3
13	Shadow Aerodactyl	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	44.20	526.29	28	453.3s	72.8
14	Tyrantrum	Rock Throw	Meteor Beam	40.28	719.88	20	455.7s	72.1
15	Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	35.70	1127.25	13	473.5s	71.7
16	Golem (Alola Shadow)	Rock Throw	Stone Edge	37.57	853.57	17	469.5s	70.6
17	Aggron	Smack Down	Meteor Beam	32.42	1495.97	10	502.8s	70.4
18	Aurorus	Rock Throw	Meteor Beam	33.71	1249.59	12	492.9s	70.0
19	Mega Rayquaza	Dragon Tail	Ancient Power	40.59	581.75	25	472.7s	69.4
20	Shadow Metagross	Bullet Punch	Meteor Mash *	33.40	1198.51	12	499.1s	68.9
21	Mega Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	35.72	875.16	17	488.5s	68.1
22	Shadow Golem	Rock Throw	Stone Edge	38.07	599.20	25	494.2s	66.4
23	Mega Y Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	34.99	749.20	20	508.8s	64.9
24	Shadow Regirock	Rock Throw	Stone Edge	32.10	1042.41	14	524.9s	64.9
25	Omastar	Rock Throw *	Rock Slide *	31.85	1039.76	14	528.6s	64.4
26	Hisuian Arcanine	Fire Fang	Rock Slide	31.30	967.34	15	541.3s	62.6
27	Archeops	Steel Wing	Ancient Power	37.72	455.48	32	529.4s	62.3
28	Lycanroc (Dusk)	Rock Throw	Stone Edge	34.65	629.00	23	528.3s	62.2
29	Aerodactyl	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	36.21	515.22	29	530.7s	61.9
30	Nihilego	Acid	Rock Slide	30.17	1025.44	14	555.6s	61.5
31	Lycanroc	Rock Throw	Stone Edge	34.24	625.41	23	534.0s	61.5
32	Mega Ampharos	Volt Switch	Power Gem	33.49	670.24	22	537.4s	61.3
33	Alolan Golem	Rock Throw	Stone Edge	31.32	847.24	17	549.7s	61.0
34	Standard Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Rock Slide	32.45	713.75	21	546.3s	60.6
35	Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Rock Slide	32.45	713.75	21	546.3s	60.6
36	Lycanroc (Midnight)	Rock Throw	Stone Edge	32.61	695.76	21	546.1s	60.5
37	Shadow Hippowdon	Thunder Fang	Weather Ball	33.73	603.39	24	544.2s	60.4
38	Landorus (Incarnate)	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	36.59	432.36	34	548.7s	60.2
39	Shadow Moltres	Fire Spin	Ancient Power	33.39	574.34	26	553.7s	59.3
40	Metagross	Bullet Punch	Meteor Mash *	27.72	1178.58	12	592.1s	59.2
41	Excadrill	Metal Claw	Rock Slide	31.01	746.91	20	564.1s	59.0
42	Shadow Zapdos	Thunder Shock *	Ancient Power	34.18	501.68	29	558.5s	58.7
43	Shadow Machamp	Bullet Punch	Rock Slide	33.10	563.84	26	559.6s	58.6
44	Reshiram	Fire Fang	Fusion Flare *	30.39	780.12	19	570.5s	58.5
45	Shadow Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	32.79	577.93	25	561.3s	58.5
46	Shadow Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	29.75	838.05	17	575.7s	58.4
47	Shadow Magnezone	Spark	Wild Charge	29.03	921.13	16	581.8s	58.4
48	Heatran	Fire Spin	Stone Edge	26.08	1384.87	10	618.4s	58.3
49	Shadow Kabutops	Fury Cutter *	Ancient Power	30.81	719.00	20	570.4s	58.2
50	Shadow Raikou	Thunder Shock	Wild Charge	30.86	711.01	21	570.4s	58.1

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Shadow Articuno type chart

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

Weaknesses

Rock	256.0%
Electric	160.0%
Fire	160.0%
Steel	160.0%

Resistances

Ground	39.1%
Bug	62.5%
Grass	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 Articuno in Raid Battles. Whether you're looking for the best counters to take Shadow Articuno 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 Articuno counter is Mega Diancie, followed by Shadow Rhyperior, Mega Tyranitar, and Shadow Tyranitar. The table also includes Rampardos, Mega Aerodactyl, Shadow Aggron, and Rhyperior, 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 Articuno 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.