Best Shadow Ledian counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Shadow Ledian 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

3-Star Raid (3600 HP)↓

Attacker typing

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Best overall 👑

Mega Diancie

Rock Throw Rock Slide

Best performing move types

• 45.5%
• 24.0%
• 13.5%
• 10.5%
• 1.5%
• 1.0%
• 1.0%
• 1.0%
• 0.5%
• 0.5%
• 0.5%
• 0.5%

#	Name	Fast Attack	Charged Attack	DPS	TDO	Faints	TTW	Score
1	Mega Diancie	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	68.73	3644.49	0	56.3s	153.5
2	Mega Rayquaza	Air Slash	Dragon Ascent	58.89	4507.38	0	64.3s	141.8
3	Shadow Rhyperior	Smack Down	Rock Wrecker *	64.63	2966.16	1	60.6s	140.2
4	Mega Aerodactyl	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	59.63	3886.48	0	64.1s	139.0
5	Mega Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	59.52	2742.60	1	65.7s	129.2
6	Rampardos	Smack Down	Rock Slide	61.19	1824.06	1	66.7s	121.5
7	Rhyperior	Smack Down	Rock Wrecker *	53.40	2904.92	1	72.4s	119.9
8	Shadow Aerodactyl	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	55.78	2441.08	1	70.4s	119.8
9	Shadow Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	59.44	1785.81	2	68.6s	118.2
10	Terrakion	Smack Down	Rock Slide	52.55	2772.78	1	73.7s	117.3
11	Shadow Aggron	Smack Down	Meteor Beam	53.86	2384.54	1	72.9s	115.9
12	Tyrantrum	Rock Throw	Meteor Beam	54.16	2314.51	1	72.7s	115.8
13	Gigalith	Smack Down	Meteor Beam *	51.30	2345.76	1	76.3s	111.2
14	Mega Y Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	45.66	3503.46	1	83.0s	110.0
15	Mega Aggron	Smack Down	Meteor Beam	45.81	3428.05	1	82.8s	109.8
16	Shadow Omastar	Rock Throw *	Rock Slide *	52.75	1787.40	2	76.3s	107.5
17	Golem (Alola Shadow)	Rock Throw	Stone Edge	51.46	1965.34	1	77.3s	107.5
18	Shadow Golem	Rock Throw	Stone Edge	51.50	1887.95	1	77.5s	106.7
19	Mega Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	47.70	2379.91	1	81.5s	105.2
20	Rayquaza	Air Slash	Dragon Ascent	45.38	2746.12	1	84.6s	104.2
21	Landorus (Incarnate)	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	45.09	2786.52	1	85.0s	103.9
22	Aerodactyl	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	46.35	2397.78	1	83.7s	103.0
23	Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	49.37	1763.87	2	81.1s	101.7
24	Archeops	Wing Attack	Ancient Power	46.60	2061.08	1	84.2s	100.3
25	Shadow Moltres	Fire Spin	Sky Attack *	43.23	2740.70	1	88.5s	100.2
26	Aggron	Smack Down	Meteor Beam	44.90	2345.98	1	86.3s	100.0
27	Aurorus	Rock Throw	Meteor Beam	46.38	1967.92	1	84.9s	99.0
28	Shadow Regirock	Rock Throw	Stone Edge	44.07	2378.59	1	87.7s	98.8
29	Mega Ampharos	Volt Switch	Power Gem	43.63	2335.31	1	88.7s	97.6
30	Shadow Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Brave Bird	39.54	3308.79	1	95.4s	97.0
31	Shadow Zapdos	Thunder Shock *	Ancient Power	42.02	2480.35	1	91.5s	95.9
32	Reshiram	Fire Fang	Fusion Flare *	41.22	2617.97	1	92.8s	95.5
33	Nihilego	Acid	Rock Slide	38.91	3154.75	1	97.1s	94.8
34	Lycanroc (Dusk)	Rock Throw	Stone Edge	47.38	1453.32	2	85.9s	94.6
35	Lycanroc	Rock Throw	Stone Edge	46.82	1444.81	2	86.9s	93.6
36	Hisuian Arcanine	Fire Fang	Rock Slide	41.84	2160.21	1	92.7s	93.0
37	Alolan Golem	Rock Throw	Stone Edge	42.92	1941.48	1	91.3s	92.8
38	Omastar	Rock Throw *	Rock Slide *	43.81	1758.70	2	90.4s	92.4
39	Golem	Rock Throw	Stone Edge	42.95	1865.76	1	91.5s	92.1
40	Lycanroc (Midnight)	Rock Throw	Stone Edge	44.51	1601.32	2	89.9s	91.8
41	Diancie	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	39.73	2466.59	1	96.5s	91.7
42	Shadow Hippowdon	Thunder Fang	Weather Ball	42.11	1929.97	1	92.9s	91.3
43	Shadow Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	40.48	2203.51	1	95.5s	90.9
44	Standard Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Rock Slide	42.48	1816.51	1	92.7s	90.8
45	Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Rock Slide	42.48	1816.51	1	92.7s	90.8
46	Mega X Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	39.77	2326.11	1	96.7s	90.6
47	Shadow Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	43.13	1568.06	2	92.6s	89.2
48	Shadow Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	39.52	2185.17	1	97.7s	89.0
49	Mega Pidgeot	Gust *	Brave Bird	39.92	2068.44	1	97.2s	88.7
50	Shadow Raikou	Thunder Shock	Wild Charge	40.85	1785.29	2	96.2s	87.7

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Shadow Ledian type chart

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

Weaknesses

Rock	256.0%
Electric	160.0%
Fire	160.0%
Flying	160.0%
Ice	160.0%

Resistances

Ground	24.4%
Fighting	39.1%
Grass	39.1%
Bug	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 Ledian in Raid Battles. Whether you're looking for the best counters to take Shadow Ledian 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 Ledian counter is Mega Diancie, followed by Mega Rayquaza, Shadow Rhyperior, and Mega Aerodactyl. The table also includes Mega Tyranitar, Rampardos, Rhyperior, and Shadow Aerodactyl, 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 Ledian 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.