Best Shadow Crobat counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Shadow Crobat 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

Raid Difficulty

Attacker typing

Attacker moves type

Best overall 👑

Shadow Mewtwo

Confusion

Psystrike *

Best performing move types

36.5%
24.0%
22.0%
11.5%
1.5%
1.5%
1.0%
0.5%
0.5%
0.5%
0.5%

#	Name	Fast Attack	Charged Attack	DPS	TDO	Faints	TTW	Score
1	Shadow Mewtwo	Confusion	Psystrike *	56.91	1085.34	3	76.5s	103.2
2	Mega Alakazam	Confusion	Psychic *	51.04	913.32	3	86.3s	91.3
3	Mewtwo	Confusion	Psystrike *	46.67	1060.05	3	90.7s	87.7
4	Shadow Rhyperior	Smack Down	Rock Wrecker *	41.07	1733.42	2	96.0s	87.5
5	Mega Latios	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	44.94	1171.60	3	92.4s	86.8
6	Mega Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	37.47	2232.54	1	102.5s	85.7
7	Mega Diancie	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	44.49	1083.07	3	94.2s	84.8
8	Mega Gardevoir	Confusion	Psychic	46.30	856.85	4	94.6s	83.4
9	Shadow Metagross	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	41.42	1298.37	2	98.0s	83.1
10	Mega Rayquaza	Dragon Tail	Dragon Ascent	41.30	1273.61	2	98.5s	82.6
11	Shadow Magnezone	Spark	Wild Charge	40.19	1405.43	2	99.8s	82.4
12	Hoopa (Unbound)	Confusion	Psychic	43.87	967.03	3	96.9s	81.9
13	Shadow Latios	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	44.74	875.03	4	96.9s	81.5
14	Shadow Raikou	Thunder Shock	Wild Charge	42.68	1049.61	3	98.1s	81.5
15	Xurkitree	Thunder Shock	Discharge	43.53	924.26	3	98.3s	80.7
16	Shadow Mamoswine	Powder Snow	Avalanche	42.34	1023.93	3	99.1s	80.6
17	Shadow Electivire	Thunder Shock	Wild Charge	44.34	822.39	4	98.7s	79.9
18	Mega Aerodactyl	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	38.58	1381.77	2	103.7s	79.5
19	Mega Manectric	Thunder Fang	Wild Charge	42.21	964.12	3	100.2s	79.4
20	Shadow Zapdos	Thunder Shock *	Thunderbolt	41.65	977.88	3	101.2s	78.8
21	Shadow Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	37.29	1473.40	2	106.3s	78.4
22	Zekrom	Charge Beam	Fusion Bolt *	39.16	1214.59	2	103.8s	78.4
23	Shadow Alakazam	Confusion	Psychic *	47.13	585.47	6	101.0s	78.3
24	Mega Latias	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	38.62	1211.69	2	105.1s	77.5
25	Shadow Luxray	Spark	Wild Charge	41.52	775.02	4	105.3s	74.9
26	Rhyperior	Smack Down	Rock Wrecker *	33.94	1694.85	2	114.6s	74.9
27	Golem (Alola Shadow)	Rollout *	Wild Charge	37.31	1166.22	3	108.8s	74.8
28	Shadow Aggron	Smack Down	Meteor Beam	34.08	1654.53	2	114.3s	74.8
29	Rampardos	Smack Down	Rock Slide	39.44	921.65	3	106.9s	74.5
30	Lunala	Confusion	Psychic	37.50	1057.27	3	109.6s	73.6
31	Thundurus (Therian)	Volt Switch	Thunderbolt	39.20	886.17	4	108.1s	73.6
32	Shadow Weavile	Ice Shard	Avalanche	40.76	744.00	4	107.7s	73.2
33	Shadow Exeggutor	Confusion	Psychic	44.39	519.59	6	108.8s	72.9
34	Mega Gengar	Lick *	Psychic *	37.86	929.28	3	110.6s	72.3
35	Shadow Gallade	Confusion	Psychic	41.88	619.21	5	109.2s	72.1
36	Mega Ampharos	Volt Switch	Zap Cannon	35.87	1085.38	3	113.6s	71.4
37	Shadow Gardevoir	Confusion	Psychic	42.26	568.26	6	110.5s	71.4
38	Shadow Latias	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	38.03	849.80	4	111.6s	71.2
39	Metagross	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	34.29	1272.04	2	116.3s	71.2
40	Magnezone	Spark	Wild Charge	33.40	1378.22	2	118.2s	70.9
41	Tyrantrum	Rock Throw	Meteor Beam	34.63	1159.97	3	116.4s	70.4
42	Galarian Standard Darmanitan	Ice Fang	Avalanche	38.69	718.82	5	113.1s	69.8
43	Raikou	Thunder Shock	Wild Charge	35.25	1029.94	3	116.1s	69.7
44	Latios	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	36.80	856.37	4	114.6s	69.5
45	Baxcalibur	Ice Fang	Avalanche	36.10	922.91	3	115.3s	69.5
46	Shadow Aerodactyl	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	36.47	866.46	4	115.3s	69.1
47	Terrakion	Smack Down	Rock Slide	34.03	1122.58	3	118.6s	69.0
48	Shadow Manectric	Thunder Fang	Wild Charge	40.20	572.44	6	114.7s	68.7
49	Mamoswine	Powder Snow	Avalanche	34.77	1000.60	3	117.9s	68.6
50	Electivire	Thunder Shock	Wild Charge	36.57	806.91	4	116.3s	68.3

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Shadow Crobat type chart

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

Weaknesses

Electric	160.0%
Ice	160.0%
Psychic	160.0%
Rock	160.0%

Resistances

Bug	39.1%
Fighting	39.1%
Grass	39.1%
Fairy	62.5%
Ground	62.5%
Poison	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 Crobat in Raid Battles. Whether you're looking for the best counters to take Shadow Crobat 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 Crobat counter is Shadow Mewtwo, followed by Mega Alakazam, Mewtwo, and Shadow Rhyperior. The table also includes Mega Latios, Mega Tyranitar, Mega Diancie, and Mega Gardevoir, 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 Crobat are:

Typing	Usage %
Psychic	36.5%
Electric	24.0%
Rock	22.0%
Ice	11.5%
Dragon	1.5%
Normal	1.5%
Flying	1.0%
Ghost	0.5%
Water	0.5%
Dark	0.5%
Fire	0.5%

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.