Best Shadow Ivysaur counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Shadow Ivysaur 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 👑

Mega Rayquaza

Air Slash

Dragon Ascent

Best performing move types

38.5%
33.0%
18.5%
7.5%
1.0%
0.5%
0.5%
0.5%

#	Name	Fast Attack	Charged Attack	DPS	TDO	Faints	TTW	Score
1	Mega Rayquaza	Air Slash	Dragon Ascent	73.45	4047.97	0	52.6s	165.4
2	Shadow Mewtwo	Confusion	Psystrike *	68.12	1554.63	2	62.1s	128.1
3	Mega Y Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	56.85	2623.35	1	68.8s	123.4
4	Rayquaza	Air Slash	Dragon Ascent	56.73	2463.81	1	69.3s	121.6
5	Mega Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	59.91	1821.81	1	68.0s	119.5
6	Mega Alakazam	Confusion	Psychic *	61.62	1317.66	2	69.3s	114.3
7	Mega Latios	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	53.18	2207.34	1	74.2s	113.0
8	Shadow Moltres	Fire Spin	Sky Attack *	54.14	2040.26	1	73.6s	112.8
9	Reshiram	Fire Fang	Fusion Flare *	50.57	2544.07	1	76.8s	111.8
10	Mewtwo	Confusion	Psystrike *	56.00	1520.93	2	73.8s	109.1
11	Shadow Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Brave Bird	48.82	2451.91	1	79.6s	107.8
12	Mega X Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	49.10	2274.86	1	79.6s	106.7
13	Shadow Metagross	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	49.58	2106.59	1	79.4s	105.8
14	Shadow Latios	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	52.45	1645.09	2	77.4s	105.2
15	Mega Gardevoir	Confusion	Psychic	55.58	1298.09	2	75.9s	105.0
16	Heatran	Fire Spin	Magma Storm *	43.64	3076.85	1	87.2s	103.3
17	Shadow Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	50.12	1691.14	2	80.3s	102.1
18	Shadow Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	54.66	1202.41	2	77.8s	102.0
19	Mega Latias	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	45.90	2279.93	1	84.7s	101.2
20	Yveltal	Gust	Oblivion Wing *	47.37	1992.75	1	83.2s	100.9
21	Hoopa (Unbound)	Confusion	Psychic	53.29	1239.72	2	79.2s	100.6
22	Shadow Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	49.53	1625.74	2	81.5s	100.3
23	Mega Pidgeot	Gust *	Brave Bird	49.25	1588.97	2	82.2s	99.4
24	Shadow Lugia	Extrasensory	Aeroblast *	44.26	2358.90	1	87.4s	99.0
25	Shadow Alakazam	Confusion	Psychic *	56.65	842.44	4	80.6s	97.6
26	Moltres	Fire Spin	Sky Attack *	44.85	1999.87	1	87.5s	96.7
27	Shadow Honchkrow	Peck	Sky Attack	52.97	1043.20	3	81.8s	96.7
28	Volcarona	Fire Spin	Overheat	44.67	1982.26	1	87.9s	96.2
29	Primal Groudon	Mud Shot	Fire Punch *	44.88	1914.06	1	87.7s	95.9
30	Mega Houndoom	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	47.32	1557.35	2	85.3s	95.9
31	Shadow Mamoswine	Powder Snow	Avalanche	54.50	870.82	4	82.6s	95.3
32	Shadow Infernape	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	50.51	1138.69	3	83.9s	94.7
33	Shadow Typhlosion	Incinerate	Blast Burn *	49.10	1264.61	2	84.7s	94.6
34	Shadow Staraptor	Gust *	Brave Bird	50.36	1143.87	3	84.1s	94.6
35	Mega Salamence	Fire Fang	Fire Blast	40.97	2504.58	1	93.6s	94.2
36	Shadow Exeggutor	Confusion	Psychic	50.23	1089.30	3	84.9s	93.5
37	Mega Gengar	Lick *	Psychic *	44.92	1685.18	2	88.7s	93.5
38	Lunala	Confusion	Psychic	44.54	1727.43	2	89.2s	93.3
39	Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Brave Bird	40.64	2405.11	1	94.6s	92.8
40	Shadow Latias	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	44.78	1599.52	2	89.4s	92.3
41	Shadow Salamence	Fire Fang	Fire Blast	44.36	1632.00	2	90.0s	92.0
42	Galarian Articuno	Psycho Cut	Brave Bird	44.11	1666.18	2	90.3s	91.9
43	Chandelure	Fire Spin	Overheat	45.25	1434.06	2	89.6s	91.0
44	Shadow Gallade	Confusion	Psychic	49.93	973.24	3	86.9s	90.9
45	Metagross	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	41.13	2061.21	1	94.5s	90.8
46	Victini	Confusion	V-create	42.40	1829.76	1	92.8s	90.8
47	Standard Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	46.58	1230.31	2	89.0s	90.2
48	Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	46.58	1230.31	2	89.0s	90.2
49	Latios	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	43.38	1612.19	2	91.9s	90.1
50	Shadow Arcanine	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	46.12	1265.57	2	89.4s	90.0

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Shadow Ivysaur type chart

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

Weaknesses

Fire	160.0%
Flying	160.0%
Ice	160.0%
Psychic	160.0%

Resistances

Grass	39.1%
Electric	62.5%
Fairy	62.5%
Fighting	62.5%
Water	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 Ivysaur in Raid Battles. Whether you're looking for the best counters to take Shadow Ivysaur 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 Ivysaur counter is Mega Rayquaza, followed by Shadow Mewtwo, Mega Y Charizard, and Rayquaza. The table also includes Mega Blaziken, Mega Alakazam, Mega Latios, and Shadow Moltres, 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 Ivysaur are:

Typing	Usage %
Fire	38.5%
Psychic	33.0%
Flying	18.5%
Ice	7.5%
Dragon	1.0%
Ground	0.5%
Ghost	0.5%
Electric	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.