Best Shadow Delibird counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Shadow Delibird 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

• 47.0%
• 23.5%
• 16.5%
• 6.0%
• 1.5%
• 1.0%
• 1.0%
• 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	126.28	6610.71	0	30.7s	281.3
2	Mega Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	107.88	10178.81	0	34.8s	271.2
3	Shadow Rhyperior	Smack Down	Rock Wrecker *	118.63	5630.79	0	32.9s	259.0
4	Shadow Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	106.96	6753.37	0	35.8s	247.6
5	Shadow Aggron	Smack Down	Meteor Beam	98.01	8686.53	0	38.4s	243.2
6	Mega Aerodactyl	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	110.54	5222.53	0	35.3s	241.1
7	Rampardos	Smack Down	Rock Slide	110.08	4683.60	0	35.8s	235.1
8	Rhyperior	Smack Down	Rock Wrecker *	97.95	5510.36	0	39.4s	221.5
9	Shadow Omastar	Rock Throw *	Rock Slide *	94.84	5916.50	0	40.4s	219.0
10	Terrakion	Smack Down	Rock Slide	96.15	5608.71	0	40.0s	219.0
11	Gigalith	Smack Down	Meteor Beam *	93.41	6018.84	0	40.9s	217.1
12	Mega Aggron	Smack Down	Meteor Beam	83.70	9065.11	0	44.6s	216.5
13	Tyrantrum	Rock Throw	Meteor Beam	99.12	4380.01	0	39.6s	213.3
14	Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	89.01	6622.34	0	42.6s	213.1
15	Golem (Alola Shadow)	Rock Throw	Stone Edge	93.65	5257.45	0	41.2s	211.6
16	Aggron	Smack Down	Meteor Beam	81.71	8412.47	0	45.8s	209.1
17	Shadow Aerodactyl	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	103.89	3256.41	1	39.1s	208.4
18	Aurorus	Rock Throw	Meteor Beam	82.55	7635.39	0	45.5s	206.7
19	Shadow Metagross	Bullet Punch	Meteor Mash *	82.26	6238.17	0	46.1s	197.7
20	Shadow Golem	Rock Throw	Stone Edge	94.23	3572.94	1	42.2s	196.5
21	Shadow Regirock	Rock Throw	Stone Edge	80.26	6061.72	0	47.2s	192.8
22	Mega Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	87.80	4121.84	0	44.5s	191.3
23	Mega Y Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	84.69	4588.73	0	45.6s	190.0
24	Omastar	Rock Throw *	Rock Slide *	78.90	5772.42	0	48.1s	188.3
25	Lycanroc (Dusk)	Rock Throw	Stone Edge	86.18	3756.73	0	45.6s	184.9
26	Mega Rayquaza	Dragon Tail	Ancient Power	89.23	3207.16	1	44.8s	184.1
27	Lycanroc	Rock Throw	Stone Edge	85.15	3733.90	0	46.1s	182.9
28	Alolan Golem	Rock Throw	Stone Edge	78.05	5159.88	0	48.9s	182.4
29	Hisuian Arcanine	Fire Fang	Rock Slide	75.16	5792.11	0	50.4s	181.3
30	Lycanroc (Midnight)	Rock Throw	Stone Edge	80.85	4126.38	0	48.0s	179.2
31	Aerodactyl	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	85.99	3200.31	1	46.4s	178.7
32	Mega Ampharos	Volt Switch	Power Gem	80.60	3846.60	0	48.4s	176.2
33	Nihilego	Acid	Rock Slide	71.18	5694.14	0	53.1s	173.0
34	Reshiram	Fire Fang	Fusion Flare *	75.39	4453.30	0	51.0s	172.2
35	Shadow Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	73.84	4647.96	0	51.8s	170.8
36	Heatran	Fire Spin	Stone Edge	65.30	7328.05	0	57.1s	170.1
37	Standard Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Rock Slide	77.10	3818.63	0	50.5s	169.8
38	Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Rock Slide	77.10	3818.63	0	50.5s	169.8
39	Metagross	Bullet Punch	Meteor Mash *	68.40	6067.61	0	55.0s	169.8
40	Shadow Moltres	Fire Spin	Ancient Power	78.84	3486.87	1	49.8s	169.7
41	Golem	Rock Throw	Stone Edge	78.46	3524.47	1	50.0s	169.4
42	Hisuian Avalugg	Powder Snow	Rock Slide	65.91	6817.47	0	56.7s	168.8
43	Shadow Magnezone	Volt Switch	Wild Charge	71.32	5008.00	0	53.3s	168.7
44	Landorus (Incarnate)	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	85.48	2461.40	1	48.0s	168.5
45	Archeops	Steel Wing	Ancient Power	83.58	2651.27	1	48.5s	168.1
46	Diancie	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	72.68	4458.41	0	52.8s	167.3
47	Regirock	Rock Throw	Stone Edge	66.96	5916.38	0	56.2s	166.1
48	Shadow Raikou	Thunder Shock	Wild Charge	73.89	3879.64	0	52.4s	164.7
49	Shadow Hippowdon	Thunder Fang	Weather Ball	77.95	3141.63	1	50.8s	164.6
50	Excadrill	Metal Claw	Rock Slide	73.36	3940.57	0	52.7s	164.3

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Shadow Delibird type chart

When fighting Shadow Delibird, 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 Delibird in Raid Battles. Whether you're looking for the best counters to take Shadow Delibird 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 Delibird counter is Mega Diancie, followed by Mega Tyranitar, Shadow Rhyperior, and Shadow Tyranitar. The table also includes Shadow Aggron, Mega Aerodactyl, Rampardos, 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 Delibird 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.