Best Shadow Nidoran♀ counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Shadow Nidoran♀ 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 👑

Primal Groudon

Mud Shot

Precipice Blades *

Best performing move types

51.5%
31.0%
4.0%
3.0%
3.0%
2.0%
1.5%
1.0%
1.0%
1.0%
0.5%
0.5%

#	Name	Fast Attack	Charged Attack	DPS	TDO	Faints	TTW	Score
1	Primal Groudon	Mud Shot	Precipice Blades *	87.58	8120.03	0	42.9s	219.4
2	Shadow Mewtwo	Confusion	Psystrike *	98.50	4313.12	0	39.9s	211.6
3	Mega Alakazam	Confusion	Psychic *	91.11	3664.53	0	43.4s	192.3
4	Mewtwo	Confusion	Psystrike *	81.54	4200.91	0	47.6s	181.1
5	Mega Latios	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	79.29	4591.16	0	48.5s	180.3
6	Shadow Metagross	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	73.19	6033.88	0	51.6s	179.0
7	Shadow Rhyperior	Mud-Slap	Earthquake	70.22	6952.53	0	53.3s	178.3
8	Mega Gardevoir	Confusion	Psychic	82.17	3175.99	1	48.3s	172.0
9	Shadow Garchomp	Mud Shot	Earth Power *	72.39	4871.42	0	52.7s	169.8
10	Hoopa (Unbound)	Confusion	Psychic	78.24	3555.52	1	50.1s	169.3
11	Shadow Mamoswine	Mud-Slap	High Horsepower	75.10	4085.00	0	51.5s	168.6
12	Shadow Latios	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	77.80	3461.44	1	50.4s	167.6
13	Mega Rayquaza	Dragon Tail	Dragon Ascent	72.37	4570.72	0	52.9s	167.5
14	Groudon	Mud Shot	Precipice Blades *	68.16	5277.55	0	55.5s	164.5
15	Shadow Alakazam	Confusion	Psychic *	82.83	2373.68	1	49.5s	163.2
16	Lunala	Confusion	Psychic	64.68	6065.20	0	58.0s	162.4
17	Mega Latias	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	68.58	4688.96	0	55.6s	161.4
18	Shadow Rhydon	Mud-Slap	Earthquake	65.01	5544.41	0	58.0s	160.1
19	Mega Gengar	Lick *	Psychic *	65.95	5228.02	0	57.3s	160.0
20	Excadrill	Mud-Slap	Scorching Sands	62.95	6225.53	0	59.5s	159.8
21	Shadow Golurk	Mud-Slap	Earth Power	65.37	4811.84	0	58.1s	156.2
22	Mega Swampert	Mud Shot	Earthquake	63.09	5148.25	0	59.9s	153.9
23	Metagross	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	60.90	5783.32	0	61.6s	153.3
24	Rhyperior	Mud-Slap	Earthquake	58.53	6695.48	0	63.7s	153.1
25	Shadow Gallade	Confusion	Psychic	72.94	2808.95	1	54.5s	152.6
26	Hoopa (Confined)	Confusion	Psychic	65.73	4086.72	0	58.3s	151.7
27	Shadow Golem	Mud-Slap	Earthquake	61.69	4854.24	0	61.3s	149.4
28	Landorus (Therian)	Mud Shot	Earthquake	64.26	4124.19	0	59.5s	149.3
29	Shadow Latias	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	66.54	3347.38	1	58.4s	147.0
30	Shadow Exeggutor	Confusion	Psychic	74.52	2074.74	1	55.3s	145.9
31	Garchomp	Mud Shot	Earth Power *	60.11	4723.98	0	62.9s	145.5
32	Shadow Gardevoir	Confusion	Psychic	73.88	2113.23	1	55.5s	145.5
33	Mamoswine	Mud-Slap	High Horsepower	62.46	3989.39	0	61.2s	144.9
34	Latios	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	64.50	3367.73	1	60.1s	143.6
35	Shadow Donphan	Mud-Slap	Earthquake	62.83	3572.17	1	61.3s	142.4
36	Alakazam	Confusion	Psychic *	68.71	2319.87	1	58.6s	139.9
37	Landorus (Incarnate)	Mud Shot	Earth Power	60.07	3905.96	0	63.6s	139.9
38	Shadow Ursaluna	Tackle	High Horsepower *	58.44	4294.38	0	65.0s	139.6
39	Espeon	Confusion	Psychic	66.45	2577.29	1	59.8s	139.2
40	Shadow Mr. Rime	Confusion	Psychic	66.25	2561.00	1	60.0s	138.7
41	Rhydon	Mud-Slap	Earthquake	54.20	5355.69	0	69.1s	137.6
42	Jirachi	Confusion	Psychic	53.53	5610.95	0	69.8s	137.5
43	Mega Slowbro	Confusion	Psychic	57.36	3964.74	0	66.4s	135.3
44	Galarian Articuno	Confusion	Future Sight	60.33	3213.82	1	64.2s	134.9
45	Azelf	Confusion	Future Sight	64.66	2447.58	1	61.6s	134.8
46	Meloetta (Aria)	Confusion	Psyshock	57.94	3716.29	0	66.0s	134.6
47	Shadow Lugia	Extrasensory	Future Sight	55.98	4147.03	0	67.8s	133.9
48	Golurk	Mud-Slap	Earth Power	54.37	4641.06	0	69.3s	133.9
49	Primal Kyogre	Waterfall	Origin Pulse *	55.62	4110.18	0	68.2s	133.0
50	Gallade	Confusion	Psychic	60.53	2737.90	1	64.7s	130.9

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About the results

Our guide provides detailed information on recommended Pokémon and moves that are most effective against Shadow Nidoran♀ in Raid Battles. Whether you're looking for the best counters to take Shadow Nidoran♀ 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 Nidoran♀ counter is Primal Groudon, followed by Shadow Mewtwo, Mega Alakazam, and Mewtwo. The table also includes Mega Latios, Shadow Metagross, Shadow Rhyperior, and Mega Gardevoir, among others. Each Pokemon's move type is indicated by an icon beside the move name.

Shadow Nidoran♀ type chart

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

Weaknesses

Ground	160.0%
Psychic	160.0%

Resistances

Bug	62.5%
Fairy	62.5%
Fighting	62.5%
Grass	62.5%
Poison	62.5%

Type chart shows the percentage (%) of damage taken from an incoming attack of a particular type.

Best move-types and weather for Shadow Nidoran♀ Raids

Move-type	Usage (%)	Weather
Psychic	51.5%	Windy
Ground	31.0%	Sunny
Fire	4.0%	Sunny
Dragon	3.0%	Windy
Dark	3.0%	Fog
Ghost	2.0%	Fog
Normal	1.5%	Partly Cloudy
Flying	1.0%	Windy
Water	1.0%	Rainy
Electric	1.0%	Rainy
Rock	0.5%	Partly Cloudy
Bug	0.5%	Rainy

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.