Best Shadow Makuhita counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Shadow Makuhita 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

49.0%
25.5%
10.5%
3.0%
2.0%
2.0%
2.0%
2.0%
1.5%
1.0%
1.0%
0.5%

#	Name	Fast Attack	Charged Attack	DPS	TDO	Faints	TTW	Score
1	Mega Rayquaza	Air Slash	Dragon Ascent	164.68	12255.16	0	23.0s	394.3
2	Shadow Mewtwo	Confusion	Psystrike *	146.78	7861.34	0	26.4s	328.5
3	Mega Alakazam	Confusion	Psychic *	136.37	6675.29	0	28.6s	299.7
4	Rayquaza	Air Slash	Dragon Ascent	126.65	7501.65	0	30.3s	289.4
5	Mewtwo	Confusion	Psystrike *	121.63	7642.63	0	31.5s	281.3
6	Mega Latios	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	118.38	8318.66	0	32.1s	280.1
7	Mega Gardevoir	Confusion	Psychic	121.93	7358.73	0	31.5s	279.7
8	Shadow Moltres	Wing Attack	Sky Attack *	116.91	6804.25	0	32.9s	266.2
9	Shadow Latios	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	115.91	6294.11	0	33.3s	260.2
10	Shadow Lugia	Extrasensory	Aeroblast *	99.66	10685.47	0	37.5s	257.2
11	Lunala	Confusion	Psychic	96.55	11781.16	0	38.5s	255.9
12	Shadow Alakazam	Confusion	Psychic *	123.69	4340.91	0	32.4s	253.9
13	Shadow Ho-Oh	Extrasensory	Brave Bird	104.93	7994.88	0	36.1s	252.5
14	Hoopa (Unbound)	Confusion	Psychic	117.96	4973.51	0	33.4s	251.4
15	Mega Latias	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	102.45	8463.54	0	36.8s	250.6
16	Shadow Metagross	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	111.67	5748.89	0	34.7s	247.9
17	Yveltal	Gust	Oblivion Wing *	106.09	6048.15	0	36.3s	240.5
18	Mega Pidgeot	Gust *	Brave Bird	111.57	4887.83	0	35.2s	239.7
19	Hoopa (Confined)	Confusion	Psychic	98.25	7954.57	0	38.5s	239.3
20	Galarian Articuno	Confusion	Brave Bird	98.79	7714.88	0	38.3s	238.9
21	Mega Gengar	Lick *	Psychic *	98.82	7569.83	0	38.3s	238.0
22	Shadow Gallade	Confusion	Psychic	109.04	4964.56	0	35.9s	236.1
23	Shadow Exeggutor	Confusion	Psychic	108.85	4991.60	0	36.0s	236.0
24	Shadow Gardevoir	Confusion	Psychic	109.05	4944.71	0	35.9s	235.9
25	Shadow Zapdos	Thunder Shock *	Drill Peck	101.10	5988.55	0	38.0s	231.0
26	Shadow Latias	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	99.19	6074.88	0	38.7s	228.2
27	Moltres	Wing Attack	Sky Attack *	97.02	6606.34	0	39.3s	228.1
28	Shadow Staraptor	Gust *	Brave Bird	113.79	3553.53	1	35.7s	228.1
29	Shadow Honchkrow	Peck	Sky Attack	115.89	3158.58	1	35.6s	226.0
30	Latios	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	96.16	6107.96	0	39.8s	222.9
31	Lugia	Extrasensory	Aeroblast *	83.09	10260.41	0	44.7s	220.7
32	Alakazam	Confusion	Psychic *	102.68	4233.69	0	38.5s	217.8
33	Mega Y Charizard	Air Slash	Blast Burn *	92.15	6427.46	0	41.3s	217.7
34	Ho-Oh	Extrasensory	Brave Bird	87.39	7738.16	0	43.1s	216.8
35	Espeon	Confusion	Psychic	99.26	4698.24	0	39.3s	216.6
36	Mega Slowbro	Confusion	Psychic	85.50	7991.52	0	43.9s	214.5
37	Metagross	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	92.62	5584.54	0	41.4s	212.4
38	Shadow Unfezant	Air Slash	Sky Attack	105.78	3293.26	1	38.4s	211.9
39	Azelf	Confusion	Future Sight	96.98	4489.50	0	40.3s	210.7
40	Tapu Lele	Confusion	Future Sight	92.93	5282.17	0	41.5s	210.5
41	Mega Blaziken	Counter	Brave Bird	96.36	4361.53	0	40.7s	208.4
42	Xerneas	Geomancy *	Moonblast	89.82	5548.70	0	42.7s	207.0
43	Shadow Mr. Rime	Confusion	Psychic	100.44	3255.70	1	40.3s	202.9
44	Gallade	Confusion	Psychic	90.53	4829.34	0	42.7s	202.5
45	Gardevoir	Confusion	Psychic	90.54	4810.39	0	42.8s	202.3
46	Exeggutor	Confusion	Psychic	90.18	4867.72	0	42.9s	202.2
47	Meloetta (Aria)	Confusion	Psyshock	87.19	5370.09	0	44.0s	200.8
48	Xurkitree	Thunder Shock	Dazzling Gleam	94.74	3871.37	0	41.7s	200.6
49	Primal Kyogre	Waterfall	Origin Pulse *	83.39	6264.53	0	45.5s	200.1
50	Shadow Granbull	Charm	Play Rough	98.04	3282.58	1	41.1s	199.3

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About the results

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

Shadow Makuhita type chart

When fighting Shadow Makuhita, keep in mind the following that Fighting-type Pokémon are weak to Fairy, Flying, and Psychic type moves. They take reduced damage from Bug, Dark, and Rock type moves.

Weaknesses

Fairy	160.0%
Flying	160.0%
Psychic	160.0%

Resistances

Bug	62.5%
Dark	62.5%
Rock	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 Makuhita Raids

Move-type	Usage (%)	Weather
Psychic	49.0%	Windy
Flying	25.5%	Windy
Fairy	10.5%	Cloudy
Dragon	3.0%	Windy
Ghost	2.0%	Fog
Electric	2.0%	Rainy
Fighting	2.0%	Cloudy
Water	2.0%	Rainy
Fire	1.5%	Sunny
Ground	1.0%	Sunny
Normal	1.0%	Partly Cloudy
Grass	0.5%	Sunny

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.