Best Shadow Venusaur counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Shadow Venusaur 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%
34.0%
17.0%
7.5%
1.0%
1.0%
0.5%
0.5%

#	Name	Fast Attack	Charged Attack	DPS	TDO	Faints	TTW	Score
1	Mega Rayquaza	Air Slash	Dragon Ascent	57.89	2558.87	1	67.8s	124.6
2	Shadow Mewtwo	Psycho Cut	Psystrike *	54.71	916.00	3	81.5s	96.6
3	Mega Y Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	44.63	1651.79	2	89.4s	92.6
4	Rayquaza	Air Slash	Dragon Ascent	44.86	1557.93	2	89.5s	91.9
5	Mega Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	47.46	1103.33	3	88.9s	89.6
6	Shadow Moltres	Fire Spin	Sky Attack *	42.70	1285.02	2	95.5s	85.0
7	Mega Alakazam	Confusion	Psychic *	48.72	766.81	4	92.7s	84.9
8	Mega Latios	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	41.96	1338.21	2	96.6s	84.5
9	Reshiram	Fire Fang	Fusion Flare *	39.57	1596.38	2	100.0s	83.6
10	Mewtwo	Psycho Cut	Psystrike *	44.79	894.20	4	96.5s	82.0
11	Shadow Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Brave Bird	38.09	1533.14	2	103.9s	80.4
12	Mega X Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	38.57	1433.09	2	103.4s	80.1
13	Shadow Latios	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	41.58	997.68	3	101.0s	79.0
14	Mega Gardevoir	Confusion	Psychic	43.97	780.83	4	100.3s	78.6
15	Shadow Metagross	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	39.27	1207.31	2	103.6s	78.5
16	Shadow Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	43.61	730.78	4	102.3s	77.0
17	Heatran	Fire Spin	Magma Storm *	34.34	1824.05	1	112.7s	76.7
18	Shadow Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	39.39	1014.23	3	105.6s	75.9
19	Yveltal	Gust	Oblivion Wing *	37.49	1207.23	2	108.0s	75.6
20	Mega Latias	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	36.15	1384.52	2	110.0s	75.6
21	Shadow Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	39.06	1023.24	3	106.2s	75.5
22	Hoopa (Unbound)	Confusion	Psychic	42.31	723.89	4	105.0s	75.0
23	Shadow Honchkrow	Peck	Sky Attack	42.88	641.81	5	106.4s	74.0
24	Shadow Mamoswine	Powder Snow	Avalanche	45.28	503.37	7	108.1s	73.6
25	Mega Pidgeot	Gust *	Brave Bird	38.48	949.63	3	108.7s	73.5
26	Shadow Lugia	Extrasensory	Aeroblast *	34.60	1417.91	2	114.2s	73.3
27	Shadow Alakazam	Confusion	Psychic *	45.14	492.05	7	109.0s	73.0
28	Moltres	Fire Spin	Sky Attack *	35.33	1260.78	2	113.3s	72.8
29	Primal Groudon	Mud Shot	Fire Punch *	36.06	1109.70	3	112.8s	72.1
30	Volcarona	Fire Spin	Overheat	34.86	1238.90	2	114.9s	71.8
31	Mega Houndoom	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	37.33	941.03	3	111.7s	71.6
32	Shadow Infernape	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	40.23	691.30	5	110.3s	71.4
33	Shadow Typhlosion	Incinerate	Blast Burn *	38.92	765.08	4	111.3s	71.0
34	Shadow Exeggutor	Confusion	Psychic	39.95	685.03	5	111.1s	70.9
35	Mega Salamence	Fire Fang	Fire Blast	32.00	1573.01	2	121.7s	70.4
36	Shadow Staraptor	Gust *	Brave Bird	39.45	682.64	5	112.3s	70.1
37	Lunala	Confusion	Psychic	35.56	984.51	3	115.9s	69.6
38	Mega Gengar	Lick *	Psychic *	35.67	966.40	3	115.8s	69.5
39	Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Brave Bird	31.70	1507.98	2	123.1s	69.3
40	Shadow Latias	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	35.44	970.17	3	116.4s	69.2
41	Shadow Salamence	Fire Fang	Fire Blast	34.68	1017.83	3	118.0s	68.6
42	Galarian Articuno	Psycho Cut	Brave Bird	34.75	1005.59	3	117.9s	68.6
43	Victini	Confusion	V-create	33.64	1113.02	3	120.0s	68.2
44	Shadow Zapdos	Thunder Shock *	Drill Peck	36.13	832.07	4	117.0s	68.1
45	Shadow Gallade	Confusion	Psychic	39.77	569.13	6	115.8s	68.0
46	Shadow Unfezant	Air Slash	Sky Attack	38.22	660.23	5	116.0s	67.9
47	Shadow Arcanine	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	36.59	766.09	4	117.2s	67.6
48	Latios	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	34.32	977.96	3	119.6s	67.5
49	Shadow Gardevoir	Confusion	Psychic	40.18	517.93	6	117.4s	67.3
50	Metagross	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	32.51	1183.75	3	122.9s	67.2

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About the results

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

Shadow Venusaur type chart

When fighting Shadow Venusaur, 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.

Best move-types and weather for Shadow Venusaur Raids

Move-type	Usage (%)	Weather
Fire	38.5%	Sunny
Psychic	34.0%	Windy
Flying	17.0%	Windy
Ice	7.5%	Snow
Electric	1.0%	Rainy
Dragon	1.0%	Windy
Ground	0.5%	Sunny
Ghost	0.5%	Fog

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.