Best Shadow Nidorino counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Shadow Nidorino 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 👑

Shadow Mewtwo

Confusion

Psystrike *

Best performing move types

53.0%
30.0%
4.5%
3.0%
3.0%
1.5%
1.5%
1.0%
1.0%
0.5%
0.5%
0.5%

#	Name	Fast Attack	Charged Attack	DPS	TDO	Faints	TTW	Score
1	Shadow Mewtwo	Confusion	Psystrike *	82.89	2684.16	1	48.8s	167.4
2	Primal Groudon	Mud Shot	Precipice Blades *	73.12	4221.24	0	52.6s	166.2
3	Mega Alakazam	Confusion	Psychic *	75.99	2292.17	1	53.7s	151.3
4	Mewtwo	Confusion	Psystrike *	68.42	2627.91	1	58.1s	143.1
5	Mega Latios	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	66.68	2627.89	1	59.5s	140.2
6	Mega Gardevoir	Confusion	Psychic	68.61	2079.25	1	59.4s	136.7
7	Shadow Metagross	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	61.56	3056.98	1	63.2s	135.7
8	Hoopa (Unbound)	Confusion	Psychic	65.48	2152.26	1	61.7s	132.6
9	Shadow Latios	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	65.83	1957.65	1	62.0s	130.6
10	Shadow Mamoswine	Mud-Slap	High Horsepower	62.94	2239.68	1	63.6s	129.6
11	Mega Rayquaza	Dragon Tail	Dragon Ascent	61.74	2371.10	1	64.4s	129.1
12	Shadow Alakazam	Confusion	Psychic *	69.40	1466.28	2	61.7s	128.5
13	Shadow Garchomp	Mud Shot	Earth Power *	62.61	2072.32	1	64.5s	127.0
14	Lunala	Confusion	Psychic	54.15	3566.86	1	70.5s	126.4
15	Shadow Rhyperior	Mud-Slap	Earthquake	58.84	2574.87	1	66.8s	126.4
16	Mega Latias	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	57.51	2714.73	1	67.9s	125.4
17	Groudon	Mud Shot	Precipice Blades *	56.99	2656.99	1	68.6s	124.0
18	Shadow Gallade	Confusion	Psychic	61.17	1690.19	2	67.4s	119.6
19	Mega Gengar	Lick *	Psychic *	55.75	2317.71	1	70.8s	118.5
20	Mega Swampert	Mud Shot	Earthquake	52.54	2909.14	1	73.5s	118.4
21	Hoopa (Confined)	Confusion	Psychic	54.91	2394.33	1	71.6s	117.8
22	Shadow Exeggutor	Confusion	Psychic	63.03	1326.84	2	68.0s	116.6
23	Metagross	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	51.10	2984.69	1	75.3s	116.4
24	Excadrill	Mud-Slap	Scorching Sands	53.64	2407.87	1	73.1s	115.8
25	Shadow Gardevoir	Confusion	Psychic	61.94	1373.00	2	68.6s	115.8
26	Shadow Golurk	Mud-Slap	Earth Power	55.53	1987.12	1	72.1s	114.5
27	Shadow Latias	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	56.15	1902.74	1	71.7s	114.4
28	Shadow Rhydon	Mud-Slap	Earthquake	54.45	2028.52	1	73.2s	113.2
29	Latios	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	54.38	1917.73	1	73.7s	111.8
30	Mamoswine	Mud-Slap	High Horsepower	52.25	2205.97	1	75.4s	111.4
31	Shadow Mr. Rime	Confusion	Psychic	55.39	1704.48	2	73.4s	110.7
32	Alakazam	Confusion	Psychic *	57.45	1440.84	2	72.7s	110.1
33	Landorus (Therian)	Mud Shot	Earthquake	53.66	1868.80	1	74.8s	110.0
34	Espeon	Confusion	Psychic	55.60	1604.78	2	73.7s	109.7
35	Rhyperior	Mud-Slap	Earthquake	48.96	2536.33	1	79.2s	108.8
36	Garchomp	Mud Shot	Earth Power *	51.63	2028.97	1	76.8s	108.5
37	Mega Slowbro	Confusion	Psychic	47.76	2690.32	1	80.7s	108.0
38	Shadow Ursaluna	Tackle	High Horsepower *	49.83	2133.99	1	79.0s	106.5
39	Shadow Donphan	Mud-Slap	Earthquake	52.33	1736.29	2	77.1s	106.2
40	Meloetta (Aria)	Confusion	Psyshock	48.41	2338.55	1	80.5s	106.1
41	Primal Kyogre	Waterfall	Origin Pulse *	46.27	2706.16	1	83.1s	105.4
42	Landorus (Incarnate)	Mud Shot	Earth Power	51.28	1811.75	1	78.2s	105.4
43	Shadow Golem	Mud-Slap	Earthquake	51.33	1794.03	2	78.2s	105.3
44	Galarian Articuno	Confusion	Future Sight	50.13	1965.71	1	79.1s	105.3
45	Azelf	Confusion	Future Sight	53.67	1503.10	2	76.7s	105.2
46	Shadow Lugia	Extrasensory	Future Sight	46.58	2575.01	1	82.9s	104.9
47	Jirachi	Confusion	Psychic	44.89	2867.35	1	85.2s	104.2
48	Shadow Ho-Oh	Extrasensory	Earthquake *	47.68	2117.76	1	82.3s	102.7
49	Gallade	Confusion	Psychic	50.66	1658.91	2	79.7s	102.5
50	Tapu Lele	Confusion	Future Sight	51.42	1456.04	2	79.9s	101.0

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About the results

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

Shadow Nidorino type chart

When fighting Shadow Nidorino, 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 Nidorino Raids

Move-type	Usage (%)	Weather
Psychic	53.0%	Windy
Ground	30.0%	Sunny
Fire	4.5%	Sunny
Dragon	3.0%	Windy
Dark	3.0%	Fog
Ghost	1.5%	Fog
Normal	1.5%	Partly Cloudy
Flying	1.0%	Windy
Water	1.0%	Rainy
Electric	0.5%	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.