Best Shadow Grotle counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Shadow Grotle 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

39.5%
18.5%
15.5%
10.0%
10.0%
2.5%
1.5%
1.0%
0.5%
0.5%
0.5%

#	Name	Fast Attack	Charged Attack	DPS	TDO	Faints	TTW	Score
1	Mega Rayquaza	Air Slash	Dragon Ascent	72.93	4535.90	0	52.5s	168.3
2	Mega Y Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	56.58	2946.32	1	68.5s	125.9
3	Rayquaza	Air Slash	Dragon Ascent	56.26	2761.95	1	69.2s	123.7
4	Mega Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	59.35	2115.50	1	67.5s	122.2
5	Shadow Moltres	Fire Spin	Sky Attack *	53.78	2292.96	1	73.2s	114.9
6	Reshiram	Fire Fang	Fusion Flare *	50.47	2865.08	1	76.4s	114.3
7	Shadow Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Brave Bird	48.71	2762.04	1	79.1s	110.3
8	Mega X Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	48.87	2554.92	1	79.3s	108.8
9	Mega Gengar	Lick *	Sludge Bomb	50.82	1993.95	1	78.1s	106.7
10	Shadow Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	49.92	1926.38	1	79.6s	104.5
11	Shadow Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	53.97	1394.81	2	77.0s	104.1
12	Mega Beedrill	Bug Bite *	Sludge Bomb	50.78	1732.80	2	79.2s	103.7
13	Yveltal	Gust	Oblivion Wing *	46.95	2313.23	1	82.9s	103.3
14	Heatran	Fire Spin	Magma Storm *	43.69	2982.41	1	87.2s	102.8
15	Shadow Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	49.20	1827.39	1	81.1s	102.2
16	Mega Pidgeot	Gust *	Brave Bird	49.13	1810.76	1	81.2s	101.9
17	Volcarona	Bug Bite	Overheat	44.82	2246.59	1	86.7s	99.0
18	Mega Pinsir	Bug Bite	X-Scissor	44.89	2223.71	1	86.7s	98.9
19	Moltres	Fire Spin	Sky Attack *	44.60	2247.01	1	87.1s	98.6
20	Mega Houndoom	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	47.02	1811.98	1	84.5s	98.4
21	Shadow Honchkrow	Peck	Sky Attack	51.94	1203.84	2	81.3s	98.0
22	Shadow Staraptor	Gust *	Brave Bird	50.18	1304.84	2	82.8s	96.9
23	Shadow Infernape	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	49.92	1321.65	2	83.0s	96.7
24	Mega Salamence	Fire Fang	Fire Blast	40.93	2819.31	1	93.1s	96.5
25	Shadow Typhlosion	Incinerate	Blast Burn *	48.68	1433.80	2	84.0s	96.4
26	Shadow Mamoswine	Powder Snow	Avalanche	53.80	936.29	3	82.3s	95.7
27	Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Brave Bird	40.56	2705.84	1	94.1s	95.0
28	Pheromosa	Bug Bite	Bug Buzz	52.34	970.75	3	83.6s	94.3
29	Shadow Salamence	Fire Fang	Fire Blast	44.29	1843.95	1	89.1s	94.2
30	Mega Scizor	Fury Cutter	X-Scissor	40.26	2614.37	1	94.9s	93.7
31	Chandelure	Fire Spin	Overheat	45.25	1646.42	2	88.3s	93.6
32	Primal Groudon	Dragon Tail	Fire Punch *	43.16	1930.16	1	90.9s	93.1
33	Standard Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	46.38	1402.58	2	87.9s	92.4
34	Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	46.38	1402.58	2	87.9s	92.4
35	Shadow Arcanine	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	45.77	1436.51	2	88.7s	91.8
36	Nihilego	Poison Jab	Sludge Bomb	42.79	1856.05	1	91.9s	91.7
37	Shadow Unfezant	Air Slash	Sky Attack	47.24	1225.62	2	88.0s	91.2
38	Shadow Magmortar	Fire Spin	Fire Blast	46.20	1320.18	2	88.8s	90.9
39	Shadow Weavile	Ice Shard	Avalanche	49.09	1019.57	3	87.5s	90.5
40	Shadow Zapdos	Thunder Shock *	Drill Peck	44.20	1523.69	2	90.9s	90.4
41	Baxcalibur	Ice Fang	Avalanche	42.44	1755.07	2	93.0s	90.1
42	Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	41.56	1902.21	1	94.2s	90.1
43	Shadow Scizor	Fury Cutter	X-Scissor	41.80	1768.18	2	94.3s	89.1
44	Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	44.55	1367.85	2	91.3s	89.0
45	Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	40.78	1791.09	2	96.3s	87.7
46	Shadow Lugia	Extrasensory	Aeroblast *	38.31	2238.06	1	100.4s	87.3
47	Shadow Mewtwo	Psycho Cut	Ice Beam	45.23	1156.62	3	92.0s	87.0
48	Delphox	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	42.32	1494.67	2	94.7s	87.0
49	Emboar	Ember	Blast Burn *	42.33	1491.14	2	94.7s	87.0
50	Shadow Houndoom	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	45.28	1139.38	3	92.1s	86.9

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About the results

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

Shadow Grotle type chart

When fighting Shadow Grotle, keep in mind the following that Grass-type Pokémon are weak to Bug, Fire, Flying, Ice, and Poison type moves. They take reduced damage from Electric, Grass, Ground, and Water type moves.

Weaknesses

Bug	160.0%
Fire	160.0%
Flying	160.0%
Ice	160.0%
Poison	160.0%

Resistances

Electric	62.5%
Grass	62.5%
Ground	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 Grotle Raids

Move-type	Usage (%)	Weather
Fire	39.5%	Sunny
Flying	18.5%	Windy
Bug	15.5%	Rainy
Poison	10.0%	Cloudy
Ice	10.0%	Snow
Psychic	2.5%	Windy
Dragon	1.5%	Windy
Ghost	1.0%	Fog
Electric	0.5%	Rainy
Normal	0.5%	Partly Cloudy
Fighting	0.5%	Cloudy

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.