Best Shadow Chimchar counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Shadow Chimchar 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 Kyogre

Waterfall

Origin Pulse *

Best performing move types

36.0%
28.0%
21.5%
4.5%
3.0%
1.5%
1.5%
1.0%
1.0%
1.0%
0.5%
0.5%

#	Name	Fast Attack	Charged Attack	DPS	TDO	Faints	TTW	Score
1	Primal Kyogre	Waterfall	Origin Pulse *	90.75	8448.84	0	41.4s	227.5
2	Primal Groudon	Mud Shot	Precipice Blades *	90.14	8391.39	0	41.7s	226.0
3	Mega Swampert	Water Gun	Hydro Cannon *	79.18	6437.43	0	47.7s	193.0
4	Mega Diancie	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	82.21	4737.46	0	46.8s	186.8
5	Shadow Rhyperior	Mud-Slap	Rock Wrecker *	77.80	5638.74	0	48.8s	185.3
6	Mega Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	70.29	7259.47	0	53.2s	180.0
7	Mega Rayquaza	Dragon Tail	Dragon Ascent	73.74	5865.61	0	51.3s	179.0
8	Mega Blastoise	Water Gun	Hydro Cannon *	73.84	5430.45	0	51.4s	176.4
9	Shadow Garchomp	Mud Shot	Earth Power *	74.56	4948.49	0	51.2s	174.4
10	Shadow Kingler	Bubble	Crabhammer	81.38	3246.48	1	48.7s	171.5
11	Mega Gyarados	Waterfall	Hydro Pump	69.35	5998.58	0	54.3s	171.2
12	Kyogre	Waterfall	Origin Pulse *	70.49	5446.20	0	53.7s	170.1
13	Mega Aerodactyl	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	71.26	5063.30	0	53.4s	169.0
14	Shadow Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	69.64	4886.60	0	54.6s	164.7
15	Shadow Swampert	Water Gun	Hydro Cannon *	72.39	4185.62	0	53.2s	164.6
16	Tyrantrum	Rock Throw	Meteor Beam	63.98	6029.66	0	58.7s	160.8
17	Shadow Feraligatr	Water Gun *	Hydro Cannon *	71.02	3868.03	0	54.4s	159.5
18	Rhyperior	Mud-Slap	Rock Wrecker *	64.55	5491.23	0	58.4s	158.8
19	Groudon	Mud Shot	Precipice Blades *	70.53	3806.13	0	54.8s	158.1
20	Shadow Gyarados	Waterfall	Hydro Pump	68.77	4026.02	0	55.9s	156.8
21	Rampardos	Smack Down	Rock Slide	71.37	3407.25	1	54.7s	156.0
22	Shadow Rhydon	Mud-Slap	Earthquake	67.18	4161.91	0	57.0s	154.9
23	Shadow Mamoswine	Mud-Slap	High Horsepower	79.72	1930.19	1	52.6s	151.7
24	Garchomp	Mud Shot	Earth Power *	61.88	4825.51	0	61.2s	149.6
25	Greninja	Water Shuriken	Hydro Cannon *	68.23	3293.92	1	57.1s	149.5
26	Shadow Omastar	Rock Throw *	Hydro Pump	62.17	4713.50	0	61.0s	149.4
27	Terrakion	Smack Down	Rock Slide	62.29	4500.18	0	61.0s	148.2
28	Kingler	Bubble	Crabhammer	67.60	3171.61	1	57.8s	147.3
29	Shadow Golem	Rock Throw	Earthquake	64.23	3711.55	0	59.9s	146.0
30	Shadow Aerodactyl	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	66.55	3209.49	1	58.6s	145.8
31	Gigalith	Smack Down	Meteor Beam *	60.87	4338.46	0	62.5s	144.5
32	Landorus (Therian)	Mud Shot	Earthquake	66.40	2919.99	1	59.1s	142.8
33	Shadow Golurk	Mud-Slap	Earth Power	69.26	2407.43	1	58.0s	141.9
34	Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	58.02	4770.92	0	65.1s	141.8
35	Shadow Kabutops	Waterfall	Stone Edge	60.88	3950.64	0	62.8s	141.7
36	Swampert	Water Gun	Hydro Cannon *	60.09	4088.91	0	63.4s	141.3
37	Shadow Aggron	Smack Down	Meteor Beam	64.46	2948.90	1	60.7s	139.7
38	Palkia	Dragon Tail	Hydro Pump	55.43	5203.94	0	67.7s	139.2
39	Golem (Alola Shadow)	Rock Throw	Stone Edge	61.18	3535.26	1	62.9s	139.1
40	Samurott	Waterfall	Hydro Cannon *	60.28	3613.94	0	63.7s	138.1
41	Mega Salamence	Dragon Tail	Hydro Pump	55.76	4885.42	0	67.5s	138.1
42	Feraligatr	Water Gun *	Hydro Cannon *	59.02	3777.84	0	64.8s	137.0
43	Shadow Donphan	Mud-Slap	Earthquake	64.98	2506.00	1	61.1s	136.0
44	Clawitzer	Water Gun	Crabhammer	60.94	3204.36	1	63.6s	135.9
45	Shadow Salamence	Dragon Tail	Hydro Pump	60.64	3262.49	1	63.8s	135.9
46	Shadow Blastoise	Water Gun	Hydro Cannon *	60.00	3372.69	1	64.3s	135.6
47	Landorus (Incarnate)	Mud Shot	Earth Power	62.87	2803.72	1	62.4s	135.5
48	Shadow Ursaluna	Tackle	High Horsepower *	61.19	3046.22	1	63.6s	134.9
49	Gyarados	Waterfall	Hydro Pump	57.26	3940.54	0	66.5s	134.9
50	Shadow Kingdra	Waterfall	Hydro Pump	56.57	4049.13	0	67.2s	134.4

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About the results

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

Shadow Chimchar type chart

When fighting Shadow Chimchar, keep in mind the following that Fire-type Pokémon are weak to Ground, Rock, and Water type moves. They take reduced damage from Bug, Fairy, Fire, Grass, Ice, and Steel type moves.

Weaknesses

Ground	160.0%
Rock	160.0%
Water	160.0%

Resistances

Bug	62.5%
Fairy	62.5%
Fire	62.5%
Grass	62.5%
Ice	62.5%
Steel	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 Chimchar Raids

Move-type	Usage (%)	Weather
Water	36.0%	Rainy
Rock	28.0%	Partly Cloudy
Ground	21.5%	Sunny
Dragon	4.5%	Windy
Psychic	3.0%	Windy
Flying	1.5%	Windy
Fighting	1.5%	Cloudy
Ghost	1.0%	Fog
Electric	1.0%	Rainy
Dark	1.0%	Fog
Normal	0.5%	Partly Cloudy
Poison	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.