Best Shadow Monferno counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Shadow Monferno 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

37.0%
21.5%
18.5%
17.0%
2.5%
1.0%
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	95.60	6209.21	0	40.0s	222.6
2	Primal Kyogre	Waterfall	Origin Pulse *	77.01	4989.78	0	49.6s	179.2
3	Primal Groudon	Mud Shot	Precipice Blades *	76.53	4958.89	0	49.9s	178.1
4	Shadow Mewtwo	Confusion	Psystrike *	86.58	3017.61	1	46.4s	177.5
5	Rayquaza	Air Slash	Dragon Ascent	73.69	3778.63	0	52.7s	163.5
6	Mega Alakazam	Confusion	Psychic *	79.56	2581.61	1	50.8s	160.7
7	Mega Latios	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	68.66	4236.01	0	55.8s	158.2
8	Mega Swampert	Water Gun	Hydro Cannon *	68.06	3813.93	0	56.7s	153.8
9	Mega Gardevoir	Confusion	Psychic	70.94	3145.99	1	55.3s	152.8
10	Mewtwo	Confusion	Psystrike *	71.52	2955.57	1	55.2s	151.8
11	Shadow Moltres	Wing Attack	Sky Attack *	68.48	3050.60	1	57.3s	147.6
12	Shadow Latios	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	67.35	3168.68	1	58.0s	146.8
13	Mega Latias	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	59.40	4353.71	0	63.9s	141.8
14	Mega Blastoise	Water Gun	Hydro Cannon *	63.33	3222.46	1	61.3s	140.3
15	Shadow Ho-Oh	Extrasensory	Brave Bird	60.96	3609.82	0	63.0s	139.3
16	Shadow Garchomp	Mud Shot	Earth Power *	64.20	2901.15	1	61.0s	138.8
17	Hoopa (Unbound)	Confusion	Psychic	68.92	2132.74	1	59.0s	137.9
18	Shadow Alakazam	Confusion	Psychic *	72.58	1650.56	2	58.3s	136.4
19	Shadow Kingler	Bubble	Crabhammer	69.70	1888.74	1	59.3s	135.7
20	Shadow Lugia	Extrasensory	Aeroblast *	57.88	3830.97	0	66.0s	135.3
21	Kyogre	Waterfall	Origin Pulse *	59.85	3193.81	1	64.7s	133.9
22	Yveltal	Gust	Oblivion Wing *	62.24	2600.77	1	63.4s	132.4
23	Lunala	Confusion	Psychic	56.92	3607.79	0	67.2s	131.9
24	Shadow Swampert	Water Gun	Hydro Cannon *	62.72	2461.18	1	63.2s	131.7
25	Mega Pidgeot	Gust *	Brave Bird	64.70	2072.96	1	62.6s	130.4
26	Mega Gyarados	Waterfall	Hydro Pump	59.13	2841.07	1	66.0s	129.4
27	Shadow Rhyperior	Mud-Slap	Earthquake	61.98	2336.22	1	64.3s	129.1
28	Shadow Metagross	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	67.27	1687.28	2	62.1s	128.9
29	Shadow Gardevoir	Confusion	Psychic	63.70	2082.01	1	63.4s	128.9
30	Shadow Latias	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	57.62	3075.54	1	67.2s	128.9
31	Groudon	Mud Shot	Precipice Blades *	59.90	2529.06	1	65.8s	127.7
32	Shadow Feraligatr	Water Gun *	Hydro Cannon *	61.38	2273.83	1	65.0s	127.4
33	Shadow Gyarados	Waterfall	Hydro Pump	58.27	2764.29	1	67.0s	127.2
34	Shadow Gallade	Confusion	Psychic	63.98	1902.26	1	63.8s	127.0
35	Shadow Honchkrow	Peck	Sky Attack	69.57	1357.91	2	62.4s	126.7
36	Moltres	Wing Attack	Sky Attack *	56.78	2987.83	1	68.2s	126.6
37	Latios	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	55.86	3097.87	1	69.1s	125.9
38	Galarian Articuno	Confusion	Brave Bird	57.51	2707.25	1	67.9s	125.4
39	Shadow Zapdos	Thunder Shock *	Drill Peck	60.83	2084.62	1	66.1s	124.3
40	Shadow Staraptor	Gust *	Brave Bird	66.16	1490.53	2	64.1s	124.1
41	Mega Gengar	Lick *	Psychic *	58.57	2341.53	1	67.6s	123.5
42	Hoopa (Confined)	Confusion	Psychic	57.70	2420.72	1	68.3s	122.9
43	Shadow Mamoswine	Mud-Slap	High Horsepower	68.39	1243.46	2	64.2s	122.8
44	Shadow Exeggutor	Confusion	Psychic	66.12	1400.31	2	64.7s	122.5
45	Ho-Oh	Extrasensory	Brave Bird	50.79	3536.72	1	75.0s	120.0
46	Garchomp	Mud Shot	Earth Power *	53.14	2841.41	1	72.8s	118.9
47	Mega Slowbro	Confusion	Psychic	49.68	3666.47	0	76.4s	118.8
48	Shadow Golurk	Mud-Slap	Earth Power	58.55	1925.33	1	69.0s	118.6
49	Landorus (Therian)	Mud Shot	Earthquake	56.18	2198.83	1	70.6s	117.9
50	Shadow Unfezant	Air Slash	Sky Attack	62.73	1410.60	2	67.6s	117.6

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About the results

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

Shadow Monferno type chart

When fighting Shadow Monferno, keep in mind the following that Fire and Fighting-type Pokémon are weak to Flying, Ground, Psychic, and Water type moves. They take reduced damage from Dark, Fire, Grass, Ice, Steel, and Bug type moves.

Weaknesses

Flying	160.0%
Ground	160.0%
Psychic	160.0%
Water	160.0%

Resistances

Bug	39.1%
Dark	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 Monferno Raids

Move-type	Usage (%)	Weather
Psychic	37.0%	Windy
Water	21.5%	Rainy
Flying	18.5%	Windy
Ground	17.0%	Sunny
Dragon	2.5%	Windy
Electric	1.0%	Rainy
Fighting	1.0%	Cloudy
Ghost	0.5%	Fog
Normal	0.5%	Partly Cloudy
Rock	0.5%	Partly 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.