Best Shadow Staravia counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Shadow Staravia 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 Diancie

Rock Throw

Rock Slide

Best performing move types

35.5%
29.5%
18.0%
5.0%
2.5%
2.0%
1.5%
1.5%
1.0%
1.0%
1.0%
1.0%
0.5%

#	Name	Fast Attack	Charged Attack	DPS	TDO	Faints	TTW	Score
1	Mega Diancie	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	76.84	3084.17	1	51.5s	162.1
2	Shadow Rhyperior	Smack Down	Rock Wrecker *	71.43	3569.67	1	54.4s	157.6
3	Mega Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	65.51	4736.29	0	58.0s	155.9
4	Mega Rayquaza	Dragon Tail	Dragon Ascent	70.97	2881.22	1	55.7s	150.1
5	Shadow Raikou	Thunder Shock	Wild Charge	72.62	2632.94	1	55.0s	150.1
6	Zekrom	Charge Beam	Fusion Bolt *	68.05	3367.42	1	57.2s	149.9
7	Xurkitree	Thunder Shock	Discharge	73.94	2320.25	1	54.9s	148.4
8	Mega Manectric	Thunder Fang	Wild Charge	72.79	2443.75	1	55.4s	148.1
9	Mega Aerodactyl	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	66.79	3295.34	1	58.3s	147.0
10	Shadow Electivire	Thunder Shock	Wild Charge	75.28	2066.62	1	54.8s	147.0
11	Shadow Magnezone	Spark	Wild Charge	70.27	2560.36	1	56.9s	145.4
12	Shadow Zapdos	Thunder Shock *	Thunderbolt	70.86	2455.68	1	56.7s	145.1
13	Golem (Alola Shadow)	Rollout *	Wild Charge	64.22	3329.23	1	60.4s	142.8
14	Shadow Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	65.08	3154.36	1	59.9s	142.7
15	Shadow Mamoswine	Powder Snow	Avalanche	75.09	1687.17	2	56.5s	140.8
16	Mega Ampharos	Volt Switch	Zap Cannon	62.97	3044.35	1	61.9s	138.0
17	Shadow Luxray	Spark	Wild Charge	70.37	1946.34	1	58.6s	137.6
18	Thundurus (Therian)	Volt Switch	Thunderbolt	67.42	2247.01	1	59.8s	137.0
19	Rampardos	Smack Down	Rock Slide	67.57	2209.77	1	59.8s	136.7
20	Rhyperior	Smack Down	Rock Wrecker *	59.07	3480.46	1	65.1s	134.8
21	Shadow Aggron	Smack Down	Meteor Beam	59.63	3271.49	1	64.8s	134.1
22	Tyrantrum	Rock Throw	Meteor Beam	59.94	2955.29	1	64.9s	131.9
23	Shadow Mewtwo	Psycho Cut	Thunderbolt	66.96	1793.75	2	61.8s	130.1
24	Shadow Weavile	Ice Shard	Avalanche	71.50	1341.87	2	61.1s	129.2
25	Raikou	Thunder Shock	Wild Charge	60.12	2575.90	1	65.5s	128.6
26	Shadow Aerodactyl	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	62.71	2077.77	1	64.3s	127.2
27	Shadow Manectric	Thunder Fang	Wild Charge	68.48	1450.38	2	62.5s	126.8
28	Electivire	Thunder Shock	Wild Charge	62.25	2024.09	1	64.9s	125.8
29	Baxcalibur	Ice Fang	Avalanche	62.40	1972.87	1	65.0s	125.4
30	Gigalith	Smack Down	Meteor Beam *	56.87	2811.58	1	68.4s	125.2
31	Magnezone	Spark	Wild Charge	58.29	2502.76	1	67.5s	124.7
32	Zapdos	Thunder Shock *	Thunderbolt	58.67	2404.62	1	67.3s	124.3
33	Galarian Standard Darmanitan	Ice Fang	Avalanche	67.17	1402.54	2	63.9s	124.0
34	Mega Gardevoir	Charge Beam	Triple Axel	61.48	1915.35	1	66.1s	123.2
35	Terrakion	Smack Down	Rock Slide	59.37	2179.19	1	67.2s	123.0
36	Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	54.16	3091.39	1	71.1s	122.8
37	Shadow Zebstrika	Spark	Wild Charge	64.91	1526.98	2	64.9s	122.8
38	Primal Kyogre	Waterfall	Blizzard	56.01	2698.64	1	69.6s	122.7
39	Alolan Golem	Rollout *	Wild Charge	53.35	3241.48	1	71.9s	122.5
40	Shadow Omastar	Rock Throw *	Rock Slide *	58.24	2287.96	1	68.1s	122.4
41	Shadow Golem	Rock Throw	Stone Edge	57.08	2276.29	1	69.4s	120.3
42	Mamoswine	Powder Snow	Avalanche	61.50	1644.52	2	67.3s	119.4
43	Mega Glalie	Frost Breath	Avalanche	61.98	1492.76	2	67.7s	117.8
44	Luxray	Spark	Wild Charge	58.15	1905.57	1	69.5s	117.7
45	Tapu Koko	Volt Switch	Thunderbolt	57.27	1940.92	1	70.3s	116.7
46	Shadow Arcanine	Thunder Fang	Wild Charge	60.55	1552.10	2	68.7s	116.6
47	Shadow Magneton	Thunder Shock	Discharge	60.48	1521.04	2	69.0s	116.0
48	Aggron	Smack Down	Meteor Beam	49.73	3185.71	1	76.9s	115.5
49	Shadow Mr. Rime	Ice Shard	Triple Axel	61.65	1320.20	2	69.3s	114.4
50	Mega Aggron	Smack Down	Meteor Beam	51.08	2690.78	1	75.8s	113.9

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About the results

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

Shadow Staravia type chart

When fighting Shadow Staravia, keep in mind the following that Normal and Flying-type Pokémon are weak to Electric, Ice, and Rock type moves. They take reduced damage from Bug, Grass, Ghost, and Ground type moves.

Weaknesses

Electric	160.0%
Ice	160.0%
Rock	160.0%

Resistances

Ghost	39.1%
Ground	39.1%
Bug	62.5%
Grass	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 Staravia Raids

Move-type	Usage (%)	Weather
Electric	35.5%	Rainy
Rock	29.5%	Partly Cloudy
Ice	18.0%	Snow
Dragon	5.0%	Windy
Psychic	2.5%	Windy
Fire	2.0%	Sunny
Flying	1.5%	Windy
Water	1.5%	Rainy
Normal	1.0%	Partly Cloudy
Steel	1.0%	Snow
Fighting	1.0%	Cloudy
Dark	1.0%	Fog
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.