Best Shadow Vileplume counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Shadow Vileplume 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

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Raid Difficulty

3-Star Raid (3600 HP)↓

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Best overall 👑

Mega Rayquaza

Air Slash Dragon Ascent

Best performing move types

• 37.5%
• 33.0%
• 17.0%
• 9.5%
• 1.0%
• 1.0%
• 0.5%
• 0.5%

#	Name	Fast Attack	Charged Attack	DPS	TDO	Faints	TTW	Score
1	Mega Rayquaza	Air Slash	Dragon Ascent	66.42	2219.46	1	60.7s	135.0
2	Shadow Mewtwo	Confusion	Psystrike *	60.65	1101.22	3	72.4s	108.9
3	Mega Y Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	50.16	1711.80	2	80.2s	102.4
4	Rayquaza	Air Slash	Dragon Ascent	51.65	1350.63	2	80.4s	99.8
5	Mega Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	53.30	1189.86	3	79.6s	99.8
6	Mega Alakazam	Confusion	Psychic *	54.26	925.87	3	81.9s	96.2
7	Shadow Moltres	Fire Spin	Sky Attack *	48.06	1329.56	2	85.7s	94.0
8	Mega Latios	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	47.39	1315.34	2	86.9s	92.7
9	Mewtwo	Confusion	Psystrike *	49.69	1075.56	3	85.8s	92.4
10	Reshiram	Fire Fang	Fusion Flare *	44.40	1523.14	2	90.5s	90.7
11	Shadow Metagross	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	43.61	1511.72	2	92.1s	89.3
12	Shadow Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Brave Bird	42.72	1584.82	2	93.3s	88.7
13	Mega Gardevoir	Confusion	Psychic	49.12	897.68	4	89.3s	88.3
14	Mega X Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	43.53	1375.69	2	93.2s	87.5
15	Shadow Latios	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	47.11	980.53	3	91.1s	86.9
16	Heatran	Fire Spin	Magma Storm *	38.27	2199.23	1	100.6s	86.9
17	Shadow Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	49.04	787.98	4	91.7s	85.9
18	Shadow Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	44.00	1165.85	3	94.2s	85.3
19	Hoopa (Unbound)	Confusion	Psychic	47.37	808.86	4	93.8s	84.0
20	Shadow Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	43.98	1058.70	3	95.5s	83.6
21	Yveltal	Gust	Oblivion Wing *	42.46	1186.66	3	96.9s	83.2
22	Mega Latias	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	40.75	1361.73	2	98.9s	82.8
23	Shadow Alakazam	Confusion	Psychic *	50.16	592.99	6	96.1s	82.5
24	Shadow Mamoswine	Powder Snow	Avalanche	48.50	675.86	5	95.5s	82.5
25	Shadow Honchkrow	Peck	Sky Attack	49.19	635.87	5	95.8s	82.4
26	Primal Groudon	Mud Shot	Fire Punch *	39.58	1461.11	2	100.8s	82.1
27	Mega Pidgeot	Gust *	Brave Bird	43.11	1021.88	3	97.6s	81.7
28	Shadow Lugia	Extrasensory	Aeroblast *	38.71	1527.00	2	102.4s	81.4
29	Moltres	Fire Spin	Sky Attack *	39.71	1304.62	2	101.7s	80.4
30	Shadow Typhlosion	Incinerate	Blast Burn *	43.48	879.43	4	99.2s	79.8
31	Mega Houndoom	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	41.83	1013.19	3	100.3s	79.6
32	Shadow Infernape	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	45.22	745.20	4	98.9s	79.6
33	Volcarona	Fire Spin	Overheat	39.04	1277.70	2	103.5s	79.0
34	Lunala	Confusion	Psychic	39.37	1232.97	2	103.1s	79.0
35	Mega Gengar	Lick *	Psychic *	39.55	1209.34	2	102.9s	78.9
36	Shadow Exeggutor	Confusion	Psychic	45.19	708.30	5	100.0s	78.7
37	Shadow Staraptor	Gust *	Brave Bird	44.23	733.83	4	101.0s	77.9
38	Victini	Confusion	V-create	37.55	1279.34	2	107.1s	76.6
39	Metagross	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	36.13	1482.11	2	109.4s	76.6
40	Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Brave Bird	35.54	1560.97	2	110.5s	76.4
41	Shadow Gallade	Confusion	Psychic	44.53	635.70	5	103.5s	76.1
42	Galarian Articuno	Psycho Cut	Brave Bird	38.83	1079.82	3	106.1s	76.0
43	Shadow Latias	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	40.08	952.99	3	104.9s	76.0
44	Shadow Zapdos	Thunder Shock *	Drill Peck	40.62	897.93	4	104.7s	75.9
45	Shadow Arcanine	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	40.82	879.45	4	104.6s	75.9
46	Shadow Unfezant	Air Slash	Sky Attack	42.96	711.78	5	104.0s	75.7
47	Chandelure	Fire Spin	Overheat	39.39	998.92	3	105.8s	75.7
48	Shadow Gardevoir	Confusion	Psychic	44.85	594.76	6	104.5s	75.5
49	Standard Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	40.91	846.85	4	105.0s	75.4
50	Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	40.91	846.85	4	105.0s	75.4

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Shadow Vileplume type chart

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

Weaknesses

Fire	160.0%
Flying	160.0%
Ice	160.0%
Psychic	160.0%

Resistances

Grass	39.1%
Electric	62.5%
Fairy	62.5%
Fighting	62.5%
Water	62.5%

Type chart shows the percentage (%) of damage taken from an incoming attack of a particular type.

About the results

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

The most effective move-types to use against Shadow Vileplume are:

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.