Best Shadow Skorupi counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Shadow Skorupi 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

32.0%
30.0%
18.5%
15.5%
1.0%
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	69.11	4694.81	0	55.2s	162.4
2	Shadow Mewtwo	Confusion	Psystrike *	62.14	2548.70	1	63.6s	131.7
3	Mega Alakazam	Confusion	Psychic *	57.38	2172.29	1	69.4s	119.6
4	Rayquaza	Air Slash	Dragon Ascent	53.28	2871.50	1	72.6s	119.4
5	Mega Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	56.17	2260.73	1	70.5s	118.6
6	Mega Y Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	54.06	2588.33	1	72.2s	118.3
7	Mega Latios	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	49.91	2926.68	1	77.0s	113.8
8	Mewtwo	Confusion	Psystrike *	51.44	2489.54	1	75.8s	112.8
9	Shadow Metagross	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	46.27	3382.90	1	82.1s	110.4
10	Reshiram	Fire Fang	Fusion Flare *	48.08	2756.41	1	80.1s	109.1
11	Shadow Moltres	Fire Spin	Sky Attack *	51.45	2021.62	1	77.1s	108.1
12	Mega Gardevoir	Confusion	Psychic	51.75	1924.38	1	77.0s	107.5
13	Mega Diancie	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	50.78	1988.86	1	78.1s	106.6
14	Shadow Latios	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	48.98	2200.16	1	80.0s	105.8
15	Shadow Rhyperior	Smack Down	Rock Wrecker *	46.84	2584.05	1	82.4s	105.5
16	Mega Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	43.22	3429.50	1	87.5s	104.9
17	Mega X Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	46.53	2456.32	1	83.2s	103.8
18	Hoopa (Unbound)	Confusion	Psychic	49.52	1891.35	1	80.3s	103.4
19	Shadow Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Brave Bird	46.46	2422.87	1	83.4s	103.4
20	Mega Latias	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	43.21	2998.47	1	88.1s	102.0
21	Shadow Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	47.39	2083.90	1	82.9s	101.9
22	Mega Pidgeot	Gust *	Brave Bird	46.62	2188.25	1	83.8s	101.6
23	Shadow Alakazam	Confusion	Psychic *	52.23	1400.45	2	79.2s	101.5
24	Yveltal	Gust	Oblivion Wing *	44.32	2613.82	1	86.7s	101.2
25	Shadow Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	50.94	1496.85	2	80.3s	100.9
26	Heatran	Fire Spin	Magma Storm *	41.39	3329.48	1	91.3s	100.7
27	Mega Aerodactyl	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	43.89	2628.85	1	87.5s	100.5
28	Lunala	Confusion	Psychic	40.85	3456.23	1	92.3s	100.4
29	Shadow Lugia	Extrasensory	Aeroblast *	42.00	3095.07	1	90.4s	100.4
30	Mega Gengar	Lick *	Psychic *	41.92	2954.80	1	90.7s	99.3
31	Primal Groudon	Mud Shot	Fire Punch *	41.52	2802.61	1	91.8s	97.5
32	Shadow Staraptor	Gust *	Brave Bird	47.52	1592.14	2	84.8s	96.6
33	Shadow Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	47.06	1611.53	2	85.4s	96.1
34	Shadow Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	42.90	2295.37	1	90.2s	96.0
35	Shadow Gallade	Confusion	Psychic	45.97	1694.91	2	86.8s	95.3
36	Shadow Honchkrow	Peck	Sky Attack	48.49	1367.62	2	84.8s	95.2
37	Mega Houndoom	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	44.69	1842.47	1	88.4s	94.8
38	Metagross	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	38.52	3269.04	1	97.9s	94.8
39	Shadow Aggron	Smack Down	Meteor Beam	39.29	2913.08	1	96.6s	94.0
40	Shadow Infernape	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	47.15	1417.89	2	86.5s	93.8
41	Hoopa (Confined)	Confusion	Psychic	41.49	2325.93	1	93.0s	93.7
42	Shadow Typhlosion	Incinerate	Blast Burn *	46.01	1543.87	2	87.6s	93.6
43	Chandelure	Fire Spin	Overheat	43.10	1977.05	1	90.8s	93.5
44	Mega Salamence	Fire Fang	Fire Blast	38.97	2916.52	1	97.3s	93.4
45	Shadow Zapdos	Thunder Shock *	Drill Peck	43.39	1913.34	1	90.5s	93.3
46	Galarian Articuno	Psycho Cut	Brave Bird	41.74	2205.26	1	92.8s	93.2
47	Shadow Latias	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	41.93	2132.35	1	92.6s	92.9
48	Moltres	Fire Spin	Sky Attack *	42.65	1977.76	1	91.7s	92.7
49	Rampardos	Smack Down	Rock Slide	44.16	1703.03	2	90.0s	92.4
50	Volcarona	Fire Spin	Overheat	42.54	1923.57	1	92.1s	92.0

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About the results

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

Shadow Skorupi type chart

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

Weaknesses

Fire	160.0%
Flying	160.0%
Psychic	160.0%
Rock	160.0%

Resistances

Fighting	39.1%
Grass	39.1%
Bug	62.5%
Fairy	62.5%
Poison	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 Skorupi Raids

Move-type	Usage (%)	Weather
Fire	32.0%	Sunny
Psychic	30.0%	Windy
Rock	18.5%	Partly Cloudy
Flying	15.5%	Windy
Electric	1.0%	Rainy
Water	1.0%	Rainy
Dragon	1.0%	Windy
Ghost	0.5%	Fog
Ground	0.5%	Sunny

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.