Best Shadow Weavile counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Shadow Weavile 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 Blaziken

Counter

Focus Blast

Best performing move types

69.5%
12.5%
5.0%
3.5%
3.0%
1.5%
1.0%
1.0%
0.5%
0.5%
0.5%
0.5%
0.5%
0.5%

#	Name	Fast Attack	Charged Attack	DPS	TDO	Faints	TTW	Score
1	Mega Blaziken	Counter	Focus Blast	73.73	1712.53	2	57.2s	139.1
2	Terrakion	Double Kick	Sacred Sword *	72.39	1512.58	2	59.3s	133.7
3	Keldeo (Ordinary)	Low Kick	Sacred Sword	65.75	1876.37	1	62.4s	129.4
4	Shadow Machamp	Counter	Dynamic Punch	72.63	1175.69	3	61.8s	127.3
5	Shadow Hariyama	Counter	Dynamic Punch	69.45	1199.24	3	63.8s	123.4
6	Lucario	Counter	Aura Sphere	67.98	1116.03	3	65.9s	119.5
7	Shadow Blaziken	Counter	Focus Blast	66.03	1104.13	3	67.6s	116.6
8	Conkeldurr	Counter	Dynamic Punch	62.00	1330.12	2	68.9s	115.1
9	Mega Alakazam	Counter *	Focus Blast	66.82	923.21	3	69.5s	113.5
10	Mega Lopunny	Double Kick	Focus Blast	60.65	1098.75	3	72.5s	108.8
11	Shadow Sirfetch'd	Counter	Close Combat	64.00	883.76	4	72.5s	108.7
12	Machamp	Counter	Dynamic Punch	59.52	1149.58	3	73.0s	108.2
13	Buzzwole	Counter	Superpower	54.38	1415.35	2	76.4s	105.0
14	Cobalion	Double Kick	Sacred Sword *	52.91	1567.17	2	77.2s	104.9
15	Shadow Poliwrath	Counter *	Dynamic Punch	55.69	1274.73	2	75.9s	104.8
16	Hariyama	Counter	Dynamic Punch	56.43	1164.19	3	76.2s	103.9
17	Pheromosa	Low Kick	Focus Blast	64.91	671.15	5	76.9s	103.9
18	Hawlucha	Low Kick	Flying Press	60.50	824.79	4	77.0s	102.4
19	Virizion	Double Kick	Sacred Sword *	54.80	1130.25	3	78.4s	100.9
20	Blaziken	Counter	Focus Blast	55.02	1096.67	3	78.6s	100.6
21	Breloom	Counter	Dynamic Punch	62.47	645.48	5	79.9s	100.0
22	Galarian Zapdos	Counter	Close Combat	55.55	1009.80	3	79.1s	99.7
23	Meloetta (Pirouette)	Low Kick	Close Combat	53.21	1157.58	3	80.1s	99.1
24	Shadow Sawk	Low Kick	Focus Blast	58.12	802.80	4	79.9s	98.7
25	Passimian	Counter	Superpower	52.47	1101.61	3	81.7s	97.0
26	Toxicroak	Counter	Dynamic Punch	54.39	915.11	3	81.9s	96.1
27	Shadow Gallade	Low Kick	Close Combat	55.33	835.91	4	82.3s	95.7
28	Emboar	Low Kick	Focus Blast	50.55	1153.93	3	83.7s	95.1
29	Heracross	Counter	Close Combat	51.16	1090.41	3	83.6s	94.9
30	Shadow Alakazam	Counter *	Focus Blast	59.97	572.32	6	85.2s	94.5
31	Bewear	Low Kick	Superpower	51.89	1002.46	3	83.7s	94.3
32	Mega Y Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	50.75	1076.01	3	84.3s	94.0
33	Shadow Dragonite	Steel Wing	Superpower	58.41	619.58	5	84.9s	94.0
34	Mega Pinsir	Rock Smash	Superpower	53.54	870.71	4	83.8s	94.0
35	Sirfetch'd	Counter	Close Combat	53.34	878.20	4	83.9s	93.9
36	Shadow Rhyperior	Smack Down	Superpower	53.51	784.54	4	85.6s	92.0
37	Shadow Infernape	Rock Smash	Close Combat	51.74	887.21	4	85.8s	91.8
38	Shadow Metagross	Bullet Punch	Meteor Mash *	51.18	919.50	3	86.0s	91.7
39	Sneasler	Rock Smash	Close Combat	49.92	953.21	3	87.2s	90.5
40	Mega Medicham	Counter	Dynamic Punch	51.73	797.63	4	87.6s	89.8
41	Poliwrath	Counter *	Dynamic Punch	45.92	1251.01	2	89.9s	89.5
42	Shadow Hitmonlee	Double Kick	Close Combat	53.81	669.38	5	88.4s	89.4
43	Shadow Ursaring	Counter	Close Combat	53.37	631.96	5	90.2s	87.8
44	Shadow Pinsir	Rock Smash	Superpower	51.67	709.89	5	90.0s	87.6
45	Crabominable	Rock Smash	Power-Up Punch	47.61	930.99	3	91.1s	86.8
46	Shadow Magmortar	Karate Chop	Brick Break	49.23	800.99	4	91.1s	86.4
47	Shadow Hitmonchan	Counter	Power-Up Punch	50.98	684.06	5	91.7s	86.0
48	Sawk	Low Kick	Focus Blast	48.51	799.50	4	92.2s	85.4
49	Mega Gardevoir	Charm	Dazzling Gleam	45.84	994.19	3	93.0s	85.3
50	Togekiss	Charm	Aura Sphere *	46.32	948.26	3	92.9s	85.2

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About the results

Our guide provides detailed information on recommended Pokémon and moves that are most effective against Shadow Weavile in Raid Battles. Whether you're looking for the best counters to take Shadow Weavile 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 Weavile counter is Mega Blaziken, followed by Terrakion, Keldeo (Ordinary), and Shadow Machamp. The table also includes Shadow Hariyama, Lucario, Shadow Blaziken, and Conkeldurr, among others. Each Pokemon's move type is indicated by an icon beside the move name.

Shadow Weavile type chart

When fighting Shadow Weavile, keep in mind the following that Dark and Ice-type Pokémon are weak to Fighting, Bug, Fairy, Fire, Rock, and Steel type moves. They take reduced damage from Dark, Ghost, Ice, and Psychic type moves.

Weaknesses

Fighting	256.0%
Bug	160.0%
Fairy	160.0%
Fire	160.0%
Rock	160.0%
Steel	160.0%

Resistances

Psychic	39.1%
Dark	62.5%
Ghost	62.5%
Ice	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 Weavile Raids

Move-type	Usage (%)	Weather
Fighting	69.5%	Cloudy
Fire	12.5%	Sunny
Rock	5.0%	Partly Cloudy
Steel	3.5%	Snow
Fairy	3.0%	Cloudy
Ghost	1.5%	Fog
Ground	1.0%	Sunny
Bug	1.0%	Rainy
Psychic	0.5%	Windy
Dragon	0.5%	Windy
Flying	0.5%	Windy
Dark	0.5%	Fog
Normal	0.5%	Partly Cloudy
Electric	0.5%	Rainy

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.