Best Shadow Venomoth counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Shadow Venomoth 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

33.0%
31.0%
17.0%
15.5%
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	74.31	3445.35	1	52.6s	161.5
2	Shadow Mewtwo	Confusion	Psystrike *	68.22	1533.98	2	62.2s	127.9
3	Mega Y Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	56.91	2561.36	1	68.9s	122.9
4	Mega Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	59.93	1813.19	1	68.0s	119.4
5	Rayquaza	Air Slash	Dragon Ascent	57.52	2091.81	1	69.5s	118.9
6	Mega Alakazam	Confusion	Psychic *	61.66	1301.79	2	69.4s	114.1
7	Shadow Moltres	Fire Spin	Sky Attack *	54.23	1985.14	1	73.6s	112.3
8	Mega Gardevoir	Confusion	Psychic	54.70	1735.01	2	74.1s	110.0
9	Mewtwo	Confusion	Psystrike *	56.06	1501.99	2	73.8s	108.9
10	Mega Diancie	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	53.59	1745.71	2	75.4s	108.4
11	Reshiram	Fire Fang	Fusion Flare *	50.74	2147.68	1	77.6s	108.2
12	Mega Latios	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	54.10	1664.78	2	75.2s	108.1
13	Shadow Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Brave Bird	48.84	2390.96	1	79.7s	107.3
14	Shadow Metagross	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	49.72	2000.56	1	79.6s	105.0
15	Shadow Rhyperior	Smack Down	Rock Wrecker *	50.66	1818.21	1	79.0s	104.5
16	Mega X Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	49.49	1929.25	1	80.2s	103.8
17	Heatran	Fire Spin	Magma Storm *	43.62	3110.84	1	87.2s	103.5
18	Shadow Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	50.03	1795.56	2	80.0s	103.2
19	Shadow Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	54.70	1194.25	3	77.9s	101.9
20	Yveltal	Gust	Oblivion Wing *	47.22	2093.86	1	83.1s	101.7
21	Shadow Latios	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	53.67	1238.09	2	78.7s	101.1
22	Mega Pidgeot	Gust *	Brave Bird	49.19	1689.77	2	81.7s	100.5
23	Primal Groudon	Mud Shot	Fire Punch *	43.89	2593.51	1	87.6s	100.2
24	Shadow Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	49.61	1581.20	2	81.7s	99.9
25	Mega Aerodactyl	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	46.58	1993.80	1	84.5s	99.6
26	Mega Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	45.87	2098.01	1	85.3s	99.4
27	Shadow Lugia	Extrasensory	Aeroblast *	44.28	2309.98	1	87.5s	98.6
28	Shadow Alakazam	Confusion	Psychic *	56.71	830.62	4	80.8s	97.4
29	Shadow Honchkrow	Peck	Sky Attack	52.64	1089.63	3	81.6s	97.0
30	Hoopa (Unbound)	Confusion	Psychic	54.35	959.23	3	81.3s	97.0
31	Mega Houndoom	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	47.21	1638.28	2	85.0s	96.7
32	Mega Latias	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	46.56	1725.28	2	85.7s	96.6
33	Lunala	Confusion	Psychic	43.89	2162.22	1	88.7s	96.6
34	Moltres	Fire Spin	Sky Attack *	44.91	1949.29	1	87.6s	96.3
35	Shadow Staraptor	Gust *	Brave Bird	50.28	1214.04	2	83.5s	95.6
36	Shadow Typhlosion	Incinerate	Blast Burn *	48.90	1339.79	2	84.4s	95.4
37	Shadow Infernape	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	50.54	1131.30	3	84.0s	94.7
38	Shadow Zapdos	Thunder Shock *	Drill Peck	46.71	1498.91	2	86.7s	94.2
39	Chandelure	Fire Spin	Overheat	45.25	1692.27	2	88.1s	94.1
40	Shadow Gardevoir	Confusion	Psychic	49.37	1143.44	3	85.5s	93.1
41	Volcarona	Fire Spin	Overheat	44.77	1667.37	2	89.0s	93.0
42	Shadow Gallade	Confusion	Psychic	49.42	1125.22	3	85.6s	92.9
43	Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Brave Bird	40.65	2351.34	1	94.7s	92.4
44	Mega Gengar	Lick *	Psychic *	45.17	1501.89	2	89.3s	91.7
45	Shadow Aggron	Smack Down	Meteor Beam	41.43	2102.48	1	93.7s	91.7
46	Galarian Articuno	Psycho Cut	Brave Bird	44.14	1627.50	2	90.4s	91.5
47	Standard Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	46.49	1305.41	2	88.5s	91.2
48	Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	46.49	1305.41	2	88.5s	91.2
49	Mega Salamence	Fire Fang	Fire Blast	41.04	2120.03	1	94.5s	91.2
50	Shadow Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	45.81	1366.81	2	89.1s	91.0

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About the results

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

Shadow Venomoth type chart

When fighting Shadow Venomoth, keep in mind the following that Bug and Poison-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 Venomoth Raids

Move-type	Usage (%)	Weather
Fire	33.0%	Sunny
Psychic	31.0%	Windy
Rock	17.0%	Partly Cloudy
Flying	15.5%	Windy
Electric	1.0%	Rainy
Water	1.0%	Rainy
Ground	0.5%	Sunny
Ghost	0.5%	Fog
Dragon	0.5%	Windy

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.