Best Shadow Charmeleon counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Shadow Charmeleon 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 👑

Primal Kyogre

Waterfall Origin Pulse *

Best performing move types

• 37.0%
• 27.0%
• 21.0%
• 4.5%
• 3.0%
• 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	Primal Kyogre	Waterfall	Origin Pulse *	65.65	4284.12	0	58.2s	153.0
2	Primal Groudon	Mud Shot	Precipice Blades *	65.35	4264.33	0	58.5s	152.3
3	Mega Swampert	Water Gun	Hydro Cannon *	58.12	3288.50	1	66.3s	131.6
4	Mega Diancie	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	59.61	2370.01	1	66.5s	125.5
5	Shadow Rhyperior	Mud-Slap	Rock Wrecker *	56.89	2807.53	1	68.4s	125.2
6	Mega Rayquaza	Dragon Tail	Dragon Ascent	53.92	2981.26	1	71.6s	121.5
7	Mega Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	50.83	3645.15	0	74.8s	120.8
8	Mega Blastoise	Water Gun	Hydro Cannon *	54.11	2777.04	1	71.7s	120.1
9	Shadow Garchomp	Mud Shot	Earth Power *	54.74	2505.12	1	71.5s	118.6
10	Shadow Kingler	Bubble	Crabhammer	59.39	1630.83	2	69.4s	116.0
11	Mega Gyarados	Waterfall	Hydro Pump	50.18	3033.40	1	76.5s	115.1
12	Kyogre	Waterfall	Origin Pulse *	51.05	2748.91	1	75.8s	114.4
13	Mega Aerodactyl	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	51.85	2531.38	1	75.1s	113.9
14	Shadow Swampert	Water Gun	Hydro Cannon *	53.55	2129.99	1	74.0s	112.8
15	Shadow Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	50.50	2418.50	1	77.2s	110.5
16	Shadow Feraligatr	Water Gun *	Hydro Cannon *	52.42	1967.20	1	76.0s	109.1
17	Tyrantrum	Rock Throw	Meteor Beam	46.33	3080.66	1	82.4s	108.4
18	Rhyperior	Mud-Slap	Rock Wrecker *	47.09	2743.75	1	81.7s	107.2
19	Groudon	Mud Shot	Precipice Blades *	51.38	1881.35	1	77.7s	106.4
20	Rampardos	Smack Down	Rock Slide	52.44	1690.24	2	77.2s	105.8
21	Shadow Gyarados	Waterfall	Hydro Pump	49.92	2013.02	1	79.3s	105.4
22	Shadow Rhydon	Mud-Slap	Earthquake	48.60	2044.37	1	81.1s	103.5
23	Shadow Mamoswine	Mud-Slap	High Horsepower	58.86	939.83	3	76.5s	102.9
24	Garchomp	Mud Shot	Earth Power *	45.34	2451.01	1	85.3s	101.7
25	Greninja	Water Shuriken	Hydro Cannon *	49.90	1659.27	2	80.8s	101.3
26	Shadow Omastar	Rock Throw *	Hydro Pump	44.94	2390.12	1	86.1s	100.4
27	Terrakion	Smack Down	Rock Slide	45.40	2247.26	1	85.7s	100.0
28	Kingler	Bubble	Crabhammer	49.25	1598.78	2	82.1s	99.5
29	Shadow Aerodactyl	Rock Throw	Rock Slide	48.70	1591.87	2	83.0s	98.5
30	Shadow Golem	Rock Throw	Earthquake	46.45	1829.78	1	85.4s	97.6
31	Gigalith	Smack Down	Meteor Beam *	44.16	2159.51	1	88.2s	97.0
32	Swampert	Water Gun	Hydro Cannon *	44.36	2086.82	1	88.0s	96.7
33	Shadow Golurk	Mud-Slap	Earth Power	51.12	1173.56	3	82.7s	96.2
34	Landorus (Therian)	Mud Shot	Earthquake	48.21	1430.71	2	84.7s	95.6
35	Tyranitar	Smack Down *	Stone Edge	42.05	2375.11	1	91.7s	95.2
36	Shadow Kabutops	Waterfall	Stone Edge	43.93	1993.98	1	89.2s	95.1
37	Samurott	Waterfall	Hydro Cannon *	44.36	1833.29	1	89.0s	94.2
38	Palkia	Dragon Tail	Hydro Pump	40.11	2707.38	1	95.1s	94.1
39	Feraligatr	Water Gun *	Hydro Cannon *	43.49	1928.26	1	90.3s	93.6
40	Shadow Aggron	Smack Down	Meteor Beam	46.76	1428.59	2	87.1s	93.3
41	Golem (Alola Shadow)	Rock Throw	Stone Edge	44.36	1747.52	2	89.4s	93.3
42	Mega Salamence	Dragon Tail	Hydro Pump	40.43	2476.86	1	94.9s	93.0
43	Clawitzer	Water Gun	Crabhammer	44.87	1630.33	2	89.1s	92.8
44	Shadow Blastoise	Water Gun	Hydro Cannon *	44.25	1718.37	2	89.7s	92.7
45	Excadrill	Mud-Slap	Scorching Sands	52.05	907.16	3	85.0s	92.7
46	Shadow Ursaluna	Tackle	High Horsepower *	45.47	1522.22	2	88.6s	92.5
47	Landorus (Incarnate)	Mud Shot	Earth Power	46.44	1398.11	2	87.8s	92.4
48	Shadow Salamence	Dragon Tail	Hydro Pump	44.15	1632.10	2	90.4s	91.6
49	Shadow Mewtwo	Confusion	Psystrike *	47.27	1246.84	2	87.7s	91.5
50	Mega Slowbro	Water Gun	Surf *	39.34	2473.90	1	97.3s	91.0

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Shadow Charmeleon type chart

When fighting Shadow Charmeleon, keep in mind the following that Fire-type Pokémon are weak to Ground, Rock, and Water type moves. They take reduced damage from Bug, Fairy, Fire, Grass, Ice, and Steel type moves.

Weaknesses

Ground	160.0%
Rock	160.0%
Water	160.0%

Resistances

Bug	62.5%
Fairy	62.5%
Fire	62.5%
Grass	62.5%
Ice	62.5%
Steel	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 Charmeleon in Raid Battles. Whether you're looking for the best counters to take Shadow Charmeleon 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 Charmeleon counter is Primal Kyogre, followed by Primal Groudon, Mega Swampert, and Mega Diancie. The table also includes Shadow Rhyperior, Mega Rayquaza, Mega Tyranitar, and Mega Blastoise, 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 Charmeleon 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.