Best Galarian Shadow Meowth counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Galarian Shadow Meowth 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 👑

Primal Groudon

Mud Shot

Precipice Blades *

Best performing move types

42.0%
34.0%
21.5%
1.0%
0.5%
0.5%
0.5%

#	Name	Fast Attack	Charged Attack	DPS	TDO	Faints	TTW	Score
1	Primal Groudon	Mud Shot	Precipice Blades *	85.65	5539.59	0	44.6s	199.3
2	Mega Y Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	82.65	5300.12	0	46.3s	191.9
3	Mega Blaziken	Counter	Blast Burn *	87.56	3917.06	0	44.8s	188.9
4	Reshiram	Fire Fang	Fusion Flare *	74.04	4230.44	0	52.0s	167.9
5	Shadow Moltres	Fire Spin	Overheat	74.96	3972.58	0	51.6s	167.4
6	Shadow Blaziken	Counter	Blast Burn *	79.23	2588.02	1	51.0s	160.3
7	Mega X Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	71.84	3779.58	0	53.9s	160.2
8	Shadow Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	72.95	3387.83	1	53.6s	158.6
9	Shadow Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Sacred Fire *	66.16	4626.74	0	57.5s	156.4
10	Shadow Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	71.61	3309.34	1	54.6s	155.5
11	Shadow Garchomp	Mud Shot	Earth Power *	71.93	3222.47	1	54.5s	155.2
12	Terrakion	Double Kick	Sacred Sword *	74.88	2678.05	1	53.5s	154.3
13	Shadow Machamp	Counter	Dynamic Punch	73.90	2615.80	1	54.2s	152.0
14	Mega Houndoom	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	68.49	3301.72	1	56.9s	150.0
15	Keldeo (Ordinary)	Low Kick	Sacred Sword	68.27	3329.26	1	57.1s	149.9
16	Volcarona	Fire Spin	Overheat	65.43	3727.15	0	58.9s	148.3
17	Shadow Infernape	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	72.35	2418.28	1	55.7s	147.1
18	Mega Alakazam	Counter *	Focus Blast	72.79	2361.91	1	55.6s	147.1
19	Shadow Typhlosion	Incinerate	Blast Burn *	70.97	2515.36	1	56.5s	146.0
20	Shadow Mamoswine	Mud-Slap	High Horsepower	74.83	2044.66	1	55.2s	146.0
21	Heatran	Fire Spin	Magma Storm *	64.75	3568.04	1	59.6s	145.8
22	Groudon	Mud Shot	Precipice Blades *	66.84	3146.50	1	58.4s	145.7
23	Mega Salamence	Fire Fang	Fire Blast	59.97	4616.79	0	63.2s	144.6
24	Moltres	Fire Spin	Overheat	62.48	3893.41	0	61.3s	144.2
25	Lucario	Counter	Aura Sphere	69.32	2592.72	1	57.5s	144.2
26	Shadow Hariyama	Counter	Dynamic Punch	68.51	2613.47	1	58.1s	143.1
27	Mega Lopunny	Double Kick	Focus Blast	66.11	2850.56	1	59.5s	141.6
28	Shadow Salamence	Fire Fang	Fire Blast	64.89	3049.89	1	60.2s	141.4
29	Standard Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	67.73	2471.81	1	59.0s	140.2
30	Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	67.73	2471.81	1	59.0s	140.2
31	Shadow Arcanine	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	66.54	2514.74	1	59.8s	138.7
32	Shadow Magmortar	Fire Spin	Fire Blast	67.79	2331.30	1	59.3s	138.6
33	Shadow Rhyperior	Mud-Slap	Earthquake	69.93	2064.70	1	58.5s	138.6
34	Conkeldurr	Counter	Dynamic Punch	63.54	2958.57	1	61.5s	138.2
35	Blaziken	Counter	Blast Burn *	65.55	2534.77	1	60.6s	137.3
36	Landorus (Therian)	Mud Shot	Earthquake	62.68	2998.73	1	62.2s	137.1
37	Shadow Sirfetch'd	Counter	Close Combat	68.74	2067.50	1	59.3s	136.7
38	Chandelure	Fire Spin	Overheat	66.47	2344.23	1	60.3s	136.6
39	Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	60.71	3333.36	1	63.6s	136.6
40	Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Sacred Fire *	55.11	4506.97	0	68.5s	134.5
41	Mega Swampert	Mud Shot	Earthquake	61.84	2834.40	1	63.3s	134.1
42	Galarian Zapdos	Counter	Close Combat	58.55	3496.62	1	65.6s	134.0
43	Excadrill	Mud-Slap	Scorching Sands	63.49	2535.61	1	62.4s	133.8
44	Pheromosa	Low Kick	Focus Blast	69.68	1751.22	2	59.9s	133.6
45	Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	59.41	3230.96	1	65.1s	133.4
46	Garchomp	Mud Shot	Earth Power *	59.51	3151.56	1	65.1s	132.9
47	Emboar	Low Kick	Blast Burn *	61.54	2735.40	1	63.8s	132.6
48	Shadow Houndoom	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	65.67	2087.50	1	61.7s	132.1
49	Shadow Ursaluna	Rock Smash	High Horsepower *	61.17	2648.67	1	64.3s	131.1
50	Buzzwole	Counter	Superpower	56.71	3456.43	1	67.7s	130.3

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Galarian Shadow Meowth type chart

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

Weaknesses

Fighting	160.0%
Fire	160.0%
Ground	160.0%

Resistances

Poison	39.1%
Bug	62.5%
Dragon	62.5%
Fairy	62.5%
Flying	62.5%
Grass	62.5%
Ice	62.5%
Normal	62.5%
Psychic	62.5%
Rock	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 Galarian Shadow Meowth in Raid Battles. Whether you're looking for the best counters to take Galarian Shadow Meowth down quickly with high DPS, or the tankiest counters that can withstand its attacks, our guide has something for every trainer.

The top-ranked Galarian Shadow Meowth counter is Primal Groudon, followed by Mega Y Charizard, Mega Blaziken, and Reshiram. The table also includes Shadow Moltres, Shadow Blaziken, Mega X Charizard, and Shadow Entei, among others. Each Pokemon's move type is indicated by an icon beside the move name.

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

Typing	Usage %
Fire	42.0%
Fighting	34.0%
Ground	21.5%
Water	1.0%
Ghost	0.5%
Normal	0.5%
Psychic	0.5%

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.