Best Shadow Foongus counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Shadow Foongus 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 👑

Mega Rayquaza

Air Slash Dragon Ascent

Best performing move types

• 38.5%
• 34.0%
• 17.5%
• 7.5%
• 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	106.39	9911.12	0	35.3s	266.7
2	Shadow Mewtwo	Confusion	Psystrike *	96.95	4007.53	0	40.7s	205.8
3	Mega Y Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	82.97	6468.57	0	45.6s	200.6
4	Mega Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	86.29	4979.84	0	44.6s	196.1
5	Rayquaza	Air Slash	Dragon Ascent	81.76	6059.60	0	46.4s	195.6
6	Mega Alakazam	Confusion	Psychic *	89.52	3434.13	1	44.4s	187.2
7	Reshiram	Fire Fang	Fusion Flare *	74.33	6318.65	0	50.7s	182.9
8	Shadow Moltres	Fire Spin	Sky Attack *	78.40	5069.31	0	48.8s	182.4
9	Mega Latios	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	77.39	5248.87	0	49.3s	181.8
10	Shadow Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Brave Bird	71.98	6123.67	0	52.4s	177.1
11	Mega Gardevoir	Confusion	Psychic	79.95	3989.08	0	48.6s	176.4
12	Mewtwo	Confusion	Psystrike *	80.20	3923.65	0	48.6s	176.2
13	Mega X Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	71.63	5605.24	0	52.8s	173.3
14	Shadow Entei	Fire Fang	Overheat	73.17	4540.34	0	52.4s	168.8
15	Shadow Latios	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	75.84	3931.07	0	51.1s	168.6
16	Mega Pidgeot	Gust *	Brave Bird	72.50	4469.01	0	52.9s	167.0
17	Shadow Metagross	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	72.46	4441.08	0	52.9s	166.7
18	Yveltal	Gust	Oblivion Wing *	68.27	5587.85	0	55.3s	166.7
19	Hoopa (Unbound)	Confusion	Psychic	76.78	3477.52	1	51.0s	166.1
20	Shadow Blaziken	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	77.80	3292.83	1	50.6s	166.0
21	Heatran	Fire Spin	Magma Storm *	64.04	6416.32	0	58.5s	163.0
22	Mega Latias	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	66.98	5387.03	0	56.4s	163.0
23	Shadow Charizard	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	71.73	4046.23	0	53.7s	162.3
24	Shadow Lugia	Extrasensory	Aeroblast *	65.24	5667.41	0	57.7s	161.3
25	Mega Houndoom	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	68.62	4383.93	0	55.7s	159.2
26	Shadow Staraptor	Gust *	Brave Bird	73.79	3253.97	1	53.2s	158.7
27	Shadow Alakazam	Confusion	Psychic *	81.47	2198.94	1	50.7s	158.5
28	Volcarona	Fire Spin	Overheat	65.89	4966.85	0	57.5s	158.2
29	Moltres	Fire Spin	Sky Attack *	65.14	4943.41	0	58.2s	156.6
30	Shadow Infernape	Fire Spin	Blast Burn *	72.10	3120.44	1	54.5s	154.5
31	Mega Salamence	Fire Fang	Fire Blast	60.41	6184.31	0	61.9s	154.4
32	Shadow Honchkrow	Peck	Sky Attack	73.45	2895.46	1	54.0s	154.4
33	Shadow Typhlosion	Incinerate	Blast Burn *	70.72	3348.22	1	55.2s	154.3
34	Primal Groudon	Mud Shot	Fire Punch *	64.09	4777.30	0	59.2s	153.5
35	Shadow Exeggutor	Confusion	Psychic	71.22	3088.93	1	55.2s	152.7
36	Ho-Oh	Incinerate	Brave Bird	59.96	5951.29	0	62.5s	152.3
37	Shadow Salamence	Fire Fang	Fire Blast	65.29	4131.93	0	58.6s	151.2
38	Chandelure	Fire Spin	Overheat	67.06	3577.76	1	57.7s	150.0
39	Shadow Mamoswine	Powder Snow	Avalanche	74.60	2336.03	1	54.4s	149.6
40	Galarian Articuno	Confusion	Brave Bird	64.72	4024.32	0	59.2s	149.4
41	Standard Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	67.92	3320.19	1	57.3s	149.2
42	Darmanitan	Fire Fang	Overheat	67.92	3320.19	1	57.3s	149.2
43	Lunala	Confusion	Psychic	64.40	4045.05	0	59.5s	148.9
44	Shadow Gallade	Confusion	Psychic	71.69	2643.13	1	55.7s	148.7
45	Shadow Gardevoir	Confusion	Psychic	71.69	2643.13	1	55.7s	148.7
46	Shadow Magmortar	Fire Spin	Fire Blast	68.31	3138.59	1	57.3s	148.2
47	Mega Gengar	Lick *	Psychic *	65.28	3744.17	0	59.0s	148.2
48	Shadow Latias	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	64.91	3812.99	0	59.2s	148.1
49	Shadow Arcanine	Fire Fang	Flamethrower	66.39	3353.41	1	58.5s	146.8
50	Shadow Unfezant	Air Slash	Sky Attack	67.74	2976.96	1	58.0s	145.6

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About the results

Shadow Foongus type chart

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

Weaknesses

Fire	160.0%
Flying	160.0%
Ice	160.0%
Psychic	160.0%

Resistances

Grass	39.1%
Electric	62.5%
Fairy	62.5%
Fighting	62.5%
Water	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 Foongus Raids

Move-type	Usage (%)	Weather
Fire	38.5%	Sunny
Psychic	34.0%	Windy
Flying	17.5%	Windy
Ice	7.5%	Snow
Dragon	1.0%	Windy
Ground	0.5%	Sunny
Ghost	0.5%	Fog
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.