Best Marshadow counters in Pokémon GO

This table displays a list of best Marshadow 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

Extreme↓

Raid Difficulty

5-Star Raid (15000 HP)↓

Attacker typing

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Best overall 👑

Mega Rayquaza

Air Slash Dragon Ascent

Best performing move types

• 43.0%
• 22.5%
• 17.5%
• 6.0%
• 2.5%
• 2.0%
• 2.0%
• 1.5%
• 1.5%
• 1.0%
• 0.5%

#	Name	Fast Attack	Charged Attack	DPS	TDO	Faints	TTW	Score
1	Mega Rayquaza	Air Slash	Dragon Ascent	44.56	1683.64	8	372.3s	92.9
2	Shadow Mewtwo	Confusion	Psystrike *	39.29	1025.02	14	440.3s	75.9
3	Mega Gengar	Lick *	Shadow Ball	36.75	927.83	16	472.8s	70.5
4	Mega Alakazam	Confusion	Psychic *	36.35	901.68	16	479.2s	69.5
5	Rayquaza	Air Slash	Dragon Ascent	34.64	1013.89	14	492.2s	68.5
6	Mewtwo	Psycho Cut	Psystrike *	32.88	1029.35	14	514.5s	65.9
7	Mega Latios	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	31.84	1159.53	12	522.9s	65.9
8	Mega Gardevoir	Confusion	Psychic	32.53	1013.63	14	520.3s	65.2
9	Mega Banette	Shadow Claw	Shadow Ball	33.42	718.31	20	532.4s	62.1
10	Shadow Moltres	Wing Attack	Sky Attack *	31.89	802.44	18	545.1s	61.2
11	Hoopa (Unbound)	Confusion	Psychic	31.39	843.52	17	549.1s	61.0
12	Shadow Latios	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	31.11	837.25	17	553.8s	60.5
13	Mega Latias	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	27.50	1220.69	12	594.6s	59.2
14	Shadow Metagross	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	29.82	859.01	17	572.9s	58.8
15	Yveltal	Gust	Oblivion Wing *	28.36	1027.29	14	587.3s	58.6
16	Shadow Alakazam	Confusion	Psychic *	33.01	559.30	26	561.7s	58.4
17	Lunala	Confusion	Shadow Ball	27.47	1095.64	13	600.8s	57.9
18	Shadow Lugia	Extrasensory	Aeroblast *	26.54	1247.17	12	613.2s	57.8
19	Mega Pidgeot	Gust *	Brave Bird	29.49	816.54	18	582.1s	57.7
20	Shadow Ho-Oh	Extrasensory	Brave Bird	28.11	964.01	15	595.9s	57.4
21	Shadow Cursola	Hex	Shadow Ball	31.45	609.16	24	575.4s	57.2
22	Giratina (Origin Forme)	Shadow Claw	Shadow Force *	26.16	1096.58	13	628.1s	55.7
23	Shadow Honchkrow	Peck	Sky Attack	31.45	515.11	29	593.4s	55.3
24	Shadow Exeggutor	Confusion	Psychic	29.31	642.22	23	605.1s	54.7
25	Shadow Gallade	Confusion	Psychic	29.10	650.30	23	607.7s	54.5
26	Shadow Gardevoir	Confusion	Psychic	29.10	650.30	23	607.7s	54.5
27	Shadow Staraptor	Gust *	Brave Bird	30.04	573.50	26	604.0s	54.5
28	Galarian Articuno	Psycho Cut	Brave Bird	26.79	875.07	17	628.4s	54.2
29	Hoopa (Confined)	Confusion	Shadow Ball	27.75	731.44	20	622.5s	53.7
30	Shadow Zapdos	Thunder Shock *	Drill Peck	27.89	716.25	20	621.5s	53.7
31	Shadow Latias	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	26.62	823.60	18	636.4s	53.3
32	Moltres	Wing Attack	Sky Attack *	26.74	807.39	18	635.3s	53.2
33	Chandelure	Hex	Shadow Ball	28.04	651.60	23	627.1s	52.9
34	Gholdengo	Hex	Shadow Ball	26.42	815.53	18	641.4s	52.8
35	Latios	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	26.04	840.99	17	647.3s	52.6
36	Gengar	Lick *	Shadow Ball	28.60	553.39	27	632.9s	52.0
37	Shadow Unfezant	Air Slash	Sky Attack	28.36	541.27	27	639.8s	51.4
38	Metagross	Zen Headbutt	Psychic	24.96	863.02	17	670.4s	51.1
39	Alakazam	Confusion	Psychic *	27.59	561.07	26	650.6s	50.7
40	Espeon	Confusion	Psychic	26.71	626.77	23	657.4s	50.5
41	Lugia	Extrasensory	Aeroblast *	22.24	1254.17	11	722.2s	50.3
42	Shadow Banette	Shadow Claw	Shadow Ball	29.18	421.13	35	656.5s	50.0
43	Ho-Oh	Extrasensory	Brave Bird	23.56	969.75	15	698.5s	50.0
44	Shadow Mr. Rime	Confusion	Psychic	26.47	608.90	24	665.1s	49.9
45	Mega Y Charizard	Air Slash	Blast Burn *	24.76	783.90	19	682.4s	49.8
46	Mega Slowbro	Confusion	Psychic	22.98	1009.54	14	712.1s	49.4
47	Xerneas	Geomancy *	Moonblast	23.88	865.15	17	697.4s	49.3
48	Primal Groudon	Mud Shot	Precipice Blades *	22.74	1040.63	14	717.3s	49.3
49	Mega Blaziken	Fire Spin	Brave Bird	25.43	662.06	22	680.5s	49.1
50	Xurkitree	Thunder Shock	Dazzling Gleam	26.03	603.23	24	675.7s	49.1

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Marshadow type chart

When fighting Marshadow, keep in mind the following that Fighting and Ghost-type Pokémon are weak to Fairy, Flying, Ghost, and Psychic type moves. They take reduced damage from Poison, Rock, Bug, Fighting, and Normal type moves.

Weaknesses

Fairy	160.0%
Flying	160.0%
Ghost	160.0%
Psychic	160.0%

Resistances

Bug	39.1%
Fighting	39.1%
Normal	39.1%
Poison	62.5%
Rock	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 Marshadow in Raid Battles. Whether you're looking for the best counters to take Marshadow down quickly with high DPS, or the tankiest counters that can withstand its attacks, our guide has something for every trainer.

The top-ranked Marshadow counter is Mega Rayquaza, followed by Shadow Mewtwo, Mega Gengar, and Mega Alakazam. The table also includes Rayquaza, Mewtwo, Mega Latios, and Mega Gardevoir, among others. Each Pokemon's move type is indicated by an icon beside the move name.

The most effective move-types to use against Marshadow 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.