Shadow Raikou is back in Pokémon GO and Shadow Raid Day is one of the most important raid events of the season! In this video we break down everything you need to know about Shadow Raikou Raid Day — including the best counters, raid strategy, shiny odds, bonuses, Purified gems, team building, and how to maximise your raid passes.
Shadow Raikou is one of the strongest Electric-type attackers in Pokémon GO and a must-have for raids, PvP and future content. If you’re hunting Shiny Shadow Raikou, powering up a Shadow Electric attacker, or farming rare candy and XL candy, this raid day is unmissable.
We cover:
Shadow Raikou Raid Day bonuses
Best Shadow Raikou counters and teams
How Shadow Raids work
Purified Gem strategy
Duo and trio raid tips
Shiny Shadow Raikou odds
IV hunting and weather boosts
Best moveset for Shadow Raikou
Is Shadow Raikou worth powering up?
Shadow Raikou is one of the strongest Shadow Pokémon ever released and this event is your best chance to build a top-tier Electric-type raid attacker. Whether you’re raiding casually or grinding hard, this guide will help you raid smarter and faster.
If you’re playing Shadow Raikou Raid Day in Pokémon GO, make sure you don’t miss these tips — this could be the most important Shadow Raid event of the year.
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23 Comments
Been waiting for this vid!! Have you also seen the global kalos tour? I wanna hear your thoughts about it
Max 10 purified gems in our bags? Bro i got 27 xD
10/10 VIDEO – That Intro is ⚡🔥⚡
You convinced me. Just bought it. Thank you!
Loving the content but that Shhhhhhh… Finger thing at the start and end is extremely annoying..🙃
iv's for shadow raids are 6/6/6 You can get lucky and get one, but its not as often as you think and getting a purifable hundo has been even rarer with me doing 100 hetran raids did not see 1 purifable hundo
With 10-15 trainers there is no need for purified gems. Just power through
Banger intro and video as usual. ⚡
The intro is fire lol SHHHHHH
Not needing an elite tm and being able to farm candies in power spots is huge, you can get several to lvl 30-40 with minimal investment
my one thing with events like this is that we dont get to use our best mega encounters for basically what theyre intended for, for the sake of maximizing XL candies which are very hard to get… like what the point of maxing my 100 mega garchomp when I never get to use it as a counter 🙁
My local meetup is cancelled cuz of freezing rain
BHXCTYM3B
SHEESH THAT EDITING IS CRAZY
GIVE EM A RAISEEEEEEE
Pokebattler says Therian Landorus is higher on the counters list than shadow Garchomp, but the therian landorus dies way more times than the garchomp so I’m like…which one do I power up and use?
Well lets hope it is not going to be a let down like the Kyurem/Reshiram/Zekrom raids. Seems like they forgot to turn up the shiny rates as they promised. And tge rotatios were done poorly too. Should have been each pokemon 30 min. Not the mix they did.
Will try to get a decent one this raid day. Fingers crossed.
Raiku has a good shiny, hopefully my local centre isnt barren of pokemon go players
Great video as always!
I wish we could share adventure effects with the party feature
Ty for the video m8
Update:
I’m in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan, and just got done with shadow Raikou Raid Day.
I left a comment earlier in the week where I said you convinced me and I bought it on the webstore after the video.
I got a Hundo.
I posted it on here if you want to take a look.
I feel like I’m on a cloud now!
I got 4 shiny shadow Raikou as well, with one being an 89% and the other a 93%. Now I’m waiting for my friends to raid in California to remote raid. Appreciate you, Bossman!
Thank you, again!
Thanks for this great info
60% of the country is either getting buried in snow or ice…..really showing flaws in the game design.
Honestly if the game can detect the weatger outside to change the weather in game why can it not determine weathers bad enough to switch premium passes to remote raid passes for an event ticket?