Shadow Piloswine Raid Guide

Shadow Piloswine

Shadow Piloswine can be captured from Tier 3 Shadow Raids and these raids can only be accessed by using in-person raid passes.

This Ice and Ground type Raid Boss be caught with the following CP values, with an IV floor of 6/6/6:

• 1217 CP to 1340 CP (no weather boost, 100% Piloswine at Level 20)
• 1521 CP to 1675 CP (Snow and Sunny weather, 100% IV Piloswine at Level 25)

Shadow Piloswine is an Ice and Ground type and as such, it is weak to Fighting Fire Grass Steel and Water type attacks. Shadow Piloswine is a challenging Tier 3 raid due to how Shadow Raids work. You should be well prepared with the best counters, correct moveset, powered-up Pokémon, and most importantly, Purified Gems.

Avoid weather that boosts Piloswine, Snow and Sunny weather, and ensure that you are using top-tier counters. These are much more difficult raids than your usual tier 3 raid. If you are a higher level trainer, you can solo it. However, if you’re a lower level or without ideal counters, you will definitely need to bring a friend, or two!

Best Shadow Piloswine Counters

The best raid counters according to our GO Hub battle simulator for Shadow Piloswine are:

#	Attacker	Fast Move	Charge Move	DPS	Faints	TTW
1.	Dusk Mane Necrozma	Metal Claw Steel	Sunsteel Strike Steel	44.39	3	91s
2.	Primal Kyogre	Waterfall Water	Origin Pulse Water	40.60	2	99s
3.	Mega Lucario	Force Palm Fighting	Aura Sphere Fighting	47.33	4	85s
4.	Mega Y Charizard	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn Fire	41.29	5	97s
5.	Mega Blaziken	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn Fire	42.11	5	95s
6.	Shadow Metagross	Bullet Punch Steel	Meteor Mash Steel	39.31	5	102s
7.	Shadow Kyogre	Waterfall Water	Origin Pulse Water	37.30	4	108s
8.	Mega Swampert	Water Gun Water	Hydro Cannon Water	36.41	4	110s
9.	Mega Heracross	Counter Fighting	Close Combat Fighting	35.80	4	112s
10.	Mega Blastoise	Water Gun Water	Hydro Cannon Water	33.40	4	120s
11.	Shadow Heatran	Fire Spin Fire	Magma Storm Fire	37.11	6	108s
12.	Mega Gyarados	Waterfall Water	Hydro Pump Water	31.53	3	127s
13.	Ordinary Keldeo	Low Kick Fighting	Sacred Sword Fighting	32.61	4	123s
14.	Shadow Conkeldurr	Counter Fighting	Dynamic Punch Fighting	35.91	6	112s
15.	Terrakion	Double Kick Fighting	Sacred Sword Fighting	35.09	5	115s
16.	Metagross	Bullet Punch Steel	Meteor Mash Steel	32.96	4	122s
17.	Kyogre	Waterfall Water	Origin Pulse Water	31.32	4	128s
18.	White Kyurem	Steel Wing Steel	Fusion Flare Fire	33.56	5	120s
19.	Shadow Empoleon	Metal Claw Steel	Hydro Cannon Water	34.26	5	117s
20.	Lucario	Force Palm Fighting	Aura Sphere Fighting	36.16	7	111s
21.	Mega X Charizard	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn Fire	35.29	6	114s
22.	Reshiram	Fire Fang Fire	Fusion Flare Fire	34.33	6	117s
23.	Kartana	Razor Leaf Grass	Leaf Blade Grass	35.59	7	113s
24.	Mega Sceptile	Fury Cutter Bug	Frenzy Plant Grass	38.35	9	105s
25.	Apex Shadow Ho-Oh	Incinerate Fire	Sacred Fire+ Fire	33.11	5	121s
26.	Shadow Kingler	Bubble Water	Crabhammer Water	35.17	7	114s
27.	Mega Rayquaza	Dragon Tail Dragon	Dragon Ascent Flying	34.98	7	115s
28.	Shadow Emboar	Low Kick Fighting	Blast Burn Fire	35.43	8	113s
29.	Primal Groudon	Mud Shot Ground	Fire Blast Fire	31.10	5	129s
30.	Shadow Moltres	Fire Spin Fire	Overheat Fire	34.64	7	116s

Shadow Piloswine Stats and Max CP

Shadow Piloswine IceGround
Max CP at Level 40 2345 | Max CP at Level 50 2652
ATK 181		DEF 138		HP 225
Weak To: Resistances: Fire Grass Water Fighting Steel  Poison Electric

Shadow Piloswine Moveset

Piloswine can have the following moves as a raid boss:

Shadow Raid Information & Advice

As a shadow raid, Piloswine will dish out more damage than ever before, so make sure your counters are powered up, have the right moveset, and aren’t weak to the raid bosses moves. These tier 3 raids are tough to beat, even for the most prepared trainers, and you will need Purified Gems to defeat them. Shadow Raid Bosses will grow enraged as you battle them, boosting their attack and defense.

You will need to subdue Shadow Piloswine by using Purified Gems, a new item that can be assembled from Shadow Shards.

Shadow Shards are mysterious gem pieces that may be dropped by Team GO Rocket grunts, leaders, and Shadow Raids. You will need to gather enough shards to use Professor Willow’s newly invented Shard Refiner, and in return, you’ll be rewarded with a Purified Gem. Be sure to have collected as many as you can before you attempt a Shadow Piloswine raid, as without them you won’t be able to return it to its normal, non-enraged state.

There are multiple ways Purified Gems can assist your battle against enraged Shadow Raid Bosses:

• When you use a Purified Gem during a Shadow Raid, the enraged Shadow Raid Boss’s attack and defense will be lowered temporarily. This can give you the opening you need to take them down.
• You and your fellow Trainers can use more than one Purified Gem during a Shadow Raid. If used at the same time, their effects will stack.
• If enough Purified Gems are used, the enraged Shadow Raid Boss will be subdued—returned to its non-enraged state—which might give you the edge you need to defeat it!

Purified Gems will show in the bottom left corner of the raid battle when you are able to use them, so be sure to communicate with your raid group to stack their effects!