Darkrai Raid Duo Guide

The current ruler of the Fighting Type Mega meta, Mega Blaziken hits hard and can seriously damage Darkrai despite only having Focus Blast to fall back on. Its raw power combined with the pervasive nature of Fighting Types in this raid means that Mega Blaziken is arguably the absolute best option here.

Mega Gardevoir has a few advantages that make it very competitive with Mega Blaziken, in particular its huge double-resistance to Focus Blast, which is a potentially very annoying move to face. But to make up for this major advantage, Mega Blaziken also does not have a resistance to Darkrai's STAB moves, and it's also weak to Shadow Ball, making it pretty situational. On top of that, it also has a substantially less useful Mega boost, as there aren't many Fairy Types worth considering for this raid, and none of them quite compare with the Fighting Type competition. Add to this the fact that Fairy and Fighting share a boosting weather, and it can honestly be a bit hard to justify using Mega Gardevoir outside of the situations outlined above.

Mega Lopunny has the issue of being a lesser Mega Blaziken that has a weakness to Focus Blast. However, it is double-resistant to Shadow Ball while spreading the useful Fighting Type Mega Boost, so it's a solid second-line pick.

While not Super Effective here, Mega Rayquaza is still good enough to easily register on the raid-radar thanks to its huge stat-pool and great moves.

The best of the Bug Mega Evolutions, Mega Pinsir is... okay. It's not on a par with the above, and its Mega Boos is borderline worthless when compared to what we've already covered due to a lack of strong Bug Types, but it can differentiate itself a bit in Rainy weather. And it also does have a double-resistance to Focus Blast, at least.

In this raid, Mega Beedrill is basically Mega Pinsir, but worse.

Despite being weak to Focus Blast, Terrakion has the raw power needed to virtually rule this raid. It hits like an absolute truck, and also has the advantage of resisting Darkrai's STAB moves. It's hard to go wrong with this legendary monster.

Terrakion, but a bit worse. Water over Rock doesn't change this matchup outside of losing the Focus Blast weakness, so most of the above points apply here as well, but to a lesser degree.

Same story as Keldeo applies here, for the most part.

The chain continues, as Shadow Hariyama is the same story as Shadow Machamp.

Arguably the best of the Fairy Types outside of its Mega forme, Shadow Gardevoir hits hard and works extremely well here. It still has to fear Shadow Ball and contend with Darkrai's STAB moves, but that double-resistance to Focus Blast is nice.

Lucario doesn't care for Focus Blast, but it's still got the raw power to work here very well.

Arguably the best of the vanilla Fighting Types outside of the Shadows, Conkeldurr is devalued compared to what it once was but still objectively good.

Shadow Regigigas needs Hidden Power Fighting or Bug to be good here, as Hidden Power Fairy doesn't exist. 

Bulky, though a bit light on DPS.

Same as the above.