That's exactly right, the Leaf Green, Pearl, HeartGold, Y, and Sword Dex entries all state this

Any Water-type weak to Grass is going to get pummeled by Wood Hammer. You’ll have to be prepared for that.

@Overhazard I know, which is after a couple of failed raides, I've finally settled with Bellossom being the main star of my raids. (Plus, I haven't used that pokemon in a while, but she came through with Strength Sap, Giga drain, acid spray, and Quiver Dance as my main moves.

I see. Grass is definitely the type to use for this one due to resisting both Grass and Ground.

I think this was someone who got used to Kyogre stomping all over everything in its way and not realizing that it won’t work on these 7-Star Tera Raid Battles.

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Houndoom and Azumarill are good counters to a lot of the available Pokémon, and there isn’t much that can directly counter them. That being said, I did see a lot more people using Azumarill than Houndoom (probably because there are very few options for Grass and Electric types). This person predicted that I had a plan to deal with their Houndoom using my Lucario. They also correctly guessed that Dragalge was the only Pokémon I chose that would be able to withstand whatever Azumarill throws and finish it off. Neutralizing Gas is a very disruptive Ability, more so when you have a lot of Pokémon in the meta that are dependent on their Abilities.

I find it a gamble if a strategy like that would work, as there are plenty of people who will try to push on through without Terastallizing or switching out. Certainly, it’s hard for me to figure out what sort of opponent I’ll be up against in an event like this, at least until a turn or two has passed and I get a better idea of how the opponent thinks.

That was my guess: something other than Huge Power. It might be that they value something else, like Sap Sipper, for the surprise factor.

The Nautilus weapons are entirely about being able to hold them for a good while, even when swimming. That’s what makes them dangerous ambush weapons.

This was DLC. I think the game was released only on the Wii U, and since the Wii U eShop has been discontinued, it's no longer available.

@Overhazard yeah, I downloaded it years ago. But I forgot how to access this stage.

@@dreadGodshand I see. This is located near the start in Windy Hill. I believe it takes the form of a big question mark, but it's been so long that I don't remember exactly.

@Overhazard thanks. Do I have to get so many points to get it to show up again, like you do with the other dlc?

@@dreadGodshand Not to my knowledge. I think it's always available.

Houndoom is full of traps like that!

Thanks, I’ll fix the description shortly. Things went a lot smoother here than I expected. I was sure they would thwart Counter with something small or a status move or something, but it looks like going on pure offense can lead you into traps.

Of course, the big one here is Revavroom, who floats in the air and has a 4x weakness to ground. I think most participants had some way of dealing with that. My opponent used an Air Balloon. I have something else.

Ah, that would make sense. I was thinking about Sucker Punch but decided against it.

Houndoom turned up somewhat often, but not a lot. I did see some of them using Sucker Punch, but not all of them. I suppose this was a game-ending gamble that didn’t pay off.

The game is full of stuff like this. It’s great!

Why is this frustrating? I won this one handily.

@@Overhazard Well, I think that you've finally managed to beat it. I think you're even doing some better effort playing this game in general.

@@Overhazard Besides, this is because it was eventually and mostly competitive and even causing more competitiveness to occur. That's why. As of now, I guess you've won successfully after this confident battle you've started. Just keep it up and trying more effort of playing this game. That's what I remembered you all along.

It’s a matter of strategy! Finding the right path is important.

I predicted there would be a strong showing of Pokémon with good matchups to Revavroom, so I put in counters to them on my team. I wasn’t sure how many layers to the counters to counters would go, but my opponent fell for the trap I had with Dragalge having Tera Water.

Were these issues not present in the original release? I feel like I saw something like that every now and then when I originally played it on the Xbox 360.

I can say that I had never seen this glitch in the original Sonic Generations, and I played the daylights out of it.

Thank you, though this took so much time that I don't really want to throw it away with another post so soon.

It's hard for me to say, as there aren't many reports about them among the competitive players. Bear in mind that, unless you're setting it up with three other competitive players, you will be paired with people who don't know what they're doing sooner or later, people who will drag you down. If you're an Unrivaled series Tera Raid battle expert and play with three other experienced players though, the win rate would likely be near 100% because you can coordinate a strategy. The Pokémon have pre-defined moves and scripted actions, making it easy to find a consistent set of four counter Pokémon. The leading Tera Raid Battle players are not the same people as the ones at the top of Scarlet & Violet Ranked though, either single or double battling, just as the top-ranked people playing Pokémon GO PvP are completely different from the people organizing and winning the hardest raids in GO. Different players decide to focus on different things.

Find what?

From what I’ve seen, until the comics character gets a cameo appearance in a video game, they remain obscure. Fans of the IDW comics will talk amongst each other, but there isn’t much penetration into the wider Sonic audience as a whole. Sonic fans mostly know who characters like Mighty the Armadillo and Fang the Sniper thanks to them turning up in more recent video games despite having far less screentime than those comics characters, but I noticed that trying to bring up any IDW original characters tends to result in “Who?” if it isn’t Tangle the Lemur or Whisper the Wolf, both of whom only became known thanks to their playable appearances in Sonic Forces Speed Battle. Ask someone who has played Sonic X Shadow Generations who Jewel the Beetle is, and they’ll probably think you’re talking about Charmy Bee. Even the characters original to The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog like The Conductor and Barry the Quokka seem to be better known by simple virtue of it being a recent video game, as well as Nine, who was from Sonic Prime but became better known from Sonic Speed Simulator. Surge would get that playable appearance after Tangle and Whisper though, and her recognizability is growing. Other characters I was thinking about include Bark the Polar Bear, Wes Weasley, Witchcart, Gemerl, Lumina Flowlight, and Clove the Pronghorn.

It also seems like to be REALLY mainstream you need to appear in the 2020 movie series. According to Google Trends, Sonic interest spikes every time a new movie comes out. Which is why it kinda annoys me that the movies are (seemingly) introducing Shadow before Amy, despite modern games marketing her as an equal member of Team Sonic rather than a joke or nuisance. Clove the Proghorn I'm unfamiliar with, but looking her up she's one of those Archie characters who existed in the nebulous time between the reboot and the cancellation. I need to look more into the Egg Bosses (Eggman having organic anthro supporters is a unique angle), Archie is just hard to invest into for me since pre reboot is.... profoundly bizarre while post reboot died after a few arcs. There's some interesting post reboot characters for "obscure" picks, like Coral the Betta, the return of Breezie from the old cartoon, and my personal obscure picks: Bow Sparrow and Thorn the Lop, who only existed as last minute replacements for Rob O'the Hedge and Mari'ann, the Robin Hood ripoffs embroiled in the Penders legal issues. (Rob was also Amy's cousin for some reason, though pre reboot Archie Amy was weird)

The movies are definitely right up there with the video games, and I think a large part of that is that movies have the lowest barriers of entry of all and are heavily marketed to ensure as many people know about it as possible. As for Amy, I noticed a lot of people have been requesting for her to be in the movies. They've been listening to fan requests, and I think she'll be in there eventually. They were probably hesitant for the reasons that female characters in action movies don't traditionally merchandise well and that Amy is, to some extent, associated with some less savory sides of the fandom. (They probably didn't want to put in Rouge for the same reasons, even though G.U.N. was involved in the second movie.) Certainly though, as far as female characters go, if they ever get to taking from Sonic 2006, it won't work without Blaze, unless they drastically change it. Of course, the Sonic fandom is infamously fractured, and it's quite the accomplishment they were able to unite an audience for these movies at all. (I see the same with the comics--just as there are a lot of fans of the Classic Era of Sonic games, there are a lot of fans of the original Archie Sonic comics who wish the character designs weren't made to mimic those of the video games, ones who prefer the Sonic who lives in Mobius that Dr. Robotnik had already taken over most of and roboticized most of the population.) I was considering Breezie, who is probably the best representative for Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, but the fact that she was recently brought back for the comics is why I decided upon Wes Weasley, who, to my knowledge, has only appeared in that cartoon and no other Sonic material. The others you suggested are definitely not well known. I do want to pick from all across media though, not just the comics.

@@Overhazard I'm shocked the movies did as good a job as they did (which is partly why I'm keen to see their take on Amy, a very controversial character), I chalk it up to Jim Carrey and the writers absolutely nailing Eggman's character, along with their take on Sonic being very well-acted and endearing. (He's quite different to Game Sonic, basically what would happen if Game Sonic acted his age more, but still great) ...I did know know Amy was associated with less savory sides of the fandom, which is very creepy seeing as she's supposed to be a young teen at most, but then again all characters get that I guess. Maybe I'm just lucky, but I've been in Sonamy (their modern writing dynamic made me start shipping them again, though if Amy is in the films I don't want any overt romance) fanart circles for the better part of this year and it's all been wholesome and innocent. A lot of Sonic fanartists seem very respectful of the fact it's a kid-friendly franchise and have strict rules against NSFW stuff, I respect them for that. The thing about female characters not merchandising well in action movies though... that's unfortunate but true. (Black Widow merch apparently didn't sell well for Marvel) Some also argue that if she was in the 3rd movie, there'd be toys of her by now. We'll see what happens.

Scarlett Johannson also got a raw deal from Disney involving royalties (namely that they cover only theatrical box office and not streaming numbers--Disney closely guards its Disney+ viewership and apparently won't even let the starring actors know). Maybe things are different now though. On the DC side, Warner Bros. is making good money with the Harley Quinn character, though David Zaslav getting cold feet and canceling Batgirl right before the movie was finished did not help. Me, my prediction is that the Sonic 4 movie will feature the creation of Metal Sonic and will have elements from either Sonic CD, Sonic Heroes, or both (but not the actual Sonic 4 game). Both of those games have Amy in a major role, and while it's possible to rewrite the events of Sonic CD without Amy, Sonic Heroes needs a large cast of animal characters to work. Some fans also theorize that Amy comes from the Little Planet, and the presence of it could give a plausible explanation why she wouldn't be in the movie continuity until that point.

When I saw that brought in Haunter for this one, I wanted to see what they were up to. It resists Grass, is immune to Ground thanks to Levitate, and benefits from Eviolite. I also looked up Clear Smog users and found the Gastly line among them, so I wanted to see how far this choice could go. Good to know Malamar continues to work. I tried him for the previous raids, but Feraligatr was just too much. Brute Bonnet doesn’t have much in terms of defending itself, but I did find Clear Smog was good for keeping Shell Smash from getting out of control.

Who knows? I would like to see more of these "Unrivaled" series events, though we still have some of the Paradox Pokémon to go through. The last Paradox raid event we had was for Sandy Shocks and Iron Thorns, which took place almost six months ago.

@@Overhazard speaking of Paradox, I do wonder if we'll see as Miraidon and Koraidon as Tera raid opponents. (or any legendary Pokémon as the 'unrivaled' opponent

I would be most interested in the Paradox Pokémon found in Indigo Disk: Gouging Fire, Raging Bolt, Iron Crown, and Iron Boulder. Of course, that is a selfish request, since the latter two are the last remaining Pokémon missing from my Scarlet Version Pokédex.

I always had the impression the dialogue was written before each of the Deadly Six were assigned world themes. Given control of the game, you could swap them around the worlds as you like, and except for Zavok, they would still all fit in.

@@Overhazard Yeah, I've always thought the Zeti represented in each world felt random. That being said though, after posting my comment, I did remember that Zomom says "Does this mean no dessert?" at the end of the previous level. I wonder if Sonic Team intentionally led that up with this level or if it was just coincidence.