Complete Guide to WIN 6-Star Tera Raids in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet

[@atomic_hok]

I'm glad I'm not the only one that's been playing this series for 20+ years and still needs to use a type chart from time to time

[@rennie8859]

I still just can't remember Fairy's type match ups

[@rand0mlyhere]

I still end up telling myself steel resists dark so often….

[@baby_poggies]

@@rennie8859 for me it’s ground

[@slimfastsubaru2043]

I been around since gen 1 and just recently learned psychic isn't super effective vs ghost. It's just that ghost were often paired with poison lol.

[@ftu2021]

@@slimfastsubaru2043 I learned that ghost beats psychic because I’ve watched the Pokémon anime when Ash needed a ghost Pokémon to beat Sabrina’s Kadabra.

[@legatusia]

Appreciate the guide man, I've seen too many people throwing themselves into my raids and watching them do nothing but destroy the timer on the raid. Thank you!

[@collectivegeeg4473]

I would love to see what the stakes are for, I'm at 396 out of 400 in my pokedex, and I'm assume those four gates are what I am missing.

[@rooneon]

Same

[@omnipotence731]

There are videos on it and maps online of where all stakes are, i caught all the four gates. History class also tells you where gates are at.

[@Fliim]

Yep

[@psychokirby985]

Finding all of them unlocks the last 4 which are legendaries

[@justicebean]

PIMPNITE has a video on it

[@mitherumedieval3379]

My biggest frustation with Tera Raids is the amount of unskipable text. feeling like i'm losing time passively while sitting through status effects. Especially if the pokemon uses curse and have to sit through all text of each stat it raised... other than that the pokemon who have yawn/sleep and you don't have electric field or something else usefull to prevent sleep. And for whatever reason I was trying to take down a 7-star solo but the Yawn got me. so decided to try it online and the Tera Raid just simply vanished...

[@happymountainhippy]

Yes! The text takes so much time. I wonder if they plan to fix it? I wish they would!

[@SimonOpsi]

The raids can update if you go online. That's why it disappeared

[@superboy3229]

I am struggled to get raid battle tera at event. No one appear in my Violet game ever. I think it has issues somethings…

[@chloethecre8tor2186]

Also having to be penalized for every time my Pokémon faints with a timer on it ON TOP of the raid time is the worst (especially in 5-6 star raids).

[@queninanderson5623]

In my experience the timer tends to pause for the duration of those periods like attack animations and extra text but continues as soon as the next player or NPC uses there turn to attack, I don’t think you’re losing extra time on the text telling everyone the Tera Pokémon set up a shield or anything like that, if you really watch the timer you can tell when it’s moving and when it’s paused

[@KageDarkAngel]

For me: 4 star raids = so easy. 5 star raids = Actually hair ripping hard 6 star raids = Too scared to try After watching this video I think I have a bit more confidence in going into my own raids... though I kind of have to hope the ones that my current 100s are good against don't carry Pokemon that have moves that are super effective against them (they are my grass starter in it's final evolution, Gyarados with Water Tera, and Fluttermane with ghost). Thanks Austin.

[@Orangejuice19030]

How’d it go

[@KageDarkAngel]

@@Orangejuice19030 I can solo 5 stars on my own now, and I didn't faint once against the charizard raid once, though it took 3 attempts with random online. The 6 star raids though... well my own raids are fine but I have found the online randoms with others to be pretty tough. 4 to 7 star you really do have to consider using a Pokemon that not only super effective against the raid mon's tera type but also resistant to the mon's regular movesets. So... pretty good so far.

[@Orangejuice19030]

@@KageDarkAngel that’s great. I just finished my Pokédex today and I can’t get a sweet herba mystica that I need. Of course.

[@somedudewatchingyoutube9163]

7 star: Suicidal intentions intensifies

[@Oscar-st2cg]

@@KageDarkAngel do you have any charmanders by any chance?

[@Saint_Roscoe]

I’ve been looking at a Dachsbun for the charizard event. It’s ability nullifies fire. Being fairy nullifies dragon. Using a misty terrain first move will keep your team safe from the dragon move. No counter for the steel typing, but I’m sure more will come out by then.

[@phantompop3192]

Smart.

[@allygaterr]

Good idea!

[@Nintendo101Channel]

Except that the Raid pokemon nullifies abilities and negative effects so you have to be quick to beat it. The Perrserker strategy might be better to beat it fast.

[@Joseph125]

This and azumarill are both good picks. I'm going to prepare a huge power/belly drum azumarill and hope that does it.

[@fargrond9937]

@@Joseph125 I was literally going to suggest Azumarill, it's one of the only ways to not take supereffective from the charizard as well as hit it for supereffective under the assumtion it has steel, flying, fire, and dragon coverage. Belly Drum will be quite risky, and the stat resets will negate it after a couple rounds of damage, so I'm not sure if it'll work well. If it does work though, that's pretty insane, and you could plan around it by having one person with a tanky mon with Heal Pulse or something to immediately bring it back to full HP before the Charizard can attack

[@Zelariathenaga]

A PSA for some people doing raids: the random raid feature sometimes forces people into people into raids they can't do and you're punished for backing out. Lately the only way I can connect to any online raid is the random feature so if you get a really tricky raid, the game kinda just forces you to commit even if it throws

[@diegoaragao6618]

in my experience, the retreat time out is like 5m way better to wait them to get yourself beaten up for 3-4minutes

[@south3rncomfrt]

@Mark’s Conplaystasy or even a type filter. I would love to be able to do random of a specific type even.

[@BeanSparrow]

fun because i done tons random and never did i get a level of raid i did not unlock yet

[@marcisthyname5189]

yea i got into a hacked lobby it was a 7star raid and there was an egg in it i left of course but the fact i still got punished was a little annoying

[@SpencyRockMC]

That edit so Lucario’s terastalization was timed to the song during the six star raid was so clean and not enough people are commenting on it lol, really impressive video

[@MohamedGX]

Exactly

[@c-rustybulletsholes6026]

thank you 😂

[@KangSameda]

Honestly it seems like he does that kind of thing a lot. Or maybe he just gets lucky a lot, but either way it's nice

[@somewhat-blue]

I really appreciate this! Unfortunately I’ve been the asshole who doesn’t know what they’re doing and I always felt terrible but couldn’t figure out what I was doing wrong. Thank you very, very much for explaining it all! Excited to jump in with my Iron Hands and destroy the tera raid battlefield. 😊

[@stamina4days]

So you're that guy!? Lol, jk. I was that guy, too, until I saw a video like this. Now I have 6-7 perfected IV/EV pokemon to get type coverage. I went from causing the team to lose to getting random buffs from the other players, then like 3 shotting most raids.

[@EddyUrsa]

@@stamina4days I was that guy and still am and don't know how to not be that guy

[@jacobrocket1734]

chansey also spawns in the cave where you find roaring moon and iron valiant, and since it's the only normal spawn there you can grind it there, the chansey will be lvl 55 in that cave and you have to make the sandwich outside of area zero. I know it's only a slight lvl difference but it should help the grind go by a bit faster

[@brickonator]

I haven’t gone down the detailed training route in a few games but I am so glad to see that almost everything is so easy and cheap to train/modify. Actually makes me interested in training more now that it’s not hundreds of hours of work.

[@SpaNkeee]

That future Austin cut-in where he wants to save it for the next video is EXACTLY the video im waiting for. I hope you release it soon, but don't forget to breaks sir, you're doing amazing and we all appreciate your effort.

[@al-chemist1701]

Gotta say, about time I do something just to say thanks Austin John for all the awesome content

[@thefonzpart]

Watching the other half of this video with you raising a randomly caught Riolu to a fully battle ready Lucario. And it made me nostalgic for when I was first learning all about EVs, IVs, and all of this stuff back in Gen 3 and 4. It’s crazy to think how long of a way we’ve come and a guide like this would have been extremely helpful 10+ years ago

[@remingtonsummers8014]

Biggest thing added this gen to save us time making raid-ready mons was Mirror Herb. Not having to start a mon from scratch just for egg moves is massive.

[@lynx4082]

I love how this just taught me exactly how to perfectly set up my Meowscarada, Austin really just doesn't miss with the juicy gameplay deconstructions

[@nes795]

Much needed! Thank you-been running into underlevelled people not fully knowing how typing/strategy works in these dens, so hopefully this will benefit the community!

[@mafermononoke]

I’ve been playing pkmn since Yellow, and this is the very first time I’m actually consciously raising my pkmn, and thinking about their natures and evs, and it’s all because of these raid battles and just how fun they look. Really looking forward to getting to the point I can join in the more difficult battles!

[@derekmoll1498]

My dex is at 395 just need my alternate legendary and the 32 ominous stakes pull. 100 percent ready for that video!

[@1manbandt]

My first 6-star raid was a ground tera type Espeon, and boy, even with a level 100 pokemon, it gave me a really tough time...

[@RecklessInternetting]

I just did a 6-Star Dragon Tera Avalugg. It took me all morning. It literally countered everything you threw at it. Fairy? Have a heavy slam. Dragon? Well it's a freaking Avalugg, eat this blizzard scrub.

[@Alexandra-ng1ih]

Even with max IVs I still can’t defeat a single six star raid and I’m level 100 and I’ve tried like 20 different Pokémon

[@adtwin33]

Its not u, its the Groups pokemon that sucks i feel like im doing most of the dmg on the 5/6 ⭐️ raids

[@RecklessInternetting]

@@adtwin33 if don't know about EV training you're going to have a bad time in the 6 star stuff

[@SilverBunnyStudios]

My first 6 star Tera Raid was a Garchomp! 😳 I died sooo many times! 😂

[@Aldriia]

You should maybe also talk about the drainmons, you can solo nearly every 6star raid with one of them: Gardevoir: Draining Kiss Ceruledge: Bitterblade Arboliva: Giga Drain Miraidon: Parabolic Charge Koraidon: Drain Punch Hyper- and EV-train them and give them the metronome item and you're healing yourself with the draining move

[@theonlyg8818]

Tysm, good to know for my koridon, can't forget the "performance enhancing drugs" either 👍🏾🤣

[@slackerofhell]

Think I could pull it off with a Drain Punch Annihilape?

[@Trikiay21]

@@slackerofhell absolutely, Annihilape has been my go-to for 5 and 6-star raids, and Drain Punch is a godsend

[@andrewnguyen4028]

Leech life slither wing is nasty too

[@davidrosenberg9615]

That's not sufficient. It's good for staying alive, but some of those don't have enough damage output.

[@dandygoodfellow11]

Thank goodness, I just looked a guide up after getting thrashed on my first few 5-stars, and here's Austin John. You are a hero!!!

[@tailsmilesprower9451]

You just need an iron hands

[@CandeIero]

The editing for the 6 Star raid in the end with the music aligment was perfect, really hyped it up!

[@akaicedtea6236]

Plus "give it diabetes" is a great name to raising a pokemon with items.

[@jacobjensen7704]

Skeledirge is honestly an incredibly good raid Pokémon. Slack off for recovery, Will-o-wisp to nerf physical attackers, then torch song to take down the raid from all those special attack boosts. It was well worth using the berries to reset the EV’s on my starter so I can EV train it, hyper train it, and mint it.

[@smileykerr5875]

PREACH!!!! The whole beginning part regarding not joining a raid battle if you're not prepared was so well put and completely hit the nail on the head without being mean or condescending. We as trainers want everyone to grow and sharpen their skills but if you keep getting one shotted in a raid it just brings everyone down

[@UnseenShadow]

I would love a full breeding guide. Egg moves, IV’s, Passing down IV’s/EV’s etc.

[@docole16]

Not to be disrespectful to what Austin does, but Phillybeatzu has a great video over that topic. But I can get it if you like how Austin breaks it down!!

[@purpleplutonium1132]

Try to get a ditto with 5IVs or 6IVs and give the ditto a destiny knot. Whenever you're breeding, breed with the best possible IVs on your pokemon, check the babies if their IVs are better than the parents, if they are, replace the parent mon with it. If a pokemon has the nature you want, and you want to keep breeding, give it an everstone as everstones pass down the nature.

[@_Blu_Print_]

I think at this point, people can just breed for egg moves. Hyper training is so easy now.

[@ChariFlari]

@@_Blu_Print_ You can transfer egg moves between mons, i don't think there is a reason to breed anymore

[@m1dn1ghtqt]

@@ChariFlari Well quite useful for passing down hidden abilities, masuda method, completing the pokédex or just to get more of that pokémon

[@123jhi7]

I normally don't comment. Just wanted to show some support cause you really went above and beyond for this video, showing the step by step so we can start preparing for the dreaded 7 star charizard. Thanks for all the videos and really useful guides!

[@Reanimatedself]

I have been in a couple raids where all the players use the cheer that increases defense at the very start. It helps SO MUCH. Same for the attack one if you can handle a hit. The cheers are so good if used properly.

[@MohamedGX]

We need a guide for this

[@siiiuu777]

@@MohamedGX Are you serious? wtf..

[@MohamedGX]

@@siiiuu777 if it's useful we should know if it's fluff then not :3

[@22NightWing]

@@MohamedGX Click "Cheer" ??? Profit Hope this helps :)

[@MohamedGX]

@@22NightWing how useful is it though? Are all 3 times useful or just one or 2? I haven't used it before, but I'm guessing it takes your move turn. That'll be a big deal in a 6 star raid.

[@ThrowingRoosts]

Yeah bro, you're not wrong we definitely need this video and it needs to be the most watched video for scarlet and violet. Its insane to me how many people have no idea what they're doing in these raids. I had to train up a pure support grimsnarl just to carry all the people that have no idea what they are doing. Thanks for trying to get the word out.

[@maitegutierrez4724]

Yea

[@curtisjones9372]

your so brave

[@MiamiCereal]

Bread in mind that Pokémon has always been a game for everyone, tera raids above 3 star are extremely inaccessible for kids. The fact that people have to watch videos and read spreadsheets means it's terrible game design.

[@izarenic]

A builds video for best pokemon of each type like the one you did with Lucario would be absolutely amazing

[@BroBuster]

To cut down on how many vitamins you need, you can use some feathers which drop in raids and loads can be found in the lake in the game. The feathers are one EV each, so if you happen to have 252 of any type you can fully EV train a stat that way. Or partially if you have less than 252 which is likely lol.

[@Ryan-yp4fc]

EVing training is honestly super easy in this game. It's not worth it to buy the vitamins or farm the feathers at allllll. Jst use the power items (Bracelet, Anklet, etc) to get 8 EVs per battle. It's so so quick

[@yveltely7030]

ok why yes this is true one vitamin gives at least 9.6 evs of your choice

[@BroBuster]

@@Ryan-yp4fc Yeah true I had forgotten about the power items. That said, feathers are super common and money is easy to make so the vitamins and feathers are viable options too. You can train any way you want!

[@33fugitive]

I would love to see a video about the stakes and the ruin pokemon, especially how their abilities affect Tera raids! Love the content man you doing us a great service

[@Soleless]

Yes please!!!

[@josephh8389]

He said he would do it in a week. Didn't want to put one out quick before most people got to the post game

[@hisuianchar1548]

I’ve been having trouble with 6 star raids while trying to get the herba mystica. This should help me so much more. Thanks again!

[@Kiwiqwp]

You should do 5 star raids if you can't handle 6 stars. 5 stars are hard too though :v

[@hisuianchar1548]

@@Kiwiqwp I’m able to defeat them with a friend, it’s just pretty difficult. And the herb yield for me isn’t that well

[@hisuianchar1548]

@Danilo Hernandez for real? I’ve heard herbs are wayyyy more common in 6 star raids

[@silverbolt9439]

Wait till the 7* comes out *shivers*. Can do up to 5, on six when the barrier comes up the become invincible no matter how many times I hit them with ai. 😂

[@saito200799]

@@hisuianchar1548 there’s 9 Pokémon that can drop all five herba mystica which give you a great chance of about 76 percent to get an herb from that one raid. The 9 Pokémon being gengar, blissey, glalie, drifblim, amoongus, eelektross, dondozo, palafin, and cetitan.

[@carloh4463]

Just fully trained a max shiny ceruledge for the raids from the things in the videos. Thank you Austin for these inputs i have been watching you since SnS.

[@coltonandjen]

Please don't use it in raids, Ceruledge and Armorouge are awful in raids, every single one I've seen just loses lives constantly

[@carloh4463]

@@coltonandjen not mine plus i do solo more than co op

[@Rye-Uh]

Same but with Armarouge. Covert Cloak + Calm mind Armarouge is great for raids, but Gholdengo is also crazy denying strats.

[@carloh4463]

@@Rye-Uh yeah gholdengo is really good with its ability and type trained up one just to deal with those fairy tera types and annoying effect moves

[@PatriceRacine]

Watching this video nearly 2 years after the game came out. It's wild how much we learned about Tera Raids since then

[@wokeamerica142]

I'm just now learning them lmfao only need to do em for shiny sandwiches, I can do em no issues due to how strong my team is but i can def see why ppl struggled when it first came out

[@zachg.9075]

I hope you see this Austin!! Marks are pretty desirable amongst competitive players because you can't see nicknames and the Mark gives them a title that is put by their name when they come out of a pokeball. I would love a guide for making "Title Power" sandwiches if possible! Please consider it!

[@JKLeScH777]

With all due respect, relax my guy

[@matheusdaens216]

@@JKLeScH777 what do you mean? he is just asking for a video

[@IplayTeemoasaWard]

If you can get a hold of the Hidden ability patch, save it for Galarian Meowth. If you can get a group of 4 its ability "Steely Spirit" can boost your damage to ungodly levels. Some japanese discord users already do this to have ~95% succes rate on 6star raids

[@billybobbobson3797]

i refuse to cheese the late game thing. screw that

[@mustachio562]

Proof?

[@IplayTeemoasaWard]

@@mustachio562 look for 101leafy on KZbin. I dont wanna cheese right away, but if i wanna make multiple comp teams I will probably have to grind a Lot of raids...

[@JorjoGiovanna]

@@billybobbobson3797 it’s not cheesing it’s just coordinated with other players and creating a good reliable strategy, if you wanna struggle by using weaker Pokémon then go ahead

[@billybobbobson3797]

@@JorjoGiovanna so.. its cheesing. got it ty.

[@andrewmagirias4377]

Was literally looking all day for this. You are a life saver

[@wingedviking2706]

PRO TIP: I started playing a few months ago and I only recently learnt some pretty important information about how the Cheers mechanic works. I'm not sure how much of this is true/tested but... here's what I've read: - The Attack Cheer (AC) and Defence Cheer (DC) do not increase your stats in the same way that pokemon moves (e.g. Swords Dance) increase them (i.e. AC/DC don't increase stat stages). - The AC and DC increase the respective stats by a 1.5 times multiplier (with a small chance that the multiplier will be 2 instead of 1.5). - The AC and DC effects last for 6 turns. You can check and see how many turns are left in the raid status screen. Even if your pokemon faints or the raid pokemon uses a move that gets rid of stat increases (e.g. Clear Smog) you will NOT lose the effects of the AC or DC. However, when the raid pokemon uses the raid move that resets stats and abilities, this does remove the effects of the AC/DC. - Cheers of the same type DO NOT STACK! I see so many players use multiple AC in a row. If there is already an AC/DC in effect and you do the same cheer again, all you're doing is resetting the 6 turn timer on the effect (technically you can do it again to try and reroll for that small chance of getting the 2 times multiplier instead of 1.5 but this is not a smart move). - Because they don't increase stat stages and are an independent multiplier, the AC/DC CAN stack with stage increases. For example, if you Swords Dance 3 times (and have the maximum +6 to Attack) you can still increase your Attack further with an AC. P.S. Another pro tip for beginners doing raid battles: when the shield is up, the raid pokemon is immune to status moves. Note: not status conditions; status MOVES. So no Taunt/Encore or stat reducing moves, etc.

[@ravensirony8415]

my issue is when the raid boss magically gets to do 7 things in a row...like i want a turn at some point. Ive noticed it usually happens in the high star raids that we try to burst with the Belly Drum method. The worst was a six star raid the mon was Tera Ice so i brought Belly drum Iron Hands i BD then close combat then i never got to attack again my connection never dropped and IH never fainted i had clicked another CC but never got to go the next thing that happened was we got kicked out.

[@WilliamSussman]

The worst for me is when your team knocks them down to 0 so fast it sometimes resets them to half Hp and still activates the shield

[@coltonandjen]

@@WilliamSussman From what I've heard, that's a glitch with Huge Power calculating damage

[@starboypluto]

@@coltonandjen it's not just huge power it just seems they aren't allowed to be one shot

[@aaronpletsch1431]

my big problem is every time I bring a 5* or higher Tera raid to zero using Azumaril it instantly gains back half health and then gets a random crit... then the raid crashes then I lose 2 minutes later.

[@06twar]

A note on lumineon: Paldean Wooper counters him hard with Water Absorb. This also adds a bunch of additional strategy to some raids as well.

[@ElysetheEevee]

I absolutely LOVE Clodsire. He's helped me so much throughout my playthrough and I've kept him on my team since day one. His water absorb, hard-hitting, and bulkiness are just insanely good. He's done so many raids simply for any one of those things for me.

[@dragonli1y]

@@ElysetheEeveeclodsire has saved me so often

[@anothername738]

Raids cancel abilities pretty early on I think

[@tailsmilesprower9451]

You only need iron hands

[@06twar]

@@tailsmilesprower9451 iron hands doesn't work on every raid. Like Austin said raising multiple pokemon is far better than one. If you get your legendaries maxed they'll carry you far. I wonder if zacian will come from home he can probably hard carry still 😂

[@diegorivera6756]

I just unlocked the 6 star raids and the Austin video pops up 20 seconds later. Truly impeccable timing 😭😭

[@pinkbutterfly8710]

This was the clearest video explaining how to actually train Pokémon that I’ve found. So glad you posted this 🤗

[@baronsionis6855]

I just got 5 star raids today so this is extremely helpful as a starting point before I delve deeply into the raid grind. Edit: Been at it for some time now and here's my thoughts. 4 and 5 star raids are easy as hell solo. 6 star is a good difficulty and it helps to have real teammates.

[@DiaborMagics]

This is a bit late, but a money/item-saving tip for players who don't know much about the EV stuff: if you have a freshly caught or bred pokemon, it has 0 EVs. To max out a stat, it wants 252 in that stat. Using 26 vitamins is a WASTE. Raids and shimmering items you can pickup will give you 'feathers'. These feathers can give your pokemon 1 EV. So say you want to max out Special Attack, you can give the pokemon 25 Calcium (vitamins) and 2 Genius Feathers. Exactly 252, nothing wasted. Another money saver: the auction sells feathers (not sure about vitamins. Maybe?). There's a good chance you can bulk-buy feathers for cheaper than buying vitamins at a store would be.

[@celina1846]

Nah the best way to save money is to buy power items and ev train your pokemon personally by defeating 28 of the same pokemon depending on what stat you wanna raise. Takes around 20min and you save 500k

[@Greatlicht]

i usually farm money and blow money on those items lmao

[@NeroLordofChaos]

The shinies on the lake in the northwest are almost always feathers, so that's a semi decent place to farm them as well.

[@LM11116]

you should also be keeping your raid pokemon even if they have a default tera type because they have a certain number of guaranteed ivs depending on how many stars the raid is, which is great for breeding.

[@half_cactus]

I JUST finished all three stories and they were SO GOOD! Thank you for helping guide me through the game without spoiling anything. One of my new fav generations, for sure. 6-Star Tera Raids, here I come!

[@essurio]

Pro tip for training pokémon up: It will cost you less time and money in the long run to EV train with wild pokémon and the Power items, than to buy a bunch of vitamins. (A nice bonus about this method is that you can train more than one pokémon at once.)

[@Amins88]

Hopefully we can get this comment bumped up because it has good info, despite the bot stealing it earlier. Although, personally I prefer to just play the game naturally and fill in the gaps later with vitamins if I really care enough. After all these years, I still don't quite understand EVs and IVs.

[@raditzace]

@@Amins88 to explain in simplest form: Ev=effort value, which is what vitamins and fighting random pokemon gives you. Each wild pokemon gives ev to a single stat (a ralts gives special attack while rattata gives speed). The max is 252, which 4 ev=1stat point, so 252 ev gives 63 stats to a single stat. The max amount of ev you can earn on a pokemon is 510, so that means 2 stats can earn 63 and another stat can earn 2 points. Iv=individual value. Its basically how the pokemon was born. A ralts with 0 iv in special attack will be 31 points weaker at lvl 100 compared to a ralts with 31 (the maximum) special.

[@Amins88]

​@@raditzace So IVs just stack on top of total EVs and are a separate value entirely? Do they not effect to potential growth? And is there a way to know what a Pokemon's IVs are before Post-Post game?

[@raditzace]

@@Amins88 basically, yea. A max iv/ev stat will have 94 difference than 0 iv/ev pokemon. They are seperate which is why vitamins will increase ev while hyper training fixes bad ivs. As for leveling up with ivs, it adds them slowly. Example, a lvl 50 with 31 ivs will have about 15.5 to the stat, so it adds up to 31 eventually.

[@Amins88]

@@raditzace One more question, do stat gains from IVs apply retro-actively? As in, will doing hyper training at level 50 give more future potential than doing the training at level 100? Or does it not matter?

[@missslcupcake]

Fantastic video, Austin! I definitely appreciate all the work that you have put into this and will be using this strategy going forward! You're the best!

[@professorofdieology4002]

Austin your music timing editing is awesome and it makes the already great videos you make so much fun to watch. Thanks for all you do for the Pokémon community‬

[@OMrBubblesO]

I gotta say specific Pokemon training was one thing that always eluded me and have always wanted to dive into it more. This video was a tremendous help with the walkthrough you did with Riolu/Lucario. Keep up the awesome work man!

[@dylanb.6330]

I always loved Austin's videos from all the way back to when botw came out. I'm STILL in the very beginning of pokemon violet! But it's mainly due to I been busy working. I greatly appreciate Austin's videos, always help me out to get the most out of the game while keeping a mostly consistent pace through the game that I can enjoy. So thank you Austin!

[@AustinJohnPlays]

who's John?

[@dylanb.6330]

@@AustinJohnPlays fixed it XD

[@SpencyRockMC]

@@dylanb.6330 naaah you DEFINITELY just meant it like how people refer to professionals by their last names. It’s like why we call Mozart, Mozart ;)

[@dylanb.6330]

@@SpencyRockMC exactly! Just trying to show my respects for the man's grind an support

[@katherinedixon7434]

Thank you so much for the guide, Austin! I think this will be super useful. For the Charizard conundrum, I think Garganacl may be the answer: Rock resists Fire and Flying, and it gets access to Ice Punch. I'll be looking for an ice tera type one, myself!

[@GamingStar1995]

Spot on! Thank you for sharing. I will add, that you must know the pokemons abilities. I fought a Steel Tera Arcanine. So I used my Arcanine with Fire fang. The flash fire ability still works no matter the Tera typing. Luckily I had dig and my arcanine was a ground type Tera. I'm glad they did not put Shedninja in this game.. what a nightmare that would be (kinda)

[@justinkyletanner6696]

For Zard, I was running an Azumarill pure support: misty terrain, helping hand, tail whip, iron defense. I had a second where I would sub Fake Tears for TW pending the party. It was wild how much my game play changed from going to active to passive. Now, it wasn't perfect, but with the Bellydrum set I was about 60-40 in wins (errors aside) but when I went support it jumped to 90-10 (errors aside). Now, not everyone can support but hopefully we will see more diversity in our battles. Love the content!

[@ProfWollhoven]

The hardest thing for me with the new Tera Raids was that you actually had to look at the Tera Type and not just the silhouette of the pokemon xD You can't imagine how often I joined 1* and 2* raids with types that are effective against the normal pokemon but not the Tera Type.

[@ElysetheEevee]

Don't worry about it! Tons of people made this mistake, even those who play Pokemon got a living. I kind of just categorized things as "whatever it says in the top is its new type" and I still sometimes don't fully think it through.

[@ProfWollhoven]

@@ElysetheEevee I actually don't care anymore xD After the Endgame content I started raiding like a Purrserker (got it? It's a pokemon viking joke) and got used to the potential 3-Type possibilites. It was just the first 30 hours playing this came where I was like "Oh a Gible, better take some Ice moves. Oh... it's Tera Fire...." xD

[@zachwithnok]

The locked legendaries are literally the last 4 I need for my pokedex as of today. I'm waiting for that video from you haha

[@Long537]

serebii has a Paldea PokeEarth map that shows stakes locations

[@zachwithnok]

@@Long537 I appreciate it and I know the info is out there, but I've been a little using some of his videos to pace myself. I will finish my dex by Saturday day, either way.

[@rexracarrillo916]

I swear I have faced some annoying 6 Star Raids, Literally Garchomp with it's ha rough skin and it's normal terra type, then a Salamance with moxie and Ground tera type its hard so imma just wait for your guides for 6 star, in the mean time this helps

[@xiKeepItRealx]

1 mistake I did when going into 5 star raids was forgetting if the pokemon is physically or specially defensive helps a lot to know this before choosing what pokemon I used in the raids. Like cloyster I forgot is physically defense so I am using a physically offensive pokemon I was wondering why I wasn't doing much damage lol had derp moment for sure

[@WilliamSussman]

One thing I have learned is a well timed Cheer can make all the difference. If you’re ever unsure as to what to do on a turn, consider Cheering

[@jacksonh2228]

I would also really appreciate a video going over the best pokemon to level up (as instructed in this video) to cover most tera type raids.

[@Leafwhisper2]

I could use a video for the stakes that would help a lot! Thanks for all the content on these games it helps a lot!

[@GamingTechUnited]

AJP with an absolute banger of a video. Cannot understate how much of a help this video will be to the community. You’re one of the best to do it, Austin!

[@makanikyo]

something I haven't seen mentioned anywhere yet is that the raids (4-6 star) that have the special background and pink stars: These have pokemon with higher base stats than regular ones.

[@brandinho4king]

The video I have been looking for since I picked up the game. Thanks for the uploads!!!!

[@TalkThatSassNWordPodcast]

There are higher level chanseys down in area zero where roaring moon and iron G are.

[@nathanmellott2262]

That cave where they live is hard to find, especially if you aren't really familiar with area zero

[@V.U.4six]

@@nathanmellott2262 there’s one near a cave by lab 2 and another by lab 1

[@V.U.4six]

@@nathanmellott2262 station 1 is in a big hole “cave” and it’s up that rocky steep slope and then it’s a bit uphill and there’s a huge rock and you should see a big hole just drop into it The station 2 one is hidden behind some rocks, you go down the slope past the waterfall/river and then behind the tree is the rocky area with a cave nestled in it

[@V.U.4six]

@@nathanmellott2262 if you keep these notes in mind you can find them easily in subsequent visits I made sure to jot it down so I don’t forget Thankfully both of these are near stations so you can find them easily as long as you find a station (and can teleport to the corresponding one)

[@casiguille1959]

Dude, I simply adore the way you explain things. Thank you for creating this content.

[@AryVT]

around 830 you said we need this right now, and couldn't be more true, I was hosting a 6 star fire Tera Dragalge and people joined, put on Azumarill and clicked ready within seconds. First round I didn't even notice but all 3 used belly drum 1st turn to die straight after that because of the poison type move(s) it had. Since than I now hate Azumarill/Iron hands joining ANY raid and just belly drumming to lose precious time. (If not host) I always see them and say well damn 'bet ya a million bucks he dies turn one' and i've never been wrong. (Belly drum can work well, but please watch out for weaknesses before picking that strat)

[@yourmomsoshi]

They don't care if they lose since they get the items if you fail the raid.

[@Catsnakegoosedog]

I stopped doing online raids for this exact reason, with zero caring of type matchups, people just send out Iron hands, Azumarill or their box legendary and just try to brute force it, and after like 20 instances of me seeing their wrong choices but having no way to tell them to change and then having my pokemon standing next to 3 corpses til the timer runs out, i just went to only doing them solo.

[@nerida3347]

Tbh i gotta admit i might be one of those people. I'm very bad at battling and i do my best but i know more often than not i hold people back in raids. My Azumarill and Iron hands are my only half decent raid pokemon rn and i struggle to learn the meta beyond that

[@stamina4days]

@Nerida I stopped doing online battles for this reason, too. I wasn't super well versed in type effectiveness. So I level 100 IV/EV trained like 7 pokemon to have decent type coverage. As soon as I join a raid I use the 2 minutes to make sure I pick the perfect mon.

[@gc6240]

It's really nice to see someone do the process of raising from start to finish. Love the nature mints and bottle caps. I honestly forgot about EV's as well. Will make sure I put in effort for them now too.

[@cartooniste2z]

I never knew the level caps of 5 and 6 Stars. I feel bad for the other players I've dragged down. 😭 This guide helps a ton, dude!

[@judithvanoirschot]

Hi Austin, First of all, I’m really thankful for all the videos you’ve put up in here. I really appreciate the time and effort you take to make these videos 🥰 I would really like to know some more about IV’s and EV’s. I’m totally nee to this and when you just put stuff into your lucardio to make it’s stads better, I totally lost you 😅 how did you calculate all those stuur? How did you knew you only had to buy 26 of calcium and not 31 or so? Can you please make a video about this and explain this to us in details 😅🥺

[@jacobjensen7704]

Look up guides on EV’s and IV’s :) There are lots of good ones on the internet.

[@neko_otaku_guy]

Been hunting the stakes without a guide like I did for the wisps in PLA, I'm having a tough time of it 🤣 Also glad to hear that 6☆ are soloable, as apposed to relying on randos. Already have my second Koraidon ready!

[@BorderFreak]

The evo of the chest mimic dude does wonders for 6 star raids at least in my miniscule experience with em so far

[@T_Leef]

I think for the upcoming Charizard raid, Azumarill might be a good choice to train up for it. It will resist the fire move(s) from Charizard and be immune to the Tera Blast while at the same time having good moves to use against it in the form of Play Rough and Ice Punch. And since it can have Huge Power, both of those moves would be powered up. The bulkiness of Azumarill will also help it survive any non resisted moves from Charizard. Just my 2 cents.

[@nickdejager8873]

Was coming here to say this. Azumarill is also neutral to Flying and Steel.

[@mikeyar4723]

Just wanted to comment to say thanks for the honesty. I’d beaten the post-post game so thought I was ready and just having bad luck with 5 star raids, but now know I wasn’t ready for them. I’ve trained up to level 100, hyper trained and redistributed EVs and am crushing most of them on my own now!

[@Aghul]

I gotta finally leave a comment one of your videos now: I love all of them. Thank you so much for all these tutorials, they are SO helpful and I love your calm way of explaining everything in detail!

[@alstonrichards6740]

If you could make a video about the ominous stakes it would be great thanks for the help on Tera raids

[@sscch]

I really appreciate how in recent days we need to research and study up for Pokemon games 😁 And your videos definitely help a lot! I hate to go into a raid knowing nothing, being ambushed and on top of that dragging team mates down... 😩 This one is definitely what I was looking for, thanks heaps!!! 😁👍

[@badsenseikarasugaming4871]

May I suggest a strong Slobro or Sloking with ice beam for the upcoming Charizard raid. It resists fire and steel type attacks and can hit super effectively with possible frozen status. It's bulky and available in both versions and easy to find.

[@tailsmilesprower9451]

No I just need iron hands

[@adrianarteaga3086]

I've been playing pokemon since X&Y and I never thought the games were so in-depth in the rpg side, great video man keep up the great content

[@DDjunky]

Unrelated to this video, but have you seen Jefe's Shiny Sandwich recipes? He did some testing to find recipes for shiny/encounter/title 3 sandwiches without using 2 salty herbas. I'm sure he used your recipes as a basis, but his are great for people to be able to use just one salty and one other herba. All that said, loving your videos. Always informative and helpful. You are a gentleman and a scholar.

[@chiekohoki]

"I am simply not using iron hands because I hate the way it looks" This aged so excellently LOL

[@petrifiedviewer]

Thank you xD I'm really new to Pokemon but I fell in deep and am now just upset that I couldn't do 5-6 stars correctly

[@thetrashking459]

Had to be said. I feel good when I carry my teammates, but I can't tell you how many times I was the backbone of a raid. If you don't have a good offensive pokemon, just do what I do when I don't have a good offensive pokemon: play the role of support. It's a thankless job but one that needs to be done nonetheless

[@brunwaldo4105]

Austin - you're videos are AMAZING. The effort and in depth analysis is literally one of a kind. I've rewatched this video maybe 5 times (which is maybe the point). But if you could do a SLOWED down version of IV / EV / temperament training I would love you forever (or I could just keep rewatching this video 100 times in slow motion to figure it out cause i'm dumb....)

[@JoshArtisto]

@3:33 I hope a lot of people see this video because I can't tell you how many times randos join raids and don't take into consideration the tera pokemon's original typing. I had 2 Azumarills and 1 Sylveon join a Grafaiai 6 star raid and we lost very quickly because of the poison. Please, people, don't just look at the tera type. Think about the original typings as well!

[@PokemonPondcast]

Right now, I am leaning into my huge power Azumarill as it would take normal damage from steel and flying, immune to dragon, and resist fire. Still looking at other options. Maybe a rock type with fairy moves if I can find one.

[@the_royal_frick634]

Lol my azumarill carried me p much through the entire game

[@mikesupreme4521]

Lol I have like 5 pokemon ready for charizard and I'm confident in none of them. Honestly watched this for his advice but I died when he said he has no clue....you plan to use belly drum with play rough? What about tera type BC if you go water instead of psychic then you won't be doing much damage against his sheild but in psychic you'll surely get one shot no? Idk just looking for advice

[@PokemonPondcast]

@@mikesupreme4521 fairy TT is where we are leaning. also, saw someone suggest the shell bel as the item and that was pretty genius.

[@pixlyJolt]

Thx for making all these vids Austin! Helpful as always with other games

[@tconn186]

"Jigglypuff seen from above"... I got that reference

[@Thorn99855]

I love the Jigglypuff Seen From Above joke. My other favorite is Dr. Quackenpoker talking about not knowing how a gyarados fit in his pajamas - a hilarious adult joke for a kids cartoon.

[@SalamiMilk]

People have been saying that it's very easy to get overleveled in the story, but now I realize... The main story was the appetizer in terms of challenge. The real main course of the game's hard mode steak dinner challenge is the 5, 6, and 7 star raids. And as someone who realized the true challenge of the game, I realize that fully training a Pokemon to its max power, is really expensive and takes some grinding. Man, I can't wait to have Home access so I can bring in... da bois from Shield.

[@Drewy01134]

These unfortunately are only so helpful when the connection issues are so bad. I've had 10-15 seconds at a time where the game freezes and wont let me do anything. HP glitches happen all the time where a hit will appear to bring a pokemon to red or ko only to suddenly be back to yellow. Then theres the times where youre just starting to build monentum then the terra mon suddenly gets to do 10 actions in a row before you can do anything. Its so frustrating

[@toastyAMG]

Can you please go back and remake this entire video but focused on preparing for the upcoming shiny Rayquaza event 🙂 and for someone who pretty much stopped playing as soon as I beat the pokemon league

[@megalizardon7295]

You are a legend at making good and reliable guides while also making it entertaining to watch 🙌

[@Aereto]

I am the trainer who specializes in defensive support Pokemon in Raid Battles. I don't deal damage, I focus on making sure the rest of the party survives what the raid boss can throw at, even at a super effective. Reflect and Light Screen are my priorities, Safeguard if my Pokemon has it and expected status. Any heal moves that recover half HP is a must if you intend to aid burst DPS trainers who use Belly Drum, moves like Life Dew works best if you can reduce the boss damage dealt to the whole party first. Helping Hand is also super helpful for Burst DPS members. If you are in a team with friends, I highly recommend non-Burst DPS members having dual or multirole builds to anticipate moves that disable or prevent support. Weaken the boss, Strengthen your allies, Become the -Elden- Tera Lord. I don't use generalist builds when bringing randoms. 75% I get Burst DPS, so I keep using Defensive Support EV'd and IV'd to max HP and defensive stats so they survive using that x4 boost to deal some real damage. ...and I am disappointed in not seeing enough people utilizing the terror that are abilities that boost stats based on situations.

[@rlmccoy252]

Did not know that if I terastallize my fire tera type Skeledirge then I lost my ghost secondary typing. Glad you mentioned that.

[@J_Stu11]

Super informative as always!! HOWEVER, I'm still dying over the whole "if I bring in a ground type pokemon- this pokemon is doing water attacks.... I'm gonna die"

[@shillinhite3911]

Not my Clodsire with Water Absorb tho c:

[@4EyesJoe]

For Charizard I’ve been thinking of taking Azumarill. It’s water so that cuts out the Steel weakness and makes it neutral. The fairy type stops the Dragon type attacks as well. My only worry is that it may have grass or electric moves, but what can you do right? No absolute answer for charizard. Thoughts?

[@andydogdad4349]

Yeah I have a dachsbun ready for the charizard which his only real fear will be a steal move! But I think azumeril is another great option! Tanky but hard hitting

[@atomic_hok]

Tinkaton might be a good option if it can survive that first 3 attacks to get terastalized with fairy type

[@irrelevantCODM]

My first 5* raid was a rotom and it’s tera type was electric and it had levitate

[@rulkem]

I would bring someone with Mold Breaker

[@knightmare938]

@@rulkem like a tinkaton?

[@rulkem]

@@knightmare938 yes

[@DubDynamite]

How to get get strong pokemon quicker: 1) lvl your Ledgy to lvl 100 with every 3 and 4 star raid you can finish 2) win 5 star raid battles: those pokemon when caught lvl 75 and have 4 out of 6 perfect IVs now you need less bottlecaps and less xp candies to max lvl pokemon 3) EV train or buy the enhancement drugs to min/max a pokemon Did this yesterday for 5hours and now have 5 maxed out pokes to use in raids. I wouldn't recommend catching low lvl pokes but thnx for everything else AJP great vid

[@LegendGamiing7]

Maaaaaaaaaan. You are THE best Poketuber. Hands down. Wholesome. Informative Walk-through. The whole deal. Thank you. Cant wait to see you fight the Charizard. Should definitely add some banger sound track for that battle.