Dondozo - 7 Star Sceptile Raid - Solo - Pokemon Scarlet/Violet

Dondozo @ Shell Bell
Ability: Unaware
Tera Type: Fairy
EVs: 6 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Def
Adamant Nature
- Tera Blast
- Curse
- Protect
- Rest
Vitamins: 25 Protein (or Muscle Mochi), 25 Iron (or Resist Mochi)
Feathers: 6 Health Feathers, 2 Muscle Feathers, 2 Resist Feathers
* The last 2 EVs of the 510 total do not affect stats but are included so that the EV diagram in game shows the EVs as maxed
Stats at lvl 100 w/ perfect IVs:
HP : 442
Attack: 328
Defense : 329
Sp.Def.: 166
Speed : 106
NPC Advantages: arboliva will make it much harder to set up because the terrain will boost supereffective leaf blade pre-era. gardevoir (life dew), burners (drifblim, arcanine), and paralyzers (bellibolt, umbreon, and dudunsparce) help. sylveon (charm) and intimidators (tauros, staraptor) are useless due to the unaware ability. arboliva is harmful because it lays grassy terrain which boosts sceptile's leaf blade.
Strategy: it's fine to get KO'd by leaf storm on turn 0. if you don't, you can tera blast until your stats reset. protect. 2x curse, charge tera orb with tera blast, terastalize, rest + heal cheer if HP gets low, 4x curse, tera blast to victory.
Notes: I initially didn't want to make a dondozo video because I knew that getting targeted by leaf storm on turn 0 would wreck it, and I didn't want to promote a build where you have to reset the match immediately 25% of the time. turns out it's totally still winnable if you get KO'd. metronome helps with recovering the lost clock time.
Pros: supereffective tera type, excellent HP, atk, and def stats, no weakneses after terastalizing, immune to breaking swipe after terastalizing, both pre and post-tera typing discourages and/or blocks breaking swipe, avoiding the need for a covert cloak and freeing up the held item slot. curse buffs 1 def stage and 1 atk stage. rest heals full HP bar, tera blast has 80 base power, 100 accuracy, and deals supereffective STAB damage when terastalized. unaware ability prevents dragon dance from increasing the amount of damage that sceptile can do to dondozo (and critical hit resilience is massively superior to alternatives that rely on iron defense). protect ensures dondozo does not take a lot of damage on the one turn where unaware is suppressed. metronome boosts damage by a factor that increases with consecutively used attacks (1x,1.2x,1.4x, ...)
Cons: leaf storm deals a minimum of 93% of dondozo's HP bar in damage, and OHKOs 62% of the time, weak to leaf blade before terastalizing, tera type mismatches base type, outsped by sceptile
Overall Rating: 9/10

[@doctorenzoyeh]

Nice!

[@tonyhibbert7348]

Not sure if you’ve tried it yet but Magearna is incredible for this raid. Soul heart gets a +1 SpAtk with each fainted NPC ally meaning you can really burn through the raid

[@DaniSoloRaids]

I'm working on trying to come up with a magearna build that can survive and recover from a leaf blade critical hit w/ sceptile at +6 atk after terastalizing. If that doesn't pan out I'm gonna make a magearna duo attacker video.

[@DaniSoloRaids]

got it to work kzbin.info/www/bejne/kHicqGpvpLygfrM