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

Skeledirge @ Metronome
Ability: Unaware
Tera Type: Fairy
EVs: 6 HP / 252 Def / 252 SpA
Modest Nature
- Alluring Voice
- Torch Song
- Will-O-Wisp
- Slack Off
Vitamins: 25 Iron (or Resist Mochi), 25 Calcium (or Genius Mochi)
Feathers: 6 Health Feathers, 2 Resist Feathers, 2 Genius 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 : 350
Defense : 299
Sp.Atk.: 350
Sp.Def.: 186
Speed : 168
NPC Advantages: no requirements. 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: will-o-wisp. alluring voice until your stats reset. slack off when HP drops below half. 6x torch song. terastalize, alluring voice until shield breaks. optional will-o-wisp (not worth it to break the a long metronome chain for it, especially if HP is fairly high). alluring voice to victory.
Notes: shell bell can be used for additional healing but makes the run slower and isn't really needed due to slack off. a critical hit on the one turn where unaware is suppressed is not a big deal because breaking swipe has low base power and sceptile will be burned, so it's not really necessary to add protect, and not really worth it to lose slack off (but if you do, use a shell bell).
Pros: supereffective tera type, good HP stat, excellent def stat, fantastic spatk stat, no weakneses, resists leaf storm and leaf blade before terastalizing, immune to breaking swipe after terastalizing, torch song gives +1 spatk stage while charging tera orb, slack off heals half of HP bar, will-o-wisp burns when shield is down, alluring voice has 80 base power, 100 accuracy, and deals supereffective (STAB when terastalized) damage. it also induces confusion if sceptile used dragon dance that turn. unaware ability prevents dragon dance from increasing the amount of damage that sceptile can do to skeledirge (and critical hit resilience is massively superior to alternatives that rely on iron defense). metronome boosts damage by a factor that increases with consecutively used attacks (1x,1.2x,1.4x, ...)
Cons: tera type mismatches base type, outsped by sceptile
Overall Rating: 9/10

[@dfoots]

Stellar build. Ran it just like you mentioned except when Tera'd I opted to do Slack Off and Alluring Voice back and forth each turn until the shield broke. At that point, the +6 from Torch Song was more than enough to finish the raid without the second Will-O-Wisp.

[@choobiefan]

Gg. That one seemed to take a little longer than some other pokemon but it was very good. I still dont get how unaware is supposed to work, from the description it seems that you will ignore the enemys defensive buffs when attacking, but seems it also ignores the opponents attack buffs when they are attacking you. And it also seems that you get to keep all your buffs when you attack. So you get to keep all your buffs, but the opponent loses theirs?

[@DaniSoloRaids]

thanks. one of the primary determining factors in raid duration is whether the pokemon's base type matches its tera type. clefable gets a 2x multiplier on moonblast and draining kiss when it terastalizes, but skeledirge only gets a 1.5x multiplier on alluring voice when it terastalizes. re: unaware, you've pretty much got it right, with the caveat that it only applies to offensive, defensive, and evasive stats. it doesn't apply to speed. setting aside speed, the easiest way to think of it is that no one (not you, your allies, or the raid boss) can buff or debuff the raid boss. the raid boss is essentially stuck at +0 atk/def/spatk/spdef/accu no matter what anyone does. this influences how damage and hit/miss is calculated when you attack the boss, or when the boss attacks you. but for any other allies who don't have unaware, none of this applies. the downside is that unaware mon can't benefit from moves like acid spray or mud-slap because they only benefit allies, and have no effect on their own experience. i hope that helps.

[@kennethbautista5670]

@DaniSoloRaids I have a question that I'm hoping you can answer. There seems to be a moment when the Raid Boss removes your and your allies buffs. It seems that for 1 turn you become aware of stat increases. When Raid Bosses do this, does it cancel out all abilities or is this unique only to unaware pokemon? Or am I just wrong entirely and it's bad RNG in favor of boss?

[@DaniSoloRaids]

@kennethbautista5670 You are correct. On the turn that immediately follows having your stats wiped, abilities are suppressed. This applies to all abilities not just unaware. There's a few things you can do to counter this. 1) hold an ability shield, 2) use protect, 3) defense cheer, 4) use a healing move or heal cheer

[@choobiefan]

@@DaniSoloRaids oh that is good to know. I was trying to use acid spray to help some unaware pokemon in the raid. Now I know that isn't working. So basically, Galarian Wheezing is pretty useless for this raid, compared to Malamar. And both are pretty useless to unaware pokemon like Skeledirge and Clefairy.

[@DaniSoloRaids]

Galarian weezing is useless as a supporter for unaware mon, but it's an excellent mon to either solo with or support non-unaware mon. Taunt and clear smog are the best counters to dragon dance for non-unaware mon.