Tera Raid Battles

Raid Battles make a return in Pokémon Scarlet & Violet in the form of Tera Raid Battles. Much like how Max Raid Battles used Dynamax in Sword & Shield, Tera Raid Battles are built around the Terastal Phenomenon.

Throughout Paldea, you will find sparkling pillars of light that come from various crystals across the region. If you go to these, you will start a Tera Raid Battle. These can be done alone or with friends. Tera Raid Battles will sometimes feature Pokémon with a differing type to their usual type. Due to being done with friends, even though some Tera Raid Battles are available natively only in one game, matching the Version Exclusives, other players can participate in them and catch them regardless of what game they're playing. Each Raid Boss Level has a different Hit Point multiplier to calculate the maximum HP of the boss

Unlike Pokémon Sword & Shield, the Tera Raid Battles are not in set locations with the location determining the raid you get. Instead, they get randomly placed throughout the region with the Tera Type of the Pokémon also being random. These reset as you clear them out and as the day passes to the next day. As you progress through the game you will get higher star raids

After completing story elements after the Academy Ace Tournament, you'll then unlock 6 Star Raid Battles through a story with Jacq asking you to investigate Raid Battles. Defeat over a dozen and he'll call and unlock 6 Star for you. There is only one of these in Paldea at any one time and the opponent is of a higher level than the one you actually catch making them a considerable challenge. Due to this, the items you obtain are rarer.

Whenever you first access a Tera Raid Battle den, you will receive 500 LP for 1 Star Raids, 700 for 2 Star Raids, 1,000 LP for 3 Star Raids, 1200 for 4 Star Raids, 1600 for 5 Star Raids, 1800 LP for a 6 Star Raid or 2,000 LP for a 7 star Raid.

Tera Raid Battles have a change in that they have a time limit and allow for you to continue attacking without waiting for the other players to choose their actions. This allows for you to go through and battle the Pokémon with more haste and ease as before. If your Pokémon is knocked out, then you wait 5 seconds before being brought back in and it increases each time you are knocked out. The overall timer also reduces with each KO that the Raid Boss gets and scales with your Pokémon level.

Players can also cheer instead of using moves. You can use Cheers three times per Raid Battle. They do not stack and can last up to 3 turns. As of Version 2.0.1, you can see them in the Summary screen when they are in effect.

With higher star Raid bosses, they can go through up to six extra stages of effects. These vary in order depending on the boss itself and include the following effects:
Use an extra move - This can be an additional move outside its movepool, or one of its movepool moves
Put up a shield - This shield will reduce damage significantly, but damage from Terastallized Pokémon is increased. It will also prevent status moves being used against the Raid Boss. In 5 Star Raids. It reduces standard moves to 20% of their possible damage, but if you Terastallize this changes to 35% if a different type or 75% if the same type as your Tera Type. This value changes with event raids depending on the raid
Remove Negative Effects - This removes any status conditions or stat drops on the Raid Boss
Remove Stat Boosts & Abilities - This removes any stat increases on all players' Pokémon, and removes their Ability

After defeating the Pokémon, you will be able to catch it, as well as getting various items as rewards. These rewards get better the higher the raids go and also include exclusive items such as Tera Shards and Herba Mystica.

Each Pokémon has got a specific set of items it's guaranteed to drop and a set of items that it has a random chance of dropping. With the Random drops, there is a specific drop rate for each Pokémon and it runs through the table with each item having a specific weight. It then calculates if it has that item based on the percentage chance. If it does, it removes that weight from the maximum weight and goes through the tables repeatedly until the maximum weight hits 0, resulting in times when there are multiple instances of the same item.

In The Teal Mask, you will get given the Glimmering Charm. This will give you even more Tera Shards depending on the Raid you are doing.

From time to time, there will be special events held over the Poké Portal. These are obtained through the Mystery Gift feature of the game and often provide a variety of special Tera Raid Battles focusing on certain Pokémon, sometimes including those not natively available within the game

These Crystals have a special aura around them and have a white glow on the map so you know that they are the special event ones.

In amongst these are the special 7 Star Raid Battles. These battles are the hardest you can face in the game and if you manage to defeat it and catch a Pokémon from it, it will have a special Mark indicating that it was caught in a 7 Star Raid.

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