Summary
One tenacious player has managed to beat the latestPokemon Scarlet and VioletTera Raid by one-shotting Blastoise with Magikarp. Their battling feat extends Magikarp’s lengthy success streak inPokemon Scarlet and VioletTera Raids.
As was the case with Max Raid Battles fromSwordand Shield, Tera Raids in the newest mainlinePokemonRPGs manage to be both challenging and accessible; although they do pit trainers against some fairly dangerous creatures, beating them is still possible using pretty much any strategy imaginable. Reddit user Nommable123 has oftentimes demonstrated this state of affairs byone-shotting variousPokemon Scarlet and VioletTera Raid bosses with Magikarp.
They have once again repeated this exploit while tackling the recently launchedMighty Blastoise 7-star Tera Raid inPokemon Scarlet and Violet. This time around, their one-hit KO team consisted of Toxtricity, Polteageist, Alolan Golem, and, of course, Magikarp. The supporting cast used in the feat was all picked out of the player’s pool of Pokemon with Calm nature, which boosts their Defense stat at the expense of attack. Meanwhile, since Magikarp was in charge of damage, Nommable123 opted for a specimen with Adamant nature, which increases its Attack.
With this setup, their strategy for performing the one-hit KO on Blastoise started with the supporting cast increasing the team’s survivability by debuffing the boss with Eerie Impulse and stealing its moveset with Skill Swap. In between healing and party buffs, Toxtricity then used Swagger on Magikarp three times, raising its Attack by six points. While holding thePokemon Scarlet and VioletMetronome item, Magikarp itself built up its damage and Tera charge by using Flail on teammates. Polteageist then bestowed Alolan Golem’s Galvanize onto Magikarp with another Skill Swap, followed by Alolan Golem buffing Galvanized Flail with Electric Terrain.
The final stretch of the setup involved Toxtricity using its held Lansat Berry to boost Magikarp’s critical hit rate and Alolan Golem activating Weak Armor with repeated Rock Blasts on Blastoise. The inspired part of the strategy came next, with Polteageist using Trick Room to reverse the battle’s turn order, making slower Pokemon act first for five turns. This led to Toxtricity leveraging Helping Hand to boost Magikarp’s attack by 50% and Polteageist providing a smaller buff with an Attack Cheer. Between Polteageist’s Astonish and Blastoise’s attacks, Magikarp was then left with little enough HP to benefit from the maximum Flail damage boost, which activates when the user drops to 35% of its health pool.
Following this convoluted setup, Nommable123 managed to one-shot Mighty Blastoise by Terastallizing Magikarp and finally using Flail. The outcome of the fight marked another impressive victory for the player, who has already managed touse Magikarp to one-shotScarlet and VioletTera Raid Pokemon like Venusaur, Typhlosion, and Rillaboom, among many others.
Pokemon Scarlet and Violet
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