Guide: Tips To Complete Pokemon Scarlet/Violet’s 7-Star Greninja Raid

Over the course of this weekend, Pokemon Scarlet And Violet players will be challenging their third 7 Star Tera Raid, which features a Poison Tera Type Greninja.

Aside from being the only way to obtain Greninja in the game currently, the 7 Star Tera Raid gives out a great deal of useful rewards such as Vitamins, Rare Candies, and Ability Patches. This makes being able to complete the raid consistently extremely useful. Below you will find some quick tips and tricks for beating this Raid Battle, as discovered and shared by many members of the Pokemon community.

How To Unlock 7-Star Raids

In order to even participate in this raid battle, players will need to progress far enough in the game to qualify for 7-Star raids. This essentially means meeting the following requirements:

• Have completed the story and seen the end credits
• Have completed all Gym Rematches and the Academy Ace Tournament
• Have completed 10 or more raids rated 4* and above.

Once you have completed these steps, the 7-Star Raid will appear both in your overworld as well as on the Tera Raid board.

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Greninja’s Ability and Moves

• The Tera Raid Greninja  has a Poison Tera-Type, meaning that it does more damage with its Poison moves in addition to its Water and Dark moves.
• As a Poison Tera-Type, it is weak to Psychic and Ground type attacks.
• Greninja’s Ability is Protean, which has no effect in Tera Raid Battles
• Greninja will always open the raid by using Double Team, to boost its Evasion, followed by Toxic Spikes, which poison the player’s Pokemon when they return to battle after fainting.
• Greninja’s notable moves include the following:
  • Gunk Shot ~ A powerful Poison-Type Physical attack which does massive damage with a chance to poison.
  • Hydro Pump ~ A powerful Water-Type Special Attack
  • Night Slash ~ A powerful Dark-Type Physical Attack
  • Ice Beam ~ A powerful Ice-Type Special Attack
  • Double Team ~ Status move that boosts its evasion, making Greninja harder to hit.
• After a short period of time, Greninja will clear all buffs and nullify all abilities for one turn, potentially ruining certain setups like Slowbro’s.
• When Greninja reaches half-health or when the timer reaches 3/4, it will put up a Tera Raid shield which makes it more resistant to attacks from non-Terastalized Pokemon.

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General Recommendations

• Avoid using Pokemon with a weakness to Poison, Water, Dark, or Ice moves. Fainting in battle reduces the timer, and if it reaches zero before Greninja is defeated, everyone will fail the raid battle.
• Avoid using Fairy Type Pokemon even if they were useful in a previous Raid. Azumarill and Sylveon are quite frail, and a single hit from Greninja’s Gunk Shot will likely cause them to faint.
• Use Level 100 Pokemon to maximize your chance of successfully completing the raid.
• Use Vitamins to maximize your Pokemon’s key stats to increase your chance of successfully completing the Raid.
• Use Cheers when necessary
  • Go For It! ~ Boosts Attacking stats.
  • Heal Up! ~ Heals HP and cures Status conditions. This is of particular importance as Greninja can inflict both Poison and Freeze status, which can crippled your Pokemon.
• Use moves which reduce Greninja’s stats
  • Reduce Def or Sp.Def to take it down faster.
  • Reduce Atk to prevent it from fainting your Pokemon.
• Use Pokemon with a Psychic or Ground Tera-Type to take down its Tera Shield.

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Recommended Pokemon

Slowbro

• Water/Psychic typing makes resistant to most of Greninja’s attacks.
• Despite being weak to Greninja’s Night Slash, Slowbro’s high HP and physical Defense allows it to survive the hits, even more so so after using Iron Defense.
• Recommended Stat Spread
  • Bold Nature
  • Max out Sp.Atk with Calcium
  • Max out HP with HPUp
• Recommended Moves:
  • Stored Power ~ Powerful special Psychic Type attack which gains more power the more Slowbro’s stats are boosted.
  • Nasty Plot ~ Sharply increases Slowbro’s Sp.Atk stat.
  • Iron Defense ~ Sharply increases Slowbro’s Defense stat.
  • Slack Off ~ Recovers Slowbro’s HP
  • Chilling Water ~ Does damage and reduces opponent’s Attack stat.
• Recommended Items:
  • Shell Bell ~ Heals Slowbro whenever it lands an attack
• Strategy (Main Attacker)
  • Slowbro is capable of soloing the Raid when equipped with Shell Bell.
  • Boost Slowbro’s stats by using Iron Defense and Nasty Plot continuously.
    • Notes, since Greninja uses its buff clearing move fairly early, it may be useful to use Iron Defense just once, then wait for it to clear your buffs before resuming the stack.
  • Use Stored Power after enough buffs have been stacked.

Vaporeon

• Water typing makes resistant to Greninja’s Water and Ice-Type attacks.
• Using Vaporeon effectively requires it to have a Psychic Tera-Type, which can be obtained by giving 50 Psychic-Type Tera Shards to the cook at the diner in Medali City (Larry’s Gym).
• Ability Water Absorb allows it to recover HP when hit by Water-Type attacks, and will protect Vaporeon from being KO’d by Hydro Pump after Terastalizing.
• Recommended Stat Spread
  • Modest Nature
  • Max out Sp.Atk with Calcium
  • Max out Def with Iron
• Required Moves:
  • Stored Power~ Powerful special Psychic Type attack which gains more power the more Vaporeon’s stats are boosted.
  • Chilling Water ~ Water-Type Special Attack which reduces opponent’s Attack stat.
  • Calm Mind ~ Boosts Vaporeon’s Sp.Atk and Sp.Def
  • Acid Armor ~ Sharply Boosts Vaporeon’s Sp.Def
• Recommended Items:
  • Life Orb ~ Boosts Vaporeon’s attacking stats, but reduces HP after attacking.
• Strategy (Main Attacker)
  • Boost Vaporeon’s stats with Acid Armor and Calm Mind.
  • Use Chilling Water to charge Tera Orb and reduce Greninja’s Attack stat.
  • Terastalize into Psychic Type.
  • Use Stored Power after enough buffs have been stacked.

Gastrodon

• Water/Ground typing makes it resistant to most of Greninja’s moves.
• Ability Storm Drain makes it immune to Greninja’s Water-Type attacks, and boosts Gastrodon’s Sp.Atk when hit by them.
• Recommended Stat Spread
  • Modest Nature
  • Max out Sp.Atk with Calcium
  • Max out HP with HPUp
• Recommended Moves:
  • Clear Smog ~ Erases Greninja’s Stat changes, useful for removing the evasion boost from Double Team.
  • Mud-Slap ~ Ground-Type attack that reduces Greninja’s Accuracy
  • Chilling Water ~ Water-Type Special Attack which reduces opponent’s Attack stat.
  • Earth Power ~ Powerful Ground-Type Special Attack.
  • Recover ~ Recovers half of Gastrodon’s HP when used.
• Recommended Items:
  • Soft Sand ~ Boosts the power of Ground-Type attacks.
• Strategy (Support/Utility)
  • Use Clear Smog to remove Greninja’s initial Double Team boost
  • Use Chilling Water or Mud-Slap continuously to cripple Greninja’s damage output.
  • Terastalize and use Earth Power to wear down Greninja’s Tera Shield
  • Cheer or use Recover when necessary.

Clodsire

• Poison/Ground typing makes it resistant to most of Greninja’s moves.
• Ability Water Absorb allows it to recover HP when hit by Greninja’s Water-Type moves.
• Recommended Stat Spread
  • Calm Nature
  • Max out HP with HPUp
  • Max our Sp.Def with Zinc
• Recommended Moves:
  • Earth Power ~ Powerful Ground-Type Special Attack.
  • Acid Spray ~ Poison-Type attack that reduces Greninja’s Sp.Def
  • Mud-Slap ~ Ground-Type attack that reduces Greninja’s Accuracy
  • Chilling Water ~ Water-Type Special Attack which reduces opponent’s Attack stat.
  • Recover ~ Recovers half of Clodsire’s HP when used.
• Recommended Items:
  • Assault Vest ~ Doubles Sp.Def at the cost of disabling Status moves for the Pokemon.
• Strategy (Support)
  • Use Chilling Water or Mud-Slap to cripple Greninja’s damage output.
  • Use Acid Spray to reduce Greninja’s Sp.Def and allow the Main Attacker to do more damage.
  • Terastalize and use Earth Power to wear down Greninja’s Tera Shield
  • Cheer or use Recover when necessary.

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