Over the course of this weekend, Pokemon Scarlet And Violet players will be challenging a 7 Star Tera Raid which features a Psychic Tera Type Meganium with the Mightiest Mark.

Aside from being the one of the few ways to obtain Meganium without Pokemon HOME or trading, the 7 Star Tera Raid gives out a great deal of useful rewards such as Vitamins, Rare Candies, Ability Patches, and most notably, Herba Mystica. 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.

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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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Meganium’s Ability and Moves

• The Tera Raid Meganium has a Psychic Tera-Type, meaning that it does more damage with its Psychic moves in addition to its Grass moves.
• As a Psychic Tera-Type, it is weak to Ghost, Dark, and Bug type attacks.
• Meganium’s Ability is Leaf Guard, which prevents status conditions in Sunny weather
• Meganium’s notable moves include the following:
  • Seed Bomb ~ Grass-Type physical attacking move.
  • Zen Headbutt ~ Psychic-Type physical attacking move that has a chance to make the opponent flinch.
  • Body Press ~ Fighting-Type physical attacking move that does more damage the higher the user’s defense stat is.
  • Curse ~ Status move that lowers speed, but raises all of the user’s other stats.
  • Reflect ~ Status move  which sets up a barrier reducing damage from physical moves.
  • Light Screen ~ Status which sets up  a barrier reducing damage from special moves.
  • Bulldoze ~ Ground-Type physical attacking move that hits all opponents, and has a chance to lower their speed.
• Meganium’s Battle Behaviour
  • 99% Time Remaining ~ Meganium uses Reflect
  • 98% Time Remaining ~ Meganium uses Light Screen
  • 85% HP Remining OR 80% Time Remaining ~ Meganium sets up its Tera Shield.
  • 79% Time Remining ~ Meganium resets the player’s stats and disables their Pokemon’s ability for one turn.
  • 70% HP Remining ~ Meganium resets own status and stat debuffs.
  • 40% HP Remining ~ Meganium resets own status and stat debuffs.
  • 30% HP Remaining ~  Meganium uses Bulldoze.

General Recommendations

• Avoid using Pokemon with a weakness to Grass, Psychic, Fighting, or Ground moves. Fainting in battle reduces the timer, and if it reaches zero before the raid boss is defeated, everyone will fail the raid battle.
• 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.
  • Hang Tough! ~ Boosts Defensive stats.
  • Heal Up! ~ Heals HP and cures Status conditions.

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Recommended Pokemon

Skeledirge

• Fire/Ghost typing makes resistant to most of Meganium’s Attacks.
• Ability Unaware allows it to ignore all of Meganium’s status changes, allowing it to do full damage despite the Raid Pokemon’s various barriers and stat boosts.
• Recommended Stat Spread
  • Modest Nature.
  • Max out Sp.Atk stat with Calcium
  • Max out Def stat with Iron
• Recommended Moves:
  • Torch Song ~ Fire-Type special move that boosts the user’s Sp.Attack stat by one stage.
  • Shadow Ball ~ Ghost-Type special move that has a chance to lower the opponent’s Sp.Defense stat.
  • Slack Off ~ Status move that heals the user’s HP by 50%.
  • Protect ~ Status move that prevents the user from being hit by the opponent’s move for one turn.
• Recommended Items:
  • Shell Bell ~ Heals HP after dealing damage.
• Strategy (Solo Attacker)
  • Use Torch Song three to six times to deal damage and boost your own Sp.Attack stat.
  • Terastalize into a Ghost-Type, and use Shadow Ball repeatedly to reduce Meganium’s HP.
  • When Meganium disables your ability, use Protect.
  • Heal using Slack Off if necessary.
  • When Meganium clears your buffs, switch back to Torch Song for a few turns to boost your Sp.Attack stat, then switch back to Shadow Ball until Meganium faints.

Sinistcha

• Grass/Ghost typing resists most of Meganium’s moves.
• Ability Hospitality heals surrounding Pokemon when entering the battle.
• Recommended Stat Spread
  • Bold Nature.
  • Max out Sp.Atk stat with Calcium
  • Max out Def stat with Iron
• Recommended Moves:
  • Matcha Gotcha ~ Grass-Type special attack that has a chance to burn the opponent and heals the user.
  • Hex ~ Ghost-Type special attack that deals double damage to opponent’s affected by status.
  • Iron Defense ~ Status move that boosts the user’s Defense stat.
  • Nasty Plot ~ Status move that boosts the user’s Sp.Attack stat.
• Recommended Items:
  • Big Root ~ Increases the amount of HP healed by drain moves, including Matcha Gotcha.
• Strategy (Attacker/Support)
  • Use Nasty Plot one or two times to boost your Sp.Attack.
  • Use Matcha Gotcha to leave Meganium with a Burn status, which will half the damage dealt by its attacking moves.
  • After Meganium is burned, use Hex to deal super-effective damage, doubled due to Meganium’s burn.
  • After your Tera orb is charged, Terastalize into a Ghost-Type and continue using Hex.
  • When your HP is low, or when Meganium removes the burn status, switch back to Matcha Gotcha to recover health or burn Meganium again.
  • Continue using Hex until Meganium faints.

Malamar

• Psychic/Dark typing is resistant to most of Meganium’s moves.
• Ability Contrary reverses the effects of moves that raise or lower the user’s stats, necessary for the Skill Swap strategy this build uses.
• Recommended Stat Spread
  • Adamant Nature.
  • Max out Atk stat with Protein
  • Max out Def stat with Iron
• Recommended Moves:
  • Skill Swap ~ Status move which swaps the abilities of the user and its opponent.
  • Night Slash ~ Dark-Type physical move with a high critical hit rate.
  • Reflect ~ Status move  which sets up a barrier reducing damage from physical moves.
• Recommended Items:
  • Metronome ~ Increases the power of moves that are used twice or more in a row.
• Strategy (Main Attacker)
  • Use Skill Swap to exchange your ability with Meganium’s. This will give Meganium the Contrary ability, which will reverse the effects of the move Curse.
    • Reversing the effect of the move Curse means that every time Meganium uses it, the move will reduce all of its stats while increasing its speed, crippling the strategy that was set up for the raid battle.
  • Use Reflect to further reduce the damage taken from Meganium’s attacks.
  • Use Night Slash repeatedly, it will be boosted by the Metronome item and may do a critical hit, damaging Meganium even more.
  • Once your Tera orb is charged, terastalize into a Dark-Type and continue using Night Slash until Meganium faints.

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