Since this is the third time they've done it and they were not made regularly available in the DLC, yeah this seems to be the only way they want to release the pair.
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Pokemon Scarlet & Violet - 18th Nov 2022! **OFFICIAL INFO ONLY**
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https://serebii.net/scarletviolet/teraraidbattles/event-walkingwakeandironleavesreturn.shtml
The new Walking Wake/Iron Leaves rerun drops Salty Herba Mystica, with the 5% slot of nonexistent TM material being absorbed into Tera Shards as well.
The coming Friday's event will be a lively mark mass outbreak for Finizen/Lotad/Horsea in the 3 regions with the Kindly Mark increased. I think this is the first outbreak event announced between a 7-star event run and rerun that will overlap with the 7-star's rerun time. Also it wasn't mentioned in Swampert's thread but Blissey is coming back as usual.
The SV website has updated with some raid battle tips.
https://scarletviolet.pokemon.com/en-us/events/tera-raid-battle-tips/
https://www.pokemon.com/us/strategy/pokemon-scarlet-and-pokemon-violet-tera-raid-battle-tips
This one is just a copy of the pokemon.com article which I've covered a few iterations of in the 6/7 star raid sets thread.
https://scarletviolet.pokemon.com/en-us/events/ready-to-raid-episode-1/
This is a link to a YouTube short that is "episode 1" and titled "How to Tackle 7-Star Tera Raid Battles". I don't think it particularly gives any actual tips on how to succeed in 7-star raids other than how to unlock them, and for some reason it highlights a bunch of previous 7 stars like Mewtwo's rewards.
The link at the end and in the video description pokemon.com/ReadyToRaid just takes you to the SV website's news page, which I guess is supposed to link you to the first tips article.
https://scarletviolet.pokemon.com/en-us/events/tera-raid-battle-tips/
https://www.pokemon.com/us/strategy/pokemon-scarlet-and-pokemon-violet-tera-raid-battle-tips
This one is just a copy of the pokemon.com article which I've covered a few iterations of in the 6/7 star raid sets thread.
https://scarletviolet.pokemon.com/en-us/events/ready-to-raid-episode-1/
The link at the end and in the video description pokemon.com/ReadyToRaid just takes you to the SV website's news page, which I guess is supposed to link you to the first tips article.
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Number 5 is Iron Bundle fighting with Iron Hands (caught in an Ultra Ball).
Number 4 is Hisuian Typhlosion, fought with Vaporeon.
Number 3 is Greninja, fought with Quagsire and Gastrodon. Also they hope you had Full Heals at the ready despite not being able to use items in SV raids.
Number 2 is Charizard, fought with Flutter Mane.
Number 1 is Mewtwo, fought with Quaquaval and a Tera Bug Mew and caught with an Ultra Ball.
Overall I don't agree too much with this as a top 5, mostly because the criteria is nonexistent, but Mewtwo and Charizard are definitely not in my top 5 in terms of fun and engaging battle design with the raid mechanics. I have to wonder what the point of marketing these old raids now is. Maybe it is hinting to a refresher or is just trying to drum up hype for these last ones now that the starters are all available in the DLC anyway.
I guess so. Overall it seems like these raids are more of a success with the general audience than the Battle Tower and SWSH raids in terms of having a finite challenge to work towards and bringing people back to keep playing.
Also I just realized all of these upcoming Ready to Raid videos got spoiled in the playlist link in their description, so I will just review them all now.
Future me is editing this here just to point out the biggest highlight is at the end where they show an Umbreon illegally using Will-O-Wisp.
https://pkmn.news/ReadyToRaidYT
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQWzKIaERirx1Gdaaq5ko0rPW0eml_k13
Tera Raid Battle Basics: Finally getting into the actual gameplay mechanics of how a raid works. At least explains how bosses can attack in different lanes at the same time, and recommending the use of the Y button, showing a Kingambit with no held item and imperfect HP. Also shows that the timer goes down when you faint and the revival time gets higher after each time, with examples of a 20s and 30s cooldown after like 5 deaths.
Shows Iron Moth/Skeledirge/Ceruledge/Corviknight vs. Hisuian Decidueye (Ultra Ball), Kingambit/Gholdengo/Paldean Tauros/Annihilape vs Inteleon.
How Raid Bosses Work in Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet: As the description says, "strategy is the key to beating the mightiest opponents". They officially point out raid bosses having extra moves and tell you to adjust your Pokemon choices as you notice them. They also explain that you need to tera to break the shield, but not with the same type of move as your tera, just focusing on it being super effective.
Shows the Chansey/Chesnaught/Poliwrath/Chesnaught vs. Blastoise party seen in video 1, and Corviknight vs. Venusaur, both caught in Poke Balls. Poliwrath is shown to use Belly Drum as an example of buffing stats and resetting them. Personally I would have shown a different mon or enemy for this example, especially against the Blastoise that could infinitely boost Defense. Chesnaught has Drain Punch and Seed Bomb seen from the gameplay/animations.
How to Choose the Right Pokémon for Tera Raid Battles: Talks about type matchups on both sides. They mention checking the pokedex for info on the raid boss, but show a box in the background that might contain the builds used in their save file?
Then they talk about the 2 roles of attacker and supporter, again based on type matchups.
Finally they talk about items like Expert Belt/Metronome and Sitrus Berry/Leftovers. At least it's better than the website guide recommending Punching Glove.
Shows Ceruledge/Armarouge/(Tera Steel) Heatran/Alolan Muk vs. Delphox. Caught in an Ultra Ball.
Choosing Your Role for 7-Star Tera Raid Battles: This seems like it could have been in the last one, but I guess it is the more meta aspect of playing in groups. Features advice like "doing damage wins you raids", recommending stat boosting moves like Swords Dance (Iron Hands) and Nasty Plot (Meowscarada) and Belly Drum (Iron Hands again). Again I think there could have been a better example for Belly Drum than repeating the same mon here, especially since I think it uses Close Combat right after and Iron Bundle is a physical wall.
Then it shows dedicated supporters like Grimmsnarl, Chansey, and Dachsbun. At some point it shows Chansey healing against what I think is Iron Bundle but with Grimmsnarl/Dachsbun/Flutter Mane instead. Lastly it shows anyone can support by using a cheer, with a shot of offense cheering a Chansey used a few times in a row.
Shows Iron Hands and Chansey vs Iron Bundle, (Tera Fighting) Aura Sphere Lucario vs Rillaboom, Light Screen Grimmsnarl/Misty Terrain Dachsbun/Flutter Mane vs Charizard, and Chansey/Grimmsnarl/Dachsbun/Flutter Mane vs Iron Bundle.
Top-Tier Pokémon for Tera Raid Battles: Ending on the longest video, finally we have the recommendations of what to actually use. Surely Azumarill will be in this one.
Shows the Chansey/Grimmsnarl/Dachsbun/Flutter Mane vs Iron Bundle party to start. Since they highlight the individual mons I'll just update this as I go.
For damage they start off with (Tera Fairy) Flutter Mane vs Charizard, just talking about its Ghost/Fairy type, stats, and that it has coverage moves but not what they are. Then they go into Iron Hands vs. Iron Bundle, talking about using Belly Drum to max out attack on the first turn of the battle. At the least they recommend Drain Punch.
Then they go into support, showing Umbreon using Snarl against either one of the Ice bosses and Will-O-Wisp against Samurott... hold on, it doesn't learn that. What is this??? Then they recommned Leftovers and Moonlight for healing. Also I think they barely show Koraidon just while using its signature move being a circle. Also it uses Moonlight against Inteleon so I guess Snarl was against it.
Finally we get context to this Chansey. I still don't see why it's been shown all this time. They recommend Light Screen, Helping Hand, Life Dew, and Heal Pulse. They also show Empoleon/Gholdengo/Chansey/Iron Hands vs Iron Bundle here.
Overall I am very disappointed Azumarill was not mentioned once in this whole series, and especially the final video of "top-tier raid Pokemon" snubbing the GOAT over picks like illegal Umbreon, Eviolite Chansey, and Close Combat Iron Hands. It is a far cry since it got a highlight on the original Pokemon.com article way back when.
Also I want to point out they mention Abilities in the description but not once in the whole actual video.
Also I just realized all of these upcoming Ready to Raid videos got spoiled in the playlist link in their description, so I will just review them all now.
Future me is editing this here just to point out the biggest highlight is at the end where they show an Umbreon illegally using Will-O-Wisp.
https://pkmn.news/ReadyToRaidYT
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQWzKIaERirx1Gdaaq5ko0rPW0eml_k13
Tera Raid Battle Basics: Finally getting into the actual gameplay mechanics of how a raid works. At least explains how bosses can attack in different lanes at the same time, and recommending the use of the Y button, showing a Kingambit with no held item and imperfect HP. Also shows that the timer goes down when you faint and the revival time gets higher after each time, with examples of a 20s and 30s cooldown after like 5 deaths.
Shows Iron Moth/Skeledirge/Ceruledge/Corviknight vs. Hisuian Decidueye (Ultra Ball), Kingambit/Gholdengo/Paldean Tauros/Annihilape vs Inteleon.
How Raid Bosses Work in Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet: As the description says, "strategy is the key to beating the mightiest opponents". They officially point out raid bosses having extra moves and tell you to adjust your Pokemon choices as you notice them. They also explain that you need to tera to break the shield, but not with the same type of move as your tera, just focusing on it being super effective.
Shows the Chansey/Chesnaught/Poliwrath/Chesnaught vs. Blastoise party seen in video 1, and Corviknight vs. Venusaur, both caught in Poke Balls. Poliwrath is shown to use Belly Drum as an example of buffing stats and resetting them. Personally I would have shown a different mon or enemy for this example, especially against the Blastoise that could infinitely boost Defense. Chesnaught has Drain Punch and Seed Bomb seen from the gameplay/animations.
How to Choose the Right Pokémon for Tera Raid Battles: Talks about type matchups on both sides. They mention checking the pokedex for info on the raid boss, but show a box in the background that might contain the builds used in their save file?
Then they talk about the 2 roles of attacker and supporter, again based on type matchups.
Finally they talk about items like Expert Belt/Metronome and Sitrus Berry/Leftovers. At least it's better than the website guide recommending Punching Glove.
Shows Ceruledge/Armarouge/(Tera Steel) Heatran/Alolan Muk vs. Delphox. Caught in an Ultra Ball.
Choosing Your Role for 7-Star Tera Raid Battles: This seems like it could have been in the last one, but I guess it is the more meta aspect of playing in groups. Features advice like "doing damage wins you raids", recommending stat boosting moves like Swords Dance (Iron Hands) and Nasty Plot (Meowscarada) and Belly Drum (Iron Hands again). Again I think there could have been a better example for Belly Drum than repeating the same mon here, especially since I think it uses Close Combat right after and Iron Bundle is a physical wall.
Then it shows dedicated supporters like Grimmsnarl, Chansey, and Dachsbun. At some point it shows Chansey healing against what I think is Iron Bundle but with Grimmsnarl/Dachsbun/Flutter Mane instead. Lastly it shows anyone can support by using a cheer, with a shot of offense cheering a Chansey used a few times in a row.
Shows Iron Hands and Chansey vs Iron Bundle, (Tera Fighting) Aura Sphere Lucario vs Rillaboom, Light Screen Grimmsnarl/Misty Terrain Dachsbun/Flutter Mane vs Charizard, and Chansey/Grimmsnarl/Dachsbun/Flutter Mane vs Iron Bundle.
Top-Tier Pokémon for Tera Raid Battles: Ending on the longest video, finally we have the recommendations of what to actually use. Surely Azumarill will be in this one.
Shows the Chansey/Grimmsnarl/Dachsbun/Flutter Mane vs Iron Bundle party to start. Since they highlight the individual mons I'll just update this as I go.
For damage they start off with (Tera Fairy) Flutter Mane vs Charizard, just talking about its Ghost/Fairy type, stats, and that it has coverage moves but not what they are. Then they go into Iron Hands vs. Iron Bundle, talking about using Belly Drum to max out attack on the first turn of the battle. At the least they recommend Drain Punch.
Then they go into support, showing Umbreon using Snarl against either one of the Ice bosses and Will-O-Wisp against Samurott... hold on, it doesn't learn that. What is this??? Then they recommned Leftovers and Moonlight for healing. Also I think they barely show Koraidon just while using its signature move being a circle. Also it uses Moonlight against Inteleon so I guess Snarl was against it.
Finally we get context to this Chansey. I still don't see why it's been shown all this time. They recommend Light Screen, Helping Hand, Life Dew, and Heal Pulse. They also show Empoleon/Gholdengo/Chansey/Iron Hands vs Iron Bundle here.
Overall I am very disappointed Azumarill was not mentioned once in this whole series, and especially the final video of "top-tier raid Pokemon" snubbing the GOAT over picks like illegal Umbreon, Eviolite Chansey, and Close Combat Iron Hands. It is a far cry since it got a highlight on the original Pokemon.com article way back when.
Also I want to point out they mention Abilities in the description but not once in the whole actual video.
TCPI and GF being gung-ho against genned Pokemon, meanwhile their marketing team's straight up cheating
Strategy? No. Cheesing. Cheesing is the key to beating the mightiest opponents.
(I've never had a 7-Star Tera Raid where I didn't feel I was abusing some exploit in the mechanics... or, rather, I wasn't abusing an exploit someone else came up with)
Pokemon.com has adjusted the caption of this Ready to Raid series blurb from "Get Ready to Raid with Our New Series of TikTok Videos" to "Get Ready To Raid on TikTok" and made the background orange instead of blue. I guess the first title was too long for the target audience.Episode 2 of "Ready to Raid" is out as an unlisted video, ranking the top 5 Pokemon from 7-star raid bosses, though it's actually a top 5 ranking of the raid bosses and not the Pokemon used against them to my disappointment. As I just learned from the official website, this is actually a TikTok series that shows what little I know of it.
The 3rd YouTube video is technically published through the SV website now, but is still unlisted on YouTube, and the 2nd one is still unlisted too. The Pokemon TikTok account has been publishing them regularly though so I'm not sure what the plan is here.
Personally I get by just fine doing the same thing with Azumarill contrary to popular opinion, but I think Annihilape also naturally works out to fill the need for overkill damage over time in the raid format, especially as an enemy. But I think the idea of feeling like an exploit is just a result of needing a solid and prepared gameplan and specific roles to succeed in a 1v1/4v1 like other RPG superbosses, that you don't really need to prep for anything in the campaign at all on the same level normally.
Of all the postgame challenges in the franchise, I think the 5+ star raids demonstratably show how little you need to know to actually beat the game vs. actually being prepared for what comes afterwards. Though I feel like most of that is people not understanding the real time raid mechanics and blaming the game for cheating, and by nature having the knowledge of what the boss actually does makes it much easier to plan around, which this video series could have done but mostly doesn't really get the point across, having to talk in general about 7-stars as a concept rather than specific relevant fights. I liked the 5-star suggestions and tips that the Japanese site was posting for the early 7-star bosses back then as an effort to point players in the right direction but it seems like gamefreak thought differently.
Regulation H starts Sept 1 and goes to Jan 5. The difference here is that all Paradox & Legendary (any Legend, not just Restricted) Pokemon will no longer be allowed
Then Jan 6 to April 30 it will rerun Regulation G (the current one, with Paradoxes, Legends and 1 Restricted Pokemon)
Kind of unusual. If it weren't for them probably wanting next year's VGC to probably want a Regulation I to allow 2 restricted Pokemon, I'd wonder if this was just the end of life plan. Loop between these 2 Regulations every 4 months. Though you gotta admit, it'd be pretty novel for VGC 2025 to just not allow any Paradox or Legendary pokemon.
Then Jan 6 to April 30 it will rerun Regulation G (the current one, with Paradoxes, Legends and 1 Restricted Pokemon)
Kind of unusual. If it weren't for them probably wanting next year's VGC to probably want a Regulation I to allow 2 restricted Pokemon, I'd wonder if this was just the end of life plan. Loop between these 2 Regulations every 4 months. Though you gotta admit, it'd be pretty novel for VGC 2025 to just not allow any Paradox or Legendary pokemon.
To be honest it is a interesting twist as it's basically "regulation A but with dlcs"
I am not sure what the plan is though. If 2025 vgc is still going to be on SwSh (which it should), it may be just a random ruleset to spice up things a bit after worlds.
The "end of lifespan" ruleset last time was more on the line of "here play with stuff you usually cant", and I would expect it to follow same line in a year or so
I am not sure what the plan is though. If 2025 vgc is still going to be on SwSh (which it should), it may be just a random ruleset to spice up things a bit after worlds.
The "end of lifespan" ruleset last time was more on the line of "here play with stuff you usually cant", and I would expect it to follow same line in a year or so
Don’t you mean SV?
I sure do, the sun may have ruined my ability to write ._.
If we get to see more mythicals in the VGC I'm even more for longer development time between games
Mystery Dungeon Red Rescue Team added to the NSO GBA Expansion on the 9th
If we have one in August the easy answer would just be "it's towards the end of the month"
It's not that odd, Link's Awakening is also on the service. Even back in the Wii U/3DS days, where they were kind of weird and definitely treated them as a set they would often have remakes coexist alongside their originals.
Realistically these aren't taking sales away from the remake (much less one that came out 4 years ago). One is a standalone title with an assortment of tweaked, new and enhanced features & graphics the other is the original with lesser in some regards, different in others tied to a subscription service('s more expensive tier). There's appeals to both.
Is there any chance of new Pokemon types like mythical (seems unlikely, don't recall a movie coming this year) or shiny events?
Whole lot of Pokemon that are over a generation old that are still shiny locked, like Volcanion, Marshadow, Calyrex, Glastrier, Spectrier & Enamorus. For this generation, it would have been nice to see Walking Wake and Iron Leaves get shiny events down the road seeing that the other Paradox types are not shiny locked.
Seems like this generation has been very quite, aside from the time when they would release new starters with the tera raids. Now it just seems like repeats, with no option to capture shiny versions of the repeating raids.
Despite being "more stuff", there seems to be less this generation. Also a bit disappointing because there is no new mainline game this year. A couple of previously shiny locked events would certainly breathe a little excitement over the next year.
Whole lot of Pokemon that are over a generation old that are still shiny locked, like Volcanion, Marshadow, Calyrex, Glastrier, Spectrier & Enamorus. For this generation, it would have been nice to see Walking Wake and Iron Leaves get shiny events down the road seeing that the other Paradox types are not shiny locked.
Seems like this generation has been very quite, aside from the time when they would release new starters with the tera raids. Now it just seems like repeats, with no option to capture shiny versions of the repeating raids.
Despite being "more stuff", there seems to be less this generation. Also a bit disappointing because there is no new mainline game this year. A couple of previously shiny locked events would certainly breathe a little excitement over the next year.
For mythical it's hard to say for sure; L:A didn't have one but it's possible Z-A might have one. And Pecharunt shows they don't need to be tied to a movie anymore.
Shiny events sure feels like we should have one. SM gave away the shiny box legends and Tapu; SWSH gave away THEIR shiny box legends (/honorary box legend Eterantus) and the Galarian Birds were participation rewards. So it's not like there isn't precedent to follow suit...honestly I fully expected Shiny Koraidon & Miraidon to be released already when they had the special Year of the Dragon tournament earlier in the year and added Miraidon to unite.
The Ruinous Treasures feel like they should also have gotten started by this point as online competition rewards, but they seem significantly less interested in doing those compared to SWSH in general. They didn't even rerun the ball backpack rewards for the 2024 Global Challenges.
So who knows, maybe they just put a big pause on that idea in general this go around. All the Snackworth legends being shiny locked would flow into that, I suppose, even if that might've been due to their dumb set up.
Also they've only reran a few raids (excluding the guaranteed rerun they do a week or so later in case you missed the first weekend). They reran Charizard for Pokemon day alongside 2 new raids for Venusaur & Blastoise, they reran Wake/Leaves a few times mostly because they kind of need to, and they're rerunning Pikachu & the Gimmighoul (not 7*, mind you) raids but we're also running those alongside new Dondozo & Dragonite raids.
Considering August is the month for VGC worlds, doubt it.
Though I wouldn't consider impossible a random teaser of something during worlds itself, if anything it'll be Legends.
Worlds being in August doesn't mean anything, to be clear
Last year Pokemon Presents was on the 8th (a Tuesday). Worlds 2023 was on the 11th (a Friday).
In 2022 Presents was on the 3rd and Worlds was on the 18th.