Resource NeverUsed Tera Type Index

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Concept taken by Finchinator's post in OU, recreated from the old NU index, and posted with permission from Rabia.
This thread is meant to be a resource to newer players unfamiliar with the most common Terastallization ("Tera") types of Pokemon relevant in the NU metagame, as per the current viability rankings. Please note that in any given matchup or situation, any Tera type can end up being the perfect one for the job; this list is just meant to represent the most common* Tera types in the tier. If you have any suggestions or questions, feel free to PM me on Smogon, Discord, or PS!. Types are listed in general order of most common to least common.

S Rank
Diancie - Grass Fairy Water Flying Steel
Flygon - Steel Bug Fire Fairy Dragon Ghost Stellar

A+
Basculegion - Water Ghost Grass
Bronzong - Fairy Water Ghost Electric
Cinccino - Ghost Fire Normal Ice Dark
Flamigo - Fighting Flying
Muk-Alola - Water Fairy Dragon
Munkidori - Poison Fighting Ground Ghost Dark Fairy Flying
Porygon-Z - Fairy Water Ghost Electric

A
Amoonguss - Fairy Water Ghost
Chandelure - Grass Fire Ghost Ground Water
Gastrodon - Poison Ghost Fairy Dark
Incineroar - Fairy Ghost Poison Grass
Kilowattrel - Fairy Steel Ground Ghost
Klefki - Water Ghost Grass
Ninetales-Alola - Fairy
Vaporeon - Fairy Poison Dark Ghost

A-
Copperajah - Water Steel Poison Ghost
Drednaw - Fairy Water Ghost
Scyther - Grass Fire Ghost Flying
Swampert - Fairy Poison Ghost Dark
Sylveon - Water Ghost Fire
Tauros-Paldea-Aqua - Water Steel Grass Fighting Electric
Tauros-Paldea-Blaze - Fire Steel Ghost
Toxicroak - Poison Fighting Ghost
Toxtricity - Normal

B+
Altaria - Fairy Ghost
Avalugg - Water Steel
Decidueye - Grass Ghost
Hariyama - Steel Fairy
Infernape - Fighting Fire
Oricorio-Pa'u - Steel Fairy Fighting
Scrafty - Fighting Dark
Scream Tail - Ghost Steel
Slowbro-Galar - Poison Ghost
Thwackey - Grass Fairy
Uxie - Fairy Ghost

B
Arcanine - Normal
Articuno-Galar - Dark Ghost
Gligar - Ground Flying
Heracross - Fighting Bug
Inteleon - Water
Overqwil - Poison Fighting
Porygon2 - Normal

B-
Bellibolt - Electric
Brambleghast - Ghost Grass
Ditto - Normal
Dudunsparce - Normal
Grafaiai - Poison Dark
Meloetta - Fairy Ghost
Raikou - Electric
Sandslash-Alola - Ice Steel
Staraptor - Normal Flying
Tornadus - Flying Ghost
Torterra - Grass Ground
Tsareena - Grass
Wo-Chien - Grass Dark

C Rank
Ambipom - Normal Ice Ghost
Bastiodon - Fairy Ghost Poison
Braviary-Hisui - Flying Normal
Breloom - Fighting Grass
Cramorant - Electric Ghost Fairy Poison
Duraludon - Steel Fairy
Florges - Fairy
Golurk - Ghost Dark Fighting
Goodra - Dragon Water
Hitmonlee - Fighting
Houndstone - Ghost
Milotic - Water
Naclstack - Steel Fairy
Rotom-Heat - Fire Electric
Salazzle - Poison Fire
Tentacruel - Water Poison

 

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CHANGE LOG:
8/31/24 - Implemented Gallade's ban
9/26/24 - Updated to reflect September's VR shifts
10/06/24 - Updated to reflect October's tier shifts
10/15/24 - Implemented Cresselia's and Iron Thorns' ban
10/20/24 - Implemented suggestions given by PowerOfMemes
12/10/24 - Implemented October's VR shift and Oricorio-Pom Pom ban
2/1/25 - Updated to relfect Janurary's VR shifts
4/27/25 - Updated to reflect April's VR shifts

 

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suggestions :3 (will only mention possible new teras not already written

New (not currently ranked)

Overqwil - Flying (fight & ground resistances in one package deal, works extremely well on the boots spike setter sets)

S

Flygon - Ghost (cc immunity, body press immunity for zong, it is somewhat niche however)


A+

Incineroar - Poison (fairy + fight resistance in one)
Mienshao - Steel (fairy + fly resistances together, works well for sd sets and life orb / scarf at times too)
Munkidori - Fairy Flying (the first provides a dark resistance while maintaining your fighting one, the second lets you dodge eq—especially from scarf gon)

A


Inteleon - Ghost (boots and even some specs sets appreciate cc immunity)

A-

Chandelure - Water (hits incin like tera blast ground but lets you sponge water attacks instead)
Diancie - Steel (basically like rhyperior, use it like a fake steel then use it like a real one if needed)
Sylveon - Poison (lets you check croak & helps versus poisons overall, toxic immunity, maintains fight resistance)

B+

none

B

Articuno-Galar - Fairy (lets you take dark & fighting attacks, better handles shao)

B-

none

C

Bombirdier - Steel Poison Ground (the first two give a fairy resistance, steel also has great resistances, poison instead resists fighting, and then ground resists rock but is mostly there for elec immunity)
Salazzle - Steel Flying (steel lets u have good resistances as always but also lets u resist psychic specifically, flying lets eq mean nothing and since u usually have boots there’s not a lot of drawback)
Sandslash-Alola - Water Ghost (these two are the main ones i use for it: fire resistance & fight immunity while being good defensive types overall)

anyways, happy this resource is here (: