Resource SV RU Tera Index

[Heatranator]

approved by EviGaro

thanks to Gaboswampert for the art​

Hello and welcome in the Tera Index for SV RU! This generation has made teambuilding even more complexe than it already is by implementing Tera types, this thread is here to hopefully ease your way into RU by giving you everything you should know about how Tera is used here. Each Pokemon's Tera Types will be split into two categories, common Tera's on the left and uncommon Tera's on the right, divided by a | symbol. However, don't expect to find all the Teras used by all the players here, you will certainly come across very unexpected Teras which is just how Scarlet & Violet goes sometimes. This Index will follow the Viability Rankings to display the Tera(s) used on all the Pokemon present on them.

Amoonguss --> Fairy / Water | Steel / Ghost
Basculegion-F --> Water / Ghost | Ice
Basculegion --> Water | Ghost / Dragon
Barraskewda --> Water / Fighting
Bellibolt --> Water / Fairy | Poison / Electric
Bisharp --> Ghost / Flying / Fire | Fairy / Dark
Blissey --> Ghost / Dark | Fairy
Breloom --> Normal / Steel / Water | Fighting / Fairy / Ghost
Bronzong --> Water / Fighting / Fairy
Cetitan --> Ground | Ghost / Ice / Water
Chesnaught --> Steel / Ghost / Water | Fairy
Cincicno --> Ghost / Ice | Dark / Normal / Grass
Comfey --> Steel / Water / Fairy | Poison / Ghost / Electric
Crawdaunt --> Water / Poison | Fighting
Cresselia --> Poison / Steel / Fairy | Electric / Dragon
Cyclizar --> Ghost / Steel / Fairy | Normal
Deoxys-Defense --> Steel / Fairy / Water | Ghost
Diancie --> Water / Grass | Fairy / Dragon / Ghost
Ditto --> Ghost / Steel
Empoleon --> Flying / Ghost / Fairy | Grass / Electric
Entei --> Normal / Grass
Espeon --> Fairy / Ghost | Steel / Water
Feraligatr --> Water / Dark | Stellar
Flamigo --> Fighting / Flying | Steel / Normal
Flygon --> Steel / Fairy | Ground / Fire / Ghost
Forretress --> Ghost / Water / Fighting | Fairy
Gallade --> Steel / Fire / Ghost | Dark / Fighting
Gardevoir --> Fairy | Fire
Gastrodon --> Poison / Ghost | Dragon / Fairy
Gengar --> Ghost / Fairy / Normal | Fighting / Dark
Gligar --> Water / Ghost | Dragon
Golurk --> Fighting / Ghost / Ground | Fairy / Dark
Goodra-Hisui --> Ghost / Dragon / Fairy | Water
Grimmsnarl --> Water / Steel | Ghost
Heracross --> Normal / Steel | Fire / Dark
Infernape --> Fighting / Fire | Grass / Ghost
Iron Thorns --> Flying / Fairy / Ghost | Grass / Bug
Jirachi --> Water / Fairy / Steel | Ghost / Normal
Kilowattrel --> Flying / Ghost / Steel | Electric / Water
Kingdra --> Water / Dragon | Flying / Steel
Kleavor --> Ghost / Fighting | Rock / Bug
Klefki --> Ghost / Water / Flying
Krookodile --> Poison / Ground / Dark | Ghost / Dragon
Lucario --> Normal / Ghost | Fighting / Flying
Lycanroc-Dusk --> Fighting / Rock / Ghost | Dark
Lycanroc-Midday --> Ghost
Magnezone --> Flying / Ghost / Fairy | Water / Fighting
Maushold --> Ghost / Fire | Normal
Meloetta --> Steel | Fighting / Ghost
Muk-Alola --> Water / Dragon | Fairy / Flying / Steel
Munkidori --> Poison / Fighting | Psychic / Dark
Necrozma --> Fairy / Ground / Steel | Poison / Water
Ninetales --> Ghost / Grass | Flying
Ninetales-Alola --> Water / Steel | Fairy
Noivern --> Steel / Normal / Dragon | Fire / Fairy
Oricorio Sensu --> Fighting / Steel | Fairy / Ground
Overqwil --> Water / Flying | Poison / Ghost
Palossand --> Water / Dragon | Fairy / Poison
Pawmot --> Electric
Politoed --> Steel / Ghost
Porygon-Z --> Ghost / Electric | Normal / Ice
Quagsire --> Poison / Dragon / Dark | Fairy / Ghost
Raikou --> Water / Fighting | Flying / Fairy
Regidrago --> Dragon / Ground | Ghost / Dark / Normal
Regieleki --> Electric | Ghost / Normal
Registeel --> Ghost / Dragon | Fairy / Water
Reuniclus --> Water / Fairy / Fighting | Poison
Rhyperior --> Dragon / Water / Fairy | Ground
Ribombee --> Ghost | Steel / Fairy
Rotom-Heat --> Water / Steel | Fairy
Sandslash-Alola --> Ghost / Water | Ice
Scovillain --> Fire / Grass
Scrafty --> Poison / Water | Steel / Fairy
Slowbro --> Poison / Fairy | Electric / Fighting
Slowbro-Galar--> Water / Fairy | Dragon / Grass
Suicune --> Dark / Fairy / Ghost
Swampert --> Poison / Ghost / Steel | Dragon / Fairy
Tentacruel --> Dark / Grass | Ghost
Terrakion --> Ghost / Rock / Flying | Normal / Fighting / Grass
Torkoal --> Ghost / Grass | Fighting / Fire
Tornadus --> Steel / Fighting / Flying | Ghost
Torterra --> Fairy / Fire / Steel | Ghost / Psychic
Toxctricity --> Normal | Fighting / Ghost
Tsareena --> Water / Fire / Steel | Dragon / Poison
Umbreon --> Poison / Fairy | Water / Ghost
Vaporeon --> Poison / Dark | Dragon
Venusaur --> Fire / Ground | Dark / Fairy
Wo-Chien --> Poison / Ghost / Fairy | Water / Dragon
Yanmega --> Bug / Ghost | Electric / Grass

 

[Rarelyme]

updated according to January's shifts, feel free to comment if you feel like some Teras are missing

 

[Heatranator]

Tera Dark should be on Bisharp, its not too common, but is still a notable tera type to boost sucker punch power.
Tera Ice is great on Cetitan to boost the power of ice shard or ice spinner. Tera Fire is also and option on it to avoid will-o-wisp from talong/geezing, but it is def niche.
Tera Dark should be on Chansey. IMO, its the default tera type as it means it can answer psyshock users such as Armarouge.
Tera Steel should be on Gallade. Resists flying mainly, and also avoids toxic. Was featured on Canard's RMT team.
Tera Dark should be on Lycanroc Dusk. Boosts the power of either crunch or sucker punch in order to things such as OHKO slowbro at +2 with sucker.
Tera Fairy should be on Magnezone. A good defensive typing it gives, and annihilates Cyclizar if it chooses to run tera blast.
Tera Fire is a potential one on Mimikyu. Makes Weezing Galar and Talonflame setup opportunities instead of walls. Bit niche, so understand if this isn't included.
Tera Ground should be on Ninteales Alola. Tera Blast Ground A-tales is its defining set, with its ability to rip apart steels that usually wall it.
Tera Normal is a potential one on Noivern. This is primarily for specs sets, but this turns noivern into a nuke. But specs has fallen off recently.
Tera Dragon should be on Registeel. Resists both water and fire, making it a great answer to weather, while having none of its usual weaknesses. Tera Water is also another option for it that performs similar functions, but is weak to electric moves.
Tera Steel should be on Torterra. Resists most of its usual weaknesses while being immune to poison.
Tera Ghost should be on Volcanion. Mainly due to its immunity to Seismic toss, meaning it can beat chansey. Also makes it immune to fighting moves allowing it get off a large attack reliably.
Tera Fire could potentially be on Horoark. This is really only on flamethrower sets, which boosts its power and means it can take something like a cyclizar knock off in a pinch.

These were the main ones I was able to find. Thank you

 

[Canard]

yeah i agree with heatranator's post, particularly aboutand,isn't clicking tera ghost most of the time, it doesn't let you beat any wall, nor shadow sneak some frailer mons that would barely live it because it's atk is that underwhelming, even with life orb, tera fire however lets you completely sit on mons that previously beat you and at +3 which you can get for free if you tera fire on aorand swords dance twice, which finally boosts your offense to a point where shadow sneak can beat the offensive mons and shadow claw can threaten the walls and, odds are if they run aor athey won't have another physical wall making you into a potent sweeper that can clean games, something that tera ghost fails to do

Tera steel onis the best tera IMO because it does NOT need more power, night slash is already 2 shotting every psychic type except maybe slowbro, your stabs are already nukes that demolishes offensive mons and take big chuncks of health out of bulkier mons like,andand leaf blade already 2 shotsand one shots most grounds, which is kinda all you use it for, so a defensive typing makes sense and steel combines with your base typing well defensively and is awesome at punishing speed control options that would beat you, you only take 50% from's brave bird letting you one shot it and if they decide to u-turn to scout for tera odds are you still get a kill and once it does come back it will have to lock itself into close combat which is very abuseable and it also makes you totally wallthanks to your good special bulk, only taking about 25% from moonblast and psychic, and if the opponent has a fatter team and it's speed control is down and youris still standing, you win

i also thinkshould have tera fairy simply to resist dark instead of being weak to it, letting you for example dynamic punchor

also tera figthing for, does what tera ground does but hitsandthe main special walls of the tier, it even lets you beat ! and doesn't make you weak to aqua jet and ice shard from the likes ofand

 

[Mareep]

Rapid fire submissions based on personal experiences and observations:

-> Dark, for CM sets typically
-> Fire, for setting up easier vs Galarian Weezing
-> Fighting, boosted Dynamic Punch and resistance to Dark to trade easier vs Bisharp and Krookodile
-> Fairy, generally a good Tera on CM sets
-> Poison, arguably the best Tera for CM + Cloak sets
-> Dark, CM sets like Entei above
-> Fairy, generally good Tera to help stomach miscellaneous physical hits
-> Water, checks Mamoswine and Volcanion in one while being relatively safe overall

 

[Elec-ant1234]

: Add Tera Steel, mamoswine moment
: Ditto above but for different, soon-to-be-smogon set related reasons

 

[Heatranator]

Thread should be updated for the latest meta, lemme know if theres anything I missed

 

[Heatranator]

Updated for pre RUPL and VR shifts (including removing hilligant...) Lemme know if theres anything I missed

 

[Heatranator]

Bit delayed, but this is updated post tblast ban and Arma ban. Might have missed some things since this is pretty weird to decide what to keep or not so lemme know

 

[Heatranator]

Hi, did a big revamp of this. From now on the tera types will be seperated by common and niche, indicated by a | symbol between the two categories. This should help a lot in making sure its easier for newcomers to figure out which ones they can use. I utilised the usage stats from last month+some of my own intuition (since that would put shit like tera fire on bronzong as common which would just be weird).