Tera Raid Battle: Difference between revisions

Tera Raid Crystals are created from energy unleashed from the [[Great Crater of Paldea]] over the years. During the post-game events of {{g|Scarlet and Violet}}, stronger 5★ and black 6★ raid crystals begin to appear. [[Jacq]] asks the player to not participate in the 6★ raids for the player's safety, due to the overwhelming energy contained within. If the player ignores his request and manages to defeat one, it's revealed from the readings that they're being caused by residual energy leaking from [[Area Zero]] into the rest of Paldea. In certain events, 7★ Raids show up with very rare Pokémon normally not found in [[Paldea]].

The battle system differs from typical turn-based battles in that the battle is timed, with an orange timer bar visible below the boss's HP bar that ticks down from 7½ minutes, and all participants are able to act at any point, regardless of whether the opponent Pokémon or allies are also performing an action at the same time. It is even possible for a Pokémon to execute multiple moves before an ally chooses to act at all.

When the timer reaches 45 seconds left, the message "''You can feel a tremendous energy gathering! There isn't much time left!''" will appear. If the timer expires before players defeat the Tera Pokémon, the energy burst will be unleashed, expelling all players from the raid.

The raid boss essentially participates in four concurrent one-on-one battles against each of the team members, and for each turn any player takes, the boss with get one turn against that player, with their relative order within that turn decided by priority or speed as usual. During these turns, the boss may use any move from its base moveset which is the moveset it will have if it is caught and thus contains up to four moves. Moves used by other players' Pokémon will appear as small speech bubbles next to their sprites in the top-left corner. A player will not see any messages for moves the raid boss uses against other players' Pokémon (except for additional moves described below), but if some of those moves affect its own stat stages (such as {{m|Calm Mind}} or {{m|Ancient Power}}), those stages will be in effect for all players, and can be seen by checking its status with the Y button. Likewise, moves that create weather or terrain conditions will create them for all four lanes, even if some players don't see the move being used; a particle effect will be visible in the center of the screen to indicate their presence.

If the raid that has been opened to other players (even if no others joined), then each time a player's menu comes up, that player must select an action within 60 seconds, or else the earliest selectable move in their moveset will automatically be used at that time.

Players are allowed to target a teammate with their moves, but {{cat|moves that target all adjacent Pokémon}} (such as {{m|Earthquake}}) will only hit the raid boss. If the raid boss uses such a move, it will only hit the Pokémon whose lane it was used in, and will not receive a multiple-target damage penalty (except if it used as a scripted action as described below).

If a non-boss Pokémon faints, it will be revived after five seconds initially, plus an additional five-second wait for each time it has previously fainted in the battle. Additionally, this also reduces the timer by a number of seconds equal to the fainted Pokémon's level. Pokémon used by NPCs do not reduce the timer when they faint.

Only direct-damaging moves, targeting either the raid boss or an ally, will count towards the Tera Orb's charge. [[Status move]]s, cheering and moves that miss do not count. If a damaging move is used while the boss's shield is up and deals so little damage that the shield reduction causes the damage to be less than ½, it will round down to 0 damage and that attack will not charge the Tera Orb either.

====Scripted actions====

The boss may have scripted actions which take place at predefined thresholds of health or time. These actions interrupt players' access to the menu. If the thresholds for two or more scripted actions are met at the same moment (for instance because of heavy damages), the boss will perform all of them in sequence, and it will not be possible to access the menu again until each of them have finished their animations. A scripted action can happen between a player's command and the corresponding turn.

There are five types of scripted action: additional move, shield, negative effects removal, positive effects removal and [[Tera Orb]] charge stealing. Additional moves appear in 3★ and above raids while all the other actions appear in 4★ and above raids.

The boss produces a shield which severely reduces the damage of attacks from non-Terastallized Pokémon, blocks the effects of [[status move]]s and cures any non-volatile [[status condition]] it has upon activation. This action is never done more than once in a battle.

The shield applies a multiplier to incoming damages. There are three multipliers depending on the situation of the attacking Pokémon:

* the attacking Pokémon is Terastallized and the move's type '''does not match''' the user's Tera Type: ×0.35;

The previous multipliers' values are used for all 6★ and below raids,<ref>https://twitter.com/Sibuna_Switch/status/1610483831769018368</ref> which includes all non-event raids, but may be different for 7★ raids, going as far as being greater than 1 (thus increasing damages) or being very small (×0.01 for instance).

After the boss's shield is broken, the boss will not move during the next turn the player will take.

=====Negative effects removal=====

=====Positive effects removal=====

The boss removes the positive [[stat modifier]]s of its opponents, as well as nullify their [[Ability|Abilities]] for the following turn. Negative stat modifiers will remain as they are. Pokémon that are knocked out during the removal are not affected by the Ability nullifying.

The boss removes one charge from each player's [[Tera Orb]]. Pokémon that have already Terastallized, have not built up any charge, or that are knocked out are unaffected.

 

In an single-player raid, the host can choose to run away, ending the battle as a forfeit. If the raid has been opened to other players (even if no others joined), running is not possible, and will give the message ''"It's no good! You can't find an opening to run away from such a strong opponent!"''.

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Players can opt to cheer instead of executing a move, up to three times per Tera Raid. Cheering has increased [[priority]] over moves, and its effectiveness appears to be random. The three cheer options are:

* '''Go all out!''': multiplies the user's and their allies' Attack and Sp. Atk by ×1.5 or ×2;

* '''Hang tough!''': multiplies the user's and their allies' Defense and Sp. Def by ×1.5 or ×2;

* '''Heal up!''': removes non-volatile [[status condition]]s and {{status|confusion}} from the user and their allies, and restores 20% to 100% of their total HP.

 

[[Stat]]-boosting effects from cheers are independent from other [[stat modifier]]s, which means that their effects stack multiplicatively. The stat boosts from the same cheer type do not stack with each other, but a repeated cheer may occasionally reroll a higher stat multiplier. Stat-boosting cheers last for three turns for each Pokémon, even if the Tera Raid Pokémon nullifies stat changes, or if an ally faints and returns to battle within those turns.<ref>[https://mobile.twitter.com/Sibuna_Switch/status/1607557138271936513 Anubis on Twitter: "The more I look into Tera Raid cheer mechanics, the more confused I am..."]</ref>

* Pokémon found in 6★ or above Tera Raid Battles may have their [[Hidden Ability]].

** {{p|Ditto}} Tera Raid Battles are an exception, and always have a chance to have their Hidden Ability.

* If the raid boss attempts to use the move {{m|Self-Destruct}}, {{m|Explosion}}, {{m|Misty Explosion}} or {{m|Final Gambit}}, the move will fail.

* {{m|Guard Split}}, {{m|Power Split}} and {{m|Perish Song}} will fail if used in a Tera Raid Battle.

Tera Raid Pokémon have their [[HP]] increased for the duration of the battle, as well as having one or more of their [[IV]]s guaranteed to be set to 31. Additionally, 6★ raid Pokémon are temporarily set to level 90 for the duration of the battle, but are reduced to level 75 when captured.

| 20×

| Varies^*

: ^{<nowiki>*</nowiki>} While this modifier is typically 30×, several events have deviated from this:

:: The 7★ event Pikachu had a 50× modifier.

:: The first 7★ event Charizard erroneously had a modifier of only 25×.

The Pokémon available to fight in Tera Raid Battles changes with the star value of the raid, as well as which version of the game the player is playing. The raid boss's Tera Type is chosen independently of the Pokémon itself, and has no influence over which Pokémon the raid boss will be.