First, there was sharkthen there was peat And Greninja. Now Decidueye is the latest seven-star tera raid in Pokémon Scarlet And purple. This limited time event will give you a chance to catch the Alolan grass starter, who is not available in the game at this time. While there are still some aspects of the raid that we don’t know yet, Game Freak has revealed enough information for us to be able to properly prepare for the event. Let’s go over a few things to keep in mind to defeat and capture Decidueye the Unrivaled before it’s gone forever.
When is the Decidueye tera raid?
The Decidueye raid is ongoing and will be available until Sunday, March 19 at 7:59 p.m. ET. It will then be put into the vault until the next week on March 24 at 8 p.m. ET and finally ending on March 26 at 7:59 p.m. ET.
What should I expect when facing Decidueye?
As is the case with any seven-star raid, Decidueye will be at level 100, and so should any Pokémon you bring to battle it. While the owl archer has a basic type of grass and ghost, its tera type will be flying. This means that its inherent weakness and resistance will be that of a flying-type Pokémon, not its natural grass/ghost. Even so, its moveset still includes moves from all three of these types, as well as a combat move. So it’s important to consider which Pokémon you can bring with you so that you can both deal damage to the flying Pokémon and counter the damage dealt by enemies that work with grass, ghosts, and battle moves. Decidueye’s full move set includes:
- Brave Bird (Flying)
- Slab (Grass)
- Spirit Shackle (Ma)
- Air Cutter (Fly)
- Feather Dance (Flying)
- Sword Dance (Normal)
- Low Kick (Combat)
Decidueye will use Feather Dance to reduce your team’s physical attack, so if you can prioritize special attackers like Miraidon over physical attackers like Iron Fist, you’ll probably in a better position to deal some real damage.
An example of what not to do is carrying a Pokémon that can weaken a flying Pokémon but is vulnerable to a properly placed Leaf Blade or Spirit Shackle, such as a Rock-type Sudowoodo or a Froslass-type. ice/ghost. These two Pokémon will have rock and ice attacks to weaken Decidueye, but they will themselves be weakened by the attacks it will inevitably have. So even if you’re not running the Pokémon discussed in this guide, it’s important to be aware of how you can juggle attacks on Decidueye’s tera-type weakness while not letting yourself get smothered. by its attacks.
Who is the best Pokémon to fight Decidueye?
Decidueye’s attacks are just physical attacks instead of special attacks, it’s best to bring a Pokémon with high physical defense and honestly, one of the options. the best seems to be Purple Pokémon Miraidon mascot. Its electric/dragon knock makes it resistant to Decidueye’s Blade, and with a respectable 100 base defense, it’s ready to fend off almost any grass attack. This would also apply to Decidueye’s flying tera type, as its electric knock will help it fend off air attacks. The tera type will increase the strength of Brave Bird and the Swords Dance will boost its physical strength by a few notches, but Miraidon is well equipped to handle these attacks.
On top of that, Miraidon can power up your party’s electric moves through its Hadron Engine ability. This will automatically create an electric terrain on the battlefield, making electric attacks more effective. If you want to give yourself every advantage possible, give Miraidon an electric tera of its own to enhance electrical attacks even more. Decidueye has much lower physical defense than special and doesn’t have many options for physical attacks. Miraidon can learn Wild Charge using TM147, but considering how much stronger its special attack stat (135 basis points) is compared to its physical attack stat (85 basis points), there is maybe you should still use special attacks. Hadron engine and electric tera type will more than make up for Decidueye’s exceptionally high defense.
Personally, I teamed up with a bunch of randos for the raid and all four of us used Miraidon, and while I ended up in the support role using acclaim, we were able to take down Decidueye pretty easily. I’ve used Hyper Training to increase IV, as well as equip it with the item holding Choice Specs to increase its special attack power and use PP Ups to increase Electro Drift PP for effectiveness. One of us also used Taunt to make sure Decidueye could only use attack moves, preventing it from increasing its own attacks with Sword Dance or lowering us with Feather Dance. After that it was just a matter of everyone unloading Electro Drift onto Decidueye to deal as much damage as possible.
How do I get Miraidon if I have scarlet?
As I mentioned before, Miraidon is purpleTherefore, his mascot is exclusive to that version of the game. If you have scarlet and want to run Miraidon for the raid, the only way you can do it is to trade with someone who has purple. However, it is not as simple a process as you think. purple there are a total of two Miraidon and only one is tradable. The first is what the player receives at the start of the game as their mount. While you get this silly little motocross man early on, it can’t be used in battle until late game when it regains full power. So while a purple player can use this Miraidon in raid, it cannot be traded as you will lack mounts to explore its open world.
The Miraidon that can be traded between games is what serves as the game’s final boss. You’ll have to beat it to end the game, but then you’ll have to go find it again deep in Area Zero. The fastest way to find it is to go to the entrance of Paldean crater and teleport to Research Station 4. Leave the lab and fly straight down the cliff in front of you. The second Miraidon will be waiting at the end of the passage leading to one of the giant tera crystals at the bottom of Sector Zero. It will be level 72 and can fight multiple times if you accidentally defeat it. But this is a Miraidon that will be transferable between games and can be given to someone who is struggling. scarlet the player wants to beat Decidueye.
Can I get Hisuian Decidueye from this raid?
The Decidueye attack only includes a standard Decidueye, instead of the Hisuian area variant introduced in Legendary Pokémon: Arceus. The grass/battle version of Decidueye is not available in scarlet And purple and likely won’t happen until Game Freak integrates Pokémon homepage function, which will allow you to transact between Pokémon games and scarlet And purple. If you breed Rowlet with Decidueye from this raid, it will not evolve into Hisuian Decidueye, as Pokémon only evolve into their regional variants while in that particular area. So there’s no way to get Hisuian Decidueye in scarlet And purple right away.
Reminder: You can only catch one Decidueye
As is the case with all seven star raids, you can only catch one Decidueye through the tera raid event. You can join the battle to help your friends as many times as you like, but you will only be able to catch one for yourself. Decidueye is also shiny locked, so if you want a shiny Decidueye in scarlet And purple, you will have to do so through breeding. Just throw Decidueye and Ditto together on a picnic and wait for the eggs to appear. Then you can have as many Decidueye as you like.
