Samurott, the water-type Pokémon from Unova, is making its Pokémon Scarlet and Violet debut in seven-star Tera Raids. It has a bug Tera Kind, however its assault sorts solely enable for just a few steady counters.
Samurott with the bug Tera Kind and Mightiest Mark is barely in raids from March 30 at 8 p.m. EDT till April 2 at 7:59 p.m EDT and April 6 at 8 p.m. EDT till April 9 at 7:59 p.m. EDT.
Samurott Tera Raid rewards
Upon defeating Samurott, you’ll be capable of catch one, however just one. After you seize your first one, you won’t be able to catch any extra, even if you happen to defeat it once more in one other raid. You’ll additionally get TM88 (Swords Dance) and a assured Capacity Patch to your first victory.
The caught Samurott has its Hidden Capacity, Shell Armor, making it in order that no assaults towards it are ever crucial hits. It additionally comes with the Mightiest Mark, similar to the Pokémon from earlier seven-star raids. It additionally has full excellent IVs.
Equally to different Tera Raids, you may get different drops, like Exp. Sweet, Tera Shards, Bottle Caps, and treasure gadgets to promote for cash. Serebii.net has a complete drop table. Samurott raids don’t drop Herba Mystica.
Samurott Tera Raid finest counters
Samurott is at degree 100 with a bug Tera Kind. It is aware of Aqua Cutter, Megahorn, Evening Slash, and Drill Run, in addition to Focus Power, Swords Dance, and Bulldoze. These strikes make it a bodily attacker primarily. It’s going to begin the battle with Focus Power, elevating its crucial hit ratio.
Keep in mind that your Pokémon must be degree 100 when bringing them into seven-star raids. You might be able to get away with not completely EV or IV coaching them, nevertheless it’s advisable that you just do for simpler knockouts.
There are a number of builds that will let you take down Samurott simply, however under we checklist those we both personally partied up with or used to take down the raid.
Samurott Annihilape solo Tera Raid construct
- Nature: Adamant
- Capacity: Very important Spirit (nevertheless it doesn’t actually matter)
- Tera Kind: Ghost (nevertheless it doesn’t actually matter)
- EVs: 252 HP/252 Assault/4 Protection
- IVs: Maxed HP, Assault, Protection
- Held merchandise: Shell Bell
- Moveset: Screech, Rage Fist
We used an Annihilape we picked up on the aspect of highway, boosting its IVs, however not bothering EV coaching it. Regardless of this, we have been capable of solo Samurott with three NPCs. Right here’s what we did:
- Use Screech twice to decrease Samurott’s assault, earlier than it places up its Tera protect. Screech has no impact on Samurott whereas its protect is up.
- Spam Rage Fist till it dies.
- If Samurott clears its debuffs and its protect is down, use Screech twice once more.
Rage Fist does extra injury the extra instances your Annihilape has been hit, making it tremendous sturdy. You can even Terastallize when you have a ghost Tera Kind to assist deal extra injury, however it might make you extra vulnerable to Samurott’s Evening Slash. (Ours was preventing Tera Kind, so we didn’t trouble, however we nonetheless cleared the raid.)
Your Annihilape could die a couple of times throughout this, alongside the NPC Pokémon, however don’t fret an excessive amount of. Annihilape will preserve the Rage Fist stacks even after it faints and comes again, so it’ll stay very sturdy.
It’s fully potential that we bought fortunate with our NPCs (who have been utilizing Sylveon, Drifblim, and Haxorus), so that you would possibly get unfortunate and roll some much less helpful Pokémon. As of scripting this, we’re unable to check this in multiple solo run, since we will solely get one seven-star Tera Raid to look per day.
![Annihilape, Drifblim, Sylveon, and Haxorus take on a bug Tera Type Samurott in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet](https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/IGDvtVizL0ecbiLhQvFQg27jx18=/0x0:1918x1078/1200x0/filters:focal(0x0:1918x1078):no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24550111/GameCapture_2023_03_31_10_24_24.jpg)
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Notice that utilizing this technique may be viable in multiplayer on-line raids, nevertheless it’s considerably tougher — it actually depends in your teammates bringing in Pokémon that received’t activate Samurott’s protect after one flip. You want it to be shield-less for 2 turns so you need to use Screech towards it.
Samurott Koraidon attacker Tera Raid construct
- Nature: Adamant
- Capacity: Orichalcum Pulse
- Tera Kind: Combating
- EVs: 252 HP/252 Assault/4 Protection
- IVs: Maxed HP, Assault, Protection
- Held merchandise: Life Orb
- Moveset: Swords Dance, Flame Cost, Flare Blitz, Drain Punch
- Different strikes: Screech, Hearth Fang
That is the Reddit build, however we’re hesitant to even advocate this construct as a result of there are such a lot of individuals bringing in Koraidon and utilizing the improper strikes. Utilizing Flare Blitz recklessly will simply find yourself killing your Koraidon through recoil injury, wasting your time within the raid.
We advocate working this in multiplayer solely in case your teammates are bringing in a lot of Screech-using Pokémon. This may be Annihilape (above), Corviknight (under), or different Screech customers.
The Reddit technique entails all three helps utilizing Screech on flip one, whereas Koraidon makes use of Swords Dance. On flip two, the helps all use assault cheers and Koraidon makes use of Flare Blitz to one-hit KO Samurott. Should you don’t OHKO it, spam Flame Cost within the following turns, whereas conserving your well being up with Drain Punch.
It’s extraordinarily vital that you just enable the Screech-using Pokémon to arrange with out doing injury. If broken an excessive amount of, Samurott will put up its protect and as said above, Screech has no impact on Samurott if its Tera protect is up.
We did see gamers herald Koraidon with Hearth Fang and Screech as a substitute, permitting them to debuff Samurott on their very own earlier than unleashing sturdy assaults that received’t concurrently kill their Koraidon.
Samurott Corviknight assist Tera Raid construct
- Nature: Relaxed
- Capacity: Mirror Armor (nevertheless it doesn’t actually matter)
- Tera Kind: Flying (nevertheless it doesn’t actually matter)
- EVs: 252 HP/252 Protection/4 Assault
- IVs: Maxed HP, Assault, Protection
- Held merchandise: Zoom Lens
- Moveset: Screech, Taunt, Drill Peck, Roost
That is, once more, through the Reddit technique listed above, nevertheless it serves as a superb assist throughout. (See the above part for the official technique to make use of alongside Koraidon.) Use Screech till Samurott’s assault can’t be lowered any additional, after which simply spam Drill Peck, throwing in a Roost every time your HP will get low. You can even use cheers to assist buff your social gathering as needed.
Corviknight is our assist suggestion, simply because it’s resistant to Samurott’s ground-type strikes and it will possibly help with bits of harm between debuffs.