Pokémon Scarlet & Violet: How to Beat 7-Star Blastoise

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In honor of Pokémon Day 2024, Pokémon: Scarlet & Violet announced three consecutive week-long 7-Star Tera Raid events: Ground Tera Type Venusaur, Steel Tera Type Blastoise, and Dragon Tera Type Charizard.

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As always, only one event Blastoise can be caught per save file. However, you can still help other trainers with their raids if you want the 7-Star rewards. Raids at 5 or more stars have a chance of dropping Herba Mystica, Bottle Caps, Ability Patches, and more!

Blastoise’s Steel Tera Type now makes it weak to Fire, Fighting, and Ground-type moves. Overall, it’s best to use a physical Fighting Pokémon or try out the Fire Tera Type Vaporeon build.

Pokémon with a Naive Nature have a higher Speed stat at the expense of its Sp. Def. This does not negate how much of a tank Blastoise is. The hit to its Sp. Def is a drop in the bucket. When picking a counter Pokémon, focus more on hitting Blastoise’s type weaknesses instead of hitting the weaker defense stat. Due to Blastoise’s status moves, the defense stats don’t matter as much.

Pokémon with the Rain Dish Ability will gradually regain HP in the rain. At 50% HP, Blastoise will use Rain Dance. This will both boost Blastoise’s Water-type moves and restore its HP every turn. At that point, the Tera Energy Shield should be down, so the HP restoration shouldn’t be a big issue.

Blastoise will start the raid by using Withdraw, immediately boosting its Defense stat. Like past 7-Star events, Blastoise will also put up its Tera Energy Shield within the first turn. At 75% HP, Blastoise will use Shell Smash to increase its Attack, Sp. Atk, and Speed. At 50% HP, Blastoise will use Rain Dance and begin restoring HP. During your raid battle, Blastoise will reset itself and the players’ status and stats.

Poliwrath and Gallade are the best picks for this raid battle.