While dealing damage often seems like the best way for fighting Tera Raids, many support moves can provide immense benefits to help you defeats such raids even faster.
These involve moves that reduce the opposing Pokemon’s stats, buff your own Pokemon, and utilize certain items and abilities efficiently.
If you’re interested in more offensive options instead, consider checking out our list of the best Pokemon for 6-star raids.
In this guide, I will list the best support moves for Tera raids in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet and explain why they are so useful.
Best Support Moves for Tera Raids in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet
There is a wide list of support moves available in Generation 9. In this list, we’ll go through some of the most useful moves in the game.
Just make sure to have one, or a few of them and your team will be ready to defeat even the hardest raids.
1. Instruct
Instruct causes the targeted Pokemon to repeat its previous move. This can be targeted at an allied Pokemon. Thus, instead of the allied Pokemon attacking once and then the equipped Pokemon attacking once, the allied Pokemon will attack twice.
This is ideal when targeted at an allied Pokemon with a high Attack/Special Attack when using its best move. Just picture an Annihilape using Close Combat twice in one turn. That’s game over for the enemy.
2. Life Dew
Life Dew heals all your teammates for 25% of their max HP.
This is an essential tool as it increases your allies’ survivability and allows them to stay on the field longer and thus deal more damage.
3. Reflect/Light Screen
Reflect and Light Screen reduce damage taken by all allied Pokemon. Reflect reduces physical damage, while Light Screen reduces damage from special attacks.
They are amazing tools when your team has Pokemon with low defensive stats.
For instance, one of the strongest Pokemon in the game, Flutter Mane, has insanely high Special Attack and Speed but lacks defensive stats. Pairing it with Reflect or Light Screen, is a recipe for success.
For more details on how to find Flutter Mane and its best build, consider checking out our relevant guide.
4. Helping Hand
Helping Hand is a priority move used to buff the damage of an allied Pokemon by 50% for one turn.
Combine this with any strong attacker and you’ll be taking down raids in no time.
5. Screech
Screech reduces the enemy Pokemon’s Defense by two stages. It’s a simple yet extremely useful move that can help take down even the tankiest enemies.
Make sure to combine this with any Pokemon that focuses on the Attack stat and you’re good to go.
To increase your damage even further, pair it with a physical attacker that knows Belly Drum, such as Azumarill. Make sure to use Reflect/Light Screen to ensure Azumarill stays alive after Belly Drum, and get ready to nuke the enemy Pokemon.
Conclusion
To sum up, those are the best support moves for Tera raids in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet.
Using any combination of these will lower the enemy Pokemon’s defensive stats, increase your own offensive stats, and make sure your attacks hit as hard as possible.
As long as you’ve got strong offensive Pokemon on your team, you’ll be able to take down any raid, even the hardest, 7-star event raids.
What do you think about support moves in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet? Do you use them often, or do you prefer damage-dealing moves? Let us know in the comments below.
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