Pokemon Scarlet and Violet

Primarina will probably be packing a Psychic move to deal with Poison types. Steel types might be better, unless they give Primarina some way to punish Steel types.

Don’t think it has anything that can hit Steel-types super effectively other than Sunny Day Weather Ball.

Primarina doesn't have Sunny Day, so I guess we don't have to worry about it unless someone brings Koraidon to the raid.

Primarina does have Reflect and Light Screen though, so I wonder if the raid will do something similar to Meganium the Unrivaled.

And with Koraidon being four times weak to fairy that's not gonna happen unless some one wants to troll.

Edited by The-Azure-Star-Of-Orion on May 6th 2024 at 4:56:02 AM

Not a super fan of when the Tera raid is a type the Pokémon already has, but oh well.

I don't really have any decent Steel types trained up, though.

Unless Primarina has Reflect and Light Screen, this would be hella easy with coordinated teammates. Just do the Steely Spirit Perrserker strat again lol (3 Focus Sash Steely Spirit Perrserker and 1 Steel-type hitter)

1. On turn 1 all Perrserker do Screech (if hitter is physical) or Fake Tears (if hitter is special), while hitter do attack cheer or self buff Atk/SpAtk
2. Then on turn 2, the hitter attacks with the strongest move it has, the others just do nothing. Should be a one hit KO

Edited by ShiningStardust on May 7th 2024 at 11:54:43 PM

Think we’ve seen enough to understand whatever it uses at the start can potentially disrupt some plans going in. For all we know they can pull a troll move and give it a Perish Song trigger (assuming that works on us in raids).

I don't think Perish Song works in raids, so I'm fairly confident we won't have to worry about that. Unless the devs decided to give this Primarina a "special" type of Perish Song that's meant to absolutely demolish the timer via knock-outs, but I doubt it.

What I'm expecting is that Primarina the Unrivaled will have something that makes getting rid of its HP bar more troublesome, because the Raid Boss just needs to outlast the timer. I would not be surprised to see a shield come up right at the beginning of the raid.

I'm not expecting Mewtwo the Unrivaled, but I am expecting something to trip up overconfident players, much like most of the other Unrivaled raids have done.

Then again, we might also get lucky and it'll be easy to solo this raid.

Edited by dragonfire5000 on May 7th 2024 at 10:12:51 AM

Perish Song effects all the Pokemon that hear it, including the user. So that wouldn't be a thing.

I forgot about starting shield early, to be fair. But I dunno, I don't think they'll do that for a random starter raid.

Sing as starter move can mess things up without any plan against it.....assuming Sing hits.

At least we know Primarina won't have annoying hidden ability, it's just Liquid Voice

Blastoise the Unrivaled had the shield come up pretty early, so it's possible Primarina the Unrivaled might have that happen as well. We'll have to wait and see.

Lmao, it really just takes a Turn 1 Perrserker strat to clear by a co-op team

Doesn't even need Turn 2

Sing isn't a Turn 0 move, and no early shield either

Edited by ShiningStardust on May 9th 2024 at 10:03:32 PM

If Primarina is female then I know the perfect name for her.

Yeah, it indeed is guaranteed female, as I expected

Hmm, guess I'll have to see if my Gholdengo is good to go here.

Used Gholdengo on my solo run, though I had the good fortune that Primarina regularly used Sing.

I was able to do the raid solo with Gholdengo fairly easily.

Sadly, I already have a Primarina named Azura, so I gave this Primarina the name of a mermaid character from a manga I like called This Monster Wants to Eat Me.

Edited by dragonfire5000 on May 10th 2024 at 8:12:25 AM

Got Primarina with the Gold Surfer as well.

Hmmmmm..... I think I'll name this one Leviathan. It is a fairy type.

So named her after Fairy Leviathan?

Congratulations, you got the reference. I'm so happy.

Gholdengo really does have an easy time with this raid.

Even a lucky crit on Primarina's part didn't stop me from getting it. Probably because Gholdengo got a lucky crit in turn.

A new "competitive player's mon" mystery gift for S/V is announced, and of course it's another non-shiny.....how the heck out of like, 10+ competitive player's mon events we have so far, only 1 is shiny

Those competitive players seriously should start genning shinies instead of non-shinies, this is getting dumb

Edited by ShiningStardust on May 17th 2024 at 8:49:43 PM

...wait, Primarina Perish Song? Can't you just get a mon with Soundproof as well?

Got Primarina using Gholdengo in a group raid.