Ceruledge Best Tera Raid Build

The best Ceruledge Tera Raid Build in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet (SV) has a Fire Tera Type with the Flash Fire ability. Read on to learn what the best Ceruledge Tera Raid Build is and how to use it.

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Best Ceruledge Tera Raid Build

Best Solo Raid Build for Ceruledge

Best Ceruledge Tera Builds
Solo Raid Build
Blissey Counter	Steel Tera Fairy Counter
Swords Dance Bitter Blade	Dark Tera

Video Guide

EV Spread, Ability, Held Item and Moveset

Ceruledge	Tera Type			Nature
				Adamant (↑Atk, ↓Sp.Atk)
	EV Spread
	HP: 252		Atk: 252		Def: 4
Ability	Moveset
Flash Fire	・ Bitter Blade ・ Clear Smog ・ Sunny Day ・ Swords Dance
Held Item
Metronome

Summary

The best ability for Ceruledge is Flash Fire. When hit with a fire-type move, it increases its damage by 50% and becomes immune to possible Fire-type attacks.

Best Tera Type

We also recommend getting a Ceruledge with a Fire Tera Type to further increase the damage of Bitter Blade. As a Physical Attacker, an Adamant nature would work best for this Pokemon.

EV Spread Explanation

Tera Raid EV spreads should lean towards increasing the Pokemon's HP and Attack. Max out these EVs, while adding the remaining EVs into Defense. Equip the Pokemon with Metronome to deal more damage when using Bitter Blade conscutively.

Effective Counter Against Grass, Ice, Bug and Steel Type Tera Raids

Super Effective (2x)
Not Very Effective (x0.5)
No Effect (x0)	None

This Ceruledge Tera Raid Build is an effective counter to Grass, Ice, Bug and Steel Type Tera Raid Bosses. If the Tera Raid Boss is usually a Rock or Ground Type outside of Terastallization, perhaps consider a different build, as Ceruledge will be weak to these Types as a Fire Type attacker.

Although Ceruledge is weak to Water Type moves, Sunny Day reduces the damage received by Water Type moves by 50%, making it effectively take neutral damage. If going up against Water Tera Type Pokemon swap out Clear Smog with Solar Blade for one-turn (thanks to Sun) Super Effective damage.
Type Chart: All Matchups and Effectiveness

Tera Raid Strategy

Tera Raid Turn-by-Turn Strategy
Turns 1~3	Use Swords Dance three times to maximize your Attack stat.
Turn 4	Use Sunny Day to boost Bitter Blade and Flare Blitz' damage.
Optional	Use Clar Smog to remove any possible buffs the raid boss might incur.
Turns 5~7	Use Bitter Blade to deal stat-boosted, sun boosted, STAB damage.
Turns 8+	Terastallize and use stat boosted, STAB Flare Blitz to deal massive damage against the energy shield. Use Sunny Day again as needed

Start the battle by using Swords Dance three times, to maximize Ceruledge's Attack, allowing you to deal massive damage against the raid Pokemon. Sunny Day boosts the power of Ceruledge's Fire-type moves, while also reducing the power of Water-type moves that Ceruledge is weak to.

Bitter Blade is best used after setting up with Swords Dance and Sunny Day to deal damage, recover HP, and gain Tera Charge. Flare Blitz, with its high base power, should be used to break through the energy shield.

Best Used for 6-Star Raids

This is a great solo build to use against 6 and 7-Star Tera Raid Pokemon. It is the recommended build to solo 6-Star Blissey for a chance of getting multiple Herba Mystica.
5 and 6 Star Blissey Tera Raid Guide: Best Counters and Strategy

Blissey 5-Star Counter: Sun Swords Dance Ceruledge

Best Ceruledge Tera Builds
Solo Raid Build
Blissey Counter	Steel Tera Fairy Counter
Swords Dance Bitter Blade	Dark Tera

EV Spread, Ability, Held Item and Moveset

Ceruledge	Tera Type			Nature
	OR			Adamant (↑Atk, ↓SpA)
	EV Spread
	HP: 252		Atk: 252		Sp. Def: 4
Ability	Moveset
Flash Fire	・ Swords Dance ・ Bitter Blade ・ Shadow Claw ・ Sunny Day
Held Item
Shell Bell

Summary

Ceruledge's Fire and Ghost typing allows it to hit 6 Types for Super Effective with its STAB moves. This type combination also allows Ceruledge to resist Fairy-type attacks like Dazzling Gleam.

Offensively, Ceruledge can set up with Swords Dance to boost its own Attack stat, and Sunny Day to further boost the power of Bitter Blade.

After setting up, Ceruledge can deal damage with Shadow Claw, which has an increased Critical Hit ratio. Bitter Blade is also an effective damage dealing move, allowing Ceruledge to restore HP while dealing damage.

As it will play the role of physical attacker, an Adamant Nature would benefit Ceruledge. You can also let it hold a Shell Bell to help Ceruledge recover some HP when using attacking moves.

Tera Raid Strategy

Ceruledge Tera Raid Turn-by-Turn Counter Strategy
Turns 1~3	Use Swords Dance three times to maximize Ceruledge's Attack stat.
Optional	Use Sunny Day to boost the power of Bitter Blade.
Turns 5+	Use Bitter Blade if it deals Super Effective damage. Otherwise, use Shadow Claw.

Types that Ceruledge is Good Against

Best Tera Steel Ceruledge Build

Best Ceruledge Tera Builds
Solo Raid Build
Blissey Counter	Steel Tera Fairy Counter
Swords Dance Bitter Blade	Dark Tera

Video Guide

EV Spread, Ability, Held Item and Moveset

Ceruledge	Tera Type			Nature
				Adamant (↑Atk, ↓Sp.Atk)
	EV Spread
	HP: 252		Atk: 252		Def: 4
Ability	Moveset
Flash Fire	・ Bitter Blade ・ Iron Head ・ Tera Blast ・ Swords Dance
Held Item
Shell Bell

Summary

With its Fire and Ghost typing combined with its ability, Flash Fire, Ceruledge can easily resist and even be immune to most things the Raid Boss can throw at it. With this ability, you can ensure that Bitter Blade can hit for harder to heal up any damage you may get.

With the Magician ability and access to Magic Room, holding a Shell Bell isn't as reliable of a held item as it should be for Tera Raids. Ceruledge can circumvent this by having its own recovery move in Bitter Blade.

Best Tera Type

We also recommend getting a Ceruledge with a Steel Tera Type to make Iron Head more powerful. This also helps with resisting Psychic and Fairy type moves while still being immune to Fire-Type moves due to Flash Fire. As a Physical Attacker, an Adamant nature would work best for this Pokemon.

EV Spread Explanation

Tera Raid EV spreads should lean towards increasing the Pokemon's HP and Attack. Max out these EVs, while adding the remaining EVs into Special Defense. Equip the Pokemon with Shell Bell to regain HP when using damaging moves.

Tera Raid Strategy

Ceruledge Tera Raid Turn-by-Turn Counter Strategy
Turns 1~3	Use Swords Dance three times to maximize Ceruledge's Attack stat.
Turns 4~6	Use Iron Head to build up Tera Orb charge.
Low HP Turns	If you're low on HP use Bitter Blade
Turns 7+	Terastallize and keep using Iron Head or Tera Blast to attack. Refresh your buffs if needed.

Start the battle by using Swords Dance three times, to maximize Ceruledge's Attack, allowing you to deal massive damage against the Raid Boss.

Iron Head is best used after setting up with Swords Dance to deal damage and gain Tera Charge. You can use Bitter Blade if you need to heal yourself in a pinch.

Key Damage Calculations

Damage Dealt by Ceruledge
8730 HP (Max HP x30)	Iron Head (+6 Atk, Steel Tera) 1460 ~1718 (16.7 ~ 19.6%)
Amount Healed by Ceruledge
8730 HP (Max HP x30)	Bitter Blade (+0 Atk, Steel Tera) 35.3 ~ 41.9% HP Recovered

9~11 Turns to Beat 7-Star the Raid Boss

Using this strategy it should take approximately 9~11 turns to take out 7-Star Tera Raids. More turns may be required, depending on when the Raid Boss will put up its shield and reset stat changes.

Swords Dance Bitter Blade Ceruledge

Best Ceruledge Tera Builds
Solo Raid Build
Blissey Counter	Steel Tera Fairy Counter
Swords Dance Bitter Blade	Dark Tera

EV Spread, Ability, Held Item and Moveset

Ceruledge	Tera Type			Nature
				Adamant (↑Atk, ↓Sp.Atk)
	EV Spread
	HP: 252		Atk: 252		Def: 4
Ability	Moveset
Flash Fire	・ Bitter Blade ・ Phantom Force ・ Close Combat ・ Swords Dance
Held Item
Leftovers

The best ability for Ceruledge is Flash Fire. When hit with a fire-type move, it increases its damage by 50% and becomes immune to future Fire-type attacks.

As a Physical Attacker, an Adamant nature would work best for this Pokemon.

Tera Raid EV spreads should lean towards increasing the Pokemon's HP and Attack. Max out these EVs, while adding the remaining EVs into Defense. Equip the Pokemon with Leftovers to regain your HP throughout the game.

Boost your Ceruledge's attack at the start of the Tera Raid Battle with Swords Dance. Use Phantom Force, Bitter Blade, and Close Combat to cast damage against your enemies according to which is effective against them.

Dark Tera Ceruledge

Best Ceruledge Tera Builds
Solo Raid Build
Blissey Counter	Steel Tera Fairy Counter
Swords Dance Bitter Blade	Dark Tera

EV Spread, Ability, Held Item and Moveset

Ceruledge	Tera Type			Nature
				Adamant (↑Atk, ↓Sp.Atk)
	EV Spread
	HP: 252		Atk: 252		Sp. Def: 4
Ability	Moveset
Flash Fire	・ Night Slash ・ Close Combat ・ Bitter Blade ・ Swords Dance
Held Item
Shell Bell

Summary

The best ability for Ceruledge is Flash Fire. When hit with a fire-type move, it increases its damage by 50% and becomes immune to future Fire-type attacks.

Best Tera Type

We also recommend getting a Ceruledge with a Dark Tera Type to gain immunity from Psychic type moves. As a Physical Attacker, an Adamant nature would work best for this Pokemon.

EV Spread Explanation

Tera Raid EV spreads should lean towards increasing the Pokemon's HP and Attack. Max out these EVs, while adding the remaining EVs into Special Defense. Equip the Pokemon with Shell Bell to regain HP when using damaging moves.

Effective Counter Against Psychic, and Ghost Type Tera Raids

Super Effective (2x)
Not Very Effective (x0.5)
No Effect (x0)	None

This Ceruledge Tera Raid Build is an effective counter to Psychic, and Ghost Type Tera Raid Bosses. If the Tera Raid Boss is usually a Dark Type outside of Terastallization, perhaps consider a different build, as Ceruledge will be weak to these Types as a Ghost Type attacker.

Type Chart: All Matchups and Effectiveness

Tera Raid Strategy

Ceruledge Tera Raid Turn-by-Turn Counter Strategy
Turns 1~2	Use Swords Dance two times to increase your Attack stat.
Turn 3~5	Use Shadow Claw, Close Combat, or Bitter Blade depending on Armarouge's Tera type and Ability.
Turns 6+	Terastallize and continue using Night Slash, Close Combat, or Bitter Blade to deal damage and break through the energy shield.

Start the battle by using Swords Dance two times, to boost Ceruledge's Attack, allowing you to deal massive damage against the Raid Pokemon. Bitter Blade heals Ceruledge for a portion of the damage dealt, and benefits from Flash Fire.

Close Combat and Night Slash are Ceruledge's other damaging moves, allowing you to deal at least neutral damage against most types. This should provide you with enough coverage to use Ceruledge as somewhat of a general raid counter Pokemon.

How to Make Best Ceruledge Tera Raid Build

How to Make Best Ceruledge Tera Raid Build
Evolve from Charcadet and Trade 10 Sinistea Chips. Use an Adamant Mint to change its nature. EV Train HP and Attack. Hyper Train at Montenevera. Level up to 100. Give it a Big Root.

Evolve from Charcadet and Trade 10 Sinistea Chips for Malicious Armor

You can obtain Ceruledge only by evolving them from Charcadet. To do that, you must exchange 10 Sinistea Chips to the NPC in Zapapico near Poison Team Star's Base.

Ceruledge is a Violet exclusive pokemon, so if you're a Scarlet player, then you'd want to go online and trade for it.

How to Get Sinistea Chips

Use Tera Shards to Change Tera Type

If the Ceruledge build you are following requires it to have a different Tera type, you will need to have 50 Tera Shards of the type you need, and bring it to Medali to have your Pokemon's Tera Type changed.

Use an Adamant Mint to Change Its Nature

If it has a different nature, you can use an Adamant Mint to change its nature to Adamant.

The easiest way to get this is by buying it from the Chansey Supply shop at Mesagoza for ₽20,000.

How to Change a Pokemon's Nature

EV Train HP and Attack

If you have the money for it, you can just buy 26 Protein (for Atk), 26 HP Up (for HP), and 1 Iron (for Def), or 1 Zinc (for Sp. Def).

All of these items can be bought at a Chansey Supply shop and it will cost you ₽530,000 in total.

Alternatively, you can use Power Items that you can buy at a Delibird Presents shop for ₽10,000 each. Have your Pokemon hold the respective Power Item while defeating the Pokemon listed below.

Held Item	Number of Pokemon to Defeat	Defeat Any of These Pokemon
Power Weight (For HP EVs)	28 in Total (To get 252 HP EVs)	・Azurill ・Lechonk ・Paldean Wooper Location: South of Los Platos
Power Bracer (For Attack EVs)	28 in Total (To get 252 Attack EVs)	・Shinx ・Growlithe ・Yungoos ・Nymble Location: South Province (Area 3)
Power Belt (For Defense EVs)	1 in Total (To get remaining 4 Defense EVs)	・Nacli Location: South Province (Area 3)
Power Band (For Special Defense EVs)	1 in Total (To get 4 Special Defense EVs)	・Hoppip ・Swablu Location: South Province (Area 1)

How to EV Train Fast

Hyper Train at Montenevera

After EV training it, head to Montenevera and talk to the man with an Abomasnow near the Pokemon Center. He will hyper train your Pokemon using Bottle Caps.

A Bottle Cap can be bought at the Delibird Presents shops for ₽20,000 after getting 6 Gym Badges. 1 Bottle Cap is needed for each stat that will be maxed out.

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Level Up to 100

Next, level it up to 100 to maximize its stats. The easiest way to do this is by farming Exp candies from Tera Raid Battles.

How to Level Up Fast: EXP Farming Guide

Give It a Big Root

Big Root will help Cereludge by drastically increasing the restored HP from Bitter Blade.

Big Root can be bought from the Delibird Presents at Cascarrafa shop for ₽10,000

Alternatively, you can give Ceruledge Leftovers or a Shell Bell, depending on the build you are trying to make.

All of these items can be bought from the Delibird Presents Shop.

Delibird Presents Locations and All Items

Ceruledge Tera Raid Moveset Guide

Learn Moves Through Level Up

The table below includes all the moves Ceruledge learns through level up needed for our recommended builds. Choose the moves depending on the build you are trying to make.

Level	Move	Type
Base	Night Slash
37	Swords Dance
48	Bitter Blade
62	Flare Blitz

You can have Ceruledge remember moves by going to the "Moves and Stats" menu and pressing A.

How to Relearn Moves

Get Other Moves From TMs

The table below includes all the moves Ceruledge learns from TMs needed for our recommended builds. Choose the moves depending on the build you are trying to make.

TM / Move Name	How to Get Materials
TM049 Sunny Day	Can be found along the road from the northwest exit of Cortondo. Follow the road west out of the town until you head up the cliffside. You will see the TM near a rock on the cliff overlooking Cortondo. Required League Points: 3000 LP Required Pokemon Materials: ・Litleo Tuft x3 ・Sunkern Leaf x3 ・Torkoal Coal x3
TM099 Iron Head	Located at the northeast section of Casseroya Lake. Required League Points: 8000 LP Required Pokemon Materials: ・Pawniard Blade x3 ・Rookidee Feather x3 ・Cufant Tarnish x5
TM151 Phantom Force	Available for Crafting through TM Machine after defeating Team Star's Fighting Crew Required League Points: 10000 LP Required Pokemon Materials: ・Shuppet Scrap x3 ・Sinistea Chip x5 ・Greavard Wax x3
TM167 Close Combat	Obtained by defeating Team Star's Fighting leader Eri in Starfall Street. Required League Points: 12000 LP Required Pokemon Materials: ・Makuhita Sweat x3 ・Riolu Fur x5 ・Crabrawler Shell x3
TM171 Tera Blast	Receive from Geeta after clearing the fifth gym. Required League Points: 8000 LP Required Pokemon Materials: ・Glimmet Crystal x8

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