Toxicroak Best Tera Raid Build

The best Toxicroak Tera Raid build in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet (SV) has Ground Tera Type with the Dry Skin Ability and the move Swords Dance. Read on to learn what the best Toxicroak Tera Raid Build is and how to get Swords Dance and Earthquake for Toxicroak.

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Rock Tera Raid Counter: Swords Dance Toxicroak

EV Spread, Ability, Held Item and Moveset

Toxicroak	Tera Type			Nature
				Impish (↑Def, ↓Sp.Atk)
	EV Spread
	Def: 252		Atk: 252		HP: 4
Ability	Moveset
Dry Skin	・ Drain Punch ・ Swords Dance ・ Close Combat ・ Taunt
Held Item
Shell Bell

Summary

Toxicroak's 4x resistance to Fighting-type moves and 2x resistance to Grass and Rock-type moves make it a great counter to Rock-Type Raids.

Dry Skin is the preferred Ability for this raid so that Toxicroak gets passive healing from rain in the event a partner Pokemon sets up with Rain Dance.

Best Tera Type

Fighting Tera Type is best for this build to further boost the power of Toxicroak's Fighting-type moves. An Impish Nature gives it some much needed defenense to withstand the Raid Boss' attacks.

EV Spread Explanation

Max out Toxicroak's Def and Atk EVs while adding the remaining 4 EVs into HP so that Toxicroak can hit as hard as possible with Drain Punch and Close Combat.

For this build, giving it a Shell Bell allows it to recover health while dealing damage.

Tera Raid Strategy

Start the battle by using Taunt to prevent the Raid Boss from using Status Moves for three turns, followed by using Drain Punch three times to build up Tera Orb Charge. Take note that even if Toxicroak faints, it will retain its accumulated Tera Orb Charges.

Once Chesnaught resets stat changes, use Swords Dance three times to raise your Attack stat by six stages. Next, terastallize into a pure Fighting-type and use boosted Close Combat to damage Chesnaught's shield.

If Toxicroak is at low health, you can keep using boosted Drain Punch instead and only use Close Combat as a finishing move to deal burst damage.

Effective Counter Against Ice, Normal, Rock, Dark, and Steel Tera Raids

Super Effective (2x)
Not Very Effective (x0.5)
No Effect (x0)

This Fighting Tera Raid Build is an effective counter to Ice, Normal, Rock, Dark and Steel Tera Raids.

If the Tera Raid Boss is usually a Ground, Flying, and Psychic-type outside of Terastallization, perhaps use a different build as Toxicroak will be weak to these Types.

Type Chart: All Matchups and Effectiveness

Bug Tera Pokemon Counter: Flying Tera Blast Toxicroak

Toxicroak	Tera Type			Nature
				Adamant (↑Atk, ↓SpA)
	EV Spread
	HP: 252		Atk: 252		Def: 4
Ability	Moveset
Dry Skin	・ Mud-Slap ・ Rock Slide ・ Tera Blast ・ Swords Dance
Held Item
Shell Bell

Summary

This Toxicroak build is specialized for Bug Tera Raid Bosses.

Offensively, Toxicroak can use boost its own Attack stat with Swords Dance, and lower Samurott's Accuracy with Mud-Slap. After setting up a few Mud-Slaps, Toxicraok can Terastalize into a Flying-type and deal damage to Samurott using Tera Blast.

As it will play the role of physical attacker, an Adamant Nature would benefit Toxicroak. Making Toxicroak hold a Shell Bell also allows it to heal up some damage.

Tera Raid Strategy

Start the battle by using Mud-Slap three times to lower Samurott's Accuracy and build your Tera Orb's charge. Afterwards, Terastalize and use Swords Dance three times to raise Toxicroak's attack to its max.

Once your setup is complete, use Tera Blast to deal Super Effective damage against Samurott.

Best Steel Tera Pokemon Counter

EV Spread, Ability, Held Item and Moveset

Toxicroak Rating: ★★★★★	Tera Type			Nature
				Adamant (↑Atk, ↓Sp.Atk)
	EV Spread
	HP 252		Atk 252		Sp.Def 4
Ability	Moveset
Dry Skin	・ Earthquake ・ Taunt ・ Swords Dance ・ Mud-Slap
Held Item
Shell Bell

Summary

This Build is designed to counter Steel Tera Pokemon in Tera Raids. Toxicroak matches up favorably against Tera Steel Pokemon in Tera Raids, as it is neutral to most types, and resists Grass, Fighting, Poison, Rock, and Dark. Toxicroak has access to Taunt which can protect it from status moves. Toxicroak's Swords Dance and Earthquake allows it to deal massive super-effective damage against Tera Steel Pokemon.

Best Tera Type

We also recommend getting a Toxicroak with a Ground Tera Type to boost the power of its Earthquake. Since it's a physical attacker, an Adamant nature is best to boost its offenses.

EV Spread Explanation

Tera Raid EV spreads should lean towards a bulky offense to help with survivability and with dealing as much damage as possible. Max out your HP and Attack EVs, while adding the remaining EVs into Special Defense. Shell Bell gives Toxicroak passive healing when it uses an attacking move.

Tera Raid Strategy

Start the Tera Raid battle by using Taunt to prevent the opponent from using status moves. Set up with Swords Dance twice to boost Toxicroak's Attack by four stages.

Use Earthquake to deal super effective damage. Once you have enough Tera Orb charge, terastallize into a Ground-type and use boosted Earthquake to finish the raid.

General Tera Raid Build

EV Spread, Ability, Held Item and Moveset

Toxicroak Rating: ★★★★★	Tera Type			Nature
				Adamant (↑Atk, ↓Sp.Atk)
	EV Spread
	HP 252		Atk 252		Sp.Def 4
Ability	Moveset
Dry Skin	・ Swords Dance ・ Taunt ・ Earthquake ・ Mud-Slap
Held Item
Shell Bell

Summary

The best Ability for Toxicroak in Tera Raid Battles is Dry Skin, which gives it immunity to Water-type moves and restores its HP instead at the cost of getting damaged by Fire-type moves.

Best Tera Type

We also recommend getting a Toxicroak with a Ground Tera Type to boost the power of its Earthquake. Since it's a physical attacker, an Adamant nature is best to boost its offenses.

EV Spread Explanation

Tera Raid EV spreads should lean towards a bulky offense to help with survivability and with dealing as much damage as possible. Max out your HP and Attack EVs, while adding the remaining EVs into Special Defense. Shell Bell gives Toxicroak passive healing when it uses an attacking move.

Tera Raid Strategy

Tera Raid Turn-by-Turn Counter Strategy
Turn 1	Use Taunt to prevent the opponent from using Status moves.
Turn 2~3	Use Mud-Slap to lower the opponent's Accuracy by one stage.
Turns 3~4	Use Swords Dance to boost Toxicroak's Attack.
Turns 4~5	Use Earthquake to deal super effective damage against the opponent.
Turns 6+	Once you get enough Tera charge, terastallize into a Ground-type to deal boosted damage with Earthquake.

Start the Tera Raid battle by using Taunt to prevent the opponent from using Status moves. then set up with Swords Dance twice to boost Toxicroak's Attack by four stages. You may also use Mud-Slap to lower the opponent's accuracy.

Use Earthquake to deal super effective damage. Once you have enough Tera Orb charge, terastallize into a Ground-type and use boosted Earthquake to finish the raid.

How to Make Best Toxicroak Tera Raid Build

How to Make Best Toxicroak Tera Raid Build
Catch Croagunk in South Province (Area Five) and Evolve It Change Toxicroak's Tera Type to Flying Use an Adamant Mint to Change Its Nature Use an Ability Capsule to Change Its Ability. EV Train HP and Attack Hyper Train at Montenevera. Level up to 100. Give it a Shell Bell

Catch Croagunk in South Province (Area Five) and Evolve It

Croagunk Evolution Line
Croagunk	Lv. 37 →	Toxicroak

Croagunk Locations

You can catch Croagunk in South Province (Area Five) in the area northeast of Los Platos. It's a very common Pokemon found in the swamp area, as well as rivers and lakes.

Make sure to bring a Pokemon that has False Swipe and can inflict a status effect to make it easier to catch.

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Change Toxicroak's Tera Type to Flying

Once Croagunk evolves into Toxicroak, its Tera Type will either be Poison or Fighting. You can change it to be Flying Tera Type at Medali's Treasure Eatery for 50 Flying Tera Shards.

How to Change Tera Type

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

Use an Ability Capsule to Change Its Ability

If its ability is different from our recommendation, you can use an Ability Capsule to change it.

This item can be bought at Chansey Supply shops for ₽100,000.

Ability Capsule Location and How to Get

EV Train HP and Attack

If you have the money for it, you can just buy 26 HP Up (for HP), 26 Protein (for Atk), and 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 Band (For Special Defense EVs)	1 in Total (To get remaining 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.

Hyper Training: How to Increase IVs

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 Shell Bell

Lastly, give it a Shell Bell. You can purchase this from Delibird Presents in Levincia for ₽20,000 and is available at the beginning of the game.

Defeat 6 Trainers in South Province (Area Three)

You can also get a Shell Bell by defeating 6 Trainers around South Province (Area Three) as a reward from the Battle League Rep at the Pokemon Center in the area.

Toxicroak Tera Raid Moveset Guide

Learn Mud-Slap and Taunt Through Level Up

Taunt is a move that Croagunk can learn at Lv.8, while Mud-Slap is a move that Croagaunk learns at Lv. 1. You can have it remember these moves by going to the "Moves and Stats" menu and pressing A if you forgot them.

How to Relearn Moves

Get Swords Dance, Earthquake, Rock Slide, and Tera Blast From TMs

You can Swords Dance, Earthquake, Rock Slide, and Tera Blast from TMs. Check out the table below to see where you can get the TMs and the materials needed to craft them.

Take note that Croagunk can't learn Swords Dance. You'll need to level and evolve it into Toxicroak so that it can learn Swords Dance from a TM.

TM / Move Name	How to Get Materials
TM086 Rock Slide	Available for Crafting through TM Machine after defeating Team Star's Fighting Crew Required League Points: 5000 LP Required Pokemon Materials: ・Bonsly Tears x3 ・Rockruff Rock x3 ・Nacli Salt x3
TM088 Swords Dance	Available for Crafting through TM Machine after defeating Team Star's Fighting Crew Required League Points: 5000 LP Required Pokemon Materials: ・Scyther Claw x3 ・Zangoose Claw x3 ・Gible Scales x3
TM149 Earthquake	Rewarded by the Battle League Rep at the Pokemon Center after defeating 5 Trainers in Asado Desert. Required League Points: 12000 LP Required Pokemon Materials: ・Diglett Dirt x3 ・Phanpy Nail x5 ・Barboach Slime 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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