Alolan Ninetales Best Tera Raid Build

The best Alolan Ninetales Tera Raid Build in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet (SV) has the Snow Warning ability, and the Light Clay held item. Read on to learn what the best Alolan Ninetales Tera Raid Build is and how to use it.

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Best Alolan Ninetales Tera Raid Build

Defensive Support Build

Best Alolan Ninetales Tera Builds
Defensive Support Build	Fairy Tera Special Build	Ice Tera Special Build

EV Spread, Ability, Held Item and Moveset

Alolan Ninetales	Tera Type			Nature
				Calm (↑Sp. Def, ↓Atk)
	EV Spread
	HP: 4		Sp. Atk: 252		Sp. Def: 252
Ability	Moveset
Snow Warning	・ Snowscape ・ Aurora Veil ・ Helping Hand ・ Draining Kiss
Held Item
Light Clay

Summary

Amazing Defensive support Pokemon due to Aurora Veil. Access to Draining Kiss lets it have a decent recovery option. Amazing movepool that can be mixed and matched depending on the scenario.

The best ability for Alolan Ninetales is Snow Warning. This will allow it to fully utilize the move Aurora Veil, which is basically Light Screen and Reflect in one move. This build also lets it override any weather the Raid Boss would prefer to set-up.

This build focuses on helping out allies' damage with Helping Hand to deal the most damage that they could.If you don't need to do so, you also have an option to attack and recover some HP with Draining Kiss

Best Tera Type

We also recommend getting an Alolan Ninetales with a Fairy Tera Type but as you're most likely not Terastallizing if you're running support. As a Support, a Calm Nature would be best to ensure it can take Special Attack hits.
Best Tera Types: Best Pokemon to Terastallize

EV Spread Explanation

Tera Raid EV spreads should lean towards bulky offense. Max out your Sp.Def and Sp.Atk EVs, while adding the remaining EVs into HP. Give Alolan Ninetales a Light Clay to extend the duration of Aurora Veil even when Snow is removed.

Tera Raid Strategy

Alolan Ninetales Tera Raid Situational Strategies
Screen Setter	Help the other attackers by setting up an Aurora Veil after Snow is up.
Buffer	Make sure the team is sufficiently buffed with Helping Hand to buff Special attacks!
Self Sustaining Attacker	Once you set up your buffs and debuffs, you can pivot into attacking with Draining Kiss.
Weather Setter	Keep Snow up using Snowscape.

This Build focuses setting up Snow with Snow Warning and Snowscape. This will help also out other Ice type attackers and other Pokemon that could benefit from having Snow up.

After Snow is up, immediately use Aurora Veil to help out the team defensively. This is an amazing move especially for Raid bosses that are Mixed Attackers.

You can also heal yourself up with and help dish out damage with Draining Kiss.

Alternative Moves

Alolan Ninetales is an amazing Pokemon whose moveset lets it focus on supporting ally Pokemon. Here's some moves we could recommend that could help in certain types of raids.

Move	Case
Charm	Great to use on Raid Bosses who prefer to attack with Physical Attacks. You can focus on having Defense EVs instead if needed.
Fake Tears	Great debuffing move that can shred opponent's Sp. Def.
Chilling Water	Defensive option that let's it shred the opponent's Atk.
Howl	Amazing support move as a good amount of Ice types are Physical oriented like Calyrex and Crabominable.
Tail Whip	Can be an alternative to Helping Hand if an ally prefers to attack with Physical Attacks.
Misty Terrain	Great for opponents that like to use Status Conditions. Can also be great against Dragon Type Pokemon.

Fairy Tera Special Attacker Build

Best Alolan Ninetales Tera Builds
Defensive Support Build	Fairy Tera Support Attacker Build	Ice Tera Special Build

EV Spread, Ability, Held Item and Moveset

Alolan Ninetales	Tera Type			Nature
				Modest (↑Sp. Atk, ↓Atk)
	EV Spread
	HP: 4		Sp.Atk: 252		Sp.Def: 252
Ability	Moveset
Snow Warning	・ Moonblast ・ Nasty Plot ・ Fake Tears ・ Aurora Veil
Held Item
Shell Bell

Summary

Amazing Snow setter. Access to Fake Tears and Nasty Plot makes it a decent attacker. Moonblast is one of the most powerful Fairy Type moves available.

The best ability for Alolan Ninetales in Tera Raid Battles is Snow Warning. This will let Alolan Ninetales boost its Defense stat on top of Aurora Veil so it can set up safely.

Alolan Ninetales also gets access to Nasty Plot and Fake Tears, amazing buffing moves that will allow Alolan Ninetales to consistently deal damage.

Best Tera Type

We also recommend getting a Ninetales with a Fairy Tera Type to boost the damage of Ninetales' Moonblast. As a Special Attacker, a Modest Nature would be best to ensure it hits as hard as possible with its special moves.
Best Tera Types: Best Pokemon to Terastallize

EV Spread Explanation

Tera Raid EV spreads should lean towards bulky offense. Max out your Sp.Def and Sp.Atk EVs, while adding the remaining EVs into HP. Give it a Shell Bell to help Ninetales recover HP when it attacks.

Tera Raid Strategy

Ninetales Tera Raid Turn-by-Turn Counter Strategy
Turn 1	Use Aurora Veil to raise your Defenses.
Turns 2~4	Use Fake Tears to lower the raid boss' Sp. Def.
Low HP Turns	Use Moonblast to heal yourself with your Shell Bell.
Turns 5~7	Use Nasty Plot to max out your Sp. Atk.
Turns 8+	Attack with Moonblast. Terastallize when you are able to.

Start the Tera Raid by using Aurora Veil to boost your Defenses while you set up, next, get your buffs up with Nasty Plot and Fake Tears. Gauge the Raid Boss' behavior to see how it likes to clear buffs and react accordingly.

Make sure to keep your health up by attacking with Moonblast while also building up Tera Orb Charge. When you have enough Tera Orb charge, terastallize into a Fairy-type and keep using Moonblast to damage the Tera Raid boss' shield and finish it off! Note that you can only set up Aurora Veil when it is Snowing so make sure you dont faint after Terastallizing.

Sample Damage Calculations

Super Effective Damage Dealt by Ninetales
(-6 Sp. Def, Dragon Tera, 128 Sp. Def) 7600 HP (Max HP x25)	Moonblast(+6 Sp. Atk, Fairy Tera) 5,880 ~ 6,920 (77.3 ~ 91%)

These calculations were done using our Tera Raid Damage Calculator

Tera Raid Damage Calculator

Effective Counter Against Dragon, Fighting, and Dark Type Tera Raids

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

This Tera Raid Build for using Alolan Ninetales is an effective counter to Dragon, Fighting, and Dark Type Tera Raid Bosses. If the Tera Raid Boss is usually a Steel, Fire, Rock, or Poison Type outside of Terastallization, perhaps consider a different build, as Alolan Ninetales will be weak to these Types.

Type Chart: All Matchups and Effectiveness

Ice Tera Special Attacker Build

Best Alolan Ninetales Tera Builds
Fairy Tera Special Build	Defensive Support Build	Ice Tera Special Build

EV Spread, Ability, Held Item and Moveset

Alolan Ninetales	Tera Type			Nature
				Modest (↑Sp. Atk, ↓Atk)
	EV Spread
	HP: 4		Sp.Atk: 252		Sp.Def: 252
Ability	Moveset
Snow Warning	・ Blizzard ・ Nasty Plot ・ Snowscape ・ Fake Tears
Held Item
Shell Bell

Summary

Amazing Snow setter. That just compounds better with access to Blizzard. Access to Fake Tears and Nasty Plot makes it a decent attacker. Moonblast is one of the most powerful Fairy Type moves available.

The best ability for Alolan Ninetales in Tera Raid Battles is Snow Warning. This will let Alolan Ninetales boost its Defense stat on top of Aurora Veil so it can set up safely.

Alolan Ninetales also gets access to Nasty Plot and Fake Tears, amazing buffing moves that will allow Alolan Ninetales to consistently deal damage.

Best Tera Type

We also recommend getting a Ninetales with a Fairy Tera Type to boost the damage of Ninetales' Moonblast. As a Special Attacker, a Modest Nature would be best to ensure it hits as hard as possible with its special moves.
Best Tera Types: Best Pokemon to Terastallize

EV Spread Explanation

Tera Raid EV spreads should lean towards bulky offense. Max out your Sp.Def and Sp.Atk EVs, while adding the remaining EVs into HP. Give it a Shell Bell to help Ninetales recover HP when it attacks.

Tera Raid Strategy

Ninetales Tera Raid Turn-by-Turn Counter Strategy
Turns 1~3	Use Fake Tears to lower the raid boss' Sp. Def.
Turns 4~6	Use Nasty Plot to max out your Sp. Atk.
Low HP Turns	Use Blizzard to heal yourself with your Shell Bell.
Snow Dissipates	Use Snowscape to set Sun back up.
Turns 5+	Attack with Blizzard. Terastallize when you are able to.

Start the Tera Raid by setting up your buffs with Nasty Plot and Fake Tears. Gauge the Raid Boss' behavior to see how it likes to clear buffs and react accordingly. Make sure you keep the Snow up by using Snowscape.

Make sure to keep yopur health up by attacking with Blizzard while also building up Tera Orb Charge. When you have enough Tera Orb charge, terastallize into an Ice-type and keep using Blizzard to damage the Tera Raid boss' shield and finish it off!

Sample Damage Calculations

Super Effective Damage Dealt by Ninetales
(-6 Sp. Def, Dragon Tera, 128 Sp. Def) 7600 HP (Max HP x25)	Blizzard(+6 Sp. Atk, Ice Tera) 6,808 ~ 8,012 (89.5 ~ 105.4%)

These calculations were done using our Tera Raid Damage Calculator

Tera Raid Damage Calculator

Effective Counter Against Dragon, Ice, Ground, and Flying Type Tera Raids

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

This Tera Raid Build for using Alolan Ninetales is an effective counter to Dragon, Ice, Ground, and Flying Type Tera Raid Bosses. If the Tera Raid Boss is usually a Steel, Fire, Rock, or Poison Type outside of Terastallization, perhaps consider a different build, as Alolan Ninetales will be weak to these Types.

Type Chart: All Matchups and Effectiveness

How to Make Best Alolan Ninetales Tera Raid Build

How to Make Best Alolan Ninetales Tera Raid Build
Transfer via Pokemon HOME Use Mints to change its nature. Use an Ability Patch to Change Its Ability. EV Train Alolan Ninetales Hyper Train at Montenevera. Level up to 100. Give Alolan Ninetales a Held Item.

Transfer via Pokemon HOME

Complete Snow-White Vulpix in the Snow (Request 83) in Legends Arceus

Alolan Vulpix doesn't appear in the overworld in Hisui normally as a wild Pokemon. In completing Snow-White Vulpix in the Snow (Request 83), you'll receive an Alolan Vulpix as a reward.

Available from the Diglett Master

You can get an Alolan Vulpix as a prize from the Diglett Master in the Isle of Armor after collecting 20 Alolan Diglett!

Trade with Picnicker NPC at Celadon City in Let's Go Eevee

An NPC in Celadon City will trade as many Alolan Vulpix as you want just as long as you have a regular Vulpix to trade her. This trade is exclusive to Pokemon Let's Go: Eevee.

Use Tera Shards to Change Tera Type

If the Alolan Ninetales 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.

How to Change Tera Type

Use Mints to Change Its Nature

Use a Modest Mint for the attacker builds, while you can use a Calm Mint for the Support build.

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 Patch to Change Its Ability

If the build you are following requires it to have its Hidden Ability, you can use an Ability Patch to give Alolan Ninetales its Hidden Ability.

Ability Patch Location and How to Get

EV Train Alolan Ninetales

EV train Alolan Ninetales according to the build's EV spread using Vitamins, Mochis, or the traditional way with Power Items and battling Pokemon with the right EV yield.

Vitamins can be bought at any Chansey Supply shop and it will cost you ₽530,000 to fully train a Pokemon. Meanwhile, Mochi can be obtained through the Ogre Oustin' Minigame.

Attacker and Support Tera Builds

If you have the money for it, you can just buy 26 Iron (for Def) or Zinc, 26 Calcium (for Sp. Atk), and an HP Up (for HP). All of these items can be bought at a Chansey Supply shop and it will cost you ₽530,000 in total. You can also use Mochis in place of the Vitamins.

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)	1 in Total (To get remaining 4 HP EVs)	・Azurill ・Lechonk ・Paldean Wooper Location: South of Los Platos
Power Lens (For Special Attack EVs)	28 in Total (To get 252 Special Attack EVs)	・Psyduck ・Toxel ・Hatenna Location: South Province (Area 4)
Power Band (For Special Defense EVs)	28 in Total (To get 252 Special Defense EVs)	・Hoppip ・Swablu Location: South Province (Area 1)
Power Belt (For Defense EVs)	28 in Total (To get 252 Defense EVs)	・Nacli Location: South Province (Area 3)

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 Alolan Ninetales a Held Item

You can also give your Alolan Ninetales a Held Item to help it when facing off against various Raid Pokemon.

Learn how to find the recommended held item and price from the table below!

Item Name	Location	Price
Shell Bell	Levincia Delibird Presents	₽20,000

Delibird Presents Locations and All Items

Alolan Ninetales Tera Raid Moveset Guide

Learn Moves Through Level Up

The table below includes all the moves Alolan Ninetales 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	Aurora Veil
Base	Blizzard
Base	Tail Whip

You can have Alolan Ninetales 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 Alolan Ninetales 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
TM002 Charm	Under a tree southwest of the Artazon (West) Pokemon Center in South Province (Area Three) Required League Points: 400 LP Required Pokemon Materials: ・Azurill Fur x3 ・Teddiursa Claw x3
TM003 Fake Tears	Near a large rock south of Cortondo in South Province (Area Two) Required League Points: 400 LP Required Pokemon Materials: ・Teddiursa Claw x3 ・Bonsly Tears x3
TM037 Draining Kiss	Available for Crafting through TM Machine after defeating Team Star's Dark Crew Required League Points: 800 LP Required Pokemon Materials: ・Igglybuff Fluff x3 ・Flabébé Pollen x3
TM130 Helping Hand	Located in South Province (Area Three), on a cliff overlooking a Pokemon Center. Requires Koraidon's/Miraidon's High Jump ability to reach it. Required League Points: 400 LP Required Pokemon Materials: ・Eevee Fur x1
TM139 Misty Terrain	Found on Tagtree Thicket, east section. Required League Points: 3000 LP Required Pokemon Materials: ・Igglybuff Fluff x3 ・Flabébé Pollen x3 ・Klefki Key x3
TM140 Nasty Plot	Located in Mesagoza - Staff Room: Talk to Ms. Raifort after completing all history lessons and catching all four Treasures of Ruin. Required League Points: 5000 LP Required Pokemon Materials: ・Meowth Fur x3 ・Spiritomb Fragment x3 ・Tatsugiri Scales x3

List of TMs and Locations

Give Alolan Ninetales Howl from Arcanine as an Egg Move

1	Catch a Growlithe or Arcanine, then make them remember the move Howl.
2	Buy a Mirror Herb at Delibird Presents in Cascarrafa. The item costs ₽30,000 so make sure you have enough money.
3	Remove everyone from your party except for Alolan Ninetales and Arcanine. There should only be two Pokemon in your party.
4	Delete one of Alolan Ninetales's moves, then let it hold the Mirror Herb.
5	Have a picnic with Alolan Ninetales and Arcanine. Wait for a few minutes, then pack up. Check Alolan Ninetales' summary to see that it now has Howl!

Give Alolan Ninetales Moonblast from Sylveon as an Egg Move

1	Catch a Sylveon, then make them remember the move Moonblast.
2	Buy a Mirror Herb at Delibird Presents in Cascarrafa. The item costs ₽30,000 so make sure you have enough money.
3	Remove everyone from your party except for Alolan Ninetales and Sylveon. There should only be two Pokemon in your party.
4	Delete one of Alolan Ninetales's moves, then let it hold the Mirror Herb.
5	Have a picnic with Alolan Ninetales and Sylveon. Wait for a few minutes, then pack up. Check Alolan Ninetales' summary to see that it now has Moonblast!

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