Primarina Best Tera Raid Build

The best Primarina Tera Raid Build in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet (SV) has the Liquid Voice ability, and the Shell Bell held item. Read on to learn what the best Primarina Tera Raid Build is and how to use it.

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Best Primarina Tera Raid Build

Best Primarina Tera Builds
Water Tera Build	Fairy Tera Build	Support Build

Water Tera Special Attacker Build

EV Spread, Ability, Held Item and Moveset

Primarina	Tera Type			Nature
				Modest (↑Sp. Atk, ↓Atk)
	EV Spread
	HP: 252		Sp.Atk: 252		Sp.Def: 4
Ability	Moveset
Liquid Voice	・ Sparkling Aria / Hyper Voice ・ Rain Dance ・ Calm Mind ・ Light Screen / Reflect
Held Item
Shell Bell

Summary

Use Liquid Voice turns Hyper Voice into an equivalent damaging move to Sparkling Aria. Amazing Bulk combined with access to both screen moves. Lower damage of Fire-type moves while powering up your Water-type moves.

The best ability for Primarina in this build is Liquid Voice. This will let Primarina attack with a Water-type Hyper Voice which lets it deal as much damage as Sparkling Aria.

Best Tera Type

We also recommend getting a Primarina with a Water Tera Type to boost the damage of Primarina' moves. 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 HP and Sp.Atk EVs, while adding the remaining EVs into Sp.Def. Give it a Shell Bell to help Primarina recover HP when it attacks.

Tera Raid Strategy

Primarina Tera Raid Turn-by-Turn Counter Strategy
Turn 1	Use Light Screen or Reflect to raise your Defenses.
Turns 2~7	Use Calm Mind to max out your Sp. Atk.
Low HP Turns	Use Sparkling Aria or Hyper Voice to heal yourself with your Shell Bell.
Turn 8	Use Rain Dance to power up your Attacks.
Turns 9+	Attack with Sparkling Aria or Hyper Voice. Terastallize when you are able to and set up any buffs you may have lost.

Start the Tera Raid by using Light Screen or Reflect to boost your Defenses while you set up, next, get your buffs up with Calm Mind. 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 Hyper Voice or Sparkling Aria. while also building up Tera Orb Charge. When you have enough Tera Orb charge, terastallize into a Water-type and keep attacking to damage the Tera Raid boss' shield and finish it off!

Sample Damage Calculations

Super Effective Damage Dealt by Primarina
(Fire Tera, 128 Sp. Def) 7600 HP (Max HP x25)	Sparkling Aria / Hyper Voice(+6 Sp. Atk, Rain, Water Tera) 2,090 ~ 2,460 (27.5 ~ 32.3%)

These calculations were done using our Tera Raid Damage Calculator

Tera Raid Damage Calculator

Effective Counter Against Fire, Ground and Rock Type Tera Raids

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

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

Be careful of Raid Bosses with Soundproof (e.g. Kommo-o or Bastiodon) as you will have no ways to damage the Raid Boss unless you swap out your attacking move with Surf.
Type Chart: All Matchups and Effectiveness

Fairy Tera Special Attacker Build

EV Spread, Ability, Held Item and Moveset

Primarina	Tera Type			Nature
				Modest (↑Sp. Atk, ↓Atk)
	EV Spread
	HP: 252		Sp.Atk: 252		Sp.Def: 4
Ability	Moveset
Liquid Voice or Torrent	・ Moonblast ・ Draining Kiss ・ Calm Mind ・ Light Screen / Reflect
Held Item
Shell Bell

Summary

Heal yourself with Draining Kiss. Amazing Bulk combined with access to both screen moves. Moonblast is one of the most powerful Fairy Type moves available.

Neither of Primarina's abilities affect this build, so feel free to use either Torrent or Liquid Voice.

Best Tera Type

We also recommend getting a Primarina with a Fairy Tera Type to boost the damage of Primarina' 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 HP and Sp.Atk EVs, while adding the remaining EVs into Sp.Def. Give it a Shell Bell to help Primarina recover HP when it attacks.

Tera Raid Strategy

Primarina Tera Raid Turn-by-Turn Counter Strategy
Turn 1	Use Light Screen or Reflect to raise your Defenses.
Turns 2~7	Use Calm Mind to max out your Sp. Atk.
Low HP Turns	Use Draining Kiss to heal yourself.
Turns 8+	Attack with Moonblast or Draining Kiss. Terastallize when you are able to and keep attacking.

Start the Tera Raid by using Light Screen or Reflect to boost your Defenses while you set up, next, get your buffs up with Calm Mind. 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!

Sample Damage Calculations

Super Effective Damage Dealt by Primarina
(Dragon Tera, 128 Sp. Def) 7600 HP (Max HP x25)	Moonblast(+6 Sp. Atk, Fairy Tera) 1,960 ~ 2,308 (25.7 ~ 30.3%)
	Draining Kiss(+6 Sp. Atk, Fairy Tera) 1,240 ~ 1,460 (16.3 ~ 19.2%)

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 Primarina is an effective counter to Dragon, Fighting, and Dark Type Tera Raid Bosses. If the Tera Raid Boss is usually a Steel, Electric, or Poison Type outside of Terastallization, perhaps consider a different build, as Primarina will be weak to these Types.

Type Chart: All Matchups and Effectiveness

Defensive Support Build

EV Spread, Ability, Held Item and Moveset

Primarina	Tera Type			Nature
				Calm (↑Sp. Def, ↓Atk)
	EV Spread
	HP: 4		Def: 252		Sp. Def: 252
Ability	Moveset
Liquid Voice or Torrent	・ Reflect / Light Screen ・ Misty Terrain ・ Chilling Water ・ Life Dew
Held Item
Light Clay

Summary

Amazing Defensive support Pokemon due to access to both Screen moves. Life Dew lets it heal allies in a pinch. Misty Terrain prevents status conditions while lowering Dragon-type damage.

Neither of Primarina's abilities affect this build, so feel free to use either Torrent or Liquid Voice.

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 Primarina 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 Primarina a Light Clay to extend the duration of your screens.

Tera Raid Strategy

Primarina Tera Raid Situational Strategies
Screen Setter	Help your allies by setting up a Reflect or Light Screen.
Status Prevention	Prevent Status Conditions for allies by setting up a Misty Terrain.
Debuffer	Lower the Raid Boss' attack using Chilling Water.
Healer	Heal allies up with Life Dew.

This build allows you to help out the team defensively with either Reflect or Light Screen. You can also further lower damage taken from Physical Attacks with Chilling Water.

Misty Terrain and Life Dew are used to further sustain your allies byu preventing Status Conditions and healing them up respectively.

Alternative Moves

Primarina 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. Note that it cannot be used when the Raid Boss shields up.
Rain Dance	Lower damage dealt by Fire-type moves and increase damage dealt by Water-type moves.
Haze	Remove buffs from the Raid Boss.
Psychic Noise	Situational, but very useful for those Raid Bosses that like to use healing moves.
Ice Spinner	Can be useful for removing pesky Terrain that benefits the Raid Boss.

How to Make Best Primarina Tera Raid Build

How to Make Best Primarina Tera Raid Build
Catch Popplio at Coastal Biome Use Mints to change its nature. Use an Ability Patch to Change Its Ability. EV Train Primarina Hyper Train at Montenevera. Level up to 100. Give Primarina a Held Item.

Catch Popplio at Coastal Biome

You can catch a Popplio with a Water Tera Type at the Coastal Biome.

In order to get Popplio in the Terarium, you need to complete Terry's Boost biodiversity in the Coastal Biome request on the Support Board for 3000 BP

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

Best Pokemon for Catching

Use Tera Shards to Change Tera Type

If the Primarina 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

If it has a different nature, you can use Mints to change its nature.

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 Primarina its Hidden Ability.

Ability Patch Location and How to Get

EV Train Primarina

EV train Primarina 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)

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 Primarina a Held Item

You can also give your Primarina 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

Delibird Presents Locations and All Items

Primarina Tera Raid Moveset Guide

Learn Moves Through Level Up

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

Level	Move	Type
Evo.	Sparkling Aria
37	Misty Terrain
44	Hyper Voice
51	Moonblast

You can have Primarina 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 Primarina 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
TM022 Chilling Water	Received as a reward for beating Kofu, the Water Gym leader in Cascarrafa. Required League Points: 3000 LP Required Pokemon Materials: ・Psyduck Down x3 ・Surskit Syrup 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
TM050 Rain Dance	Near the sunken watchtower in the middle of the Asado Desert. Required League Points: 3000 LP Required Pokemon Materials: ・Azurill Fur x3 ・Shellos Mucus x3 ・Wattrel Feather x3
TM074 Reflect	Inside the scaffolding on the northern side of East Province (Area Three). Required League Points: 800 LP Required Pokemon Materials: ・Drowzee Fur x3 ・Flittle Down x3
TM075 Light Screen	Found to the east of Artazon on rocky terrain. Required League Points: 800 LP Required Pokemon Materials: ・Magnemite Screw x3 ・Voltorb Sparks x3
TM124 Ice Spinner	Received as a reward for beating Grusha, the Ice Gym leader in Glaseado. Required League Points: 8000 LP Required Pokemon Materials: ・Bergmite Ice x3 ・Cetoddle Grease x5 ・Frigibax Scales x3
TM129 Calm Mind	Next to a pond on a sunken area found in South Province Area Three, west of Mesagoza. Required League Points: 3000 LP Required Pokemon Materials: ・Stantler Hair x3 ・Indeedee Fur x3
TM174 Haze	Readily available in the Kitakami TM Machine Required League Points: 400 LP Required Pokemon Materials: ・Feebas Scales x2
TM228 Psychic Noise	Readily available in the Terarium TM Machine Required League Points: 3000 LP Required Pokemon Materials: ・Psyduck Down x3 ・Chingling Fragment x3

List of TMs and Locations

Give Primarina Life Dew from Chansey as an Egg Move

1	Catch a Chansey, then make them remember the move Life Dew.
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 Chansey and Primarina. There should only be two Pokemon in your party.
4	Delete one of Primarina's move, then let it hold the Mirror Herb.
5	Have a picnic with Chansey and Primarina. Wait for a few minutes, then pack up. Check Primarina's summary to see that it now has Life Dew!

How to Learn and Transfer Egg Moves

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