7-Star Sceptile

How to beat this raid Solo, guaranteed

7-Star Sceptile

Dates

This event will be life from

June 28th 2024 to June 30th 2024

and again from

July 05th 2024 to July 07th 2024

Tera Pokémon intro

This time the 7-Star raid Pokémon will be Sceptile!

STATS

Sceptile stats

PATTERN

Sceptile’s pattern in this fight will be as follows:

Timing Action
99% Time Uses Leaf Storm
85% Time Nullify player Pokémon stat changes & abilities
85% HP Uses Breaking Swipe
80% Time Reduces player Tera Orb charge
70% HP or 75% Time Activates shield
65% Time Removes negative effects from itself
30% HP Uses Earthquake

Strategy

The strategy I used for this solo run is using Grimmsnarl.
Ideally you want to have at least HP, Attack and Defense bottle capped. (and EVs in Attack and HP)

I bred mine to adopt the above stats, another important thing is making sure you have the Prankster Ability. This will provide a very nice advantage when using status moves.

If your Grimmsnarl is level 100, and you follow the step-by-step, this shouldn’t prove to be a problem at all,
below is our setup for Grimmsnarl specifically for this fight.

Even with a couple setbacks in the actual fight I managed to pull through, so I’d say it’s a solid strategy.

Grimmsnarl stats
Grimmsnarl stats Grimmsnarl stats

As item we’ll be using the Shell Bell.

The biggest part of this strategy is just our immunity to Dragon attacks
and abuse our Fairy Tera on top of our natural Fairy typing for very high amounts of damage output.

As you can see in the Video guide, I was confidently able to defeat Sceptile, even when dying early (Crits happen often on Leaf Blade), so don’t worry.

So let’s get to the fight itself then:

I’ll be guiding you through every turn as below.

TURN 1

Use the Taunt skill to make it so Sceptile can’t get early boosts in.

Turn 1 Taunt

TURN 2

Use the Reflect skill to reduce all Physical damage Sceptile will inflict.

Turn 2 Reflect

TURN 3-5

Use the Play Rough skill 3 times to build up your Tera charge mainly while lowering his HP a bit.

Turn 3 Play Rough

TURN 6-11

Use Bulk Up 6 times total in order to maximize (+6) both your Attack and Defense stats. Usually you’ll want to Play Rough once in between in order to recover some HP through your Shell Bell (I did so after 4 Bulk Ups) You can also Terastalize here (as I did), to get it out of the way and definitely before you next Play Rough (for example if you need HP)

Turn 6 Bulk Up

TURN 12-END

Use Play Rough to pummel Sceptile until he faints, at +6 you should see some nice damage outputs.

Turn 8 Play Rough

TIP:
If you still have trouble, just leave and reenter until you have some good allies (Intimidate on teammates helps with the start of this fight).
This’ll give you some free advantage.

Victory!

VIDEO GUIDE

Check out the full fight and video over here:

Let me know if you were able to catch your Sceptile.