The Tera Raid Battles you’ll find in Paldea range from one to five stars, with five-star raids being the hardest. To kick off these battles, you just collide with the crystals. An easy way to get to these is to fly to the nearest PokéStop and cruise over from there. In the map above, for instance, there are three Tera Raid battles marked, respectively, in yellow, green, and blue.

Image: Game Freak/The Pokémon Company, Nintendo These are marked on the Paldean map with a little star denoting the Pokémon’s Tera Type. In the Paldean world, these are signified by big, glowing crystals that have a huge glowing tower you can see from a while away. You’ll find Pokémon with Tera Types that don’t match their actual type through Tera Raid Battles. These seem to be set encounters around the world, and you’ll definitely see them.

You’ll also see Pokémon in the Paldean overworld who sparkle and glow these are basically just harder wild Pokémon fights - you’ll have to knock down these Pokémon to remove the effect before catching them. Image: Game Freak/The Pokémon Company, Nintendo What are all the Tera Types?Īll Pokémon have a Tera Type, which means you can find Pokémon that Terastallize anywhere. In total, there are 18 different Tera Types any Pokémon can have, which makes for a huge number of potential combinations. That’s because a Pokémon’s Tera Type doesn’t have to match it’s actual type - meaning that a fire-type Pokémon can have a water Tera Type, changing up its type strengths and weaknesses when the mechanic is used. It’s a way to switch up how battles work in certain scenarios, and it’s one of the more interesting parts of battles in Scarlet and Violet. For Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, it’s Terastallizing, the equivalent of Pokémon Sword and Shield’s Dynamax and Gigantamax features. Every new Pokémon game seems to introduce some new battle mechanic.

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