Video summary
The seven-star Skeledirge raid event in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet is now in its final week, running from September 11th to the 17th, offering a last chance for players to capture this legendary Pokémon without needing the DLC expansion. The video highlights an optimal solo build centered on Blissey, a Psychic-type available in the base game, which utilizes the Twisted Spoon held item to significantly boost its Stored Power attacks. This specific configuration features hyper-trained Individual Values set to 31 across the board, a Modest nature, and an EV spread that maximizes Special Attack and Defense while maintaining sufficient HP to survive physical hits from Skeledirge.
The battle strategy relies heavily on a precise sequence of moves starting with Skill Swap to steal Skeledirge's Unaware ability, which negates its special attack boosts gained through Torch Song. After managing early turns by healing with Soft-Boiled and chipping away at the raid counter with Stored Power, the player must wait for the opponent to nullify stat changes before setting up six Coma Mines using Combine. Throughout this setup phase, Blissey alternates between attacking and healing to ensure it remains healthy enough to reach a +6 Special Attack and Defense boost without fainting prematurely.
Once all Coma Mines are active, the player can unleash their full offensive potential by combining these boosts with Stored Power attacks to break through Skeledirge's shield. After the shield is shattered, the raid becomes straightforward, requiring only alternating turns of Stored Power for damage and Soft-Boiled for healing if health drops too low. This method provides a consistent and reliable way to defeat the boss solo, allowing players to earn high-value items like Herba Mystica and Ability Patches while farming candies to train their Pokémon further.
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Hello friends, welcome back to the
channel. The sevenstar terroridate event
for Skeleadurge is back for its final
time in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet. In
today's video, we're going to cover all
of the details as well as the best build
to solo it in game.
The mightiest mark Skeleadurge will be
running from Friday the 11th until
Thursday the 17th of September. And this
will be the final time that it'll be
running in Scarlet and Violet. So, if
you missed it the first time around,
this is a perfect opportunity to grab it
in game and add it to your collection.
So, the build that we're featuring in
today's video is one that's available in
the base game. So, even if you've not
got the DLC, you shouldn't have any
trouble picking this Pokemon up, and it
is Blissy. It is going to have a psychic
terotyping. It's got the twisted spoon
as its held item to boost the stored
power attack damage. It's going to be
level 100. And of course, all of its IVs
have been hyper trained, so they're set
to 31. Move set pretty straightforward.
Skill swap, combine, softboiled, and
then stored power. And then the EV
spread is 252 EVs in special attack and
in defense with the remainder put into
HP and a modest nature. The ability here
on the Blissey doesn't really matter too
much cuz we're going to be skill
swapping it away. But Blissy should look
like this once you've got it trained up
in game. And the build as [music] always
will be down in the description below if
you want to take a look at it after the
video. And we'll jump into the raid now
and I'll show you how easy it can take
on this sevenstar mightiest mark
Skeleadge. When you first come into the
raid against Skeleadrurge, the first
thing it's going to do before the raid
begins on turn zero is going to be fire
off a disarming voice. That's going to
hit all targets on our side of the field
and then will randomly hit one of the
four targets on our side with a flame
charge. But unfortunately for us this
time around it isn't to us and it does
land a critical hit which is really
unfortunate. So it puts us a little bit
behind. Most scenarios you're going to
be in a safe spot. But turn one
regardless of what happens on that turn
zero going to lock in with a skill swap.
We want to steal that unaware ability
that the Skelead has had. Now, it's
going to lock in with a torch song, but
the nice thing about stealing its
ability and getting unaware is we're
going to completely ignore any of those
special attack boosts that Skeleadurge
acquires throughout this raid by using
torch song. So, it means we've got no
worries about that at all. Now, turn
two, we're just going to chip away our
trilization counter. We're going to just
use stored power. It's not going to do
too much at this stage of the rage, but
we're kind of waiting on a notification
where it's going to nullify stats and
abilities on our side of the field. So
turn three, just lock in with a
softboiled or if you're healthy enough,
go for another stored power. Here we're
going for the softboiled cuz we took
that critical hit early on. You probably
in most scenarios won't need to do that.
So you get a little bit closer to that
trilalization with an extra stored
power. Now go for another stored power
on turn three. At this point you should
be if you didn't need to use that
softboiled already be at the stage where
you can tralize, but we don't want to do
that just yet. Now here is the
nullification of our stat changes and
abilities. So now that's the only time
Skelead is going to do this throughout
the raid. Now we're going to be free to
set up if you're in a healthy enough
position. We're going to just lock in
with a softball to make sure that we're
in a healthy position going forward. And
then we're going to start setting up
these com mines. Now we're free to do
that. Now essentially over the next 6 to
eight turns, you're going to be setting
up six com mines. I say eight turns
because you might in between setting up
these com mines need to lock in with
softball just to make sure you are as
healthy as possible. So just start
chipping away at those com mines. We
want to be plus six across the board. Um
but anytime that your health gets a
little bit lower, a little bit more
uncomfortable. Just lock in with a soft
boil. Make sure you are as healthy as
possible before attacking before
terraizing.
Right. So, this is [music] our last
combine that we need to set up. in
between the combine turns. I did use
softboiled a couple of times just to
make sure that we are as healthy as
possible. H but you should be at the
point where you can tralize as well
going into this following turn. Your
plus six across your special attack and
special defense. Now we can go for that
trilization and go for these stored
powers and start working our way through
the shield. Once the shield's gone on
this skeleurge, it becomes very
straightforward. I mean, from here on
out, all we're going to be using is
stored power and then soft boil. Just
make sure that you don't put yourself in
a vulnerable state with your HP. If it
gets low, just use softboiled. Make sure
you are as healthy as possible and then
just fire those stored powers off. But
with the Eevee investment that we've
got, we're going to be able to take the
physical attacks from the skele pretty
comfortably here. And you can see stored
power doing a decent amount of damage
even with that shield up. That's the
added bonus of the twisted spoon that
we've got boosting this psychic type
attack. and then stored power with that
tralization. This next one going to be
enough to break the shield and then from
here on out, like I say, just keep an
eye on your HP. If it's low, just use
soft world. Otherwise, just finish the
raid up with stored power. But this is
going to be a really consistent way to
run through this raid. The nice thing is
that Bliss is available in the base
games. You're going to have no trouble
finding it, picking her up in the wild
despite having the DLCs or not, and
training it up is no issue. So, a really
good way to farm this event over the
next week when it's running. Of course,
you're going to get those high cost
items like you do normally with
sevenstar raids, herbstacers, ability
patches, and all those really valuable
level up candies that you can get for
training Pokémon up. And if this is the
first time you're picking Skeleurge up
in game, let me know which Pokeball
you're going to pick yours up in. Beast
Ball's always a good one. Love to know
what Pokeball you're getting your
sevenstar Skeleurge in from this event.
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for the next week and I'll see you in
another video very soon. So, until then,
take care and bye-bye.