Cutiefly – Solo – 5 Star Shiny Rayquaza Raid – Pokemon Scarlet/Violet

Rating: 7/10. No NPC requirements. Build details in description.

Cutiefly @ Eviolite
Ability: Shield Dust
Tera Type: Fairy
EVs: 136 HP / 96 Def / 180 SpA / 96 SpD
Modest Nature
– Moonblast
– Draining Kiss
– Quiver Dance
– Charm

Vitamins: 13 HP Up (or Health Mochi), 9 Iron (or Resist Mochi), 18 Calcium (or Genius Mochi), 9 Zinc (or Clever Mochi)
Feathers: 6 Health Feathers, 6 Resist Feathers, 6 Clever Feathers

Stats at lvl 100 w/ perfect IVs:
HP : 255
Defense : 140 (210 w/ Eviolite)
Sp.Atk. : 210
Sp.Def. : 140 (210 w/ Eviolite)
Speed : 204

NPC Advantages: no requirements. intimidators (tauros, staraptor, arcanine), gardevoir (life dew), paralyzers (umbreon, dudunsparce), bellibolt (light screen), sylveon (moonblast, charm), and arboliva (seed sower) help.

Strategy: quiver dance, charm, draining kiss whenever you need HP, you can terastalize as early as when the orb is charged or as late as the first fairy attack after the orb is charged. moonblast until your stats reset. 3-5 quiver dance. moonlast until the shield breaks, charm, moonblast to victory.

Notes: 100% chance of OHKO if targeted by dragon ascent turn 0. however, it’s recoverable, but you might come very close to running out of clock time at the end. determining the right time to terastalize is tricky because the AI move selection is so random. if targeted by hurricane, it’s better to be terastalized. if targeted by earthquake, it’s better not to be. either way, charm and quiver dance can cushion the blow.

Pros: supereffective tera type matching base type, outspeeds rayquaza even after it uses dragon dance. resists earthquake before terastalizing, immune to dragon pulse and draco meteor. no weaknesses after terastalizing. charm debuffs attack 2 stages when shield is down. quiver dance buffs special attack 1 stage and special defense 1 stage, draining kiss and moonblast have 100 accuracy and deal supereffective STAB (tera-boosted when terastalized) damage. draining kiss has 50 base power and it recovers 50% of damage dealt in HP. moonblast has 95 base power and has a 30% chance of debuffing special attack 1 stage. shield dust prevents confusion from hurricane (normally 21% chance). eviolite gives 50% boost to defense and special defense stats.

Cons: weak to dragon ascent, weak to hurricane before terastalizing, atrocious HP stat, mediocre defense and special defense stats (despite the eviolite), mediocre special attack stat