Finally got around to doing the raid today. All it took was three tries, a ton of grinding, lots of luck and love, and a single Slowbro.
Build used:
Big Boom (Slowbro) @ Life Orb
Ability: Oblivious
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpA
Modest Nature
IVs: 31 HP / 21 Atk / 31 Def / 31 SpA / 31 SpD / 19 Spe
- Stored Power
- Iron Defense
- Psychic Terrain
- Nasty Plot
[name was received after the fact]
Pre-Raid Preparation:
- Lots of grinding in general, lots of positioning so I could get optimal EVs from the Gym leader rematches [minus Katy]
- Lots of Bottle Caps for hyper-training [I was also preparing an Iron Hands build so I can BTFO 6-star raids]
- Lots of grinding Tera raids for XP Candies
- Lots of money to buy stuff to grind
- A few EV-resetting berries after the 2nd attempt to check for and get rid of unwanted EVs
- More money, probably
- Finally hit the optimal EVs!
Chronicle of all of my attempts [may not be 100% accurate]:
Attempt 1:
- Went in, and got surprised when Cinderace immediately BU'd
- Didn't have the Intimidate that would save me on the winning try so the initial Acrobatics hit very hard
- Play went as this: 2x Iron Defense, 3x Nasty Plot, Psychic Terrain. used heal and def boost cheers at some point down the line to try and save myself from death
- Used Stored Power, Cinderace lived even with Psychic Terrain up [the time it took to set it all up didn't proc the barrier]
- Unlucky Acrobatics crit at like ~+4 Atk or smth kills Slowbro [not like it would've mattered lol, it would've died anyways because I was at too low HP]
- Cinderace sets up the Tera barrier, I realize I can't win because Cinderace boosted itself too much and I can't get back up in time, so I concede.
Attempt 2:
- Went in, now I knew!
- There was no Intimidate
- Play went the same as last time. at some point might've used the def/atk boost cheer to boost stored power or smth idk
- Apparently, I get unlucky with Tera barrier proccing and it does.
- Slowbro dies again, I concede because I can't win
Attempt 3 [the winning attempt!]:
- Went in, THIS time I got the Intimidate that won me the game since it nullified Cinderace's Bulk Ups [as well as Clodsire and something else I can't remember]
- Play was the same. Don't remember off the top of my head if I used any of the chants though.
- Cinderace sets up the barrier yet again due to timer, but this time I'm able to break through it with 2 Stored Powers.
- Slowbro dies but because of repeated Intimidates, I'm not at a disadvantage. Best of all, I take the barrier down with me before I die.
- I set up Iron Defense twice and Nasty Plot once, then proceed to BTFO Cinderace with 2 Stored Powers while its attacks bounce off of me
- Victory is mine, I get the coveted Cinderace!
also got a Tera Steel Haxorus from a 6-star Tera Raid today [and my 1st one too, no less].