 Hello friends, in today's video we're going to go over the best builds to solo the brand new 7 star Samurai Raid that's dropping later this week in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet. But before we get into the video please subscribe to the channel remember you can always unsubscribe later if you'd like to. So kicking off later this week on Friday the 31st of March and running over that weekend the 7 star Samurai Raid will be coming to Pokemon Scarlet and Violet. It will have the bug terror type tied to it and will as always be level 100 like all other 7 star raids. Now the bug terror typing that Samurai carries does throw up a few problems going into this raid but nothing that we can't overcome obviously the things that you would normally bring against bug types or rock fire which are really not the best pokemon to bring against Samurai as it's going to have water type attacks as it's base moves. So we're predominantly going to be looking at flying types as our main way to hit it but doesn't restrict us just to flying types but we've got some builds that we're going to go over in today's episode that will give you the best shot of making this as easy as possible in game so you don't need to go online if you don't want to and you'll be able to just run through this and farm this event as much as possible. So starting off as always we'll take a quick overview of Samurai Raid have a look at all of its details and what we could expect going into this terror raid. As you can see it is going to have the abilities torrent or the hidden ability shell armor it will be level 100 of course like all other seven star raids and it will have that bug terror typing. Its base speed for those of you that want to know is 70 so it's not the fastest of pokemon and its HP for this seven star raid because of that 30 times multiplier will be around 9,930 so that's the hit points that you're going to have to do damage wise to Samurai to remove it from the field. Its move options it's got mega horn x scissor are going to be its big kind of bug type attacks that you would see playing off that bug terror typing. I'd imagine it will be mega horn over anything else it's more base power but it is shaky on the accuracy not the most accurate of attacks. Its signature move is shell armor which is it's one of its water type attacks so you probably see that on it. Sacred Sword is another option as a fighting type stab aqua cutter as well has a high critical hit ratio another signature attack on Samurai and a water type attack at that then you're going to look at your more standard water type attacking options like waterfall liquidation it has night slash as well we'll get into why i've put night slash there in a moment and obviously another coverage move that it does get is avalanche it does get access to things like grass knot as well so if you are planning on bringing water type pokemon to go against this then that is something just to keep in the back of your mind as a possibility but predominantly Samurai are probably going to be more of a physical attacker in this raid i would imagine it might be mixed but predominantly i would say more of a physical attacker because all of its big attacking moves like the mega horn like the razor shell like the aqua cutter they're all going to be physical type attacks so it would make sense that it's going to play off that attacking stat rather than the special attacking stat that it does have access to now it's set up options that it does have you looking at things like sword stance that's probably going to be the biggest one top of the list where it's going to be able to boost its attacking stat by two stages every time it uses it so it can get quite out of control quite quickly focus energy is another one and this was brought up in our comment section earlier on in the announcement video and a really good one at that because Samurai does get access to high critical hit ratio moves like the aqua cutter and that night slash we could see something like focus energy being that first turn move before we're able to get an attack off onto the field where it boosts the critical hit ratio even further meaning those attacks are going to be landing critical hits which also in turn makes it even more difficult because if we're using defense boosting moves then it will just nullify those and hit through and do double the damage anyway Encore is another option as well we may see on Samurot it will punish things like set up options on our side of the field and you know the developers might be thinking well that deciduous raid was pretty easy for a lot of people just to set up in front of and run through this raid let's draw a spanner in the works let's draw Encore on there so if you use something like sword stance iron defense or anything like that and then you get Encore into it you're going to be limited what you can do for the next three to four turns rain dancers also another option on Samurot it will of course boost all of its water type attacks that it can come out of it but for general speaking the set of options that we would be worried about I think these are the main ones if you've got any more drop them down in the comment section I would love to hear them so with the overview of Samurot there we'll get into game and we'll look at the builds that we're going to be taking into this raid event so top of the list and this one is Corridon I think it plays a lot like the Maraidon that we went into the deciduous raid with and I've got to give a big shout out to my friend Light who sent me over this build that we're starting off with today and I think probably one of the more solid ones for this particular raid event the fighting and the dragon typing on Corridon means that you're going to be able to resist the bug type attacks and the water type attacks that coming out from it if Samurot does have access to something like Avalanche you're going to have to worry about that or any ice type moves but other than that Corridon typing wise is going to be immaculate for this raid event we've got the life orb held item on here and the terror typing is fire which we'll get to in the minute the move set that we've got for this Corridon is going to be sunny day screech sword stance and flare blitz with an EV spread of 252 HP 252 attack and the ability of Richard Klum pulse if I'm pronouncing that right which I'm probably not so apologies about that but you get the idea with the ability there it's only got one ability anyway the idea with this set is if we see rain dance on the Samurot you can set that sunny day up to in one then you go for the screech three times you go for the sword stance three times and then you hit it for super effective damage with the flare blitz which would be boosted by the sun which should be already on the field like I say the sunny day is there just to overwrite the rain dance if it is an option on the Samurot but this is the Corridon feel like a very solid build going into this one and it should do a good job against it the only drawback I would say about this build in particular is going for that fire terror typing because once you do terastalize you're going to be subjected to those water type attacks you're going to be taken super effective damage and it could get a little bit tricky especially if the Samurot is boosting itself up with something like sword stance so if that is a problem we can approach that a little bit differently when the raid comes out of course when all the details are confirmed for the Samurot raid we can maybe look at changing that just to give us a little bit more stability when we're going up against it if we're using Corridon but that is the Corridon build and as always all of the builds will be linked down in the description if you want to take a closer look at them for yourselves after the video next up is probably one of my favorites for this raid in particular and it is going to be covenite it is going to have the flying terror type and we've given the held item the metronome so what the metronome does is if you use a sim move consecutively it does raise the attack power of that move until you kind of max it out at like five or six turns I think so it's a really good one if you are constantly just using one attack once you've set up with covenite then you're going to be using its main flying type attack so that metronome we're going to be able to boost on top of that we don't need to worry about HP recovery because we do have roost on this set as well and the move set we've got is roost iron defense bulk up and drill pick so EV spread on this one is 252 HP 252 attack and we have an adamant nature with that mirror armor ability as well so the idea with this set would be to iron defense up three times bulk up three times even though your defense is maxed out you still want to boost that attacking stat of covenite and then start using drill pecs to do super effective damage to this bug type samarot and then roost accordingly when you need to recover any health but this is the covenite build that we've got here and I think a very good one as well very good on the defensive side of things going to be able to sock up all of those bug type moves because they're resisted by covenite that the samarot could throw out at them you're going to take neutral damage from the water type attacks of course but at the same time if you're boosting your defense you're not really going to worry about those too much next up we have toxic rock another one that I really like going into this raid we've got the build of poison and fighting typing with the terra type of rock we've got the shell bell item on there and a move set of rain dance taunt sword stance and rock slide we've got a adamant nature with an ev spread of 252 hp 252 attack the rest just dumped into defense and the big one here is going to be that dry skin ability it's going to give you complete immunity to all of the water type attacks that come out from the samarot you're going to resist the bug type attacks as well which is pretty nice so it makes for a very good build where you're going to be able to have an easy time setting up against the samarot really what you want to do is if it has got any setup options if it's on if it's got any disruption moves you want to use that taunt turn one rain dance turn two that'll give you a line of recovery every turn then get your sword stances up and start hitting it with those rock slides and we do have the rock terra type on this toxic rock just to maximize damage on these rock slides and because of the dry skin ability even when you terrasilize into the rock type you're not going to have that water type weakness you're still going to have that dry skin ability kicking in so you'll be recovering damage even if the samarot does decide to go for any water type attacks and with the rock slide you're going to be hitting it for super effective damage with that rock type attack so that is the toxic rock i really think a nice build as well along with the covenite probably one of the stronger ones to go into this raid with next up we've got vaporeon another pokemon that is going to play off its ability more than anything else in this one we've got water terra typing on this shell bell item we've seen vaporeon perform really well in previous seven star raids and it should do the same sort of thing going into this one make sure it has got that water terra typing of course and the move set we're going to go with on this one is aqua ring that's going to give you a line of recovery every turn and then calm mind acid armor and stored power so the idea is you're going to want to get that aqua ring up turn one and then go for three acid armor three calm mines and then start launching the stored powers off and although it's not super effective against the samurad you're still going to do a lot of damage with how stored power works and with those all those boosts behind you you should be doing a lot of damage of course the ability here like we mentioned is water absorbed so any water type attacks coming out from the samurad you're going to just be recovering health you're immune to those we've got an ev spread of 252 special attack 252 defense and a modest nature just to maximize your staying power on the field so you can take those big physical attacks from samurad a lot better and this was one of the ones that I did mention uh if you were worried about maybe grass not as an option on samurad it could be something that you do see here you should be taking neutral damage from the bug type attacks and obviously with the acid armors boosting your defense every turn that you use it by two stages you're not really going to be taking too much damage from those anyway so they pour in I think a really solid choice against samurad and probably something that you're going to have a lot of reliability going in if you do use this one. Next up is pelipa. Pelipa is a great pokemon to go into the samurad obviously going to resist those water type attacks and those bug type attacks we've given the clover clock item here because we do have a line of recovery we've got the flying terra type on it as well with a moveset of roost rain dance stockpile and hurricane ev spread of 252 hp 252 special attack and the ability drizzle so you're going to summon the rain to the field the first turn you've got into battle but just in case the rain does run out and you need it for your hurricane attacks then you've got rain dance on the set as well just to set it up again because hurricane in the rain is 100% accurate and it will be doing a lot of damage to the samurad boosted by that stab and obviously when you tracelize as well you'll also be resisting the bug type attacks as well from the samurad so it's a really nice one to bring and with stockpile as an option on there with the roost you can really kind of show up those defenses by boosting your special defense and defense every time you use it and then just roost off any damage that's done and then just keep hitting it with the hurricane so obviously we've got the added bonus as well with hurricane you can confuse the samurad so it can stop it moving the turns if it does hit itself so it is a really nice build a solid one as well and a decent option if you want to go for something that we haven't already covered the final one that we're going to cover today is cloister i really like cloister and there are a couple of options you can go with with cloister obviously a water and ice type pokemon going to resist the water type attacks that come out from samurad and particularly if they are on the physical end of things cloister has a huge defense stat so it's going to be able to really soak those up pretty easily we've went for the water terra typing on here and you could if you're brave enough to go for the rock terra typing i think it would maximize damage but i feel like when you tracelize into the rock type you don't have an ability to kind of protect you here and you could get all your stack boosts kind of removed so putting you in a bit of a precarious position and you're going to be weak to those water type attacks once you do tracelize so this is why i've kept the water typing tracelization here it isn't really going to help us on an offensive point of view but as a defensive terra type and it was going to really benefit us going into this raid event we've got the shell bell item it's a line of recovery here we've got iron defense shell smash rock blast and then aqua ring so aqua ring a bit like with the vaporeon going to recover health every turn after we've set it up and then we've got the move set iron defense which we're going to use straight off the bat we're going to get three of those up and then shell smash which boosts our attack special attack and speed by two stages but does lower our defense stat so that's why you kind of combine it with the iron defense you don't want to really make yourself too weak on the defensive side and then you've got rock blast to kind of take advantage of that type weakness onto the samurai art and obviously with the skill link ability there you're going to be hitting five times every time you use it and once you've boosted that attack enough you're going to be doing a lot of damage to this samurai art we've got the ev spread of 252 hp 252 attack you don't really need any investment in defense you can see how sky high that defense that is already with an adamant nature so that is the cloister there i do think a nice option and it's going to be one i am definitely going to put some time investing into this one when this raid goes live because i feel like cloister with its defenses with the shell smash option on there i think it can do a decent job against it but all in all these are the best builds that i think going into this one i would say probably the top two are going to be the covenite the toxa croak i like the cariadon a lot i do worry about its terra typing and maybe that might need to be changed but i can't really say anything until the raid event goes live and see how it performs in battle but the other ones outliers are going to be very poor and a very solid consistent pick of course and cloister other options you can have are things like slow brawl the reason why i haven't included it in this video in particular is because slow brawl does have that psychic typing so it will be weak to the bug type attacks and you're going to have to be able to thrash slides before you're able to take those attacks a little bit better and because it will be coming off stab i don't know if you're going to have room to get the iron defenses off before you get knocked out and that could make it a little bit tricky but slow brawl might be a decent option going into this one again iron hands probably not a bad option against this samurai it's got the defenses to kind of go into this raid and do a decent job but i don't think one of the more optimal picks going into this one but these are the best builds as i say all of the builds will be down in the description below i hope you found this video useful if you've got something in mind that you're thinking of taking into this do leave a comment down below i'd love to hear your thoughts on what you're planning on bringing and what you think of the builds that we featured in today's video please drop a like it does really help the channel subscribe to the channel so you don't miss any more updates about anything going on in scarlet and violet and i will see you all in another video very soon so until then friends take care of yourselves and bye