 Hello friends, welcome back to the channel. A brand new seven star terror event has been announced for Pokemon Scholar and Violet. We're going to go over all of the details for what we can expect from this raid as well as some builds we can do in preparation for beating this when it goes live later this week. So running from the second until the 4th of February for its first phase in Pokemon Scholar and Violet, we're going to see a brand new seven star terror event for Impoleon. It will of course be returning for its second phase the week after from the 9th until the 11th of February. So we'll get two opportunities to take this on in our games. If we take a quick overview of the options that Impoleon has, it's going to be at its base typing, a water and a steel type Pokemon. Of course, this will have the mightiest mark will only be catchable once per save file as per usual with the seven star raids. It will likely have its competitive ability, which is its hidden ability, meaning any drops that it takes to its stats throughout the battle using things like screech, acid spray or metal sound. It will activate this ability, giving it a plus to a stat boost in its special attack, making it a very dangerous Pokemon. So our normal lines have been able to weaken those defense stats throughout the raid to just expedite our damage. Isn't something that we'd be able to rely on as we'd normally do with that 30 times multiplier to its HP stat. You're looking at around 9,270 HP that we're going to have to do in damage to take this down. Of course, we have mentioned it will be an ice terror type. So we'll have a boost to any ice type attacks. It will have access to expected attacks that it could have going to be a mix of water type attacks, flying, steel, of course, as well as ice, but it does get some decent coverage with some dark type coverage in there as well. Things to really just keep in mind when going into this battle or when you're building a Pokemon you expect to do well against it. The one thing I would say about Empoleon as well is it does get a good mix of special and physical type attacks. So I would imagine this could be a mixed attacker. So not out of the realms of possibility. Something that might catch a lot of us off when this goes live. Hadropump is its strongest special attacking water type attack. It probably will have access to this. But if it does go down a physical route, liquidation is a very strong option aside from that. Flash Cannon is something that I could see from a special point of view. It having access to that gives it a steel type option. And then you've got to take note of the flying type coverage that it does have. Obviously been an ice type fighting type Pokemon are going to be those at the front of the queue that you're going to bring to do super effective damage. And those flying type coverage moves that it does have access to can be quite detrimental to a lot of strategies that we might be trying to implement. Air Slash is one of those that plays off the special attacking stat that can play off that competitive boost that may be happening throughout the raid. And then you've got Drill Peck as well that it can use from a physical standpoint. If you are planning on bringing a fighting type into this raid, you've got to be aware of these as potential threats to you. And of course being an ice type Pokemon is going to have access to some ice type attacks. It's access to icy wind that will lower our speed on our side of the field. So we can maybe take advantage of that, but it does have some stronger options as well. It's special attacking side options, Blizzard and Ice Beam. We do see the Snorescape on here to bring the hail to the field. It will probably rely on Blizzard. Give it a 100% accuracy throughout the raid as well when that Snorescape is in effect. You've got Ice Beam as well. It's not as reliant on the Snorescape being active, but still a very strong attack you need to be aware of from the special end of the spectrum. You've got Ice Spinner, which is an alternative physical attacking ice move, and that can be detrimental if you are having terrain on the field or anything like that because it will remove the terrain along with that attack. And then Knockoff is a dark type coverage move that we could potentially see, which would remove our item and make things a little bit trickier for some of the builds that we're going to suggest in this raid. Now some of the setup options it does have access to or support moves. It's got Snorescape that makes a lot of sense. Being an ice type in this raid will want to summon the hail to the field, get a defense boost as well, making it even more difficult to take down, and again will boost the accuracy of something like Blizzard. Feather Dance is another option that does have that will lower the attacking stat on our side of the field by two stages every time it uses it. So again, combining quite nicely with that Snorescape if we see it there. Metal Sound is another option it does have access to, lowering our special defense or playing on that competitive ability, which if proc does boost its special attacking stat and make those special attacking options hit a lot harder. And then one of its only ways to boost its own stats is actually Sword Stance. And this what makes me think that it could be maybe a mixed attacker going into this where it plays off things like Blizzard with the Snorescape for a special attacking option and then has that liquidation potentially to play off that physical attack as well because its special and physical attacking stats are pretty good overall. So a mixed set would make a lot of sense and it would make it a lot more threatening to go up against because it's harder to prepare for a mixed attacker than it is just one of the two sides special or physical. And of course it is worth noting it might be worth waiting until the raid goes live before you build anything in game save those resources. But if you do want to build some things in game in preparation for it these are some ideas and they might even inspire some more of your own. But the first one that I really had come to mind was Bronzong. It's going to resist us ice type attacks. We have a way to mitigate the water type attacks as well and then the steel type attacks aren't going to be anything that we really have to be concerned about because they're not going to be hitting us for effective damage so we do resist those. Now this Bronzong is level 100 it is hyper trained make sure you do bottle cap all of those IVs. The terra typing on this Bronzong is steel and we do have the shell bell as the health item so we have a line of recovery throughout the raid so we're not relying on those heal cheers. The move set that we're going to go for with the Bronzong is skill swap our mind metal sound and flash cannon and the EV investment is going to be 252 EVs in HP and then 252 EVs in special attack with the rest put into that special defense stat. As always the builds that we feature in today's video will be down in the description below if you want to take a closer look at all the details from them after the video. Now the basic idea with this Bronzong is that we're going to try and turn one go for a skill swap. The only caveat which might not make this work is if we see your shield go up turn zero or turn one from the impoleon and that will prevent us from actually skill swapping away the competitive ability on the impoleon. So like I say this is why it's probably worth waiting until the raid goes live till we know a bit more information about when the shield goes up when it nullifies stats on our side of the field its side of the field etc but if we don't see that shield go up early on I think the bronzong could be a very good option because as soon as we get that competitive ability from the impoleon it means if it's going to be trying to drop any of our stats it's actually giving us a special attack boost every time that happens and on top of that we would then be able to use the metal sound option where we can lower the impoleon special defense stat by two stages every time you use it potentially setting ourselves up to do some big damage very quickly with the bronzong and it's good defensively as well so it's going to be able to take a flurry of attacks from the impoleon we do have the calm mind so that's going to help us boost our special attack and special defense by one stage every time you use it then combining that with the metal sound where we are lowering that special defense the flash canan is going to be hitting very very hard especially after we are able to thrastly so definitely one to keep in mind i think going into this weekend and one that i do think could do a decent job against impoleon when it goes live next up is something that we all probably have built in our games already but it is going to be an islep i do feel like an islep could potentially be a very good option going into this raid for the fact that impoleon has a lot of options that are going to be able to lower our stats and because of that we can really play off that with the define ability it drops our speed with something like the icy wind then it's going to activate our define ability and give us an attack boost for our trouble we went for the expert belt item here on the anislep fighting terra type of course level 100 and hyper trained with the move set of sunny day bulk up rage fist and drain punch defined is the ability that is very important i think for this impoleon and then the ev investment is going to be 252 in hp 252 in special defense and then the remaining four in attack so your stats should look like this but the basic premise of this is going to be getting that sunny day overriding a snowscape or even a rain dance that we could potentially see from the impoleon that's going to get rid of that defense boost that the snowscape gives ice type pokemon we've got bulk up if we want to try and start setting up ourselves where we can boost our attack and our defense start and then we've got the drain punch which is going to primarily be a main attacking option especially after we thrastalize which then gives us a line of recovery throughout the raid as well so like i say if the impoleon does decide to go down a route where is trying to lower our stats the metal sound the feather dance the icy wind it will all the time it's doing that proc that define ability which could put us in a nice position to really start kind of a momentum swing that we need in the raid to be able to do the damage and take it down pretty easily so definitely one to consider going in in particular because it's accessible to everyone regardless of what version you've got and you've probably already got an annihilate built in your game next up is regi steel a little bit like the bronzon i think could be very good going in against the impoleon this weekend not a pokemon that everyone's going to have access to but if you do you can transfer it into pokemon skull and violet through pokemon home regi steel going to have the fighting terror type on it it's going to be level 100 hyper trained and the shell bell held item and the moveset that we're going for with the regi steel is going to be sunny day again a bit like the annihilate we don't need to go over that again going to remove the snowscape the rain dance potentially if we do see that as an option and then they're going to have amnesia that's going to boost our special defense by two stages every time you use it making us able to take those special attacks those hydro pumps those blizzards anything that comes out that could threaten us a lot easier and iron defense as well that's going to make if it is a mixed attacker us able to really take those physical attacks way way better going to boost our defense that by two stages every time you use it and then it also plays into the body press which actually hits off the defensive stat of the pokemon rather than its attacking stat so when you've used three iron defenses you're essentially maxing out your defense that your body press is going to be hitting as hard as possible and into a nice type pokemon you're really going to be able to do a lot of damage the nice thing about regi steel as well it does have the clear body ability so if the unpolion is trying to lower our stats in any sort of way that will be prevented from the clear body ability the ev spread we've got on this regi steel i thought would be good going into this one is going to be 252 in defense and 252 in special defense with the rest put into hp and an impish nature so boosting that defense stat and lowering the special attacking stat which we aren't going to be using in this raid so i do think a decent option going into this raid regi steel probably going to be able to do a good job but i realize not everyone's going to have access to regi steel unfortunately not available to catch and skull and violet but able to be traded in from pokemon home the next step is hariyama i really like this option going into this raid could be potentially very good of course we'll need to be careful if we do see things like air slash or drill peck from the unpolion it is going to threaten it because of its fighting typing level 100 hyper trained has got the fighting terra type and the held item is going to be a flame orb that's going to play off its ability the move set is going to be sunny day belly drum bulk up and drain punch the idea is to basically get that sunny day up turn one we've been through what sunny day does it's going to disrupt the snowscape take away a potential defense boost to the ice type pokemon and if we're in a space where we are able to get a belly drum off and that is definitely something that i'd recommend doing might not be possible though but as a backup to that we're going with bulk up this time around that's going to boost our attack and a defense by one stage fortunately hariyama doesn't get access to sword stance like it's counterpart iron hands so bulk up a decent option nonetheless and then our main attacking option is going to be drain punch the ability is going to be guts and like i say it does play off that flame orb item where it allows us to get an attack boost it burns us as well so we are affected by that status condition the nice thing about it as well because we're probably going to see a lot of ice type attacks that can potentially freeze us put a stop to our run in the raid we avoid that by having that burn status and it also benefits us in our attacking abilities as well the ev spread for this hariyama is going to be two five two in hp and then two five two in its special defense and an adamant nature with the remaining four evs in that stat you could potentially go with the thick fat ability on this hariyama because obviously that cuts the amount of damage done by ice type attacks by fifty percent but then i would change the item to something like maybe an expert belt or a shell or even something like the metronome item that can just swing momentum by boosting the attack damage every time that you're using the same consecutive move of course we've got another fighting type to mention going into this raid and that is going to be iron hands not the best on the special defensive side of things but we can mitigate that slightly with the way we train it with its evs level a hundred hyper trained of course we are giving it the clear amulet item here and also the fighting terra type worth noting that the clear amulet if we do see the impolion try to use any of those moves like feather dance like metal sound or icy wind they're not going to affect us at all in this raid because the clear amulet will protect us from any stat drops move set is going to be bellydrum sword stance close combat and drain punch ability is cork drive of course and the ev spread is going to be 252 in hp and 252 in special defense with an adamant nature basic premise with the iron hands is going to be basically boosting our attack stat up in some means if we're able to get a bellydrum off because we're able to take those hits a little bit better early on in the raid and that's going to be great we're going to be able to expedite our damage quite quickly if you are taking too much damage at the start of the raid then the sword stance is a better more reliable option but you're not taking 50 percent of your hp for the trouble of maxing out your attack stat then drain punch is going to be your main attacking option here going to provide you with a line of recovery throughout the raid probably worth pp maxing the drain punch on the iron hands but definitely a decent option and again a little bit like the anilab where you're already probably going to have an iron hands built in your game and it's going to do a decent job against the impoleon the only thing that is a bit of a disadvantage with the iron hands over the other two fighting options that we've already mentioned the fact that it doesn't get sunny days so if we do see the snowscape from the impoleon it isn't going to be able to remove that defense stat boost that it gets straight away you're going to have to wait those five turns until the snowscape dissipates from the field and finally a pokemon that we're going to mention to wrap up today is going to be glade i do think it could potentially be an okay option a bit like the bronzon has access to that skillswap so we'll get into that in a moment level 100 hyper train fighting a tera type on it and the shell bell as it's held item the move said for the glade is going to be skillswap sunny day calm mind and aurora sphere the ability here doesn't really matter too much steadfast is fine because we're going to be ideally swapping our abilities with the impoleon at the start of the road if that is possible of course falls into the same problem that bronzon could have if we see the shield got up on that turn zero where we're unable to get the skillswap initially which is exactly what we're going to want to try and do with this set get the skillswap up as soon as possible give the glade the competitive ability and the steadfast to the impoleon and then get the sunny day up over at any snowscape or any weather that's on the field and then start calm minding to then take advantage of the aurora sphere that's going to play off that special attacking stat on the glade now the ev spread of this glade is going to be 252 in special attack and 252 in its special defense with a modest nature the only thing that i would say about glade is it has a sky high special defense stat so it is going to be able to take a lot of those special attacking moves from the impoleon again like the other fighting types that we've covered today has to be very careful about those flying type attacks that could potentially be there on the impoleon but otherwise glade going to be a very good option i think going into this especially with the calm mind if you can get a few of those setup going to bolster your defenses you're going to be able to fire those aurora spheres off and do some good damage and especially if you've got the competitive boost if we are able to skillswap that then the impoleon trying to lower our stats in particular with like something like icy wind and it's going to give us that competitive boost to our special attack mean that we can potentially get some good damage off onto it very early on in the raid and start making it a bit easier but if it was to say what pokemon i'd probably be more confident than anything going into the raid it would be the regi steel and then the bronzon probably followed by the annihilate but the bronzon i feel is very solid going into this one it's good defensively it's got the tools to be able to shut down that competitive ability on the impoleon exploded on our side of the field and take advantage of being able to then lower its special defense stats boost stars with the calm mind and then hit it for very hard super effective damage with that flash cannon so they are some builds that i would recommend looking at hopefully either you build them in your game or you hold off or they just inspire some ideas for you to take in to this impoleon this weekend i do feel like this one might be a bit tricky because there is the possibility of it being a mixed attacker like we've already mentioned in this video and that competitive ability does definitely scare me with some of the support options that it has access to let me know down the comment section below what you are thinking about bringing when this raid goes live later this week of course we'll be going live when the raid goes up and we'll be doing the best solo builds for this here on the channel so if you are around later this week it'd be great to have you join us while we figure out what the best solo strategies are to take this seven star impoleon down thank you so much for tuning in friends i hope you found today's video useful as always if you have do consider dropping a like on the video it does really help and definitely hit that subscribe button so you stay up to date with all of our pokemon scholar and violet content when it comes out on the channel thank you so much for tuning in take care of yourselves more importantly than anything and i will see you all in another video very soon until then friends take care of yourselves and bye bye