Arceus (Any NPCs) - Solo #9 - 7 Star Iron Valiant Raid - Pokemon Violet

Rating: 8/10. Build details and strategy (with timestamps) in description. Arceus @ Toxic Plate Ability: Multitype Tera Type: Poison EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def Bold Nature Acid Spray Agility Cosmic Power Recover Vitamins: 25 HP Up (or Health Mochi), 25 Iron (or Resist Mochi) Feathers: 2 Health Feathers, 2 Resist Feathers Stats at lvl 100 w/ perfect IVs: HP : 444 Defense : 372 Sp.Atk. : 276 Sp.Def. : 276 Speed : 276 NPCs: No requirements. Intimidators (Tauros, Staraptor, Arcanine), Gardevoir (Life Dew), Drifblim (Will-O-Wisp), and Sylveon (Charm, Moonblast), and Bellibolt (Light Screen) help. Strategy: 0:55 T1: Agility (retry if you get flinched) 1:10 T2-T3: 2x Cosmic Power 1:51 T4: Acid Spray 2:09 T5: Recover (can skip or defer if HP is above 50%) 2:27 T6-T7: 2x Acid Spray 3:00 T8: Terastalize, Acid Spray 3:34 T9: Recover (can skip or defer if HP is above 50%) 3:50 T10-T11: Acid Spray until your stats reset 4:31 T12: Agility 4:40 T13: Cosmic Power 5:08 T14: Recover (can skip or defer if HP is above 50%) 5:22 T15: 2x Cosmic Power 5:52 T16: Acid Spray 6:17 T17: Recover (can skip or defer if HP is above 50%) 6:37 T18+: Acid Spray to victory Pros: supereffective tera type matching base type, great special attack and special defense stats, fantastic HP and defense stats, outspeeds after using agility, resists spirit break and aura sphere. typing discourages shadow ball (avoiding special defense debuffs). cosmic power buffs defense 1 stage (countering swords dance) and special defense 1 stage. recover heals by 50% of max HP, acid spray has 100 accuracy and deals supereffective STAB (tera-boosted when terastalized) damage. it debuffs special defense 2 stages. Cons: weak to zen headbutt, outsped before using agility (making it vulnerable to flinches from zen headbutt). toxic plate prevents use of shell bell increasing reliance on recover. acid spray's base power is only 60 post-tera (and only 40 pre-tera).