{"id":3179,"date":"2025-11-03T10:55:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T11:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/?p=3179"},"modified":"2025-11-05T15:10:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T15:10:29","slug":"face-pokemon-scarlet-and-violets-mighty-poison-dragon-before-its-too-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/03\/face-pokemon-scarlet-and-violets-mighty-poison-dragon-before-its-too-late\/","title":{"rendered":"Face Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet and Violet’s mighty poison dragon, before it’s too late"},"content":{"rendered":"

While we\u2019re all exploring Lumiose in Pok\u00e9mon ZA, there are still events happening in the Paldea region that you should consider returning for. It\u2019s time to take on the mighty Hydreigon in seven-star tera raids and add another formidable Pok\u00e9mon to your future team.<\/p>\n

As much as I love the new Pok\u00e9mon game, Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet and Violet are still the most important titles when it comes to competitive play, and what more could a trainer ask for than a chance to catch an overpowered dragon Pok\u00e9mon for their team? You can challenge Hydreigon with the Mightiest Mark in seven-star tera raids, but beware, its tera type is poison. That means my usual strategy of throwing my most powerful fairy Pok\u00e9mon at it is probably a bad idea.<\/p>\n

The main poison Pok\u00e9mon weaknesses are ground and psychic, so consider choosing an attacker with these move types that can also survive dragon and dark-type attacks, as Hydreigon will likely know these. Luckily, if you\u2019re struggling to build the perfect counter, you can take on Blissey in five-star raids during the event\u2019s second weekend to farm tera shards and exp candies.<\/p>\n

Read the full story on Pocket Tactics: Face Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet and Violet’s mighty poison dragon, before it’s too late<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While we\u2019re all exploring Lumiose in Pok\u00e9mon ZA, there are still events happening in the Paldea region that you should consider returning for. It\u2019s time to take on the mighty Hydreigon in seven-star tera raids and add another formidable Pok\u00e9mon to your future team. As much as I love the new Pok\u00e9mon game, Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3180,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179\/revisions\/3180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}