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The "Gengar" IconGengar Tera Raid is one of two supporting raids for the Cinderance Tera Raid event. It comes in 4 and 5-Star flavors and in various sinister Tera Types and moves. The Gengar Tera Raid is available from from midnight on the 30th of December to the end of 1st of January 2023, and then again from midnight on the 13th of January to the end of 15th of January 2023. Let’s get into the Gengar Tera Raid movesets, stats and drops.

Meowscarda beating down a !Psychic Tera Type Gengar Tera Raid with the move Nasty Plot.

Gengar Tera Raid Event

Gengar is a well known Ghost Ghost-type powerhouse that can utilize Dark Dark, Psychic Psychic, Ghost Ghost, Poison Poison and Electric Electric movesets, making it an extremely viable choice for competitive play. Seeing as 4-Star and 5-Star raids come with the respective number of perfect Individual Values, it’s not going to take a lot to get a Gengar Tera Raid Pokémon up to speed for online and competitive battling.

When using its standard typing, Gengar is strong against the following types:

Type - -
BugBug FairyFairy FightingFighting
GrassGrass NormalNormal PoisonPoison

And weak against:

Type -
DarkDark GhostGhost
GroundGround PsychicPsychic

The kicker with the Gengar Tera Raid event is that its Tera-Typing is random, so the Gengar gets to keep it’s type-advantages whilst hiding behind a new Tera-Type. Unless it’s Ghost Ghost that is, in that case the above applies. The best strategy here is having a good spread of Pokémon prepared to deal with all Tera Typings, which sounds ridiculous, but it’s just the standard Pokémon team strategy.

The Gengar Tera Raid event will be throwing Ghost Ghost, Psychic Psychic, Poison Poison and Dark Dark attacks at opponents, so having a solid Ground Ground Type Pokémon such a "Tyranitar" IconTyranitar that can learn other move-types is going to be a safe bet. The Tyranitar Tera Raid event should give trainers a solid head start here, but failing that it can be found only in Pokémon Scarlet but not in the wild.

Players will have to grab the pre-evolution of Tyranitar, "Pupitar" IconPupitar, inside Alfornada Cave in South Province (Area Six). It’s base evolution, "Larvitar" IconLarvitar, can also be found in the following locations:

Gengar Tera Raid - Moveset

Here’s the full moveset Gengar will be utilizing in Gengar Tera Raid battles:

4-Star Gengar Tera Raid

Moves Description
"Dark Pulse" iconDark Pulse Dark Dark - Sp. Atk move that may make a target flinch
Clear Smog Poison Poison - Sp. Atk move that removes all stat changes
Lick Ghost Ghost - Inflicts a small amount of physical damage and may cause paralysis
"Shadow Claw" iconShadow Claw Ghost Ghost - A physical attack that has a high chance of landing a critical hit
"Sludge Bomb" iconSludge Bomb Poison Poison - Sp. Atk move that deals high damage and has a chance to poison opponents

5-Star Gengar Tera Raid

Moves Description
Clear Smog Poison Poison - Sp. Atk move that removes all stat changes
"Confuse Ray" iconConfuse Ray Psychic Psychic - Status attack that confuses the target
Lick Ghost Ghost - Inflicts a small amount of physical damage and may cause paralysis
Nightshade Dark Dark - Inflicts Sp. Atk damage equal to the users level
"Shadow Ball" iconShadow Ball Ghost Ghost - Deal 80 Sp. Atk damage and has a chance to knock Sp. Def down by one stage
"Sludge Bomb" iconSludge Bomb Poison Poison - Sp. Atk move that deals high damage and has a chance to poison opponents

Gengar getting knocked down a peg in its Tera Raid Battle

Gengar Tera Raid - Stats

Here are the stats for Gengar the Unrivaled taken from in-game Tera Raid conditions and the Gengar stat screens after capturing:

4-Star Gengar Tera Raid

Stat Description
Mark None
Shiny Chance Yes, Standard Chance
Catch Rate Can be caught multiple times
Level 45
Type Ghost Ghost
Tera Type Random
Caught Moves Clear Smog, "Dark Pulse" iconDark Pulse, "Shadow Claw" iconShadow Claw and "Sludge Bomb" iconSludge Bomb
Ability Standard Ability
Nature Random

5-Star Gengar Tera Raid

Stat Description
Mark None
Shiny Chance Yes, Standard Chance
Catch Rate Can be caught multiple times
Level 75
Type Ghost Ghost
Tera Type Random
Caught Moves Clear Smog, "Night Shade" iconNight Shade, "Shadow Ball" iconShadow Ball and "Sludge Bomb" iconSludge Bomb
Ability Standard Ability
Nature Random

We caught one!

Gengar Tera Raid - Item Drops and Drop Rates

The Gengar Tera Raid will have plenty of awesome items to farm. Here’s what Gengar the Unrivaled is giving out to trainers:

4-Star Gengar Tera Raid

Guaranteed Drops Amount
"Exp. Candy M" iconExp. Candy M 2
"Exp. Candy L" iconExp. Candy L 1
"Gastly Gas" iconGastly Gas 4
Tera Shard 1
Tera Shard 2 (For Host)
Bonus Drops Amount / Chance
"Exp. Candy M" iconExp. Candy M 1 15% Chance
"Exp. Candy M" iconExp. Candy M 1 14% Chance
"Exp. Candy L" iconExp. Candy L 2 5% Chance
"Resist Feather" iconResist Feather 1 10% Chance
"Sitrus Berry" iconSitrus Berry 1 7% Chance
"Lum Berry" iconLum Berry 1 7% Chance
"Tamato Berry" iconTamato Berry 3 8% Chance
"Big Mushroom" iconBig Mushroom 1 15% Chance
"Nugget" iconNugget 1 5% Chance
Tera Shard 1 3% Chance
"Gastly Gas" iconGastly Gas 2 9% Chance

5-Star Gengar Tera Raid

Guaranteed Drops Amount
"Exp. Candy L" iconExp. Candy L 1
"Exp. Candy XL" iconExp. Candy XL 1
"Gastly Gas" iconGastly Gas 5
"Gastly Gas" iconGastly Gas 2 (For Guest)
"Resist Feather" iconResist Feather 3
Tera Shard 2
Tera Shard 2 (For Host)
Bonus Drops Amount / Chance
"Exp. Candy L" iconExp. Candy L 1 23% Chance
"Exp. Candy L" iconExp. Candy L 2 18% Chance
"Rare Candy" iconRare Candy 1 4% Chance
"Resist Feather" iconResist Feather 2 10%
"Tamato Berry" iconTamato Berry 3 8% Chance
"Big Mushroom" iconBig Mushroom 1 15% Chance
"Balm Mushroom" iconBalm Mushroom 1 2% Chance
"Nugget" iconNugget 1 5% Chance
"Relaxed Mint" iconRelaxed Mint 1 2% Chance
"PP Up" iconPP Up 1 3% Chance
"Bottle Cap" iconBottle Cap 1 2% Chance
Tera Shard 1 4% Chance
"Gastly Gas" iconGastly Gas 5% Chance
"Ability Capsule" iconAbility Capsule 1 2% Chance

(1 of 2) 1 of 2 : Drops from a 5-Star Gengar Tera Raid Event

1 of 2 : Drops from a 5-Star Gengar Tera Raid Event (left), 2 of 2: Drops from a 5-Star Gengar Tera Raid Event (right)

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    Nintendo, Pokemon Company International
  • Platforms,
    Switch
  • Genre
    RPG
  • Guide Release
    17 November 2022
  • Last Updated
    3 January 2024
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