Pokémon Butterfly and Scarlet Snow Tera Raid Guide 7-star Inteleon Event Instructions

Inteleon takes the spotlight in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet’s new 7-star Tera Raid, challenging players with its cunning moves and icy precision. To claim victory, trainers must decode its battle strategy, counter its strengths, and build the perfect team to weather its chilling assault.

Inteleon with the Ice Tera Type and Mightiest Mark will only appear in raids from April 28 at 8 p.m. EDT until April 30 at 7:59 p.m EDT and May 5 at 8 p.m. EDT until May 7 at 7:59 p.m EDT.

Inteleon Tera Raid rewards

Inteleon’s 7-star Tera Raid offers valuable rewards for successful trainers. Defeating it grants Exp. Candies, Tera Shards matching its Ice type, and TM materials related to Water-type moves. Players can also earn rare items such as Bottle Caps, Ability Patches, or Mint varieties, which are useful for improving Pokémon stats and abilities. As with other high-level raids, rewards may vary slightly, giving incentive to challenge the event multiple times.

Upon defeating Inteleon, you’ll be able to catch one, but only one. After you capture your first one, you will not be able to catch any more, even if you defeat it again in another raid. You’ll also get TM143 (Blizzard) and a guaranteed Ability Patch for your first victory.

The caught Intelon has its Hidden Ability, Sniper: “If the Pokémon attack lands a critical hit, the attack is powered up even further.” It also comes with the Mightiest Mark, just like the Pokémon from earlier seven-star raids. It also has complete perfect IVs.

Similarly to other Tera Raids, you can get other drops, like Exp. Candy, Tera Shards, Bottle Caps, and treasure items to sell for money. A full list of the drops is available on Serebii, listing both the base item drops and random drops. Inteleon raids do not drop Herba Mystica.

Inteleon Tera Raid best counters

Azumarill, Annihilape, and Iron Hands stand out as reliable picks thanks to their strong Fighting coverage and bulk against Inteleon’s Ice Tera Type and Water STAB. Azumarill can shrug off Blizzard and Snipe Shot while boosting with Belly Drum before striking back with Play Rough or Superpower, especially when supported by Light Screen or heals. Annihilape uses Bulk Up and Rage Fist or Drain Punch to snowball through the raid, punishing Tearful Look drops and benefiting from support that patches its Special Defense. Iron Hands brings massive Attack with Drain Punch, Thunder Punch, and Belly Drum sets, thriving in coordinated teams that provide screens or healing to keep it on the field long enough to break the shield.

Inteleon is rated at level 100 with the Ice Tera Type. It knows Blizzard, Snipe Shot, Dark Pulse, and Tearful Look, as well as Mist and Snowscape. Inteleon will start the battle with Mist before using Snowscape. Mist will protect Inteleon from stat decreases, while Snowscape gives Inteleon, as an Ice Tera Type, higher defense.

Remember that your Pokémon should be level 100 when bringing them into seven-star raids. You may be able to get away without perfectly EV or IV training them, but it’s recommended for easier knockouts.

There are several builds that allow you to take down Inteleon easily, but below we’ve listed the ones we prefer.

Inteleon Annihilape solo Tera Raid build

• Nature: Adamant
• Ability: Inner Focus/Defiant
• Tera Type: Fighting or Ghost
• EVs: 252 HP/252 Attack/4 HP
• IVs: Maxed HP, Attack, Defense
• Held item: Shell Bell
• Moveset: Screech, Rage Fist, Drain Punch

If you’ve followed any of our other seven-star Tera Raid guides, you’ve likely got an Annihilape who can handle Inteleon. Drain Punch is a good opener for dealing damage and also restoring any HP lost. Rage Fist, which becomes more powerful the more times your Annihilape gets hit is nice to have, too. It’s OK if Annihilape faints during battle, because Rage Fist keeps stacking despite that.

As Reddit user Fun-Incident-8238 explains, Shadow Punch is useful if Inteleon spams the Double Team move, which ups its evasiveness. (Shadow Punch ignores that.) If Inteleon uses Chilling Water, which lowers Attack stats, Defiant is helpful to mitigate that.

Screech won’t be useful until after the mist wears off, but it can decrease defense stats once it does.

Inteleon Samurott Tera Raid build

• Nature: Adamant
• Ability: Shell Armor
• Tera Type: Steel
• EVs: 252 HP/252 Attack/4 Defense
• Held item: Scope Lens
• Moveset: Focus Power, Swords Dance, Smart Strike, Soak/Sacred Sword

If you completed the Samurott Tera Raid Battle and got one of your own, it’s a good choice for the Inteleon battle. But if you missed out, you can try to find Oshawatt via trades and evolve up a Samurott from there.

This build comes from PKMN Cast on YouTube, intended to prevent critical hits with Shell Armor. It’ll work in a damage role to deal critical hits to Inteleon. Focus energy is there to boost critical hits, paired with Scope Lens to increase the ratio again. Use Smart Strike or Sacred Sword to do a ton of damage.

Soak is helpful if you’re coming into the raid with strangers who don’t know what they’re doing – you can give them ice and water resistance.

Inteleon Blissy Tera Raid build

• Nature: Calm
• Ability: Healer
• Tera Type: Normal
• EVs: 160 HP/60 Defense/188 Special Attack/100 Special Defense
• Held item: Heat Rock
• Moveset: Flamethrower, Sunny Day, Skill Swap, Life Dew

This build is, again, from PKMN Cast, and works in tandem with Samurott. Blissey will use Sunny Day to mitigate the effect of snow and lowering defense – the Heat Rock extends the impact of the harsh sunlight beyond that move. You’ll lose Life Dew to heal your allies. Healing by cheer has priority, PKMN Cast explained, if players are extremely low – but the general idea is to keep allies healed before they get to that point.

Best team builds for solo 7-star Inteleon raid

Here are three consistent, easy solo builds that clear 7★ Ice Tera Inteleon reliably, plus how to pilot each one.

Key things to exploit

• Inteleon is Water with an Ice Tera Type, using special moves (Blizzard, Snipe Shot, Dark Pulse, Tearful Look), and it opens with Mist + Snowscape.

• You want: high bulk, recovery, setup, and Fighting/Steel/Fire damage that is not ruined by Tearful Look (or can boost past it).

• Sunny Day is extremely valuable because it deletes Snowscape, weakens Water, and makes Blizzard unreliable.

1. Annihilape Sunny Day drain-set (very safe)

Annihilape @ Shell Bell
Ability: Defiant
Tera Type: Fighting
Nature: Adamant or Careful
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 SpD

Moves:

• Drain Punch

• Rage Fist or Shadow Punch (flex)

• Sunny Day

• Bulk Up / Screech

Gameplan (solo):

1. Turn 1: Use Sunny Day to overwrite Snowscape and weaken Snipe Shot.

2. Use Bulk Up a few times (or Screech once Mist has worn off) while keeping HP healthy with Drain Punch.

3. Once your Tera Orb is ready and you’re safely above half HP, Terastalize into Fighting and spam Drain Punch until Inteleon goes down.

Why it works: Tearful Look actually triggers Defiant, giving you +2 Attack for each drop, and Shell Bell + Drain Punch make you extremely hard to KO while you chip down the shield.

2. Gholdengo Nasty Plot special build (shield-melter)

Gholdengo @ Shell Bell / Leftovers
Ability: Good as Gold
Tera Type: Steel
Nature: Modest
EVs: 252 HP / 252 SpA / 4 SpD

Moves:

• Nasty Plot

• Make It Rain

• Sunny Day / Metal Sound

• Recover / Thunder Wave

Gameplan:​

1. Early turns: Use Sunny Day (if you have it) to remove Snowscape, then start stacking Nasty Plot to +3 or +4 while healing with Recover if needed.​

2. When shield appears and your Tera Orb is full, Terastalize into Steel.

3. Spam Make It Rain; the combination of Steel Tera, high SpA boosts, and Shell Bell sustain lets you chew through shield and HP quickly.​

Why it works: Good as Gold blocks Tearful Look so your Sp. Atk never gets cut, and Steel Tera hits Ice super effectively while you resist Blizzard.

3. Iron Hands bulky Drain Punch set (simple and strong)

Iron Hands @ Shell Bell
Ability: Quark Drive
Tera Type: Fighting
Nature: Adamant
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 SpD

Moves:

• Drain Punch

• Thunder Punch / Wild Charge

• Swords Dance / Belly Drum (use only if you’re comfortable)

• Sunny Day / Close Combat

Gameplan:​

1. If you bring Sunny Day, open with it to cancel Snowscape and weaken Snipe Shot.

2. Use Swords Dance once or twice (or a cautious Belly Drum in the right window), then s

Detailed Annihilape EV build and moveset for Inteleon solo

Annihilape is one of the top solo counters for 7★ Ice Tera Inteleon due to its Defiant ability turning Tearful Look into Attack boosts, plus reliable healing and super-effective Fighting damage.

Optimal EV Spread and Stats

Aim for max level 100 with these exact EVs for bulk against special Ice/Water hits while maximizing Attack.​

• EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 Sp. Def (or 250 Atk / 250 Sp. Def / 6 HP via items for precision).​

• Nature: Adamant (+Atk, -Sp. Atk).

• Ability: Defiant (mandatory to counter Tearful Look debuffs).

• Held Item: Shell Bell (procs on every Drain Punch for extra sustain).

• Tera Type: Fighting (boosts Drain Punch post-shield) or Ghost (if using Rage Fist).​

To train: Use 25 Proteins (Atk), 25 Zincs (Sp. Def), then 2 Muscle Feathers (Atk) + 2 Clever Feathers (Sp. Def), dumping remainder into HP via feathers or wild battles vs. Chansey. IVs should max HP/Atk/Def/SpD/Spe; Sp. Atk can be imperfect since it’s unused.​

Moveset

Step-by-Step Solo Strategy

1. Turn 1: Inteleon uses Mist + Snowscape. You use Sunny Day to end snow (Blizzard now misses often; Snipe Shot weakened 50%).​

2. Turns 2-4: Drain Punch to recover HP from any chip (Shell Bell adds more heal). You’re at full HP easily; weave in Bulk Up x1-2 if safe.​​

3. Shield phase: Continue Drain Punch or Rage Fist. Tearful Look gives you +2 Atk via Defiant-lean into it.​​

4. Tera: At full Tera meter (usually by now) and >50% HP, Terastallize Fighting. Spam Drain Punch-it melts the Ice shield and HP bar.

5. Endgame: Inteleon can’t KO you between heals; you’ll clear with 3+ minutes left.​​

Pro tips: Never faint (wastes timer). If double Blizzard hits post-Tera, you’re safe at these EVs. Rage Fist grows to ~200 power after a few KOs on adds. This clears 100% solo with practice.​