Pokémon Scarlet & Violet: Best Iron Hands Build for Tera Raids

Abu Bakar Karim
By Abu Bakar Karim
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Pokémon Scarlet & Violet: Best Iron Hands Build for Tera Raids

Here is all you need to know about the best build for Iron Hands for Tera Raids in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet.

Join the new Tera Raids with your Terastal Pokemon. All you have to do is, Terastallized your ferocious but cute, pocket monsters to be in this raid.

Iron Hands is one of the Cyborgs of Pokemon Universe. Hewasfirst introduced in Gen-IX. This cyborg loves to use Quark Drive that gives an immense boost to his overall stats. As you can already guess that this Electric build is quite afraid of Psychic types. However, that cannot stop him from conquering. Let’s see what we have for him.

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Best Iron Hands Build for Tera Raids

Irond Hands best build will be focused on knocking down his foes in one hit. With that in mind, we need to invest the EVs in the HP department. We will set our strategies revolving around Quark Drive.

Now, let’s get into these builds.

Physical Attacking Build

  • Tera Type: Fighting
  • Nature: Adamant (More Special Attack, Less Defense)
  • EV Spread:
    HP = 252
    Attack = 252
    Special Defense= 4
  • Ability
    Quark Drive = If Electric Terrain is active or if it’s holding Booster Energy, and the stat is Attack, Defense, and Special Attack, Iron Hand’s highest stat is boosted by 30%. Moreover, the boosting can be up to 50% if the stat is Speed.
  • Held Item
    Booster Energy = Activates the Protosynthesis or Quark Drive Ability of a Paradox Pokemon which boosts Iron Hand to its highest stat.
  • Moveset
    Belly Drum= Iron Hand sacrifices half of its maximum HP to raise its Attack stat by 6 stages.
    Drain Punch = Iron Hand recovers half the damage inflicted as HP.
    Earthquake = Hits all Pokemon on the field. Damage is doubled on Pokemon using Dig.
    Thunder Punch = Has a 10% chance to paralyze the opponent.

Strategic Build

  • Tera Type: Fighting
  • Nature: Adamant (More Attack, Less Special Attack)
  • EV Spread:
    HP = 76
    Attack = 252
    Special Attack= 172
  • Ability
    Quark Drive = If Electric Terrain is active or if it’s holding Booster Energy, and the stat is Attack, Defense, and Special Attack, Iron Hand’s highest stat is boosted by 30%. Moreover, the boosting can be up to 50% if the stat is Speed.
  • Held Item
    Booster Energy = Activates the Protosynthesis or Quark Drive Ability of a Paradox Pokemon which boosts Iron Hand to its highest stat.
  • Moveset
    Belly Drum= Iron Hand sacrifices half of its maximum HP to raise its Attack stat by 6 stages.
    Drain Punch = Iron Hand recovers half the damage inflicted as HP.
    Close Combat= Lowers Iron Hand’s Defense and Special Defense stats by one stage.
    Thunder Punch = Has a 10% chance to paralyze the opponent.

And this is all I had for the best Tera build for Ting-Lu in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet. Until next time!

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