Greninja is Pokémon Scarlet & Violet’s new mystery raid boss

Popular Gen 6 Pokémon enters Tera Raids

Marco Wutz | Jan 16, 2023

Greninja is Pokémon Scarlet & Violet’s new mystery raid boss /

A recent wave of news regarding Pokémon Scarlet & Violet, which included the announcement of update 1.2 for the Nintendo Switch games to arrive late in February 2023, contained the info that a mystery Pokémon with the Poison-Tera-type would come to the 7-Star Tera Raids soon.

This mysterious raid boss has now been revealed as none other than Greninja, the popular final evolution of Gen 6’s Water-type starter Froakie. Greninja will be available in 7-Star Tera Raids on two occasions:

January 27 to 29, 2023
February 10 to 12, 2023

Bronzong and Lucario will accompany Greninja in 4- and 5-Star Tera Raids during these two time slots. To bridge the gap between now and then, Pokémon Scarlet will feature Drifblim and Pokémon Violet will feature Mismagius in 4- and 5-Star Tera Raids from January 20 to 22, 2023.

A special Valentine’s Day raid event has also been announced earlier. Featuring Tandemaus with the Fairy-Tera-type, it’ll run from February 13 to 15, 2023.

Pokémon Scarlet & Violet’s latest 7-Star Tera Raids starred Cinderace in the main role, which sported the Fighting-Tera-type. Gengar and Gyarados accompanied the creature in lower-level raids.

Published Jan 16, 2023

MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg