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Revision as of 14:15, 30 May 2020
A Max Raid Battle (Japanese: マックスレイドバトル Max Raid Battle) is a Pokémon battle in which four Trainers battle against a wild Dynamax/Gigantamax Pokémon, which remains Dynamaxed or Gigantamaxed for the whole battle.
In the games
The player can start a Max Raid Battle by interacting with an active Pokémon Den, indicated by a beam of light shooting up from it. If a den is inactive, the player can throw a Wishing Piece into it to summon a Dynamax Pokémon.
When starting a Max Raid Battle, players can see a silhouette of the Dynamax Pokémon, its types, and a star rating of its difficulty. The current weather is also displayed. The loss condition, "The battle ends when Pokémon faint four times or the battle lasts for 10 turns", is displayed in the lower left corner. Additionally, the player can see the other three Trainers participating and the Pokémon they have selected to enter. Players have a time limit to select their Pokémon before the Max Raid Battle automatically starts with the Pokémon they have selected by default.
Four Trainers are required to conduct a Max Raid Battle. The player can connect with other players to challenge a Max Raid Battle by using the Y-Comm over the internet or local wireless. If there are less than four players, then the game will randomly select NPC Trainers to fill in the remaining slots.
Battle
Each Trainer uses a single Pokémon (from either their party or Box) against the Dynamax Pokémon. If a Trainer's Pokémon faints, they can cheer on the remaining Trainers as they attempt to complete the Max Raid Battle, which has the potential to generate positive effects such as healing or setting up Reflect; the fainted Pokémon will automatically be revived at full health the following turn. If the challengers' Pokémon faint a total of 4 times (even if it is the same Pokémon) or if the 10-turn limit is reached, the Max Raid Battle is lost. If both the Dynamax Pokémon and the 4th challenger Pokémon are knocked out in the same move (such as through the recoil effects of moves such as Brave Bird), the battle is counted as a loss for the challengers. If the Dynamax Pokémon is successfully defeated, all four Trainers can attempt to catch the Dynamax Pokémon and receive several various rewards based on the Dynamax Pokémon that was encountered. A Max Raid Battle can be repeatedly attempted until either the player wins (regardless of capture success) or when the dens reset.
Only one Trainer can Dynamax their Pokémon during a Max Raid Battle; unlike the wild Dynamax Pokémon, this transformation only lasts for the normal three turns. Each turn, one Trainer receives Dynamax Energy; only that player can Dynamax that turn, and if they do not, this energy is passed to another player next turn. The player who hosts the Max Raid Battle will always be the first to have the option to Dynamax.
Depending on the star level, the Dynamax Pokémon may be able to use regular moves in addition to Max Moves. It can also attack up to three times per turn and create a shockwave, which cancels the effect of the players' Abilities and stat changes and cures it of Non-volatile status conditions.
In three-star Max Raids and higher, the wild Dynamax Pokémon have specific HP thresholds in which they will create a protective barrier with two to eight segments, depending on its defensive power. In three- and four-star Max Raids, the Dynamax Pokémon will create a barrier one time; in five-star Max Raids, it will create a barrier twice, sometimes with the first barrier at the start of the battle. While this barrier is active, damage-dealing moves used against the Dynamax Pokémon are severely weakened and are unable to apply secondary effects, and status moves used against the Dynamax Pokémon will fail. Damage-dealing moves will deplete one bar of the barrier's strength, except Max Moves and one-hit knockout moves which instead deplete two bars. When the barrier runs out of bars, the barrier is destroyed, the Dynamax Pokémon's Defense and Special Defense will drop by two stages, and it takes a portion of the damage it would have received while its barriers were active.
Some moves work differently when raid bosses use them, such as Belch, which will work regardless of berries, and Dig will have it attack immediately.
The following moves will fail if used in a Max Raid Battle:
Capture
Upon defeating the Dynamax Pokémon, each player has a single chance to capture it. As a rule, the host's capture chance is higher than that of the guests. Should the capture fail, the Pokémon will disappear. Regardless of the attempt's success (or if the player declined to catch it), all players will be awarded Exp. Candies, TRs, and other items based on the Pokémon that was fought.
The caught Pokémon's moves and Ability will be the same as it was during the Max Raid Battle; some Dynamax Pokémon encountered in Max Raid Battles will have their Hidden Ability. If it was a Gigantamax Pokémon, the caught Pokémon will have the Gigantamax Factor. Pokémon caught in Max Raid Battles will also have a number of stats with the maximum 31 IVs and have increased their Dynamax Levels, increasingly with the Max Raid's difficulty.
The catch rate for a Dynamax Pokémon depends on several factors, such as whether the player is hosting the raid and whether the raid is from a Wild Area News event. They are all calculated with the Pokémon at 1 HP and no status conditions. If the Pokémon escapes, the host player may restart the game before it autosaves and reattempt the Max Raid.
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Trainers
If less than four players initiate a Max Raid Battle, a random selection of these NPC Trainers will populate the vacant positions. The level of their Pokémon is ×0.7 that of the host player's Pokémon (rounded down), therefore at a maximum Lv. 70 if the host player's Pokémon is Lv. 100.
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Special Max Raid Battles
In the climax of Pokémon Sword and Shield, as well as several times in the post-game story involving Sordward and Shielbert, the player will participate in Max Raid Battles required to progress the story. In these battles, the player will have access to their full party. Initially, the player will be paired with special NPC partners, but eventually, the player will be challenged to fight their opponents by themselves.
These plot-mandatory Max Raid Battles experience some differences compared to the Max Raid Battles available in the Wild Area. The battles are not limited to a 10-turn time limit, nor will they be forcibly ended after Pokémon have fainted 4 times. The player is also not limited to a single Pokémon, and may use their full party in the manner of a normal battle; fainted Pokémon will not automatically be revived, and the Cheer option is unavailable.
Tower summit
In this semi-scripted Max Raid Battle, the player and Hop will try to fight Eternatus in its Eternamax form, but will be unable to do anything against it until they summon Zacian and Zamazenta with the Rusted Sword and Shield they found in the Slumbering Weald. The player cannot Dynamax their Pokémon in this fight. After the battle, the player will catch Eternatus in a Poké Ball of their choice, with a 100% guaranteed success rate.
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Sordward and Shielbert
While the player and Hop pursue Sordward and Shielbert, they force these Pokémon to Dynamax by in each Stadium in Galar. The player is tasked with defeating these Pokémon, which belong to Gym Trainers, to take them out of their frenzied state and restore safety to the area. Because these Pokémon belong to Trainers, the player does not have the opportunity to catch them.
The first Stadium attacked is Turffield's, then both Hulbury and Motostoke Stadiums. The player cooperates with Hop, Piers, and each Stadium's Gym Leader to resolve the crisis. After the player defeats all three and confronts the brothers in Wedgehurst, they'll cause more disruptions in the Stadiums in Stow-on-Side, Ballonlea, Circhester, and Hammerlocke. This time, multiple Dynamaxed Pokémon will attack each stadium, and the player and their friends will need split up to deal with one of them each, with the exception of Ballonlea Stadium, where they discover that Bede took care of them all by himself.
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Wild Area News
- Main article: Wild Area News
Wild Area News, accessed through the Mystery Gift menu in Sword and Shield, changes the available spawns in Max Raid Battles to make certain Pokémon more common for a limited time, including and especially Gigantamax Pokémon, which vary between the two game versions. These events are currently the only way to obtain Gigantamax Snorlax and Gigantamax Toxtricity.
Any den can spawn a Max Raid Battle from Wild Area News, and dens that do so will always beam a red light, indicating the "common" pool.
The following is a list of Wild Area News events in reverse chronological order.
Start date | End date | Focus Pokémon | Notes | Source | ||
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May 26, 2020 | June 1, 2020 | Gigantamax Meowth cannot normally be obtained after the event distribution for early adopters of Sword and Shield expired. In addition, this marks the first time Gigantamax Meowth can be obtained legitimately as a Shiny Pokemon, or with its Hidden Ability Unnerve. |
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May 19, 2020 | May 25, 2020 | Gigantamax Eevee cannot normally be obtained, except as a gift if Pokémon: Let's Go, Eevee! save data is detected on the same console. In addition, this marks the first time Gigantamax Eevee can be obtained legitimately as a Shiny Pokemon, or with its Hidden Ability Anticipation. |
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May 12, 2020 | May 18, 2020 | Gigantamax Pikachu cannot normally be obtained, except as a gift if Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! save data is detected on the same console. In addition, this marks the first time Gigantamax Pikachu can be obtained legitimately as a Shiny Pokemon, or with its Hidden Ability Lightning Rod, or with Pikachu's signature move, Volt Tackle. |
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April 28, 2020 | May 11, 2020 | For a few hours after the event launched on April 28th, 1★ Drilbur raids based from Shield included the move Hydro Pump, which Drilbur cannot normally learn. This was an error that was fixed later in the day. Players who caught Drilbur from these raids will not be able to trade them or battle with them online without deleting Hydro Pump. | [4] | |||
April 10, 2020 | April 15, 2020 | These Pokémon always dropped Boiled Eggs upon defeat, had a chance of droping items useful during breeding, such as Destiny Knots and Everstones, and had a rare chance of dropping Lucky Eggs. | [5] | |||
March 25, 2020 | April 27, 2020 | Encounters in 5★ raids are version exclusive: Gigantamax Copperajah and Gigantamax Duraludon for Sword-based raids, and Gigantamax Garbodor and Gigantamax Charizard for Shield-based raids. Gigantamax Charizard encountered in 5★ raids cannot be Shiny. |
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March 18, 2020 | March 25, 2020 | Pokémon defeated during this Wild Area News event yield more Candy than normal. Pokémon found in 3★ raids or higher will always have their Hidden Ability. Raids in both games can potentially yield any Galarian Fossil, Bach's Food Tin or Bob's Food Tin, or Tart Apple or Sweet Apple as rewards. Items typically more common or exclusive to Sword are more common in Shield-based raids, and vice versa. |
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March 8, 2020 | Gigantamax Snorlax cannot normally be obtained. Gigantamax Machamp and Gigantamax Gengar appear in 3★ and 4★ raids in both games, but remain version-exclusive (to Sword and Shield, respectively) in 5★ raids. (Pokémon encountered in Max Raid Battles are based on the host's game.) |
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February 27, 2020 | March 1, 2020 | Mewtwo cannot be caught, has variable movesets, and is Level 100, but defeating it nets great rewards. Kanto starter Pokémon all drop Friendship-raising Berries. Bulbasaur family has a chance of dropping Toxic Orb, Charmander family has a chance of dropping Flame Orb, and Squirtle family has a chance of dropping Life Orb. |
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February 6, 2020 | March 8, 2020 | ↔ |
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The base form of Gigantamax Toxtricity, and therefore possible nature, varies between games (Pokémon encountered in Max Raid Battles are based on the host's game). Gigantamax Toxtricity cannot normally be obtained. |
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January 30, 2020 | February 16, 2020 | Milcery have the Gigantamax Factor, which it cannot normally be obtained with. Can drop any Sweet, including the Ribbon and Star Sweet (which cannot normally be obtained). |
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January 9, 2020 | February 6, 2020 | [12] | ||||
January 30, 2020 | ↕ |
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The possible base forms for Gigantamax Alcremie vary between the games and the star rating of the encounter. (Pokémon encountered in Max Raid Battles are based on the host's game.) | ||
December 31, 2019 | January 4, 2020 | Increased chance to be Shiny A limited-time serial code, 0T0SH1DAMA, for 10 Dive Balls was also given. |
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December 20, 2019 | December 26, 2019 | Increased rates on Ice-type TRs and Exp. Candy A limited-time serial code, PRESENT, for 10 Luxury Balls was also given. |
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December 11, 2019 | January 9, 2020 | [15] | ||||
December 4, 2019 | January 25, 2020 | Gigantamax Snorlax cannot normally be obtained. | [16] | |||
November 15, 2019 | December 4, 2019 | [17] |
In the manga
In the Pokémon Adventures manga
In the Sword & Shield arc, Sōdo and Shirudomiria forced a pair of Team Yell Grunts into a Max Raid Battle with them against a Dynamax Gurdurr. After defeating it, Sōdo was able to catch it, adding it to his party and nicknaming it Tekkotsun.
In other languages
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See also
Pokémon battle variations | |
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Double Battle • Multi Battle • Triple Battle • Rotation Battle • Horde Encounter • SOS Battle • Support Play • Max Raid Battle • Full Battle Contest Battle • Launcher Battle • Sky Battle • Inverse Battle • Battle Royal • Dynamax Adventure • Auto Battle • Tera Raid Battle • Scripted battle Battle modes |
This game mechanic article is part of Project Games, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on the Pokémon games. |