Pokemon Scarlet & Violet - Raid Guide - Iron Valiant

Iron Valiant is one of the new Paradox Pokemon introduced in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet. For Raids, it's a really good bulky attacker, with access to good moves that gives it great STAB compatibility and good coverage with weakness resistances. With its only ability "Quark Drive", giving it the Booster Energy held item, and building it with its Attack maxed out, it'll be able to boost its already good Attack stat by 30% right at the beginning of the Raid, allowing it to be able to easily help sweep 4 Star Raids and lower with OHKO. With 5 Star Raids, a good Swords Dance turn one, Attack Cheer second turn, and by turn 3 you're able to OHKO (provided the other teammates don't do too much damage to activate the Raid Pokemon's Shield). With 6 Star and higher, the best way to solo those raids is to max out your Attack with Swords Dance, and hit the Raid Pokemon with whatever is their weakness.