How to beat 5 Star Max Raids
Pokémon Sword and Shield 5 Star Max Raid Battle tips - How to beat 5 Star Max Raid Battles
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I'll release fire here so they'll come a
point when you're taking on max rate
battles here in pokemon sword and shield
where you just won't have many light
beacons flying up into the sky and the
ones that you do find through the crazy
weather are level 5 and level 5 star max
raid battles are just about as tough as
things get in pokemon sword and shield
outside of the end part of the main game
the reason for that is the Pokemon are
super powerful and they have these
shields that they put in place they have
two batches of them and they don't take
very much damage and they do a lot of
damage themselves mostly to the NPCs
that are put in your team and what this
means is that you might struggle to
actually make it through especially if
you're doing it with don't invite others
so I'm going to talk you through a few
tips to help you make it through five
star max raid battles and pick up some
of the epic candies that you get as a
result of this hopefully the video is
going to help you out if it does drop me
a like below but the first thing that
you're gonna need to consider is the
match up types
so prior to level 5 max raid battles you
probably didn't need to worry about it
too much but now it's so much more
important so every time you start a max
raid battle you definitely want to
choose a Pokemon that works best against
that type of Pokemon so you can see the
type in the top left hand corner and for
me it's clearly a Butterfree which is
bug and flying so I know that anything
with fire will take it down really
easily and so you've just got to work
through that kind of concept before you
take any of the Pokemon on in a five
star max raid battle you want to
understand who you're fighting and who's
got a good matchup type against it if
you're not too sure about all of those
there's plenty of information online to
give you a full rundown about which
pokemons are good against which other
types of Pokemon so that should be
relatively easy for you to find and then
once you've chosen the right Pokemon is
about what items you can give them to
boost their impact so for example you
can give them an X attack which would
help them to drop more heavy hits that
would help you to chip away at the five
star max rate
Pokemon's HP give you a better chance of
finishing them off so for example
charcoal for cinder a s-- is definitely
going to help me finish off Butterfree
much much quicker and it's about sort of
continuing that through looking at all
the different things that you can just
tilt the advantage in your favor now
like I said earlier you can take on five
star max raid battles by yourself and
win however that is a method that will
make things much more difficult for you
while other max ray battles level 1 2 3
4 you can probably take them on yourself
and make it through relatively easily
five star max raid battles are much more
difficult now you can see me taking down
Butterfree here but that was because I'd
given him charcoal that like I chosen
the right Pokemon however even here my
my MPC's are the biggest issue so a
number of them fainted so I had like
three faints along the way which is kind
of the reason why you fail so many five
star max raid battles and the reason for
this is because they're they're kind of
non player characters they're generated
by the computer so as a result they can
use things like helping hand which
actually is not very helpful and you end
up not being able to do enough damage to
the 5 star max raid battle Pokemon so as
a result of that you're better option is
to invite other players now I'll talk
you through how to do that in a little
second
however firstly I wanted to talk about
if you've got a problem in terms of your
Pokemon and not at a high enough level
yet to be able to take on max rate
battles at level 5 which kind of
confuses me a little bit because that
would mean that you've done lots and
lots of grinding because you need to
have taken on a lot of max rate battles
before five star even appear which makes
me think you've probably got a number of
candies just waiting to be used
so you need to go on into your items and
use all of your candies aren't any of
the Pokemon in your party to raise their
level and that will mean you can take on
five star max raid battles a little bit
easier so that's levels done I
to make sure you're using them we've
talked about matchup types and then for
me the real reason you're going to win
more five star max rate battles is by
playing with other players now you can
share a 4-digit link code or you can
just go to invite others however if you
do that without connecting to the
internet first you won't actually invite
anybody and the way that you connect to
the Internet is by exiting that and
pressing Y when you're in the wild that
will bring up the why comm and this is
where you can choose like single battle
double battle multi battle all that kind
of stuff but what you want to do is
press the plus button and that will
connect you to the Internet and once
you're connected to the Internet you can
come on into the max rate battle area
choose the Pokemon that you want to
fight with make sure you do that before
you kick it off and then click invite
others and once you've done that it
takes a little bit of time to initiate
you can see you get a little timer in
the top right-hand corner but within
around about 10-15 seconds she should
have had somebody at least coming in I
got death fist here he works out quite
well but once you've got somebody in
what you might also find is that
dependent on the time of day that you're
taking on a max rate battle you might
not get many others so you might want to
just start the battle with two if you if
the clocks winding down you've got like
half way through it and nobody else has
come in then if you want to just jump
into the battle you only need two to do
this so you can click start the battle
and once you've started the battle the
big difference is that instead of just
relying on kind of the computers chosen
moves what you actually get is somebody
else an actual person that knows what to
do against a five-star max rate battle
Pokemon like this big guy Flygon so then
the other thing that it gives you is
that not only will they use the right
kind of move so that's one other player
using the right kind of moves against
the max rate battle and Pokemon you'll
also get somebody that probably isn't
going to faint because they'll use
restores and everything else to be able
to stay in the battle they're also
probably go
to be a higher-level Pokemon so you've
just got way more things acting in your
favor and you can see they've done one
hit and taken it down to the first
shield I haven't done my first test at
this stage which I'm just about to do
here which will take away two of its
shields and suddenly within two of our
hits we're really chipping away at this
guy and that continues throughout the
entire battle as you can see next so it
does another one takes it down to the
next level of it shields and then
suddenly I'm back in to do more damage
and take away shield and once you take
away the last shield you know you're on
the final leg because all of the leg
defense that's for your opponent will go
down so you can see just about to take
it down now and as a result you can see
on the bottom of the screen it'll say
the mysterious barrier is gone and that
defenses fell harshly so you should be
able to finish them off really quickly
but more importantly very few of the
Pokemon on my team have fainted so it's
been a really easy battle even though
it's a five-star Max raise now obviously
if you've got more actual players on
your team if you do wait and you start a
battle at a busier time in the day then
you should be able to get a full squad
of four which will make taking down one
of these five stars really really easy
and then you're into the benefits of
actually catching the Pokemon because
it's going to be high level it's going
to be a rarer Pokemon at five star so
it's definitely worth using things like
an Ultra Ball to help you guarantee
picking up the catch and then you've got
the big hole at the end which is kind of
large candies and extra-large candies
which will help use a level up that much
quicker so I picked up two large candies
and one extra-large candy and a sixty
level Flygon so then once you've taken
on and completed your first five star
max raid battle you can cycle rinse
repeat to take on more and pick up even
more candies helping you level up just
as quickly as you were previously
however once you take on of
you of the five stars you will go back
to three stars but you should still be
able to get some good candies as a
result of that and help you to level up
some of the other Pokemon that are in
your boxes however if you keep on taking
on max rate battles you will eventually
cycle back through to picking up five
star battles and get the big hauls once
again now I spoke a little bit earlier
about using your candies if you've got
any spare however if you've got no
candies and you're struggling to take on
a max rate battle of 5 stars then the
place to get XP could be pokey jobs and
you get to those by that little screen
device next to the pokey Center just to
the left of the center of the screen
you go in there and choose jobs send a
Pokemon out to jobs
it'll take a number of hours it takes
like 24 hours to get a really good haul
of XP however if you're close to going
up a level and you think by going up an
extra level it'll help you to beat a
five-star max raid battle then it's a
good way for you to just kind of get
over the line the other thing I talked
about earlier is things like X attack
and using items now if you're not too
sure what to get X attack from you
essentially come to the guy to the right
of the PokeMart so the guy on the left
hand side will sell you healing items
the guy on the right hand side will sell
you battle items so it's a good way for
you to boost up your X attack if you
need it again just to get yourself over
the line with a big five star ax and
that's it those are my tips to beat 5
star max ray battles and help you to get
back to crunching through the levels a
little bit quicker once again in pokemon
sword and shield hopefully the video
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