Pokémon Scarlet & Violet Guide

🎮 Getting Started

• Starter choice: Sprigatito (grass), Fuecoco (fire), Quaxly (water)
• Best starter: Quaxly is strongest for main story (Fuecoco is popular but Quaxly has better type coverage)
• Explore freely: You can go anywhere from the start
• Level scaling: No level scaling — be careful where you go

📖 Three Story Paths

• Victory Road: 8 gyms, Elite Four, Champion — classic
• Starfall Street: Defeat Team Star bosses
• Path of Legends: Hunt Titan Pokémon with Arven

Do all three simultaneously for best experience and level progression.

⚔️ Battle Tips

• Type matchups: Learn the chart — super effective = 2x damage
• Tera Types: Pokémon can change type in battle
• Tera Raids: Co-op battles for rare Pokémon and items
• EV training: Post-game, optimize your Pokémon
• Breeding: Breed for perfect IVs and egg moves

📖 The Three Paths

• Victory Road: eight gyms, any order you like - levels scale loosely, so do the ones near your start first
• Path of Legends: five Titans; each kill unlocks a ride upgrade (dash, climb, glide, swim, high jump)
• Starfall Street: five Team Star bases, each a wave fight against a squad, then a boss
• Clear the Titans early - the movement upgrades make everything else faster

⚔️ Battle Mechanics

• Terastallising changes your type mid-battle; a defensive Tera on a wall stops a sweep
• Mints and Hyper Training fix bad natures and IVs, so don't restart for stats
• Good early picks: Tinkaton, Annihilape, and Gholdengo for the late game
• Raids give Herba Mystica, which is the only reliable source of shiny-hunting sandwich power

🎒 Open-World Habits

• Auto-battle with Let's Go for EV training - it is faster than manual fights and doesn't drain PP
• Fast travel unlocks per Pokémon Center; tag every one you pass, you will want the warp later
• Check Tera raids on the map before exploring; a five-star raid is worth a detour