Sitting inside 7-star Tera Raid Battles at this moment is a level 100 Annihilape sporting a Ghost Tera Type and the Defiant Ability. The window to take it down closes on August 20.
Launched on August 14, 2026, the event wraps at 23:59 UTC on the 20th. It bundles a Tera Raid Battle with a Mass Outbreak, and the whole thing revolves around Annihilape along with the pair of Pokémon in its evolution line.
There is one restriction worth noting: repeat attempts at the raid are unlimited, yet each save file only allows a single capture of the Ghost Tera Type Annihilape. Plan accordingly.
What you actually get for winning
A victory pays out Ghost Tera Shards, Exp. Candy, Protein and an Ability Patch, with extras beyond those. The boss also comes stamped with the Mightiest Mark, a tag set aside for raid headliners like this one.
Over on the Mass Outbreak side, the hunt moves to Kitakami for marked Mankey, Primeape and Annihilape. Their odds of appearing with the Angry Mark are boosted, so showing up with a half-built team is a bad idea.
None of it appears until you grab the latest Poké Portal News and install the most recent update data. Miss that step and the event simply won’t show up for you.
The feature that saved the game’s reputation
When Pokémon Scarlet & Violet arrived in 2022 to open the ninth generation, the critical reception was rough. Launch-day technical issues took over the discussion entirely.
That opinion has softened among players in the years since, mostly thanks to the sheer volume of post-game content that has accumulated.
Then there’s the Terastal phenomenon, the other half of the turnaround. Pokémon shift into an exclusive “Tera Type,” trading their standard Type for a different one, and that swap reshapes their weaknesses, their strengths and their attack power.
Eighteen Tera Types exist in total. To fans who’d spent years complaining that the series kept recycling the same formula, it was the first genuinely new toy to arrive in quite some time.
Why the raids keep pulling people back
Since launch, Nintendo has leaned on Terastal hard, stacking event after event of post-game content on top of the mechanic.
Tera Raids sit at the middle of all that. It’s four players against a timer, with a single wild crystallized Pokémon carrying a specific Tera type between the group and the loot.
Those rewards are strong enough that players keep returning to a 2022 release just to farm them.
That’s the explanation for a four-year-old Pokémon game shipping a brand-new 7-star boss on a six-day clock. That Ghost Tera Type Annihilape stays available until 23:59 UTC on August 20, and you get exactly one.