Talk:Terastal phenomenon

Wild Terastal Pokémon

(..just for future reference??) I think there should be a distinction between Terrastillized Raid Pokémon, and wild Terrastallized Pokémon (those with a glow).

I believe the latter always have a non-level-up move of their Tera Type, e.g. I have a Grafaiai with X-Scissor, a Growlithe with Dig, a Jigglypuff with Water Pulse, and a Tauros with Wild Charge (all of which are TM moves). Nescientist (talk) 16:41, 23 November 2022 (UTC)

I can confirm that Tera Raid Pokémon do not necessarily have a move of their Tera Type, at least at low levels; I caught a Finneon at Lv. 12 in a Tera Raid Battle and it very much did not have a move of its Tera Type (Ice), although it could learn one via TM. On that note, is it confirmed that Pokémon will never naturally have a Tera Type that they cannot learn at least one STAB move from (Tera Blast notwithstanding)?

As an aside, one important distinction between the two is that Wild Tera Pokémon (and only Wild Tera Pokémon) will have their Terastallization shatter when reduced to 20%^{[citation needed]} health by an attack, and cannot be reduced below that while Terastallized - although damage from Status Effects ignores this limitation, allowing a Wild Tera Pokémon to faint while still Terastallized. TM06 (talk) 10:41, 28 November 2022 (UTC)

Status effects AND self-inflicted damage from moves like Curse can cause them to faint while Terastallized, for reference. Atrius97 (talk) 16:20, 28 November 2022 (UTC)

Hey

Can someone find a high quality image Dragon Tera Type Lechonk? - unsigned comment from WASPED 302168 (talk • contribs)

This is difficult, I already made an attempt, but unless an emulator is used to obtain higher quality footage, the animation causes artifacts in capture card recordings and native console screenshots/video clips. Atrius97 (talk) 07:49, 30 January 2023 (UTC)

Name Change

Why is this page still called "Terastal phenomenon"? The name is too long and too clunky to use. Terastallize would be fine as a name for the page. Keeping "phenomenon" in the name is like calling the Dynamax page the "Dynamax phenomenon" or the Z-Moves page the "Z-Move phenomenon" it feels unnecessary. The game even has a button simply call "Terastallize" before you Terastallizes a Pokemon, similar to how in Sword and Sheild had the Dynamax button.

I have seen plenty of pages just call the form "Terastallized [Pokémon Name]" when referring to the Pokemon's Terastal form, when it could be shorten to "Tera [Pokemon Name]". This page even uses "Tera Pokémon" not "Terastallized Pokémon" when refering to the wild Tera Pokémon. The Pokemon cards simply name the form "Tera [Pokémon Name]" which we could use as a shortened name for the form, like how instead of saying "Mega Evolved Lucario", its just "Mega Lucario".

We can simply just add a naming convention in the intro like the Mega Evolution and Dynamax/Gigantamax pages do. It could go something like this

Terastallized Pokémon are identified by having "Tera" in front of their species name e.g. "Tera Arcanine". The process itself can describe the Pokémon as having "Terastallized" in past-tense, or will "Terastallize" in future-tense. Pokémon actively undergoing Terastallize are described as "Terastallizing". TBR2001 (talk) 22:36, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

I'm not sure the name being long and clunky itself is a good enough reason to change it, and we have redirects and a link template for it (Template:Terastal). That being said, I agree that the name isn't completely ideal, but I'm not sure Terastallize, Terastal, Tera, or Terastallization are suitable replacements either, personally. Landfish7 23:24, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

New Terra Type in Indigo Disk

Just recently I noticed on X that in the trailer for the Indigo Disk, there's a new Terra Type that has been shown. And from the looks of it, I have a funny feeling this Terra Type will replicate the effect of the Legend Plate. LatiusAuro (talk) 11:23, 13 August 2023 (UTC)

I have a hunch it'll be Pokémon finally making the ???-type or "Typeless"-type official. Anzasquiddles 2222(:D)SSSS (talk) 13:37, 13 August 2023 (UTC)

If that is true then wow. This will change everything.--Jacob9594 (talk) 13:43, 13 August 2023 (UTC)