How does this Scarlet and Violet team planner work?
The builder on this page is preloaded with the Scarlet / Violet Pokédex, so every Pokémon you can add is one you can actually catch, evolve or receive in Paldea, Kitakami or Blueberry Academy. Click Add Pokémon in any slot, search by name, Pokédex number or type, and the Defensive matchups, Offensive coverage and Team averages panels update with each pick.
Three details matter for a Paldea run specifically:
- The Game menu already reads Scarlet / Violet. Leave it there; the suggested teammates list only pulls from this Pokédex, so it will never recommend a Pokémon you cannot get.
- Every defensive cell shows three numbers in the order weak · resist · immune. For a story team, your job is to make sure none of the eight gym types or four Elite Four types shows a first number higher than 2, and that every type with a first number above 0 has a second or third number above 0.
- The verdict line above the table names the single worst hole in plain language. If it says a type hits members "and nobody on the team resists it", fix that before anything else.
Once you have six members, use Copy share link to save the URL, Export image to download a summary picture, or Copy names to paste the list somewhere else. Clear team wipes the slots. The tool is a type-level analyzer: it does not model abilities, held items or Terastallization, which is covered further down.
Which types do you need for Paldea's gyms, Elite Four and Champion?
Paldea is open-world, so the game does not force a gym order, but the leaders' levels do not scale. The table below lists the gyms in level order, which is the order most players end up following. The last column is the type of the leader's Tera Pokémon, which is the one that decides whether your matchup actually holds.
| Order | Leader | Town | Type | Ace Tera | Bring |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Katy | Cortondo | Bug | Teddiursa, Tera Bug | Fire, Flying, Rock |
| 2 | Brassius | Artazon | Grass | Sudowoodo, Tera Grass | Fire, Flying, Bug, Ice, Poison |
| 3 | Iono | Levincia | Electric | Mismagius, Tera Electric | Ground |
| 4 | Kofu | Cascarrafa | Water | Crabominable, Tera Water | Grass, Electric |
| 5 | Larry | Medali | Normal | Staraptor, Tera Normal | Fighting, plus a Ghost to switch in |
| 6 | Ryme | Montenevera | Ghost | Toxtricity, Tera Ghost | Ghost, Dark |
| 7 | Tulip | Alfornada | Psychic | Florges, Tera Psychic | Dark, Ghost, Bug |
| 8 | Grusha | Glaseado | Ice | Altaria, Tera Ice | Fire, Fighting, Rock, Steel |
Note how the Tera type changes the puzzle. Sudowoodo is a Rock type, so you would normally hit it with Water, but Tera Grass turns it into a pure Grass type that resists Water. Mismagius is Ghost, so a Dark attack looks right until it Terastallizes into pure Electric. Plan for the Tera type, not the original one.
The Elite Four and Champion at the Pokémon League in Mesagoza follow the same pattern:
| Opponent | Type | Ace Tera | Bring |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rika | Ground | Clodsire, Tera Ground | Water, Grass, Ice |
| Poppy | Steel | Tinkaton, Tera Steel | Fire, Ground, Fighting |
| Larry | Flying | Flamigo, Tera Flying | Electric, Rock, Ice |
| Hassel | Dragon | Baxcalibur, Tera Dragon | Fairy, Ice, Dragon |
| Geeta (Top Champion) | Mixed | Glimmora, Tera Rock | Water, Ground, Steel |
Geeta's team is Espathra, Avalugg, Kingambit, Veluza, Gogoat and Glimmora, so a Fighting type and a Water type cover most of it. Across all thirteen bosses, the types that show up most often as answers are Fire, Water, Ground, Fighting, Steel and Dark, which is why a team that has one of each rarely gets stuck.
Team Star and the Titans: the other ten bosses
The Starfall Street path has five bases, each with a single type and a Starmobile (a Revavroom form that shares the squad's type) as the final fight:
| Squad | Boss | Type | Weak to |
|---|---|---|---|
| Segin | Giacomo | Dark | Fighting, Bug, Fairy |
| Schedar | Mela | Fire | Water, Ground, Rock |
| Navi | Atticus | Poison | Ground, Psychic |
| Ruchbah | Ortega | Fairy | Steel, Poison |
| Caph | Eri | Fighting | Flying, Psychic, Fairy |
The Path of Legends has five Titans: Klawf (Rock), Bombirdier (Flying/Dark), Orthworm (Steel), the Quaking Earth Titan (Great Tusk, Ground/Fighting, in Scarlet; Iron Treads, Ground/Steel, in Violet) and the False Dragon Titan, which is Dondozo (Water) backed by Tatsugiri (Dragon/Water). Water and Fighting attacks between them deal with four of the five.
If you place a Fighting type, a Water type and a Steel or Poison type on your team, every Team Star boss and every Titan has at least one hard counter. Run the team through the builder and check the Offensive coverage row: Dark, Fire, Poison, Fairy, Fighting, Rock, Flying and Steel should all be lit rather than struck through.
Which Pokémon pair well with each Paldea starter?
Your starter is the one slot that is already decided, so start the builder with it and read the red cells. The three final evolutions have very different holes.
Meowscarada (Grass/Dark) is the fast attacker of the three. It is weak to Fire, Ice, Fighting, Poison, Flying and Fairy and takes ×4 from Bug, which makes Katy's gym harder than it should be. The fix is a Steel type: Tinkaton (Fairy/Steel) resists or ignores Bug, Flying, Ice, Poison and Fairy in one slot. Add a Water type such as Dondozo, Palafin or Veluza for the Fire and the remaining Fighting pressure, and most of Meowscarada's table turns green.
Skeledirge (Fire/Ghost) is the bulkiest starter and the only one with immunities: Normal and Fighting attacks do nothing to it, which makes Larry's gym and Eri's base easy. It is weak to Water, Ground, Rock, Ghost and Dark. A Grass type (Arboliva, Brambleghast or Scovillain) covers the first three, and Kingambit or Tinkaton covers the Ghost and Dark side while adding Steel for Hassel and Tulip.
Quaquaval (Water/Fighting) has the most useful offensive typing for Paldea's bosses, with super-effective attacks into Katy, Larry, Grusha, Rika, Poppy, Mela, Giacomo and the Rock and Steel Titans. Defensively it is weak to Electric, Grass, Flying, Psychic and Fairy. Gholdengo (Steel/Ghost) resists Grass, Flying, Psychic and Fairy and is immune to Fighting, and Clodsire (Poison/Ground) is immune to Electric and resists Fairy and Fighting, so those two plug nearly every gap.
Whichever starter you pick, add it first, then open Suggested teammates. The list is filtered to the Scarlet / Violet Pokédex and ranked so that fully evolved Pokémon with the most useful resistances come first; click one to drop it into the next empty slot.
How does Terastallization change the weakness table?
Terastallization replaces a Pokémon's defensive typing with a single Tera type for the rest of the battle while it keeps the same-type bonus on its original types and gains it on the Tera type. For planning this means two things.
Defensively, a Terastallized member no longer has the weaknesses in its row of the per-member grid; it has the weaknesses of a pure Tera type. A Tera Water Skeledirge stops being weak to Water and Ground and becomes weak to Electric and Grass instead. You can check any single type in the Pokémon type calculator and read it as that member's temporary row. The builder itself does not switch types for you, because you only get one Terastallization per battle and most of the fight happens with your normal types.
Offensively, the Tera type adds a third same-type attack. If one of your members carries a strong coverage move of a type the Offensive coverage row shows as struck through, Tera into that type turns a missed type into a covered one for that fight. Steel and Fairy are common choices for exactly this reason, since Hassel's Dragons and Geeta's Kingambit are otherwise awkward.
A simple rule for story play: build the team so the table is balanced without Tera, then treat Terastallization as a one-time emergency button. Gym leaders use their Tera on the last Pokémon, so you only need to answer one changed typing per fight.
Does the list include the Kitakami and Blueberry DLC?
Yes. The Scarlet / Violet entry in the Game menu holds 905 Pokémon and forms: the Paldea Pokédex, The Teal Mask additions from Kitakami (Dipplin, Poltchageist and Sinistcha, Okidogi, Munkidori, Fezandipiti and Ogerpon) and The Indigo Disk additions from the Blueberry Academy Terarium (Archaludon, Hydrapple, Terapagos and the starters of every earlier generation). Pokémon that were only ever obtainable through Pokémon HOME transfers are listed too, so if you are playing without HOME, treat anything that does not appear in your in-game Pokédex as unavailable.
Two groups are worth checking before you commit a slot:
- Version exclusives. Scarlet has Armarouge, the Larvitar line, Stonjourner, Drifloon, the Deino line, Skrelp, Oranguru, the ancient Paradox Pokémon such as Great Tusk and Roaring Moon, and Koraidon. Violet has Ceruledge, the Bagon line, Eiscue, Misdreavus, the Dreepy line, Clauncher, Passimian, Gulpin, the future Paradox Pokémon such as Iron Treads and Iron Valiant, and Miraidon.
- DLC-only Pokémon. If you plan to fight the Blueberry Elite Four (Crispin, Fire; Amarys, Steel; Lacey, Fairy; Drayton, Dragon) and Kieran, the same approach applies: one Water or Ground type for Crispin, a Fire or Ground type for Amarys, a Steel or Poison type for Lacey, and a Fairy or Ice type for Drayton. The builder treats these the same as any other boss types.
Related tools
The builder here is the Paldea-specific entry point to the main Pokémon team builder, which lets you switch to any other game's Pokédex and type chart. For the full method behind filling slots, with examples for story runs and competitive formats, read the guide to how to build a Pokémon team. If you are planning a retro run instead, the FireRed and LeafGreen team builder applies the same analysis to Kanto with the Gen 3 type chart.