What status moves don't work in Tera raids?

Question

There's absolutely no reason for these to all be separate questions!

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https://www.reddit.com/r/PokemonScarletViolet/comments/z8bfwu/technical_information_on_moves_in_tera_raids/
(Based question)

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You might also want to ask what abilities don't work in Tera raids.

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This should be authoritatively compiled somewhere. I'm not sure that all that information even exists in authoritative form right now, though... status moves in Tera Raids are never explained and have all sorts of exceptions and special-casing.

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What's your point...? The point is to have them "authoritatively" compiled in this one thread.

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What do you mean by "authoritative"? As far as I know, the only "authorities" are Nintendo employees, and I don't think they've ever helped the players research Pokemon game mechanics.

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Certain attack moves don’t work either like hyper fang and endeavor.

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@birdserker neither of those are status moves.

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Is this question assuming the raid boss's shield is not up?

Answer 1

Status moves that always fail when used in Tera Raid Battles:

• Guard Split
• Disable
• Encore
• Imprison
• Torment

Additionally, any move that causes the user to faint fails. In the case of Tar Shot, it does not fail but the effects do not take place.

The shield that is created by some Tera raid bosses at a time or damage threshold (whichever comes first) makes all non-damaging status moves that are targeted at the Tera raid boss fail. Moves such as taunt, thunder wave, and metal sound (a full list of which can be found here), will not work if the shield is up, but status moves that are not targeted at the boss, such as Nasty Plot or Agility, will not fail, assuming that they don’t have any other reason to. The Infiltrator ability cannot be used to get around this mechanic. However, the shield does not block secondary effects from damaging moves. For example, Nuzzle can be used to paralyze a shielded Pokémon and acid spray will lower special defense by two stages even if the target Pokémon is shielded.

Source

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>Moves such as
So what moves are they, besides taunt, thunder wave, and metal sound?

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@sumwun, I asked here because I couldn’t find a list online, if it gets answered I will link it in this answer.
https://pokemondb.net/pokebase/433304/what-are-all-damaging-status-moves-that-more-opposed-your-ally

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I just saw this comment again, I had totally forgotten about it. The link is in now.

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Your source directly states "This should not be taken as a complete list of moves that never work in raids." On top of that, there are other questions on the site that confirm that moves other than what you mentioned don't work in tera raids. The reddit thread you linked as a source was linked on the question two years ago. If it were a complete source I think it would have been answered long ago.
I'd also like to add that I mostly asked this question because I was tired of a specific user asking this question for every status move and thought it'd be more helpful to have it compiled into one question. Everything I know about Tera Raids has come from this question, so it'd be helpful if I could have people who have actually done one vouch for this answer before I select it.

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you said "what STATUS moves don't work in raids". am I supposed to assume that means "What moves don't work in raids"? It's not a complete list of all moves that don't work in raids of course

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Spite is a status move you failed to mention that has been specifically asked about in the past, and for that reason I will assume there are also other moves that are missing from the list.

https://pokemondb.net/pokebase/417535/

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hm. well this guy is prob more right than me:
https://pokemondb.net/pokebase/423355/what-are-moves-abilities-that-cannot-affect-tera-raid-pokemon

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That answer cites the same reddit thread. While it does site other sources, it doesn't really give a definitive list of moves that don't work, which is what I'm looking for.