Thank you both for your responses! Was hoping Greavard would be a bit more accessible early on but that doesn't seem to be the case. Will hope for a Tera Raid find or that someone can trade me one when I start playing which should be fine. At least the others seem reasonable (I think, still haven't sussed out how encounters work yet). Thank you both again!
I can trade you an Egg so it can have your Trainer ID.
Once you go into the second layer, you'll start finding Great Tusk.
1. To my knowledge, yes, they do change the turn order. Turn order is mostly meaningless in a Tera Raid Battle though, with the exception of moves that disable your Pokémon like Encore or Spore.
Technically there is no need to breed for egg/picnic moves. The Pokémon receiving the move needs to have an open move slot and hold the mirror herb. I typically just bring two Pokémon into that picnic (the Pokémon learning the move and the Pokémon “teaching” the move). I run around the picnic table 2-3 times which takes 10-15 seconds and the move has passed to the Pokémon.
It's immediate, actually. I've set up a picnic, then canceled it the moment the poofing stops, and the Egg Move shows up.
Only thing you would breed IVs for if you need IVs to not be perfect (mostly just Trick Room Pokemon and special attackers, the latter is not too critical). Otherwise Hyper Train is fine to get perfect IVs.
The end result is the same as if they had perfect Individual Values to begin with. I continue to use a combination of breeding and Hyper Training however. There are two reasons for that: 1) the rate that I acquire Bottle Caps is not fast enough to Hyper Train every team member, as you have to either play a LOT of Tera Raid Battles or acquire a LOT of money; and 2) the more actually perfect IV Pokémon I have, the easier it will be to breed Pokémon for future teams.
I’ll ride around the perimeter of the desert to pick up stardust and star pieces. I’ll also go around that bamboo forest picking up bamboo shoots. It’s not lucrative but it’s the best way besides the tournament. Otherwise I have the first Pokémon in my party hold the amulet coin to get every possible money I deserve.
I found when I was grinding Chanseys for levels, selling the Happiny Dust from the encounters got me a decent amount of LP. You can pretty easily find them around Ortega's base and in the same cave in Area Zero where you can catch Roaring Moon/Iron Valiant as long as you have Encounter Power: Normal. Even better if you can make a sandwich with Encounter Power: Normal Lv 3 and Item Drop Power: Normal Lv 3, though that'd likely require multiple players adding ingredients, so you'll likely be better off with just Encounter Power Lv 3. It's not the fastest method, but if you're grinding for levels anyway, there's an additional source of income right there.
I'd also like to add that, while you can only do it once a day, the five Team Star Bosses will collectively give you a higher payout than the Academy Ace Tournament unless you happpen to get both Penny and Geeta (both of whom give you more money than the others).
The only difference is that IVs can be passed down to offspring, but only the original IV (disregarding if they were Hyper Trained).
They don’t. The EV berries also raise friendship so that is probably why they worked.
If you get the message along the line “Pokémon’s stat cannot go lower” when using an EV berry that stat has no EVs (or has been zeroed out of EVs). The other poster already stated they still can be used since they boost friendship.
