Next weekend's raid will be...no, not H-Samurott, first we have to deal with Eevee. See, there's a tradition in Japanese to associate numbers with words, which explains a lot of the NPC uniform numbers in Sword and Shield, and it even extends to the calendar: 1121 = イイブイ = Eevee, so November 21st is celebrated as Eevee Day. Granted, this year it falls on a Tuesday, and the normal raid schedule has them ending on Sunday, but it's as close as they could get without going to a non-standard schedule. Eevee will get super-STAB on Normal type, marking the first repeat of types we've seen across 7-star raids (Rillaboom was also Normal).
Other than raid dens, they'll also have event mass outbreaks of Eevee spawning around the regions over the same timeframe. Each outbreak will have an elevated chance of one particular mark, with Paldea outbreaks choosing from a pool of 4 separate marks (Flustered, Intellectual, Intense, Jittery) and those in Kitakami choosing from among 4 others (Calmness, Excited, Rowdy, Unsure).
After what we saw with Pikachu, it seems like a given that Eevee will have to resort to an immediate full-bar shield. It doesn't have much in the way of boosting moves that would let it get supercharged use of Stored Power (unless they want to be cheeky and give it illegal scripted moves like Extreme Evoboost, or perhaps throw LGPE moves like Baddy Bad into the script for the comedy value), and you can pretty much count on them including Dark coverage just to have a move with no immunities, and prevent any possible picks like H-Zoroark, Spiritomb, or Gholdengo from being immune to the entire moveset and trolling Eevee for the whole time limit. What other gimmicks might they throw in?
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