Lapras (Attacker) - Duos - 7 Star Infernape Raid - Pokemon Scarlet/Violet

Needs snarl support or equivalent. Healing support strongly recommended. This build was created by @newestuser75.
Lapras @ Shell Bell
Ability: Shell Armor
Tera Type: Water
EVs: 80 HP / 208 Atk / 40 Def / 180 SpD
Careful Nature
Liquidation
Curse
Rain Dance
Life Dew
Vitamins: 8 HP Up (or Health Mochi), 20 Protein (or Muscle Mochi), 4 Iron (or Resist Mochi), 18 Zinc (or Clever Mochi)
Feathers: 8 Muscle Feathers
Stats at lvl 100 w/ perfect IVs:
HP : 421
Attack: 258
Defense : 206
Sp.Def.: 298
Speed : 156
Support Requirements : snarl or equivalent. although lapras can cancel nasty plot with haze, it still takes too much damage from supereffective aura sphere, tera blast, and grass knot without infernape's special attack debuffed to -1 or lower. healing (e.g. life dew) is also strongly recommended. replacing rain dance with chilling water is recommended if supporter does not have a way to cancel swords dance.
Strategy: life dew when lapras or ally needs HP. wait for the orb steal. liquidation. wait for your stats to reset, curse until infernape resets its stats. use life dew to keep lapras and your supporter alive while they debuff infernape's special attack and/or attack. 2x liquidation, terastalize, curse until your attack is +5 or higher. rain dance, liquidation to victory.
Notes: more balanced defense and special defense stats would be preferable for the pre-tera phase since tera blast, aura sphere, and grass knot all have an effective power of 240 against a heavy water/ice type, and tera blast can hit either physical or special. however, once it terastalizes, lapras benefits from specially defensive stats because grass knot becomes infernape's strongest move by a significant margin.
Pros: supereffective tera type matching base type, excellent HP and special defense stats, good attack stat. resists flare blitz after terastalizing. curse buffs attack 1 stage and defense 1 stage, rain dance puts up rain for 4 turns, which gives 1.5x boost to liquidation. life dew heals entire team by 25% of max HP. liquidation has 85 base power, 100 accuracy, and deals supereffective STAB (tera-boosted when terastalized) damage. it has a 20% chance of debuffing defense 1 stage. shell bell heals when attacking, an amount equal to 1/8 of damage dealt. shell armor gives critical hit immunity.
Cons: weak to grass knot, weak to tera blast and aura sphere before terastalizing, mediocre defense stat, outsped by infernape
Overall Rating: 7/10