I first started playing Violet a month and a half ago. A couple weeks into playing my wife expressed interest in playing too. So I got a copy of Scarlet for her. Since I was so far ahead of her (both in the actual game and knowledge of the games, I have been playing since LG/FR, while she has only played GO) I decided to take a break from Violet to finally play Shield. I purchased it when it came out but never left the starting town.
I have now beaten Shield and use the raids there to level my Pokémon in Violet. In Violet I have beaten all of the gyms, all of the Titans, and just have 1 more Star Base. When trying to join a Tera raid I can only join random ones, the ones on be board always say I failed to join. But doing the random raids I end up with so many 1*-3*s. When I am looking for raids I am having the same issue, they are all lower.
Even before I became the champion in Shield it was faster to level by transferring my Pokémon.
@[email protected] Maybe try again (at least until you can refresh)? The game doesn’t try to connect to the exact same raid, just one with the same Pokémon, tera-type and number of stars.
But yeah, the board doesn’t work well, it’s generally more convenient to do the ones in your save (you shouldn’t have raids lower than 3 stars if you completed the game though)