How to get Shadow Shards, Purified Gems for Shadow Raids in Pokémon Go

The Purified Gems, Shadow ShardsThere are 2 Team Go Rocket related items. Pokémon Go.

You will collect these to help you win Shadow Pokémon raids. In short, Shadow Shards drop on encounters with Go Rocket encounters, and once you have enough, you can use them to make Purified Gems, which are used to counter Shadow Pokémon in raids when they reach an “enraged” status.

Here’s how to get Shadow Shards in Pokémon Go, turn them into Purified Gems, and use them in Shadow Raids.

How to get Shadow Shards in Pokémon Go

Shadow Shards are rewards from defeating Team Go Rocket members in Pokémon Go.

By defeating these enemies, you will receive the following amount of Shadow Shards.

• Go Rocket GruntsShadow Shards are limited to 1 Shadow Shard for each encounter.
• Leaders: 3 Shadow Shards per encounter
• Giovanni: 4 Shadow Shards per encounter
• Shadow RaidsFive per encounter

The above drops won’t replace any other rewards from Team Go Rocket encounters — such as Mysterious Components — and you will get a recap of how many Shadow Shards you have once the battle ends.

Once you’ve collected enough Shadow Shards you can use them to create Purified Gems.

How to get Purified Gems in Pokémon Go

Shadow Shards, when collected in sufficient numbers, can form purified gems. You must first have four Shadow Shards.. It will then automatically be used to make a Purified Gem using the Shard Refiner — in other words, there’s no need to manually convert one into the other, as the game will do that for you.

The maximum number of Purified Gems you can have at once is 10. From there, it’s time to use them during Shadow Pokémon Raids…

Purified gems and Shadow Raids

Purified Gems have a single purpose — to counter the “enraged” status of a Shadow Pokémon during a raid, an effect which makes them stronger and thus harder to defeat.

Once the Pokémon has become enraged (you can tell they are because they will glow purple and have the word “enraged” appear over their health bar) tap the on-screen button in the lower left to use a Purified Gem to help revert the Pokémon back to its non-enraged state.

Niantic

Niantic states that a Purified Gem’s effects will stack up if more than one trainer uses it. Additionally, each trainer may use as many Purified Gems during a battle.

How effective are Purified Gems on ‘enraged’ Shadow Raid Pokémon?

Purified Gems are useful in Shadow Raids. On the item’s debut, community findings were few and far between, but we wanted to test It is not clear how to get there. You can test their effects by using them as part of a Shadow Raid alone against Croconaw.

The resulting battle saw the “enraged” status kick in around halfway through the Pokémon’s health bar, which slowed down progress enough that we couldn’t finish the encounter before the timer ran out.

It’s possible with a second player (or more) these Tier 3 encounters might be possible without a Purified Gem, but at Tier 5, or going solo with any Shadow Raid, we’d say using one or more is recommended.