It was today revealed that Shadow Raids will be making their debut in Pokémon GO as of 22nd May. These will see Shadow Type Pokémon taking part in (you guessed it) raids, for the first time in the game's history.
This all comes as a part of the Team GO Rocket plan (isn't it always?) to take over all of the gyms across the region. During the upcoming Rising Shadows Event from 22nd May, select gyms will see the villains' Shadow Type Pokémon taking centre stage as Shadow Raid Bosses. As we have come to expect, these will be available to catch if you manage to defeat the boss, so keep an eye out for any 'mon that you have been hunting for a while.
Remote Raid Passes will not work for these battles, so you'll have to keep your fingers crossed that the Team GO Rocket takeover comes to a gym near you if you want to take part. Either that or you hop in a hot air balloon of your own. Your call.
During the event, you might find a new item known as 'Shadow Shards' dropped by Team GO Rocket. If you collect enough of these, you will be able to enlist the help of Professor Willow to make Purified Gems, which will help to subdue the Raid Bosses.
You can find out more about the event and what shadowy surprises will be in store over on the Pokémon GO website.
Will you be heading out to take on Team GO Rocket and their Shadow Gyms? Let us know in the comments.
[source pokemongolive.com]
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I still have some raid passes left from before they bumped up the price, but unless they're offering Armored Mewtwo, I'm not interested. I already have a Mewtwo with near-perfect stats.
This is gonna be sick
What is the point of team rocket? I feel like Giovanni could literally do so much more with this organization (and I mean in every iteration).
With how the Pokémon world(s) are set up is also makes little sense. The world is literally a utopia aside from “oh but those guys, those guys are just mean”
Who the heck is Giovanni selling Pokémon to? Literally, who buys illegal or stolen Pokémon?
@KayFiOS yeah like, it’s Shadow Mewtwo. I have that. But this one requires me to do more work?
@OFFICIALMichi duh, the other evil teams, of course
@Eel but what I mean is, the world is literally crawling with Pokémon. They are everywhere. And overall, it seems to be easy to catch and befriend them.
Maybe it made more sense to me if they were actively using really strong rare Pokémon to take over the world. But they aren’t.
It just doesn’t work lol.
The other teams also have no need to buy Pokémon cause they can just go catch them. And Rocket disbands and gets defeated so much I wouldn’t count on them if I needed a stolen Pokémon lol.
Out of all the teams Giovanni has a rep for being toppled by kids multiple times, lol.
@OFFICIALMichi to be fair, there's some games in the series that imply Pokemon don't just come out to everyone, only to those they find worthy, and our characters just happen to be so good and pure that every Pokemon wants to join us.
With the introduction of a new farmable resource to make shadow raids easier, and disallowing remote raids entirely, I'm not hopeful for this new feature.
They're making it harder for individuals to be able to manage raids at all, rather than making the game accessible. The way forward should be to reward in-person participation, not to punish those who cannot make the journey to play a game.
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