How to get Shadow Shards and Cleansed Shadow Attack Gems in Pokémon Go

Shadow Shards and Purified Gems are two Team Go Rocket related items in Pokemon Go.

You collect these to win Shadow Pokémon Raids. In short, Shadow Shards drop from Go Rocket encounters, and once you’ve had enough of them, you can use them to craft Purified Gems, which you use to counter Shadow-type Pokémon in raids when they reach enraged status.

How to get shadow shards in Pokémon Go, turn them into purified gems and use them in shadow attacks.

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How to get Shadow Shards in Pokémon Go

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

Obtain the following number of Shadow Shards by defeating:

• Go Rocket Grunts: 1 Shadow Shard per encounter
• management: 3 Shadow Shards per encounter
• Giovanni: 4 Shadow Shards per encounter
• Shadow Raids: Up to 5 per encounter

The above drops do not replace other rewards from Team Go Rocket encounters – such as: B. Mysterious Components – and you’ll get a summary of how many Shadow Shards you have once the battle ends.

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

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How to get Purified Gems in Pokémon Go

Purified Gems are formed by collecting sufficient Shadow Shards. To craft a Purified Gem you need four Shadow Shards. It is then automatically used to create a purified gem using the Shard Refiner. In other words, there is no need to manually convert one gem into the other as the game does it for you.

You can carry up to 10 Purified Gems at a time. From there, it’s time to use them in Shadow Pokémon Raids…

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How to use purified gems in shadow attacks

Purified Gems have a single purpose: to counteract a Shadow Pokémon’s “Enraged” status during a raid, an effect that makes them more powerful and therefore harder to defeat.

Once the Pokemon is enraged (indicated by the fact that it glows purple and the word enraged appears above its health bar), tap the button on the bottom left of the screen to use a Purified Gem that will help restore the Pokemon back to its non-enraged state.

Image: Niantic

According to Niantic, a Purified Gem’s effects stack when multiple trainers use one, and each individual trainer can use up to five Purified Gems per fight.

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How effective are Purified Gems on “angry” Shadow Raid Pokemon?

How useful are purified gems in shadow attacks? There were few community results when the article debuted, but we wanted to test it not Use any of these in a solo Shadow Attack against Croconaw (a Tier 3 raid that we can theoretically beat with strong counters alone) to gauge their impact.

In the resulting fight, the “Enraged” state entered about halfway down the Pokemon’s health bar, slowing progress so much that we couldn’t finish the fight before the timer ran out.

With a second player (or more) it’s possible that these Tier 3 encounters are possible without a Purified Gem, but at Tier 5 or when playing solo with any Shadow Attack, we’d say that using one or more is recommended.