(Purified Gems also add another gameplay loop, as they are obtained by combining four drops of another new item - Shadow Shards - found by defeating Team Rocket throughout the game.) And in a bid to reward players for strong teamwork, players who coordinate to use Purified Gems at the same time will see the effects of these items stack. Players can fight back by using a new item, a Purified Gem, to help bring the battle back under control. In a bid to make these battles more exciting affairs than the tap-tap-tap routine of regular raiding, Shadow Pokémon have a strong chance of suddenly becoming enraged during battle, making them harder to beat. Shadow Raids will be playable in-person only, as part of Niantic's push to get people outside, but also as a way to enable some fresh gameplay mechanics. (And yes, it will also be Shiny-possible.) To kick things off, this means the ultra-powerful Shadow Mewtwo. As with regular raids, Shadow Raids will come in a variety of different difficulty levels - Tier 1, Tier 3 and Tier 5, the latter of which will feature Shadow Legendary Pokémon. As you'd expect, Shadow Raids will let players battle, defeat and capture Shadow Pokémon - the cool-looking versions of creatures that Team Rocket have souped up for themselves. How Shadow Raids workīut first, details of Shadow Raids themselves. Team Rocket takes over Pokémon Go's gyms in this Shadow Raids trailer. Speaking to Eurogamer in a further interview on what's next for the game, Pokémon Go's development team also discussed in more detail why that Remote Raid nerf was so necessary. Today, Niantic has pulled back the curtain on the first of these - the genuinely exciting introduction of Shadow Raids, which Niantic describes as merely the 'tip of the iceberg' compared to everything else still in store. Two months ago, Pokémon Go developer Niantic told Eurogamer it would launch a blockbuster slate of new features over the course of this summer, following its controversial restructure of the game's popular Remote Raids gameplay.

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