Fashion Week: Taken Over Special Research

Trainers, a new Team GO Rocket Special Research goes live as soon as Fashion Week: Taken Over (2025) event starts in your region. Complete this Special Research to save Shadow Palkia from Giovanni!

Don’t forget to check up on our updated Arlo, Sierra and Cliff guides. They are using new Shadow Pokémon that can be saved, and their lineups have shifted with the start of this event.

Fashion Week: Taken Over Special Research Tasks and Rewards

Fashion Week: Taken Over (Stage 1/5)

Task	Rewards
Catch 15 Pokémon	5× Pinap Berry
Purify 2 Shadow Pokémon	10× Poké Ball
Defeat 3 Team GO Rocket Grunts	1× Mysterious Component

Rewards

Fashion Week: Taken Over (Stage 2/5)

Task	Rewards
Catch 20 Pokémon	5× Pinap Berry
Purify 5 Shadow Pokémon	10× Great Ball
Defeat 6 Team GO Rocket Grunts	3× Mysterious Component

Rewards

Fashion Week: Taken Over (Stage 3/5)

Task	Rewards
Defeat Team GO Rocket Leader Arlo	2500× XP
Defeat Team GO Rocket Leader Cliff	2500× XP
Defeat Team GO Rocket Leader Sierra	2500× XP

Rewards

Fashion Week: Taken Over (Stage 4/5)

Task	Rewards
Find the Team GO Rocket Boss	10× Hyper Potion
Battle the Team GO Rocket Boss	10× Ultra Ball
Defeat the Team GO Rocket Boss	6× Max Revive

Rewards

Fashion Week: Taken Over (Stage 5/5)

Task	Rewards
Claim Reward	1500× Stardust
Claim Reward	1500× Stardust
Claim Reward	1500× Stardust

Rewards

Why am I not seeing this Team GO Rocket Special Research?

When a new Team GO Rocket Special Research comes out, Trainers are often confused as to why they haven’t received the new quest line yet. The most likely, almost always correct, explanation is that you still have an unfinished Team GO Rocket research in your Special Research tab.

If you have any of these Special Research stories, and you have progressed beyond the first page of it, you need to finish it, before you can receive any new Team GO Rocket Special Research.

Here are some previous TGR Special Research you may have active:

1. A Troubling Situation – a prerequisite research that you need to finish in order to receive any of the future Team GO Rocket Special Research storylines.
2. Looming in the Shadows
3. A Challenging Development
4. The Take-Over Continues
5. A Professor’s Work is Never Done
6. The Shadowy Threat Grows
7. An Inter-egg-sting Development
8. The Higher They Fly…
9. A Seven-Colored Shadow
10. Silent Schemes
11. Field Notes: Team GO Rocket
12. Ultra Beast Protection Efforts
13. Shadowy Skirmishes
14. From The Shadows
15. A Shadowy Disturbance
16. Showdown in the Shadows
17. It’s a Rocket World
18. Adventure Week Taken Over Special Resarch