Showdown in the Shadows is a Team GO Rocket Special Research that awards an encounter with Giovanni’s new Legendary Shadow Pokémon: Regigigas. Work your way through a new Rocket Special Research to receive a Super Rocket Radar to battle Giovanni and rescue Shadow Regigigas.
Showdown in the Shadows is available starting Thursday, October 26, 2023, at 10:00 AM local time. This Special Research is part of Team GO Rocket Takeover (October 2023), which started at the same time as Pokémon GO Halloween 2023 (Part II) event.
Showdown in the Shadows (1/5)
| Task | Reward |
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| Catch 15 Pokémon |
5×
Pinap Berry
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| Spin 5 PokéStops or Gyms |
10×
PokeBall
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| Defeat 3 Team GO Rocket Grunts |
1×
Mysterious Component
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Showdown in the Shadows (2/5)
| Task | Reward |
|---|---|
| Catch 15 Pokémon |
5×
Pinap Berry
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| Transfer 10 Pokémon |
10×
Great Ball
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| Defeat 6 Team GO Rocket Grunts |
3×
Mysterious Component
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Showdown in the Shadows (3/5)
| Task | Reward |
|---|---|
| Defeat GO Rocket Leader Arlo |
2500×
XP
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| Defeat GO Rocket Leader Cliff |
2500×
XP
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| Defeat GO Rocket Leader Sierra |
2500×
XP
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Showdown in the Shadows (4/5)
| Task | Reward |
|---|---|
| Find the Team GO Rocket Boss |
10×
Hyper Potion
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| Battle the Team GO Rocket Boss |
10×
Ultra Ball
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| Defeat the Team GO Rocket Boss |
6×
Max Revive
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Showdown in the Shadows (5/5)
| Task | Reward |
|---|---|
| Claim Reward! |
2500×
Stardust
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| Claim Reward! |
2500×
Stardust
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| Claim Reward! |
2500×
Stardust
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I don’t have this Team GO Rocket Special Research. Why?
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:
- 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.
- Looming in the Shadows
- A Challenging Development
- The Take-Over Continues
- A Professor’s Work is Never Done
- The Shadowy Threat Grows
- An Inter-egg-sting Development
- The Higher They Fly…
- A Seven-Colored Shadow
- Silent Schemes
- Field Notes: Team GO Rocket
- Ultra Beast Protection Efforts
- Shadowy Skirmishes
- From The Shadows Team GO Rocket Special Research
