Delightful Days: Taken Over Special Research
Shadow Giratina
Delightful Days: Taken Over Special Research is a Team GO Rocket Special Research that becomes available with the start of the most recent Taken Over event on Monday, August 11, at 12:00 a.m. You can claim this Special Research until the end of Pokémon GO: Delightful Days on September 2, 2025, at 9:59 a.m. local time.
This Special Research will be unlocked at the beginning of this event, and you can get it if you don’t have an existing Team Rocket Special Research active. Progress through it to receive a Super Rocket Radar and chase down Giovanni! Complete this Special Research to save Shadow Giratina!
With that being said, let’s see what you need to do to complete this Research.
Delightful Days: Taken Over
Event-exclusive Special Research
Delightful Days: Taken Over (1/5)
| Task | Reward |
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| Catch 10 Pokémon |  5× Pinap Berry |
| Purify 2 Shadow Pokémon |  10× PokeBall |
| Defeat 3 Team GO Rocket Grunts |  1× Mysterious Component |
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Delightful Days: Taken Over (2/5)
| Task | Reward |
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| Catch 15 Pokémon |  2× Fast TM |
| Purify 3 Shadow Pokémon |  10× Great Ball |
| Defeat 6 Team GO Rocket Grunts | 3× Mysterious Component |
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Delightful Days: Taken Over (3/5)
| Task | Reward |
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| Defeat GO Rocket Leader Arlo |  2500× XP |
| Defeat GO Rocket Leader Cliff | 2500× XP |
| Defeat GO Rocket Leader Sierra | 2500× XP |
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Delightful Days: Taken Over (4/5)
| Task | Reward |
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| Find the Team GO Rocket Boss |  10× Max Potion |
| Battle the Team GO Rocket Boss |  10× Ultra Ball |
| Defeat the Team GO Rocket Boss |  6× Max Revive |
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Delightful Days: Taken Over (5/5)
| Task | Reward |
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| Claim Reward! | 1500× XP |
| Claim Reward! | 1500× XP |
| Claim Reward! | 1500× XP |
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Not seeing this Special Research?
Every single time there is a new Rocket Takeover event, we get a bunch of readers wondering why they haven’t received the new Special Research to go along with it (yet). The most likely explanation is: You still have an unfinished Team GO Rocket research in your (right) 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 (This is the 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
- Showdown in the Shadows (Team GO Rocket Special Research)
- Timeless Travels Special Research
- It’s a Rocket World
- Adventure Week: Taken Over
- Fashion Week: Taken Over Special Research
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