How to get Shiny Shadow Lugia in Pokemon GO?

Shiny Shadow Lugia in Pokemon GO was released during the Team GO Rocket Takeover event in October 2023. In August 2024, it returns to the game as part of the Adventure Week: Taken Over event's Shadow Raid Weekend. The creature will appear in 5-star Shadow Raids on August 10 and 11, 2024.

While Shadow Lugia is an amazing attacker in this game, a major portion of the community will only be interested in the shiny variant of this creature. This article will walk you through everything you need to know about Shiny Shadow Lugia in Niantic's mobile game, including the shiny odds, how to catch, and more.

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How to catch Shiny Shadow Lugia in Pokemon GO

You can encounter Shadow Lugia in 5-star Shadow Raids on Saturday, August 10, and Sunday, August 11, 2024. During this time, if you are lucky, you may encounter a Shiny Shadow Lugia in Pokemon GO after successfully defeating it in a Shadow Raid.

Shiny Shadow Lugia in Pokemon GO (Image via TPC)

If you are going to hunt the elusive Shiny Shadow Lugia in Pokemon GO, make sure you have a strong raid team and a lot of health items ready. Shadow Lugia is not an easy nut to crack, and you will need to have a decent stack of Purified Gems, Revives, and Potions to bring your fainted Pokemon back to life.

Furthermore, you cannot solo defeat this Shadow Lugia. So, you should have a party of at least 4-5 players and enough Purified Gems to safely take down Shadow Lugia. This might play out differently for the August event owing to compensation from Niantic for glitches during the raid.

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Where can you find Shiny Shadow Lugia in Pokemon GO?

You can find Shiny Shadow Lugia in five-star Shadow Raids on August 10 and 11, 2024. It will pop up in Shadow Raid Eggs in Gyms. You can look for raids around you using the Campfire app. This will be particularly useful since these raids cannot be challenged remotely.

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What are the odds of finding Shiny Shadow Lugia in Pokemon GO?

Shadow Lugia artwork (Image via TPC)

As a legendary beast, it has a shiny rate of 1-in-20. This simply means that each encounter has a 1/20 or 5% chance of being shiny and not that you are guaranteed to encounter a shiny variant if you defeat 20 Shadow Lugia raids.

With substantial luck, you might encounter the shiny version of the Johto Legendary on your first attempt, but with major bad luck, there is a chance that it might never appear on your catch screen. That said, the latter is an extremely rare situation if you take part in many raids.

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