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Pokémon Go Shared Skies research quest steps and rewards

Our guide to the Shared Skies research quest.

Cropped promotional image for Shared Skies Season in Pokemon Go, showing three people looking at Pokemon in the distance, with Lapras, Ponyta, and Elekid to their sides.
Image credit: Niantic

The Shared Skies timed research quests in Pokémon Go are releasing once a month during the Season of Shared Skies, for a total of three Seasonal timed research quests until the end of the season.

The Shares Skies research works a little differently to recent Season-long quests in Pokémon Go. Due to its time-gated nature, you have to complete each part before its specific end date within the Shared Skies season, unlike previous Seasonal quests that gave you until the end of a Season to complete all of its steps.

To help you keep track of it all, we've detailed all of the Shared Skies quest steps and rewards in Pokémon Go below.

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'Shared Skies' quest steps in Pokémon Go

Shared Skies Part 3 was released in Pokémon Go on Thursday 1st August 2024 and is the third of the three-part Season-long timed research quest for, you guessed it, the Season of Shared Skies.

As it's a timed research quest, you only have until 11:59pm (local time) on Tuesday 10th September to complete Part 3 or you miss out on Shared Skies' final batch of rewards.

Shared Skies Part 2 was released on Monday 1st July 2024 and you have until 11:59pm (local time) on Saturday 10th August to complete it if you haven't done so already!

Below you'll find all of the Shared Skies quest steps and rewards for Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3, but be wary of spoilers! We'll start with Part 3 since that's the most recently released.

'Shared Skies Part 3' Step 1 of 1

  • Defeat 5 Team Go Rocket Grunts - Machop encounter
  • Win 3 raids - 20 Ultra Balls
  • Defeat 10 Team Go Rocket Grunts - Cubone encounter
  • Win 5 raids - 10 Revives
  • Defeat 20 Team Go Rocket Grunts - Hisuian Sneasel encounter
  • Catch a Pokémon on 10 different days - 10 Max Potions

Rewards: 5000 XP, 2500 Stardust and a Donphan encounter.

Thank you to redwineandbeer from reddit for the help with this information.

'Shared Skies Part 2' Step 1 of 1

  • Complete 5 Field Research tasks - Alolan Diglett encounter
  • Catch 100 Pokémon - 20 Great Balls
  • Complete 15 Field Research tasks - Vanillite encounter
  • Catch 300 Pokémon - 20 Pinap Berries
  • Complete 30 Field Research tasks - Beldum encounter
  • Catch a Pokémon on 10 different days - 3 Silver Pinap Berries

Rewards: 5000 XP, 2500 Stardust and Alolan Exeggutor encounter.

Thank you to Amiibofan101 from reddit for the help with this information.

Lapras.

'Shared Skies Part 1' Step 1 of 1

  • Hatch 5 eggs - Swablu encounter
  • Explore 5km - 30 Poké Balls
  • Hatch 10 Eggs - Sandygast encounter
  • Explore 10km - 20 Razz Berries
  • Hatch 15 eggs - Clauncher encounter
  • Catch a Pokémon on 10 different days - 3 Golden Razz Berry

Rewards: 5000 XP, 2500 Stardust and a Lapras encounter.

Thank you to Amiibofan101 from reddit for the help with this information.


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How Shared Skies works in Pokémon Go

Shared Skies is the Season-long timed research for, unsurprisingly, the Season of Shared Skies in Pokémon Go.

Shared Skies Part 3 started on Thursday 1st August, 2024. As it's a three-part timed research quest, you must complete each part of Shared Skies before its specific end date within the Shared Skies Season in order to get all of its rewards. For example, Shared Skies Part 2 runs until 11.59pm (local time) on Tuesday 10th September, so you must complete it before this time, or you will miss out on Part 1's rewards.

There have been a total of three Shared Skies timed research quests during the Season of Shared Skies: one in June, one in July and one in August.

Season of Skies promotional artwork for Pokemon Go.
Image credit: Niantic

Outside of these time restrictions, Shared Skies works exactly the same as any other research quest in Pokémon Go where you must complete a series of challenges, collecting rewards as you go, until you've completed a quest step. At this point, you can earn the rewards for the overall step and move on to the next one (if there is a next step), repeating this cycle until the quest is complete.

Good luck completing the Shared Skies quest!

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