Why are Tera Shards Important?
They’re important because they allow you to change your Pokémon’s Tera Type!
Let’s say you want to change your Lucario into a Fire-Tera Type.
You want to make up for its weakness to Fire.
Travel to Medali Gym. Enter the Treasury Eatery and defeat Larry, the Gym Leader.
By defeating Larry, you can talk to the chef in the Treasury Eatery.
If you have 50 or more Tera Shards, the chef can change your Pokémon’s Tera Type.
Give the chef 50 Fire Tera Shards to change Lucario’s Steel Tera Type to a Fire Tera Type.
Then, allow your Lucario to learn a powerful Fire-Type move such as Fire Punch. It’s also crucial that a Fire Tera Type Lucario should learn Water Pulse to fight against Fire-Types.
This means when your Lucario Terastalizes into a Fire Type it boosts its defense against types it should fight against:
- Bug
- Fire
- Steel
- Grass
- Ice
- Dark
Every Pokémon has its strengths and weaknesses, and usually, when you change their Tera Type, you’re trying to shape their weakness into a new strength! This is essential to defeating Official Pokémon 7 Star Tera Raids.
Best ways to farm Tera Shards fast and efficiently:
- Exploring a mass number of Tera Dens
- Using Time Travel on your Nintendo Switch
- Using Blueberry Academy’s printer
- Making Raid Power Sandwiches
4. Complete a Mass Number of Star Tera Dens in All the Maps (Paldea, Kitakami, Blueberry Academy)
If you’re a new player in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, you’ll notice symbols of the Tera Type on your map. Those are called Tera Dens, and you can enter a Tera Raid battle by interacting with them.
By exploring and doing lots of Tera Raids, you will eventually get good rewards. One con of this method is that you have to earn 3 Gym Badges and dedicate yourself to finishing the story and unlocking all the levels of Tera Raids.
Analysis:
While completing a mass number of Tera Raids, you gain Tera Shards based on the Tera Type of the Tera Den. If you've completed a Grass Type Tera Den, you'll gain Grass Type Tera Shards. This requires a lot of exploring, which should be fun despite being time-consuming. Also, you get to catch Pokémon with 100% accuracy after the Tera Raid.
If you bought the Kitakmi and Indigo Disc DLC, you can complete more Tera Dens in Kitakami and Blueberry Academy's Terarium. Just keep defeating Tera Dens throughout your journey, and believe in yourself because it is the best way to level up your Pokémon in the early stages of the game with less haste.
For this method to work, you have to continue the story. This includes:
- Defeat all Paldea's gyms
- Defeat all of Team Star's Crews
- Defeat Elite 4
- Defeat Final Boss
- Defeat All gyms again
- Defeat Academy Ace Tournament
How much can you farm:
When you start the game and are new to Tera Dens, you'll gain Tera Shards little by little when you unlock 3 Star Tera Raid battles:
- 3 Star to 4 Star Tera Dens guarantee 1 or 2 Tera Shards, making 3 in total.
- 4 Star Tera Dens guarantee 3 Stars. They could guarantee 4 Tera Shards, but not all the time.
- 5 Star Tera Dens guarantee a total of 5 Tera Shards.
- 6 Star Dens are almost the same as 5 Star Dens. They do guarantee 5 Tera Shards, but not always 6 Tera Shards.
- 7 Star Dens are only Pokémon Official Events. They guarantee 30 Tera Shards total or more depending on the Pokémon during the event.
How it works:
Win 3 Gym Badges, and progress as much as possible through the story.
You must use this method first, so the following methods can work.
Start exploring and start Tera Raiding!
3. Time Travel via Switch Settings
This method tricks the game into resetting the Tera Dens for new ones. The great thing is that it speeds up the farming process. One con is that a lot of resetting leaves room for human error, such as losing saved data unintentionally.
Analysis:
This is a quick method after you complete 3 gym badges and at least upgraded Miraidon 3 times (Dash, Climb, Swim) to make exploring easier. This method increases the rate of gaining the category of a Tera Shard.
Simply defeat every Tera Den of the type you need. As an example, defeat every Grass-Type Tera Den on Paldea's map. After that, save, exit the game, and use the Time Travel method to gain more Grass-Type Tera Dens. These Grass-Type Tera Dens should be different Pokémon you faced. If not, you have to Time Travel another day forward.
Resetting Tera Dens Math Analysis:
If you open your map daily, Paldea should have more than 60 Tera Dens.
For example, there might be 7 Fairy Tera Dens total in Paldea.
Let's say those dens are Level 3 Star.
This means that you can get 21 Tera Shards for defeating those Fairy Tera Dens.
This becomes important because when you Time Travel, there may be more or less Fairy Tera Dens. It could work in your favor or do the opposite.
The Worst case is that the Time Travel may result in 4 Fairy Tera Dens. Simply, Time Travel a day forward again.
The best case is that the Time Travel may result in 10 Fairy Tera Dens, making it 30 Tera Shards.
In roughly 15 minutes, if you 1 hit knock-out Level 3 Star of 7 Fairy Tera Dens, there's a moderate possibility you can earn 51 Fairy Tera Shards for just Time Travelling once.
How it works:
1. After defeating the total Tera Dens of 1 Type, save the game and shut the game off.
2. Go to the Nintendo Switch's Settings.
3. Go to Date and Time.
4. Change it to tomorrow's date.
5. Start the game again for the new Tera Dens.
6. If it doesn't work, set an extra day forward.
2. Blueberry Academy’s Printer
Blueberry Academy's Printer is a useful device for earning bonus rewards in bulk! It's an accurate process that requires an internet connection.
Analysis:
Blueberry Academy's Printer is a useful device that will print rewards for you by choosing TMs on the list. You must use 100% of a TM for the printing process to work.
There are a lot of hacks where you have to use Time Travel on your Switch to 100% guarantee the Tera Shards you want. Plenty of YouTube gamers have tried this method, and it works. Getting 100+ Tera Shards in bulk feels so nice, including the Exp. Candy package
If desired, you can unlock this device early game. The only requirement is to buy the Teal Mask and Indigo Disc DLC and complete Kitakami's Story.
One con of this method is that you must be meticulous with this process. If you aren't careful, the Blueberry Academy's Printer will act like a game of Roulette. Also, after earning awards, make sure you save. For a method like this, it's easy to lose progress if you aren't careful.
How much can you farm:
The bonuses are already data mined. Here is an online public spreadsheet.
This useful video explains different variations based on which items you want. It goes over the online public spreadsheet.
How it works:
1. Complete a few BBQ quests, earning 500 or 600 BP at most.
2. Go to the League Club room.
3. Contribute 200 BP to any subject anywhere.
4. This spawns the Science Club, which should say "Seeking Testers for Our Item Printer."
5. It costs 200 BP. Contribute to it.
6. Yay, you earned the Science Club Printer!
1. Use Raid Power Sandwiches to Farm for Rare Typing for your Pokémon
The Sandwich Method is the most powerful, reliable, and efficient way to earn more Tera Shard drop rates. It's recommended that you complete the entirety of the story so you can access all sandwich ingredients and find them in Paldea. As another con, you need the required sandwich ingredients to make raid power Sandwiches.
Analysis:
You want to make sandwiches according to the Tera Type you want.
For example, if you want more Fairy Tera Shards, make a Fairy-Type Raid Power Sandwich.
Here are the ingredients for a Fairy-Type Level 3 Raid Power:
- 1 Order of Tomato
- 1 Order of Basil
- 1 Order of Sweet Hebra Mystica
- 1 Order of Spicy Hebra Mystica
Some players may prefer this method over the Blueberry Academy's Printer because you don't earn just Tera Shards, you earn other valuable items in bulk such as exp candy. Raid Power Sandwiches do affect the amount of exp candy! If it's a 6 or 7 Star Tera Raid, you should earn Hebra Mystica. Also, you can catch the Tera Pokémon, which leads to the next essential point.
Example:
Let's say you want to change your Clefairy to a Fairy Tera Type. You so happen to run into a 5 Star Fairy Type Den that has the Clefairy silhouette. Save time and catch it.
But let's say in the future that you may have a Pokémon that you want to turn into a Fairy Type, such as a Ground-Type Pokémon. Think about a Garchomp with a Fairy Tera Type, becoming immune to other Dragon-Types. Since finding a Ground Type Pokémon with a Fairy Tera Type is rare in the wild and the Tera Den system, that may be worth manually farming for.
Fairy is immune to Dragon-Types as Ground-Types are primarily strong against Electric and Fire-Types. Garchomp is a great example, and the combination would be OP. Even if it can't learn Fairy-Type moves, it can Terastalize as a Fairy-Type for defensive measures.
If an Official Pokémon event includes a 7 Star Dragon, Electric, or Fire Type raid, go back to the Treasury Eatery and use the Fairy Tera Shards you've farmed! Also, use the exp candy you earned to quickly level up the Pokémon you changed Tera Type.
How much can you farm:
A Level 2 Raid Power sandwich usually doubles the Tera Shards the Tera Den guarantees.
For example, the Raid Power will increase Fairy Tera Shards after defeating the Fairy Tera Raid. If it's a 4 Star Tera Raid, you should be able to earn 8 total Fairy Tera Shards instead of 3 or 4.
A Level 3 Raid Power triples the Tera Shards the Tera Den guarantees.
In the same example, a 4 Star Tera Raid should be able to earn 12 total Fairy Tera Shards. If there are many 4 Star Fairy Tera Dens in Paldea, you can get to more than 50 Tera Shards pretty quickly.
This is a great source for quickly finding raid power sandwiches.
How it works:
1. Travel to a Tera Den of your choice.
2. Around that area, set up a picnic.
3. Make a Raid Power sandwich according to the Tera Den type.
4. After creating the sandwich, interact with the Tera Den, choose your Pokémon, and defeat the Tera Raid.
5. See amazing results.
Thanks for reading!
