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Tera Type guide

How to Get Tera Shards

Every way to get Tera Shards in Scarlet & Violet, and how to change your Pokémon's Tera Type ♡

Stellar Tera Shard
The short version

What are Tera Shards for?

Tera Shards change your Pokémon's Tera Type. Collect fifty of the type you want and a Cook in Medali will change it for you ♡

How changing Tera Type works

  • Where to goThe Treasure Eatery in Medali. Talk to the Cook behind the counter.
  • WhenOnce you've beaten Larry, the Medali Gym Leader.
  • What it costsFifty Tera Shards of the type you want, or fifty Stellar Tera Shards for Stellar.

Ogerpon and Terapagos have fixed Tera Types, so theirs can't be changed.

Tera Raids

Tera Shards from raids

Raids of 3★ and up give Tera Shards that match the raid's Tera Type. The host gets an extra share, so here's what each star level gives, straight from the game's reward tables:

RaidHostingJoining
1★ and 2★NoneNone
3★21
4★31
5★42
6★63
  • A little extra. 4★, 5★ and 6★ raids can also roll extra shards as random rewards.
  • The Glimmering Charm. It adds two shards to a 3★, five to a 4★, ten to a 5★ and twelve to a 6★. Jacq gives it to you on Reveler's Road once you complete the Kitakami Pokédex.
  • Pick your type on our stream. In our advanced search you can choose the Tera Type you want, then request that exact raid in our Twitch chat ♡

Need a lot of one type? Raids add up slowly, so the Item Printer below is the fastest way to fifty.

The Indigo Disk

Print Tera Shards with the Item Printer

The Item Printer picks what it prints using your Switch's clock. Set the clock to the right second and one job of five prints gives you sixty or more shards of the type you picked, enough to change a Tera Type in one go ♡

What you need

  • A Master Ball Item Printer. Talk to Reese in the League Club Room to upgrade it as you use it: Great Ball (200 BP), Ultra Ball (500 BP), then Master Ball (1,000 BP), which also needs you to have caught Terapagos. This only works at Master Ball.
  • BP and materials for one job of five prints. On the materials screen, press X to fill them in for you.
  • A stopwatch on your phone.
  1. 1

    Save at the printer

    Walk up to the Item Printer in the League Club Room, save your game right there, then close the game completely.

  2. 2

    Change the clock

    On your Switch, go to System Settings, System, Date and Time. Turn off Synchronize Clock via Internet, then set the date and clock time from your type's card below. Start your stopwatch the moment you press OK.

  3. 3

    Get to the menu

    Open the game and talk to Reese at the printer until I want to print something shows up. Don't pick it yet!

  4. 4

    Hit the exact second

    Pick I want to print something so the screen fades to black when your stopwatch shows the stopwatch time from your type's card. The game lags a tiny bit, so you may need to press a second or two early.

  5. 5

    Print five

    Choose to print five times, add your materials and print. You should get the shards from your type's card below, sometimes with another item or two.

  6. 6

    Put the clock back

    Turn Synchronize Clock via Internet back on when you're done, so your Switch shows the real time again.

Times for every type

Each one is a single job of five prints on a Master Ball printer. Tap your type at the top of the page to jump here.

Normal Tera ShardNormal

Date
May 4, 2021
Clock time
8:21 PM
Stopwatch
1:09
Shards
63

Fire Tera ShardFire

Date
January 5, 2028
Clock time
1:15 PM
Stopwatch
1:56
Shards
60

Water Tera ShardWater

Date
April 22, 2027
Clock time
2:00 PM
Stopwatch
1:45
Shards
66

Electric Tera ShardElectric

Date
April 25, 2018
Clock time
9:18 AM
Stopwatch
1:55
Shards
63

Grass Tera ShardGrass

Date
February 22, 2014
Clock time
11:21 AM
Stopwatch
1:57
Shards
66

Ice Tera ShardIce

Date
November 8, 2018
Clock time
9:59 AM
Stopwatch
1:51
Shards
70

Fighting Tera ShardFighting

Date
July 25, 2025
Clock time
6:11 PM
Stopwatch
1:50
Shards
71

Poison Tera ShardPoison

Date
October 11, 2027
Clock time
1:57 PM
Stopwatch
1:30
Shards
61

Ground Tera ShardGround

Date
May 15, 2016
Clock time
2:17 PM
Stopwatch
1:09
Shards
65

Flying Tera ShardFlying

Date
February 2, 2020
Clock time
8:50 AM
Stopwatch
1:40
Shards
64

Psychic Tera ShardPsychic

Date
July 15, 2023
Clock time
11:05 AM
Stopwatch
1:39
Shards
65

Bug Tera ShardBug

Date
March 30, 2025
Clock time
12:23 AM
Stopwatch
1:41
Shards
61

Rock Tera ShardRock

Date
February 16, 2022
Clock time
1:13 AM
Stopwatch
1:04
Shards
63

Ghost Tera ShardGhost

Date
November 5, 2017
Clock time
5:50 PM
Stopwatch
1:11
Shards
61

Dragon Tera ShardDragon

Date
February 7, 2026
Clock time
9:54 AM
Stopwatch
1:41
Shards
73

Dark Tera ShardDark

Date
November 8, 2020
Clock time
7:52 PM
Stopwatch
1:56
Shards
72

Steel Tera ShardSteel

Date
July 4, 2029
Clock time
9:30 PM
Stopwatch
1:34
Shards
67

Fairy Tera ShardFairy

Date
June 9, 2024
Clock time
2:35 PM
Stopwatch
1:20
Shards
60
  • Got different items? You were a second off. Close the game, set the clock back and try again, pressing a little earlier or later. It takes a few tries to find your timing, and each try uses materials.
  • Can't turn off the clock sync? Nintendo says it stays on while the Parental Controls app is linked to your Switch.
  • Your time zone doesn't matter. The printer goes by the time your Switch shows, wherever you are.

This was figured out by the Pokémon research community, and the times come from their published Item Printer lists. The same trick prints Gold Bottle Caps and Ability Patches too ♡

Stellar

How to get Stellar Tera Shards

Stellar Tera Shards come with The Indigo Disk, and no Tera Raid gives them. Here's where they come from:

Stellar Tera ShardOver and over

  • Wild Stellar Tera Pokémon. Once you've finished The Indigo Disk story, they show up in the Terarium. Beat or catch one for ten Stellar Tera Shards.
  • The Item Printer. A rare print once it's upgraded to Master Ball.

Stellar Tera ShardOne time only

  • Polar Biome in the Terarium.
  • Area Zero Underdepths.
  • The very top of the Terarium Core.
Quick questions

Still wondering?

How many Tera Shards do you need to change Tera Type?
Fifty Tera Shards of the type you want. Stellar works the same way, with fifty Stellar Tera Shards.
Where do you change a Pokémon's Tera Type?
At the Treasure Eatery in Medali. Talk to the Cook behind the counter, once you've beaten Larry, the Medali Gym Leader.
Do Tera Raids give Tera Shards of the raid's type?
Yes! Every shard a raid gives matches its Tera Type, so a Fire Tera raid gives Fire Tera Shards.
Why did I get fewer Tera Shards when I joined a raid?
The person hosting a raid gets an extra share of shards that the people joining don't. Before any random extras, a 6★ raid gives the host six and everyone joining three.
What does the Glimmering Charm do?
It adds bonus Tera Shards after a Tera Raid: two for a 3★, five for a 4★, ten for a 5★ and twelve for a 6★. Jacq gives it to you on Reveler's Road once you complete the Kitakami Pokédex.
How do you get Stellar Tera Shards?
Beat or catch wild Stellar Tera Pokémon in the Terarium after finishing The Indigo Disk story, for ten each. Raids never give them.
Can you change Ogerpon's or Terapagos's Tera Type?
No, their Tera Types are fixed and can't be changed with Tera Shards.

Want a raid in your Tera Type? Raid with us ♡Pick the type in our advanced search and request that exact raid live on Twitch. Free, always!

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