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Lagging Tail Effect and How to Get It

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Lagging Tail Effect and How to Get It

This is a page on the Battle Item Lagging Tail and its location in Pokemon Sword and Shield, Isle of Armor, and the Crown Tundra DLC. Read on to see its effect, how to get it, and how to use it competitively.

Lagging Tail Effect

Lagging Tail ImageLagging Tail
Effect An item to be held by a Pokemon. It is tremendously heavy and makes the holder move slower than usual.

How to Get Lagging Tail

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Places This Item Can Be Found
Currently Unavailable.

Obtain from the Digging Duo

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You have a chance to obtain Lagging Tail from the Digging Duo located near the nursery in the Wild Area. Note that you can only get this item from the right brother, the one with more stamina.
How to Get Rare Items From the Digging Duo
However, you have to pay 500 Watts for them to start digging up random items for you, with the chance of receiving Lagging Tail.

You will need lots of Watts for the target item to appear. Click the link below to learn how to get Watts easily.
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Obtain from Wild Pokemon

The following Pokemon may hold the item, Lagging Tail. You can get it by using the move Thief or Trick.

Cufant ImageCufant Copperajah ImageCopperajah

How to Use Lagging Tail

Lagging Tail is mainly intended to be passed to your opponent by using the move Trick or Switcheroo. This forces it to act last in a turn regardless of its Speed stat by forcing its move to have the lowest priority.

Take note that Lagging Tail does not work in Trick Room.

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