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Light Clay Effect and How to Get It

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Light Clay Effect and How to Get It

This is a page on the Battle Item Light Clay 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.

Light Clay Effect

Light Clay ImageLight Clay
Effect An item to be held by a Pokémon. Protective moves like Light Screen and Reflect will be effective longer.

How to Get Light Clay

Locations

Places This Item Can Be Found
Route 6

Obtain from the Digging Duo

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You have a chance to obtain Light Clay 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 Light Clay.

You will need lots of Watts for the target item to appear. Click the link below to learn how to get Watts easily.
How to Farm Watts Quickly

Exchange for BP at the Battle Tower

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Light Clay can be obtained at the BP Shop in exchange for 15 BP. The BP Shop is located in the Battle Tower at Wyndon.

The Battle Tower will be unlocked after clearing the story. For more advice, check out our complete guide and walkthrough below.
Battle Tower Walkthrough and Recommended Party

Obtain from Wild Pokemon

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

Baltoy ImageBaltoy Claydol ImageClaydol Golett ImageGolett
Golurk ImageGolurk Mudbray ImageMudbray Mudsdale ImageMudsdale

How to Use Light Clay

Light Clay is used by screen setters, the term used for support Pokemon that set up Reflect and Light Screen.

This item extends the duration of these screens from five turns to eight turns, which is valuable if you're playing defensively.

Light Clay also works with Aurora Veil.

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