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Light Ball Effect and How to Get It

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Light Ball Effect and How to Get It

This is a page on the Battle Item Light Ball 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 Ball Effect

Light Ball ImageLight Ball
Effect An item to be held by Pikachu. It's a puzzling orb that boosts its Attack and Sp. Atk stats.

How to Get Light Ball

Sometimes Found on Wild Pikachu

Rarely, wild Pikachu will be founding holding the Light Ball. If you're going on a Pikachu-catching spree, you might be able to find a Light Ball.

Where to Catch Pikachu

Use the Cram-o-Matic (Isle of Armor DLC)

Cram-o-Matic.png
In The Isle of Armor DLC, players can use the Cram-o-Matic in the right room of the Master Dojo to change 4 items into a new item. The Light Ball can also be produced with certain combinations.

All Cram-o-Matic Recipes

Best Recipe for Light Ball

Item 1 Item 2 Item 3 Item 4
1 Electric Seed ImageElectric Seed Electric Seed ImageElectric Seed Comet Shard ImageComet Shard Comet Shard ImageComet Shard

How to Use Light Ball

Light Ball's Attack and Special Attack boost only applies to Pikachu. This works well if you ever want to build Pikachu as a mixed attacker, utilizing both physical and special attacks.

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