Iron Ball
Items item in Pokémon Sword and Shield.
Flavor
Flavor Text
An item to be held by a Pokémon. It lowers Speed and allows Ground-type moves to hit Flying types and holders that are levitating.
Short Effect
Held: Holder’s Speed is halved. Negates all Ground-type immunities, and makes Flying-types take neutral damage from Ground-type moves. Arena Trap. Spikes, and Toxic Spikes affect the holder.
Effect
Held: Decreases the holder’s Speed by 50%. If the holder is Flying or has Levitate, it takes regular damage from Ground attacks and is suspectible to Spikes and Toxic Spikes.
Location details
Dug up by the Digging Duo in the Wild Area's Bridge Field. It also turns up held by wild Mawile, or as a random Ball Guy prize in the post-game.
Iron Ball
Items
Cost
4,000
Items
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