Shard

If you were looking for the evolutionary items from Pokémon XD, see Sun Shard and Moon Shard. For the valuable item, see Comet Shard.

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A Shard is a colored fragment of an ancient tool that was introduced in Generation III. While they have no use on their own, several NPCs apparently have some use for them, and will trade other items or services for these objects.

List of shards

	Name
	Red Shard
	Green Shard
	Blue Shard
	Yellow Shard

Uses

Generation III

Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald

Main article: Treasure Hunter

In Generation III, shards can be traded to the Treasure Hunter living on Route 124 individually for Evolution stones. In Hoenn, these items are found quite often underwater, many times held by certain species. Aside from trading them over from Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen and finding the very few there are in the wild, this is the only way to get the Evolution stones in Hoenn.

Generation IV

Generation IV diversified the use of shards by an order of magnitude, and made them far easier to find than they were in Generation III. In addition to being found in several places on the field, shards are a commonly-found item mining underground in Sinnoh, where their appearance causes some speculation that they are related to Plates.

Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum

In Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, the shards' only use is to be traded ten at a time for the weather-changing TMs on Route 212.

Shards	Traded item
Red Shard x10	TM11 (Sunny Day)
Yellow Shard x10	TM37 (Sandstorm)
Blue Shard x10	TM18 (Rain Dance)
Green Shard x10	TM07 (Hail)

Pokémon Platinum

Main article: Move Tutor → Platinum

In Pokémon Platinum, the TMs are no longer available by trading them, however, three Move Tutors will accept groups of eight in specific colors to teach moves to a Pokémon. Their availability is also increased, with Mr. Fuego, owner of the Fuego Ironworks, trading one of each color to the player for a Star Piece and what appears to be an Ace Trainer finds one to give each day in Area 6 of the Great Marsh.

Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver

Main articles: Violet City → Berries and Fuchsia City → Berries

In Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver, players could trade shards with Jugglers in Violet City and Fuchsia City trading the player three kinds of Berry for a specifically-colored shard.

Generation V

Pokémon Black and White

Main article: Item maniac → Ore maniac

In Pokémon Black and White, Shards have no purpose other than to be sold to the item maniac in Icirrus City for $200.

Pokémon Black and White 2

Main article: Move Tutor → Black 2 and White 2

In Pokémon Black 2 and White 2, Move Tutors in four different locations offer to teach a move in exchange for shards, like in Platinum. One notable difference is that instead of using multiple different types of shard for a single move, each Move Tutor has a preference for one type of shard only and will request multiple of that type of shard.

Generation VI

Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire

Main article: Treasure Hunter

In the remakes Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, shards are once again exchangable for Evolution stones. Instead of being held by wild Pokémon in these games, shards are common finds in Mirage spots.

Generation VII

Pokémon Sun, Moon, Ultra Sun, and Ultra Moon

In Pokémon Sun, Moon, Ultra Sun, and Ultra Moon, shards can be traded to the old man who appears in the Festival Plaza castle post-game for Bottle Caps, with 30 shards of the same color garnering one Bottle Cap. Shards can be gained through mining on Isle Aphun of Poké Pelago.

Artwork

Underground

This is the artwork of the shards in The Underground:

Red Shard	Green Shard	Blue Shard	Yellow Shard

Dream World

This is the artwork of the shards in the Pokémon Dream World:

Red Shard	Green Shard	Blue Shard	Yellow Shard

In the anime

Shards in the anime

Green Shards appeared in The Relicanth Really Can, when Adam found them after they fell off the fins of a Relicanth. He mistook them for emeralds, until his wife, Evelyn, identified them as Green Shards. She stated that Green Shards were used in ancient times to make jewelry, but aren't worth as much in the present. After another treasure hunt, Adam found an entire chest filled with Green Shards.

Red Shards made a cameo in Team Rocket's fantasy in The Grass Menagerie!.

Ash found one of each shard in Treasure Hunt, Akala Style!, during a Stoutland Search treasure hunt set up for him and his classmates by Olivia.

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  Green Shards

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  Red Shards

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  A Yellow Shard

Trivia

• The color of each shard corresponds to a Generation I game.
• The Underground shards have the same palette as several Plates, with the Red Shard matching the Flame Plate, the Blue Shard matching the Splash Plate, the Green Shard matching the Meadow Plate, and the Yellow Shard matching the Zap Plate. This has caused some to believe that the "ancient item" mentioned in the Bag description is in fact one of the Plates.

Shards

Red Shard

Green Shard

Blue Shard

Yellow Shard

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