Pokemon HOME (NSW/Android/iOS) - Cloud-Based Service - 2020

[6souls]

Introducing Pokémon HOME, a cloud service that will work with Nintendo Switch and iOS and Android devices, allowing you to bring over the Pokémon that you’ve shared adventures with throughout your journey.

Pokémon HOME isn’t tied to a single game system, meaning you can connect with Pokémon Bank, along with #PokemonLetsGo, #PokemonSwordShield, and #PokemonGO. It also features trading functionality.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/431350217
https://twitter.com/Pokemon/status/1133542372703268864
https://twitter.com/Pokemon/status/1133542223331508225

[Hitou]

Hope it comes with nintendo online and not a separate sub, because paying for that plus bank plus online would be stupid just to transfer pokemon.

[6souls]

The world of Pokémon games is more diverse than ever, with a range of titles for Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Switch, and mobile devices. Now, Trainers can bring all their Pokémon together with Pokémon HOME, a new cloud service app that enables them to continue their Pokémon adventures beyond a single game system and manage their collection of Pokémon across many of their games. Smartphone users can also trade with friends or others around the world directly from Pokémon HOME. Pokémon HOME connects with Pokémon Bank as well as Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Pokémon: Let’s Go, Eevee!, the upcoming Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield games, and also Pokémon GO. Pokémon HOME is expected to launch in early 2020 for iOS and Android devices as well as Nintendo Switch.

[Salodin]

So if I catch a pokemon in go, I can transfer it ingame?

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[6souls]

[Draylo]

Money hungry Nintendo like always, ontop of paying online you have to pay premium prices too?

[Katlan]

hahaha at only being able to deposit 30 pokemon with basic.

[Karbuncle]

Pretty sure a stopwatch from 1973 could hold more than 30 Pokemon's data... man thats funny, but at the same time if I even still played Pokemon, the most amount I've moved from one generation to the other has been like, 4 Shinies and maybe a handful of 5/6 IV's I bred during Black/White era.

[6souls]

Now that the service is live, an Easter Egg has been found in the apk.

[detlef]

I wonder how Home will interact with Pokemon Go.

[Serra]

Patch today hides requests for mythical pokemon (since they cannot currently be traded).

[Souj]

Patch today hides requests for mythical pokemon (since they cannot currently be traded).

Poipole poipole poipole
All I see whenever I search for pokemon.
FF11's version of throwing something on AH for ridiculous price just to show off. Except people seem to do it for pokemon that dont matter, too.

[Souj]

That was a massively long maintenance time for nothing to show for it. Thought they were implementing something new, or at least fixing something very noticeable. But hey, programming's hard and I know absolutely nothing about it other than that.

I do wish they'd adjust sprite colors, though. I keep having to ask myself; Is this a shiny?

[Hitou]

The maint was to fix hyper-trained pokemon no longer being hyper-trained when put on Home.

[Souj]

Uuuuugh. Just spent so much time moving/organizing my boxes on Switch and when I went to save/quit I got "An error occured" and it sent me back to the menu and saved nothing I did. Awesome waste of a half hour.

I have discovered the problem after painstakingly moving pokemon around and saving frequently;
Ninjask/Shedinja

After realizing Shedinja was the 'mon causing the error to get thrown up I looked it up and originally, Home's programming would delete pokemon with identical trainer/tracking #s to get rid of cloned pokemon but because of how nincada evolves, Shedinja/Ninjask have the same ones, it would delete a legit pokemon. Game Freak's solution to this appears to be just not to allow either Ninjask/Shedinja in Home if the same # already exists inside.
This doesn't affect 'mons transferred from Bank.

[Souj]

So I’ve been wonder trading somewhat regularly. Since they updated the feature to only take an hour or two, just leisurely trying to build up a living pokedex. This round I just checked had 2 shinies in it; clobbapus(6 IV, lv1 met 3/16) and Escavalier(4IV lv55 met 3/5) one from trainer Scott TU and another from trainer HOME. They both have the same trainer ID. With a hunch, I check the rest of my shinies and I have another from Scott TU an Abomasnow (4IV lv55, met 12/17)

Anyone else who does the wonder trade have something similar? And what do you think the odds of them being hacked are? Interested in maybe using the Grapploct in my not so competitive all Fighting team. Though I would have to change it to it’s HA and change it’s typing to Adamant.

[Hitou]

I'd say 100% hacked lol. I've seen a lot of shinies from wonder trade, I just send them back to someone who wants them. Rarely you might see something from Go that's probably real cause of all the community days, I doubt anyone else is gonna dump real shinies unless they're really ugly.

[Souj]

unless they're really ugly.

That’s what gave me pause to consider the realness. Who hacks an Abomasnow?

Off-ish topic, my first shiny of swsh was a final stage ice cream from a den run that I didn’t even realize it was shiny for the longest time.

[Souj]

Well, almost got a complete living Pokédex. Just missing Phione, Magearna, Cosmeom, Marshadow, Naganadel, Kubfu, and Zarude. And half of those are “special event” pokemon that can’t be traded. The rest are on the higher demand side and I’ve run out of good extra pokemon to trade.

[Serra]

I'm a little surprised (and disappointed) they haven't really done any mythical distributions for the 25th anniversary this year. They've done full distributions with the past two generations (and probably earlier ones as well) and this year seemed like a natural time to do it.