https://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-...mon-scarlet-and-pokemon-violet-is-coming-soon
So there it is, finally. Notable takeaways:
This last point has some interesting ramifications. Will that mean you can, for example, get moves that were Sw/Sh TMs and TRs to be in your movesest when you move to BD/SP rather than being limited to that game's insular environment (like they must have been expecting when they were adding legacy moves to the Battle Tower opponents pool)? Will it be mandatory to go through this menu for all future withdrawals (even to Sw/Sh, which previously allowed you to withdraw while keeping legacy moves)? Until we hear more about that, this could mean that if you want to keep old legacy or event moves, like Eruption Heatran or Softboiled Clefable, you might only have six days to get the Pokemon transferred up to Home and then to Galar before it becomes too late.
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So there it is, finally. Notable takeaways:
- As usual, the first time you connect S/V to Home, you'll get a present consisting of the Paldea HA starter trio. Tera types are just Grass/Fire/Water rather than Dark/Ghost/Fighting (so there isn't that to contrast them with the starter you get in game), but hey.
- Backward 9→8 transfer is possible for Pokemon that appear in both games, just like the rumors were predicting.
- Moving a Pokemon forward to S/V will set its Tera type to one of its standard types--no dice on the idea that they might have used this field to preserve the Hidden Power type. Don't know how they'll determine whether to use type 1 or type 2, but it's not hard to change in any case.
- Since there are no BP in Paldea, the Home Point exchange for S/V will let you convert to LP this time. No exchange rate has been specified, but I have to imagine it's something like 1 Home Point = 100 LP.
- There will be a new menu available within Home that allows you to customize the Pokemon's moveset before you move it into a new game, rather than being stuck with whatever the last four level-up moves were. "These moves are limited to moves that can be learned in Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield, Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Pokémon Shining Pearl (some moves excluded), Pokémon Legends: Arceus, and Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet," as they put it.
This last point has some interesting ramifications. Will that mean you can, for example, get moves that were Sw/Sh TMs and TRs to be in your movesest when you move to BD/SP rather than being limited to that game's insular environment (like they must have been expecting when they were adding legacy moves to the Battle Tower opponents pool)? Will it be mandatory to go through this menu for all future withdrawals (even to Sw/Sh, which previously allowed you to withdraw while keeping legacy moves)? Until we hear more about that, this could mean that if you want to keep old legacy or event moves, like Eruption Heatran or Softboiled Clefable, you might only have six days to get the Pokemon transferred up to Home and then to Galar before it becomes too late.
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