Pokemon Home - Shiny Meltan (LGPE) and Keldeo (SwSh) dex rewards

[R_N]

The Home Update added a few extra challenges, most pertaining to Teal Mask. Notably, very little pertaining to Indigo Disk.
This kind of seems like the "thing" they do now, just add challenges related to the last thing per update. Guess we'll get the ID challenges proper...next year, judging by the update rates for new games vs dlc.

Probably just as well, getting the new paradoxes out of the GTS is a giant pain. Neither of the violet paradoxes are asking for anything other than the Scarlets (or themselves), Raging Bolt is in the same situation and there are 2 Gouging Fires for reasonable stuff but they're not even hiding being hacked lmao. Level 100 in a Cherish Ball lmao, I have standards and feel there's a solid 50% chance that if I got one of those it'd be stuck with me. Awful.
Even asking for one is going poorly. Shinies? Nothing. Galarian Birds? Nadda.

But, good news for anyone who wants to fill the Move dex! Smeargle is finally back in a game with Kyurem, meaning you can rig up sketches for the black/white kyurem signature moves without needing to pull out an older game and dragging it up through Home.

 

[SadisticMystic]

In addition to Freeze Shock/Ice Burn, there are four other moves that for the first time are now possible to import into Home via Smeargle sketches: Glacial Lance, Astral Barrage, Behemoth Blade, and Behemoth Bash (no Torque moves unfortunately; those are specifically marked as unsketchable along with Dark Void, Hyperspace Fury, Revival Bessing, and Tera Starstorm). However, ILCA didn't seem to take these moves into account, and if you move a Smeargle that knows them into Home, the moveslots will show up on the mobile version with no name and a PLA mastery icon for some reason (whereas Freeze Shock and Ice Burn, which were available from the beginning, display normally, and the Switch version of Home does list the move names correctly). The new moves still get counted, though--the records section "Moves registered" can now go up to 826, even though using the Pokedex search function to display "All Moves" only lists 822.

 

[Coronis]

The Home Update added a few extra challenges, most pertaining to Teal Mask. Notably, very little pertaining to Indigo Disk.
This kind of seems like the "thing" they do now, just add challenges related to the last thing per update. Guess we'll get the ID challenges proper...next year, judging by the update rates for new games vs dlc.

Probably just as well, getting the new paradoxes out of the GTS is a giant pain. Neither of the violet paradoxes are asking for anything other than the Scarlets (or themselves), Raging Bolt is in the same situation and there are 2 Gouging Fires for reasonable stuff but they're not even hiding being hacked lmao. Level 100 in a Cherish Ball lmao, I have standards and feel there's a solid 50% chance that if I got one of those it'd be stuck with me. Awful.
Even asking for one is going poorly. Shinies? Nothing. Galarian Birds? Nadda.

But, good news for anyone who wants to fill the Move dex! Smeargle is finally back in a game with Kyurem, meaning you can rig up sketches for the black/white kyurem signature moves without needing to pull out an older game and dragging it up through Home.

Yeah was a bit annoying. Just went through on my second profile and put up my extra pair of IB and IC for trade requesting a normal GF and RB, took less than a day.

 

[Esserise]

In addition to Freeze Shock/Ice Burn, there are four other moves that for the first time are now possible to import into Home via Smeargle sketches: Glacial Lance, Astral Barrage, Behemoth Blade, and Behemoth Bash (no Torque moves unfortunately; those are specifically marked as unsketchable along with Dark Void, Hyperspace Fury, Revival Bessing, and Tera Starstorm). However, ILCA didn't seem to take these moves into account, and if you move a Smeargle that knows them into Home, the moveslots will show up on the mobile version with no name and a PLA mastery icon for some reason (whereas Freeze Shock and Ice Burn, which were available from the beginning, display normally, and the Switch version of Home does list the move names correctly). The new moves still get counted, though--the records section "Moves registered" can now go up to 826, even though using the Pokedex search function to display "All Moves" only lists 822.

As of today’s 3.1.2 update, the moves Glacial Lance, Astral Barrage, Behemoth Blade, and Behemoth Bash are now properly supported in the move list

 

[R_N]

As of today’s 3.1.2 update, the moves Glacial Lance, Astral Barrage, Behemoth Blade, and Behemoth Bash are now properly supported in the move list

ughhhh, just when I thought I was done with this.
time to find some ditto because those wild smeargle are NOT going to survive any of those moves. And trying to rig it against the BB rematches would be too luck based and take way more time.

 

[Esserise]

ughhhh, just when I thought I was done with this.
time to find some ditto because those wild smeargle are NOT going to survive any of those moves. And trying to rig it against the BB rematches would be too luck based and take way more time.

I got a Smeargle geared up with those moves last week because I figured the issue with how they’re displayed would finally get the devs’ attention about it

Edit: Also, there are new Challenges corresponding to the SV DLC:

- Register Walking Wake, Gouging Fire, and Raging Bolt

- Register Iron Leaves, Iron Boulder, and Iron Crown

- Register Pecharunt

- Fill in your Kitakami Pokédex

- Fill in your Blueberry Pokédex

 

[R_N]

Thankfully this didn't take too long, though I did learn that Dittos despawn when you run from battle so I had to find a new one between Sketches.

 

[Coronis]

Meh, probably not the thread for it but its in regards to Pokemon Home.

Finally got a SwSh origin Porygon-Z deposited in Home (had to trade a Gouging Fire but can always get more of them now I own both Scarlet and Violet) so now yay. (and no I’m not bothering going for L:A and BDSP- don’t own Lets Go, and only made a GO account at one point to get the “desposit a Pokemon from Pokemon GO” challenge done)

 

[QuentinQuonce]

Lmao I have 15 Pokemon from the Blueberry dex that are ScVi native. It'll be a while before I get my greasy mitts on that Meloetta.

This was what I feared. Well, I ain't grinding all over again just to get that Meloetta. Slow and steady it is, I'll get her in about a decade.

Let's all take a moment to laugh at my past self's blissful naïveté, shall we

Game Freak truly have my nuts in a vice, they know I can't ignore a collectathon for very long.

This was all done without actually owning a copy of ScVi, btw. Words cannot express the sheer pain of trading multiple times for a Clefairy hoping that one of them will turn out to have been caught in Paldea instead of Pokemon Go. Luckily I have a large backlog of mons in Home I could cheerfully sacrifice to the GTS. I ported a LOT of past-gen shinies ages back, and I pretty much send any redundant shinies from Go to Home so I've got a bunch I can use for a sure thing if no-one's biting. The Wonder Box certainly made things a lot easier, a lot of trashmons from all manner of games passed through and helped to bulk out my list.

Honestly, I feel like I should go and work in the stock market after this. Trading in this fashion on the GTS is all about judging worth and value - obviously, people generally like to feel like they're trading "up" so putting up a Wooloo and asking for a Skwovet probably won't get you very far: most times you end up trading an Aggron for a Scatterbug, or a Cinderace for a Cufant. By the end I'd learned to never trade for anything in any of the balls obtainable in Go because so often you make a trade for something that looks like it could have come from a main series game only to find out it doesn't.

Will probably keep at this until I've finished all the dexes since they said they'll be doing similar rewards for other completions. Pokemon from L:A tended to be pretty much the easiest ones to spot since they have to be in Hisui Pokeballs, so I ended up filling out my Hisui dex very quickly; Pokemon from BDSP and LGPE turned out to be annoyingly hard to find (anyone with those games feel like chucking me a few species...?!) Looking at the shiny mythicals we're yet to get, if I had to guess I'd say...

• shiny Victini or Marshadow for full Galar completion? I don't think they'd do Keldeo since it's already catchable in the CT (interesting they didn't do Galar+IoA+CT first, but it's possibly because they wanted shiny Meloetta available before the Unova tour in Go next year)
  
  
• shiny Manaphy for BDSP and L:A? (I know this one is technically available - I have a couple myself - but not officially)
  
  
• shiny Gigantamax Meltan for LGPE? (idk about this one - if they make it available at all, I think it's more likely to be via Go)
  
  
• shiny... something... for Go? Idk if they'll ever give a reward for completing the Go dex, it's just so immense. And unlikely to be complete for a very long time, at present only gens I, II, III, and V are fully available

But... yeah. Nice. Shiny Meloetta is very pretty and my feelings towards her are much the same as the Original Colour Magearna I worked hard to get several years ago.

Thank you! I'm looking forward to never, ever using her.

 

[R_N]

Let's all take a moment to laugh at my past self's blissful naïveté, shall we

Game Freak truly have my nuts in a vice, they know I can't ignore a collectathon for very long.

haha yeah....me with the Go Pokedex. And the Let's Go Pokedex....

Will probably keep at this until I've finished all the dexes since they said they'll be doing similar rewards for other completions. Pokemon from L:A tended to be pretty much the easiest ones to spot since they have to be in Hisui Pokeballs, so I ended up filling out my Hisui dex very quickly; Pokemon from BDSP and LGPE turned out to be annoyingly hard to find (anyone with those games feel like chucking me a few species...?!) Looking at the shiny mythicals we're yet to get, if I had to guess I'd say...

PM me a list of Pokemon you need and I can arrange almost everything from BDSP. I still have a ton of (mostly fully evolved) LG pokemon as well.

• shiny Victini or Marshadow for full Galar completion? I don't think they'd do Keldeo since it's already catchable in the CT (interesting they didn't do Galar+IoA+CT first, but it's possibly because they wanted shiny Meloetta available before the Unova tour in Go next year)

Well I mean, their first one of these was a shiny version of a Pokemon you can catch in the Indigo Disc so if anything I think that makes it more likely that Keldeo is their pick here.

• shiny Manaphy for BDSP and L:A? (I know this one is technically available - I have a couple myself - but not officially)

I am curious if they lump these together or not. Lumping SV with its DLC makes sense, but these are technically two separate games...although in order to even complete the Home L:A dex it requires SWSH & BDSP for Darkrai & Shaymin. I do agree Manaphy is probably the best bet for one or both of these; it's a limbo state where the shiny is legal but never officially recognized. Personally I think it'd be funny if BDSP's was Phione and L:A was Manaphy.

• shiny Gigantamax Meltan for LGPE? (idk about this one - if they make it available at all, I think it's more likely to be via Go)

I think if they choose a Pokemon for this, it'll be Shiny Mew. They love Mew as the special get for Kanto.
G-Max Melmetal would also be a bit awkward because it probably wouldn't be able to go into Let's Go.

And the kicker being Go can't transfer g-max pokemon....I don't think we'll ever get that thing.

• shiny... something... for Go? Idk if they'll ever give a reward for completing the Go dex, it's just so immense. And unlikely to be complete for a very long time, at present only gens I, II, III, and V are fully available

But... yeah. Nice. Shiny Meloetta is very pretty and my feelings towards her are much the same as the Original Colour Magearna I worked hard to get several years ago.

I doubt they ever give something for beating the Go dex unless they do it in tiers. Like for as long as Go exists, it will be existing alongside a series that presents new Pokemon nearly every year, so they can't even finish it at all....

And most importantly: literally impossible to even have all the Pokemon. Zygarde will probably become transferrable when there's more than one (1) tied to a feature but Spinda is cooked unless they decide to do any of these:
-Set it up so that on transfer it generates a Spinda that is exactly a match
-Get over themselves about consistency and just let Spinda's spots randomize
-Create a set of Spinda that explicitly match the Go spot patterns and let you transfer that (I would like this one, because heart Spot Spinda is very cute)
-Create a "random spot" spinda whose entire gimmick is you dont know what it is until transfer
-Create a default spinda and that's the new spinda all games default to forever

(btw DID YOU KNOW? The Go Safari Ball pokemon ALSO cannot be transferred to Home)

 

[QuentinQuonce]

PM me a list of Pokemon you need and I can arrange almost everything from BDSP. I still have a ton of (mostly fully evolved) LG pokemon as well.

Ooh fabulous thanks, will do.

Well I mean, their first one of these was a shiny version of a Pokemon you can catch in the Indigo Disc so if anything I think that makes it more likely that Keldeo is their pick here.


I am curious if they lump these together or not. Lumping SV with its DLC makes sense, but these are technically two separate games...although in order to even complete the Home L:A dex it requires SWSH & BDSP for Darkrai & Shaymin. I do agree Manaphy is probably the best bet for one or both of these; it's a limbo state where the shiny is legal but never officially recognized. Personally I think it'd be funny if BDSP's was Phione and L:A was Manaphy.

There's a lot of overlap between L:A and BDSP in terms of save file bonuses and so on so I could see those two lumped together (and also more for the fact that BDSP's measly dex of 150 isn't exactly a massive challenge... assuming you have the games of course)

I think if they choose a Pokemon for this, it'll be Shiny Mew. They love Mew as the special get for Kanto.
G-Max Melmetal would also be a bit awkward because it probably wouldn't be able to go into Let's Go.

I'm not certain about this, they do love Mew but shiny Mew is pretty much blue chip for Game Freak so I don't know if they'd want it permanently available - better to restrict it to events and so on. Even when it's been available in Go it's only ever been for a couple of brief periods.

And the kicker being Go can't transfer g-max pokemon....I don't think we'll ever get that thing.

I doubt they ever give something for beating the Go dex unless they do it in tiers. Like for as long as Go exists, it will be existing alongside a series that presents new Pokemon nearly every year, so they can't even finish it at all....

And most importantly: literally impossible to even have all the Pokemon. Zygarde will probably become transferrable when there's more than one (1) tied to a feature but Spinda is cooked unless they decide to do any of these:
-Set it up so that on transfer it generates a Spinda that is exactly a match
-Get over themselves about consistency and just let Spinda's spots randomize
-Create a set of Spinda that explicitly match the Go spot patterns and let you transfer that (I would like this one, because heart Spot Spinda is very cute)
-Create a "random spot" spinda whose entire gimmick is you dont know what it is until transfer
-Create a default spinda and that's the new spinda all games default to forever

(btw DID YOU KNOW? The Go Safari Ball pokemon ALSO cannot be transferred to Home)

Yes, I should have stated "all the possible Pokemon": the Go dex on Home excludes all mythicals, so they're obviously not required even though it's perfectly possible to transfer them (and despite the fact that almost all the mythicals in Go have been available more than once). The fact that Zygarde is in there indicates that there'll almost certainly be more of them available - possibly next year, or maybe not until 2026's assumed Kalos Tour. Pretty much all the Home dexes are intentionally incomplete except for Hisui's: even the Meloetta requirement excludes Walking Wake, Iron Leaves, and Pecharunt (though interestingly the former two are part of the Go dex, indicating that when they eventually come to Go they'll be raidable repeatedly like anything else. Which makes sense, there's no reason they should be any more special than the other paradoxes).

But yes they would have to do it in tiers, which does make it tricky since Gen IV is still unfinished. As I say I'm not sure they'd do a reward at all for this one, it is as you highlight very much a sidepiece to the main games.

The Safari Ball issue is something I expect to eventually be fixed: if these sorts of events become a mainstay there'll be an ongoing demand to let Pokemon in those balls be transferable. I've already seen people making use of them to catch the Galarian birds in since it increases the catch rate so massively. Possibly the ball identifier doesn't match the MSG version of the Safari Ball (or possibly they just want to make them more exclusive for the time being, but it's Niantic so always assume a coding fuckup). I also expect G-Max Pokemon to eventually become transferable from Go, I think it's likely to be a teething issue as they're probably still working out how to ensure transferred mons keep the Gigantamax Factor.

Could be wrong, though. I was expecting Origin Dialga/Palkia to eventually be transferrable - there's no reason those two shouldn't just revert back to their standard forms like Giratina and Castform do. Hoopa still hasn't been fixed either: Unbound form can be transferred to Home no issue from USUM, but for some reason it has to be in Confined form to be transferred out of Go. Maybe they just can't be bothered to tweak that one, it's been a full two years since Hoopa was even available.

 

[R_N]

I'm not certain about this, they do love Mew but shiny Mew is pretty much blue chip for Game Freak so I don't know if they'd want it permanently available - better to restrict it to events and so on. Even when it's been available in Go it's only ever been for a couple of brief periods.

On the other hand beyond Go's 2 paid tickets that require an obscene amount of time to complete as effectively end-game content, the last time Shiny Mew has been available at all was the Japanese-exclusive Emerald Faraway Island event. Before that it was a 0.5% give away in Gen 2. And I think GameFreak cares way more about their own stuff than Go being the main avenue, long term.

Also I suppose ideally drive sales of Let's Go a little more. It's the oldest of the switch titles and the "worst selling" of the bunch iirc, so a little incentive to get this one on the side for the Pokemon everyone loves and also they keep making merchandise of despite not generally being, like. Available to anyone.



Honestly wonder if dexit, Go and stuff like Shining Treasures is what got them to do stuff like this & making Mythics more available as bonus content in the first place. Mythical releases are super scattershot, the shiny mythic releases even more so, not to mention all the shiny mythics never released to begin with.

 

[pika pal]

Yes, I should have stated "all the possible Pokemon": the Go dex on Home excludes all mythicals, so they're obviously not required even though it's perfectly possible to transfer them (and despite the fact that almost all the mythicals in Go have been available more than once). The fact that Zygarde is in there indicates that there'll almost certainly be more of them available - possibly next year, or maybe not until 2026's assumed Kalos Tour. Pretty much all the Home dexes are intentionally incomplete except for Hisui's: even the Meloetta requirement excludes Walking Wake, Iron Leaves, and Pecharunt (though interestingly the former two are part of the Go dex, indicating that when they eventually come to Go they'll be raidable repeatedly like anything else. Which makes sense, there's no reason they should be any more special than the other paradoxes).

But yes they would have to do it in tiers, which does make it tricky since Gen IV is still unfinished. As I say I'm not sure they'd do a reward at all for this one, it is as you highlight very much a sidepiece to the main games.

The Safari Ball issue is something I expect to eventually be fixed: if these sorts of events become a mainstay there'll be an ongoing demand to let Pokemon in those balls be transferable. I've already seen people making use of them to catch the Galarian birds in since it increases the catch rate so massively. Possibly the ball identifier doesn't match the MSG version of the Safari Ball (or possibly they just want to make them more exclusive for the time being, but it's Niantic so always assume a coding fuckup). I also expect G-Max Pokemon to eventually become transferable from Go, I think it's likely to be a teething issue as they're probably still working out how to ensure transferred mons keep the Gigantamax Factor.

Could be wrong, though. I was expecting Origin Dialga/Palkia to eventually be transferrable - there's no reason those two shouldn't just revert back to their standard forms like Giratina and Castform do. Hoopa still hasn't been fixed either: Unbound form can be transferred to Home no issue from USUM, but for some reason it has to be in Confined form to be transferred out of Go. Maybe they just can't be bothered to tweak that one, it's been a full two years since Hoopa was even available.

The Safari Ball issue seems like a case of deliberate design. People are reporting the catch boost functions similar to Beast Balls (which had a boost on Necrozma unlike MSG so presumably the Ball identifier on the caught mon isn't linked to the catch boost). They are insistent on referring to them as "Go Safari Balls" compared to the other Poke Balls all just having their standard terminology, and there is the "Go" lettering printed on the Ball to distinguish it which gives me the suspicion this was intentional, since this is the first time players have access to these kind of "Super Catch" boost options for things like the Galarian Birds (which they still clearly want to keep scarce).

G-Max Pokemon just feels like incompetence since to my knowledge it should just be a flag in both cases that denotes which form they become and the form should then be in charge of the move replacement. I know Go has a measure in place where you can't transfer away your last Dynamax Pokemon (presumably to avoid being locked out of Max Battle Participation) which is the only reason I can't rule it out as intentional. We know GO can recognize GMax forms more specifically because they're treated as Special Trades akin to Legendary and Shiny Pokemon.

Origin Palkia and Dialga are the weird ones, my only guess is the Spaghetti Code on Adventure Effect eligibility broke their identifier for transfer. Necrozma has the excuse of being fused if they wanted but nothing for these two.

 

[Coronis]

This was all done without actually owning a copy of ScVi, btw.

Curious, why’d you never try it?

 

[QuentinQuonce]

Curious, why’d you never try it?

I'm just not invested enough at this point. When I was younger I'd primarily get each new console for Pokemon, with some various other games like Mario or Zelda or whatever - I had about 15 different DS games and my 3DS is full of other downloaded stuff - but I didn't get a Switch before SwSh came out and the news about Dexit, coupled with the general lacklustre presentation of those games and the fact that there weren't any other Switch games which particularly interested me, was enough to stop me doing so. It didn't help that it was also a point in my life where my finances were more stretched in general as I'd just moved to a new city. L:A is the only recent game I've been interested in playing but on its own it's not enough to make me buy an entire console.

I still play a lot of the older games semi-regularly (as well as being in a varyingly active Pokemon Go community) and so that scratches the itch game-wise. Having Home is kind of for convenience more than anything else since it's an app on my phone* - but if I ever do decide to get one of the new games I'll have some species already set aside I could possibly use for playthroughs/breeding.

*it's also somewhere to send redundant shinies/legendaries from Go rather than just wasting them by transferring them - they're excellent trade fodder

 

[R_N]

Since there's always lingering questions and now people care about Meloetta I tried to write up Completing Home Pokedexes, A Primer

The National Dex

• Tracks all currently released Pokemon.
• Entries are added regardless of where or who the Pokemon came from. A Pikachu from Tim in Fire Red will count just the same as a Pikachu from Ben in Scarlet.
• When importing data from Bank, that Pokedex will carry over as well.
• Individual forms are tracked.
  • "Temporary" forms such as Sky Forme Shaymin, Hero Palafin, Zen Mode Darmanitan, Mega Evolutions, Primal Reversion, etc, etc are automatically added so long as the base Pokemon is present
  • Exception are Gigantamax forms as those require having a Pokemon with the G-Max Factor
  • The Mobile Version has more granular tracking that you can see at any time by turning on the "All Forms" filter. As of 11/27 there are 1446 forms tracked.
  • While Alcremie tracks Color and Decoration, you only need to put a Color into Home. Putting Vanilla Cream with Strawberry in Home will still give you the "entries" for all Decorations for Vanilla Cream.
  • Notable forms that are easy to over look: Bothforms of G-Max Toxtricity, Battle Bond Greninja, Own Tempo Rockruff.
    • Despite being different forms internally, Power Construct 10% & 50% Zygarde aren't counted separately.
• Gender differences are tracked but only when viewing a specific Pokemon. IE: The search won't differentiate between Male & Female Murkrow, but you only see a given option while viewing Murkrow's dex entry page.
• Shinies are tracked by specific form, including gender if possible. IE: It will not differentiate between Male & Female Hydrapple but it WILL differentiate between Male & Female Murkrow.
• Reward: Original Color Magearna.
  • Requirement: Every Pokemon from Bulbasaur to Eternatus.
    • This requirement was NOT updated to include anything past Eternatus, even the SWSH DLC.
    • This requirement does NOT count entries carried over from Pokemon Bank's Pokedex. You must have those Pokemon touch your Home account to count, even if you already "have" the entry
    • This requirement does NOT require every form or gender difference

Individual Game Pokedexes

• Home tracks individual Pokedexes for all Switch-generation games.
• Entries are on a Pokemon-by-Pokemon basis. IE: Obtaining a SWSH Urshifu will not retroactively give you an entry for SWSH Kubfu.
• The SWSH & SV DLC Pokedexes are counted separately.
• Their Origin Mark MUST match the game to count for it. IE: A Pikachu from Let's Go will not count for BDSP, SV or SWSH
• These do not have to come from your games. So long as they have been in your Home account at some point, they will count.
• It does not matter if the Pokemon have entered other games before coming to you. It does not change their Origin Mark IE: A SWSH Pikachu that went to SV then was traded to you, will still count as a SWSH Pikachu and not a SV Pikachu.
• The DLCs do NOT differentiate between their areas. IE: A Tynamo caught anywhere in SV will always have the Paldea mark and will count for the Paldea, Kitakami AND Blueberry Pokedex.
• Unless a specific regional form is specified, any form will count so long as the Origin matches.
  • Example: Let's Go has one entry for "Geodude", however if you obtain an Alolan Geodude from Let's Go, it will still count.
  • Example: The Blueberry Pokedex specifies "Alolan Vulpix", so the regular Vulpix will NOT count for that entry.
• Mythical/Event Pokemon are NOT counted with the current sole exception of Legends: Arceus
  • For Legends: Arceus this means you must also have the Shaymin & Darkrai you can only obtain through save data bonuses.
  • Note that while Walking Wake & Iron Leaves are treated as events for the Blueberry Pokedex, they are not actually "Mythical" Pokemon so they are present in the Go Pokedex
• Legends Arceus DOES track Pokedex Rank completion when displaying the actual Pokedex entries. I am unsure how this affects the Crown or how this might affect future Rewards.
• Go's Pokedex is currently impossible to complete, as it tracks Pokemon not available in Go yet. Most likely it will never have a reward associated with it. The current max number as of 11/27 is 860.
  • Spinda & Zygarde are obtainable in Go but currently cannot be transferred.
  • Basculegion, Kingambit, Dudunsparce, & Farigiraf aren't available in Go yet, but because their pre-evolutions are you can evolve them and register those that way.
• TIP: Rather than seek out each individual Pokemon, if you obtain an earlier stage you can evolve it and put it back in Home this will count for that entry as well.
• Rewards:
  • Various Challenges that give a Backdrop
    • Requirement: Completing their respective Pokedex
  • Shiny Meloetta
    • Requirement: Complete the Paldea, Kitakami & Blueberry Pokedexes
  • More rewards are on the way but we don't know when, what Pokemon will be given out or for what games.

 

[Kurona]

Notable forms that are easy to over look: Bothforms of G-Max Toxtricity, Battle Bond Greninja, Own Tempo Rockruff.

I fully never knew this, thank you! That's actually rather frustrating as G-Maxes otherwise total a round 30 which fit satisfyingly, perfectly in a single box... but Toxtricity just has to break that now :( Gen 6 Living Dex Volcanion all over again...

 

[Esserise]

I fully never knew this, thank you! That's actually rather frustrating as G-Maxes otherwise total a round 30 which fit satisfyingly, perfectly in a single box... but Toxtricity just has to break that now :( Gen 6 Living Dex Volcanion all over again...

So there’s actually a weird thing about that — Toxtricity’s Gigantamax “forms” are only counted separately on the mobile version of HOME. On the Switch version, there’s only one listing for G-Max Toxtricity.

 

[R_N]

I fully never knew this, thank you! That's actually rather frustrating as G-Maxes otherwise total a round 30 which fit satisfyingly, perfectly in a single box... but Toxtricity just has to break that now :( Gen 6 Living Dex Volcanion all over again...

Yeah it's something I didn't know myself because...

So there’s actually a weird thing about that — Toxtricity’s Gigantamax “forms” are only counted separately on the mobile version of HOME. On the Switch version, there’s only one listing for G-Max Toxtricity.

Of this. Rockruff is in the same boat. It's what makes the Zygardes not differentiating weird.

here's another fun quirk in that same vein: open up Home and check the entries for 10 or 50 % and you'll see the only ability listed is Aura Break. Power Construct only gets listed with the Perfect form

I think ILCA's website only ever shows off the Mobile version. Makes me wonder if the two versions have different teams on them. It'd explain a number of things if so....

 

[Terimas]

I think ILCA's website only ever shows off the Mobile version. Makes me wonder if the two versions have different teams on them. It'd explain a number of things if so....

The Switch version of Home was developed by Game Freak.

There is a lot of misinformation online saying that ILCA developed and maintains all of Home but their responsibility has always been just handling the mobile port of Home. Game Freak is the main party that handles any big decisions regarding Home and its functionalities.

 

[VividBunnie]

Oh hey, finally got motivation to play Sinnoh and Hisui again. I wonder where I left my origin mark dex entry progress at-

I really should take this as a wakeup call to finally finish the Sword + DLC dexes but I am still reeling from the fact having 1/3 of Hisui's done doesn't lessen the pain that all the distortion exclusives aren't accounted for on that list. Less said about the sad state of progress on my Sinnoh dex, the better...

 

[QuentinQuonce]

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Oh hey, finally got motivation to play Sinnoh and Hisui again. I wonder where I left my origin mark dex entry progress at-

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I really should take this as a wakeup call to finally finish the Sword + DLC dexes but I am still reeling from the fact having 1/3 of Hisui's done doesn't lessen the pain that all the distortion exclusives aren't accounted for on that list. Less said about the sad state of progress on my Sinnoh dex, the better...

Oh WHAT

Curveball!

Currently 81/150 for Sinnoh and 135/242 for Hisui, so yes, anyone who can help, please do...

 

[Worldie]

The good news is that we finally have a shiny reward from Home that's usable in VGC.

The bad news is that it sucks :(

At least LA being self contained lets you fill the entire dex on your own if you have the patience.
I assume reasoning most of us has a pretty low Hisui dex is that noone really bothers transferring unevolved or common mons

 

[R_N]

Ah, picked up my Manaphy & Enamorus now. Wonderful.
If SWSH & Let's Go also get Mythics it'll be very funny to have all these shiny mythics and also Enamorus lol.




Anyway unless Enamorus specifically doesn't look for them, you'll need a SWSH & BDSP save file or someone to actively trade you them because the Home version of the Hisui dex wants both Shaymin & Darkrai

 

[Terimas]

Fortunately I had already done 98% of the work needed towards completing the Hisui Dex through trades (my final missing entry was Abra which was a pain), so the only thing left to do is to touch trade the missing mythicals.

BDSP will be much tougher since they don't have the Hisuian Poke Ball indicator, and there generally seems to be a lot fewer BDSP Pokémon in circulation. I'm only at 74/150 so it'll be a lot tougher ordeal to get this done.