Guide for Po ke mon HOME

Your biggest Pokemon Home questions, answered

Pokemon Home is finally here, and with it come questions.

The new application to help trainers organize their Pokemon and bring them up to the current generation of games is available on multiple platforms, including Nintendo Switch, Android, and iOS devices. But with so much going on, it can be a little scary. In this Pokémon Home guide, we‘ll answer your biggest questions below.

WHAT IS POKÉMON HOME?

Pokémon Home is an online storage and trading system for the Pokémon games. The Pokémon Bank app previously served a similar function for the Nintendo 3DS games, but now that Pokémon has expanded to the Nintendo Switch, there’s a new way to transfer and trade Pokémon.

WHERE I DOWNLOAD POKÉMON HOME?

It’s an app for the Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android, though the mobile functionality is different than the Nintendo Switch functionality.

WHAT GAMES CAN I TRANSFER POKÉMON FROM?

As of this writing, you can only transfer Pokémon from Pokémon Bank, Pokémon: Let’s Go, Eevee and Pikachu, and Pokémon Sword and Shield to Pokémon Home. Eventually, you’ll be able to transfer from Pokémon Go, but that feature is not available yet.

Note that moving Pokémon from Pokémon Bank and Pokémon Go to Pokémon Home is a one-way trip: After transferring to Pokémon Home, they cannot go back.

If you transfer Pokémon from Let’s Go, Eevee and Pikachu to Sword and Shield, they can’t go back to their original games, either. But you can move Pokémon from Let’s Go, Eevee and Pikachu to Pokémon Home and then back to their original games.