For those looking to transfer your Pokémon to Pokémon Home
I know there are a fair number of people that said they're looking to transfer their Pokémon to Home before they quit the game. I think it's worth reminding people of some things about the process:
- Event/costumed Pokémon, fused Pokémon, Shadows, Gigantamax, Pokémon caught in the Go Safari Balls, Spinda, Origin Forms Dialga & Palkia, Zygarde & Kubfu & the Last Dynamax Pokémon you have cannot be sent to Pokémon Home. Also, any Pokémon that you have in Gyms, buddy, at Power Spots etc.
- Purified Pokémon, Lucky Pokémon & Dynamax Pokémon will NOT keep anything special about them.
- Castform, Genesect, Giratina & Cherrim will all be in their base forms upon transferring. So if you tranfer Origin form Giratina it'll be its altered form in Home.
- Storage limit if you don't have a premium plan for Pokemon Home is 30 Pokemon. With it,, it goes up to 6,000, but you will have to pay the upkeep if you plan on wanting access to those Pokémon if you plan on playing any of the switch games or Pokémon Champions when it comes out.
- 25 Pokemon at maximum can be sent at 1 time & will need to be accepted in Home before anymore can be sent.
- 100%/perfect Pokémon will no longer be so due to the way stats transfer. They'll become at the very least, 5 perfect stat Pokémon after conversion, so they'll still have use for breeding in most of the switch games.
Now for the big one: Transporter cost. The biggest limitation to clearing out what you want to keep of your Pokémon Go is the fact that we get a certain amount of transporter energy, which is 10,000. If we hit this, we either have to wait about a week to transfer more or pay coins to bypass it. Below is the a table with some values to help figure what you might want to prioritize:
| Kind of Pokemon | Normal | Legendary/Ultra Beast | Mythical |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base (Any 10-1000 CP) | 10 | 1,000 | 2,000 |
| Shiny | 1,990 | 9,000 | 8,000 |
| CP 1,001-2000 | 100 | 300 | 500 |
| CP 2000+ | 300 | 500 | 700 |
So, lets do some math here.
Normal, non-shiny Pokémon below 1001 CP costing 10 energy per Pokémon will cost 250 for a group of 25. You can transfer 40 groups of 25 (1,000 Pokémon) while fully depleting the energy.
Normal Pokémon of CP 1001-2000 will cost an extra 100 energy per Pokémon. This cuts down on the number of Pokémon that can be transferred. 91 Pokémon can be sent at this CP range.
Normal Pokémon of CP 2000+ will require 310 energy per Pokémon you want to transfer, so the most that you can transfer from this CP range would be 32 Pokémon.
Shinies, Legendaries, Ultra Beasts & Mythical don't need as much math for you to see that the rarer & stronger the Pokémon is, the more depleted the transporter energy will be.
In short, transferring your collection of Pokémon will likely cost you not only time but also money in order to keep the stuff you collected. Edit: It takes around a full week to be able to transfer more for free.
Edit 1: Now for some other pieces of information:
- When you transfer your Pokémon to Home, their IVs will be translated over into the 5 of the 6 stats that the Main Series Games (MSG) uses. Attack, Defense & Stamina all use the same formula (2 X Go IV+1).
For example, a 15/15/15 aka perfect stat Pokémon will end up having IVs of 31 for everything but possibly Speed. The speed stat will be randomly picked from 0-31. This of course also means those treasured 0% Pokemon will just be low IV Pokémon in Home.
Levels will round to the nearest whole number between 1-50.
When transferred to Pokémon Home, Your Pokémon will NOT have the moves that they had in Pokemon Go. They'll be given an approximate moveset based on their current level from one of the games that they can be transferred to, or that they can learn if they can't go into any game right now. You can always teach them any move on the Switch version of Home.