New Pokémon HOME Details

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Pokémon HOME is set to launch in February 2020 and today a ton of new information about the cloud-based service has been released.

The official Pokémon website has updated with details about the new service and we have summarised it below to make it easy to understand exactly what we can expect when it launches next month.

How much will Pokémon HOME cost?

Both free and paid plans will be available when the service launches. One month of the Premium plan will cost $2.99, while three months will be $4.99 and a full year will be $15.99.

Free Plan

  • Store up to 30 Pokémon
  • Deposit 3 Pokémon in Wonder Box at a time
  • Deposit 1 Pokémon in the GTS
  • Participate in Room Trades

Premium Plan

  • Store up to 6000 Pokémon
  • Transfer Pokémon from Bank to HOME
  • Deposit 10 Pokémon for Wonder Box
  • Participate and host Room Trades
  • See Pokémon IVs

Game Compatability

  • The Nintendo Switch version of Pokémon HOME is able to connect with Pokémon Sword, Pokémon Shield, Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu!, and Pokémon: Let’s Go, Eevee!
    • If a Pokémon is transferred from Pokémon Let’s Go, Pikachu!/Eevee to Pokémon Sword/Shield it cannot be transferred back to the Let’s Go games – Pokémon can however be transferred freely between both Let’s Go games
  • Both Nintendo Switch version and the mobile version of Pokémon HOME are able to connect with Pokémon Bank with future plans to support Pokémon GO

Trading

Pokémon HOME features four ways to trade your Pokémon with other players:

  • Wonder Box allows players to randomly trade with people around the world
  • GTS allows players to search for specific Pokémon they are seeking and wish to receive
  • Room Trade allows players to create a room and trade among the people in the room, up to a maximum of 20 individuals
  • Friend Trade grants the ability to trade with friends added through the Add Friend function in Pokémon HOME
  • The number Pokémon players are able to trade at once when using the Wonder Box and GTS can be increased with a Premium Plan. Players can only create room in Room Trade if they are enrolled in a Premium Plan

Additional Features

  • Pokémon HOME will feature a National Dex with information on every Pokémon
  • Players will have a “room” to customize with games they’ve traded from and stickers

Let us know what you think of the new details announced and what Pokémon you’re looking forward to transferring! Join us on Discord for even more discussions.

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69 thoughts on “New Pokémon HOME Details”

  1. Well maybe today will be the day I go to Gamestop and prepare for the future

    Buying the Sword Expansion Pass and Fighter Pass 2. Kind of have decided I’ll wait to get AC or PMD, I’ll just wait to see what others say about the latter and the former I just feel paying $120 at the beginning of the year is a bit too much for me than just updating what I’ve already got

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  7. Damn it mobile Disqus is doing that thing where when I have to log in (which it never keeps me logged in if I refresh) making go to the site and put it in manually instead of auto logging me, I HATE THAT

    Hopefully this goes through

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  8. If Scorpion joined Smash, could yall see any Nintendo characters joining MK11 Switch? Bayonetta would fit very well, but she’s not really a Nintendo character even if the games are exclusive

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  9. So random thing to share. This week I’ve started drinking coffee. I’ve done this so I can drastically cut down on soda. And honestly it’s helping me a lot. First day this week I had two sodas. Second day I had all together pretty much one large mcds soda and yesterday I barely drank any. Like maybe a quarter of a large at McDonald’s. My cravings for it have pretty much gone down almost completely. Plus it’s helping my sleep schedule as well. Not going to bed nearly as late as before and have woke up every morning before 10 which is shocking for me. I’ll be keeping this up! Just wanted to share this life update!

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  11. Real talk
    I hate Bleth… I don’t want to see him or his cereal box toy collection mucking up the meta

    I’ve been fighting them all night last night and they’re just extremely annoying, I already have a issue with spammers and long range fighters but when you give yet another anime weeb a arsenal of long range attacks then I gotta put my foot down

    The sheer fact they get so much range from their aerials make them a problem. This one chode just kept trying to bank off back airs and the spinny air neutral nothing else and eventually pro players are gonna put them to better use and just make it not fun to play against

    In conclusion I sincerely hope Bleth get his intestines chewed out by disgruntled wolverines on a caffeine binge

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  17. So I finally bought the first fighters pass in smash. My judgement of the characters so far.
    1. Hero
    2. Banjo
    3. Byleth
    4. Joker
    5. Terry
    Going purely by how much I enjoy playing as them. So curious what the six from the second pass will be. Still hoping for Crash Bandicoot

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  19. This isn’t really a prediction, just an idea I had based on the Meteodaina rumor.
    Meteodaina
    Type: Grass/Fairy
    Ability: Purity (makes this Pokémon immune to poison type moves and being poisoned)
    Meteodaina hop from one planet to another, in search of conditions suitable for life. Once they find a planet suitable, they anchor themselves there and help facilitate the beginning of new life.
    It is rumored that Meteodaina are in fact creatures who have genetically manipulated by strange technology used by an alien
    civilisation far away in the universe. They are said to originate from similar technology that birthed Eternatus. While Eternatus was engineered to function as a sink and absorb energy into itself, Meteodaina was created to help spread life. Both creations are rumored to be last resorts of a highly advanced civilization that met it’s end due to running out of energy.

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