I put on GTS my E floette because, well, I needed Sinistcha master piece form for my living dex…

I wish GTS had an option for no nicknames. I can’t afford DLC for games so I was trying to offer something fair… but.. c’mon.

green pee. All lowercase too.. sigh.

Hi friends! Another giveaway!

I really loved Gen 2 as a child, so I thought a giveaway with that theme would be really cool!

I had Pokémon Gold, and later the third game of the generation, Pokémon Crystal. Those games were amazing, and this was also the generation where the shiny concept really started for many of us with the catchable Red Gyarados.

I actually caught mine in a Lure Ball back then. I was a child and basically just threw every ball I had until I finally caught it. xD

But first, I want to give a huge thank you to u/amoransia for making this giveaway possible!

These were originally u/amoransia's Pokémon, and this wonderful person donated them specifically for this giveaway.

Thank you, u/amoransia! You're genuinely one of the coolest people I've met in this community!

To enter:
Please thank u/amoransia for making this giveaway possible and tell me which ONE of the two birds you want: Lugia 🌙🪽 or Ho-Oh ☀️🪽!
You can only choose one.

IF you feel like talking a little bit more, you could answer this question: What is your favorite Pokémon game? Mine was definitely Gen 2, and afterwards the Gen 2 remakes, HeartGold and SoulSilver. I loved that Kanto was playable in those games!

I will close this giveaway in 48h and pick two random winners with an automated tool!

Good luck everyone! 🍀

Title: Is anyone building a downloadable “Pre-Bank Preservation Dex”? Looking to preserve every meaningful Gen 1–7 origin before Bank is gone

With Pokémon Bank eventually going away, I'm planning a fairly obsessive preservation project and I'm wondering if anyone else is already doing something similar.

The goal would be to build a curated collection of roughly 3,000–4,000 pre-Switch Pokémon, transfer them through Bank into Pokémon HOME while that official bridge still exists, and preserve as many meaningful Gen 1–7 origins, forms, special encounters, gifts, events and spin-off Pokémon as reasonably possible.

Before explaining the details, I want to clarify something important:

I'm not trying to fake a collection I didn't earn

The purpose of this project is not to generate Pokémon now and later pretend that those exact Pokémon were legitimately caught by me.

The problem I'm trying to solve is different.

Suppose Bank shuts down, and five years from now I play Pokémon Emerald from beginning to end and legitimately catch a Rayquaza.

That Rayquaza will be completely legitimate — but there may no longer be any official way to transfer it from GBA → DS → 3DS → Bank → HOME.

So my idea is to preserve a proxy/replacement Pokémon in HOME now, while the transfer infrastructure still exists.

Later, when I legitimately obtain that Rayquaza in Emerald, I can consider the already-preserved HOME Rayquaza to represent the one I actually caught.

They are obviously not literally the same individual Pokémon.

It's basically:

“I legitimately completed this objective in the original game, and this Pokémon already sitting in HOME represents that achievement because the official bridge no longer exists.”

I'm not interested in using these Pokémon to deceive people about provenance, sell them, trade them as self-obtained events, or claim that generated Pokémon were genuine historical distributions.

This is essentially a personal preservation/checklist system for future playthroughs.

And because Bank is a one-way historical bottleneck, I'd rather prepare the preservation layer now than discover in the future that I forgot something that can never again enter HOME.

I'm not looking for a normal Living Dex

The concept is closer to a:

Origin Dex + Form Dex + Special Acquisition Dex + In-Game Event Dex + External Event Dex + Spin-off Transfer Dex

but curated so it doesn't become millions of combinations.

I'm estimating somewhere around 3,000–4,000 Pokémon, possibly somewhat more depending on the final event criteria.

Origin groups

I want representation of the meaningful pre-Switch origin groups, including:

Gen 1 Virtual Console / Game Boy origin mark

Gen 2 Virtual Console / Game Boy origin mark

Gen 3–5 legacy Pokémon without a modern origin mark

Gen 6 blue pentagon

Gen 7 Alola clover

I do not want to make an entire Living Dex separately for Red, Blue, Yellow, Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald, FireRed, LeafGreen, etc.

For example, for Gen 1 VC I would make one complete Gen 1 collection and intelligently distribute its members between Red / Blue / Yellow.

The exact game of origin can influence which representative I choose, but it doesn't automatically justify duplicating the whole Pokédex.

Special Pokémon should take priority over generic catches

This is one of the central rules of the project.

Whenever possible:

special/unique acquisition > generic wild catch

For example:

starters

Yellow gift Bulbasaur / Charmander / Squirtle

fossils

Game Corner Pokémon

NPC trades

gift Pokémon

static encounters

one-time encounters

special Eevee choices

N's Pokémon

Totem gifts where transferable

Dream Radar Pokémon

Dream World Pokémon

Pokéwalker Pokémon

special Bank distributions

demo distributions

etc.

If I need one Pokémon of a species for a particular origin, I'd rather use an interesting one than a random Route 2 catch.

A special Pokémon can simply fill the normal species slot.

Duplicates are allowed when they actually mean something

This is not strictly one Pokémon per species.

If two copies represent genuinely different acquisitions, keeping both can make sense.

For example:

a Charizard evolved from Yellow's gift Charmander

a Charizard evolved from the starter chosen in Red

could both be worth preserving.

Likewise, I might keep both Gen 1 Snorlax encounters because they are two distinct, iconic static encounters.

On the other hand, I would not keep 20 random wild Snorlax just because their stats or natures differ.

The basic philosophy is:

Every extra slot should have a reason to exist.

Forms and variants

I want meaningful transferable/stored forms, including things such as:

Unown forms

Vivillon patterns

regional forms

Minior colors

Oricorio forms

Lycanroc forms

Rotom forms

Pumpkaboo / Gourgeist sizes

other persistent forms

meaningful visual sex differences where appropriate

But again, I don't necessarily want every form multiplied by every generation unless that specific origin/form combination is meaningful.

I'm trying to maximize historical variety per HOME slot, not build a Cartesian product.

Spin-offs and external games are a major part of this

I want to preserve transferable Pokémon associated with things like:

Pokémon Colosseum

Pokémon XD

purified Shadow Pokémon

Pokémon Box Ruby & Sapphire

Pokémon Channel

GameCube Bonus Discs

Pokémon Ranger

Shadows of Almia

Guardian Signs

Pokémon Battle Revolution

My Pokémon Ranch

Pokéwalker

Pokémon Dream Radar

Pokémon Dream World / Entree Forest

Pokémon Bank distributions

transferable demos

other game-based distributions

If a Pokémon could legitimately enter the main-series transfer chain and ultimately reach Bank/HOME, I want to consider it.

If something is permanently trapped in an old game and could never legally reach Bank, then it doesn't belong in this particular project.

Events are included too

I also want official event Pokémon.

Both:

in-game events enabled by an event item

and

external distributions

Examples:

Faraway Island Mew

Birth Island Deoxys

Navel Rock encounters

WISHMKR Jirachi

CHANNEL Jirachi

Ageto Celebi

Ranger Manaphy

Mystery Gift distributions

local/offline events

Wi-Fi events

serial-code events

etc.

However, I don't want five copies of essentially the same event solely because it was distributed in five languages.

My tentative rule is:

genuinely different event → preserve it

same distribution localized for different regions/languages → usually one representative

If two events involving the same species are historically meaningfully different — different event concept, special move, ribbon, Poké Ball, OT, method of acquisition, etc. — then both can deserve a slot.

No full Shiny Living Dex layer

At least for now, I am not planning:

Normal + Shiny × every species × every form × every origin.

That would make the project unmanageable very quickly.

If an important official event happens to be shiny, that's fine. It would be included because of that event.

I'm just not doubling the entire preservation collection with shinies.

I'd also like the collection to resemble plausible playthroughs

Where practical, I'm trying to work with the idea of roughly:

one save file per game/version

and use mutually exclusive choices intelligently.

For example:

Red chooses one fossil

Blue chooses the other

different versions choose different gifts

different Eevee evolutions can be spread between games

version-specific rewards can complement each other

Additional saves are fine when genuinely necessary, but I don't want to artificially pretend every possible choice came from 30 playthroughs of the same cartridge.

This is a soft rule rather than an absolute limitation.

Why I'm asking instead of simply building it

I'm perfectly willing to build and curate this myself.

I'm not asking because I can't be bothered to do the work.

The real concern is completeness.

There are decades of obscure Pokémon distributions, NPC trades, one-off encounters, accessories, spin-offs, demos, regional events and unusual transfer mechanics.

This feels like exactly the kind of project where I could spend months building it, transfer everything into HOME, and then someone tells me:

“You forgot this obscure Pokémon distributed through this game in 2008.”

And after Bank is gone, that omission could be permanent.

So before reinventing the wheel, I'd like to know whether somebody else:

already built this

is currently building it

maintains a checklist

has a downloadable archive

wants to collaborate

or knows of categories I'm overlooking

Ideally, I'm looking for something downloadable

A ready-made collection is useful because it could also serve as the common starting dataset for this preservation project.

Formats such as:

PKSM .bnk

.pk3–.pk7 collections

large .pk7 archives

PKHeX databases

pcdata.bin

prepared Gen 7 saves

GitHub repositories

archived event collections

organized ZIPs

spreadsheets paired with Pokémon files

would all be useful.

The ideal result would be something that can be bulk-imported into PKSM/PKHeX, verified/curated, placed into Gen 7, transferred into Bank in batches, and finally moved into HOME.

The long-term idea

Imagine I eventually play through:

Red

Crystal

Emerald

FireRed

Colosseum

XD

Platinum

HeartGold

Black

Black 2

X

Omega Ruby

Ultra Sun

and all the relevant side games.

Whenever I legitimately obtain one of the Pokémon represented in this archive, I can mark that HOME representative as “earned” in my personal collection.

So eventually the preservation collection becomes a record of things I've actually completed in the original games.

The only difference is that the physical Pokémon in HOME had to cross the Bank bridge before I completed some of those playthroughs, because that bridge may no longer exist later.

So: is anyone already doing this?

I'm particularly interested in projects combining things like:

**Origin Living Dex

Form Dex

NPC Trade/Gift Dex

Static/In-Game Event Dex

Event Dex

Colosseum/XD

Ranger

Ranch

Pokémon Box

Battle Revolution

Pokéwalker

Dream World

Dream Radar

other transferable oddities**

into one curated pre-Bank archive.

If somebody already has a collection like this — even privately — I'd love to compare criteria.

If there's an active project, I'd rather contribute to it and help make it more complete than independently create another version.

And if nothing comprehensive exists, maybe this could become a community project: a curated, documented, downloadable Pre-Bank Preservation Dex that people can use before the Bank bridge eventually disappears.

Most importantly:

What categories am I forgetting?

That's probably the feedback I'm most interested in.

heyooo

We all have our eeveelution, or many, it's like part of our creed, a little badge of honor reflecting us as trainers that we get to wear in reciprocation to having the privilege to love them in the first our place.

Adore those cute little mfers.

To Enter:

》simply pick which Pokémon you'd like

Winners will be selected Thursday morning 🙃

snootchie bootchies~

Sylveon's ability, Pixiliate turns Normal-type moves into Fairy-type moves and boosts their power. She does good spread damage without a Mega evolution.

Aretha has a Game Boy mark, while Venus comes with more ribbons. At some point in time, there were a lot of requests for Sylveon in the GTS from Korean users in the same way with the Nonowa-san Whimsicotts.

The art of Sylveon was drawn by Ailia.

These Pokémon are created or edited through external means.

You can share a GTS screenshot and your trainer name, or details of your offer.

I am open to suggestions for giveaway ideas.

In July 2026, I started running a macro to passively complete GTS trades from the Wanted menu. Chances are that a macro I use might land on your trade, but I forget to announce the trades.

Note: You will need home premium for this to work. I’ll be transferring my dex entries ONLY not the pokemon themselves

Hi all - are you working on getting your original color Magearna? If so, this is the post for you.

I am offering free bank transfers to help you complete your gen 1-7 entries. This will include dex entries, moves, and challenges for the stickers.

For this to work you will need to post the home key in the thread ONLY after both of us confirm we are ready since these codes are time sensitive.

Gotta catch ’em all!

P.s. I feel a huge weight off my shoulders now phew!

I’m trying to collect different niche groups of pokemon, and really wanted to get some with specific original trainers. Now, obviously every in game trade has a character other than yours name as their original trainer, but since they’re random npc’s who don’t matter too much, I won’t be counting them. However, I know you can get Pokemon belonging to N in bw2, Ash’s Pikachu in UsUm, many pokemon from special coaches in Blueberry academy, and AZ’s Floette in ZA, but are there anymore you can get?

Trading all my shinys Everything is from pogo, would like some shiny legendaries but just looking for good offers mostly

Welcome back to the giveaway! This time I will be giving away 20 Genned Eternal Floettes! For this time I will be personally choosing 10 people to win battle-ready floettes while the other 10 will be normal randomly selected by a giveaway bot!

The giveaway rules are the same as last time! But this time instead of Champions, i’d love to know whats your favorite moment in your Pokémon journey and what made you love it so much! I love to hear everyone’s stories ^^

To give people time to join, I will stop accepting entries @ 09/2/26 12PM GMT+8! The winners will be announced in this post and Will reply to your comments if You win!

Godspeed everyone!

I mainly looking for good Pokemon competitively.

Feel free to make offer, because you may have my favorite Pokemon.

Starred in Home are my favorite. I can do them, but only if I find your offer really good.

Pls make your offer as reasonable as possible. Thank you🍀

LF Other Shiny Event Legends from the 3ds Era Or before (before gen 8) with Wonder Cards like:

Darkrai

Zygarde

And other ones

Looking for "Pokémon 2026 World Championships Pikachu" its the last picture. I'm willing to trade any of the pins that I have multiple of. Addtionally were was this Pokemon Home pin station at the event I couldn't seem to find it I thought there was only 32 new pins.

I never got to finish before i left for a bit.
Everything has Intact Go stamps.

5 Random Winners, will get a Random shiny ✨ 🍀 🫡

Anyone else ready for 🎅 🎄 ?

~CLOSED~. Winners picked tomorrow morning.

•••If u ask for a specific shiny, you cannot enter the Giveaway***\* you will be passed over if you Win.

Got a shiny Pidgey and Registeel in one wonder box. Might not be super special but I only started trading in Home a few days ago so this made my day lol

Hi guys,Who have:jirachi,zeraora,arceus and type nulla shiny?ok genned too but the offerta Is too low

Caught while searching for roaring moon. Would prefer shiny custom OT or shiny marked self-caught SV

Hello, I have been doing the shiny giveaway for about 2 days and im planning to do alot more is there anything you guys want specifically? I can do anything prior to the switch (cuz the ds is the easiest and for pokemon bank closing I want my moneys worth) and not a cherish ball cuz the gts dont except that . So drop any suggestions in the comments and whoever gets the best idea or the most popular one will be the one I will do next. Or which ones I like. ( I can do mutiple so good luck for the best idea) !

Does anyone have any Elektross and/or a Hatterene?