Will Legends: Arceus Work With Pokémon Home
Now that Pokémon Legends: Arceus has been released, many players (and prospective players) may be wondering if it's compatible with Pokémon Home. This would allow trainers to transfer their Pokémon from Legends: Arceus into Home's cloud service for Pokémon storage. This is a way for players to keep the game's new Hisuian regional variants and any caught Shiny Pokémon in a long-term setting outside of Arceus' base game, so it's a feature many fans want.
Launched as a successor to Pokémon Bank, Pokémon Home offers various services to its users. The biggest, of course, is that it allows fans to keep their Pokémon all in one place. Thanks to the Move option and compatibility with past games like Sword and Shield — as well as the mobile title Pokémon GO — users can keep Pokémon they've caught a decade ago alongside the latest Galar entries. For those who want to keep a living Pokédex, it's a necessity, since there's currently no way to catch every single Pokémon in any of the most recent games.
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Currently, Legends: Arceus doesn't support transfers to Pokémon Home — but the feature is coming soon. As with most new Pokémon releases, the game isn't instantly compatible with Pokémon Home. This is likely to keep players from transferring in overpowered Pokémon and using them to exploit in-game mechanics, battles, and more. Much like Pokémon Home's Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl delayed compatability, the feature is coming to Legends: Arceus at some point in the future.
According to the official Pokémon Presents video from August 18, 2021, Pokémon Legends: Arceus will support Pokémon Home transfers sometime in 2022. Seeing as how the game only just
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