Pokémon HOME version 2.0.0 announced; adds compatibility to Pokémon Brilliant Diamond, Shining Pearl, and Legends: Arceus

The Pokémon Company International and Nintendo has announced that an update to Pokémon HOME version 2.0.0 will be available in the coming weeks. This update will allow recently released Pokémon titles, Pokémon Brilliant Diamond, Pokémon Shining Pearl, and Pokémon Legends: Arceus, to be mutually compatible to past games Pokémon Sword, Pokémon Shield, Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu!, Pokémon: Let’s Go, Eevee!, and Pokémon GO.

Pokémon HOME is a cloud service app that enables Trainers to transfer Pokémon easily between different save files, they can also import Pokémon from Nintendo DS titles.

The Pokémon that players can take to each game are limited to the Pokémon that appear in those games. For example, Hisuian Growlithe cannot be transferred to Pokémon Brilliant Diamond, Pokémon Shining Pearl, Pokémon Sword, or Pokémon Shield, but Pikachu caught in Pokémon Sword or Pokémon Shield can be transferred to Pokémon Legends: Arceus, Pokémon Brilliant Diamond, or Pokémon Shining Pearl. Players can view the details on which Pokémon can be taken to which games from the Help menu of the mobile device version of Pokémon HOME.

Poké Balls restriction

• Pokémon caught in Pokémon Brilliant Diamond, Pokémon Shining Pearl, Pokémon Sword, or Pokémon Shield will appear to be caught in Strange Balls after they are transferred to Pokémon Legends: Arceus.
• Pokémon caught in Pokémon Legends: Arceus that are transferred to Pokémon Brilliant Diamond or Pokémon Shining Pearl will also appear in Strange Balls.
• Pokémon caught in Pokémon Legends: Arceus that are transferred to Pokémon Sword or Pokémon Shield will appear in regular Poké Balls.
• Pokémon will appear in the original Poké Balls that they were caught in when transferred between Pokémon Sword, Pokémon Shield, Pokémon Brilliant Diamond, and Pokémon Shining Pearl.
• In Pokémon HOME, players will be able to see the Poké Balls that Pokémon were originally caught in.

Moves restrictions
Due to moves that Pokémon can learn in Pokémon Legends: Arceus, Pokémon Brilliant Diamond, Pokémon Shining Pearl, Pokémon Sword, and Pokémon Shield differ from those that they can learn in other games, a Pokémon's moves may not remain the same in another game. When a Pokémon is taken to another game for the first time, the moves it can use will be determined by its level.

When a Pokémon is transferred back to the original game it was caught in, it will go back to having the moves that it originally knew. The moves that it learn in another game will disappear.

Other restrictions

• A Pokémon caught in Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! or Pokémon: Let’s Go, Eevee! and transferred to Pokémon Sword or Pokémon Shield will keep the moves they had in Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! or Pokémon: Let’s Go Eevee!
• A Pokémon caught in Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! or Pokémon: Let’s Go, Eevee! and transferred to Pokémon Legends: Arceus, Pokémon Brilliant Diamond, or Pokémon Shining Pearl will have moves that correspond to its level.
• A Pokémon caught in Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! or Pokémon: Let’s Go, Eevee! and transferred to Pokémon Legends: Arceus, Pokémon Brilliant Diamond, Pokémon Shining Pearl, Pokémon Sword, or Pokémon Shield cannot be transferred back to Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! or Pokémon: Let’s Go, Eevee!

Pokémon from Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Pokémon Shining Pearl
Players can check the conditions of Pokémon deposited from Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Pokémon Shining Pearl to Pokémon HOME as well as their other details.

Special Pokémon that can only be caught once during regular gameplay can only be deposited once per save data to Pokémon HOME.

Pokémon from Pokémon Legends: Arceus
Players can view the effort levels of Pokémon deposited from Pokémon Legends: Arceus to Pokémon HOME as well as its other details.

Players can only see the National Pokédex entry in Pokémon HOME when the Pokémon's research level in Pokémon Legends: Arceus is at 10.

Pokédex
Starting from version 2.0.0, the Pokédex from each game will be added. Pokémon in your Boxes in Pokémon HOME will be registered in their respective game's Pokédex after version 2.0.0 of Pokémon HOME is installed. Pokémon that aren't in a Box when the ver. 2.0.0 update is installed, such as those that have been traded away, will not be registered.

Additional Achievements and Stickers
Players can obtain stickers by completing achievements by meeting certain conditions in the mobile device version of Pokémon HOME. New achievements and stickers based on Pokémon Legends: Arceus, Pokémon Brilliant Diamond, and Pokémon Shining Pearl will be added from version 2.0.0 onwards.

Mystery Gifts
To celebrate this update, special Pokémon will be available as Mystery Gifts when linking each game. These Pokémon can only be obtained using the mobile version of Pokémon HOME.

• Receive Rowlet, Cyndaquil, and Oshawott with maximum effort levels after depositing a Pokémon from Pokémon Legends: Arceus.
• Receive Turtwig, Chimchar, and Piplup with Hidden Abilities after depositing a Pokémon from Pokémon Brilliant Diamond or Pokémon Shining Pearl.