How to Get Pokemon Home (and Claim Your Free Pokemon)

How to Get Pokemon Home (and Claim Your Free Pokemon)

Rarely does anyone get excited about a new cloud-based service, but today is the big day: Pokémon Home is finally here. Officially available on the Nintendo DS eShop, iOS app store, and Google Play store (download links below), Pokémon Home offers trainers a new and easy way to transfer Pokémon across devices and titles.

Pokémon Home supports imports from Pokémon Sword & Shield, Pokémon Bank, Pokémon Let's Go, Eevee, Let's Go, Pikachu, and Pokémon GO. For now, these Pokémon can only be transferred to "Pokémon Sword & Shield."

Hopefully, this service, which opens up the maximum number of Pokémon in the game, will calm the "Dexit-ers," critics of "Pokémon Sword & Shield" who have been vocal online about the large number of Pokémon registered in the new Nintendo Switch game. Hoping to calm the crowds.

Oh, and anyone who downloads Pokémon Home gets a free Pokémon as a reward. Downloading the app on a console gets you a Pikachu, while downloading on a mobile device gets you one of the following Canto starters: Bulbasaur, Charmander, or Squirtle (with hidden abilities).

Home starts as a free service, but its tier can only store up to 30 monsters; a subscription to Premium Pokémon Home increases that capacity to up to 6,000 monsters and throws in other perks, including a service that measures Pokémon strength . Premium costs $2.99 for 30 days, $4.99 for 90 days, and $16.99 for a year.

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