Who wants to battle

1: What is the point in specifying what game a Pokémon can travel to in the GTS? Isn’t that determined by species? E.g. I deposit a Pokémon & say I’m looking for a Cranidos, under “Games it can travel to” I can select BDSP or Legends: Arceus. Is there any quality a Cranidos could have that could prevent it from being able to go to one game or the other?

2: I haven’t been able to find anything about this, but in the messages at the bottom is there a community lingo of sorts? E.g. if I say “I want to trade for a Pokémon that is strong in battles” I’m looking for an Alpha, but if I say “Please trade Pokémon with me. Thanks in advance” it means I only want something pre-Gen 8, or with a very punny name?

In the picture I’ve circled both the things I’m talking about.

Doubles 6v6 set to 50

LF: Slowpoke and spinda Ft: let me know what works for you

Looking to trade flapple for appletun

Well, personally I am a hardcore Pokemon fan since I was three, so ever since I had the pokemon sword on my Nintendo Switch, I was so pumped up to get trading pokemon around the continent with other players. But here's the problem (however if you have pokemon home/ GO/ Discord in your cell phone and that's fine, you can ignore this if you want to), which is really hard to get the ideal pokemon you really desired to get because you cannot communicate with the other guy who might come from another place using Nintendo Switch. SO here are some tips ( there are five of them)for anybody who wants to complete entire their Pokedex after months of me playing the game itself during the epidemic and hopefully this sharing can help you a lot and have fun.

#pokemon # wannafinishit #pokemonsword #pokemonshield

Tips:

1. Don't trade shinies unless you have another copy of the same one or if you hate it very much or the guy has the one you really wanted (because I have this experience once that I traded a shiny Gallade for another shiny pokemon { I failed twice} but in the end, I was lucky enough to get a shiny Silvally)
2. Try to trade/catch some exclusives in your game and trade with others ( unless you have both sword and shield, well congrats), you might end up getting the Galarian Sirfetch'd or the Galarian Pontya ( cute design btw, though I haven't got the latter, sad)
3. Go n get lucky and by chance (cause I once traded a shiny Eevee → Sylveon and it got pokerus (not a harmful virus, you idiot! but it's quite useful)
4. Unless you're going to become a shiny collector permanently, DO NOT trade for those who have a level of 100 but unable to evolve/ teach new moves. You will regret it very much, I can guarantee that personally(cause I once accidentally traded a shiny fletchling but I fell onto the same trap which I had I just warned you about { a shiny fletchling, lv 100 unable to teach news moves, TOTALLY WASTED!
5. Trials and errors are crucial for trading ( Sometimes you have to be careful when you're trading, here's an example: I will first try to send in a normal pokemon [not shiny!] to test the trader's first trade-ins, and if he has a shiny, go get your shiny to see if he likes it but if that guy gives you a normal, don't give up but try to send it in twice, if he takes you for a detour, get out there immediately, for you might be wasting your precious time for another potential one.

I hope that my tips and advice can help you guys out by preventing any one of you to step onto the same mistakes that I have made in the past and enjoy it as much as I do. Thanks

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[trade]

Not looking for much, maybe just another zamazenta/zacian in any ball and a couple extra items

Thanks

please help. im looking to trade for a zarude. i never got the email for a code even tho ive been signed up for the newsletter for years. I DONT care about stats and what not. lemme know what u want. but i really really would appreciate it :C

any cool shinies, nothing in particular :)

Don't really intend on keeping the Reshiram whrn I restart cuz I won't be able to use it for most of my game, so might as well trade it for a Pokémon I want. PM me if interested

I came across this server and noticed that it welcomes casual battling. I know by the looks of it FFA's (Free-For-All's) are pretty much not a thing anymore but I was wondering if anyone here does them.