Introduced in early 2020, Pokemon Home served as a collection bank for Pokemon games, spread across all generations. The tool was as simple as transporting a player's Pokemon from their handheld devices into Pokemon Home and keeping them stored safely while also holding the possibility of trading them with anyone around the world.
The concept was simple yet intuitive as players had the ability to bring over their cherished Pokemon from many generations ago and transport them into the newer generation of Pokemon games, provided they were a part of the game's Pokedex. Pokemon Home also held many tools that introduced players to data they could never see before.
With the releases of Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl and Pokemon Legends: Arceus, Pokemon Home was due for an update. In recent weeks, rumors circulated that a new update to Pokemon Home would include all newer-generation Pokemon games, but players wondered when that would happen. The Pokemon Company has revealed that Update 2.0 will be coming sometime soon in 2022, allowing players to move Pokemon from Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl and Pokemon Legends: Arceus to Pokemon Home, with some conditions applied. Until the current day, the Pokemon Diamond and Pearl remakes, released in late 2021, and Pokemon Legends: Arceus, released in early 2022, received little support from the Pokemon Home database, but that is about to change.
The update also clears up the mystery surrounding Pokemon brought in from other games into Pokemon Legends: Arceus. Due to the nature of the game's atmosphere and the unique ball designs being unlike any other, Pokemon carried over into Pokemon Legends: Arceus will be encapsulated in a Strange Ball. Likewise, Pokemon carried over from Pokemon Legends: Arceus into Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl will also be found in Strange Balls. Pokemon transported to Pokemon Sword and Shield will be changed to a standard Poke Ball. The news clears up any mystery regarding Pokemon ball formats that do not exist in the world of Pokemon Legends: Arceus while also creating a certain level of prestige with the new ball type.
In celebration of the three titles being compatible with Pokemon Home, players will receive a special Pokemon upon the successful linking of each game to Pokemon Home. Players who deposit a Pokemon from Pokemon Brilliant Diamond or Shining Pearl to the Nintendo Switch version of Pokemon Home will receive one of the game's three starting Pokemon — Turtwig, Chimchar, or Piplup — and will come with its hidden ability, obtainable via Pokemon Home's Mystery Gift from the mobile version. Additionally, players who deposit a Pokemon from Pokemon Legends: Arceus into the Switch version of Pokemon Home will receive one of that game's starting Pokemon — Rowlet, Cyndaquil, or Oshawott — complete with maximum effort values.
Source: Pokemon