Can you use Pokémon HOME with arceus?

You can get a free Turtwig, Chimchar and Piplup for depositing a Pokemon from Brilliant Diamond or Shining Pearl.

Everyone who deposits a Pokemon from the Brilliant Diamond or Shining Pearl games into Pokemon Home will receive the three Sinnoh starter Pokemon: Turtwig, Chimchar and Piplup. What makes these particular monsters special is that they all have their Hidden Abilities, which are normally hard to come by.

To get the free starters, first fire up Pokemon Home on Nintendo Switch, then connect to Pokemon Brilliant Diamond or Shining Pearl when prompted. Move any Pokemon from your game into Pokemon Home, then save and exit the service. After that, open Pokemon Home on your mobile device, and you'll be greeted by a notification that the free Pokemon are available in your Mystery Gift box.

How to get free Hisui starters

Players who deposit a monster from Pokemon Legends: Arceus into Pokemon Home will receive that game's three starter Pokemon: Rowlet, Cyndaquil and Oshawott. These three monsters likewise have a special characteristic. Each Pokemon has maximum effort levels, making them stronger than the ones you can catch in the wild.

The process to receive the free Hisui starters is the same as above. Open Pokemon Home on Nintendo Switch, then connect to Pokemon Legends: Arceus. After you've transferred a Pokemon from the game into the service, fire up the mobile version of Pokemon Home and you'll see a message that the Pokemon are available in your Mystery Gift box.

Recently released spinoff Pokemon Legends: Arceus puts the spotlight on the titular legendary Pokemon, sending players back in time to the ancient realm of Hisui by the will of none other than Arceus itself. Of course, Arceus can eventually be caught in Pokemon Legends: Arceus, but achieving this requires fans to catch every other Pokemon available in Hisui. One fan, dissatisfied with doing all that work to only catch a single Arceus, came up with a rather unorthodox solution.

Pokemon Legends: Arceus revisits the Sinnoh region, which was based on the Japanese island of Hokkaido and first introduced in main series titles Pokemon Diamond and Pokemon Pearl. In a premodern version of Sinnoh called Hisui, players join up with the Survey Corps of Jubilife Village and work to observe and catalog all 242 Pokemon available in the region. In addition to returning Pokemon from several titles in the series, Pokemon Legends: Arceus also features regional variants and evolutions of previous Pokemon, such as Wyrdeer, a Psychic-type evolution of Generation 2's Stantler.

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Recently, a free update to the Pokemon Home service gave players the ability to transfer Pokemon to and from Pokemon Brilliant Diamond, Pokemon Shining Pearl, and Pokemon Legends: Arceus. A Reddit user going by u/Billybobjoebob took advantage of this to transfer two additional Arceus into the game. As players are only able to catch a single Arceus in this title, the two Arceus must have previously been caught in either another Legends: Arceus save file or a different Pokemon game in which Arceus appears, such as Pokemon Diamond, Pokemon Pearl, their remakes, or even Pokemon GO. The user showed off all three Arceus standing in the pen in Jubilife Village, jokingly referring to them as "the Council."

Now that transferring is unlocked, The Council can finally be formed from pokemon

In addition to bringing extra Arceus and other Pokemon into the series' newest title, players who transfer at least one Pokemon from Legends: Arceus into Pokemon Home can receive a free Mystery Gift containing Rowlet, Cyndaquil, and Oshawott. These three Pokemon, which originated from three different Generations, were chosen as the starter trio for Pokemon Legends: Arceus due to their relationship to various elements of Hokkaido culture: archery, volcanoes, and sea otters respectively. The free Pokemon received in Home can be sent to any main series title except for Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu and Pokemon Let's Go Eevee.

It has not yet been announced whether Pokemon Home will release further updates to provide compatibility with Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, the upcoming main series titles which are slated to debut in late 2022. However, the update that added Pokemon Brilliant Diamond, Pokemon Shining Pearl, and Pokemon Legends: Arceus to Pokemon Home reaffirmed the service's commitment to partnering with and supporting all modern Pokemon games, leaving a distinct possibility that Scarlet and Violet will be included.