u/Xorathmion

Just to make my story short... used to stream Pokemon Viewer Battles and did giveaways since like 2014, and found ways to dupe Pokemon all the way up to 7th Gen. Then quit Pokemon because I didn't like the direction of 8th & then 9th Gen with the removal of Pokemon and deletion of moves and minimizing movepools of already available Pokemon.

Now fast-forward to 2026, with the release of Champions... I've become interested in Pokemon again, and have re-introduced myself back into the series... with quite a bit of readjustment to the changes.

Revived my monthly sub of my Pokemon Home account, which I only used like 2 months when it first launched, then upgraded my recent monthly to a yearly... because I've been having so much fun with Champions, despite the limited roster and items... with the hopes, that it will get better and be expanded upon... also being a platform where Dexit will hopefully never happen again, despite the Mainlines doing another Dexit at some point.

Been collecting quite a few 8th & 9th Gen Pokemon I missed out on, to just either have or add them to the roster in case they've become available in Champions at some point to try them out there.

Only have Let's Go Eevee, and Legends Arceus (which I haven't even started despite owning it since release, and probably won't play it until I get a Switch 2 at some point)... and I have no plans to purchase any new Pokemon games... until probably Winds and Waves... which I hope it's good and continues to just add more while leaving almost nothing behind... unlike the jump from 7th to 8th.

Anyhow...

I'm looking for the following:

- Home Event Living Dex Alt. Color Magearna
- Home Event Shiny Volcanion
- Shiny Event Zeraora
- Zarude Normal and Dada forms
- Pecharunt

^ (Clones/Dupes are fine)

Note: I will update this thread and list of wanted Pokemon over time.

Make offers if you have anything interesting outside of what I'm asking, and really want something from the list shown in the video... I might just trade you anyway. lol!

For trade: About 99% of the video... but while giving the disclaimer that most are duped, even if once or twice... and the instance that you see one. If it has my OT, and it's from 7th Gen or older, then I've kept a backup save with them which then restored the save before I transferred them to Home... because I like keeping my Mons in their original games for the memories and if I ever want to revisit them.

Some individual Pokemon may not be up for trade... some will... and some are nicknamed... but if they're from past games, I won't be able to change their nicknames anymore.

Some of these are Event Pokemon.

I also do have a lot of Event Pokemon from the past 20 years or so, since 3rd Gen that I've collected and transferred forward... then duped. So do ask for any specific ones, like ALAMOS non-Shiny Darkrai, which I do have. Or some of the TRU (Toys R Us) and Gamestop Event Pokemon. Got lots of non-Shiny Event Pokemon from the early-to-mid-to-late 2000s and into the 2010s and further up.

Even have stuff like MT. Battle Ho-Oh from Colosseum... I have two, from two playthrus... one from the early 2000s of my first playthru of Colosseum, and one from my recent 2016 Stream playthru... that I went through the MT. Battle 100 challenge again during that time for fun and to acquire another... these have been duped as well, and up for trade.

Apologies for the long post. lol!

These are already on GTS and asking for one of each.

I believe the ENG Mewtwo & JP Lugia are from 3rd Gen, based on their place of encounter being "Poke Shifter".

These were acquired/gotten like back in 2014, and I cloned it later in life before I quit Pokemon for a while.

So now I'm looking for Walking Wake, Raging Bolt, and Gouging Fire legit or clones (not looking for genned unless they're basically recreated clones lol!), for collecting and to avoid purchasing the games they're featured in... and if Champions updates the roster with them included, it would be nice to have them available as many other 8th & 9th Gen Pokemon I don't have. Also for future mainline games I may be interested into besides Champions.

Go ahead and trade for them if interested, or put down some offers that could be traded directly... or you want one of these that requires a different Pokemon you don't have to trade but the one of the others do, and I'll swap the trade requirements. lol!

Thanks in advance.

Re-took an interest in Pokemon again with the release of Champions, I used to be pretty into Pokemon + Competitive battling up until 7th Gen, but with the removal of Pokemon and Moves in Gen 8th & 9th, I lost interest in Mainline Pokemon games, outside of like a couple nostalgia escapades like Pokemon Let's Go Eevee, and still have a Physical Copy of Unplayed Legends Arceus. lol!

Might be motivated to play it when I get a Switch 2, and if I jump on the Winds and Waves hype.

Best case is that even if I don't like the direction of the Mainline games and keep giving us trade off titles that remove while also adding stuff... I believe (or want to believe) that Pokemon Champions long term will keep me happy and entertained with the core battling, and hopefully with the preservation of everything up to this point left intact, while adding on top more... despite maybe making some now erased moves in the Mainline games illegal for Ranked but kept for Nostalgia and custom lobby private formats with your friends from this point moving forward. 😓

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Just recently got (today the 1st of May) myself a Meltan and a Shiny Melmetal for my Pokemon Go account which I've become more active in, since Champions release... probably touched it once in 2021, and at launch for like 2 months back in 2016... seeing some of my Mons being from 2016.

Took notice of the Shiny Meltan event & the Shiny Melmetal event for Go, so I decided to give it a go... just to have one, and for the eventuality that the Pokemon becomes playable in Champions (crossing fingers), despite getting that free Cherish ball lvl 100 Gigantamaxable one from Home's Mystery Gift by linking both platforms.

Now, back to POGO... In the past 2 Mystery Boxes, I was able to get 1 Shiny each... but the 2nd one was so low CP enough and caught in a Pokeball, that I decided to make it my Collectible Shiny to never leave Home Melmetal, and it was so low CP it arrived as a lvl 1 Shiny Melmetal.

Will probably never transfer it to anything else, and keep it in home as a badge of legitimacy, and because I can get another one later. lol! 😂

Will probably only ever touch Champions, which keeps it in Home at the same time, and keeps the actual stats unchanged.

It looks pretty nice. I'll see if I can catch a couple more until the event ends. lol! 😄

Also, I'll probably be more active in Home & POGO because of the incentive and convenience of getting some of these Pokemon, and also very peculiar low level POGO Legendary Mons that can be Shiny for Champions and/or use in Mainline games that I may become interested in, in the future.

I think Home has become a worthwhile investment starting now, upgraded my one-time monthly that I probably payed like twice, recently and once when it launched like 6 years ago... and just switched to the yearly when my monthly ended.

Cheers to many more exciting years... hopefully! 😅