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Pokemon TCG Pocket Trading Coming January 2025

Trading may become available in Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket (PTCG Pocket) by January 2025. Keep reading to learn more about what to expect, other upcoming updates, and more info on how trading works.

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Trade System Release Date

Trading Confirmed for January 2025

An announcement made by the Pokemon TCG Pocket Team confirms that trading will become available by January 2025.

According to the future plans shared by the team, certain cards will become available for trading by January 2025 among other new booster packs and collection expansions. However, they do plan on gradually increasing the trading features as they update the game.

Possible Trading Features

It is unknown what the trading limitations will be, but we speculate that trading will only be available for the Genetic Apex Booster Set and not the newest packs released by the end of the year. There may be other conditions involved as well such as trading only duplicates from the 3rd card onward or cards up to 3♢ or 4♢ rarity.

Trading will have a significant impact on the collective nature of Pokemon TCG Pocket which is likely why the development team plans on slowly rolling out the trading feature based on player feedback.

We may likely expect another questionnaire once the January 2025 update comes in, so be sure to give the Pokemon TCG Pocket team your thoughts on the new features to help them improve the game!

Upcoming Features and Content Roadmap

Trading Is Not Available on Release

Trading was not be available on release. While no reason was given on why, it's most likely due to this being one of the first mobile games with a gacha system that allows trading.
Full Global Release Time and Countdown

Other Game Update Releases

Game Version Update Dates
Pokemon Masters EX 1.0.0 → 2.0.0 Jul 25, 2019 ~ Aug 25, 2020
Pokemon HOME 2.0.0 → 3.0.0 May 17, 2022 ~ May 29, 2023
Pokemon Scarlet and Violet (HOME Update) 1.0.1 → 2.0.1 Nov 11, 2022 ~ Sep 13, 2023
Pokemon UNITE 1.1.1.3 → 1.2.1.3 Jul 28th 2021 ~ Sep 22, 2021
Pokemon Cafe Remix 1.0.0 → 2.0.3 Jun 17, 2020 ~ Oct 28, 2021

Possible Reasons for Delay

Multiple Accounts

While not illegal on the surface, players with multiple devices can roll on different accounts and trade on a main account to rack up a decent collection.

This also disincentivizes getting a Premium Pass as just the simple act of switching phone can get you four rolls a day compared to the three with the pass.

Reroll Accounts and Account Selling

A common occurence in a lot of Gacha Games, people will reroll and sell accounts with high rarity cards to other players so they can start with an advantage.

Account Scams

With the rise of account selling, there is also the possibility of scammers who will sell but not give the accounts to buyers.

There are also cases where sold accounts will have their passwords changed by the seller, locking the buyer of an account they paid for.

Card Market

While not exclusive to the Pokemon TCG, a lot of card games do have a market where certain high rarity cards will be sold for exorbitant prices. Pokemon TCG Pocket has confirmed that older packs and sets will be phased out, so there could be cases of older Crown Cards, with golden crown icons, being sold for high prices.

How to Trade Cards

Similar to Trade System in Mainline Games

Pokemon TCG Pocket - Trading System
Since battling requires you to use a Link Code to connect to specific players, its most likely that the system is the same for trading. It was shown that trading cards requires you to look at each other's binders and make offers on which ones you would be willing to trade.

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101-8101 102-032-014
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