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75 Anonymous Anonymous 6 monthsReport

i caught zapdos in dynamax den, can i catch the galarian one?

74 Anonymous Anonymous almost 2 yearsReport

i caught Diancie in Pokemon Go and placed her in Pokemon Home. what do i need to do to get her on pokemon Sword. its saying “the selected Pokémon brought over from Pokémon GO, has not been obtained in this file”. i have crown tundra

66 Anonymous Anonymous about 3 yearsReport

アラモスディアルガとアラモスパルキアはこの掲示板ではどの位の価値ですか?

65 Anonymous Anonymous about 3 yearsReport

My son just got the legendary clue, but when he talks to peony in the cave, he doesn’t recognize that he has it(and launch the final ultra beast mission). Thoughts?

64 Jack Ardor Jack Ardor about 3 yearsReport

Hi there! Is it possible for me to access the Single Tiers List for previous months? I'm doing some statistical research on which Pokemon are better over time, and accessing that data would be of immense value to me! feel free to email me jackardor@gmail.com

63 Josiah Josiah over 3 yearsReport

If you participated in the G max urshifu event you could have gotten max honey comb

62 Anonymous Anonymous over 3 yearsReport

Can you make two urshifu g max, I have both forms and I made the rapid strike g max and I don’t how to make the other also g max

61 Josiah Josiah over 3 yearsReport

Did you know that sands grew and sandslash are based of a pangolin and claw moves would realistically be worse for it and iron tail would be better for it

60 Anonymous Anonymous over 3 yearsReport

You don't have to catch ultra beasts in beast balls, they are just more effective

59 Anonymous Anonymous over 3 yearsReport

I've tried countless times and I can't beat its complete form

58 Sylve0n Sylve0n almost 4 yearsReport

I don't think so...

57 Anonymous Anonymous over 4 yearsReport

Do you need pokemon home to trade in Pokemon sword

56 googooga googooga over 4 yearsReport

hello?

55  Anonymous 2  Anonymous 2 almost 5 yearsReport

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54 Anonymous Anonymous almost 5 yearsReport

u cant mega in sword sorry

53 Anonymous 2 Anonymous 2 almost 5 yearsReport

can you mega evo in sword if so how.

52 Jake Hubschman Jake Hubschman almost 5 yearsReport

are you kidding?!?!? I literally can't seem to get Zygarde! its taken me 5 tries to attack it and I still can't get it below half health!!!

51 Anonymous Anonymous almost 5 yearsReport

GIVE US FENNEKIN GIVE US FENNEKIN

50 Anonymous Anonymous almost 5 yearsReport

Who else thought that zygarde was INSANELY easy to get. like, we only had a cryogonal for supereffective that was NPC and STILL took it down in like 3 turns.

49 bob bob almost 5 yearsReport

Honestly i would recommend releasing as there is a possibility of banning if you bring it into competetive or just doing anything online with it, but its ok to keep it in box or use it for catching

48 Anonymous Anonymous almost 5 yearsReport

thanks guys !!

47 Anonymous Anonymous almost 5 yearsReport

I already told him lol

46 Anonymous Anonymous almost 5 yearsReport

They're perfectly fine to have as long as you don't go into a competitive setting with them. It sucks that you can't at least rename them so you can have them be more personalized, but for some people that doesn't matter. I've had one for a while now, probably like two months. Nothing has happened with my game, nor have I heard someone say it caused their game to break or whatever. So no need to worry about them. Keep or release, it really doesn't matter. Hope this helped!

45 Anonymous Anonymous almost 5 yearsReport

Also they can range from all kinds of names, there's freepkm.com, MGDiscord.co, PKMGen.com, and probably much more.

44 Anonymous Anonymous almost 5 yearsReport

They're hacked, they have 6 perfect ivs too, but are perfectly fine to have. Because I've had a few hacked ones like that for awhile and my save file hasn't been corrupted or anything bad at all.

43 Anonymous Anonymous almost 5 yearsReport

Im kind of new to this, I keep getting level 100, sometimes shiny pokemon in the surprise trade named machamps.com (and another similar name) at first I was excited to get them but now Im just worried they will mess with my game. Are they bad to have, should I get rid of them?

42 Mew Mew almost 5 yearsReport

10-30 seconds if you run around in a circle I am not kidding

41 Mew Mew almost 5 yearsReport

Yes

40 Anonymous Anonymous almost 5 yearsReport

yo is it bad that my rock ruff is level 60 and not elvoved. or what do i do

39 Anonymous Anonymous almost 5 yearsReport

It takes about 1 or 2 minutes I think

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