What Happens If You Transfer SHINY-LOCKED Pokémon to Home?

Last time, I tested the Action Replay Powersaves in 2024 to see if it still worked, and now I have a Shiny Hoopa that I want to test things out with! Will it actually be possible to transfer to Pokémon HOME, and if so, can it be used online and traded around? Today you'll find out!
By the way, I only tested an online trade with one of my other Switches, no attempt to trade this to the public was made.
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[@TonklePokemon]

Ah yes, 1337, Leet, my favourite "inside hacker joke"

[@iLeronM]

Someone had traded me AZ’s floette years ago, thought it was an event back then. It actually transferred to Pokémon home and worked for a while. Even its model was correct and working… today I’m stuck with a bad egg 😂💔

[@NB_06]

Me too 💔💔

[@MadrigalNeXus]

Me three

[@Mrr-Chezz]

Cook it

[@pingableuser]

you gotta revive it

[@Lunalahaunter]

​@@pingableusermaybe in ZA you could make a nuclear eiffel tower 2?

[@ElPikminMaster]

BTW, it's a tangent, but you can legally register the shinies for the Gen 5 and 6 shiny locked Pokemon using the Alola games' QR Scanner and scanning their respective QR codes.

[@RealSkello]

And 7

[@ElPikminMaster]

@@RealSkello Not all of 7. The QR scanner stops before the Tapus, so them and the Pokemon after them are still locked.

[@kiranb2284]

@@ElPikminMastershiny tapus are legal

[@OnlyGrafting]

​@@ElPikminMaster There was distribution events for the tapus across different countries

[@CesarR1037]

@@OnlyGraftingyou can hunt them in sword and shield too!

[@Sailor-Khione]

I thought there was a McDonald's shiny hoppa event. Sigh, just when i thought it was safe to wonder trade

[@GumCow]

That was the first distribution (and only I think) of hoopa, and it was just a regular one.

[@WTPokemonToons-rk7ci]

Creative ideas, quality videos. I really like the way you build and use Pokemon properly in this episode.

[@SkyGuy423]

That was for a regular Hoopa. I still have mine it has an OT of Mac

[@EmikaSandra]

​@@GumCowI got my event Hoopa from GameStop

[@Gatorboy5678]

It still is safe to wonder trade. Every time I do it I just release the hacked Pokémon but even if you don’t (Which I’ve definitely done before) nothing *should* happen. Emphasis on SHOULD.

[@mariokarter13]

"What the hell does 1337 mean?" Does everyone feel old yet?

[@Miguel92398]

Yea. Long have the golden age of the internet passed. People have forgotten the old memes and internet jokes, minus 69 and 420 but they did forget MLG.

[@Serious5GamingS5G]

I kinda forgot tbh

[@charakiga]

​@@Miguel92398MLG was never forgotten, but god damn I'm glad it's not used anymore.

[@muffinsaur.]

leet! leet!!! i wasn't old enough to be in on that type of stuff, but i still know what it means

[@CommRichard]

In all technicality, you can transfer shiny locked pokemon in their shiny forms to home just fine. The only thing they really care about is distributing them through the trade feature within pokemon home. Otherwise they don't care. Trading them and using them in competitive battles though is a no go.

[@saucesaucesaucesauce1380]

*(edited)* using them in competitive and the like would also be things to avoid

[@theturtlemoves1011]

I have a shiny Hoopa, pokeball Vivillian, Meloetta, and Volcanion in S/V that originally came through bank and people traded to me. It was many updates ago.

[@banjo-kazooie]

Famous internet hacker 1337, the rival to the hacker named 4Chan 1337 is Leet speak and stands for Leet itself Yknow, THAT way of spelling a certain female body part as 80085

[@Zarugoza5969]

Men also have that certain body part and are popular with some gay community 🤭

[@ElPikminMaster]

TBH, I figured that HOME wouldn't be an issue, but I thought the hacked Pokemon will stop on Bank. Kinda sucks for Gen 5 since Transporter has an actual hack check.

[@redlvndent3043]

PKSM

[@ElPikminMaster]

@@redlvndent3043 PKSM isn't Transporter. It's a work around for Transporter.

[@DaSheepKiller]

Yeah, out of all of Pokémon’s transfer systems, the only one that actually has a thorough hack check is Poké Transporter. Bank & especially Home aren’t that good with checking hacked Pokémon. I believe Home will only really detect Pokémon that are super obviously hacked, like a Pikachu with the moves Electro Drift, Scald, Ice Beam, & Moonblast, and with the ability Earth Eater.

[@Optimism247]

I love this 2DS! Fantastic video, brother! Here’s to 30K subs before 2025! 🎉

[@Deathstar05]

Hey optimism!

[@Optimism247]

@@Deathstar05 Hey Deathstar! 👋

[@EliteTrainerKenway]

Was that a Gigantamax Volcanion? 😂😂😂😂

[@KevdogPlays]

Lol yup, even adding on something like that still didn't stop it from being possible to trade

[@EliteTrainerKenway]

@@KevdogPlays after finishing my legit shiny living dex, I sent a shiny victini to Home, but quickly deleted it out of paranoia 🤣

[@sinfulmourning2780]

I don't get the point of making a shiny for a Pokemon that is not allowed to have it

[@thepokemonqueen]

it prevents the game from crashing when it's generated, but other than that not much reason

[@sinfulmourning2780]

@@thepokemonqueen So the shiny is made just so the game doesn't crash when trying to generate it, but they also just don't want people to have it for no reason

[@thepokemonqueen]

@@sinfulmourning2780 pretty much, I think they said in an interview that they shiny lock pokemon (legendaries in particular) to preserve the fact that they're meant to be unique, and probably so that they match the cutscenes too. I know a lot of mythicals don't have cutscenes but since they have started giving them cutscenes again with pecharunt I can understand it. plus it means you actually play the game rather than seeing the same thing over and over trying to reset lol

[@THGMR-ox7sd]

⁠@@thepokemonqueenI don’t like the reason for why they shiny lock. Also actually playing the game is your choice, they shouldn’t limit your choice by making it so you physically can’t reset over and over. The only things that I find valid to shiny lock are uncatchable Pokémon like the starly after you pick your starter in gen 4 and event distributions. Don’t care if a Pokémon doesn’t look shiny in a cutscene, they make them not shiny in sword and shield’s overworld but they can become shiny when you go into a battle so if they’re allowing that I don’t see why the cutscene thing is an issue.

[@EmikaSandra]

​@@thepokemonqueenActually, most Legendary Pokemon (except for Gen 8 dogs, Gen 8 DLC, and Gen 9) are NOT shiny-locked thanks to methods such as the Ultra Wormholes in USUM and special Dynamax Raids in SWSH DLC, meaning that locking them for the sake of being "unique" isn't a valid enough reason for this action. A good amount of the older mythicals aren't shiny-locked either. I would assume they're just too lazy to make distributions for all of the shinies.

[@MrLbaven]

The voice actor who play sobble need to come to Rhode Island comic con this year.

[@maltemoj]

I love how he always starts his videos by pointing aggressively at something that's right in front of the camera while also saying the first words of the sentence way louder than the rest.

[@setokaiba2138]

there is a way to get around that. if u use pksm on ur 3ds or 2ds and make sure to legalize it (the app has an auto legalize option if u make sure to put the Pokemon with the correct stats and moves it gets in the game ur hacking it into), it will be tradable in the newer gens. i do it often if someone wants a shiny Pokemon theyre too lazy to get themselves

[@Ale_StrawHat]

how to do put them on pokemon bank without the internet servers i have pretendo but it still doesn’t load pokemon bank

[@Buzz.co2]

@@Ale_StrawHatget off Pretendo and it should work

[@ZamasuYT20]

Technically Alola region will work online not Hoenn or Kalos shiny Hoopa Galar Volcanion works shiny Meloetta Keldeo from any game Vivillion any game.

[@641mamaluigi]

Well I guess it depends. For example I caught a shiny Deoxys legitimately from Pokémon go but transferring it to mainline games was a bit challenging since it was from go. So I had to grab a normal non-shiny Deoxys (in that current form this one was in) and put it in violet first before being able to move it

[@svdzcbshf6912]

I’m presuming you don’t have Pokémon let’s go pikachu/eevee

[@641mamaluigi]

@@svdzcbshf6912 (Deoxys isn’t in let’s go Pikachu or Eevee) but I did own let’s go Pikachu but I turned it in. I needed to save space at the time and I don’t have the cartridge anymore.

[@UpClear13]

I HAVE THAT EXACT DS!!! I'M INSTANTLY SUBBING!

[@JevilTheDevil1]

Great video!

[@FckVRC]

Also another thing, Shiny Marshadow is another one of the hacked Pokemon that can be traded in Sword and Shield.

[@WTPokemonToons-rk7ci]

Creative ideas, quality videos. I really like the way you build and use Pokemon properly in this episode.

[@NB_06]

I tried this with every shiny locked Pokémon you can gen in USUM and I was able to send them up to Home just fine, except shiny original color Magearna. Was wondering if someone else was able to make it work

[@KevdogPlays]

Good to know!!

[@oozecat]

One more problem with hacked pokemon in pokemon Home is that if you use the phone app, having a hacked mon deposited into pokemon Home can cause your home app to freeze if you try to do anything really. It will just perpetually freeze on the "select a pokemon to trade" for both GTS and surprise trades, and also won't load your Pokemon even for just viewing the boxes. If this is the case, you have to move the mon into a switch game, since it will only let the phone app work again after the offending mon is no longer in the Home boxes--which means you can't even release it from the phone app, you'll be stuck until you can use the internet on the switch to pull it out. Makes it really annoying because it doesn't seem to be consistent in how it checks, because you can still get traded hacked/generated mons and then not be able to access anything on phone app (which, if you're using home at all, is something that you're probably paying for!) until you remove them, even if you're just trying to delete them from your storage.

[@tiwambidexter]

Nice video, dude. I got a lot of mythical Pokémon from events on my 3DS, but I'm afraid to send them to my Home account, since their 'first seen' date always comes out wrong compared to the official distribution period.

[@Kitsuclipseyt]

So wait, shiny Hoopa said it had a problem and couldn't be traded, but shiny Volcanion could be traded?

[@fgvcosmic6752]

Have we gotten to the point that people have forgotten leetspeak?

[@Skelig]

this made me sad

[@chrisl8787]

Haha “1337 must be some hacker code”. I am so old…

[@enxiko]

to make a shiny tradeable hoopa you had to make it with pkex that gives him the right code of the pokemon

[@ShiningSilvally]

I've done this with Shiny Hoopa, Magearna(Not the Original form, since that doesn't work), & others. Too bad I don't have any chance of getting a Shiny Zeraora, in SV. Oh well, I can even do it for Jirachi, Meloetta, & Keldeo, so I'm happy!

[@zacharykillerx]

I created a shiny Hoopa with pksm and it's usable online with switch

[@Link-zelda-lj7eo]

Why am I not subscribed to you? I think I already subscribed, and I watch your videos every day

[@patrickzimmerman9825]

Would you do an updated video? The terms of use got updated and i never registed a genned pokemon

[@mundodacrianca2147]

I'm pretty sure all the servers were taken down this March

[@The_Weakest_Brazilian_Male]

No, that’s for the shop and such, so you can’t normally get bank anymore, but if you have bank already before that happened, it becomes free to use (on bank, not home)

[@Joes_Infernal_Gaming]

nice shiny volcannions

[@KevdogPlays]

?

[@Joes_Infernal_Gaming]

@@KevdogPlays they look nice

[@KevdogPlays]

I don't have any but ty

[@Joes_Infernal_Gaming]

@@KevdogPlays oh i thought you did

[@justinparkes7632]

i have a question for you kevdog do you have a pokemon with the mightiest mark ribbon for trading in scarlet and violet i'm looking for one to send over to the pokemon home app i'm having a bit of terrible luck finding one in link trades in the poke portal please let me know sometime thank you bro

[@paulhord8081]

unless its been patched but shiny arceus can also trade online in violet but i cant move it to home

[@ryzim1]

Would you get in trouble by Nintendo if you used one online?

[@KevdogPlays]

Leaving unobtainable Pokemon in a Home account for a long period of time can result in negative consequences, I actually had this happen to me probably two years ago when I was messing around when Scarlet and Violet came out. That Home account got banned but I believe if you quickly move something in and out nothing would *likely* happen, but there's no big testing on that. One instance isn't enough for me to know for sure but that was what I had happen

[@PVNTHR]

@@KevdogPlaysWhen you say banned, did you lose access to all your pokemon?

[@KevdogPlays]

Yep, everything in that account.

[@SmolBoi2014]

@@KevdogPlaysdoes that include a shiny like genesect from Pokemon go as I have a shiny genesect that I got in Pokémon go

[@BlueBraviaryGirl]

@@SmolBoi2014if it’s legit it doesn’t include it

[@Lotus_gaming95]

KEV I just noticed I received a Pokemon from you in Pokémon sword!

[@caffeinegod]

One crazy thing despite all that is in that Gen 5 game there was a thing that legit or not that if you had a complete Pokédex that you could get access to some island that had a 100% legit shiny Haxorus. So for me that was one time when I was younger that I got a legit shiny but through non legit method kinda.

[@MoosemeIon]

Yeah, the Nature Preserve. If you Catch every pokemon in the Unova Regionial pokedex you'll get a ticket to the island can get access to it. (Black 2 and White 2 also had a 100% shiny Dratini and Gible for Completing the Black Tower and White Treehallow and if you wanted to catch every pokemon you could in these games you have to do it, as this Gible and Dratini are the only way to get them in B2/W2)

[@genesectoid]

my friend tried to trade me a hacked shiny aipom recently and got the same error u did for the hoopa. it seems like that error appears w certain hacked pokemon and not just ones that shouldnt exist

[@Idk097-f5x]

Tbh I never thought I can put pokemon from my modded 3ds to my switch

[@Rye-Uh]

The trainer ID (1337) is what likely triggered the flag since thats an impossible trainer ID. If you made a legit one like the Volcanion it should work.

[@TaintedKeeperFromBOI]

once i had a hacked pokemon (regeleki,) got from wonder trade in sword

[@NightWolf3348.]

Why would you use a 3ds action replay when its so much easier to just mod your 3ds and use the pokemon save editor homebrew 💀

[@spartandelta124]

How many times can you use the Action Replay to get these event Pokemon?

[@Austinfdp]

now I know bank alive its time to get me hacked shiny pokemon

[@emasplatter5567]

You can save a lot of invalid non existent Pokémon in bank (some crashes the app). The first time Pokémon home released i transfered a lot of invalid mons that transformed into gen 8 mons (i kept those for myself obviously). I don't know if you can do that as of now, they probably patched it since it shouldn't be possible to transfer gen 8/9 mons from gen 7

[@Samrules888]

were you surprised?

[@fahrenitd]

Do I have to buy a 3DS to get hoopa? Isn't there a cheaper way?

[@nicholasgiardino6021]

so will i be able to tranfer the darkrais im about to load onto my copy of y😭

[@Zexo_Btw]

I USED TO HAVE A SHINY HOOPA ON POKÉMON SUN😭

[@EternalFloettez]

I want to see what appends with az floette

My shiny Deoxys I hunted in ORAS chilling in Home since years

[@GoldCoiny]

I have a shiny hoopa in scarlet and i love hit :3

[@Octolithic]

I have a shiny meloetta in violet right now. Haven't been blacklisted or anything since. I haven't tried to trade it though

[@Emersedsquid807]

You’re telling me that junk is cheated I thought mine was legit

[@peterk3556]

I mean getting the pokemons in game and to trait is not wrong but if you can use cheated pokemons in online fights that is pretty fd up

[@didy3615]

I believeyou can do the trade with another person in home?

[@kidscavyclub80]

I collect those hacked shinies

[@GodofPho]

Which power save works for soul silver?

[@Anoobvia]

Could you not have tried Pokémon home's GTS on mobile?

[@KevdogPlays]

Can't deposit mythicals

[@sahantejus786]

Kevdog can I get help for getting ash greninja mon legit before legends za

[@Alexifeu]

i once got a shiny groudon with a master ball as item and really good stats but i got it from wonder share. In Pokemon Black or something.

[@SmolBoi2014]

Quick question how did you use Pokémon bank?

[@KevdogPlays]

It still works!

[@SmolBoi2014]

For me it said I had to connect to internet

[@BlueBraviaryGirl]

@@SmolBoi2014means you have to have working wifi

[@KyleVieira-o8z]

3:36 HOW ITS GIGNTMAX?

[@Oliverfinlay2010]

It's hacked

[@BillionFrames88]

To any shiny hunters im wanting a shiny living dex in home I know that some Pokémon where never distributed as shiny would this method be counted as cheating for those Pokémon or would anyone care because they can’t be shiny to begin with

[@idk_what_bout_u]

fun fact 2020 i got my kubfu i named it k-dawg it was off of an youtuber but i don't remember witch

[@alaricgregory5878]

how are u using pokemon bank? i thought u cant transfur pokemon anymore?

[@KevdogPlays]

You can still use it! It hasn't shutdown yet

[@alaricgregory5878]

@KevdogPlays shutdown? When is it gonna shut down?

[@KevdogPlays]

They haven't given a date yet. We're all in the dark as to when

[@alaricgregory5878]

@@KevdogPlays i search it in google and it said that they are gonna get rid of it

[@xX6SE7EN0Xx]

Can we get that shiny volcanion

[@trollduspat9034]

jo a shiny hoopa you can trade you could buy for 20 in pkmn go

[@Seekeroftruth806]

Dude why are you giving the hacked Pokemon to a random person?

[@KevdogPlays]

Dude, why are you pausing the video and making assumptions and saying I did something that I didn't do

[@Seekeroftruth806]

@@KevdogPlays I'm joking, it's literally the same comment you said someone would post

[@KevdogPlays]

Oh sorry, I forgot I said that honestly that's my fault!

[@JaredHenninger]

i moved a shiny volcanion to pokemon scarlet

[@KaioshinandPhione]

What if you transfer az-Floette🤔

[@KevdogPlays]

Someone can correct me if I’m wrong but I don’t think the Bank app will let you

[@KaioshinandPhione]

@@KevdogPlays I Think You can put it in But not transfer it to another game like X-Us But mayby it could transfer to Home

[@nhalexhale3876]

anybody! is there a way how i can get pokemon bank to my 3DS when i never "purchased" it? I know they deleted it from the marktetplace but there has to be a possibility to transfer my old pokemon to my Switch.. Please anybody help me haha

[@nakano8412]

I\ve not tested it, but if you download homebrew I think you can download pokemon bank.

[@MrJoeyWheeler]

Homebrew your switch following online tutorials. Once you have custom firmware, including CIA or its equivalent (an app which lets you install software via QR code), go google "hshop".

[@kenkanaki3614]

Don't listen to the end of this do not keep any hacked or locked shiny pokemon your account will get banned if you are caught or have them good video just don't keep the shiny locked pokemon to those who see this it's a stupid idea

[@TomodachiLife4Life]

Incorrect you can only get banned if it’s in Pokemon Home if you keep it in your Scarlet box you can’t get banned

[@kenkanaki3614]

@@TomodachiLife4Life I mean if you use it in the games like actually fight with it and that man and I mean no disrespect to you I like the video I'm just saying if people were to use the hacked pokemon they would get banned

[@TomodachiLife4Life]

@@kenkanaki3614 if you were to somehow use it yes you would get banned but if you just keep it in your box/even trade shiny locked pokemon like volcanion without the barriers you won’t get banned

[@BrockArock]

133 comments in under 1 min

[@caffeinegod]

Back in the day before I knew there were ways of getting not this but legit shiny Pokemon I was one of those dumb dumbs that bought an overpriced Pokemon game off Amazon. It was one of the gen 5 games (I forget which exact one though) and it had all kinds of hacked shiny likely from GameShark or Game Action Replay or whatever cheat device they had back then. Anyway One of these hacked shiny was a hacked shiny Darmanitan and for whatever reason back then (this keep in mind was AGES before Pokemon Home and whatever modern day cheat detection software we have now for whatever reason it would not let me transfer it to I think it was Gen 8. Aka a hacked shiny Pokemon from a cheat device before Pokemon Home’s time VS Pokemon Shiekd aka a Game made during the modern era aka during the current time of Pokemon Home. I forget what methods of transfer I was using at the time exactly I just bleakly remember that I could not transfer it to another game as it said there was something wrong with the Pokemon at the time

[@jart122]

Say good bye to your Nintendo accounts

[@ZoofyZoof]

That doesn't happen

[@BlueBraviaryGirl]

@@ZoofyZoofit can indeed

[@ZoofyZoof]

@@BlueBraviaryGirl no lol

[@dennisneubauer9222]

Why is it always said that volcanion is 100% shiny locked? I though you can also get it shiny in sword and shield in the crown tundra DLC in the dynamax adventure. Ore am I wrong?

[@KevdogPlays]

Volcanion isn't even in Dynamax Adventures actually

[@dennisneubauer9222]

@@KevdogPlays yes he is? Isn't he a version exclusive? Wait hold up I'm convused now I just looked it up and didn't find him but I'm 100% sure my friend found a vulcanion in those adventures

[@Ashiixz]

I read the thumbnail as “can you transgender?”

[@KevdogPlays]

New video idea let's go

[@TheOGPUG]

OK this is very weird because I have a shiny hoopa from a link trade so I have no idea why thus is

[@CaptainToby]

🍖

[@tylerkirkpatrick9190]

I was able to transfer them all without a problem shiny locked or not

[@ShadyRK9]

Wait. Hoopa is Shiny Locked? I actually have a Shiny one in Alpha Sapphire!

[@MattZRJSRoxy]

Yes, only Diancie is the only 6th Gen Mythical that isn't shiny locked because there was a Japanese event for it at some point

[@ShadyRK9]

@@MattZRJSRoxy oh wow! That sucks!

[@eissamohammed-so9yz]

How do i hack in a pokemon

[@playboyant]

need a 3ds and mod it

[@eissamohammed-so9yz]

@@playboyant ok thx

[@playboyant]

@@eissamohammed-so9yz if u have. an andriod phone u can emulate 3ds games and transfer to pokemon hom legit method

[@saucesaucesaucesauce1380]

ive gotten a shiny hoopa traded with me in sv, ur one was probably genned poorly

[@KevdogPlays]

Genned poorly isn't accurate, definitely didn't watch part one!

[@saucesaucesaucesauce1380]

@@KevdogPlays *(edited)* that may be the wrong terminology but wutever was done seemingly wasnt done perfectly

[@MidnightGrenVGC]

Dawg did not just say keep a hacked pokemon

[@ManuelLocandro]

You can use the pro hack in a 2ds Pokémon game?

[@Megamons2000]

3 hours ago

[@AsherTheModder]

Hoopa does trade iirc you just hacked it poorly . don't touch its ot.

[@KevdogPlays]

Not quite. This was made by a Powersave so I didn't do anything myself, I am testing what it gave me

[@AsherTheModder]

@@KevdogPlays both pksm and powersaves are inferior to pkhex.

[@alibiiana3919]

Dude is going to get pokemon home banned

[@j.ericson9190]

This sucks

[@Rey3518]

Not legit and you cannot even battle online with it so not worth it

[@Raichu159]

balls

[@Bengalsfans]

Where did you get your ARP at?🥲

[@Chicken_Sithlord]

Yo can u send me one of those volcanions to sword and shield, i want one🥹

[@BlueBraviaryGirl]

They won’t trade. It’ll give an error probably

[@urlocal_malaysian_idiot]

balls

[@edwardyeeto]

balls

[@Enchantedtinyfriend]

balls