Rawkhet Trade Guide
How to collect your Pokemon in every game we support, step by step. Pick your game, or read the trade-back rules first.
Six things that make trades fast
Trade back any Pokemon you don’t want, one for each you bought. The same species we’re sending you is fine. Just skip the trade evolvers below.
Pick the Pokemon you’ll trade back before you start, so each trade goes quickly.
Our trainer name is always Rawkhet.
Your receipt confirms payment. For automatic orders, a separate ready email has your collection link: open it and follow the steps, no reply needed. Orders that need review are checked within 12 hours; HOME, Let’s Go and basic Custom requests are handled by hand, usually within 24 hours. Missing an email? Check spam, or contact us.
Use an email you can access at checkout. During automatic collection, the chat on your collection page gets you help. For trades we arrange by hand, stay reachable on the channel we agreed.
Phone hotspots, public WiFi and work networks often can’t connect to other players. Trade from your home connection where you can.
The one hard rule: no trade evolutions
Never trade these
They evolve the moment they arrive in a trade. That stalls the trade and can break our trade bot.
- Kadabra
- Machoke
- Graveler
- Haunter
- Boldore
- Gurdurr
- Phantump
- Pumpkaboo
Take the item off these
They evolve when traded while holding the item shown. Without the item they’re fine to send.
- PoliwhirlKing’s Rock
- SlowpokeKing’s Rock
- OnixMetal Coat
- ScytherMetal Coat
- SeadraDragon Scale
- PorygonUp-Grade
- Porygon2Dubious Disc
- ClamperlDeep Sea Tooth or Scale
- RhydonProtector
- ElectabuzzElectirizer
- MagmarMagmarizer
- DusclopsReaper Cloth
- FeebasPrism Scale
- SpritzeeSachet
- SwirlixWhipped Dream
Trade back one Pokemon for each you bought
Send over any Pokemon you don’t want, one for each Pokemon you bought. Pokemon HOME orders are the exception: nothing is traded back.


Before you startYou need a Nintendo Account and an active Nintendo Switch Online membership to trade. Your Switch Friend Code isn’t needed.
- Press X to open the menu.
- Select Link Play.
- Select Link Trade.
- Choose Faraway Players. Open the collection link in your ready email and enter the Link Code shown on the trade page. For a staff-arranged trade, use the code the team sent you.
- If it doesn’t connect, follow the retry and help steps on your trade page. For a staff-arranged trade, keep trying if “No one could be found!” appears, and reply if we haven’t connected within a minute.
Before you startYou need a Nintendo Account and an active Nintendo Switch Online membership to trade. Your Switch Friend Code isn’t needed.
- Press X to open the menu.
- Select Poke Portal.
- Press L to connect to the internet. The top right should say “Online Mode” in green.
- Choose Link Trade, then Set Link Code.
- Open the collection link in your ready email and enter the Link Code shown on the trade page. For a staff-arranged trade, use the code the team sent you.
- Select Begin Searching and wait for the trade to connect.
- During the trade, press A at the “Attention!” screen to continue. Scarlet and Violet asks for this, unlike earlier games.
- If it doesn’t connect, follow the retry and help steps on your trade page. For a staff-arranged trade, keep trying if “No one could be found!” appears, and reply if we haven’t connected within a minute.
Before you startYou need a Nintendo Account and an active Nintendo Switch Online membership to trade. Your Switch Friend Code isn’t needed.
- Press Y to open the Y-Comm.
- Press + to connect to the internet. The top right should say “Internet”.
- Choose Link Trade, then Set Link Code.
- Open the collection link in your ready email and enter the Link Code shown on the trade page. For a staff-arranged trade, use the code the team sent you.
- Wait for the trade to connect. Stay in the overworld and don’t open any menus. It should say “Searching…” at the bottom left.
- If it doesn’t connect, follow the retry and help steps on your trade page. For a staff-arranged trade, reply if we haven’t connected within a minute (no need to retry) so we can try another code.
Connection checkRun a Test Connection on your Switch (System Settings, Internet, Test Connection). Your NAT Type needs to be A, B or C, with A or B ideal. NAT Types D and F can’t connect to other players, and phone hotspots, public WiFi and work networks are usually NAT Type D. Try a different network, or see Nintendo Support.
Before you startYou need a Nintendo Account and an active Nintendo Switch Online membership to trade. Your Switch Friend Code isn’t needed.
- Become a First Star Member of the Survey Corps. That unlocks the Trading Post stall between the Training Grounds and Galaxy Hall in Jubilife Village, in front of the crafting shop.
- Talk to the lady at the stall and choose “I want to trade Pokemon”.
- Select “Someone far away”. Open the collection link in your ready email and enter the Link Code shown on the trade page. For a staff-arranged trade, use the code the team sent you.
- If it doesn’t connect, follow the retry and help steps on your trade page. For a staff-arranged trade, reply if we haven’t connected within a minute so we can troubleshoot.
How to trade in Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl
Before you startYou need a Nintendo Account and an active Nintendo Switch Online membership to trade. Your Switch Friend Code isn’t needed.
- You unlock the Union Room after the first gym, once you’ve visited a Pokemon Center basement. From then on, press Y outside buildings to open it.
- Press Y to open the Union Room, or go to the basement of any Pokemon Center.
- Choose the Global Room. If you only see Local, go back a step.
- Select “Yes, with a Link Code”. Open the collection link in your ready email and enter the Link Code shown on the trade page. For a staff-arranged trade, use the code the team sent you.
- The Global Room floor is blue. If your floor is green, you’re in the wrong room.
- Find our character in the room and press A to start the trade.
- If it doesn’t connect, follow the retry and help steps on your trade page. For a staff-arranged trade, reply if you can’t see us within a minute so we can troubleshoot.
Before you startYou need an active Pokemon HOME Premium Plan before you order. You don’t need a 3DS.
Heads upPokemon Bank closes on February 25, 2027, and Rawkhet’s Moving Key listings retire on the same date. Nintendo’s announcement.
We send Gen 1–7 Pokemon from Pokemon Bank on our 3DS into your HOME, all at once, with nothing to trade back. Pokemon from other listings, such as Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon or Sword and Shield, can’t travel this way (here’s why). Works with:
- Past-Generations Living Dex
- Past-Generations Legendaries
- Ditto Package
- Unown Package
- Vivillon Package
On Nintendo Switch
- Only when we prompt you during collection, select Move in HOME’s main menu.
- Select Begin Move.
- Follow the steps until you see a Moving Key. Screenshot, photograph or copy it and send it straight away: we must enter it within 3 minutes.
On a phone
- Only when we prompt you during collection, open the Menu and choose Options.
- Select Move Pokemon.
- Select Begin move!
- Follow the steps until you see a Moving Key, then send it straight away: we must enter it within 3 minutes.
Before you startYou need an active Pokemon HOME Premium Plan before you order. Make sure you have enough consecutive empty boxes for the whole order.
We sign in to your account with a temporary password and load the Pokemon straight into your empty boxes. Nothing to trade back, and you don’t need to be online. You can add listings for Sword and Shield, BDSP, Legends Arceus, Scarlet and Violet or Legends Z-A, including Custom Pokemon, and they arrive with your order; held items are ignored. Works with:
- Legends Z-A Living Dex
- Paldean Living Dex
- Galarian Living Dex
- Legends Arceus Living Dex
- BDSP Living Dex
- Let’s Go Living Dex
- The Paldea Dex
- The Galar Dex
- All SV Legendaries
- All SWSH Legendaries
- Alcremie Forms Package
Why this is safe
- You set a temporary password first and change it back as soon as we’re done. We never know your real one.
- Everything is verifiable. Nintendo emails you at each sign-in, and your sign-in history shows exactly when we were there.
- We’ve done it since 2020, alongside more than 450,000 trades since 2016.
- Payment stays separate. Your card or PayPal details go to Stripe or PayPal, never near your Nintendo Account.
- Rather not share access? Moving Key listings don’t need it.
- Sign in to your Nintendo Account at accounts.nintendo.com.
- Under Sign-in and security settings, change your password to something temporary we can use. Keep it simple, because we type it by hand: a single word like “Password” works.
- Under Sign-in method, make sure it says “E-mail address or sign-in ID”.
- Under 2-Step Verification settings, make sure it says “Not set”. If it’s on, remove it for this order. You can turn it back on after.
- Under Passkey, remove any registered passkey so it says “No passkey set”. You can add it back after.
- Enter your Nintendo Account details at checkout. Check that they let you sign in at accounts.nintendo.com: if you can’t sign in, neither can we.
- If your Nintendo Account is set to a different country from your billing address (say you live in Brazil but the account is set to the United States), write the country in Order Notes at checkout.
- Within 24 hours, and generally less, we transfer the Pokemon into your HOME and tell you when it’s done.
- We sign out automatically. To be sure, press “Sign out” under Sign-in history, then change your password back and turn 2-Step Verification on again if you use it.
Before you startYou need a Nintendo Account and an active Nintendo Switch Online membership to trade. Your Switch Friend Code isn’t needed.
- Open the game menu and select Communicate, then Play With Others.
- Select Faraway Player (Internet), then Link Trade.
- Enter the Pokemon combination we send you by email to connect with Rawkhet.
- Both sides must enter the code at the same time, so keep an eye on your email while we arrange the trade.
XY, ORAS, Sun and Moon
Services for XY, Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, Sun and Moon, and Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon ended when Nintendo 3DS online play shut down on April 8, 2024, so these trades and Friend Code exchanges no longer happen.
Trading questions
Yes. Trading in Switch games needs a Nintendo Account and an active Nintendo Switch Online membership. Pokemon HOME orders need a HOME Premium Plan instead.
No. Switch trades connect with a Link Code, so your Friend Code isn’t needed.
From the collection link in your ready email: open it and the trade page shows your Link Code. For a trade we arrange by hand, the team sends you the code.
Any Pokemon you don’t want, one for each Pokemon you bought, even the same species we’re sending you. Never send a Pokemon that evolves by trading (such as Kadabra, Machoke, Graveler or Haunter), and take evolution items such as a Metal Coat off first. HOME orders don’t need anything traded back.
Always “Rawkhet”.
Follow the retry steps on your trade page first. In Sword and Shield, check your NAT Type with a Test Connection: it must be A, B or C, and phone hotspots, public WiFi and work networks are usually NAT Type D.
No. XY, Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, Sun and Moon, and Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon services ended when Nintendo 3DS online play shut down on April 8, 2024. Moving Key HOME delivery runs through Pokemon Bank until February 25, 2027.
Something else? See the full FAQ or contact us. Updated November 2, 2026.


































