01 / Before you trade

Six things that make trades fast

Any spare Pokemon works

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.

Sort your boxes first

Pick the Pokemon you’ll trade back before you start, so each trade goes quickly.

Look for “Rawkhet”

Our trainer name is always Rawkhet.

Watch for the ready email

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.

Stay reachable

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.

Use a solid connection

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
02 / During the trade

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.

Trade summary screen confirming the Pokemon being tradedRawkhet sending over a Pokemon during the trade

Link Play trade

How to trade in Legends Z-A

Shop Legends Z-A

Before you startYou need a Nintendo Account and an active Nintendo Switch Online membership to trade. Your Switch Friend Code isn’t needed.

  1. Press X to open the menu.
  2. Select Link Play.Legends Z-A Link Play menu with Link Trade
  3. Select Link Trade.
  4. 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.Legends Z-A Link Trade screen with Faraway Players selected
  5. 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.

Poke Portal Link Trade

How to trade in Scarlet and Violet

Shop Scarlet and Violet

Before you startYou need a Nintendo Account and an active Nintendo Switch Online membership to trade. Your Switch Friend Code isn’t needed.

  1. Press X to open the menu.
  2. Select Poke Portal.
  3. Press L to connect to the internet. The top right should say “Online Mode” in green.
  4. Choose Link Trade, then Set Link Code.Scarlet and Violet Poke Portal Link Trade screen with Set Link Code
  5. 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.
  6. Select Begin Searching and wait for the trade to connect.
  7. During the trade, press A at the “Attention!” screen to continue. Scarlet and Violet asks for this, unlike earlier games.
  8. 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.

Y-Comm Link Trade

How to trade in Sword and Shield

Shop Sword and Shield

Before you startYou need a Nintendo Account and an active Nintendo Switch Online membership to trade. Your Switch Friend Code isn’t needed.

  1. Press Y to open the Y-Comm.
  2. Press + to connect to the internet. The top right should say “Internet”.
  3. Choose Link Trade, then Set Link Code.Sword and Shield Y-Comm with Link Trade and Set Link Code
  4. 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.Sword and Shield Link Code number pad
  5. Wait for the trade to connect. Stay in the overworld and don’t open any menus. It should say “Searching…” at the bottom left.
  6. 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.

Trading Post

How to trade in Legends Arceus

Shop Legends Arceus

Before you startYou need a Nintendo Account and an active Nintendo Switch Online membership to trade. Your Switch Friend Code isn’t needed.

  1. 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.
  2. Talk to the lady at the stall and choose “I want to trade Pokemon”.Legends Arceus Trading Post stall with the trade option
  3. 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.Legends Arceus trade menu with Someone far away
  4. 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.

Global Room trade

How to trade in Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl

Shop 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.

  1. 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.
  2. Press Y to open the Union Room, or go to the basement of any Pokemon Center.
  3. Choose the Global Room. If you only see Local, go back a step.BDSP Union Room choice between Local Room and Global Room
  4. 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.BDSP Global Room prompt with Yes, with a Link Code
  5. The Global Room floor is blue. If your floor is green, you’re in the wrong room.
  6. Find our character in the room and press A to start the trade.
  7. 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.

Moving Key

Pokemon HOME by Moving Key

Shop HOME

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:

On Nintendo Switch

  1. Only when we prompt you during collection, select Move in HOME’s main menu.Pokemon HOME on Switch main menu with Move
  2. Select Begin Move.Pokemon HOME on Switch Begin Move screen
  3. 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.Pokemon HOME on Switch creating a Moving KeyPokemon HOME on Switch showing the Moving Key

On a phone

  1. Only when we prompt you during collection, open the Menu and choose Options.Pokemon HOME app main screenPokemon HOME app menu with Options
  2. Select Move Pokemon.Pokemon HOME app Options with Move Pokemon
  3. Select Begin move!Pokemon HOME app Begin move button
  4. Follow the steps until you see a Moving Key, then send it straight away: we must enter it within 3 minutes.Pokemon HOME app showing the Moving KeyPokemon HOME app move in progress

Nintendo Account

Pokemon HOME by Nintendo Account

Shop HOME

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:

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.
  1. Sign in to your Nintendo Account at accounts.nintendo.com.
  2. 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.
  3. Under Sign-in method, make sure it says “E-mail address or sign-in ID”.
  4. 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.
  5. Under Passkey, remove any registered passkey so it says “No passkey set”. You can add it back after.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. Within 24 hours, and generally less, we transfer the Pokemon into your HOME and tell you when it’s done.
  9. 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.

Faraway Player link trade

How to trade in Let’s Go

Shop Let’s Go

Before you startYou need a Nintendo Account and an active Nintendo Switch Online membership to trade. Your Switch Friend Code isn’t needed.

  1. Open the game menu and select Communicate, then Play With Others.Let's Go menu with CommunicateLet's Go Play With Others option
  2. Select Faraway Player (Internet), then Link Trade.Let's Go Faraway player optionLet's Go Link Trade option
  3. Enter the Pokemon combination we send you by email to connect with Rawkhet.Let's Go Pokemon code entry screen
  4. Both sides must enter the code at the same time, so keep an eye on your email while we arrange the trade.

3DS games

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.

FAQ

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.