I recently got Pokemon Home and let me just say I love the continuity it provides. Not only can I play with nostalgic teams, but the trade’s on offer are the most busted things Ive seen in a long while. Requesting a lv 91-100 Pharaoh/La Reine trim Furfrou for a Kubfu? Sure that sucks, as there is no way to train one in the current gen, requiring a Pokemon bank enabled DS or a literal trip to another country, but its a legendary, so I kinda get it. But all that for a lv 5 Alolan Rattata? I feel like I’m back in the middle-school cafeteria getting fucked on trades again. Thanks Pokemon Home.
“* * * *” 4/5 stars. it loses a point because i haven’t figured out how to get my box to actually be sorted by National Dex order for real and not just a search filter
They try, but utterly fail at it at the same time. As long as the Pokémon is “legal” (technically possible, no matter how improbable) they consider it “legit” (the real thing). Surprise Trades are full of “advertisement Pokémon”, usually shiny legendaries, Lv.100 starters with perfect IVs and the like, holding things like Master Balls or Ability Capsules, that are either nicknamed things like website-dot-com or have a website as their OT. (example)
Long story short, their filters suck. The only Pokémon that get flagged as fake are the ones that have “impossible” combinations, like male Salazzle or female Mothim. It’s especially annoying for people who send Breejdects into Surprise Trades, as you get those Advertisemons all the time.