Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon Are Getting Poké Bank Support Later This Month

I’m hoping there’s a free trial when the update comes out. I’ve never used this bank thing before and found out that I had missed the trial they had. Plus it’ll be good for those who get the game for Christmas and have a chance to transfer Pokémon from sun to ultra sun. ☺️

I just want to have the bank accept pokémon from gen 2. got some shinies i've bred and duplicated and wanna send them up.

@ the first comment, I think the bank is well worth the $5, even if you're just moving mons between games that can trade with one another and u have a second 3DS, the transfers are much quicker if you wanna move a lot. the only thing it can't do is trade items. another thing is that they removed the national dex in gen 7 so if u wanna track which of the 802 pokémon u have, u'll need the bank

Do Pokémon that have ‘Hyper Trained’ IV’s in SM bring over their ‘Hyper Trained’ status in Ultra SM?

I spend a couple of hours the other day organising my Bank boxes, as I realised that I no longer need my copies of X, AS and Moon if everything I've caught is banked.
Shall hopefully be trading them in today for an extra game.

@Slaz Yeah, they'll be permanently boosted from now on regardless of game.

So I need to find another way to get my shiny team from Sun to Ultra Sun… do we know if we can trade?

@Slaz I mean the boosted stat points, the original IVs remain unaffected for purposes of breeding, which was already the case.

@Archius9 You can, yeah.
Probably not straight away from the very beginning, but they did confirm it.

@gordjscott Yeah, I know the stat boosts from Hyper Training are artificial, hence why things like breeding and Hidden Power remain unaffected. But it sure would be nice if all those hard earned Hyper Trainings weren’t going to be meaningless in Ultra SM, so good to know they got it covered!

Getting four copies of Ultra Sun & Moon (have 3 kids, well 4 but only 3 play video games). Used Poke Bank since the beginning and love it. Can’t wait to get my copies on Monday so I can dive into my favourite region again.

So my inability to get the games in time comes in handy, for once.
I will shamelessly start the game with several past-gen starters.
And the hatted Pikachu, because yes.

@gordjscott Do you know if that also applies to Pokémon who were super trained in gen 6? Thanks.

I have most of my team relaxing in the Pelago waiting to be called up for duty. I was going to buy Ultra Moon in time to get the Dusk Form Lycanroc, but I was hoping to wait for bank functionality so I can use my pre-trained trial and catch teams. Good news for me

Hadn't realised the bank wasn't available yet.
I can dial down how fast I'm getting through the cut-scene-a-thon since I'll be breeding a new team to replace the bizarre one I've got atm.

Cool to hear. Still wish the National Dex was in game.

One reason I'll guess there was a delay of the original bank was most likely because there were a lot of new things that had to get ironed out. Now, with most of the work already done, Gamefreak probably only had to do 15% of the original workload.

@Archius9

If you have a separate 3DS, you can locally trade from Sun to Ultra Sun.

Damn, Id been kind of hoping for out of the box support, since Id been wanting to trade my almost Charjabug over to a completed Sun/Moon and get Vikavolt early (the special location thing for it isnt until later from memory). Have to wait until Momday for that.

oh great! there you have it, a shiny and "superior" National Pokedex.
/s

Not playing until the bank is accept. The complete dex is a bless and a curse.

What about GS PokéTransporter support though?

@hdthroh super training is just another name for EV training, acquired EVs have always transfered from game to game

@foodmetaphors Lol, it's obvious after you spelled it out, thanks!

Can they at least get gold and silver onto pokebank first or at least do it at the same time. I got some stuff on my silver that i need to bring over. Also when is crystal vc coming out?

I wasn't going to buy ultra moon, but I managed to sell my regular moon for $35 so I could use that money to upgrade

@Hunt3r_Cr0wl3y if they gave another free trial, it’d defeat the point of paying $5 to transfer your Pokémon. That’s literally the whole reason it costs money, and a free trial with each new game would make the price redundant, people could just transfer them for free and never pay. Honestly, it’s just $5, if you don’t really care about having your old Pokémon then don’t bother but if you’re gonna get that much use out of them, you may as well, you can get a meal at a fast food restaurant for more than that...

Well Pokémon Bank is utter crap anyways. The service sucks, and even more unforgiving is that the only method of transferring to newer generations is behind a paywall.

@greengecko007 What is your point here? Why does the service suck? Paywall, really!? Every new game has paywall since the games costs money. And by looking at DLC prices these days, this 5$ is very fair.

@Chandlero The Pokemon Bank service is arbitrarily capped at 30 boxes. It doesn't store held items, so if you wanted to start over on a game or even just to transfer you mons to the newest version, you will have to grind for your held items again, including mega stones. It only allows for transferring up to new generations, despite the service clearly being fully compatible with generations
6 and 7, and both of those generations using the same formatting for the pokemon file data.

That's why the service sucks. Additionally, it's the only method of transferring Pokemon, when simply saving the Pokemon files to something like an SD card, which comes with pretty much every 3DS model, would work just as well.

Also, comparing paid online storage to the cost of the game and DLC is silly, especially when that online storage is sub par.

@greengecko007 It's actually 100 boxes, but your other points still stand.

How much storage space is actually taken up by those 3000 pokemon, though? I'm thinking a couple MB at the worst, probably less. Paying 5 bucks for that tiny speck of disk space, is just laughable, really.

This is great news! I originally heard not until December. Let's face it, much of the only reason to play these games is to play the multiplayer as after 25 hours the single player is 85% the same as S/M. Bank will be much faster than trading over all my competitive mons that I bread in S/M and XY.

@vonboy89 Haha you're right! I have no idea where the 30 boxes came from.

@vonboy89 And yes, Pokemon files themselves are incredibly small. I have pk6 files on my computer from creating Pokemon and injecting them into the generation 6 games, and each individual file is 1kb. So yeah, at most you're storing 3mb of data on Nintendo's servers. Such a huge amount s/...