LogFAQs > #979440051

Its actually pretty damn crazy. I was having trouble moving my pokemon from Crystal to Home and then realized after watching a video that you need to have the physical copy of a Pokemon game that can use Pokemon Bank to actually use Pokemon Transporter.

So you need 3 apps. Pokemon Transporter, Pokemon Bank, and Pokemon Home. In order to use Pokemon Transporter to move stuff to bank, you need a physical copy that's X/Y and onward I think?(Includes Omega Ruby) and you need to have the pokedex unlocked. I sat here trying and couldn't find the exact details ANYWHERE about using the physical copy just to move from Transporter to Bank.

Then you go to Bank and they don't even bring you to the transporter box so you might not even see it lol.

Then after doing all that, you have to go to Pokemon Home to get the moving code and then you can finally move them.

Its crazy how there's no built in instructions anywhere and websites seem to gloss over the 'physical copy' part because I kept thinking that it was asking me to move my pokemon from Omega Ruby to Bank and not that its needed for Crystal.

I wonder if they'll ever fix it or just ignore it because...let's face it, the games are moving away from the 3DS and all the newer titles can move straight to home...

and that's it for my little rant....where I spent a good hour trying to remember how to move Pokemon from VC games to Home....since I apparently forgot about the physical game and couldn't find my Pokemon Moon which was the only game I had a pokedex in(I hadn't started any of the other games I bought so I had to play a little of Omega Ruby just to move it.)

And then after getting mY Celebi from Crystal...I realized I had one already from Pokemon Go...lmao