Can't Sleep Again, So Here I Post

     Well I haven't been able to sleep again tonight, so I sat down and typed this up so I could promote another video on the YouTube channel.  Last night niether Madison nor I could sleep so we went for a drive.  I stopped periodically so we could catch so pokémon.

A Little Help For All You Pokémon Masters

Recently an new feature dropped for Pokémon GO, the ability to transfer from GO to Pokémon Home, and I found the internet very lacking on details of how exactly to make this transfer.  Also, the game itself seems light on explanations, so i dug around in the app, and have discovered the secrets of the Pokémon GO transfer process.

For those who just want a quick video tutorial, there is one right here from my youtube channel, the guy who sounds funny:

For those who aren't into listening to a guy who sounds like he has no formal speaking experience trying to bumble his way through a video tutorial, I have also prepared a purely text-based tutorial as well.

First thing you're going to have to do is to load up Pokemon GO.  

Once into GO, you can press the little pokéball down at the bottom, then go up to the top and press settings.

From there, scroll all the way down till you reach the bottom.  Your screen should look something like this:

Press the Pokémon HOME title and you should jump to this screen:

Now, the first time you arrive here the game will tell you you have to log in with your Nintendo account before you can transfer.  Tapping where it says Send Pokémon in the image above will take you to the Nintendo website, where you can log in.  You will then be brought back to the game, where you can now press Send Pokémon, and that will transfer you to something like this:

Now, this is where previous reveals about this process were a little lacking.  It was originally implied that you would have to pay coins per transfer, as well as being unable to transfer unless the pokémon was already in your HOME pokédex.  Turns out none of that is true, but it may be just a little more devious than that.  You see, you get transfer energy, and it takes a full week to restore the whole bar.  But it also doesn't take the whole bar to transfer, either.  What pokémon you are trying to send determines the amount of energy needed, and for most pocket monsters, you can send quite a few in a single week.  But shinies and mythic pokémon take a lot more.  As of posting this, I haven't been able to confirm it yet, but I suspect that a mythic monster takes an entire weeks worth of energy.  So to transfer your entire collection of 52 Celebi would take an entire year.  Unless you want to pay some real cash.

So, it turns out you can pay to transfer as well.  A full weeks worth of transfer energy can be purchased for about 1000 Pokécoins.  This translates to ruffly $10, so if it takes a full weeks worth of transfer energy to transfer a mythic, that's gonna be $10 a Celebi or Mew.

Now that we have the cost mechanics out of the way, you should be on a screen similar to this one: 

All of your pokémon available for transfer should be listed here, any that aren't available to transfer currently should be grayed out, like this:

Once you've made your selections, just tap the next button and follow your on-screen instructions to finalize the transfer, and you should be the happy owner of some powerful pokémon in Sword & Shield or the Let's GO games.  Happy hunting and better battles my friends, and I hope this tutorial helped any of you with questions.  Bye