Pokémon Home: What happens to Pokémon moves when transferred Pokémon Legends Arceus

Pokémon from Pokémon Legends: Arceus can be brought onto Pokémom Home. These Pokémon can be brought along with additional features, such as Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl or Pokémon Sword and Shield. Several of these Pokémon may not have been available when the games were first released, and their behavior may differ from what you expect. When Pokémon from Legends: Arceus are transferred to Pokémon Home, here's everything you need to know about Pokémon moves.

What happens to Pokémon moves when transferred Pokémon Legends: Arceus

If you transfer a Pokémon from Pokémon Legends: Arceus to another game, their moveset will be altered. Because there are a few attacks and status effects not available in other games, the attacks they can use in battle will differ from those available in Arceus. To make things easier, every Pokémon you get from Legends: Arceus will have the same moveset as if you obtained it from that game. If you transfer a level 30 Eevee from Pokémon Legends: Arceus to Pokémon Sword and Shield, for example, this Eevee will have a moveset comparable to the one found in the Sword and Shield area.

This is something to remember if you bring a Pokémon over from Pokémon Home. If your Pokémon tries to use a move that it couldn't in previous games, the game will tell you that you can't and recommend that you forget about it. If you want to use a Pokémon you caught in Pokémon Legends: Arceus throughout your whole Pokémon journey in another game, consider bringing a lower-level version of the Pokémon into the game.

You can readily tell which Pokémon came from Pokémon Legends: Arceus because it will be inside a Strange Ball in other games. The Strange Ball is a one-of-a-kind green and white Pokémon that can only be obtained by transferring a Pokémon from Legends: Arceus to Pokémon Home and then utilizing it in other games.