Upcoming Trading Feature Explained for “Pokemon TCG Pocket!”

By: Water Pokémon Master · Posted Posted onJan 16, 2025 at 2:05 PM · 12 Comments

Pokemon TCG Pocket has posted an announcement about the upcoming trade feature, which will launch later this month!

Trading will work as follows:

  • Trades can be done between friends.
  • Trades can be done with cards of the same rarity.
  • When the feature launches, only certain cards from Genetic Apex and Mythical Island can be traded. More sets will be allowed later.
  • You can only trade ◆, ◆◆, ◆◆◆, ◆◆◆◆, and ★ cards.
  • Items must be consumed in order to trade.

Here is the full announcement from Pokemon’s Twitter account:

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It makes sense you have to consume an item to trade, otherwise it would be too easy to just make new accounts and re-roll to pull for whatever you want and then trade to yourself, even if it's same rarity locked. The question is... how scarce is this item for F2P? I can see it being like once a month unless you buy more with money or something.
 
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Ogerpon Lover said:
So, let me get this straight. We've been waiting since the app came out just to find out: We can't trade immersives and golds. We have to get rid of items to trade. We have to trade cards of the same rarity. Trading is basically useless.
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Surely they mean it will be a new stamina bar
 
Ogerpon Lover said:
So, let me get this straight. We've been waiting since the app came out just to find out: We can't trade immersives and golds. We have to get rid of items to trade. We have to trade cards of the same rarity. Trading is basically useless.
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Yeah, that’s disappointing. I’d begrudgingly understand rules that make it harder to trade immersive and gold cards, but never… what’s the point? I’ve oddly got a few gold Mew and, save for flair, it’d be nice to be able to do something else with them.

Unless flair becomes a bigger deal or the rewards for exchanging duplicates become more enticing, the trading is a bust imo.
 
TheRainmaker said:
It makes sense you have to consume an item to trade, otherwise it would be too easy to just make new accounts and re-roll to pull for whatever you want and then trade to yourself, even if it's same rarity locked. The question is... how scarce is this item for F2P? I can see it being like once a month unless you buy more with money or something.
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You can jsut limit it to One star or below, or you can limit it to an item. Doing both is stupid and excessive
 
Ogerpon Lover said:
So, let me get this straight. We've been waiting since the app came out just to find out: We can't trade immersives and golds. We have to get rid of items to trade. We have to trade cards of the same rarity. Trading is basically useless.
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what?, useless? none at all. This is my way of getting Mew. And if I were a player which Im not this is also quite useful. In fact they opening the trades for 2 stars and above would do nothing for me I dont have anything to trade there. Ofc I wouldnt be opposed to that happening but rn it would do nothing. I also thought trade between friends wouldnt be a thing so Im glad I can do that
 
While it would be nice to be able to trade IRs and Golds throwing a fit about the limits is ridiculous. An item/stamina helps to limit farming and preserves card value. If reroll bots take over the game makes less money from microtransactions.
 
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