Safekeeping

Started by Hiatus April 20th, 2014 4:33 AM
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Hiatus

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Posted July 24th, 2021
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10.8 Years
This isn't really necessary anymore thanks to PokéBank, but before it was available, though, have you ever let your friends, acquaintances, or just about anybody you know hold onto your Pokémon temporarily for safekeeping prior to restarting your game? If so, approximately how many times have you done it in total? Were you always able to get your Pokémon without any trouble, or did they wind up keeping a few? Also, what are your overall thoughts on this entire process? :p
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Seen March 6th, 2015
Posted July 11th, 2014
27 posts
9.4 Years
Ive done that 2 times, the first time was with my neighbour, who kept all, and gave me all of them without problems, this was on emerald, he had to release like 100 zigzagoons xDD

My second time was with pokemon x with some random guy i dont remember the name, (i remember but he don't wants me to talk about him) and we make a deal, i was going to restart my game, so he asked if he could keep xerneas and mewtwo with the mega stone, so i accepted, anyway i was going to get another 2 after beating the game anyway :P but again, he had to release like 30 pidgeys and 30 fletchlings xDDD

But anyway, it was a bit painfull to know that this guys had all your pokes and they could do bad things, luckily, i didn't had to experience something like losing everything, if someone have to do this, do it with someone who's really really really nice, or pay 5€ and use the pokebank and keep restarting the game every day if u want :P

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BakingBluePotatoe

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Catatonia
Seen March 28th, 2016
Posted February 12th, 2016
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15.8 Years
I never really dealt with that prior to this gen... I never restarted, and noone asked me to hold thier guys.

This gen though, I've been helping some people out by holding onto thier Megastones and whatnot, since the bank doesn't let you deposit items.

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Potato Buddy

Age 29
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Colorado
Seen March 13th, 2015
Posted February 21st, 2015
166 posts
12 Years
I used to not be able to connect to wifi so I actually bought a DSi and a DS lite back in gen 4 just so I could trade with myself, start a new game, and then trade over a fresh team I had hand picked and bred. I did this probably a total of 6 times. Going back and forth on Heart Gold and Platinum. It was pretty nifty at the time but I love Pokebank. Best thing to ever happen to Pokemon. I wish they allowed you to transfer from the Gen 4 games as well. That would have been perfect.

Elements1

Meh

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Nevada
Seen March 10th, 2021
Posted August 1st, 2014
272 posts
10.7 Years
This is just a little bit off topic but the only way the bank would be perfect is if you could store items with your pokemon. It is not like the Items would hurt them or the game at all.
This. Why oh why could they not have added this in pokebank :( Cloning items would be so much easier.
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Jakeremix

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Ohio
Seen March 16th, 2015
Posted January 29th, 2015
124 posts
9.1 Years
This is just a little bit off topic but the only way the bank would be perfect is if you could store items with your pokemon. It is not like the Items would hurt them or the game at all.
I really thought the reasoning behind that was so that people couldn't transfer hacked items.

Master Kavar

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Australia
Seen January 6th, 2023
Posted October 14th, 2020
489 posts
14.2 Years
yeah I had a friend to hold my pokemon for me so I could star a new game on pokemon X and I hardly new him, BUT it was worth I got two off my pokemon evolved my trade.

Pumpbakoo >>> gougiest

Electabuzz >>> electavire

so yeah he traded back to me and we became friends good friends. so in the end its ok to get help from other people, if you have the instincts lol :-)
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Cloudy J

Cloud Queen

Age 23
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UK
Seen January 16th, 2018
Posted January 31st, 2017
19 posts
9.3 Years
I've never restarted any of my games, I just use Pokebank to store a living dex and all the extra 'mon from breeding shinies and also to get Pokemon from Y to OR as I only have 1 3DS.

However, my best friend likes to restart her game sometimes and I hold onto any pokemon she wants to keep as well as holding pokemon from her X to trade back to her in her AS. It's always easy and hassle free since we're such good friends and I would never steal her pokemon :)

shadowmoon522

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Age 32
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PA
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Posted February 3rd, 2022
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10.8 Years
i used to and still do use my xd gale of darkness & coliseum saves to safe keep pokemon as i reseted my gba games.the only time i ever needed anything from was just to borrow their systems so that i could transfer between games.

Bounsweet

Fruit Pokémon

Seen September 17th, 2018
Posted October 11th, 2017
2,102 posts
15.6 Years
Oh my god, I think once in Platinum Version or something, I asked my friend to hold onto like 2 full boxes worth of Pokémon... I don't know how they didn't hate me LOL. They probably did, they were just too nice to say anything. I think that this happened a couple times, too :x

I really wish I had Pokémon Box for Ruby and Sapphire too, I usually use XD or Colosseum to safekeep Pokémon on there, but Box would have probably saved me hours (maybe even days) worth of trading Pokémon before restarting a game.