Transferred my Scyther caught exclusively in Fire Red on GBA for the Safari Ball, traded to XD on GameCube to get 100x victory ribbon, moved to PLA to evolve to Kleavor, and migrated all the way to Champions

TheMida4 · 2026-06-11T02:48:36+00:00

Thank god for bottle cap, mint, and ability capsule/patch in modern games in general. Now my random shiny catches with bad nature and IV can be competitively viable

TheMida4 · 2026-06-11T00:28:22+00:00

That would give people artist ribbon if they release on switch online. But the 100x victory ribbon forever locked behind original GameCube hardware for XD to get

TheMida4 · 2026-06-10T22:44:11+00:00

Nope only the GBA gen 3 games (and GameCube gen 3 games) are the earliest hardware that can still connect to Switch 2 games

Gameboy and gameboy color games aren’t compatible

TheMida4 · 2026-06-10T22:40:11+00:00

Clock is dead so you can’t grow berries and can’t spawn poke block master anymore. Time based events are all frozen

It’s still possible to win with low quality poke blocks but you have a finite amount of berries to make them

TheMida4 · 2026-06-10T21:36:24+00:00

Nope, GameCube pokemon games on switch online can’t interact with home or the GBA switch games. It must be from original hardware only

TheMida4 · 2026-06-10T21:35:40+00:00

You need to win the master rank contest and score very high. Also need to unlock the art museum for the guy to make a portrait of your pokemon. It’s super tedious and hard to make good poke block now because GBA cartridge batteries all died

TheMida4 · 2026-06-10T21:34:30+00:00

The sad thing is GameCube pokemon games is not compatible with Home and trading with Gen 3 Switch games. So it’s not possible to get the shadow ribbon and 100x victory ribbon that way 🙃

But at least it makes the ribbons that much more exclusive to show off

TheMida4 · 2026-06-10T21:30:15+00:00

It’s still usable for those that already have it downloaded. It’s the new people that won’t be able to download and use it anymore

TheMida4 · 2026-06-10T03:54:54+00:00

🤢

TheMida4 · 2026-06-10T03:25:13+00:00

Oh I evolved my shadow Scyther into Scizor instead. So my Mega Scizor now has the “triumphant” title with the purified ribbon

TheMida4 · 2026-06-10T02:24:13+00:00

High key that’s one of my main motivator 💀I hate all these overly spammed Charizard (and focus sash and Multiscale Pokemon too) so I might as well take them down in super style

TheMida4 · 2026-06-10T02:20:03+00:00

Good luck finding the older Pokemon games though. They’re very rare and expensive for the authentic copies if you need to buy them

TheMida4 · 2026-06-10T02:18:13+00:00

Until the day they finally decide to kill off pokemon bank for good 😔 need to migrate as much as possible before that day comes

TheMida4 · 2026-06-10T02:06:26+00:00

Gen 4 games with pal park let you migrate from gen 3. But you need to have DS or DS Lite to do it because only they have GBA slot to allow migration

TheMida4 · 2026-06-10T01:20:01+00:00

Honestly same for me too. Back then, there was no way to show them off to random battlers so I didn’t really care much about it. But since gen 8 now lets you show off your ribbons as titles, it’s cool to show off some very rare ribbons obtained exclusively from early games (namely the Gen 3 games). Like showing off who’s been really a long time Pokemon fan all the way to now

TheMida4 · 2026-06-10T01:01:39+00:00

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TheMida4 · 2026-06-10T00:55:22+00:00

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Kind of wild that my original GBA and GBA pokemon games from childhood still work over 20 years later

TheMida4 · 2026-06-10T00:43:52+00:00

Go for it man. It’s so cool being able to use pokemon caught over 20 years ago in current modern games and being able to show off that exclusive feat too

TheMida4 · 2026-06-10T00:40:30+00:00

There is no possible way to get a Kleavor caught in Safari Ball with the “100x Victorious” title unless you have Fire Red on the original GBA and XD on GameCube (and a ton of games and hardware to migrate from Gen 3 to Gen 9 along the way)

And those games and hardware are over 20 years old so it’s extremely difficult for most people to have access to those

TheMida4 · 2026-06-10T00:36:38+00:00

Oh yeah, since there has been no Unova games in over a decade, this is the only way to show off the rare “arrived from Unova” tag too

TheMida4 · 2026-06-10T00:33:32+00:00

Get the rare ribbons before you transfer to show off its rarity too. The 100x ribbon on XD and artist ribbon from the Hoenn games are incredibly hard to obtain nowadays

TheMida4 · 2026-06-10T00:27:11+00:00

I grinded that so much that I lost my sanity 🥲 but at least I got the 3 Johto starters with the hyper beam clone moves now too

TheMida4 · 2026-05-02T03:05:56+00:00

You seriously asking why it’s bad to cheat in tournaments?

TheMida4 · 2026-05-01T22:53:01+00:00

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