The Update Has Arrived: A Closer Look at Pokémon Home's Latest Update

It was time to dive back into Pokémon Home, the mobile game that allows players to manage and transfer their Pokémon between games. The latest update had been released, and it was shaping up to be a big one. As soon as I booted up the app, I knew something was different. It wasn't just a minor tweak - there were significant changes, and I was excited to see what they entailed.

The first thing that struck me was the new character customization options. Apparently, players could now customize their in-game characters themselves, but it seemed like this feature was still in its infancy. The interface for character customization was confusing, with limited options at present. While I was eager to experiment and change my Pokémon's appearance, the current state of the system didn't quite live up to my expectations.

On a more positive note, the fishing animations had been added to the game. This was a nice touch, as it allowed players to experience the thrill of reeling in a catch in a more immersive way. The animations were smooth and realistic, making it feel like I was actually out on the water, waiting for a bite.

One of the biggest changes came in the form of battle sequences. With the introduction of new graphical elements, the battles now looked significantly different from their previous versions. It seemed that the developers had taken inspiration from other Pokémon games to create a more visually appealing experience. The battle buttons were also revamped, with a new design that added to the overall aesthetic.

As I continued to explore the update, I stumbled upon some interesting features related to competitive battling. For those interested in this aspect of the game, there was now a preview system that allowed players to get a taste of what it would be like to compete at the top level. This was a welcome addition, as it gave me an idea of how things worked and what I could expect when I started competing.

Breeding, another area of interest, saw some changes with the introduction of new Pokémon. It seems that certain Pokémon had different attributes now, which added to the overall complexity of breeding. The interface for this process was still a bit clunky in places, but it seemed like the developers were on the right track.

As I continued my exploration of the update, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and anticipation. It seemed that the developers had put in a lot of effort to address some long-standing issues and add new features that would enhance the overall experience. Whether these changes would be enough to keep players engaged remains to be seen, but for now, it's clear that Pokémon Home is taking steps in the right direction.

One thing was certain: this update was not just about fixing bugs and adding minor tweaks. It represented a significant shift in the game's development, with new features and changes that would shape the way players interacted with their Pokémon. As I continued to explore the app, I couldn't help but feel a sense of awe at the sheer scope of these changes.

The update also included some interesting tidbits, such as the ability to catch Pokémon by themselves and see if they had hatched successfully or not. This added a new layer of realism to the game, making it feel more immersive and engaging. The fact that certain Pokémon would skip the animation if they were caught without using a Poké Ball was also an interesting touch.

As I wrapped up my exploration of the update, I couldn't help but feel a sense of appreciation for the developers' efforts. It seemed like they had put their heart and soul into creating something special, and it showed in every aspect of the game. Whether this update would be enough to keep players hooked remains to be seen, but for now, it's clear that Pokémon Home is on the right track.

The final touches were applied as I caught up with some friends about my experience playing through the update. There was no shortage of banter and good-natured teasing as we discussed our various catches and failures. It was just another reminder that Pokémon Home was more than just a game - it was a community, connected by a shared love of Pokémon.

As I closed out my time with Pokémon Home, I couldn't help but feel grateful for the developers' efforts to create such an engaging experience. While there were still some areas where improvement was needed, it seemed clear that the team had put in the hard work to deliver something special. Whether this update would be remembered as a highlight of the game's development or simply another chapter in its ongoing evolution remains to be seen, but for now, it's clear that Pokémon Home is on the right track.

The next step was going to be learning more about competitive battling and how to do it effectively. This seemed like an exciting prospect, as I looked forward to learning from others and improving my skills in the process.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enI ate a Doritos Loos Taco that's what we're starting this with that's what this video is about see see this is the Dorito this is the Locos and that's the taco was it good it was good okay you're good he doesn't try new things often he's excited yeah and there's a new Pok MMO update that is filling the servers entirely so that means we can't play the game to show it to you guys woohoo thanks for watching we'll see you guys around way hey guys welcome back to PO MMO 3 hours later we got into the game and as soon as we got in after that long wait it told Shu that she was disconnected for being AFK as soon as we logged in yeah and we thought it was going to kick her but or like keep her back in the queue but we're good we're good all right so almost healed yeah I was I was I was about to get mad eil what's your Pokémon I got a sneez a sneez I'm raising my new team for my competitive battles since my team sucks oh maybe but that's not what we're talking about today today we are talking about the new crazy June update which I gave details a little bit of details about in my previous video but they've added much more different things so yeah yeah this video is going to be an overview and then I'll do a video about a couple specific things in it as well but as you can already probably see the GUI is different the the theme looks different everything looks different the party is now in a lockable position where you can make it horizontal or vertical oh that's cool so that's pretty cool so I'm actually going to keep it up towards the top cuz I prefer it up here I I'm still trying to figure out why I have this to oh for okay what's it for Surf and Waterfall oh yeah but then what's my best WIS to yeah evos may be changing his team for uh competitive stuff but I don't give a so my critics can off true I mean hi oh yeah and it show do the Sprites look a little different to you yeah the Overworld Sprites now take them from the DS game instead of the Game Boy Advance game cuz the Overworld Sprites were actually still from the Game Boy game even though you needed the D one to make him show up which was kind of stupid all right so going through the update actually oh you don't have your footsteps here your reflection yeah they still haven't fixed that all right uh in the second floor of the Poké Center which is finally open you now have PVP matchmaking yeah PVP you talk to the person in the center here I believe and yeah you have single battle double battle and then you have level 50 level 100 or auto level which just matter matches you up with someone within your range yourself and new new battles start every 2 minutes I'm learning things oh um every B battles start every two minutes for each game type uh rules that was about it um party size you get match up with someone with your party size and then in double battle you're limited to 2v2 4v4 or 6v6 since it is a double battle tup no no toall no toall all right and then daycare has wow the stairs are glitchy whatever daycare has been added to Island 4 and route route 5 and breeding is implemented in this one here on island 4 and it's the first time breeding has been implemented in the game and a couple things about that there's a different frequency as to when you'll get an egg so you're basically told to just check every couple minutes if you want or just whenever you might get eggs more often or sometimes you might get eggs less often actually um it totally depends on various things and you can deposit Pokémon in here get them raised up and get an egg ditto still works as normal things like that yeah we have ditto so we can breed so actually I want a Venusaur oh I can go breed you I'm going to breed you with a Bulbasaur only if it's no I want a Venusaur not a Bulbasaur you're not getting a Venusaur you're going to get a and if you want a Venusaur you'll have to level it up yourself no yep the PC box is also totally different now you have seven boxes instead of 14 two B and each of those boxes now has 60 slots and so every single Pokemon I've ever caught pretty much is now in the first box so in the second box um box three here is still my party box I have items I don't deser items triple and then your um shinies have a are next to them in the box and it shows what items they have and now in the party UI it has health bars instead of just changing the color of their background cuz that was really stupid what else is there there's a couple abilities added back in or you know functionality added in there's quick claw the item is now implemented um the trade level for starters has been lowered to 25 hitmon Lee and hitmon Chang can now be traded cuz that was stupid you couldn't do that in the first place what did that always say tokapi egg no and no yeah it tells you the egg type now huh um since they have the breeding in I'll show that in a second you watch it on because you could scam people yeah yeah I that that's legit so now you find out the egg type and you go and you everybody's just grinding their steps now to get their egg so that's going to be obnoxious every time you go to for Island but whatever it's not like people weren't doing crazy stuff to begin with but whatever um I have a question and it's a newbie question cuz I'm a Noob cuz you're a trupal cuz I'm a trupal um when farming steps mhm does being on the bike affect anything or running uh running counts as like twice bike I think counts as four times if it's how normal things are something like that or it's twice also um just because like that's how it affects wild grass encounters oh really I didn't know that yeah like running you're twice as likely to get into a battle than just walking and it's based on your step count I had no clue yeah okay um sorry go ahead no you're fine and tmhm possibilities are now listed in the Pokedex AFK timer will no longer kick you for being in spectator mode and that change to the AFK timer may be what told you that she got kicked just initially just just for a one time glitch thing um I hope it's a one time glitch it would be annoying yeah bag GUI is no longer accessible in battle Disobedience will now occur 100% of the time if the trainer does not meet meet badge requirements Java updates the sound engine has been updated so that it all is all MIDI files that run on your computer so they don't sound all glitchy and screwed up like they used to cuz used to they ran off the server for some reason um you can now use your left click instead of having to hit a for your battle things where it's waiting on you to hit you know a or whatever to progress the battle sequence that's something we complain about a lot yeah sorry you're fine they added a mystery box to the game corner but then they took it back out immediately apparently so I'm guessing it was glitched or not working properly but it was there um they do have the vanilla game status things about your Pokemon saying that they the two seem to get along things like that it'll tell you if your Pokémon aren't going to be compatible for breeding did they ever fix the poisoning thing I believe so that's in some of the bug fixes somewhere uh what else was there oh yeah they removed the Overworld legendary Sprites from the areas where the legendary spawned since you can't obviously pick up legendaries at the moment um so that's kind of cool and yeah things are different things are different huge change for pokm Mo not necessarily honestly it's not all that large as far as gameplay impacting but it is large for just the game itself progressing it there it was a huge update compared to where we get previous updates where it's just like a couple moves and something small polished this is now something big changed for the whole game so that's pretty cool bunch of bug fixes a bunch of little heads up display chat options thingies fixed and stuff like that but yeah big old update chupo character customization is confusing me oh you can do character customization apparently yourself character can't oh you can't it's not letting me do anything oh it shows your customization options I think it did that before you just can't actually change it yet that's stupid and I want to change the color of my bike I got excited but hopefully when they do another Sprite change they'll let us reset that they're still working on how they're going to do that but at the moment it's limited and yeah that's lots of stuff um they have a Halo no triple they do no you're drunk go home okay no come back where you going your home's not in the cave I don't even have serf goodbye Tri oh oh yeah and the fishing animations are in here all right yeah so it actually shows you pulling out your fishing rod and getting the nibble and stuff although I'm not you didn't get a nibble apparently not and the battle sequence looks different I guess it's cuz the theme changed that's pretty cool yeah and youall are getting a preview at my competitive team that I will be raising and learning how to competitive battle things I do like the look at like the new battle buttons and stuff that looks really cool it's not it's not like vanilla stuff so it makes it different while still not looking obnoxious like Dawn Of Darkness did with just like comic Sands font and stuff so yeah yeah I have to say this is really it's really clean yeah I don't have any criticisms of it I was really afraid which I oh I'm about to die five ice nasel damn it run away run away the username is yeah I was really afraid when they said they were trle hi am I poemon are fainting you suck G became confus did I have a that I was really afraid no you weren't God I give up this is why he doesn't usually do these videos with me I was really afraid when they were doing all these like graphical changes and stuff it was just going to be like half asked and done like halfway every other update they've actually done a whole lot now and the battle Sprites look different the battle Sprites are more um DSC too cuz my Hound or looks totally different than it did before um yeah it does does so now that I just lost two Pokemon to try to finish my sentence to two where's cerp you don't have a psydo do I not hey and now if you hit a it'll now tell you that you've caught the Pokemon or not that the Pokéball icon is displayed you've got a sideo and it shows the gender I don't know if it is it did but but yeah it also shows you if you got your Pokemon or not do I have it no I don't so this is overview of the update for Pok moo I'm pleased I'll be doing a bit more elaborate going over things on specific parts of the update such as breeding and the graphical user interface and stuff like that in the future probably later just not when sh's taking over I want to catch it but it's level seven oh we'll see you guys next time no I want to catch it let them see me catch it okay I'm going to catch it I hope I didn't use my master ball no cuz then it wouldn't have missed I saw a quote on Twitter that said um it was just like a conversation between people but it said dude I wasn't that drunk man you used your M master ball on a Magikarp oh I got you a Bulbasaur egg by the way when did you do that just now it was that fast yeah that's stupid always critical I got you bulb so you can have your Venusaur level it up for me no why hasn't it been poisoned yet whatever it's good enough also when you hatch Pokemon they start at level one that's apparently a Gen 4 rule set that they're doing and there's going to be some sort of like battle thing for level ones or something I don't even know I think it only shows little ball animation if you catch it cuz when I missed it skips the animation entirely this is all I care about and it didn't spoil it for you saying you caught it in the chat that's important to knowe yeah but like I just said it has a gentle nature like I just said it doesn't show the ball animation unless you actually catch it so it's kind of silly it also didn't spoil it for you in the chat am I really that critical we will see you guys next time bye guys I love you allI ate a Doritos Loos Taco that's what we're starting this with that's what this video is about see see this is the Dorito this is the Locos and that's the taco was it good it was good okay you're good he doesn't try new things often he's excited yeah and there's a new Pok MMO update that is filling the servers entirely so that means we can't play the game to show it to you guys woohoo thanks for watching we'll see you guys around way hey guys welcome back to PO MMO 3 hours later we got into the game and as soon as we got in after that long wait it told Shu that she was disconnected for being AFK as soon as we logged in yeah and we thought it was going to kick her but or like keep her back in the queue but we're good we're good all right so almost healed yeah I was I was I was about to get mad eil what's your Pokémon I got a sneez a sneez I'm raising my new team for my competitive battles since my team sucks oh maybe but that's not what we're talking about today today we are talking about the new crazy June update which I gave details a little bit of details about in my previous video but they've added much more different things so yeah yeah this video is going to be an overview and then I'll do a video about a couple specific things in it as well but as you can already probably see the GUI is different the the theme looks different everything looks different the party is now in a lockable position where you can make it horizontal or vertical oh that's cool so that's pretty cool so I'm actually going to keep it up towards the top cuz I prefer it up here I I'm still trying to figure out why I have this to oh for okay what's it for Surf and Waterfall oh yeah but then what's my best WIS to yeah evos may be changing his team for uh competitive stuff but I don't give a so my critics can off true I mean hi oh yeah and it show do the Sprites look a little different to you yeah the Overworld Sprites now take them from the DS game instead of the Game Boy Advance game cuz the Overworld Sprites were actually still from the Game Boy game even though you needed the D one to make him show up which was kind of stupid all right so going through the update actually oh you don't have your footsteps here your reflection yeah they still haven't fixed that all right uh in the second floor of the Poké Center which is finally open you now have PVP matchmaking yeah PVP you talk to the person in the center here I believe and yeah you have single battle double battle and then you have level 50 level 100 or auto level which just matter matches you up with someone within your range yourself and new new battles start every 2 minutes I'm learning things oh um every B battles start every two minutes for each game type uh rules that was about it um party size you get match up with someone with your party size and then in double battle you're limited to 2v2 4v4 or 6v6 since it is a double battle tup no no toall no toall all right and then daycare has wow the stairs are glitchy whatever daycare has been added to Island 4 and route route 5 and breeding is implemented in this one here on island 4 and it's the first time breeding has been implemented in the game and a couple things about that there's a different frequency as to when you'll get an egg so you're basically told to just check every couple minutes if you want or just whenever you might get eggs more often or sometimes you might get eggs less often actually um it totally depends on various things and you can deposit Pokémon in here get them raised up and get an egg ditto still works as normal things like that yeah we have ditto so we can breed so actually I want a Venusaur oh I can go breed you I'm going to breed you with a Bulbasaur only if it's no I want a Venusaur not a Bulbasaur you're not getting a Venusaur you're going to get a and if you want a Venusaur you'll have to level it up yourself no yep the PC box is also totally different now you have seven boxes instead of 14 two B and each of those boxes now has 60 slots and so every single Pokemon I've ever caught pretty much is now in the first box so in the second box um box three here is still my party box I have items I don't deser items triple and then your um shinies have a are next to them in the box and it shows what items they have and now in the party UI it has health bars instead of just changing the color of their background cuz that was really stupid what else is there there's a couple abilities added back in or you know functionality added in there's quick claw the item is now implemented um the trade level for starters has been lowered to 25 hitmon Lee and hitmon Chang can now be traded cuz that was stupid you couldn't do that in the first place what did that always say tokapi egg no and no yeah it tells you the egg type now huh um since they have the breeding in I'll show that in a second you watch it on because you could scam people yeah yeah I that that's legit so now you find out the egg type and you go and you everybody's just grinding their steps now to get their egg so that's going to be obnoxious every time you go to for Island but whatever it's not like people weren't doing crazy stuff to begin with but whatever um I have a question and it's a newbie question cuz I'm a Noob cuz you're a trupal cuz I'm a trupal um when farming steps mhm does being on the bike affect anything or running uh running counts as like twice bike I think counts as four times if it's how normal things are something like that or it's twice also um just because like that's how it affects wild grass encounters oh really I didn't know that yeah like running you're twice as likely to get into a battle than just walking and it's based on your step count I had no clue yeah okay um sorry go ahead no you're fine and tmhm possibilities are now listed in the Pokedex AFK timer will no longer kick you for being in spectator mode and that change to the AFK timer may be what told you that she got kicked just initially just just for a one time glitch thing um I hope it's a one time glitch it would be annoying yeah bag GUI is no longer accessible in battle Disobedience will now occur 100% of the time if the trainer does not meet meet badge requirements Java updates the sound engine has been updated so that it all is all MIDI files that run on your computer so they don't sound all glitchy and screwed up like they used to cuz used to they ran off the server for some reason um you can now use your left click instead of having to hit a for your battle things where it's waiting on you to hit you know a or whatever to progress the battle sequence that's something we complain about a lot yeah sorry you're fine they added a mystery box to the game corner but then they took it back out immediately apparently so I'm guessing it was glitched or not working properly but it was there um they do have the vanilla game status things about your Pokemon saying that they the two seem to get along things like that it'll tell you if your Pokémon aren't going to be compatible for breeding did they ever fix the poisoning thing I believe so that's in some of the bug fixes somewhere uh what else was there oh yeah they removed the Overworld legendary Sprites from the areas where the legendary spawned since you can't obviously pick up legendaries at the moment um so that's kind of cool and yeah things are different things are different huge change for pokm Mo not necessarily honestly it's not all that large as far as gameplay impacting but it is large for just the game itself progressing it there it was a huge update compared to where we get previous updates where it's just like a couple moves and something small polished this is now something big changed for the whole game so that's pretty cool bunch of bug fixes a bunch of little heads up display chat options thingies fixed and stuff like that but yeah big old update chupo character customization is confusing me oh you can do character customization apparently yourself character can't oh you can't it's not letting me do anything oh it shows your customization options I think it did that before you just can't actually change it yet that's stupid and I want to change the color of my bike I got excited but hopefully when they do another Sprite change they'll let us reset that they're still working on how they're going to do that but at the moment it's limited and yeah that's lots of stuff um they have a Halo no triple they do no you're drunk go home okay no come back where you going your home's not in the cave I don't even have serf goodbye Tri oh oh yeah and the fishing animations are in here all right yeah so it actually shows you pulling out your fishing rod and getting the nibble and stuff although I'm not you didn't get a nibble apparently not and the battle sequence looks different I guess it's cuz the theme changed that's pretty cool yeah and youall are getting a preview at my competitive team that I will be raising and learning how to competitive battle things I do like the look at like the new battle buttons and stuff that looks really cool it's not it's not like vanilla stuff so it makes it different while still not looking obnoxious like Dawn Of Darkness did with just like comic Sands font and stuff so yeah yeah I have to say this is really it's really clean yeah I don't have any criticisms of it I was really afraid which I oh I'm about to die five ice nasel damn it run away run away the username is yeah I was really afraid when they said they were trle hi am I poemon are fainting you suck G became confus did I have a that I was really afraid no you weren't God I give up this is why he doesn't usually do these videos with me I was really afraid when they were doing all these like graphical changes and stuff it was just going to be like half asked and done like halfway every other update they've actually done a whole lot now and the battle Sprites look different the battle Sprites are more um DSC too cuz my Hound or looks totally different than it did before um yeah it does does so now that I just lost two Pokemon to try to finish my sentence to two where's cerp you don't have a psydo do I not hey and now if you hit a it'll now tell you that you've caught the Pokemon or not that the Pokéball icon is displayed you've got a sideo and it shows the gender I don't know if it is it did but but yeah it also shows you if you got your Pokemon or not do I have it no I don't so this is overview of the update for Pok moo I'm pleased I'll be doing a bit more elaborate going over things on specific parts of the update such as breeding and the graphical user interface and stuff like that in the future probably later just not when sh's taking over I want to catch it but it's level seven oh we'll see you guys next time no I want to catch it let them see me catch it okay I'm going to catch it I hope I didn't use my master ball no cuz then it wouldn't have missed I saw a quote on Twitter that said um it was just like a conversation between people but it said dude I wasn't that drunk man you used your M master ball on a Magikarp oh I got you a Bulbasaur egg by the way when did you do that just now it was that fast yeah that's stupid always critical I got you bulb so you can have your Venusaur level it up for me no why hasn't it been poisoned yet whatever it's good enough also when you hatch Pokemon they start at level one that's apparently a Gen 4 rule set that they're doing and there's going to be some sort of like battle thing for level ones or something I don't even know I think it only shows little ball animation if you catch it cuz when I missed it skips the animation entirely this is all I care about and it didn't spoil it for you saying you caught it in the chat that's important to knowe yeah but like I just said it has a gentle nature like I just said it doesn't show the ball animation unless you actually catch it so it's kind of silly it also didn't spoil it for you in the chat am I really that critical we will see you guys next time bye guys I love you all\n"