r/pokemontrades

1.5M archived posts · Mar 2010 – Sep 2026

PokemonTrades - The Place for Legitimate Pokémon Trading

r/pokemontrades

/r/pokemontrades is a trading community focusing on legitimate Pokémon. We are one of the few large Pokémon trading communities with a policy of no hacks, no clones!

Created Mar 30, 2010

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Welcome to r/pokemontrades!

/r/pokemontrades is a community dedicated to the trading of legitimate, legal, and uncloned Pokémon.

New here? Check out the Quick Start Guide to get started!

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##Rules

No trading of hacked, cloned, or illegal Pokémon. Definitions of these terms can be found in the legitimacy policy.
Do not trade shiny or event Pokémon of uncertain legitimacy. That includes Pokémon obtained from Surprise Trade, Wonder Trade, Wonder Box, the GTS, passerby trades, random raid stamps on SwSh, random link/room trades on SwSh/BDSP/SV and often includes trades on other websites or with friends.
Full details must be posted when offering any shiny or event Pokémon.
Do not discuss trades privately.
IOU trades are not allowed. Reservation threads are only allowed within 2 weeks of the anticipated event.
Be respectful.
Do not post trade threads more often than once per 6 hours.
Content must be related to Pokémon trading in the core series 3DS/Switch video games.
Contests and giveaways must follow certain rules.
You must set your Friend Code and IGN in your flair and tag your threads. You must also have sufficient trade flair in order to make trades involving shiny or event Pokémon.

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