Pokémon Home Adds Legends ZA Support in April 2026

Pokémon Home, the cloud-based service for storing and transferring Pokémon across compatible games, will add support for Pokémon Legends ZA following scheduled maintenance starting April 1, 2026. The update, arriving nearly six months after the game's launch on October 16, 2025, for Nintendo Switch and Switch 2, enables players to move Pokémon between Legends ZA and other titles via the service, though with specific restrictions.

Maintenance on Pokémon Home begins at 8 p.m. ET on April 1, which corresponds to 9 a.m. JST on April 2 in Japan. The downtime is expected to last about 12 hours, though it could extend up to 30 hours. Both the Switch and mobile versions of the app will be unavailable during this period, and users must update to version 4.0.0 afterward to access the new features. Transfers will become possible once the update rolls out, potentially in a staggered manner for different users.

The integration allows Pokémon from previous games, such as Pokémon Scarlet and Violet or Sword and Shield, to be sent to Legends ZA through Home, provided they appear in the game's Pokédex. However, transfers are one-directional: Pokémon moved into Legends ZA cannot return to their...