The long-awaited trading feature has finally made its way to Pokémon TCG Pocket, giving the community a chance to swap their unwanted digital cards with other players and pick up new pieces to finish off their set lists.
Here’s how to trade with friends in Pocket, including how to start a trade, how to receive a trade, and what you’ll need to send your cards off into the ether.
How to trade with friends in Pocket
To trade in Pocket, you’ll need to head to the Social Hub and press the Trade option to get started.
This screen will display your Trade Stamina in the top right hand corner. Once you hit the blue Trade button in the middle of this screen, you’ll be able to see a list of your friends—trading is unavailable for random players—and select who you’d like to trade with.
Then, you can review your entire collection and see which cards you’d like to send off. This tab will tell you how many copies of each card you’ve got available and whether the trade will cost any Trade Tokens to complete.
Trade Tokens are used to trade higher-rarity cards, allowing you to make use of any full-art duplicates that you’ve picked up while opening packs. If you try to select a card without enough Trade Tokens on hand, the game won’t let you progress.
Once you’ve selected an eligible card, you’ll have a chance to review your selection on the next screen and see how much the trade will cost you.
Then, you can hit Ok to send it off to your friend—another confirmation screen will pop up, letting you know that resources will be refunded if your friend declines to complete the trade. From here, all that’s left to do is to wait for your friend to confirm the trade and pick the card they want to send back to you.
When the trade is confirmed, you’ll get a notification in the Social Hub to let you know and show you the brand new addition to your collection. You’ll also be notified for any trade requests here, which you can accept or decline based on whether you like the card on offer.
The Trading Stamina limits how many trades you can do in a row, acting just like the Wonder Pick Stamina. You can refresh this resource with Trade Hourglasses, which can be picked up via certain missions. They cut down the time by an hour apiece.
If you’re missing any Basic cards from your Genetic Apex or Mythical Island lists, trading with a friend in Pocket is a solid way to fill out your collection and work your way towards completing sets. With a brand new set on the way, there’s never been a better time than now to focus on this.
