[Weekly Questions Thread] 18 April 2016

First off, you need Poke Transporter which is a free download from Pokemon Bank. That's how you can transfer them to Bank from White (from HeartGold).

Second, you need to have defeated the Elite 4 in White. That's how you can access the factory in Route 15 which will allow you to transfer Pokemon from HeartGold to White.

Make sure that the Pokemon you want to tranfer are in your box. Currently, I can't remember whether or not the Pokemon have to be in Box 1 or any box, but this isn't a long process, so no worries. Talk to the man in the factory and he'll ask you if you want to transfer Pokemon, say yes, you'll save, then the screen will ask you to turn on your DS (since you have a 3DS, go to Download Play, click on the Nintendo DS icon, then it should be saying Looking for software available for download...^ and your HeartGold game should show up, click on it, and it will connect to your White.

Now here comes the possibly fun/tricky part. You will have to play a mini-game where you have to catch all of the Pokemon you are transferring. You do have a time limit, so try to be quick! My first time playing this game, I wasn't able to "catch 'em all" the first time, but since all 6 weren't captured, you'll get another try.

Once you've caught them all, they'll be put into your PC box. Box 1 specifically. So if you want to transfer all of your Pokemon from Box 1, go ahead. But if you want to only transfer those certain transferred Pokemon, then move the other Pokemon to other boxes and put the transferred Pokemon into Box 1.

We're almost done! Now, this is when you will need Poke Transporter. Put your White into the 3DS that has both^ Bank and Poke Transfer because otherwise, it won't work. Connect to Poke Transporter, it'll ask you if you want to transfer all of the Pokemon from Box 1. It'll remind you that they can NOT be sent back. Once they've gone to Bank, just access Pokemon Bank (with its respective games obviously) and move them out of the Transported box and you're done!

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