PC Storage

Every Pokémon that isn’t in your party lives in your PC. The Pokémon Storage window lets you move, search, sort and release them. It also saves whole teams as presets and sends new catches to the box you choose.

Pokémon Storage window with the groups and box list on the left, a full box of 30 Pokémon in the middle, and the current party and a selected shiny Gyarados on the right — The Pokémon Storage window: boxes on the left, the box in the middle, your party and the selected Pokémon on the right.

Opening the PC

Walk up to a PC, face it and press Space (on a phone, tap it). Every Pokémon Center has a PC. So do many other buildings, such as the professors’ labs, the Daycares, the Battle Frontier and the Elite Four lobbies.

There is no menu button or item that opens your storage anywhere else.

The window at a glance

Part	What it does
Groups and Boxes (left)	Your boxes, your saved groups and the built-in views. New Box and Auto-Sort Rules sit at the bottom.
Box grid (centre)	The Pokémon in the open box, with the search box, Filters and Sort By above it.
Team Presets (under the grid)	Saved teams you can load in one go.
Current Party (right)	Your party. Click a Pokémon to see its card.
Selected Pokémon (right)	Nature, ability, held item, IVs and EVs of the Pokémon you picked, with buttons for it.
Bottom bar	Multi-Select and the bulk actions.

Each tile shows the Pokémon’s level, nature and gender. A star marks a shiny, and an icon shows a held item.

Boxes

You start with 10 boxes of 30 slots. Click a box in the Boxes list to open it; the search field above the list finds a box by name.

The … button next to the box title has Rename Box (up to 15 characters), Set Box Icon and New Box.

Getting more boxes

Each Storage Box adds one box of 30. Press New Box in the PC, or use the item from your Bag. The PC uses up untradable Storage Boxes before tradable ones.

Where	Storage Boxes
Professor Blaze Helper, Prof. Blaze’s Lab (Jvaloh)	10
Professor’s Aide, Professor Birch’s Laboratory, for 3 Zigzagoon (Hoenn)	5
Professor Oak, for Oak’s Parcel (Kanto)	5
Donator Shop	1 for 350 Gems, or 5 for 1,500 Gems

Groups and built-in views

A group shows several boxes in one grid. Press + next to Groups, name the group and tick its boxes. You can have up to 20 groups.

Right-click a group (long-press on a phone) to edit or delete it. Deleting a group leaves its boxes and Pokémon alone.

Above your own groups, built-in views search every box for you: Shiny, Legendary, Ultra Rare and Has Item. You can’t edit them or drop Pokémon on them.

The All, Favorites and Shinies buttons under the box search filter the box you have open.

Searching, filtering and sorting

Search

Type a Pokémon’s name in the search box. The button next to it switches between All Boxes and This Box:

All Boxes searches every box once you have typed 3 letters. Results come 30 to a page, and each one shows its box number in the corner.
This Box filters the open box as you type.

All Boxes search for "char" with eight results, each tile showing the number of the box it is in — An All Boxes search for "char": each result shows the number of its box.

Filters

Filters narrows the list by:

type (2 slots), ability, nature and rarity
held item, by name
level range
shiny only
minimum IVs, stat by stat
the region a Pokémon was caught in

Press Apply to use them and Reset to clear them. The button shows how many filters are on, for example Filter (2). Filters follow the same All Boxes or This Box choice as the search.

Sort

Sort By orders Pokémon by Level, Name, Sum of IVs, Rarity or Caught Date, Ascending or Descending. Pick None to go back to box order.

With All Boxes on, sorting shows every box in one sorted list. With This Box on, it sorts the open box only. Sorting only changes what you see; no Pokémon changes box.

Sort By menu open with Level ticked and Descending selected, and the box sorted from the highest level — Level and Descending put the highest-level Pokémon first.

Moving Pokémon

To	Do this
Take a Pokémon into your party	Drag it anywhere on Current Party, or press Withdraw. It takes the next free slot.
Put a party Pokémon in the PC	Drag it from Current Party onto the box grid. It goes into the box you have open.
Move it to another box	Drag it onto a box or group in the left list, or press Move. Move lists your boxes with their free slots, and you can search them.
Take off its held item	Remove Held Item in its menu. The item goes back to your Bag.

Your party holds 6 Pokémon, and you can’t put your last party Pokémon in the PC.

Right-click a Pokémon (long-press on a phone) to open its menu:

Summary
Move to Party
Move to Box
Add to Favorites (or Remove from Favorites)
Add to Team Preset
Remove Held Item, if it holds one
Convert to IV Pots
Mark for Release

The Selected Pokémon panel has the main ones as buttons. On a computer, rest the mouse on any Pokémon to see its stats there without selecting it.

Summary opens the Pokémon’s card in its own card style. In the PC the card is read-only: to train a Pokémon, put it in your party and open its card there.

A shiny Gyarados's menu with Summary, Move to Party, Move to Box, Remove from Favorites, Add to Team Preset, Remove Held Item, Convert to IV Pots, Mark for Release and Cancel — A Pokémon's menu lists everything you can do with it.

Favourites and locks

The star and the padlock next to a Pokémon’s name in Selected Pokémon mark it as a favourite or lock it. Its tile then shows a heart or a padlock.

Favourites show up when you press Favorites under the box search.
Locked Pokémon can’t be released or converted to IV Potions, alone or in a selection. Unlock it first to do either.

Selecting many at once

Turn on Multi-Select in the bottom bar, then click or tap Pokémon to tick them. Select All ticks every Pokémon on screen, and Clear unticks them all. A selection can include Pokémon from several boxes.

Button	What it does to the selection
Move	Moves it to another box
Withdraw	Adds it to your party, if there is room
Convert	Turns it into IV Potions; only when every selected Pokémon qualifies
Release	Releases it for good

Release and Convert take up to 30 Pokémon at a time. Dragging a ticked Pokémon carries the whole selection with it.

Multi-Select on with five Pokémon ticked and the bottom bar showing Selected: 5, Select All, Clear, Move, Withdraw, Convert and Release — With Multi-Select on, the bottom bar acts on every ticked Pokémon at once.

Team presets

Team Presets save a party of up to 6 Pokémon so you can swap it in with one press.

Save Party saves your current party in the first free preset.
Load on a preset card swaps your party for that team.
To add one Pokémon, drag it onto a preset card, or use Add to Team Preset in its menu.
Click a preset card (long-press on a phone) to edit, overwrite, clear, rename or delete it.

When you load a preset, party Pokémon that aren’t in it go back to the box they came from. If that box is full, they go to the first box with space. If your boxes don’t have room for them all, nothing moves.

A card marked Partial has lost a member, for example one you traded or released. Loading it asks first, then loads the others.

You get 5 preset slots for free, and each extra slot costs 300 Gems (Unlock Preset). You can’t load a preset while a PvP team is in use.

Auto-sort rules

A wild Pokémon you catch while your party is full goes to the first box with space. Auto-Sort Rules, under the box list, let you pick the box instead.

Add a rule. Press Auto-Sort Rules, then + Add Rule. Choose the box under Send to box.
Add conditions. Each rule can have up to 5: Pokémon type, caught region, name contains, rarity is, rarity at least, and is shiny. A Pokémon must match all of them. A rule with no conditions matches every Pokémon.
Put them in order. Rules are checked from the top down, and the first match wins. Use the arrows to move a rule, and untick it to switch it off.
Save. Press Save Rules.

If the matching rule’s box is full, the next matching rule decides. If nothing matches, the first box with space is used. You can have up to 10 rules.

Releasing Pokémon

Release one Pokémon with Release in Selected Pokémon or Mark for Release in its menu, or a whole selection with Release in the bottom bar. A release can’t be undone.

A Pokémon holding an item can’t be released. Take the item off first.
Releasing a shiny or Ultra Rare Pokémon always asks you to type a short code.
A bulk release that includes Legendary, Ultra Rare or shiny Pokémon asks a second time and counts them.

Turning Pokémon into IV Potions

Legendary, Ultra Rare and shiny Pokémon that hold no item can become IV Potions right in the PC. Use Convert to IV Pots in Selected Pokémon or the Pokémon’s menu. The Extract IV Potion window says how many potions you get. Once you confirm, the Pokémon is gone for good.

How many each Pokémon gives is in turning Pokémon into IV Potions.

Pokémon Storage window with Rayquaza selected and a window asking whether to convert it into IV Potions — Converting a Legendary Rayquaza in the PC: confirm, and it becomes IV Potions.

On a phone or tablet

To	On a computer	On a phone
Open a Pokémon’s menu	Right-click it	Long-press it
See a Pokémon’s stats	Rest the mouse on it	Tap it
Edit or delete a group	Right-click the group	Long-press the group
Open a preset’s menu	Click the card	Tap or long-press the card
Scroll the grid	Mouse wheel	Swipe
Move a Pokémon	Drag it	Drag it, or use Move

On short screens the window uses a compact layout. Press the Team Presets title to fold the preset cards away or bring them back.

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