Pokémon HOME 4.0.0 Is Out Now: Patch Notes and What Changed

Pokémon HOME version 4.0.0 dropped on April 2, 2026. Legends: Z-A finally has HOME support, Pokémon Champions is prepped ahead of its April 8 launch, and there’s a free Pokémon sitting unclaimed if you haven’t grabbed it yet.

What’s New in Pokémon HOME 4.0.0

Three changes in the official patch notes:

• Pokémon Legends: Z-A support added — you can now move Pokémon between HOME and Z-A
• Pokémon Champions support added — connectivity is live and waiting for Champions to launch on April 8
• Latin American Spanish added as a language option on mobile (first launch only to set it)
• Mobile help section updated and various bug fixes

The Z-A connectivity is the big one, and it has a catch.

Legends: Z-A Connectivity: Read This Before You Transfer

Transfers into Pokémon Legends: Z-A are one-way. If you send a Pokémon from an older game into Z-A, it can’t go back. Not to Scarlet and Violet, not to Sword and Shield, nothing that came before Z-A.

The official wording from The Pokémon Company: any Pokémon moved into Legends: Z-A from previous games will be unable to return to earlier main-series games.

Your carefully bred competitive Pokémon, event legendaries, that shiny Charizard you’ve had since Sword. If any of them go to Z-A, they’re staying there. You can still keep them in HOME and use them in Champions, but they’re locked out of older titles permanently.

Pokémon Champions Is Next: April 8

HOME is ready for Pokémon Champions, the new battle title hitting Nintendo Switch on April 8. Mobile follows later in 2026.

Champions connectivity works a bit differently from Z-A. You can send Pokémon from HOME to visit Champions for battles, but Pokémon you get inside Champions can’t be deposited back into HOME.

Worth doing before Champions launches: if you have Chesnaught, Delphox, Greninja, or Eternal Flower Floette caught specifically in Legends: Z-A, send them to visit Champions to unlock their Mega Stones. Chesnaughtite, Delphoxite, Greninjite, Floettite. These only work with Z-A versions of those Pokémon, so you can’t swap in one from an older game and get the same result.

Free Pokémon: Claim Your Alpha Starters

Deposit any Pokémon from Pokémon Legends: Z-A into the Nintendo Switch version of HOME, and you’ll get three Mystery Gifts on the mobile version:

• Alpha Chikorita
• Alpha Tepig
• Alpha Totodile

One deposit triggers all three. Claim them on mobile and they’re usable in Z-A and Champions.

How to Update Pokémon HOME to 4.0.0

On iOS or Android: Simply open up your App Store or Google Play Store and update Pokémon HOME

On Nintendo Switch: Launch HOME while connected to the internet and the update should start automatically. If it doesn’t, highlight the HOME icon, press +, and select Software Update.