One Million Victories shiny Zeraora HOME tracker

[Quirino]

Hi! I have a question about one of the event Pokémon downloads. This one in particular:

It concerns the shiny Zeraora that was available in Pokémon Home after the Sword/Shield wild area event that challenged players to collectively defeat 1 million Zeraoras. I unfortunately missed this event in Pokémon Home, and by now I've finally learned how to edit Switch save files, so I was thinking of adding this Zeraora to my Pokémon Sword save file and pretending I never missed the event I noticed on the page that it says "The HOME tracker has been removed for privacy reasons." I've read up a bit on the HOME tracker subsequently but I still have some questions.

Can I safely deposit this Zeraora to my Pokémon Home after I add it to Sword? Also is it possible to change the location back to "Pokémon Home" instead of "a lovely place", as the original event Zeroara are? Thanks in advance for the help!

Edited March 15, 2022 by Quirino

[theSLAYER]

10 minutes ago, Quirino said:

Hi! I have a question about one of the event Pokémon downloads. This one in particular:

It concerns the shiny Zeraora that was available in Pokémon Home after the Sword/Shield wild area event that challenged players to collectively defeat 1 million Zeraoras. I unfortunately missed this event in Pokémon Home, and by now I've finally learned how to edit Switch save files, so I was thinking of adding this Zeraora to my Pokémon Sword save file and pretending I never missed the event I noticed on the page that it says "The HOME tracker has been removed for privacy reasons." I've read up a bit on the HOME tracker subsequently but I still have some questions.

Can I safely deposit this Zeraora to my Pokémon Home after I add it to Sword? Also is it possible to change the location back to "Pokémon Home" instead of "a lovely place", as the original event Zeroara are? Thanks in advance for the help!

“Safely”. 

Things to note:
- Only HOME can issue legitimate HOME trackers
- they use the trackers to track Pokémon that has went through HOME.

 

Right now, it doesn’t appear that they catch users who deposit mons that should have had a HOME tracker. 
They have the capabilities to do so, but they’re not doing that right now, and we’re unsure if they will ever do so.

So how ‘safe’ is that, and how much risk you want to take, is up to your own prerogative.

 

And no, you can’t change the location. Whatever it shows up as in game, and whatever location the data actually has, is not meant to be changed by any user.