After some tinkering, I was able to locate where "Sent pokemon" is tracked in pokemon ranger 2 (USA) within RAM (emulator).
On the left is a Save file with all event pokemon ready to be sent (Thanks to InsaneNutter for providing the save). On the right is my OG save file that already transferred all event pokemon. I made multiple ranger > pearl transfers on emulator, then analyzed save states made before & after each transfer. From this I was able to narrow down the memory address that