How much VP does copying a Replica Team cost?

Loading a Replica code is free. Making your Pokémon match the copied team is not: the game spends Victory Points (VP) to retrain them.

What costs VP

• Recruiting a Pokémon you do not own from the in-game pool.
• Changing nature, ability or stat training to match the team.
• Buying held items you do not have, including Mega Stones.
• Teaching moves your Pokémon does not know yet.

What is free

• Pokémon transferred from Pokémon HOME with the right ability and nature.
• Items you already own, one copy of an item can be used by several teams, but not by two Pokémon in the same team.
• Loading a code into an empty team slot and looking at it before confirming.

How to save VP

• Check the team page here first: it lists the six Pokémon and the known held items, so you know what you are missing.
• Prefer teams that reuse Pokémon and items you already trained.
• Use the Builder page: it marks the teams you can build with zero or few extra purchases.
• Do not retrain the same species twice for two teams, keep one trained copy and move it.

VP comes back from ranked wins, daily missions and the battle pass, so a few wrong copies are not a disaster, but a new player can waste a week of VP on two badly chosen codes.

Updated 2026-10-20