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PokemonTrades - The Place for Legitimate Pokémon Trading

/r/pokemontrades is a trading community focusing on legitimate Pokémon. We are one of the few large Pokémon trading communities with a policy of no hacks, no clones!

630k subscribers2,202 posts / mo in Sep 2026 (incl. ~2% by known bots)1,408 authors / mosince 2010

r/pokemontrades has 630k members (+4.1% over the last 12 months). It gets about 2,202 posts a month from 1,408 people. Top topics: Giveaways and IV Pokémon, ShinyGiveaways and Pokédex Completion.

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Size and growth

How r/pokemontrades has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+4.1%in 12 months · +0.7% in 3 months · +0.1% in 1 month
Oct 2026630k
Growing630k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
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Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

−51%vs Sep 2025 · −36% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 20262.2k
QuieterPeaked at 47k in Dec 2022
Sep 2026: incl. ~2% by known botsData through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/pokemontrades

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Giveaways and IV Pokémon42%
  2. ShinyGiveaways10%
  3. Pokédex Completion6.9%
  4. Shinies Trade5.5%
  5. Pokemon Centers3.1%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. Bulbagarden
  2. Pokédex Tracker
  3. IGN
  4. PokemonDB
  5. Comment Picker

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Everything else about r/pokemontrades

Posting rules and account requirements, how often posts get removed, who writes here (age, gender, countries), what people ask for, how they talk, and related subreddits — all in the full report.

Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research