Protecting items
Any item you carry can be protected, so it never leaves your bag by accident. A protected item wears a pink shield in its corner and a Protected line at the end of its tooltip.
How to protect
Right-click the item (in your bag, a PC box, your equipment, or a Pokémon on the Pokébar) and pick Protect. To lift it, right-click again and pick Unprotect. It costs nothing and you can change your mind as often as you like.
What a protected item cannot do
- Be dropped on the ground or into a bag lying there.
- Be traded with another trainer (not even inside an offered bag).
- Be sold to a merchant: it does not show on the Sell tab, and it does not count toward your bag's Sell value.
- Be listed on the Global Trade Station, or used to fill a buy request.
- Be given to a Pokémon to hold.
- Be salvaged at the Artisan's workbench.
A protected Pokémon also cannot be released, listed, or used as the copy in Star Fusion (it can still receive stars). It stays protected when it evolves.
What stays the same
A protected item is still yours to use: a protected potion still heals, a protected tool still works, and a protected Pokémon still fights. You can store and sort protected items in your bag and the PC as usual.
Gifts from quests and NPCs already come bound (the padlock in the corner): they can never be dropped or traded. You can protect a bound item too, so you never sell it by mistake.