I ' m not sure if I understand the question , but I ' ll try to help . ' And her final words were . ' As far as I understand , if you have caught the pokmon , you can search for him in the GTS with no issues . Why would you need to scan him first ? I ' m working off the assumption that you mean ' scan ' as in ' Island Scan ' associated with the QR Scanner though . you may just mean scan as in ' once you catch him , he scans into the dex '. Actually , you most likely meant that LOLIf that ' s what you meant , then my answer would be no I don ' t , but I know people who will do it that way for various reasons . ID for the lotto or breeding for example . IronLanternGamer is right though . now you can type in the name of the pokmon you want . If you ' re spelling is right which has frustrated me in the past . was it keyogre or kyogre ? Gah , gotta look it up ! it ' ll be as if you caught the mon .