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Blue Pentagon Explained!
It would appear Serebii has finally discovered what the small blue pentagon located on a Pokemon's summary page means.
http://serebii.net/index2.shtml The pentagon is a hack-check. If a Pokemon you receive through trading has the pentagon, that means it was obtained through legitimate methods. If the pentagon is absent form the summary screen, the Pokemon was hacked and/or tampered with. Figured this would help a lot of players who are fans of Wonder Trading or trading with Random Passerbys, what with the Bad Eggs and all. If this has already been addressed, please disregard this topic and delete it, please! |
Oh, that's what it was for. Thanks for letting us know. c;
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Great news! :) Finally we can see the hacked Pokemon!
Thanks for letting us know! :) |
Good to know! Curious if it'll be a reliable method to check.
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Amazing. I forget but was this in Gen 5 as well?
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That's awesome an simple way to check for hacked pokemon.
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Oh, that's what the pentagon is for. Sweet! Thanks for the heads up!
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Good to know, I've been wondering about this myself. I figured it was something like this, or an indication that the pokemon is from Kalos
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I'm sure their system can tell if they were originally caught in a previous generation as PBR had a similar check method that wouldn't allow 3rd Gen hacked Pokemon to be playable on it. |
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So the games and PokeBank can tell if its fake/hacked according to Gamefreak and TPC. Also I see you seem to mistaken what legit Pokemon are. If its not from the game itself or passed through some event, its not a Legit Pokemon. If you made it with a Fake game, used an outside device like an Action Replay/Gameshark, or went and used the Pokemon creation apps or websites, they are all fake and not legit. Even if they are made in game using an Action Replay they are not legit. RNG is the only legit as it doesn't use an outside source to make the Pokemon. So if its made in any way with outside help, it is not legit or legal. That is what you call a Hacked Pokemon. |
Don't get your hopes up too high that the checker can't be fooled.
Proof? The front page of a site called "Project Pokémon" (darn, my inability to post links until I have 15 posts) showed one of the few Pokémon successfully hacked into the game: A shiny Gible named Wireshark. Said Gible has the pentagon on him, thus, proving that the game considers him legit. |
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From what I believe, hackers have no way to actually insert their edited Pokemon into the game. Lets hope it stays that way. |
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Interestingly, it was a guy at Project Pokémon who pointed out to Serebii that the translation of their source was incomplete, and thus, Serebii had to update the page with the more complete translation.
Of course, I was the one who announced Serebii's news to them. |
There are plenty of methods to tell if a Pokémon is legitimate or not. A good example would be checking stats; if the Pokémon's got more stats than it should, then you could confirm that it's definitely hacked. If the Pokémon's got a move that it can't normally learn, then this is hacked as well. Another way would be by checking where it was caught. If the location seems a little strange to you, then there's a big chance that the Pokémon's hacked. d: Those things are pretty time-consuming, though, and could also be a bit of hassle at times. I'm glad that they've introduced this feature; now, we don't have to check Pokémon ourselves—it's done automatically.
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I am happy this feature exists, but maybe not for the same reason most of you are :) .
I used AR to get event exclusives, because I play for Pokédex completion, I hate empty spots in the Pokédex where the event exclusives are supposed to be, and I didn't get back into Pokémon until a year and a half ago after a six years long break, so for most of event exclusives I was simply late to the party (the only ones I got via events were Deoxys and Genesect) . If there's a hack checker in the game, that could mean "Hacked is fine, but keep it to yourselves", and that's pretty much all I need. I don't plan on flaunting them online or allowing them anywhere near the internet, but as long as the system allows me to transfer them from my Gen 5 games to my Gen 6 games, get their Pokédex entries and then store them in a box and never touch them again, I'll be happy. Other than that, I agree with you that this system is useful when you wonder trade, and keeping hacked Pokémon away from competitions is a good idea. I discussed this earlier today with a coworker who is into online battling, and he was upset because that meant he couldn't use his Pokémon team from Gen... 4, I guess, in actual competitions. Then one discussion led to another, and we were left wondering about one thing: if a player has two legit transferred Pokémon from earlier Gens, without the pentagon, and makes them breed in a Gen 6 game, will their common offspring have the pentagon? |
Makes sense now. Easy way to know the difference between legit and hacked Pokemon now.
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I hope each region will have their own shape. Like a Circle for Hoenn (which would mean one got it from Generation 3...for now at least),a Triangle for Sinnoh, and a hexagon for Unova. Not sure what shapes fit Johto and Kanto as those two regions weren't shaped slightly like any certain shape like Sinnoh (and Hoenn which forms a circle if you include the sea and islands) or had a shape associated with them like with Unova.
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I've heard stories about how unfortunate some were to end up with hacked Pokemon at some point, glad to see we've now got an easier way to spot them. Talk about 6th Gen changing so much stuff about the games in general!
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There was a misunderstanding in the translation that was given to Serebii. It's now believed to be an indicator of a pokemon that was caught natively in Kalos, and anything that comes through the Pokebank/Transfer will not have it. The pentagon shape is the same shape of the Kalos symbol.
reference: http://projectpokemon.org/forums/showthread.php?33024-Pkx-The-New-Pokemon-Format-For-Gen-6&p=175257&viewfull=1#post175257 |
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