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Keiran July 5th, 2017 7:13 PM

Trade Corner's 30 Day Challenge
 
30 Days of Trade Corner!
Welcome to the 30 day challenge of The Trade Corner! The purpose of this challenge is for myself as well as other members to get to know traders, newbies and veterans. The goal is simple - for every day that passes, go ahead and answer the daily question from the list! If you happen to join late or miss a few days, you can always come back to this post to see what you've missed and catch up! Lets start with Day 1, go!

The Challenge Questions

Day 1: When did you start trading? How did you end up getting into it?

Day 2: Most recent Pokémon you traded? What did you get in exchange?

Day 3: What's your favourite Pokémon? Have you ever traded for it?

Day 4: What is your favourite Shiny Pokémon that you own and did you have to trade for it?

Day 5: Do you prefer the Gen 6 PSS or Gen 7's Festival Plaza?

Day 6: Have you ever traded via Link Cable?

Day 7: Did you get your most prized Pokémon yourself or did you trade for it?

Day 8: How do you organize your PC boxes? Do you change the wallpapers?

Day 9: How many times do you trade per week?

Day 10: Is cloning beneficial to trading in your opinion?

Day 11: Do you prefer Battle-Ready or Untouched Pokémon?

Day 12: What is your favorite Event Pokémon? Was it difficult to obtain?

Day 13: How much of your collection is from trading?

Day 14: Did you find any in-game trades with NPCs worthwhile or useful?

Day 15: Which do you prefer between the GTS and Wonder Trades?

Day 16: Do you breed Pokémon? What was your favorite breeding project?

Day 17: Do you like nicknamed Pokémon? Have you received any nicknamed Pokémon in a trade?

Day 18: Do you frequently help people in the Trade Corner?

Day 19: What are the luckiest things you got in Wonder Trade?

Day 20: Did you ever manage to get a Shiny from the GTS?

Day 21: Do you care about Individual Values (IVs)?

Day 22: What is your favourite method of Effort Value (EVs) training?

Day 23: Do you Hyper Train your Pokémon?

Day 24: Do you Shiny Hunt yourself? What is your favourite method?

Day 25: Have you completed a Pokédex in any game?

Day 26: How many friends do you have in your Nintendo 3DS Friend List?

Day 27: What rank is your Festival Plaza?

Day 28: Which Festival Plaza Facility do you like best?

Day 29: Do you purposely trade for Pokémon in specific Pokéballs? If so, what kind and why?

Day 30: Are you excited for trading in Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon?
If you have any questions or need clarifications, don't hesitate to contact Keiran or Soapyyy!

Spyro July 7th, 2017 1:24 AM

Let's get this started everyone! :)
Day 1: When did you start trading? How did you end up getting into it? I started trading in Gen 4, with the new GTS feature that was added. I didn't really get into it before X&Y however, I found this website and after a few months I was super active and opened a shop

sater10 July 7th, 2017 1:56 AM

I started trading probably last year when i was acquired my first 3ds and Pokemon X. i started with Wonder Trade and gosh, i love it so much. it helped me to complete my dex even faster up until i finished the dex and got a bunch of zigs. first time i traded here was from jagold's 6IV JPN Ditto giveaway. from then i quite did a lot of trading here and it's really fun and i love the trading forum.

UberRoimel July 7th, 2017 2:11 AM

Day 1: I started trading in April/May 2016 when I first got my 2DS. It was in Pokemon Y and I remembered that my first real Trade is in Wonder Trade. Months later, I found out about this cool site, GameFAQs, I found many friends there and Months passed again and I found PokeCommunity, I remembered that Soapyyy guided and and was my first trade here.

Alex July 7th, 2017 9:44 AM

Yo what's up

When did you start trading? How did you end up getting into it?
I suppose I got into it in gen 4 when GTS was implemented. I don't trade very often tbh, but trading was essential in my ability to complete my HGSS national Dex, and Sun/Moon Dex. I mostly trade with my friends.

Radiating July 7th, 2017 9:50 AM

Cool

Day 1: When did you start trading? How did you end up getting into it?

I only really started trading with other people when I joined PC. I never really had thought about going on the internet to trade Pokemon until I visited the Trade Corner here. I went in looking for a shiny Serperior.

-Nonsense- July 7th, 2017 10:35 AM

Day 1: When did you start trading? How did you end up getting into it? - I technically started with Gen 4 when wifi trading became a thing. Then I really got into it with new stuff like Wondertrade later on. I started again recently after playing Oras (to complete the national dex) and then with Sun sometime after. Now I try trading here whenever possible.

EmeraldEmissary July 7th, 2017 12:15 PM

1. When did you start trading? How did you end up getting into it?
I started trading about a year after Black 2/White 2 were released. Of course, I had no idea what the GTS was, so I stuck to local trades with my friends, the idiots I hung out with back in 2013. I loved the satisfaction of a. Adding a new pokèmon to my collection and b. Seeing the differences, in OT, base stats, moves, and ID. It was all fascinating, and still is to this day.

Keiran July 7th, 2017 2:21 PM

Day 1: When did you start trading? How did you end up getting into it?

Well, I used to trade way back in the RBY days of the 90s in order to get specific Pokemon. In modern times, I started playing Pokemon again in 2010 and I eventually desired a Staraptor, however I did not own Gen 4 games. So I googled "official Pokemon forums" and PC was the first link. I immediately joined, posted in the quick trade thread of the time, and someone instantly replied and traded me a lv100 trained Staraptor. I was hooked! After trading for a few months, I started to learn how to RNG abuse. I specifically focused on RNG abusing Dream World Pokemon, something not many people could / wanted to do.

Tek July 7th, 2017 4:02 PM

Day 1: When did you start trading? How did you end up getting into it?

Like Radiating, I pretty much only started trading after I got here. It was helpful to me as a Pokémon breeder, and some of my own eggs found good homes too!

That's part of the reason why I stick around here :)

overdrive003 July 7th, 2017 4:13 PM

Day 1: When did you start trading? How did you end up getting into it?
I first started when I joined the forum looking to get a Vulpix in X. Since then, I've become a breeder and love trading and helping people out on the PC Discord server!

overdrive003 July 8th, 2017 1:14 AM

Day 2: Most recent Pokémon you traded? What did you get in exchange?
I traded one of my Zorua breedjects for a Omanyte

UberRoimel July 8th, 2017 2:47 AM

Day 2: A.Vulpix Breedjct for a Petilil in Wonder Trade

Spyro July 8th, 2017 4:09 AM

Day 2: Most recent Pokémon you traded? What did you get in exchange? My Beast Ball Oshawott for a Beast Ball Cyndaquil, and loads of Bottle Caps for other Rareball Pokémon (same trade). With MaoMint!

-Nonsense- July 8th, 2017 6:47 AM

Day 2: Most recent Pokémon you traded? What did you get in exchange?

The most most recent trade was during wondertrade. I was trading a bunch of mons leftover from trying to get shinies. Didn't get much but one of them was a Larvitar in a Safari Ball so that was good.

Tyranitar06 July 8th, 2017 6:56 AM

Day 1: When did you start trading? How did you end up getting into it?
Just last year December :)

Day 2: Most recent Pokémon you traded? What did you get in exchange?
Shiny Lumineon,Entei, and Pyukumuku from Soapy :)

Radiating July 8th, 2017 8:11 AM

Day 2: Most recent Pokémon you traded? What did you get in exchange?

I traded a shiny Froakie for a Shiny Scolipede, shiny Mimikyu, and another shiny from Soap.

sater10 July 8th, 2017 10:56 AM

Day 2: Most recent Pokémon you traded? What did you get in exchange?
the most recent pokemon i traded was moon ball Gible for random pokemon (i got growlithe) for helping one of the PC member. the other was a box full of 6IVs Love ball HA Snorunt and a box of 6 IV wurmple for WTW. i got quite huge of great breedjects with 5 IVs and some with Appricorn ball Pokemon.

Keiran July 8th, 2017 1:19 PM

Day 2: Most recent Pokémon you traded? What did you get in exchange?

I traded one of my 2003 Eon Ticket Latias for an uncloned 6IV HP Ice Kalosian Zapdos in a matching Ultra Ball.

filuS July 8th, 2017 10:08 PM

Day 1: When did you start trading? How did you end up getting into it?
I started trading about a year ago, when I bought my 3DS and X.

Day 2: Most recent Pokémon you traded? What did you get in exchange?
Depending if we count GTS or not - lately I have been doing a lots of trades over GTS to acquire some rare ball mons. So, in my last trade I got Hawlucha for male Houndoom.

Spyro July 9th, 2017 2:18 AM

Day 3: What's your favourite Pokémon? Have you ever traded for it? Leafeon - I've traded to acquire events Leafeon, and a Friend Ball Eevee to breed myself a Shiny and make it evolve

UberRoimel July 9th, 2017 3:07 AM

Day 3: What's your favourite Pokémon? Have you ever traded for it? Zorua, I've never got a Normal or Shiny Zorua in my life. I only want my OT if shiny and I could easily catch one if non-shiny

sater10 July 9th, 2017 4:33 AM

Day 3: What's your favourite Pokémon? Have you ever traded for it?
i like several Pokemon, and Shiny in general. i like Lucario/Riolu the most. i breed its shiny both on 6 and 7 gen. i would never trade it with anything. basically i will not trade my own shiny with random person. i will only trade it with someone i trust enough to take care of them.

overdrive003 July 9th, 2017 10:00 AM

Day 3: What's your favourite Pokémon? Have you ever traded for it?
My favorite? Hmm...I have way too many! My current favorite is Kanto Ninetails. I did end up getting one off the GTS back in Omega Ruby, since I wanted one on my team before I beat the game.

Radiating July 9th, 2017 10:50 AM

Day 3: What's your favourite Pokémon? Have you ever traded for it?

My favorite Pokemon would have to be Serperior. I originally came here in search of a shiny one, now I have three!

Tek July 9th, 2017 2:51 PM

Day 2:

Looks like this is one of my most recent trades. I was gone for a while...
https://www.pokecommunity.com/showpost.php?p=8601776&postcount=101

Day 3:

My favorite Pokemon is Trapinch, and I always breed them myself. Still haven't hatched a shiny after all these years. BUT I WILL. Eventually. When I can spare the time. Like maybe after I retire.

Keiran July 9th, 2017 3:35 PM

Day 3: What's your favourite Pokémon? Have you ever traded for it?

Hard choice, but Articuno. I traded for one with good IVs when 6th Gen was relatively new.

Spyro July 10th, 2017 3:52 AM

Day 4: What is your favourite Shiny Pokémon that you own and did you have to trade for it? Pumpkaboo. After I tried for so long to breed it myself, Mikazuki sent me a TSV Pumpkaboo egg

UberRoimel July 10th, 2017 5:04 AM

Day 4: Shiny Zorua, too bad that I don't have it yet but I am planning on DexNaving it in the future.

Edit: I own a Numel which is my 2nd Favorite

sater10 July 10th, 2017 5:39 AM

Day 4: What is your favourite Shiny Pokémon that you own and did you have to trade for it?
i would say Rotom and Riolu. for Rotom, yes. i traded with RNC to get shiny Rotom for internet competition. for Riolu, NO. i like the idea of "my shiny with my OT" so i do my best to get my own shiny instead of trading recently. i quite do trade with others, i don't hate trade, unless they are not my OT shinies.

overdrive003 July 10th, 2017 7:05 AM

Day 4: What is your favourite Shiny Pokémon that you own and did you have to trade for it?
Zorua/Zoroark! I did have to trade for it back in OR, however now that I have the shiny charm in Sun I'm trying to breed one of my own!

Radiating July 10th, 2017 7:12 AM

Serperior, and yes I did have to trade for it. I got all 3 here.

Haileo July 10th, 2017 3:54 PM

Day 1: When did you start trading? How did you end up getting into it?

Depends. Trading what? In June 2007 I joined GameFAQs for the first time solely because of the Diamond and Pearl Trading Boards. Sure, I was "trading" at that time, but definitely not heavily trading. I had about a dozen events and probably less than a dozen shinies on my Diamond cart before I lost it in November 2008. May 2009 was my first real exposure to the trading scene because I started heavily event trading. I traded 30 of my Distant Land Pokemon for 30 random GBA events such as 10JAHRE. I ended up getting picked up by Pokemon Secure to get my event legit checked, and that was the start of me collecting legit events.

Day 2: Most recent Pokémon you traded? What did you get in exchange?

Today, I traded a proofed CHT PC Tohoku Victini for a proofed SPA Lillie Vulpix. Before that, I traded 10 proofed gen 7 events for CHT/JP PC Tohoku Victini and FRA/KOR Lillie Vulpix.

Day 3: What's your favourite Pokémon? Have you ever traded for it?
*looks at sig*

Lugia, of course! Uh... Of course I've traded for it? I have every Lugia event, I have multiple Shiny Lugia's, I have a few proofed event Lugia's, but my trading philosophy isn't determined by what my favorite Pokemon is. If you want to even complete your Pokedex, of course you'd have to trade for it.

Day 4: What is your favourite Shiny Pokémon that you own and did you have to trade for it?

My favorite? Hmm... I think the one closest to my heart would be the Shiny Thundurus that was RNG'd and personally given to me by Flan. Shiny Thundurus was by far the hardest shiny legendary to find legit. I've went through around 8 hacked Shiny Thundurus before Flan got their own and gave it to me.

I'd say my most valuable shiny is my personally obtained Shiny Manaphy. In March, I found a Manaphy egg in my Platinum game from 2010, and at that time I only had one legit Shiny Manaphy that was personally given to me by Kaphotics himself, he RNG'd it and gave it to me. I RNG'd my own Shiny Manaphy by trading it to my SoulSilver cart (because the only way to legitimately get a Shiny Manaphy is to trade the egg to another game and let them hatch it, you can't hatch it on the game you obtained the egg in).

-Nonsense- July 10th, 2017 5:40 PM

Day 3: What's your favourite Pokémon? Have you ever traded for it?

Day 4: What is your favourite Shiny Pokémon that you own and did you have to trade for it?

Day's 3 & 4 have the same answer, its Flygon for me and honestly I can't ever remember a time where I asked for one but I probably asked for a normal Trapinch though in the past. Not only did I decide to go for a shiny one this Gen I also caught the original Trapinch in a Beast Ball so it would hatch in one.

Keiran July 10th, 2017 5:56 PM

Day 4: What is your favourite Shiny Pokémon that you own and did you have to trade for it?

Braviary. Kinda, I SV abused it.

UberRoimel July 11th, 2017 2:46 AM

Day 5: Do you prefer the Gen 6 PSS or Gen 7's Festival Plaza? PSS obviously, much simple but tons to do in it. Trading is much mere easier in PSS too

sater10 July 11th, 2017 3:30 AM

Day 5: Do you prefer the Gen 6 PSS or Gen 7's Festival Plaza?
still cannot decide it. PSS is indeed easier to navigate rather than Plaza since you only have to look at bottom screen and check online friends unlike the Plaza where you have to open the list, update the list to see online friends. however, i cannot deny that i like the Plaza too. we are able to buy clothes from other players which some of them are version exclusives. that's really fun. plus, instead of one-styled PSS, you can actually decorate your Plaza, change its musics, arrange your shops. well, both have advantages and disadvantages, so i cannot decide which one better, yet.

Haileo July 11th, 2017 4:02 AM

Day 5: Do you prefer the Gen 6 PSS or Gen 7's Festival Plaza?
I think I would have to go with the popular answer, the PSS, mainly because you can go anywhere in the region while staying online in the PSS. But I think the PSS was harder to navigate than Festival Plaza. There's 3 different categories for people in the PSS, and I'm still not sure what determines the last category for random people online. The trading in the PSS is also very inconvenient, it starts you out in your battle box and you have to keep switching boxes between every 1 Pokemon you trade. It gets really annoying if my Pokemon is in box 19 or something.

Hmm... Actually, I'm switching my answer to the Festival Plaza.

Spyro July 11th, 2017 4:12 AM

Day 5: Do you prefer the Gen 6 PSS or Gen 7's Festival Plaza? I preferred the PSS for the simple reason I could trade anywhere and anytime. I didn't have to interrupt what I was doing to trade. However, PSS' UI is fugly, and Festival Plaza is much more interactive. I prefer Gen 7's trading system too - I don't have to nickname Pokémon to communicate with the other trader

MechaMoth July 11th, 2017 9:17 AM

Day 1: When did you start trading? How did you end up getting into it?
I traded a lot as a kid, but I didn't become a serious trader until I started up a shop last August on Serebii.

Day 2: Most recent Pokémon you traded? What did you get in exchange?

I traded a shiny Slowpoke to my girlfriend for nothing much in return.

Day 3: What's your favourite Pokémon? Have you ever traded for it?
My favorite is Absol to the point that I have abstract Absol tattoos on my forearms. I have traded for it multiple times like for events and shiny/

Day 4: What is your favourite Shiny Pokémon that you own and did you have to trade for it?
Seeing as I have almost every shiny including gender differences, it's hard to say. I like simpler pallet swaps like Zangoose, Lugia, and Absol. Even though making things black (Rayquaza, Charizard, and Greninja) is cool, I'm not the biggest fan. I have a red Gyrados tote bag because it's so iconic.

Day 5: Do you prefer the Gen 6 PSS or Gen 7's Festival Plaza?
PSS without a doubt. It was fun to go about trading with people while running throughout the region. I understand FP, but it's not my favorite.

Radiating July 11th, 2017 10:32 AM

Day 5: Do you prefer the Gen 6 PSS or Gen 7's Festival Plaza?

I wasn't into trading back in Gen 6, so I rarely ever used PSS. I prefer the plaza only because that's the only one I've used.

overdrive003 July 11th, 2017 1:10 PM

Do you prefer the Gen 6 PSS or Gen 7's Festival Plaza?
No debate here, the PSS is far superior for trading then the Plaza. However, the Plaza can still be useful for getting some items that are difficult to get in the game.

UberRoimel July 12th, 2017 3:48 AM

Day 6: Have you ever traded via Link Cable? No.

Spyro July 12th, 2017 4:28 AM

Day 6: Have you ever traded via Link Cable? I did quite often, with my dad. He had Blue and I had Silver and Crystal, he traded me a bunch of legendaries <3
Afterwards it was with a childhood friend living far away, I went to his house and he had Ruby and I had Sapphire. I traded him a Seviper and he traded my a Zangoose

sater10 July 12th, 2017 4:42 AM

Day 6: Have you ever traded via Link Cable?
i don't have any console beside my second-hand old regular 3ds, so NO. i have never trade any pokemon via link cable.

Radiating July 12th, 2017 7:59 AM

Day 6: Have you ever traded via Link Cable?

Nope, only via emulator.

Keiran July 12th, 2017 1:27 PM

Day 5: Do you prefer the Gen 6 PSS or Gen 7's Festival Plaza?

I vastly preferred the PSS. Didn't care for the Festival Plaza at all, really.

Day 6: Have you ever traded via Link Cable?

Yep!! Starting way back in the 90s during the Gen 1 craze! Traded with other people somewhat, and traded with myself a ton throughout Gen 1 to Gen 3.

MechaMoth July 12th, 2017 2:28 PM

Day 6: Have you ever traded via Link Cable?
Yep, back in ye olde school times. I got one of the link cables with four cables that could trade between Gameboy and Gameboy Color. I didn't play Gen III when it came out, so it was mostly Gen 1&2.

I did trade a bunch of my mons to some kids I babysat a whole 8 years after the games came out. My most prized Dragonite leveled up via the Rare Candy Missingno Item glitch hopefully went to a good home.

UberRoimel July 13th, 2017 3:21 AM

Day 7: Did you get your most prized Pokémon yourself or did you trade for it? 484 SOS Chained Shiny Bagon is a valuable Pokemon for a impatient person right? Well that's my prized possession. I do got it myself, obvi

Spyro July 13th, 2017 3:46 AM

Day 7: Did you get your most prized Pokémon yourself or did you trade for it? I got it myself, it's an Adamant HA Shiny Female Eevee, in a Friend Ball.

Radiating July 13th, 2017 8:01 AM

Day 7: Did you get your most prized Pokémon yourself or did you trade for it?

I had to trade to get my most prized Pokemon, the shiny Serperior.

Haileo July 13th, 2017 5:05 PM

Day 6: Have you ever traded via Link Cable?

I had the GC to GBA Link Cable, so yep. I traded my Distant Lands from both Gale of Darkness and Colosseum to RSEFRLG, and Pal Parked them. I obtained almost full sets of them.

Day 7: Did you get your most prized Pokémon yourself or did you trade for it?

I already talked about my personal Shiny Manaphy, and I think the Shiny Manaphy Kaphotics gave me himself would be the same deal. So other than that, my most prized Pokemon would be... probably the Shiny WISHMKR Jirachi before Project Pokemon got a hold of it and uploaded it on their site. It was actually given to me for free because I was trustworthy.

sater10 July 13th, 2017 7:34 PM

Day 7: Did you get your most prized Pokémon yourself or did you trade for it?
i got it. my first 6IV shiny Fletchling with HA. i'll love her so much and evolve her to majestic Talonflame. i bred it myself.

Haileo July 14th, 2017 3:12 AM


Day 8: How do you organize your PC boxes? Do you change the wallpapers?


I don't really have a method. First few boxes are in-game catches throughout the story, a box to shinies, a box to legends, a box to Pokerus, a box to Dittos, a box to eggs/TSV eggs, a box to high IVs, a box to EV'd, many boxes to events. I never touch the wallpapers.

UberRoimel July 14th, 2017 3:30 AM

Day 8: How do you organize your PC boxes? Do you change the wallpapers? My boxes in Pokemon is cluttered. I am trying to do the same thing as Haileo ^^ but no matter how hard I try, It always ends up messy. I do not change the wallpapers.

Spyro July 14th, 2017 6:36 AM

Day 8: How do you organize your PC boxes? Do you change the wallpapers? Before trading I organized them by types. Now I have boxes for Eggs, Rareballs, Shinies with my OT, and pending trades. I change wallpapers as a means of organization, and for my boxes to be pretty

Keiran July 14th, 2017 7:00 AM

Day 7: Did you get your most prized Pokémon yourself or did you trade for it?
It's hard to choose a most prize Pokemon, but I'm gonna go with a shiny Charizard that I masuda'd back in 2014 in XY. It didn't take very long to get it and it was Modest with its Hidden Ability, and an incredible IV spread of 31/0/31/31/31/31. Couldn't have been any better. I nicknamed him Rexflame.

Day 8: How do you organize your PC boxes? Do you change the wallpapers?

I have egg boxes with the Pokemons name as the title, so for example a box named "Bulbasaur" with a bunch of perfect IV/HA Bulbasaur eggs waiting to be SV hatched. I have a box of "Utility" pokemon - dittos, HM slaves, contest slaves, nature synchs, etc. I have several boxes of "parents" that I use for breeding. And I have boxes of shinies, perfect shinies, Pokemon for trade, trained Pokemon I use for battling. All of the boxes backgrounds match either the pokemons type or the theme of the box.

MechaMoth July 14th, 2017 10:10 AM

Day 7: Did you get your most prized Pokémon yourself or did you trade for it?
I don't have any specific prized Pokemon. I guess shinies I've caught or bred myself are special to me. Some of my hard-to-find events are also pretty special. Overall, most of my favorite stuff has come from trading.

Day 8: How do you organize your PC boxes? Do you change the wallpapers?
I have a very specific method. My Pokedex boxes are titled 1-30; 31-60; 61-90, etc. While my Shiny Dex is also numbered S1-30; S31-60; S61-90. My events are organized based on the generation the Pokemon are from no matter what generation they were released. It just makes everything much easier to find.
And no, I don't change the wallpapers; I just stick to what they provide me.

sater10 July 14th, 2017 6:30 PM

Day 8: How do you organize your PC boxes? Do you change the wallpapers?
i used to organize them by the place where they live like river, sea, mountain with corresponding wallpaper. however, i don't that again nowadays because i just want to make space for eggs on breeding.

UberRoimel July 15th, 2017 3:15 AM

Day 9 - Depends really. This week, I've only traded to one person

Haileo July 15th, 2017 3:29 AM

Day 9: How many times do you trade per week?

Definitely multiple times a week. Although this week I haven't really traded because I've been having a lot of problems, first with my laptop, now with my SD card.

Spyro July 15th, 2017 5:06 AM

Day 9: How many times do you trade per week? About once or twice every day, but now I almost completely stopped since I got issues with my Powersaves

sater10 July 15th, 2017 11:33 AM

Day 9: How many times do you trade per week?
once a week during WTW. more than that, done under some agreement.

Radiating July 15th, 2017 11:41 AM

Day 9: How many times do you trade per week?

At this point It'd be once every 2-3 months.

Haileo July 15th, 2017 8:32 PM

Day 10: Is cloning beneficial to trading in your opinion?

A million percent, and this is the reason why I really hate Reddit's trading scene, and part of Bisaboard's hack list. There's literally no difference between an uncloned Pokemon and a cloned Pokemon. Nothing, not at all. Unlike a hacked Pokemon, where you can physically pick apart what exactly makes it hacked (SID, IVs, etc), the clone is physically legit as long as the original was legit. I can't imagine event collecting without cloning. I stopped event collecting in February 2011, and one of the reasons why I never got back into it was because I had no way of cloning in 5th and 6th gens. Now that homebrew has been more widely available at the end of last year, I have the ability to clone in 7th gen, and I have gotten back into event collecting.

Cloning expands your collection, and in order to be a collector of anything, you need to expand your collection. At this point, every single event has been cloned at some point, so there's virtually no way you'll be able to escape it. This is why I think it's incredibly pointless how Bisaboard lists clones in their hack list, and the only clones they list are the ones that popped up twice in their own forums.

sater10 July 15th, 2017 10:35 PM

Day 10: Is cloning beneficial to trading in your opinion?
i can say for sure, yes. it's the only win-win solution for any trader. nothing to lose and everybody happy. i get most events clonned. i don't live in countries where you can get events live. i can only hope someone can trade with my clonned events for their clonned. i do agree with Haileo, i don't really like reddit in trading forum where clones aren't allowed. sites like smogon, PC, and Neoseeker are the best so far.

UberRoimel July 16th, 2017 1:44 AM

Day 10 - YES. You can get the Pokemon you want from others without actually losing something valuable. Its a win-win situation. It is really beneficial when it comes to Events, Shinies and such things that you can only get ones or rarely.

Spyro July 16th, 2017 7:07 AM

Day 10: Is cloning beneficial to trading in your opinion? Absolutely. No one would want to trade their super rare Event or 6IV Shiny if cloning didn't exist. You can't even see the difference between a cloned or uncloned Pokémon. For me, breeding was made amazingly less of a pain by RNC and destinedjagold, because of the Ditto they're giving away. Without cloning, there's no way I'd ever have a 6IV foreign Ditto.
The only downside is that some very specific mass cloned Pokémon lose value. However, it's not all Shiny Mew that lost value, only E P P I E's Shiny Mew. If a Pokémon owner is smart enough, it'll never ever happen to their own Event/Pokémon. Luckily some people just want to help, and that's how a legit Shiny Mew became so widely available.

Haileo July 16th, 2017 8:49 PM

Day 11: Do you prefer Battle-Ready or Untouched Pokémon?

Definitely UT. UT has way more value than BR, and I'm not even saying that because I fell out of competitive battling in early 2014. BR Pokemon are also, on average, much more likely to be hacked, because competitive battling is filled with hacks. I hate trading for BR Pokemon, and I even don't really like trading for any touched Pokemon in general.

UberRoimel July 17th, 2017 1:40 AM

Day 11: Do you prefer Battle-Ready or Untouched Pokémon? Depends, really. UT because of it's value in trading. BR for Battlewise collection

Spyro July 17th, 2017 5:49 AM

Day 11: Do you prefer Battle-Ready or Untouched Pokémon? I prefer untouched Pokémon, in the eventuality than I want to train them myself. I almost never do however lol

MechaMoth July 17th, 2017 1:13 PM

Day 9: How many times do you trade per week?
Usually 2-3 times. I have limited availability, so sometimes it will be with more people on the weekends.

Day 10: Is cloning beneficial to trading in your opinion?
Yep. I clone because I like to keep my collection and add to it rather than sacrificing one thing for something else. It's also a lot easier to convince people to trade with you if they know you can clone their poke and trade back the original. It eliminates some of the uneasiness, especially for new people on the trading scene. There's virtually no difference between the clone and the original, so I don't see it as a problem.

Day 11: Do you prefer Battle-Ready or Untouched Pokémon?
I don't really care too much. However, since I'm a collector, I prefer UT just because it increases the Pokemon's value in trading since people like to train the Pokemon themselves. I like the idea of battling, but I never really do it.

Radiating July 17th, 2017 1:17 PM

Day 10: Is cloning beneficial to trading in your opinion?
Yes, it gives more incentive to trade from the first owner, as they don't have anything to lose.

Day 11: Do you prefer Battle-Ready or Untouched Pokémon?
Battle ready, only because I'm sometimes too lazy to train it haha.

Mikazuki July 17th, 2017 1:48 PM

Plays Catch-up

Day 1: When did you start trading? How did you end up getting into it?
- Started trading back in Gen I when you actually needed the person to be in front of you, Red. I got into it because all of the kids in my neighborhood played.

Day 2: Most recent Pokémon you traded? What did you get in exchange?
- Traded a 5 IV speed boost Torchic for a Shiny 4 IV Ditto. Didn't ask for it, it's just what the dude gave me.

Day 3: What's your favourite Pokémon? Have you ever traded for it?
- Moltres, no.

Day 4: What is your favourite Shiny Pokémon that you own and did you have to trade for it?
- Moltres, no I caught it.

Day 5: Do you prefer the Gen 6 PSS or Gen 7's Festival Plaza?
PSS, going into festival plaza is annoying because you have to wait there after logging online. Inhibits my multi-tasking.

Day 6: Have you ever traded via Link Cable?
Yuuuuuuup.

Day 7: Did you get your most prized Pokémon yourself or did you trade for it?
- My Loveball Shiny Moltres <3 Caught it myself after 8927364 (or so it seemed) SR

Day 8: How do you organize your PC boxes? Do you change the wallpapers?
- Organize by whats in the boxes, so not really. It's controlled chaos. No idc about the wallpapers.

Day 9: How many times do you trade per week?
I used to trade A LOT, not so much anymore. Maybe once or twice a week.

Day 10: Is cloning beneficial to trading in your opinion?
- Personally yes I think so. It is incentive for me to trade the mon I worked so hard to breed for something on par or lesser. I can see how it could be a double edged sword because it makes harder to get Pokemon more commonly seen. IMHO events are a waste of time, the "hard-to-obtain" events are more easily accessible due to cloning. Shiny WELL BRED Pokemon are more valuable to me and considered more authentically "one-of-a-kind".

Day 11: Do you prefer Battle-Ready or Untouched Pokémon?
- Untouched, that's what I personally breed for people. It gives the opportunity for someone to customize the Pokemon for their play style.

Keiran July 17th, 2017 2:27 PM

Day 9: How many times do you trade per week?
Zero. Completed my collection a few weeks after SM came out. I trade for the events which I cannot get on my own, but that's not at a weekly rate.


Day 10: Is cloning beneficial to trading in your opinion?
Beneficial in some ways. I don't think many people would trade events or legendaries without it. However I think it can get a bit out of hand when the market is oversaturated with the same flawless shinies.

Day 11: Do you prefer Battle-Ready or Untouched Pokémon?

Untouched!! I hardly ever use Pokemon in battle, and theres just something about having a collection of flawless lv1s.

Haileo July 17th, 2017 8:24 PM

Day 12: What is your favorite Event Pokémon? Was it difficult to obtain?

I don't know if I really have a favorite... I think the one most special to my heart is the 05080 VGC10 Shiny Eevee. I was event collecting at this time, and in June 2010, the VGCs stopped at Secaucus, New Jersey, which is 20 minutes from my house. This was the first time I ever got to go to an in-life Pokemon event, not including the Toys R Us events.

I remember wanting to go to the last stop in the 10th Anniversary tour when it was in Bryant Park, New York City on August 8, 2006, but my parents didn't want to take me. The experience I got by obtaining the Eevee was great, and two years later, in the very same building (Meadowlands Expo Center in Secaucus), I went to my first ever convention, Bronycon Summer 2012. I guess I have lots of memories that remind me of this Eevee.

Difficult to obtain? Not really. We went to the Expo Center immediately after I had an appointment for my retainer that morning, and we waited in line. But there were way too many people wanting to register for the VGC, so the line got cut off quite a bit in front of me. Me and my brother didn't get to enter the VGC even after waiting in line for about 2 hours, but we still got the Eevee. IIRC there were 500 entrants that got in, and many more that were cut off.

sater10 July 17th, 2017 10:53 PM

Day 11: Do you prefer Battle-Ready or Untouched Pokémon?
untouched. i prefer the level 1 breedject to level 100 pokemon because i usually use them for breeding and getting my own shiny from.
Day 12: What is your favorite Event Pokémon? Was it difficult to obtain?
Darkrai. yes, because the one i meant was the platinum event darkrai where you can soft-reset it. i wish i could buy second-hand cart with untouched event so i could hunt it myself. but, no. i don't have any of them.

UberRoimel July 18th, 2017 2:02 AM

Day 12: What is your favorite Event Pokémon? Was it difficult to obtain?
I don't like events. But I'm looking forward to seeing a Shiny Tapus (Fini and Lele esp.) in the future

- I guess I didn't answered the question.

Mikazuki July 18th, 2017 4:20 AM

Day 12: What is your favorite Event Pokémon? Was it difficult to obtain?
- Kiyo Eevee, in a way I got it by luck because the person I traded with to get it doesn't speak very good English.

Radiating July 18th, 2017 8:32 AM

Day 12: What is your favorite Event Pokémon? Was it difficult to obtain?

The liberty island Victini, I obtained back in 2011 when BW came out. (It was my first event). No, it wasn't difficult to obtain, since it was a low level capture.

Spyro July 18th, 2017 8:42 AM

Day 12: What is your favorite Event Pokémon? Was it difficult to obtain? VC JAP Mew. It was dumb luck that I stumbled upon it in a random trade. I do believe I offered a 6IV Shiny for it

Haileo July 18th, 2017 8:22 PM

Day 13: How much of your collection is from trading?

Nearly all of it. Sure, I have a few dozen shinies and a couple hundred events in my collection that I obtained myself (A large part of that hundred is Distant Land, Pokewalker, and My Pokemon Ranch), but I'd say 90% of my collection is from trading.

sater10 July 18th, 2017 9:14 PM

Day 13: How much of your collection is from trading?
i have like 20 boxes of shinies in my Pokebank, and another 5 boxes of events. all of them were from trading.

Radiating July 18th, 2017 11:15 PM

Day 13: How much of your collection is from trading?

Just about all of my shinies and competitively bred Pokemon are from trading.

Spyro July 19th, 2017 12:33 AM

Day 13: How much of your collection is from trading? 5/6 box of Shinies are from trading, while nearly all my events are fron trading. Only redeemed about a dozen myself.

Keiran July 19th, 2017 4:52 AM

Day 12: What is your favorite Event Pokémon? Was it difficult to obtain?

Eon Ticket [email protected] Somewhat. You have to beat the entire game every time you want to reuse the ticket and catch another one.

Day 13: How much of your collection is from trading?
About half. For gen 6/7 Pokemon most of that is from SV abuse.

MechaMoth July 19th, 2017 10:37 AM

Day 12: What is your favorite Event Pokémon? Was it difficult to obtain?
I think the closest to my heart is the 2010 Mew event in North America. I was running around my neighborhood trying to find an unsecured WEP wifi connection and ended up redeeming it in the middle of the street. Better yet, I redeemed it on my 21st birthday.

Day 13: How much of your collection is from trading?
Well, after the 170 shinies I personally caught just added to my list, I think about 15-20% of my shinies were redeemed by myself. Events are less, so probably 10-15%. I like to think of myself as a professional trader, so that's reassuring.

MechaMoth July 20th, 2017 9:42 AM

Day 14: Did you find any in-game trades with NPCs worthwhile or useful?

I guess they were alright when I was a kid, but their real use is getting the 1.5x exp.
I normally catch or breed everything I need in other ways, though.

Spyro July 20th, 2017 9:58 AM

Day 14: Did you find any in-game trades with NPCs worthwhile or useful? A lot of them were, because sometimes they gave you a rarer Pokémon, or an exclusive. I can't forgive that Blackhorn lady asking for a Female Dragonite for her lousy Dodrio tho

Haileo July 20th, 2017 10:21 AM

Day 14: Did you find any in-game trades with NPCs worthwhile or useful?

Not really. Maybe in 3rd or 4th gen it was useful, but now that online trading exists, it's not a necessity anymore. The in-game trades are also usually Pokemon you get a little earlier than when you find them in the wild, so unless you absolutely need it, you can just find it a little later.

sater10 July 20th, 2017 5:05 PM

Day 14: Did you find any in-game trades with NPCs worthwhile or useful?
yes. i used some of them during playthrough. since they got more exp makes them leveling faster. plus they can help me fill the dex too.

Haileo July 20th, 2017 9:22 PM

Day 15: Which do you prefer between the GTS and Wonder Trades?

Wonder Trade. Even though you'll get a lot of Route 1 trash, WT can easily give you breedjects and high IV Pokemon. Especially because of not knowing what you'll get, you can even get rares, and in some cases, shinies. This is much better than searching for a particular Pokemon on the GTS and having it snatched in seconds.

Radiating July 20th, 2017 9:30 PM

Day 14: Did you find any in-game trades with NPCs worthwhile or useful?
No, especially after that NPC in Platinum traded me a Haunter with an everstone. ;;

Day 15: Which do you prefer between the GTS and Wonder Trades?
Wonder Trades, just for the pure excitement of randomness.

Spyro July 21st, 2017 4:44 AM

Day 15: Which do you prefer between the GTS and Wonder Trades? GTS is pretty useful for dex completion, but that's all. Wonder Trade has a lot of awesome breedjects laying around, and I got one legit Shiny in Sun Moon WT.

UberRoimel July 21st, 2017 6:16 AM

Day 13: How much of your collection is from trading? maybe 95%

Day 14: Did you find any in-game trades with NPCs worthwhile or useful? Don't do IGTs

Day 15: Which do you prefer between the GTS and Wonder Trades? Both has their pros and cons but I prefer GTS more and WT on Wednesdays

MechaMoth July 21st, 2017 8:06 AM

Day 15: Which do you prefer between the GTS and Wonder Trades?
I used GTS to help get some mons for dex completion, and I don't really Wonder Trade. Neither really gives me any thrill, and I like to know exactly what I'm getting for what I'm trading.
Although, sometimes I'm an a**hole and trade clones of shinies that evolve through trading. Here's your Phantu... I mean Trevenant.

sater10 July 21st, 2017 4:54 PM

Day 15: Which do you prefer between the GTS and Wonder Trades?
i'm on both side. i use GTS for searching desired pokemon with desired ball. as for wondertrade most for filling the dex and for excitement to find what pokemon you will get.

Keiran July 21st, 2017 6:02 PM

Day 14: Did you find any in-game trades with NPCs worthwhile or useful?

Yes, quite a few of them!! I think the most useful one was the Machop early on in Gen 2.

Day 15: Which do you prefer between the GTS and Wonder Trades?

I don't really care for either, but if I had to keep one it would be the GTS.

UberRoimel July 22nd, 2017 2:50 AM

Day 16: Do you breed Pokémon? What was your favorite breeding project? Yes :) I am MMing Rowlet rn.

Haileo July 22nd, 2017 3:28 AM

Day 16: Do you breed Pokémon? What was your favorite breeding project?

I used to. Not anymore, though. I think my favorite breeding project was when Instacheck existed at the beginning of 6th gen and we had the first instances of Egg TSV Hatching. I hatched a bunch of shinies through this.

Related, but my first ever breeding project was a Dragon Dance Charmander in Diamond in August 2007. I was only 12 years old at the time, and I was really happy to know I learned about and could breed for IVs at such a young age.


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