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Tosses all of those shinies in the Hacked bin. Originates from website trainers. Might have gotten some dsc ones in Alola's Wonder Trade. Considers Beast Ball Wooloo entirely reasonable. Could have bought one Beast Ball (or used a free one), then chucked it at a Max Raid Wooloo or Dubwool. Should be a 100% catch rate for your own Max Raid (and non-event/Gigantamax). Passes the ball on through breeding from there. |
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Might just ping them back out on wonder trade - I see plenty of people using them in raids, and Nintendo doesn’t even block them from competitions. But I wouldn’t use them myself, those nicknames are abominations. Ethics on breeding from a hacked parent and a legitimate one? |
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Understands those who do not care at all, though. Saves time. Cannot distinguish Pokemon bred with hacked parents apart from Pokemon bred with legitimate parents (barring illegal balls). Admits possible exceptions for difficult-to-find Pokemon with hidden abilities, however. Cannot access them without trading. Made it hard to trade in older generations. How much time and how many Pokemon are you willing to put into GTS hoping for even a halfway legitimate Pokemon? Is it worth the fuzzy feeling of invisible "legitimacy"? |
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If I have a hacked Pokémon with 6 IVs and I breed it with a wild caught one, most likely the parent will be weaker anyway. I’ll probably just disclose it if I ever trade one (offspring that is, once I capture my own Regieleki, Regidrago, and whatever Pyroar’s base form is I’ll release them most likely). Probably helps my decisions that I only want shinies where I actually prefer the colouration rather than just because they’re shiny (so releasing Lapras and Pyroar will be painful) |
Pokémon: Giratina
Shiny: Yes OT: Takeo ID: 09999 Level: 100 Region of Origin: Spain Nature: Hasty Ability: Pressure Ribbons: Location Met & Level Met: Hoenn, 8/8/2020, Dusk Ball Where/how you recieved it: HOME GTS (not for a legendary, but a reasonably rare pokémon - it was late night so I already can't remember) Individual Values/Characteristic: Pretty Good / 31 / Pretty Good / 31 / Pretty Good / 31 Effort Values: Max Speed, equal split between Atk and SpA for the rest. I'm only posting this because it seemed such an unlikely trade, especially by GTS standards (although I also actually got a Vivillon the same night so maybe it was just luck?), to get not only a legendary but a shiny legendary for a regular pokémon (I think it was a Gen V / VI starter - this is why you shouldn't GTS at 2am!). Everything else about it seems utterly plausible, down to the 3x 31 IVs and 3x sucky ones. |
pokemon: zacian
shiny: no OT: Palkia ID no.: 998390 Level: 70 Ribbons: galar champ,tower master,master rank,best friends and effort ribbon nature: adamant IVs: Best (not hypertrained) Evs: max attack and speed he was caught with a fast ball on the tower summit is he hacked?:( |
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Pokémon: celebi
Shiny: yes OT: jungle ID: 211006 Level: 60 Region of Origin: it seems to it cake from a pokemon movie Nature: quirky Ability: natural cure Ribbons: wishing ribbon Location Met & Level Met: was from a mystery box Met lvl 60 Where/how you recieved it: pokemon the movie: secrets of the jungle newsletter promotion Individual Values/Characteristic: Effort Values: hp 195/195 sp. Atk 143 sp. Def 143 speed 143 defense 143 attack 138 |
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I can read a 1000 page book in a day. Reading the rules just takes a few extra minutes of time. And it helps me know what's going on. How am I supposed to know how it works without reading lol.
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Are pokemon from pokemon.co hacked. Because I got one in a suprise trade
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Pokémon: Solgaleo
Shiny: Y OT: Eclipse ID: 100419 Level: 60 Region of Origin: Alola (FRE) Nature: Brave Ability: Full Metal Body Ribbons: None Location Met & Level Met: Alola, Fateful Encounter Where/how you recieved it: GTS in HOME Individual Values/Characteristic: 31 / 31 / 31 / 31 / 31 / 31 I initially considered that this was someone cloning their Gen 7 events then bringing them forward, as I keep seeing a few shiny Solgaleo. However the lack of a ribbon (the event should have the Classic Ribbon according to Bulbapedia), leads me to believe this is a hack. |
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Pokémon: Zeraora
Shiny: No OT: フウラシティ ID: 180713 Level: 50 Region of Origin: Alola Nature: Gentle Ability: Volt Absorb Ribbons: Wishing Ribbon Location Met & Level Met: Fateful encounter in the Alola region on 02/16/2020 Where/how you recieved it: I think it was from a giveaway Individual Values/Characteristic: 4 Best, 2 Decent Effort Values: (In gen 7, go on the Summary page and press Y): HP 163, Attack 132, Defense 85, Speed 163, Sp. Def 93, Sp. Att 108 On Serebii, it's stated that the start date and end date is 13 July 2018 - 30 September 2018. If the encounter was in 2020, could this be fake? |
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Got a couple of my own here that's questionable. I'm hoping just cloned!
Magikarp Shiny OT: (Chinese, kinda looks like N and then T) ID: 672121 Level 1 Galar Jolly Swift Swim Jolly Egg hatched Route 5, Egg received in link trade GTS Wonder Trade Perfect IVs Lure Ball Skeptical that anyone bred so many shiny Magikarp they give a perfect Jolly one away on Wonder Trade... Politoed Shiny OT: ASH ID: 35372 Lv. 50 ...travelled across space and time...Kanto Timid Water Absorb Champion Ribbon (Hoenn), Effort Ribbon, Artist Ribbon, Contest Memory Ribbon x20, Battle Memory Ribbon x2 GTS Trade 31 / Ft / 31 / Ft / 31 / Ft Max SpA, Spe I think this is legit due to the ribbons. 3 IVs would be very difficult to do in Gen III, but not impossible. I think its their pride and joy so they've had it cloned a lot, then put it up for trade. But still, GTS shinies are dodgy (got an obviously hacked Chandelure, as well as that Solgaleo that was most likely legit before its ribbon was removed). Swablu Shiny OT: Japanese, kinda like a reverse C or an M thats slanting to the left, then two squares ID: 62148 Lv. 1 Unova Impish Natural Cure Fateful Encounter GTS Trade PG / PG / PG / D / D / D I think this is possibly a cloned Year of the Dragon Egg Pokémon - they were JPN-exclusive, Fateful Encounter but no ribbons, in an ordinary Poké Ball. Obstagoon Shiny OT: Shiny24.com ID: 784810 Lv. 100 Galar Adamant Defiant Pokémon Den GTS Trade 31 / Ft / 31 / 31 / 31 / 31 The website claims their Pokémon are legit, normally I'd dismiss it out of hand but normally GTS is pretty good on hacks, particularly made in the current generation...and it says it was at a Pokémon Den so maybe it was just resets? |
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Based on the OT given, this was the Zeraora event that was distributed in-person at the movie theaters in Japan for a few months. If the Pokemon has an English name, then it's very likely that it was injected through hacks (the event may be Japanese but the Pokemon's name will always change to the region of the 3DS; hard to believe that an English player was in Japan to pick up the event and then gave away the Pokemon). |
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Italics mine. Basically, it's still very possible to hack a Raid and change IVs/shininess however you like and host that raid, so long as that species is usually available as a raid mon (that's basically all GF did in their crackdown, was to remove illegal species). But they did opt to not go for 31 in Atk, it's main offensive stat. Who knows, there's a small chance it could be real. |
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Ft = Fantastic = 30 so yeah I'm going hack :( Swablu's name is also in Japanese, but AFAIK you can't get a met date from sonething that came from Bank in-game? So it says "Fateful Encounter on 9/25/22" but my shiny Gyarados I brought forward from HeartGold says met 10/4/22 - that's when it was transferred forward 8 generations. Although looking at all my other events, they have kept their dates...but none are from Gen V or earlier I don't believe, except some that are DNS Exploit. So do Fateful Encounter ones keep the met dates when brought forward? God, that one actually requires thinking about. Still, it makes me certain my shiny Gardevoir is legit as Bulbapedia says anything transferred from XD will have 'Fateful Encounter' as their met! Regarding Obstagoon, I don't see anyone making money off this going fully legit, I released it. Sadly that means my shiny Flygon is questionable - pretty sure I got in a raid hosted by DadShinies or something like that. EDIT: Ooh, I got one more that might warrant thinking over. I am learning from your checks though, I dismissed a few things found through my GTS obsession out of hand. Ditto Shiny OT: Solal (FRE) ID: 199949 Lv. 100 Sinnoh Hardy (Relaxed Mint) Imposter GTS Trade 31 / 31 / 31 / 31 / 31 / 31 252 HP / 252 Def Infectious PKRUS I traded an Enamorus for it (the Enamorus was definitely cloned) |
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Raid legitimacy is a complex issue sadly. While there are definitely hacked Raids out there, there's also the fact that even I could hunt for a shiny Raid, and then endlessly host it for other people by rewinding my clock every day before it ticks over midnight. I can also endlessly hunt for Raids by moving my clock days and days and days forward until I get the Raid I want (if you see a future date on a Raid mon you get, this is very likely what has happened). There are Discord servers full of people who will host the latter, but unfortunately, just like a DNS exploited event with its date changed, it's impossible to tell if it's hacked unless you receive the event or host the Raid yourself. Finally, the Ditto! The 6-digit ID makes me think it's BDSP Ditto and not DPPt. From what I can tell, RNGing in the area that Ditto spawns in is super unreliable. It also has PKRUS, so it's 99.99% likely hacked. But no one cares about hacked Dittos so feel free to use it as you like 😜 |
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Yeah raids are weird. Pretty sure my shiny Milcery x2 and Alcremie caught in-game myself are like that as they have identical IVs and nature, caught over the span of a few days. Ah well. Yeah definitely BDSP origin mark. Might be quitting my GTS habit the way this is going! EDIT: It has every Sinnoh ribbon I believe, plus the Master Rank ribbon (24 in total) so somebody was clearly very proud of their hack |
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