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Pokémon: Froakie
Shiny: No
OT: Japanese
ID: 474121
Level: 1
Region of Origin: Alola
Nature: Relaxed
Ability: Protean
Ribbons: None
Location Met & Level Met: Poke Pelago
Where/how you recieved it: GTS
Individual Values/Characteristic: Decent, Decent, Rest Perfect
Effort Values: None

Caught in a moon ball.
 
Pokémon: Froakie
Shiny: No
OT: Japanese
ID: 474121
Level: 1
Region of Origin: Alola
Nature: Relaxed
Ability: Protean
Ribbons: None
Location Met & Level Met: Poke Pelago
Where/how you recieved it: GTS
Individual Values/Characteristic: Decent, Decent, Rest Perfect
Effort Values: None

Caught in a moon ball.

Seems like a normal breedject to me: a breedject is a Pokemon obtained as a result of breeding, but it's not what the breeder is after due to it not having perfect IVs/desirable Nature/being shiny, so they give away on the GTS for others to use as a start at least for breeding themselves or even outright keeping it as their own Pokemon. Congrats, Moon Ball Froakie is pretty sweet too!
 
Venasuar
Yes
Eevee.vip
045909
100
An egg from a Nursery worker, hatched on route 5
Modest
Chlorophyll
None
Link trade & level 100
Best in all
 
Pokémon: Barbaracle
Shiny: Yes
OT: Adam
ID: 212908
Level: 60
Region of Origin: Alola
Nature: Brave
Ability: Sniper
Ribbons: None
Location Met & Level Met: Seems to have travelled all the way across space and time
Where/how you recieved it: Wonder Trade on Home
Individual Values/Characteristic: 3x Best, 2x Very good and 1x Decent
Effort Values: None
 
Venasuar
Yes
Eevee.vip
045909
100
An egg from a Nursery worker, hatched on route 5
Modest
Chlorophyll
None
Link trade & level 100
Best in all
Just googling the Eevee.vip OT brought up a whole bunch of hacker concerns, so it's safe to say this Pokemon is hacked.

Pokémon: Barbaracle
Shiny: Yes
OT: Adam
ID: 212908
Level: 60
Region of Origin: Alola
Nature: Brave
Ability: Sniper
Ribbons: None
Location Met & Level Met: Seems to have travelled all the way across space and time
Where/how you recieved it: Wonder Trade on Home
Individual Values/Characteristic: 3x Best, 2x Very good and 1x Decent
Effort Values: None
It's a bit strange that someone Wonder Traded a shiny Pokemon, but it is a Pokemon that was available in Ultra Wormholes, so not super rare and out of the realm of possibility (the 3 max IVs seem to support that theory as well as all UW Pokemon would have at least 3 IVs). This Pokemon seems to be fine!
 
Pokemon:Volcanion
Shiny:No
OT:Thayne
ID:65656
Level:100
Region of Origin:kalos
Nature:Timid
Ability:incubation
Ribbons:none
Location Met & Level Met:level met 50
Where/how you recieved it:catching
 
Pokemon: Rayquaza
Shiny: Yes
OT: PKSM
ID: 993401
Level: 100
Date Met: 7/25/2020
Region of Origin: Ultra Space Wilds
Nature: Hardy
Ability: Air Lock
Ribbons: Alola Champion Ribbon, Battle Tree Great Ribbon, Best Friends Ribbon, Effort Ribbon, Footprint Ribbon
Location and Level met: Apparently Lv. 60
Where and How: Wonder trade on Ultra Moon
IV/ Characteristic: Likes to trash about. I haven't unlocked the calculator in this save file so I don't know exactly.

I wasn't sure what to make of the trainer ID. As I understand it PKSM is a homebrew app, which did give me pause, but it doesn't mean the Pokemon is hacked I suppose. People also use the software to do things like transfer or duplicate Pokemon, so maybe it's a legitimate Pokemon that was cloned. Seeing the hardy nature also made me think it might actually be real this time. If you are going to hack in a Rayquaza, why not give it a competitively-viable nature like jolly, adamant or naive?

I wasn't sure though, so I wanted to ask more experienced gamers what they thought.
 
Pokemon: Rayquaza
Shiny: Yes
OT: PKSM
ID: 993401
Level: 100
Date Met: 7/25/2020
Region of Origin: Ultra Space Wilds
Nature: Hardy
Ability: Air Lock
Ribbons: Alola Champion Ribbon, Battle Tree Great Ribbon, Best Friends Ribbon, Effort Ribbon, Footprint Ribbon
Location and Level met: Apparently Lv. 60
Where and How: Wonder trade on Ultra Moon
IV/ Characteristic: Likes to trash about. I haven't unlocked the calculator in this save file so I don't know exactly.

I wasn't sure what to make of the trainer ID. As I understand it PKSM is a homebrew app, which did give me pause, but it doesn't mean the Pokemon is hacked I suppose. People also use the software to do things like transfer or duplicate Pokemon, so maybe it's a legitimate Pokemon that was cloned. Seeing the hardy nature also made me think it might actually be real this time. If you are going to hack in a Rayquaza, why not give it a competitively-viable nature like jolly, adamant or naive?

I wasn't sure though, so I wanted to ask more experienced gamers what they thought.

PKSM is the default OT given to Pokemon generated by the app, and I believe that Hardy is the default nature that it's given (as it's the 'first' coded nature in the game). It's unlikely someone would name themselves with that OT, so sadly this Rayquaza is most likely hacked.
 
Pokémon: Marshadow
Shiny: No
OT: Mt. Tensei
ID: 100917
Level: 50
Region of Origin: Alola
Nature: Lonely
Ability: Technician
Ribbons: Classic Ribbon
Location Met & Level Met: Fateful Encounter
Where/how you recieved it: Gift copy of Ultra Sun which contained multiple mythical Pokémon
Individual Values/Characteristic:
Hp - pretty good
Attack - decent
Special attack - best
Defense - best
Special defense - decent
Speed - best
Effort Values: none. Appears to have never been used.
Pokeball: Cherish


Pokémon: Zeraora
Shiny: No
OT: フウラシティ
ID: 180713
Level: 50
Region of Origin: Alola
Nature: Lonely
Ability: Volt Absorb
Ribbons: Wishing Ribbon
Location Met & Level Met: Fateful Encounter in Alola.
Where/how you recieved it: Gift Copy of Ultra Sun which contained multiple mythical Pokémon
Individual Values/Characteristic:
Hp - best
Attack - pretty good
Special attack - decent
Defense - best
Special defense - decent
Speed - best
Effort Values: none. Appears to have never been used.
Pokeball: Cherish



So I was given a used copy of Ultra Sun and it had a number of event Pokémon on it. I've put most of them in my living dex, but I already had a Marshadow and a Zerora and I was wondering if I could use these two as trade fodder. The ot on the Zerora got me wondering about the legitimacy of all of the Pokémon on the game card though. I'm not sure how they were obtained as I'm pretty sure the game card was purchased second hand from a GameStop.
 
Pokémon: Axew
Shiny: no
OT: JACK
ID: 267765
Level: 1
Region of Origin:-
Nature: Jolly
Ability: Rivalry
Ribbons: none
Location Met & Level Met: at Galar Region.
Where/how you recieved it: GTS trade from Pokemon home
Individual Values/Characteristic: All best but decent speed
Effort Values: ?
It is in a Beast Ball

Sorry, but I get this pokemon from pokemon home and I'm just gonna make sure so I checked immediately.
 
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Marshadow
No
MT. Tensei
100917
50
Alola
Naughty
Technician
Classic Ribbon
/
Received through link trade in SW/SH
HP: Best
Attack: Best
Defense: Decent
Sp. Atk: Decent
Sp. Def: Best
Speed: Pretty good
 
Melmetal
No
HOME
808809
100
Pokemon HOME
Brave
Iron Fist
Premier Ribbon
/
Received through link trade in SW/SH
HP: Best
Attack: Best
Defense: Best
Sp. Atk: Best
Sp. Def: Best
Speed: Hyper trained!
 
List of Known hackers (if the OT name is any of the following it's probably hacked as of Pokémon X)
FunkyGamer26(Several questionable Pokémon and obv duped dragonites)
deadcns
Mitsuki.TV(the keldeo's OT shouldn't be their name)
Steely Dan (the deoxy's I have says they met in 2018 it's in X)
Goodbye Riot (no name shiny genesect met 2018)
These are all known hackers atleast to me a bunch more are clear on the GTS like Adventure snivy
 
Pokémon: Gengar
Shiny: Yes
OT: PokeNursery
ID: 221508
Level: 100
Region of Origin: Alola
Nature: Timid
Ability: Cursed Body
Ribbons: None
Location Met & Level Met: (Not displayed)
Where/how you recieved it: GTS in Pokemon Home
Individual Values/Characteristic: (Don't have premium) Capable of taking hits
Effort Values: (Don't have premium)
 
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Pokémon: Gengar
Shiny: Yes
OT: PokeNursery
ID: 221508
Level: 100
Region of Origin: Alola
Nature: Timid
Ability: Cursed Body
Ribbons: None
Location Met & Level Met: (Not displayed)
Where/how you recieved it: GTS in Pokemon Home
Individual Values/Characteristic: (Don't have premium) Capable of taking hits
Effort Values: (Don't have premium)

Oh. Just googled it, PokeNursery is a Twitch streamer who trades hacked Pokemon, like someone else said about a different person's case on this thread. That's kinda upsetting.
 
Pokémon: Weedle
Shiny: Yes
OT: Babou
ID: 966084
Level: 10
Region of Origin: Pokemon Go? Not sure what region that would be.
Nature: Hasty
Ability: Shield Dust
Ribbons: None
Location Met & Level Met: Not displayed
Where/how you recieved it: Random room trade in Home
Individual Values/Characteristic: Don't have premium, Like to relax
Effort Values: Don't have premium
 
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