Wait, that Pokemon is Illegal...

[Palamon]

Have you ever battled someone who has CLEARLY hacked Pokemon? I have before. I remember battling a kid who hacked Wonder Guard on a Spiritomb. :|

What about getting a hacked Pokemon from a trade via wifi or wireless? I definitely have. I got a hacked shiny Victini once. Probably many other hacked mons on wonder trade, too, but this is the only extremely blatant example from my memory.

...As an alternate question, what Pokemon in actual games do you remember that were "Illegal" or lower leveled than they normally are? Some famous examples of this are Lance's Dragonite knowing Barrier, Lance having underleveled Dragonites. Oh, yeah, and Mars's Purugly.

 

[RadEmpoleon]

I've gotten several hacked shiny battle-ready Pokémon from random twitch streamers on wonder trade. I also got a Charmander that said it hatched from an egg in 2016, but the egg came from 2093.

Spoiler:

 

[CF1994]

I received a Lv. 100 shiny Mew through Wonder Trade in my recent Sun playthrough.

Very obvious that it is hacked. What is up with filters not being triggered when Pokémon explicitly prohibited from such a type of online trade are put into it?

 

[Sheep]

pretty sure I've gotten hacked mons via surprise trade before! not too sure if the lv. 100 shiny jolly bisharp I got was hacked or cloned, but either way, definitely not something a player would just give away if they had no other ones haha. wish I could remember others, but I'm sure it wasn't the only one @_@

 

[Zeostar]

No, I've done tons of wonder trades but I'm never lucky enough to see anything cool. Usually just wingulls and zigzagoons.

 

[Roni]

With the dawn of PKHex, it's incredibly easy to get hacked mons lol. I'd imagine there's more hacked ones than there are legit ones in Wondertrade now. (Don't quote on me that tho I've never used it yet :p)

Also, screw Mars and her ridiculously underleveled Purugly. I love Gen 4, but that was the closest GF ever got to 13-year-old-edgy-romhacker levels of b*llsh*t difficulty.

 

[colours]

i'm almost positive that the shiny moltres i have in either moon or ultra moon is hacked bc i got it over wonder trade lol

 

[Brendino]

I had a Level 100 Shiny Electrode that knew Fly at one point. Definitely hacked and not even that great of a Pokemon, but I think those types of hacked Pokemon are more fun to come across than Pokemon with perfect IVs/EVs/movesets, etc.

 

[Lunar]

I also got a shiny Mew from wonder trade a few years ago that is almost definitely hacked! Am pretty certain a few more 'mons I got from wonder trade are hacked as well, people love hacking shiny legendaries haha.

 

[Fairy]

I've gotten beaten by and received many hacked Pokemon and it's very likely to happen again! Plenty of Wondertombs out there back in the day.

To be honest I think it's kinda fun! Not hacking or using hacked Pokemon, but finding them in the wondertrade and stuff. I've never been bored dealing with hacked Pokemon, ya know?

 

[11wildy]

I once faced a hacker who had a team full of Wonder Guard pokemon.
Needless to say my Leech Seed Venusaur had a fun time stalling him!

 

[Soaring Sid]

No, I've done tons of wonder trades but I'm never lucky enough to see anything cool. Usually just wingulls and zigzagoons.

^ It's the same for me, maybe add an Alolan Rattata or two. But my sister ended up getting a hacked shiny Espeon.

 

[singhharry12]

I received a Lv. 100 shiny Mew through Wonder Trade in my recent Sun playthrough.