Current Events > How does Nintendo know the difference between a hacked pokemon

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And a real one?

Moves they can't possibly learn without editing or too high stats for example
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Nope, unless you fucked up and start giving the hacked Pokemon stuff like moves it can't learn, you captured it in places it can't be caught, etc

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A team of 6 all with maxed IVs and perfect natures

No, you did not put in the thousands of hours required for breeding to get your perfect natured, perfect IV'd Pokemon. Not less 6 of them, all meta. You hacked them.

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something about values and shit that are randomly generated or something iunno

but I swear I got my max IV'd Jolly Garchomp that also happens to be shiny legit

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TreyFlowers posted...

A team of 6 all with maxed IVs and perfect natures

No, you did not put in the thousands of hours required for breeding to get your perfect natured, perfect IV'd Pokemon. Not less 6 of them, all meta. You hacked them.

Thats not true and it absolutely does not take thousands of hours anymore. You can get like 2 or so full teams worth of Pokmon done a day if you really wanted.

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Giving them moves they can't learn, or screwing up something in their coding so that it's detected by their systems.

If hacked properly, Nintendo/Game Freak will never find out.

TreyFlowers posted...

A team of 6 all with maxed IVs and perfect natures

No, you did not put in the thousands of hours required for breeding to get your perfect natured, perfect IV'd Pokemon. Not less 6 of them, all meta. You hacked them.

Actually, with the right setup, this is more than possible legally. Especially in the newer games where IV-breeding and going for the right nature and ability is easier than ever.


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TreyFlowers posted...

A team of 6 all with maxed IVs and perfect natures

No, you did not put in the thousands of hours required for breeding to get your perfect natured, perfect IV'd Pokemon. Not less 6 of them, all meta. You hacked them.

but in the later gens stuff like this is painfully easy to get without hacking. especially for natures, lol. Breeding for IVs still has randomness in them but it's doable.

And even with all that, you have items that basically give you maxed IVs and items that can change your nature. so with 2 items you can make that trash boxart legendary you captured into the perfect competitive mon.

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I thought legendaries were disallowed on sight?

Nintendo doesn't know. Pkhex even has a built in checker to tell you if the Pokemon you genned would pass as legit.

Also it's super easy to IV breed in SwSh. Join a 5 star raid, get a (at minimum) 5 IV pokemon, put a destiny knot on it, and then breed a few generations until you have two 5 IV parents or a random 6 IV offspring. If you like the nature of one, toss an everstone on it and put the destiny knot on the other one and there you go, OP offspring. Or do a 5* Ditto raid and breed pretty much anything you want that can be bred.

I was making boxes full of 6 IV pokemon this way before I started genning 6IV pokemon from Gens 1-7 (my switch is not hackable) to make the process like 15 minutes faster. I can't speak for previous gens since I only bothered doing this for the current gen, but "thousands of hours" is more like "2 hours max for a specific pokemon if you get bad batches"

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Noumas posted...

I thought legendaries were disallowed on sight?

Depends. There are different rulesets, and some allow you to use whatever you want.

Also, some Legendaries are overall weaker (if only slightly) than the pseudo-Legends (Dragonite, Tyranitar, Metagross, Garchomp, Hydreigon, etc.).

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TreyFlowers posted...

A team of 6 all with maxed IVs and perfect natures

No, you did not put in the thousands of hours required for breeding to get your perfect natured, perfect IV'd Pokemon. Not less 6 of them, all meta. You hacked them.

This isn't 5th gen anymore. Perfect pokemon are easy to get now.

To be honest, I haven't played since Platinum, so apologies if I am incorrect (which, judging by the responses in this topic, it appears I am).

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TreyFlowers posted...

To be honest, I haven't played since Platinum, so apologies if I am incorrect (which, judging by the responses in this topic, it appears I am).

Yes they really did make it easy. In X/Y they made it so baby pokemon like magby/elekid/etc always have 3 perfect IVs when caught. Everstone makes it so the one holding it passes down it's nature and another new item was added that makes it so 5 IVs are chosen at random from the parents to pass down to the egg instead of 2 without it. So what used to take hundreds of hours and being blessed by RNJesus just to get one almost perfect pokemon can now be done in a few days for a perfect team and that's if you're unlucky with RNG.