Of course, this is impossible via legal means, but I don't gave up. The organizers of the event have a policy of zero tolerance for genned Pokemon. Genned Pokemons are Pokemon that have been altered in a legal way. 10. 4. This is whether the "advantage" of hacking lies, in the. hacked pokemon are ones with illegal moves, items, stats, etc and those cant be traded. For the Country, Sub Region, And 3DS Region you can use your own. Yeah. There are Pokémon that are not legal because of for example being shiny or having the incorrect pokeball, for example shiny keldeo or. There are plenty of other rare things to hunt and grind for like shinies and marks. Charges is negotiable and also freegifts up for grabs (shiny eggs, items, masterballs) for each paid requests. Genned are 100% legal online. They can be used in online battles as long as the Pokémon you receive from him don’t have any moves/abilities they aren’t supposed to know. And it's especially egregious BECAUSE it's just a kids game with "digital animals" lol. The more things that make it a "perfect" pokemon the more likely it is to be genned. A hacked Pokémon and a generated Pokémon are the same thing basically. The person I traded with isn’t the OT. Please get rid of (by releasing them) the ones with website URL as the Pokemon's nickname, though, even if they look legal. It's stats and everything about it from the pokeball, place caught, movepool, and it's IVs/EVs are legal. Most normally genned Pokemon are normal sets. Genned Pokemon are still legal by the games definition lol. Two Pokémon cannot hold the same item. Wrong. The end result of the manipulation is a pokemon that was generated by the game and nothing else which to gamefreak counts as a legal since no 3rd party modifications took place. Some Pokemon you encounter on your adventure seem too good to be true, and they probably are because they were created using Sysbots. these were genned. I know that certain illegal things make the pokemon banned from Wonder Trades. Genning Pokemon does impact the game. However, don't affect others by bringing that marshadow online. 24. I have nothing wrong with genned pokemon, I actually saw the post you got downvoted for, did he ever post that picture of 6ivs? I didn't see it if he did. Nope, they are all genned pokes. This means the pokemon is possible (though highly improbable) to get through legal means--it doesn't have any incorrect moves, isn't shinylocked, etc. We all know the constraints of the game, especially in the competitive scene, sometimes necessitate genning. if it's a genned pokemon, there are millions of them all over the world. These are the markings in every game and are a Triangle square circle star heart and Diamond. 3) pokemon will always have the met location to "poke transfer" and their met level will be what level they were transferred at. )For genning / editing / cloning services these will obviously be genned / manipulated in any way. Hacking a (competition-legal) Pokemon provides it absolutely no competitive advantages whatsoever over a properly bred Pokemon. At least not if genned using the traditional methods of Pokegen etc. As long as it's a pokemon that could have been obtained legit then it doesn't matter how it's obtained since it doesn't give any advantage to the competitive player over others. Hacked Pokemon often have illegal movesets or impossible stats. The chances of something bad happening as a function of you using the Pokemon are zero. 1 Answer. You just assume it’s genned if it’s flooding the market like wildfire. RebornGod • 1 yr. these were genned. Will no pokemon that goes over the 510 EV limit work in Battle Maison?. And lastly, since trading anything is one of the best aspects of pokemon home making players conscious about this kind of stuff just makes them feel annoyed and drop the game after trading a "legal" mon for a "genned" one. Genning pokemon is perfectly fine to me if your doing so to play on your own or with friends. genned pokemon and pokemon that are created but basically follow every rule that pokemon/game has (so you can, for example, import a pokemon with a legal pokemon showdown team bc if. The pokemon are legal, the moves are legal, the items are legal. Yes. Have seen everything from: - 6 perfect pokemon caught same day including correct 0s legends, often with a 'catch' date the day before or day of the monthly reset for rankedYou send a legit . Transferred to sun and moon and they also showed they were legal. 53 votes, 61 comments. Unless a Pokemon has stats, moves, or an ability that it is completely impossible for it to have, your Pokemon will be allowed to be used competitively. Japanese Pokemons have japanese names. Genned in Pokemon refers to Pokemon that were generated via some software (such as PkHex) and then put into the Pokemon games. ago Just a slight piggyback to support your point. If they have illegal moves or abilities or caught location, thats a different story tho. Open menu Open navigation Go to Reddit Home. You can’t breed 2 genderless Pokémon with each other, just with Ditto. Repeat violations will result in a ban. US: May 01 to Aug 31, 2016. You’re upset that people dont want to spend 40 hours building a team that may or. Obviously no one is giving you a shiny, 6IV, Masterball holding Pokémon. 24. My entire Twitter timeline has been filled with players voicing their opinions on getting DQed for failing the new hack checks at worlds and I honestly think some their reactions are a little…out of touch. Yes, this is a thing that actually happens. Pokemon really lacking on the genned pokemon. Both genned and hacked pokemon are software-created pokemon, but the difference is that genned pokemon is legal (ie the moves, stats, abilities, etc. 00Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns. So all the surprise trade mons are completely safe. Then. is hyertrainded to 31. ) Can you get banned for trading hacked Pokemon? Hacking has always been a major issue in Pokémon. But reason dictates it's unlikely. It is perfectly fine and legal to use genned PokéIt isn't cheating, because the Pokemon are legal. For example, a. Before Gen 8, if you receive a JPN Pikachu in an ENG game, when you evolve it, the name will be in ENG, if not nicknamed. LVL OF THE GENNED POKEMON WILL BE EVERYTIME BETWEEN 50 - 100 OR REQUEST YOUR LEVEL! ( NOT WORKING IF ITS NOT LEGAL) Here is an example how you have to request a Pokemon Abra @ Focus Sash Level: 5 Ability: Magic Guard EVs: 36 Atk / 240 SpA / 200 Spe Timid Nature - Psychic - Dazzling Gleam -. You don't normally gen a non perfect mon. That's a Hacked pokemon. If you want to fulfill genning/items requests, please read the following: Do not offer to gen a Pokemon or item at an insignificantly less price than a user has already offered. Due to event Pokemon and the changing availability of moves between generations, certain characteristics which are legal for a given species can hint that they are, in fact, hacked if they are paired with other legal traits which happen to be impossible to get at the same time. It's not "impossible" to tell if a pokemon was genned in all cases, some are easy to tell, some are actually impossible. Details of Legal Teams & Pokemon. Our genners stick to within the legal bounds of any Pokemon stat and build. Yes, a person could show up with genned Pokémon to an official tournament-- but as long as it doesn't have stats it shouldn't, or moves it shouldn't, it doesn't matter. Once complete, you can nickname and save that Pokemon to a box within Pokemon:. Some people don't have the time to do that. While Koffi's right that there are signs (6IV mons are more likely to be hacked, but can occur naturally so it's not always a guarantee), but a properly genned mon will be completely legal, ie you won't be able to tell for sure it's genned. Chain Breeding Egg moves and getting perfect. there is no "legal" hacked pokemon so yes you should get banned for it hope you get that aswell if you have used acked pokemon online. Kimnilsson1992 • 1 yr. If you're honest and upfront about the Pokémon being hacked or genned or whatever, then I don't think there's a problem. Yes and No. Genned legal pokemon are indistinguishable from legit ones. Most of the bots that gen and trade on SwSh have a legality checker built it. abilities, Pokeball, and stats. For all intents and purposes, the genned pokemon here is completely legal, and the game wouldn't be able to differentiate if you actually grew it yourself or cheated for it. ago. Also, one other question. 14 Gaias_Minion • 8 mo. I do not support or encourage the use of hacked illegal raids. Since it is possible to get a 6 IV Shiny Bagon, it will work perfectly fine in competitive. I believe at the battle tower there’s someone you can speak to in order to make a transferred Pokemon legal allowing you to play online with itI'm okay with genned pokemon, as long as they are legitimate (ie- they are legal within the game's rules). Heck, I don't even see an issue with illegal Balls or Shinies, because those things are purely cosmetic. I've been playing gen 9 using strictly the pokemon I train myself from scratch and it's been fun/felt rewarding, but I feel like I wasted my time tbh. Legal = everything checks out, valid moves, ball combo, valid abilities for that game, etc. Please get rid of (by releasing them) the ones with website URL as the Pokemon's nickname, though, even if they look legal. Pokémon HOME can also connect to Pokémon GO. Just having a genned Pokemon will not get you banned, but an illegal pokemon could put your. It should have 3 stats at 31 which in my case are SpAtk, SpDef and Speed. And no if done correctly you can't distinguish legal genned pokemon from breeded pokemon. If it's just like hyper trained then probably legit. I'm not bothered about people using genned Pokemon against me, their game, they can do whatever they want with it. It's perfectly safe, although there's potential it could end up deleted if you put it in home; they occasionally do sweeps that tend to target pokes with known website names/OTs - but even then, if that happens to you, you won't be banned or effected in any way other than losing the pokemon in question, because. Using genned pokemon in competitive is perfectly fine as long as it's a legal gen. Reply. The resulting Pokemon is completely legal. This is because it's relatively common to see genned Pokemon in tournaments, so every team had to go through scrutiny to determine if every critter was legal. Some people are just on a time crunch. Stwokey • 3 yr. ) - legit (Pokemon that are fully raised/trained without any outside influence like PKSM, PKHex, Powersaves. You can click on the words “Current Moves” and the program will fill in the standard moves for a Pokémon of that level according to its learnset. If you and three friends get together to raid, one person gets the shiny den. You are definitely right about people doing illegal things with it though. You will not be seeing those from me. As in generated by the game itself without any sort of man-made tampering. Quol 6 years ago #8. Genned Pokemon can either be “ legal ” (Proper moveset, correct Pokeball, whether it can or can’t be shiny, correct ribbons, etc. This time, it happened to Brady Smith, but as he says: “Should have gotten my mons myself. Additional comment actions. This change applies to all Pokémon Tool cards, including ones from any previous Pokémon TCG Series. Scarlet & Violet allows you to change your Pokémon’s name through the Summary screen. Markings - A lot of genned Pokémon have all the markings checked in some combination usually blue but sometimes mixed with blue and red. Some people HATE breeding, hate sorting out EVs, IVs, movesets, etc. . A subreddit to discuss anything about Pokemon Sword & Shield! Open menu Open. People gen pokemon and they are legal as well from my understanding . it's hard to avoid them on surprise trade. Reply reply rajthegreat1 • all of his mons are genned hacked or cloned. It’s an exploit of a mechanic in the game so it’s still legal. Step one get the pokemon> right ability>right ivs>maybe a egg move>right evs> level up> get the resorces to do the process. Every Pokémon is perfectly legal, just being the result of RNG manipulation (skipping switch days until you hit the correct shiny day for the den. . For how it's played and for how it's. There is no benefit over doing one or the other. Hacked Pokémon are Pokémon that can't exist, like Pokémon with moves/abilities that they can't have or shiny versions of shiny locked Pokémon. A ‘genned’ Pokemon, aka ‘generated Pokemon,’ is a term used to classify a mon that has been generated or created using unauthorized means, such as hacking or with the use of third-party software. Some people usually dislike when others use a genned mon online, but if you do it 'properly', as in having only things the pokemon can have naturally, then theres not even a way for anyone to tell its a hacked/genned pokemon. 2 votes. Yes, this is a thing that actually happens. A genned, legal Pokemon has no advantage over a non-genned poke, especially with hyper training, which allows IVs to be made perfect in-game, meaning that hidden power types and perfect IVs are all the more attainable. Pokegen needs either a R4i Save Dongle or a Flash Cart to allow you to move Pokemon in your game. Hell, I've genned pokemon numerous times just cause I wanted to use a specific pokemon in a playthrough but it wasn't catchable until nat dex was unlocked. Wanna add, isn't it obvious that legendaries/mythical are impossible to be bred. I've gotten shiny locked legends/myths through wonder trade. doesn't metter if it was caught or genned "Legal" but still fake. A lot has changed since this video was first recorded. All of my dens are fully legal, and within the bounds of the game. Weird that it would trigger after one trade, but hopefully it’s a short ban. 3. Pkhex says this, for word: Invalid: Hidden Ability mismatch for encounter type. If they really cared about everything being legit and players never needing any outside tools, they'd offer a proper Team Builder feature in the game(s) to just make everything accessible for. Pokemon sold in the store do not have nicknames. 00 $1. Legitimate means you've literally gone by nintendo's rulebook to get the pokemon. Genned Pokémon can be created as an egg and hatched by a player or can say that they were hatched. Giving a blanket pass to say "genned/hacked pokemon are legal", that's straight up a lie. Even if you edit the creatures in your roster to the level of legal ones,. Are Genned Pokémon legal? Genned in Pokemon refers to Pokemon that were generated via some software (such as PkHex) and then put into the Pokemon games. This process is really easy but a lot of people forget to do these simple steps, be sure to follow through. So they can be used online. Most of these pokemon that were being referred to are now available through home. You will only get in trouble for using them in online battle (and even then, if your Pokémon is legal, it won't be). But it comes with a ban risk if you trigger any of the servers checks. There are always people using genned mons, but the accuracy of how well a genned one mimicks a legitimate mon varies depending on how well the genner knows the target product and how much the final product varies from the original. Usually if it's a "legal hack" people take. If you are okay with genned/cloned Pokémon (most of these are ""legal""), you can request which genned or cloned Pokemon you want (non mythical). I see, thank you. 53K subscribers in the PokeMoonSun community. No. Met locations, like it says is self explanatory. *Note: * From u/Wulfre: When using a flashcart, you can get the genned Pokemon with just the flashcart and a retail. Pokemon generated by other. But the shiny zacian's origin game is Sword, so in order for it to be in SV, it must have gone through HOME and thus must already have a tracker. My genned mons are just as legit. I’m not sure why this is a big rumor in the community but you can literally buy an entire comp team for under $40 and run it in an official tournament 10 seconds later. 99% not legit. Nature can be influenced by Synchronise but lots of people forget to use it and it only has something like a 50% effectiveness rate. but then in every match, u'll see at least 1-2 L/M pokemon on the field then u'll find out the their. What was typically used to send fledgling. origin game is the game that the pokemon was supposed to be caught/hatched in. So question for people who have illegal things - can you still do wifi trades of legal pokemon, if you have an illegal pokemon in your party?It is nearly impossible to tell if some Pokémon are illegally modified because certain values that these official hack checks look for are completely hidden from the player or come down to some. ago Unless they have the obvious signs (website names, discords, shiny, max ivs, perfect nature) then you can't really tell. No powersaves, no pokegen, nona that. #11. Wouldn't be surprised if some of the teams that stayed still have/had genned pokemon in them. If enough top players admitted to genning, or knowingly using genned 'Mons, something would change. Of course it's not allowed, If they catch you, you will be disqualified. If it doesn't have the Go symbol, it could be cloned or totally genned. ago. Editing through PKHex alone in terms of genning legal pokemon yields the same result, inasmuch that whatever genned pokemon comes up that isn't in your dex, it doesn't register in it until you get it from a trade, encounter it yourself in the wild (or if it's a legend), or leave it in the Nursery and withdraw it (not too sure about that). 9. -Legendaries should activate events that make them catchable in the game then you can SR for stats -PokeBank shouldn't allow you to transfer the actual pokemon, just. Genned Pokemon can either be “legal” (Proper moveset, correct Pokeball, whether it can or can’t be shiny, correct ribbons, etc. Like I said, I only use them for viewing purposes (shiny aloloan raichu is so frickin adorablesjfbfv)There's more to legitimacy than just those, but it's up to you and how much being banned might potentially affect you. You can decide everything about a genned pokemon, but at the end of the day, genned pokemon must be able to be obtained in the pokemon games. ) - legit (Pokemon that are fully raised/trained without any outside influence like PKSM, PKHex, Powersaves. r/pokemon is an unofficial Pokémon fan community. Agree curious what the criteria is. 12. Voltorb in Apriballs or something like that, but it looks like there wasnt an event. CryptoIf it was easier to prepare pokemon for competitive we wouldn’t see as many hacked dittos or genned pokemon. com" pokemon online and pretty sure some of the pros use one or two genned pokemon. I also played in a regional before, and one of my opponents used a rental team which is completely legal. get a save backup app like checkpoint or jksm then edit the files from your computer using pkhex. However, please don’t trade Pokemon bred with hacked dittos in Smogon’s wifi section. are not what the species can normally learn, for example, a Pikachu with the Libero ability). Illegal pokemon do in fact slip through wonder trade. Legit is a 'mon that is obtained without hacking/genning influences. Unless you have a straight up illegal hacked pokemon don't worry at all. if you want to get rid of it there are some people who don't mind shiny pokemon so you might try and ask a legal shiny in return. such as litten and the other alolan starters. thx for any help Locked post. Voltorb is genderless. Genned Pokémon are 100% legal to own and use online barring any glaring. About fighting genned Pokémon? As long as they are legal Pokémon and I don't recognize it, I'll just assume it is all cool, fight on. Season 12 of Ranked Battle in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet (SV) has begun and will run until November 30, 2023. The game will flag hacked pokemon and prevent them. You can tell it is 100% legal if it was traded online, as it undergoes a legality check. But yeah it should be safe, otherwise I'd have probably noticed an issue way sooner with. ) It's bad form to trade someone a legal genned Pokemon if they don't know about it, but I've done giveaways on holidays with. It's a form of generating pokemon that are compatible with online battling and raids. A ‘genned’ Pokemon, aka ‘generated Pokemon,’ is a term used to classify a mon that has been generated or created using unauthorized means, such as hacking or with the use of third-party. It might be “legal” but certainly not legit. Players found to have Pokemon or items that have been tampered with may be disqualified from competition, regardless of whether the Pokemon or items belong to that player or were traded for. Or hunting for special ones. danielo13 • 1 yr. My saves are in the Cloud luckily, except of course Pokemon games. There is a distinction between legit and legal. Posted January 7, 2018. Having genned pokemon allows you to focus solely on strategy and play, and not leave a loss down to the fact that the breeding was tough and took a long time. Hacked pokemon: They have an unusual moveset and are maybe at an evolution they cant be at. A hacked Pokemon and a bred Pokemon will always have exactly the same stats in competitive play -- 5-6 31 IVs across the board, and the proper nature. Still, plenty of genned pokemon can be wonder traded. That’s the whole point of genning: to make it look legitimate and competitive-legal. I‘ve asked because I thought in Japan was an event with H. The game doesn't give a shit if the hacked Pokemon is "legal" but you still got idiots going around messing up in the most basic things like hatch location and OT. On the other hand, genning sites make sure the pokemon is able to be gotten within the game. A genned pokemon probably won't spawn a bad egg. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. If a genned pokemon was illegal, it would get picked up by the ingame system. Even the World Champ used a genned Pokemon from the creator of Sysbot, Sibuna_Switch, in the championships and won with it. Obviously, I'd like them to actually breed those mon. Language matters. There is a bit of difference between a “hacked” Pokémon and a “genned” Pokémon, though unfortunately, it seems as though those 2 words are used interchangeably making it somewhat confusing. Hacked pokemon with legal stats are just like normal pokemon you could get in the game. Genned Pokemon are explicitly mentioned by the Pokemon team as being illegal. HEY, NEW USERS! Remember to read The Wiki for the basics! Check the FAQ for basic questions! Threads created for basic questions will be removed, so ask them in that thread. Business, Economics, and Finance. Over the years, Game Freak has shown that it basically doesn’t care about genned Pokemon and I kinda don’t blame them. TLDR; no. Any ideas what i make wrong?Legal moves for the Pokémon are highlighted in green. ” DQ’d at 2-0. PKHex's encounter database and legality checker makes it extremely simple to generate pokemon that are 100% legal and are entirely indistinguishable from "genuine" pokemon. *Note: * From u/Wulfre: When using a flashcart, you can get the genned Pokemon with just the flashcart and a retail. I. 19 votes, 33 comments. 50, user B should not offer the same service for $2. danielo13 • 1 yr. at most you may find that you can't later trade/transfer or use that specific pokemon online, but others will still work normally. All genned Pokémon are in fact illegal in official competitions. having discord/sites as their names, Max IVs, Shiny, Perfect Nature) but a lot of. I might take some time to answer, either for logistical problems or due to the. He also send back the file of the pokemon you have send so you can modify your pokemon and trade it back. Examples include incorrect memories, catch/hatch location or times, or ball type. You are safe to use them. Basically, the rule of thumb is that if you gen a 100% legal pokemon, I'd be absolutely fine with it. So if you deposit the crappily hacked Zacian into HOME. The creator of pkhex, the program we used to make the “hacked” aka genned pokemon, is also publicly against it. And it has nothing to do with resets. r/pokemon is an unofficial Pokémon fan community. That’s the whole point of genning: to make it look legitimate and competitive-legal. If it's legal, it's legal. The chances of something bad happening as a function of you using the Pokemon are zero. If you stick to that guide all the Pokemon you create should be legal. You'll only get banned if the pokemon is impossible to get (e. It doesn't affect the matches in any way. The formula is different for event raid mons: The number of. This is why I make it my business to breed any mons I receive in trades with strangers. If I open pokemon home and view my sword boxes through pokemon home will that trigger the ban or is it only if I drag the shiny locked pokemon into the actual pokemon home boxes. It's basically impossible to completely get rid of this issue because legal genned mons are impossible to tell apart from legit ones and this has been the case since X/Y and Wondertrade (so basically 10 years of genned mons mass circulating the trading system). 1K subscribers in the powersaves3ds community. Saberel3 • 1 min. But if it is a really well hacked/genned Pokémon, it is nearly impossible to verify. Business, Economics, and Finance. Contents Why are Genned Pokemon legal? Genned in Pokemon refers to Pokemon that were generated via some software (such as PkHex) and then put into the Pokemon. 10+ shinies are not a big enough sample size to conclude that. Bottle caps fix IVs, Mints fix natures, Egg moves can be put on any pokemon, Capsules change abilities or give HA, EV training can now be completely done via. Etc. But the rules clearly states it's not accepted, so you do it at your own risk, now that it finally is enforced a bit more, a lot are playing the victim card. We are planning to release an update by the end of the month. ReplyHalf my team was modified/genned I didn’t have Legends of Arceus to get the Lando, And I didn’t have my copy of Sword/Shield to get Urshifu, I tried trading for the mons with a reputable. The game will flag hacked pokemon and prevent them from being used online. An example of an illegal Pokémon would be a Pokémon that cannot feasibly exist- eg a starter in a cherish ball, a shiny Volcanion, a Slaking with ability Moxie etc. There's no way for the game to know if a genned pokemon is illegal if you're able to receive it through any online method because it has already been marked as legal at that point. So that confirms it hacked/genned. I'd like to know where you stand. Arceus is holding a master all which is a calling card for a genned Mon. Using genned pokemon in competitive is perfectly fine as long as it's a legal gen. People will often clone theirs and distribute the event on WT. I haven't ever traded for a hacked or genned pokemon so don't knock much about owning one. Do unless you’re worried about an inglux legal pokemon, I don’t see the issue. but then in every match, u'll see at least 1-2 L/M pokemon on the field then u'll find out the their stats are perfect without hypertraining. Cause, even if it's a shiny rattata, as long. Back in 2019, Pokemon Sword & Shield’s excellent Surprise Trade function was quickly hijacked by hackers from all over the world. Hacked pokemon are the ones which have unobtainable moves and stats and cant be used online. Since it is possible to get a 6 IV Shiny Bagon, it will work perfectly fine in competitive. I've seen Level 1 Rayquaza, and non-event Galar-native Shiny Poipoles. Technically the Pokemon can be legal if it's well-genned, but it can never be legit. This exactly. Many top players at the Pokemon World Championships are reporting getting disqualified or taking losses as the result of using generated or modded Pokemon during the tournament. Any pokemon that you're even able to achieve through online mechanics are safe to use, even genned pokemon. Fixed in Version 2. Ironically enough his core analysis comes through the use of PKHex where Kaphotics was able to identify some characteristics that are commonly seen in genned Pokémon. But if a pokemon is shiny and 6iv that is very fishy, but it's still. Well, I really wanna know is there any risk of getting banned for using a genned / cloned pokemon (got in a trade) in raids and battles. 2. Genned mons are identical in every way to naturally spawning versions, the only difference being the names. As of April 14, 2023, all Pokémon Tool cards will receive errata. 6,443. i think nintendo must act on this. Invalid: Can't have ball for encounter type. So i see no reason why i can not have 0 ATK IVs. And people can infinitely host a shiny den. Most people just avoided the grind of breeding for perfect iv's and ev training. Note that a lot of people also use these markings to track their mons ( I do so as well)I allow genned pokemon that are not nicknamed into my game as dex fillers but usually try to trade away genned without nicknames eventually. Soft resetting for shinies is a thing but generally comes at the cost of getting non-ideal IVs. Genned Pokemon: A pokemon that has been generated outside pokemon games, but is identical to any. Name and OT can be different for hacked Pokemon, in terms of events. pkx (x are generally the generation) file to the bot and he create them and send you the pokemon. It's complicated. The question is. For example, a genned shiny charizard with legal moves and ability can be used and traded with most likely no consequences, but a shiny meloetta cannot exist and therefor cannot. HP and Def. ) Anyone can get a genned pokemon without even knowing it since GTS and wondertrade are a thing. Use of modified Pokemon is expressly forbidden. ago. Genned/hacked 'mons are legal as long as they fall in the obtainability in the games. Genned pokemon and hacked pokemon differ in few ways but are significantly not connected. Unable to choose the "without deleting saves" option so its a full wipe. You'd have to use external tools. Yes, a person could show up with genned Pokémon to an official tournament-- but as long as it doesn't have stats it shouldn't, or moves it shouldn't, it doesn't matter. Only legal pokemon can be traded there so you won't get anything that was hacked or genned. . Japanese Pokemons have japanese names. Raid pokemon can get you flagged if they possess a move they're not supposed to be able to learn. Or hunting for special ones. Genning is prohibited in pokemon games and especially in tournaments, so if a person does it, it shows how little that person cares about rules. It's easy and simple to check it out. Even perfect IVs on legendaries that only legit come with 3 doesn’t trip anything. Breeding a genned pokemon with a pokemon you caught makes a legit pokemon, in the off chance the ditto is genned, the pokemon it makes are still legit. Even. It does not matter if a Pokemon is hacked. I can also do cloning, editing stats/nature, 6IV ditto for breeding, change nicknames, masterballs etc. That may sound like nitpicking but it is important for many online battling and trading threads and communities.