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I'm holding on a possablb trade with someone(no offense to person) who wants to trade a pokemon received over the GTS with a ribbon that they know is hacked. Thanks for being honest but said person thinks the pokemon it's self is legit. Pass or go, If said person doesn't mind posting stats go ahead. Understand that it's not an disbelif on my part, I just want a legit pokemon and you know the GTS has hacks.

Any TRU Shaymins from the GTS are instant fakes. Plain and simple. Don't waste your time with them.

I got ore from TRU through the event it's self but if it's a forgin one I can see it being fake, or if it has a name as I know that they can't be named.

thats an opinion not a fact though i know many people who are perfectly fine with hacked pkmn as long as it isnt in extreme such as having wacked out stats. i mean who cares if you hack a pkmn to be shiny but don't change anything else about it.

Woo hoo!!!! Not only are we debating the on the limits of what is consider legit, but are we now going to debate on the premise what is considered fact or an opinion?

@Shrab: Its fine to dub Kyrenx's comment on ARed pokemon being worthless in trades as an opinion, but as far as anything being legitimate, hacked is hacked regardless of how much you tamper with a a piece of data.

Also to point out, the reason why anyone would care is because the person who has the AR can alter anything. Its not a question of how far he/she would, but how he/she could. With the temptation to make a minor change here and there, who is to say that this person will not take it a step further and make more changes while justifying every action taken? Trust online is bad enough to begin with and the idea of someone using one just doesn't help with that trust any further. Not to mention, those who play to the full lengths of the game legally devote a lot of time to it. The notion of using a AR to hack a poke with the desired stats, nature, shiny, whatever just cheapens the experience, especially knowing the pokemon I trained (which may have taken many hours to days) trade with someone (who just pressed a few buttons or added a few codes with in a few minutes,) just doesn't seem like a fair and appealing trade.

As Kyrenx pointed out in his last post, its fine that you like to use an AR, especially, kudos to your buddies who like to use it as well. But in the end, remember to respect those who wish to play within the legal limits of the game. Trying to trade others who play legally with duped, hacked or cloned pokes or gear ruins their fun.

Edit: One last tidbit to point out friend. Our guild's stance on hacking devices aren't good. Of course we allow members in our guild to use such, but when it pertains any events that we host, we are firm about not allowing any thing that is illegally tampered with for the sake making the enviroment online for our community fair, as well as making sure no questions at all are raised.

What do you mean by that?

I meant how is Putting an event pokemon on the GTS imposable? Can't any pokemon be put there or is it restricted to in game pokemon?

So they restrict it then. Wonder why/ It's already hard enough to complete the pokedex without the restrictions. Is it used as a marketing ploy perhaps?