Disclaimer: Remember, it is impossible for anyone to truly say a Pokemon is legit unless you caught it yourself. This thread can serve as a guide to tell you if a Pokemon is definitely hacked, or tell you if it looks legit, but hackers can make any Pokemon look legit with enough effort.
Post here if you're not sure if your Pokemon is legitimate or not, or to help another user. Be sure to follow all other rules and use this form when posting:
Pokemon Species:
Pokemon Gender:
Nickname:
OT:
IDno:
Shiny?:
EV's: (if known)
IV's: (if known) Serebii's IV Calculator
Nature:
Characteristic:
Ability:
Moves:
Level Caught at:
Current Level:
Stats:
Location Caught: (link trade? time and space? distant land? fateful encounter? etc.)
Date Met: (if known)
Egg?:
Pokeball Caught In:
Ribbons:
Blue Pentagon? (yes/no):
Any other notes?:
If you can provide a picture with this info and more, that would help out people checking.
EDIT: Even if you're using PokeCheck to just check if a Pokemon is legit or not, please don't mention/link to it here as it's still deemed illegal.
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Quick ways to distinguish hacks:
Hoopa and Volcanion CAN'T be shiny.
Diancie CAN ONLY be shiny from this event (TID 12125).
Arceus CAN ONLY be shiny from this event (TID 03075).
Xerneas (TID 10295) and Yveltal (TID 11055) CAN ONLY be shiny from an event.
Reshiram and Zekrom CAN ONLY be shiny from ORAS.
Most legendaries in ORAS CAN be shiny.
Pokemon in Apricorn Balls CAN'T have hidden abilities.
Shadow Pokemon from Pokemon Colosseum CAN be shiny.
Shadow Pokemon from Pokemon XD CAN'T be shiny, but basically everything else can.
Messages:
Seems to have traveled across both space and time in order to reach [destination region] from [original region] - usually regular/non-events
A fateful encounter seems to have led it across space and time to reach [destination region] from [original region] - usually past-gen. events
Seems to have traveled across both space and time in order to reach [destination region] from a distant land - Colosseum
A fateful encounter seems to have led it across space and time to reach [destination] from a distant land - XD
Not sure if a Pokemon can be caught in a specific Poke Ball?: Serebii's Poke Ball database
Event information: Serebii's Database and Bulbapedia's Database
6th Generation Hacked Event Dates: /r/pokemontrades
Post here if you're not sure if your Pokemon is legitimate or not, or to help another user. Be sure to follow all other rules and use this form when posting:
Pokemon Species:
Pokemon Gender:
Nickname:
OT:
IDno:
Shiny?:
EV's: (if known)
IV's: (if known) Serebii's IV Calculator
Nature:
Characteristic:
Ability:
Moves:
Level Caught at:
Current Level:
Stats:
Location Caught: (link trade? time and space? distant land? fateful encounter? etc.)
Date Met: (if known)
Egg?:
Pokeball Caught In:
Ribbons:
Blue Pentagon? (yes/no):
Any other notes?:
If you can provide a picture with this info and more, that would help out people checking.
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Quick ways to distinguish hacks:
Smogon's Tips for Simple Hack Checks
General Rules of Thumb for Distinguishing Hacked Pokemon:
Only 4 natures are possible for 31/31/31/31/31/31 Pokemon caught in generations 3 & 4 (exceptions below). These natures are calm, docile, modest, and timid.
----Wild Pokemon with variable genders (including Heatran) caught in Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum have 7 possible natures for 31/31/31/31/31/31. These are calm, docile, hasty, modest, quirky, sassy, and timid. -----Wild Pokemon with variable genders caught in Heart Gold and Soul Silver have 6 possible natures for 31/31/31/31/31/31. These are calm, docile, modest, quiet, sassy, and timid.
----The Shiny Gyarados that appears in the Lake of Rage in Heart Gold and Soul Silver can have any IV/nature combination.
----Shinies obtained through the Pokeradar in Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum can have any IV/nature combination, but it still requires ID abuse, and is considered one of the most difficult types of Generation 4 abuse. In most cases, unless it's someone who's proven themselves capable of doing such an abuse, it's pretty safe to assume it's a hack.
----Wild Pokemon (excluding Legendaries) from Ruby, Sapphire, Fire Red, Leaf Green, and Emerald have 9 possible natures for 31/31/31/31/31/31. These are calm, careful, docile, hardy, lax, modest, naive, rash, and timid.
----Generation 4 wonder card events may have any combination of IVs and nature. However, almost every generation 4 event is locked to not be shiny. The only exceptions are Manaphy who can be hatched shiny by transferring the egg to another save file, caught Shaymin and Darkrai from the Platinum Member Card and Oak's Letter events, and always shiny events (Eevee, Pichu, Entei, Raikou, Suicune, and Milotic).
----Generation 3 wonder card style events cannot be RNG manipulated at all. This includes the Bonus Disc / Channel Jirachi (aka, any jirachi with Body Slam) and Extremespeed Zigzagoon. Any flawless variety of these Pokemon are almost certainly hacked.
----The Wish event Pokemon are virtually non existent. Any you see offered are almost certainly hacked.
----There are no restrictions on the IVs and nature of most 5th gen wonder cards, including most of the competitively relevant ones. However, nearly all are locked to not be shiny.
The following Pokemon cannot be shiny:
Celebi
Victini
Keldeo
Meloetta
Zygarde
----Legendaries caught in X and Y cannot be shiny.
----A Shiny mew must be Japanese, from Hoenn, and at least level 30 as the only way to obtain it was through the Old Sea Chart in emerald given out exclusively in Japan.
----The 2011 event Celebi should have the OT WIN2011. OT GAMESTP Celebi are from an unreleased event from the ripping of an unreleased wondercard rom and are hacked.
----Shiny Deoxys can only be obtained through the 3rd gen event item.
----Wild Arceus from Generation 4 are not obtainable as the event was never released.
----No Shadow Pokemon from Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness can be shiny.
----Pokemon from the Dream World, Dream Radar, and Hidden Grottoes in the 5th gen games cannot be shiny.
----A Pokemon that does not normally have a premier ribbon attached from a special event is hacked. This is the result of improperly cloning through Pokecheck. However, this does not invalidate the legality of proper clones.
----Pokemon caught or bred on X and Y have "memories" that are checkable by an NPC outside the Anistar Pokemon Center, Pokemon brought over from previous generations (including those that have been hacked to look like they are from Kalos) and 6th gen events do not have memories and will say "The Pokemon seems to have a good memory, but it doesn't seem to be able to remember...".
Regarding apricorn balls:
----Only Pokemon obtainable in the Generation IV games Heart Gold and Soul Silver can be legitimately captured in an Apricorn ball. Transferring those Pokemon to Generation VI and breeding them will allow the offspring to have an Apricorn ball, along with any egg move combination, but they cannot have their hidden ability.
Credit goes to:
- Dark Ray
- Hozu
- TheMantyke
- Esmeya
- ProjectTitan313
Posted with permission from Nexus
Hoopa and Volcanion CAN'T be shiny.
Diancie CAN ONLY be shiny from this event (TID 12125).
Arceus CAN ONLY be shiny from this event (TID 03075).
Xerneas (TID 10295) and Yveltal (TID 11055) CAN ONLY be shiny from an event.
Reshiram and Zekrom CAN ONLY be shiny from ORAS.
Most legendaries in ORAS CAN be shiny.
Pokemon in Apricorn Balls CAN'T have hidden abilities.
Shadow Pokemon from Pokemon Colosseum CAN be shiny.
Shadow Pokemon from Pokemon XD CAN'T be shiny, but basically everything else can.
Messages:
Seems to have traveled across both space and time in order to reach [destination region] from [original region] - usually regular/non-events
A fateful encounter seems to have led it across space and time to reach [destination region] from [original region] - usually past-gen. events
Seems to have traveled across both space and time in order to reach [destination region] from a distant land - Colosseum
A fateful encounter seems to have led it across space and time to reach [destination] from a distant land - XD
Not sure if a Pokemon can be caught in a specific Poke Ball?: Serebii's Poke Ball database
Event information: Serebii's Database and Bulbapedia's Database
6th Generation Hacked Event Dates: /r/pokemontrades
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