Regarding Autosave & 'reseting for stats

[Trainer Frankie]

I am curious if with autosave being unavoidable if you can still softreset for things such as event pokémon...for example the gift event ralts or the cherish ball event slowpoke. Can you claim, check, then if not ideal reset and try again? Or will it autosave when you get it during the message about connecting, etc?

 

[Endless]

I don’t know about Mystery Gift but you can reset for the stats for the legendaries in the actual game. Although this requires a little setup.
1. Heal at a pokecenter(this is considered a safe state by the game and it generates a backup save)
2. Catch the legendary, which usually results in an auto save
3. If the Pokemon has undesirable stats, exit to the main menu, press Up+B+X, you get the option to load your backup save and not your last autosave
4. Rinse and repeat

This works for a lot of stuff, like if you want to see different outcomes for sidequests and the like too. The purpose of the feature is to have a safe state in case you break something in the game and the game auto saves over it, but it can also be used for other kinds of resetting given how aggressive the autosave is in this game.

That said I don’t know exactly all the circumstances for when the game generates these backup saves, it is possible receiving a Mystery Gift would generate one and make resetting this way unviable.

 

[Trainer Frankie]

Thank you for the tip! Yea not a fan of the aggressive autosaves. It's like overcorrecting; fixing a problem when there was none. >.<#

 

[Sceptile Leaf Blade]

You don't really need to reset, you can just use mints to change the stats to the desired nature and you get so many Exp candies in this game that getting to level 100 for hyper training is fairly trivial in the post game too. All the gift Pokémon and legendaries always have 3 perfect IVs already

 

[J. D. Guy]

You don't really need to reset, you can just use mints to change the stats to the desired nature and you get so many Exp candies in this game that getting to level 100 for hyper training is fairly trivial in the post game too. All the gift Pokémon and legendaries always have 3 perfect IVs already

Heck, not only do you get all the candies you'd ever need and then some, you only need to be at Level 50 to Hypertrain. The Legendaries and Mythicals are obtained at or beyond Level 50. (And I think they're all beyond, if I'm not misremembering.)

 

[Bubble Ba'ath]

Using mints to edit and change the stats to the wanted nature is the best and easiest way.