Regarding trading in official games

Personally, I'm fine with this. Sorry for such a long-winded explanation. I just had a lot to say.

Just a quick question. If I need someone to help me with some trade evolutions of normal pokemon in the actual games, am I still able to or am I out of luck with that?(Sorry if this is a dumb question, I'm really tired)

As a shiny hunter in main games, it is quite disappointing to see so many hacked mons. As a side question-can we still trade regular mons? For example, I am soon planning on looking for someone to dex trade me some mons to get my completed dex for the shiny charm in ultra sun :p

This is exactly how I feel about things. For games outside of Pokemon (which I haven't played one of since Blue, and the only cheating I ever did there was the rare candy/99 items glitch), my view is that 1) I paid for it and should be able to cheat if I want and 2) if I played it legitimately the first time around, there's no point in feeling bad for using godmode or whatever in subsequent playthroughs. With games that I have a billion hours in, like Skyrim, I have no problem using godmode, noclip, spawning items in so I don't have to go find them manually, etc. For things where certain parts cease to be fun due to time spent, difficulty, bad RNG, etc., like Dark Souls, I don't feel bad about enabling a couple of tweaks to get past the rough spot (since I played it legit once already). In terms of games with achievements, I do try to get them on my own, but if it's something like (again) Dark Souls, where multiple playthroughs are needed, and items only collected via PvP (which I hate), I have zero guilt about cheating my way to them. I'm not using anything to just instantly give myself the achievements; I'm still investing the time and the patience for RNG drops and the like, I'm just not doing it with it also relying on my bad gaming skills to keep myself alive. If I can make a thing easier without just bypassing it entirely, I do it. So tl;dr I view the hacked Pokemon as being more like just insta-granting achievements. It ruins the fun, it swindles other people, and puts these players on a totally different level from others. And if real money is involved it's extra scummy.

I doubt we'd be able to. Regular pokemon are just as often hacked as to have op stats. Even if you arnt using it, you have no way to know where it came from and if its breaking tos.

I have a question. A few of my friends and I play some of the Pokemon fangames, and since we enjoy breeding for IVs (and shinies, when RNG is nice to us), we were considering opening a shop for bred Pokemon for those games. Would this ruling affect that as well? I understand that Nintendo has a hard time being able to verify the legitimacy of hacked mons, but some fangame communities police trades closely and have very strict penalties for hacking/cloning -- Insurgence and Uranium especially, you can get instabanned from the community and the online features if you're caught.

If you have to pay for those pokemon, yes. If they're free, no.

i think it might be allowed since it’s technically not an official game

Uranium was very clearly shut down by Nintendo so we have to go with their ruling on this. Of course, the game was already out there so even though they hit it down it didn't really change anything... In any case, that doesn't change the fact that they did what they did, so anything based around that we have to go with their ruling which boils down to "No". They haven't done that for insurgence, as far as I'm aware, so that should be okay in that respect. As long as you can't cheat to get Pokemon then it should be fine. If you can, then it falls under the same ruling as the official games. That's fine :) Edit: i hate my phone sometimes xD

What if I'm a Pokemon IV breeder, and someone is looking for regular Pokemon that they do not have in their Dexes? Would I be able to mention that on my profile and not in the forums, or do you mean, nowhere at all on this site, not even through PMs if someone was asking on their profile? (Just to make sure.) I've given away extras to others on this site before, but I haven't done so recently.