Regarding trading in official games

Typically it's the shinies that are hacked but max IV Pokémon get hacked as well, so they fall under this, too. As was said before, if you're not profiting, it's fine. If you are, then we have issue.

All right then. Never played the games except for the original Blue, on a Gameboy that's around 20 or so years old, and belonged to my uncle. So, sorry to people who were genuinely just selling pokemon, sorry to people who were cheated, and thanks, staff for covering this. [exhales and walks away]

I can easily find out if a Pokemon is hacked, or not. Most of the time with the 'judging' option unlocked after defeating red at the battle tree, you can check it's effort values. If all of them are 'perfect' or 'fantastic', that's an obvious warning sign that the Pokemon is indeed hacked. I understand your reason for this, since some people have the smarts to know how to get away with this without the EV's being perfect. However, I think that trading via friends in DM's, or making seperate groups for this trading would be a splendid idea. Giving the fact that I can tell the difference between a hacked, and a legit, would there be a problem with forming a group from Pokefarm (private group, of course) for this trading?

@PiKáhuna From what I've been reading... As long as no money/goods/sale is happening over any pokemon it's okay.

This is complete nonsense, as anyone who has ever done IV breeding for competitive battling will tell you. Getting the judge to tell you that all the stats are perfect is literally the whole point of IV breeding.

I'm not familiar with the Battle Tree as I haven't really done breeding or training in the canon games (I'm an IV breeder/comp trainer in a couple of fangames -- and starting to do that here -- simply because they put the IVs and EVs in plain sight). But if Pikahuna's phrasing was correct in saying that the "effort values" can be judged, then that is indeed a good judge of whether or not something has been hacked. EVs (from training, not from breeding) can only have a max total of 510, so at best only two stats can be maxed out. Now if it's IVs that Pikahuna referring to, then yeah, Niet's correct. I've bred out an army of 6IV Ponyta here, it's not hard to do with the right setup (in my case, getting some breedjects from other IV breeders). It's a heck of a lot harder in the canon games where you can't actually see the exact numbers, but definitely doable and shouldn't be an immediate flag of "oh, you're a hacker".

Now although i agree with Niet, if it happens shiny pokemon, then the liklyness of it being hacked is much greater. If you do get a 6iv pokemon, id recamend being wary. Though shiny on top of that is id say dont use if you dont want anything to do with hacks. Me, im personally against hacked mons being distributed by any means, free, at a price, i hate it. Theres many ways to be sure of a pokemon being hacked, if you check on seribii theres some good ways of manuall hack checks.

Having thought about it for a while, I agree with the changes made here. I’ve had some nice shinies over WonderTrade, but I always question their legibility. “Oh I got a lvl 100 shiny Mewtwo from WT, I bet that’s hacked” “Oh a lvl 100 shiny Rotom! Probably hacked too.” I generally don’t like to automatically assume that a Pokémon I obtain is definitely hacked, but the likeliness is honestly huge, considering how a lot of people clone their shinies and send them off anywhere. ^^;

Sorry, I was referring to shiny perfect IV Pokemon. Now I'm being bashed in the head about it-.

Yah, if its 6iv shiny, then again, dont get your hopes up about it being real. In my opinion, i dont see why any body would hack a shiny in, all it is is a valuable different colored pokemon, and by hacking it in, it removes all value. And hacking in pokemon for competitive purposes is blatent cheating. Wolfie's Raichu for example, was hacked and used in VGC. I just cant stand that.