Pokémon HOME Will Introduce New Anti-Cheating Measures To Address Hacked Pokémon

What is the different between Normal Pokemon and Hacked Pokemon by visual checking ?

Good that is awesome

I just hope they simply won't let these hacked pokemon get traded anymore (or just delete them) and not punish the user cause I'm sure many people got hacked pokemon through trading and don't even know that this pokemon is hacked and therefore it's not their fault for having a hacked pokemon

It’s about time. Some of these hacked Pokémon are so obviously hacked with moves they can’t learn or impossible stats. How hard is it really to make an app that can identify “impossible” Pokémon if I can do it off the top of my head?

Maybe one day I might actually trust a pokemon that doesn't have my trainer name!!

@Anti-Matter Usually it's all in the code, though if done properly there's no real difference.

@dew12333 Don't get your hopes up. Whatever they charge, pokehex legality check will "fix" for hacked monsters.

Also raid RNG is so freaking easy that you can get artificially perfect monsters legally anyway

Yeah it really gets annoying sometimes trading with people and their Pokemon are either "Machamps.com" or "Pokeflash" which I'm pretty sure are hacked Pokemon btw. It's nice to see them doing something about these people using fake Pokemon or trading you fake Pokemon.

as a kid, my friend hacked in a shiny Jigglypuff with perfect stats, and the move Dragon Dance. They gave it to me on my birthday (Probably cuz they have no money to buy a Bday gift for me, my favorite pokemon was Jigglypuff, and my favorite move was dragon Dance) And I thought it was So COOL! Than about a year later, I learnt he was hacking, and it is against the law to hack, than released it. That was the only time I had a hacked pokemon, and I get why The Pokemon Company did this!
Edit: sorry if my grammar was bad!

@LatsaSpege It’s not illegal to create hacked Pokémon lol, people just use the term ‘illegal’ in the sense that they’re illegitimate Pokémon that shouldn’t exist within the game. You wouldn’t get arrested for it 😂

I hope they also adress how pokemon sucks now and adress how they screwed up pikachu by making him too skinny

Pretty sure they need to fix the raid first... the other day I caught a GMax Melmetal only to learn later that it was not released yet.... on my side this was a legit caught one though.... When you get online raids, there’s no way to confirm the legit stats or shiny of what you’ll get...

@abdias I think the problem isn't so much with "Artificially perfect", as much as "outright impossible", pokemon with moves they can't learn in any of the games, stuff like that.

Hacking is also used to add pokemon with perfect IVs, a specific pokeball and such, that's nigh-impossible to catch (Unless the pokeball is impossible for a particular pokemon), and IMO not as damaging, "Perfect within the game rules" is a whole different thing than pokemon with impossible moves and such.

@RunGMhx They wiped most of the egregiously hacked raids out with the patch about a month ago, and banned a few of the people running them. Almost all of the online raid system is now working as it should do. If the Gmax Melmetal was since the most recent patch, it's very much in the minority, and shouldn't exist.

I suspect this crackdown will also only affect Pokemon that have blatant and fundamental hacks, so as not to run the risk of removing any legit pokemon. Legality's always been a bit of an issue with the games. GF are slowly getting better with it, it's just taking some time.

Machamps.com shinies, and pretty much anything with a website/twitch channel Pokemon nickname or Original Trainer name are almost guaranteed to be hacked, though. They're "legal", in the sense that someone could theoretically have obtained something almost identical, given the time, but not "legit". They also semi-regularly have things wrong with them, especially those that have been in circulation for a while. I keep deleting them whenever I get one through wondertrade. The amount in circulation is definitely on the up, though. :/

@TheXReturns Thanks for the precision, no the Melmetal was a little before the expansion release so more than a month ago.

@abdias
I was confident that I wasn't going to trust anything tbh. I never liked cloning or the old skool rng abuse and I bet it won't be able to weddle them ones out.

@dew12333 the worst part is that GF knows how to not allow rng (look ad gen 6). They delivered allow it and made it easier than ever on gen 8

I have a hacked shiny pokeball vivillion which a friend gave to me in XY years back. I didn’t realise that shiny pokeball vivillions have never been available until recently which made me realise it was hacked to I released it.

Hope my account doesn’t get banned for that.

If only they would release AZ Floette.

Guess all these Shiny Machamps.com Pokémon I received from surprise trade might not be at home in home. Assuming this will be able to tell they’re hacked.

It’s honestly kinda annoying wanting to trade away something nice, only to realize you gave it to someone who won’t care about it, they just want to advertise their site.

Jokes on them though, these ad Pokémon just make me blacklist those sites.

I don't think we'll see much change. All the clones Zarudes and shiny Melmetals with perfect IVs will still be tradable/importable via Home, but maybe not your GMax Melmetals or Shiny Zarudes.

@Anti-Matter shiny locked pokemon who are now shiny perfect IV pokemon at level 1 with level 100 moves and of course moves it can not learn like dragon dance jigglypuff

@Joker1234 those mons named "Machamps.com" are so annoying

Pokemon Companys handling of hacking in general is so poor, they had a world champion who was a confirmed hacker and they didn't care so doing something like is pointless.

whatever they do, it won't work for long. hell, they can't ban clones without first preventing trading with pokemon go and preventing all mewtwos from being traded

I got my Shiny Mew legit. Someone placed it on the online trading thing for Black 2 and I happened to have the Pokemon he wanted in return. That is how I(not the other guy) got it legit. What a lucky break!

This really isn't news. Pokemon has always been fighting a losing battle against hackers. I just hope no legit players get caught in the crossfire. There was an incident months back, where hackers were spreading modified Pokemon over Wonder/Surprise trade that were crashing non-hacked copies of the game.

Cheat all you want - by yourself.

@Anti-Matter In general, impossible stats, unreleased abilities, moves or abilities they should not have, etc etc.

To be honest I believe that Game Freak should not do this as it will affect the ultimate goal of a shiny living Dex as I am aware.

what’s wrong with Hacked Pokémon may I as?

@Heavyarms55 Believe me mate if you didn’t have Hacked Pokémon in this world you wouldn’t be able to have the shiny living Dex

@Arkay good job for you comrade I give you The shiny luck of DarkStar YT

@CodyMKW wrong answer buddy I am the hunter of them and I would wath your tongue on calling Machamp.com Annoying when he is not🧐

@Eel Join me in the fight against Game Freak as they lie we can bring peace with Hacked Pokémon so what do you say comrade

@darkswabber shame on you i would of kept it and it would count as a nice trophy for you.

@dew12333 lol i noticed you said weddle your way out ur as a Pokémon

@Joker1234 listen here kid I won’t lie but the good side of the Hacked Pokémon you get u can breed for the 6 ivs

@DarkStar-YT please do not post so many times in a row, you can tag multiple people in a single post.

I had no clue there was a tag option on this

Yo Eel I revived a Machamp.com Garbodor that says it’s name is blanes and as I am Aware this make garbodor an insult to blanes name