2010-03-01, 09:25 PM
Berzerk Wrote:This.
Also, why would I want to drive 15 minutes, or up to an hour, away to get a stupid Pokemon when I can just hack the in-game item to start the event. It's still a legit Pokemon, I just didn't go to Gamestop or Toys R us to get it.
Do whatever you want. The whole "legitimatly hacked Pokemon vs hacked Pokemon" debate never ends in the Pokemon community. You can hack a Pokemon with stats that are entirely possible to get in game, making sure it has no special movesets or stat alterations, as well as making sure its PID matches correctly. Truthfully, I don't care, I'm not some white knight with moral values that I believe everyone should follow. Whatever works for you, works.
I'm lazy, but if I miss an event I'll usually track down someone online who didn't and have them trade me it. I have a very nice collection of rare and well trained Pokemon that I don't use and don't mind giving away for an event Pokemon. It's not because I think of it as having "dirty hands" for owning a hacked Pokemon (for all I know, the ones I receive are hacked anyway, and there's no way to tell unless the person who made it was dumb), I just have more interest in an event Pokemon if I got it myself, one way or another.