Having a special ball doesn't really matter in terms of battling. However, it is a sign that hacking occurred somewhere down the line. Either Rizzo got a Pokemon from hacked parents or he hacked it himself. There is no other possibility. Because of this, and since he is in the Masters division, he technically should…

Nope. Female Pokemon control the ball type and the species. Even with a DW Mineral Pokemon (say Onix) breeding with an Aegislash, the ONLY possibility is another Onix. A Honedge can never come from this combination.

It would make cheating for IVs pointless, but not cheating in general. My point was that there are a bunch of factors that influence a Pokemon's stat values; IVs are just one of them.

Er...you might be confused on something. Having no IVs and locking base stats are two completely different things; those ideas are not synonymous with each other.

It does seem like an honest mistake. But typically, especially in the Masters Division, making an "honest mistake" isn't an excuse. It is even expressly written in the POP rulebook. Whether they are yours or came from someone else, having hacked/modified Pokemon is grounds for disqualification and it is typically…

It is the combination of Pokemon and ball type that is the issue. A Dream Ball is already suspicious, but it is possible that a Dream World Pokemon was transferred and used for breeding. This is allowed under POP rules.

Here's the thing:

The issue here is that POP is hyper strict on things like this. During registration, your Pokemon are inspected. If you are a Master (like Rizzo) and you are found to have hacked or modified Pokemon on your team (no matter where they came from), you are barred from the tournament. If, during a random hack check during…

It should be known that while a lot of Pokemon VG players are part of Smogon, most of the VGC community (as in, the community that participates in sanctioned Pokemon tournaments like this one) either don't follow the metagame in that fashion or not part of the Smogon community at all.

I will just say this:

Just to burst your bubble a little bit, 6IV Dittos are indeed rare, but not as rare as you think.

The presence of IVs has been a staple of the Pokemon games. They have existed since Gen 1. Sorry, but Game Freak has made it easier than ever before to breed for perfect IVs and to train for EVs.

Speaking purely as a competitive Pokemon trainer (both in the TCG and the video game), nobody really cares about Aegislash's stats. The issue is whether it should have been allowed AT ALL, regardless of stats.

Except Wavedashing isn't a glitch; it is a physics exploit. Just like the article said, when you air dash into the ground, you are supposed to slide along the ground. This is what the physics engine was designed to do.

Save for traveling, I keep both my retro games and my recent games in their original cases. When I was a kid, some of my games were left out in the open on a TV stand so they collected dust, but not too much.

Hi. Hello. Gaming repair tech over here. Let me get straight to the point here.

Currently, there are two main reasons I can think of:

That zebra is...mesmerizing. I...can't take my eyes off of it.

Da fuck?

It is when the logic behind it is so ignorant and backwards. We live in a country where men can easily obtain Viagra for whatever reason, yet women have to jump over hurdles in order to obtain birth control pills. At the same time, people get up in arms about women having too many babies and then wonder why they are…