>>54013953I don't care too much what other people decide to do with their own teams and I can see why people might do it for VGC purposes (even though raiding legit competitive mons is so easy now) but to me, blatantly hacked mons feel cheap and worthless compared to their legit counterparts, especially hacked ones that couldn't legaly exist like shiny-locked shinies or impossible ball combinations.
>you don't care so long as it's legal or other scaling thots (e.g. Pokemon caught from seeded Raids are more legit to you than ones genned outright?)I've done a lot of RNG manipulation and I feel like there's definitely a heirarchy for how 'legit' a pokemon feels to me. Pokemon i've RNG'd do feel a little bit cheaper than ones i've caught legitimately, but I still consider them far more legit than ones that have been directly injected into the game, as the methodology and research needed to perform RNG manips adds a level of time commitment, skill and luck to the process that lets me feel like i've earned the target i'm catching, since there's still chances to fail or spend hours working towards it. If you can just inject any pokemon you want immediately with no consequence or gameplay interaction required, you're going to have no attachment to it.