>>49517943leveling and EV grinding in pokemon is just brainless repetition so I don't blame anyone doing a challenge run for cheating in rare candies or editing EVs unless one of the imposed challenges was specifically about severely limiting training
if it's between an hour of mind numbing grinding or a minute in pkhex then you'd have to be an idiot not to cheat. the fun part of any nuzlocke is strategizing and battling and pulling / planning the random encounter gacha, not grinding vs wild mons at 100x speed
editing IVs is a little lame unless it's a situation where you were literally just going to reset until you got sufficient IVs anyway. I can see it being acceptable in a nuzlocke run if you only did it for your starter and not any other mons. if you do more than that then IMO you're engaging in w theoretical proof of concept run rather than a legitimate Nuzlocke.
