>>50414323Poorly-made attempt to deter cheaters from spawning in Wild Beldum, Metang or Metagross by making it incredibly difficult to catch, all the while forgetting cheaters can simply hack in Master Balls.
And then they forgot to shift the value in Gen 4 onward and we're still suffering because of it whenever they decide to make the line appear in the wild.
GameFreak had varying degrees of ideas about anti-cheat measures that could usually be foiled with additional cheats, like how you can disregard the fact Mew and Deoxys in FRLG and Emerald are hard-coded to be untradable and never obey by simply cheating in their respective Event Items and catching them from their respective locations, the game will deem it legitimate and you can be on your merry way.
Gen 2 had this sort of thing too where attempting to force encounters with the Legendary Birds usually required Master Balls since they had a 50% chance to flee every turn even though there's no reason they should have that when they don't show up legitimately as encounters at all.