Unfortunately they are hacked, yes.
I actually have one from the Jungle Tours in Japan from a long time ago. This one is a legit copy. I have a way of checking to make sure they're real: Check the OT, the ID No., and if they have the correct ribbons. Checking on Serebii or Bulbapedia is always a good idea and should be suggested.Unfortunately they are hacked, yes.
The games prevent legit mythical Pokémon like Celebi from being wondertraded around.
There are ways of circumventing this, but, yes, it involves manipulating the Pokémon, resulting in hacks.
You can keep them if you want.
Just make sure that you don't trade them in this community here.
But, since you're already here, maybe you can trade for a legit Celebi here in the future?
A word of warning, just because the OT, ID number, and ribbon match the event distribution does not mean that it is legitimate, since anyone but the most lazy hackers are easily able to replicate those. What's most important is knowing and trusting the person you're receiving the Pokémon from, as 99% of valuable-looking stuff on Wonder Trade and the GTS is hacked. The first post of this thread has some excellent tips for helping you discern whether something is an obvious hack or not (and goes far more in depth than Serebii or Bulbapedia), but at the end of the day your best defense against competent hackers is being cautious with who you choose to trade with.
I had recieved it from a Japanese Pokemon FireRed a while ago. I never got it through wonder trade. I didn't start using the wonder trade or GTS until a couple of days ago. I transferred mine up to my White 2. It hasn't been touched. This is the Jungle (Mitsurin) Celebi from the 2006 Jungle Tours. The Mitsurin Celebi never had a ribbon.
While nothing stands out as questionable, it's generally safe to assume anything perfect you get over WiFi is most likely hacked or edited - especially event/encounter-only Pokemon. If you got it from a reputable source that has evidence of them rng abusing it, then it might be more credible. However, generally this is not the case and should thus be suspect. Otherwise, this Hoopa looks to be from/modeled after one from a Singapore code distribution.
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Galarian fossils can’t breed unfortunately, probably because they’re genetic abominations (they are cute though).
100% hacked. Wild Pokémon with 6 flawless IVs alone are incredibly rare to obtain in BDSP, even with RNG abuse for those games now being a thing (and it's worth noting that due to there not currently being any tools for Underground or Poké Radar RNG, the only two ways to obtain Ditto, RNGing one isn't currently possible). But the fact that this one is shiny takes it from incredibly rare to essentially impossible.
While explaining the specifics about how a modified Pokemon and their offspring can be identified would ultimately be more harmful than useful, be assured that there are methods for identifying such Pokemon - both on a surface and subsurface level.
Thank you so much! :)
The odds of perfect IVs are 1/32,760. Multiply that by the 1/100 with the Shiny Charm or 1/300 without it and you have either over 1/3,276,000 or 1/9,830,400. I'd like to point out enough people played SwSh that the odds are "low" enough that it's hypothetically possible that one or two players got one through sheer stupid luck, but what are the odds of those people happening to share their raid when it happened to happen? The odds of it being hacked are about 1/1.
Again, not that I don't think it's a hack, but aren't you guaranteed 4 IVs and the other two are random? That'd be (1/32) * (1/32) *(1/100 or 300). Or odds of 1/102,400 or 1/307,200?
You're right. I forgot and assumed they had 3 31s because every other Legend has 3. And, yeah, there's still no way it happened naturally with those odds. Something that just hit me is it could be RNG manipulation. I don't know how RNG abuse works in SwSh or if it works on Max Raids, but you can't tell the difference either way and it's better to assume it's hacked. Better safe than sorry.
While RNG abuse is possible for Max Raids, there is no way to abuse Dynamax Adventures at this time.
Turning off the game before choosing a Pokemon and doing the same path will give you the same Pokemon, but not the same IVs and shininess, so you can use that method to save an easy single-player path to 'SR' for IVs/shiny. If you turn off animations, then it's a much faster shiny hunting method than doing it with randoms, and saves the Pokeballs as well. But shininess (and IVs?) are generated individually for Dynamax Adventures, so you can't share a shiny path with someone else. Your shiny will just disappear.
