This year’s Pokémon World Championship tournament saw organisers disqualify multiple pros using hacked Pok&eacut…
This year’s Pokémon World Championship tournament saw organisers disqualify multiple pros using hacked Pokémon teams, sparking debate across the community.
Using hacked Pokémon is technically against the rules, but players haven’t always been caught. However, at this year’s tournament in Yokohama, Japan, the rules were seemingly tightened and many players who travelled across the world were disqualified.
As a result, the community has been debating whether using hacked teams is an acceptable method of saving time, or if it’s against the spirit of the monster training games.
Players have used homebrew programmes like PKHeX to create specific Pokémon with exact stats. These don’t have a competitive advantage over Pokémon you could legitimately find or train – it’s just done to save time.
