Over 5,000 Players Banned for Hacking Pokémon

According to Serebii.net, The Pokémon Company has announced that 5,954 Pokémon Sun & Moon players have been banned for “altered save data”. Although normally nothing to worry about for people who do not try to hack their games, there are a number of legitimately obtained Pokémon/move combinations that can erroneously trigger the system. No cases of false positives ending in a complete system ban have been reported, but it is something to keep an eye out for.

Players will know that they have been banned if the error code 090-0212 appears when they try to connect to online functions. It prohibits participation in Rating Battles, competitions, and Global Missions, as well as use of Game Sync.

Hopefully this will not cause any issues for players bringing in many new Pokémon and movesets from older games via Bank.

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1,252 thoughts on “Over 5,000 Players Banned for Hacking Pokémon”

  1. Playing through the first time S/M to me felt better than X/Y
    However upon replaying, I’m losing interest a lot quicker than I did with X/Y.
    Yes everytime I replay B/W and B2/W2 I love it and can’t put it down, it’s rather odd, I guess it just feels a bit lacking to me, even having access to old pokemon now it still feels off.

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  2. Finally completed my Gen VII livedex! (Exceptions: the six hatted Pikachu and Marshadow. Original Coloured Magearna and Eternal Floette if they ever happen, but I’m not keeping spaces in the Dex for them.

    2x Charizard
    2x Mewtwo
    All Alola Forms
    All Unown
    All Deoxys Forms
    2x Hippopotas
    2x Hippowdon
    All Burmy Forms
    All Wormadam Forms
    Both Shellos Forms
    Both Gastrodon Forms
    All Rotom Forms
    2x Giratina
    2x Unfezant
    Both Basculin Forms
    2x Frillish
    2x Jellicent
    All 4 Deerling and Sawsbuck
    All Forces of Nature, Incarnate and Therian
    Both Keldeo Forms
    Both Greninja variants
    All Vivillon patterns
    All Flabébé, Floette and Florges colours
    2x Meowstic
    All Pumpkaboo and Gourgeist sizes
    All three Zygarde forms (Aura Break 10%/50%, Power Construct Zygarde)
    All four Oricorio styles
    All seven Minior colours

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    • Misc Notes:

      With Alola Forms and the Pikachu blank spaces, Gen VII Kanto Livedex is larger than the previous largest portion, Gen VI Unova. However, I personally find it bland and forgettable compared to the other portions besides Hoenn.

      Without seventeen butterfly patterns and twelve extra fairy flowers, and a pumpkin patch of varying sizes, Gen VII Alola is actually the smallest portion of my Livedex to date, even factoring in OC Magearna and Marshadow. As it was the last part I needed to complete, it did feel underwhelming immediately after completion: however, imo its much more visually rewarding and I find the Pokémon more individually recognizable

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  3. I want to believe I didn’t receive any hacked Pokemon from wonder trade, but I have an Oranguru and a Vulpix, both with high IVs, that are concerning me.

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  4. i need a project for tomorrow, my stupid house is getting painted so i gotta be out of the house all day……
    Either
    Shovel Knight: Plague of Shadows
    A Link between worlds
    or i just bum around the shopping district….

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  5. So anyone here lose their ability to use the internet due to the whole near 6000 person purge? I still need to find out if I’m in trouble as I’ve been in a shiny Bounsweet chain. lol

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  6. So… does this mean I should release that 6IV shiny female Salandit I got for Christmas Wonder Trade? I wasn’t going to battle with her.

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    • As much as I think Pokemon GO is bad as a video game, I kinda agree. It was a fun experience, especially since I was on vacation during its peak. It was fun walking around on the beach and around town hunting for the infamous growlithe. It was definitely the best part of my summer, but I don’t think it’ll ever be as fun as it was then. Mainly because EVERYONE was in on it. I could go around, and everyone else was looking for the same Pokemon. I could ask where something was, I could take a gym and have it taken back or reinforced, I could walk on the boardwalk and see team mystic shirts being sold by small souvenir shops, it was truly amazing. I don’t think we’ll ever see a mobile game turn into a global phenomenon (one that actually gets people MOVING and INTERACTING nonetheless) so quickly like that for a good long while. It was really something, regardless of whether people like it now or not.

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  7. okay I need to know something. so when you have a hidden ability ditto could the offspring of the other pokemon possibly have it’s hidden ability?

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  8. Ugh I really wanna watch more BotW analysis and theory videos but I want to game to be more fresh when I play it…. in like 5 weeks. -_-

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    • ditto my brother….. but analysi isn’t the biggest worry, just thing about people who manage to snag a copy before release and start blabbing

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