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  1. Negrek

    D/P/Pt PRNG Abuse: Right or Wrong?

    No. Pokémon start with zero EV's, guaranteed, whereas the chance of getting straight-zero IV's is as unlikely as getting straight-31's. It is impossible for some pokémon to get any EV's at all (for example, legal Arceus); pokémon that have not been intensively EV-trained will probably not have...
  2. Negrek

    D/P/Pt PRNG Abuse: Right or Wrong?

    The RNG that controls IV inheritance runs along with the game's frames--it is called every 1/60th of a second. Therefore, IV inheritance is time-dependent (although you can mess with your game's clock to get closer to an ideal frame). In order to get the right IV spread, you must be able to time...
  3. Negrek

    D/P/Pt PRNG Abuse: Right or Wrong?

    You need at least one parent with one perfect IV in order to get six flawless IV's. The more perfect IV's there are available, the less time you will most likely have to wait in order to get your spread. Having to leave your game on for hours/days generally makes going with very low-IV parents...
  4. Negrek

    D/P/Pt PRNG Abuse: Right or Wrong?

    Shininess, as I've stated a few times. IV's are more difficult to influence than EV's, but if you know enough about the way that the game works, both can be done. EV's are easier to understand and influence, but they still require exploring aspects of pokémon stats that are hidden to anyone not...
  5. Negrek

    D/P/Pt PRNG Abuse: Right or Wrong?

    I don't understand what you're saying here. I was responding to "better stats = greater chance to win" by saying that there other uses for the technique than to get better stats; then here you appear to be saying, "yeah, but look, you can use it to get better stats!" I don't see how that...
  6. Negrek

    D/P/Pt PRNG Abuse: Right or Wrong?

    Well, yeah, shiny. And I've already given reasons--just to try it and see if it would work, to play around with game mechanics a bit, that sort of thing. Dunno, even if I weren't interested in getting pokémon myself, I'd still give it a shot just because I think it's kind of cool. Sort of like...
  7. Negrek

    D/P/Pt PRNG Abuse: Right or Wrong?

    Eh, really? I don't know about that... I'll level high-level stuff there already, sure, but most of those already have the majority of their EV's filled out from lower-level training. There are faster ways of leveling that some people use, and I'm sure that different people do it differently...
  8. Negrek

    D/P/Pt PRNG Abuse: Right or Wrong?

    They're random if you don't know about them and just play through the game--what pokémon you encounter are determined by the RNG, and therefore the EV's any pokémon gets for fighting a given battle are also random. Unless, of course, you know about EV's, and therefore only go through the fights...
  9. Negrek

    D/P/Pt PRNG Abuse: Right or Wrong?

    But you just said that "..You don't even need 31 IV's in every stat." If it's not necessary, how is having it creating an "unfair advantage?" How is "exploiting" the PRNG any different than exploiting the rules of breeding, EV training, or other hidden stat modifiers that exist in the game in...
  10. Negrek

    D/P/Pt PRNG Abuse: Right or Wrong?

    *shrug* Sorry, but it happens. Competitive grade on Smogon since well into last year has been at least four flawless, all other relevant 25+, and many of the top breeders had pokémon with five or more flawless IV's available. I didn't tend to get many Japanese players on wi-fi due to the time...
  11. Negrek

    D/P/Pt PRNG Abuse: Right or Wrong?

    If it weren't possible, you couldn't do it with PRNG manipulation. Even before PRNG manipulation appeared, there were in fact people who had flawless pokémon through straight-up breeding; triple and quad-flawless weren't uncommon, which made breeding much easier. The chance of finding a flawless...
  12. Negrek

    D/P/Pt PRNG Abuse: Right or Wrong?

    Nope; those games have different PRNG's and haven't been cracked yet. Not that anybody's really been trying that I know of.
  13. Negrek

    D/P/Pt PRNG Abuse: Right or Wrong?

    Only if you breed with two international parents, and that was true in Diamond and Pearl as well. And that works even if you're paying attention to the RNG. Don't see any problem with it. People have EV trained, IV bred, chained, soft-reset, and performed other methods of influencing the game's...
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