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VGC Cheating 2023: with the Pokémon World Championships concluding last weekend, we’ve gathered >850 recent rental teams and analyzed them with our usual *free hack checks*. A season finale of @4Chris_Brown’s nightmare! Overall stats below:

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@VictyLusi494 Que el legality check no detecte el cheat es rarísimo @Kaphotics sorry for the ping, do you have any insight on why legality checks marks this as legal in pkhex?

Conseguí el Floette chino con Mote por GTS para ver sus datos con PkHex. El mote Google me lo tradujo como "Sigue a Jian Ran Miao" (osea spam). Lo único que he visto y que me extraña es que tiene el Peso y Altura a 128. Los generados por PkHex y el mío legítimo lo tienen a 0🤔

@Lewchube @TheYisusOne Rewritten/"gone" is way too much of an assumption. Game state management is server-side; info is selectively transmitted only if revealed/necessary. They did a pretty good job, tbh. Only downside is no local play, and incentive to not host long-winded 6v6 battles ;)

@TheYisusOne also pinging @Kaphotics to see if he's noticed any total battle rewrite because he'll definitely know more than me abt this

Started looking into Champions' files and found some impressive stuff: -Game runs in Unity, with models and VFX similar to BDSP - The battle engine is COMPLETELY NEW, the sequence system used since XY is gone - I GOT MOGGED. My True Size mod has 4 Pokemon sizes. Champions has 8!

@GodmasterBun No, your screenshot is of the HOME data, not from Champions.

Brief inspection of some data structures: EVs are stored literally [0..n] per stat -- not same as mainline, which is based on EVs / 4. PID is retained -- good news for Spinda fans! Shiny is stored separately as a byte 0/1. ApiRentalTeamMemberParam appears to store IVs... 💤

Dynamax/Terastal are also present in the list of events/form-states, so you can't really assume that Z-Crystals are the "next" gimmick coming.

Champions' auto team creator sets a limit of 2 Mega Stones and 2 Z-Crystals per team. Note the type-limit is different for each.

HOME master data updated with personal data for the new megas: gist.github.com/kwsch/e34f3c32… Stuff not (yet) in Champions will show as N/A. Mega Floette gets Fairy Aura. Mega Golurk gets Unseen Fist.

Pokémon Champions sprite rip mons in game, w/ shiny sprites

@TheDragonDAFan possible yes, because nothing truly prevents them probable no; they're unlikely to change course from previous official statement.

@Kaphotics So it could be possible for backwards transfers from Z-A to any other game to be implemented in the future?

oops, I was wrong about the plus move flags; they do set them! (milotic trade evolution not setting them is truth) -- deleted those two tweets regarding "home doesn't set them" my other complaints about backwards transfer are still applicable :D

@tijger_streep The Tracker doesn't change on inter-player trades; think of it like a passport. HOME maintains the unique trackers, and allows anyone to look up the core/sidegame data via tracker. HOME does some sanity checks to make sure the immutable data (like IVs) matches, hence error 10015

@Kaphotics Question: if a Pokémon is traded between players in SwSh, then transferred back into Home, does its new owner keep that data?

@MepZeroK Reposted my tweet chain; I accidentally included an old screenshot (now updated) to talk about the seed of mastery (can't be used, game thinks it already is). Applying a seed checks the learnsets AND flags; battles only check the flags (performance?).

@Kaphotics Can't you use the mastery seed on the moves?

HOME saves the side-game specific data, kinda like a seasonal wardrobe. When entering a game, grab your seasonal attire if it already exists. Otherwise, create a new blank outfit. (a little complicated to explain in a tweet/single image...)

The HOME data format is 1000% capable of handling backwards transfers via the HOME tracker; they just simply decided to not allow it. Conditionally sanitizing values was done for SW/SH, just pick safe defaults if the game can't support a given property. It's very disappointing.

There are at least 4 more abilities that are "not" added to HOME 4.0.0, hinting that not all Megas will initially be supported. TOKUSEI_311 Piercing Drill TOKUSEI_312 Dragonize .. TOKUSEI_315 Mega Sol .. TOKUSEI_318 Spicy Spray

It's worth mentioning Eternal Flower/Mega Floette has no unique Shiny textures. Implies they have no plans to release it.

Spicy Spray - When the Pokémon takes damage from a move, it burns the attacker.