Earlier in the Summer The Pokémon Company hosted the 2013 Global Showdown, a WiFi tournament for Pokémon Black and White 2, which some undoubtedly used for practice ahead of other tournaments. It was open to 50,000 competitors, but it's now been revealed that 1,558 of those that took part were cheaters, utilising smartphone apps to create and edit their own powered up 'mon.

Here's the breakdown of the numbers of cheats in each age category, with older and more experienced gamers giving a bad example.

Junior Division: 68 playersSenior Division: 335 playersMaster Division: 1,155 players.

These players won't be included in the tournament rankings and, as always, The Pokémon Company will be striving to catch more cheaterss in future tournaments; contests such as this can certainly be fierce, though cheating is always without defence when playing with others in good faith.

 

Source:http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2013/08/more_than_1500_cheaters_took_part_in_pokemons_2013_global_showdown

 

Ouch,most of them are in the Master Division....seriously were they desperately needed that prize of the tournament that much to the point they're gonna cheat????The point of these tournaments is to prove how good of a Pokemon Trainer you are,not prove that you're a cheating son of a bitch

 

Well,at least it's good to know that younger fans has the least amount of cheaters.

 

I hope Gamefreak will fix that with X & Y in the next tournament because I don't wanna face a Blaziken with a custom maxed EVs and IVs in every stat

 

I really want to go to any Pokemon Tournament,it's been my dream since I became a fan of Pokemon,and I hope they would fix the cheating issue in the 2014 tournament

Edited August 21, 201312 yr by Metal Snake

They just need to learn to manipulate the RNG better.

Sigh.  How many times do I have to tell people if you're going to do something wrong or illegal don't get yourself caught, otherwise you're not allowed to do it

Sigh.

That is probably the wrong advice

To be fair, the only reason there'd be less cheaters in the younger divisions is because less people at that age have the knowledge or the means to do it. I'm sure if they knew how to and had the app/whatever at hand, the a lot more would do it in the hope of not getting caught.

 

Either way, I think doing it for your own game is fine, but generally when doing competitive against other people in tournaments then you're a complete jerk if you cheat. Doesn't make you better than anyone-else, it actually makes you worse 'cause you don't have the ability to do it yourself.

They just need to learn to manipulate the RNG.

Fixed that for you. They either need to learn that, or learn to make hacked Pokemon that are undetectable. The app for it probably sucks at doing so. (No legal PIDs, trash bytes, etc) No I'm not endorsing cheating, but I honestly don't give a crap who does; as longs as everything is legal, it's fine with me. Oh and I have a legit Speed Boost Blaziken with flawless IVs. Yeah, it's something called RNG abuse or trading. *coughsmogonwififorum*

Fixed that for you.They either need to learn that, or learn to make hacked Pokemon that are undetectable. The app for it probably sucks at doing so. (No legal PIDs, trash bytes, etc) No I'm not endorsing cheating, but I honestly don't give a crap who does; as longs as everything is legal, it's fine with me.Oh and I have a legit Speed Boost Blaziken with flawless IVs. Yeah, it's something called RNG abuse or trading. *coughsmogonwififorum*

Yeah,but still

 

imagine going to a Street Fighter tournament,and your opponent has a modified arcade stickcontroller that automatically do combos for him.And he just sat there defeating you by doing nothing while you who might spent hours mastering those combos is the one who's losing

 

I would've been pissed if I got beaten by a cheater who just modified his stats and whaled on my team while unlike himher I spent a lot of time testing team combinations and EV train my Pokemon while he just did nothing and won.

 

Thankfully,no cheater won the tournament.

 

And I think X & Y will fix this for quite sometime until someone find a hack for the 3DS that is actually working

Edited August 21, 201312 yr by Metal Snake

Yeah,but stillimagine going to a Street Fighter tournament,and your opponent has a modified arcade stickcontroller that automatically do combos for him.And he just sat there defeating you by doing nothing while you who might spent hours mastering those combos is the one who's losingI would've been pissed if I got beaten by a cheater who just modified his stats and whaled on my team while unlike himher I spent a lot of time testing team combinations and EV train my Pokemon while he just did nothing and won.Thankfully,no cheater won the tournament.And I think X & Y will fix this for quite sometime until someone find a hack for the 3DS that is actually working

You can't compair to fighting games because those are action; every split second counts. Meanwhile Pokemon is turned based; there is not different outcome from a legit Pokemon against a hacked legal Pokemon. The only difference between legit and hacked is who puts time against a lazy or someone who has little time to catch/breed legit Pokemon. The outcome of battles is still the same, not counting if you have very low IVs ,and most importantly EVs in the right place. And even then you have to factor every trainer's nightmare: luck. (Those crits lol)

Edited August 21, 201312 yr by OmegaForte

Cheating...The plan B of winners...

 

 

Well until you get caught.

You can't compair to fighting games because those are action; every split second counts. Meanwhile Pokemon is turned based; there is not different outcome from a legit Pokemon against a hacked legal Pokemon.The only difference between legit and hacked is who puts time against a lazy or someone who has little time to catch/breed legit Pokemon. The outcome of battles is still the same, not counting if you have very low IVs ,and most importantly EVs in the right place. And even then you have to factor every trainer's nightmare: luck. (Those crits lol)

I'm not comparing

 

I'm just using an imaginative example

 

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There is a difference

 

When someone maxed some stats in a Pokemon that couldn't be maxed normally,example:Blissey has a very very low defense stat,just by RNG manipulation,you can max Blissey's defense stat above it's actual maxed defense which is something that you can never EVER do with Blissey even if you're using EV training items

 

regardless of such,cheating is still cheating

 

The point of the tournament is to see who has raised it's Pokemon in a good way competitively,it was never about getting the perfect Pokemon

 

If they allowed those to participate like this,they might as well make a Legendary Tournament where you can have an onslaught of Mewtwo's and Arceus's in your team

Okay,I'll make another example.

 

You were studying so hard for your final exam for math,you were practicing and studying all night,but your friendclassmate was doing nothing during the entire semester

 

You went to the exam after extensive studying,but your classmate decided to cheat and bring some cheat sheets or an already solved copy of the exam's question.

 

 

You get a C+ despite your effort,while he gets an A+ by cheating.

 

How would you feel????

 

I know you'll ask how does that apply to Pokemon.

 

Well,let's say you were EV training your Blaziken so hard but you couldn't max it's Attack stat completely,while your opponent hacked the game and got a Blaziken that has maxed stats far beyond of what your Blaziken can get before Lv 100,and all of that just by putting no time or effort into doing so

Okay,I'll make another example.You were studying so hard for your final exam for math,you were practicing and studying all night,but your friendclassmate was doing nothing during the entire semesterYou went to the exam after extensive studying,but your classmate decided to cheat and bring some cheat sheets or an already solved copy of the exam's question.You get a C+ despite your effort,while he gets an A+ by cheating.How would you feel????I know you'll ask how does that apply to Pokemon.Well,let's say you were EV training your Blaziken so hard but you couldn't max it's Attack stat completely,while your opponent hacked the game and got a Blaziken that has maxed stats far beyond of what your Blaziken can get before Lv 100,and all of that just by putting no time or effort into doing so

Where does cheating get him/her in life? Where does cheating get a Polemon player? Exactly: no where. Only exception can be made is VGC, and even then most of them have RNG abused Pokemon. Whom some even get them for free as there's thread offering freebies to help VGC players. The player's role is to make strategies, make teams work to their favor by practicing, and sometimes predict in battle. That's already effort. The whole "hard breeding/SR to death" is diminishing. Heck no one irl cares if I RNG abuse or not, they just want to battle and have fun. (Which is why I retired last year from it)And again, legal is possible stats, nature, moves, etc. Despite of cheating to get all of that fast, the battle will be fair. Of course of it's absurd stuff like wondertomb, that's where the fairness is cut off; not legal.Yeah I get your point, but the majority really don't care if their opponent hacked their Pokemon. Probably the majority is competitive players.

Edited August 21, 201312 yr by OmegaForte

Thats what they get for cheating. You dont deserve to even be in the world championship if you have to cheat to get there. Its disgraceful to all trainers.

Edited September 3, 201312 yr by gothamninja394