If you hack a nickname onto a legit event Pokemon, is it still considered legit?

Jan. 28, 2019

But I’m wondering: Why go through the trouble of getting a legit Shaymin if hacking a nickname onto it just makes it not legit? I feel like this is a stupid question, but I don’t hack and never trade for hacked Pokemon, so I don’t know – maybe hacking a nickname onto a Pokemon is different from hacking it in general…

Anyway, thanks for humoring me.

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This is one of the gray areas of legitimacy, but according tothe official Pokémon rules and guidelines document(section 4.1), “The use of external devices […] to modify or create items or Pokémon in a player’s Battle Team is expressly forbidden.” Because there’s no “unless” in there, it can be inferred that using third-party software to modify a Pokémon in any way makes it illegal, sotechnically no, hacking a nickname would make it illegal.