What does this mean?

[munchmill14]

Every time I go to input a smogon set on a Pokemon from a older Gen it says "EC should match PID"

Here's a picture for a better understanding:

 

[theSLAYER]

22 minutes ago, munchmill14 said:

Every time I go to input a smogon set on a Pokemon from a older Gen it says "EC should match PID"

Here's a picture for a better understanding:

 

If I recall correctly,
Older gen Pokemon when imported using Transporter, the EC (Encryption constant) is cloned from the PID.
(EC didn't exist in older gens)

 

(The Starmie in question I showed, is from Gen 5, I think from my Pokedex series for importing)

[munchmill14]

5 minutes ago, theSLAYER said:

If I recall correctly,
Older gen Pokemon when imported using Transporter, the EC (Encryption constant) is cloned from the PID.
(EC didn't exist in older gens)

 

So does that affect the game in any shape or form?

[theSLAYER]

I read that it may affect a Pokemon's characteristic.

In any case, if it's an older gen Pokemon and EC must be same as PID, for it to be legal.

It's likely you're looking at a hacked pokemon, that is all I can advise you.

[munchmill14]

51 minutes ago, theSLAYER said:

I read that it may affect a Pokemon's characteristic.

In any case, if it's an older gen Pokemon and EC must be same as PID, for it to be legal.

It's likely you're looking at a hacked pokemon, that is all I can advise you.

I got it from RoC's PC and it came from Pokemon XD. The problem here is that it's always with the older Generations that this happens with. I assuming that it has something to do with PKHeX not being able to decrypt these games yet. All I did was input a smogon set of actual legal moves. This happens with almost anything and I use to believe that it had to be normal because I was able to play with the Pokemons online. Thank you for the help anyway.

[ReignOfComputer]

You're not using a release build, are you? Next time, see the details of the changes/commits when you download from the GitHub repository. The builds there may not be stable and hence aren't available as a release.

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XD/C is not in this round of implementation. Pretty much every pkm 3-5 will show up as invalid until this round of dev is finished.