once-in-a-lifetime Ribbon

[zarrex]

Does anyone have a pokemon with the "once-in-a-lifetime" Ribbon?

Edited December 27, 2022 by zarrex

[Atrius97]

No. While the official guidebook claims the chance for it to be obtained is 1/100 from Surprise Trade, no logic appears in the game to grant it, and players with tens of thousands of Surprise Trades performed haven't reported seeing it, ever.

It appears that GameFreak forgot to program a way for it to actually be obtained, along with the Item Finder Mark, which is similarly unobtainable.

[foohyfooh]

I wonder if the logic to give the ribbon is on the servers rather than in the game since to do it you need to be online.

[Atrius97]

As I said, it seems unlikely to be enabled at all, even if the logic was intended to be server-side.

If the official guidebook claims the chance for it to be granted is 1/100, we should have seen thousands upon thousands of people reporting having obtained it. To date, no one has come forward with a legitimately obtained one, including several youtubers and streamers who personally performed thousands of Surprise Trades (a statistically significant amount, the chances of them not having obtained it at least once is astronomically low if it was actually enabled) without seeing it granted even once.

We've seen very, very few people claim to have found one, and all of the Pokémon that it has been seen on so far were very obviously hacked, so the ribbon was likely assigned by cheating before it was traded, not by the server during the trade.

Edited December 28, 2022 by Atrius97