Syberia

It can happen in Platinum vs. Platinum as well. The only requirement is that the Platinum game be the host. Yeah, pretty much. Zapdos is the only one of the three that is not x4 weak to Stealth Rock, that has a lot to do with it. It also has the highest speed of the three.

Remember, a pokemon that's locked into a single move is a free stat boost for something that doesn't care about it. If Scizor Pursuits my Latias, even though I'm down a pokemon, that's a free Swords Dance for my Lucario while Scizor is forced to switch or do no damage at all to me, which might lead to me killing 2 or more pokemon in return. Also, if you predict the Choiced move correctly (unless it's Outrage or Draco Meteor) you've just caused the opponent to waste a turn and switch out while accomplishing nothing.

I may have been unclear; having to write an essay is irrelevant to the amount of battle experience you have using and playing against the suspect and actually winning, and it's just made worse when it's judged by a single person using an unpublished set of criteria (my Latios vote was based around the offensive and support characteristics, and was rejected for an unknown reason though Legacy Raider's was accepted and used as an example of "what to do right" even though we said basically the same thing) that is not even open to public scrutiny. I would honestly prefer a straight-up vote of all the participants who met the ranking requirements, perhaps even one where posting arguments and reasoning in the voting topic is expressly forbidden, as not to influence those who have not voted yet. If someone's experienced a pokemon enough to achieve the necessary rating, they are experienced enough to develop a gut feeling about that pokemon - OU or uber. I don't have a problem with them using whatever characteristics they choose to make that decision, even if they cannot elaborately explain them, as long as it's not something utterly ridiculous like 5KRunner's "nintendo doesn't allow Deoxys in its tournaments so I'm voting it uber on that grounds" post. Honestly, Smogon puts way too much emphasis on logic and consistency to the point of absurdity. Need I remind you, certain members were seriously considering implementing the Pursuit glitch into Shoddy or at the very least banning the move because of the glitch, when all parties involved could clearly see that it would be counterproductive to do so?

Just get the American version when it comes out, that'll cut the wait in half more than likely.

Latios does not belong in OU. You don't even need to predict, all you need to do is use Specs Draco Meteor. No user of Pursuit can take two in a row, so if they don't bring in their Pursuiter right away (it will die to two consecutive hits if they do this), all you have to do is Draco Meteor once, and then switch to a counter to their obvious Steel-type switch in. If they bring in Scizor/Metagross/Tyranitar on your first DM, they die next turn. There is no inconsistency. Latios has 40 points more Sp. Atk with the same Timid nature as Latias, as well as the threat of potentially going mixed with DD and Outrage. They are far from being the exact same pokemon. But my argument against the suspect test process stems from the use of irrelevant criteria (namely, writing ability) to weed out potential voters, and the inherent bias and subjectivity involved in such a process. Not about where certain pokemon should or should not have been placed.

Your pokemon won't upload in the Battle Recorder because every one of them is illegal. Abomasnow is illegal; can't be met at level 33 on Mt. Coronet and received as an egg from the Day Care Couple at the same time. Alakazam is illegal; your PID is "class 1" which would be Synchronize, but it has Inner Focus. Celebi is illegal; event pokes cannot be nicknamed or have your OT/ID. I wouldn't even try to use Celebi, as you cannot make it fully legal (the event PID/IV formula has not been released). I'm not sure if it should be Fateful Encounter or not. Dragonite, again, cannot be both met at level 33 on Mt. Coroner and received as an egg from the Day Care Couple. Gengar has a value for "Date Egg Received," yet was caught in Old Chateau; also, serebii.net says level 11 Gastlys cannot be caught there. Level 14-17 only. Porygon can no longer be caught in Trophy Garden in Platinum. Swampert appears fine, escept for the note that applies to all your pokemon. Sneasel was met at level 30, serebii says they can't be caught below level 33. NOTE: All of your pokemon have fully maxed out (255) contest stats, which is illegal. Try setting them all back to 0, as most likely you will not be using them in contests anyways.

I make "quick hacks" with all sorts of illegal/blank information all the time and they do not come up hacked. It's simply a matter of you entered the code wrong.

The game calculates gender/nature/shinyness directly from the PID; it's not stored anywhere else in the .pkm. So legit.exe doesn't have to take it into account; it simply cannot be wrong.

I don't, but I can see if she's willing to make some when she gets home from work

isn't it cute?

What I would consider to be the most well-run forum I go to explicitly bans talk of religion and politics, as both of these subjects inevitably lead to fights, often personal grudges that spill over into other areas as well. There's no need for any of it at a pokemon forum.

R4DS (purchased in 2007, no longer use) EDGE (wife's) Cyclo DS (mine) EZ Flash 3-in-1 (slot 2)

Removing species clause would be a horrible idea. Battles would basically be decided based on what you brought with you from the beginning, even moreso than they are now. And imagine someone using a SD Lucario and a Specs Lucario on the same team, both named LUCARIO. Even once you did figure out that they had both, you'd still never know which one you were facing (unless they had different amounts of damage and you memorized which was which). It is already impossible to prepare for every thread in D/P, if you had to start accounting for two or more different variations of the same thread (often, one easily wipes out counters to the other), I have no doubt that pokemon would be even less about skill than it is now, and depend way more on simply who brought the right pokes with them. Secondly, Smogon does not "get everything right," for the simple reason that most of the decisions they make have no right or wrong answer. The simple fact of how hotly contested the last few suspect tests have been can attest to this. They depend on peoples' subjective feelings about pokemon, and their effects on the metagame based on a subjectively determined set of criteria of what makes an uber (don't get me started on how the criteria favor stall-based pokemon while seeking to exclude offensive ones). It's definitely not hard science, and it shouldn't be. Colin tried to use hard science (statistics) to determine an ubers list on Official Server, and it ended up being drastically different from what the players actually wanted. Thirdly, Smogon's suspect test process is, quite frankly, a crock of shit. People who play a lot, and win a lot, don't get to vote simply because they may not write as well as others. These people clearly have the requisite metagame experience to make a decision on a suspect, as they played and won enough to meet the voting requirements. I fail to see where writing ability factors into the decision at all. Not to mention, one person (Jumpman) has the sole authority to judge paragraph submissions, and he does so in private, and his decisions are not open to scrutiny by anyone else. When he did disclose his reasons, they included such sentiments as "I don't agree with your reasoning," and "taking into account your posting history on this forum." The first is totally subjective, and the second is quite irrelevant (not to mention a strong personal bias). A vote should be just that - a vote.

Colosseum can give dogs with "regular" (I use the quotes because no one knows the formula) IVs as well. Though they will be from "distant land."

I just accessed the Battle Recorder portion of the GTS on both a Cyclo DS and an EDGE, so the use of flashcarts is not the problem.

Sketch would either copy Metronome or fail, it would not copy Judgment.

Sometimes you do need to tweak EVs before a battle or change your Hidden Power type or give yourself an item or something like that, though.

I think that was a bug as a result of patching the Japanese ROM to be in English, but shouldn't occur in the actual English ROM.

Never mind, I interpreted the question wrong. I think player B would get a mow rotom, because the game performs the check before they go into the union room or on wifi, not afterwards.

Using hacked parents will not create a detectably hacked baby. Breeding with the IV modifier code on will not create one either. Neither one is legit in the true sense of the word, though.