After a few years of mild disinterest, X and Y got me back into Pokemon in a big way; unfortunately I have lost my previous saves so I had to start again from scratch.
So far, I have completed again Diamond, HeartGold, White and White 2 and now I am making a plan of attack for getting legal version of my favorites (legendary and non) in Gen VI with proper natures/IV/EV/moves without spending horrid amounts of time doing so - which means editing while keeping things legal.
The following is my current plan of attack, informed by a solid couple of weeks reading on the subject; I'd like to ask for opinions/feedback and maybe even be the basis for a guide on the subject for others in my same situation.
Without further ado...
Anything breedable:
Catch in whatever game I need to, for gen IV specific stuff poketransfer to White 2, breed with Ditto and edit as needed afterwards.
Leave PID, OT, Met info as generated by game. Cloning, if needed for different builds, should be a matter of clearing the PID value and having Pokegen create a new one.
Gen IV specific legendaries, non event:
Catch in game to have Met info properly set, edit in Pokegen BEFORE poketransfering to Gen V, using the PID search function (method 1, A-B-C-D) to have a PID matching nature and IV spread; leave Met info alone. For Rayquaza, use action replay codes in SoulSilver to skip to Embedded tower, catch Groudon and transfer to HeartGold with orb for proper catching).
Gen IV specific legendaries, event triggered by in game item (Darkrai, Shaimin, Latios etc):
Use action replay code to get item giver in pokemart, follow normal quest flow and catch as intended. edit catch date to be aroud original item distribution period. Then, work like in previous case. Should I still use method 1 for PID search for these?
Gen IV specific legendaries, distribution only (Jirachi, Deoxys, etc):
Get relevant PKM file from pokedit's database to have ribbons, OT, Met and Pokeball data properly set, inject in Gen IV game save with pokegen, edit as needed before poketransfering to Gen V.
Two questions about this: first, which method should I use for PID search? I heard people saying 10 or 11, anyone has more specific info about this. Second, should I worry about wonder card data? As far as I can tell, poketransfering doesn't retain the info anyway, since it's specific to the cart.
Gen V specific legendaries, non event:
Catch in game to have Met info properly set, edit in Pokegen without altering PID since it should no longer be related to IV spread or personality and those legendaries have the same ability in all cases.
Gen V specific legendaries, event triggered by in game item (Victini only as far as I can tell):
Do as in Gen IV, no need to worry about PID serach in this case. May be safer to do in another game and trade into main save to leave less evidence of tampering for pokebank.
Gen V specific legendaries, distribution only (Keldeo, Meloetta, Genesect, etc)
Get relevant PKM file from pokedit's database to have ribbons, OT, Met and Pokeball data properly set, inject in Gen IV game save with pokegen, edit as needed before poketransfering to Gen V.
The main issue here is what to do with the PID: while it shouldn't need editing to match other edits, it may be a bad idea to leace the wildly distributed PID from pokedit, since Nintendo may well be checking for them.
