Can You Get BANNED on Pokémon Scarlet & Violet? 

*Update on January 10th, 2024:* Tonight I was banned on two of my accounts. These accounts had genned Pokémon before and nothing else. It was a ban for specifically Scarlet and Violet.

I suspect the main thing is if you joined an online battle or some form of competitive online with an "illegal/hacked" pokemon, that's where they'd catch you. If you have a union circle with friends and you have a hacked pokemon on your team nothing happens

*for anyone who wants to mod/hack their game/switch* be fully aware that if you do not understand every nuance of how it works, there is a huge risk that you will do some small thing that is going to flag nintendo into banning you. if you are going to hack/mod, be prepared to never go online with that particular switch, since the moment you do, you can be detected by nintendo. most people that do this type of hacking own one switch to hack and one normal, unmodded switch. if you are not prepared to do a lot of learning before you start messing with things, you risk completely bricking your switch into permanent unusability.

Back in update 1.1.0, I was using duped koraidon to make a good stash of ability patches and apri balls. Any time I would go online and had a box selected with a copied koraidon in it, it would disappear. Had to be careful 😅

This isn't S/V related, but I still wanted to leave this here: I've been having a debate on if anything bad would happen if a I upgrade my basic pokemon Home plan to the premium version lately. I doubt I'll get a response, seeing that this video is a couple months old, but it's worth a shot to hear back from someone who'd actually be knowledgeable in something like this. Reason I'm afraid to upgrade: I don't do this anymore, but back in the 3ds days, I used an action replay to get past mystery gifts for a few of the more difficult mythicals to obtain. Along with like 3-5 "custom shinies" that I had forgotten to take the mystery gift ribbon off of. I had them sitting in a couple boxes in Home. Long story short, it's been a few years since I've touched Home, so I'm sitting on the basic plan. I want to upgrade, release anything that isn't legit, and keep things like my first ever starter, and shiny. But I don't know if upgrading to have more than one box will trip some sort of thing in their system? Like maybe since I don't currently have access to them, it reads as if they aren't there? Sorry this was so long-winded, difficult to explain

I don't usually keep any of the shinys i get in trades anyways. I don't know if they are legit or not. I just rather have my own though.

My game says "something wrong with the Pokémon you chose", not "a problem with your Pokémon" when I try to throw an illegal back into surprise trade. I wonder why it's different, maybe because I live in the UK? 🤨 British people do understand the word 'problem' Game Freak lol (Also begs the question how did someone surprise trade it to me in the first place??)

I also got that message that there’s a problem with your Pokémon when I tried to queue up for a terra raid what a bummer

my question- if you live edit spawns, for pokemon that naturally spawn in the area you're in but make them all shiny, perfect EV's, create a union circle and let each person catch one, that might be okay? You said they can't really tell if a pokemon has been genned to make it shiny... Like I get you probably won't get banned, but would the mons caught be considered legal, in game for the people joining?

Having a somewhat similar issue but on Pokemon shining pearl it says " you can't perform a link trade and to wait some time " but I've waited weeks and tried time switch still no help

I got a few (definitely) non legit shinies while doing suprise trades, can i keep them if i dont enter anything online?

W video as always kev!

Yeah, i joined a hacked union circle to get shiny Koraidon, it works like catching a normal pokemon and you don't get banned lol

I know im really late to this video, but lately ive been getting a lot of genned pokemon from bots and all it does is make me put them back in my box before allowing me to do raids, battles, ect. Ive never gotten in trouble for owning a genned pokemon, just restricted from using them in online things.

I can hear Verlisify screaming

I've been given a bunch of genned mons in the WT System- I don't mind them just wish they could be given proper names over the advertisements. Honestly this is an interesting video and conversation.

One more question to the hacked Mons like Kyogre, can you get banned for using them in Tera Raids online or is it the same as trying to trade them, where the game prevents you from doing so

Been doing some trades the past couple days and I got KevDog a few times, I wonder if it was really him lol

What about joining online raids that were changed up to be 6IV shiny pokemon? Do you happen to know if they've banned for that?

Hey Kevdog when the samurott raid is over will we be getting another starter give away from you

Honestly, I'd like to know what the risk of being banned just for modding your switch would be, without using in game cheats, because I feel like that would be riskier.

It’s confusing because the ppl hosting the modded union circles claim the pokemon are legal and will not result in ban if used in competitive online battles, etc “supposedly”

As KevDog’s former mod all I can say is: He is 100% right here.

Wait so what would happen if someone hosted a mewto raid or smth and I joined it and caught it would I have a good chance at being banned?

1:44 I know you don’t mean this in a bad way, but it’s annoying when you spend a lot of time breading the perfect six IV Pokémon to finally have the best chance of getting your Pokémon perfect with it being shiny to actually have six IVs, because only five are guaranteed to be perfect and then somebody calls your hard work a “generated Pokémon” because those exist.

So basically as long as you aren’t the one actively modding the Pokémon into the game you won’t be banned for just having hacked Pokémon in your box?

Nice video! Thanks for giving facts! Not opinions!

It's only if it's an illegal pokemon I think it would happen... Illegal shiny pokemon in SV: -gholdengo -koraidon -miraidon -every pokemon that's not in the game yet until pokemon home update

It’s the banning challenge

So I’m knew to Pokémon an I believe some random traded me a shiny rowlet but I don’t plan to battle online can I use it for my story play through

Finally somebody else who physically exerts themselves while grinding something in a game 😅 best way to workout

What about getting Pokémon with website s as their names clearly being generated will it ban you if you have them or use them online once the update to Pokémon home comes?

I've heard about people hosting shiny Koraidon and Miraidon raids and they got banned, same with people who joined. So was that true or not, I'm genuinely curious because there really is a lot of misinformation going around. (I know hacking your switch can get you banned, etc, I'm just curious about that specific scenario)

How about using the pokemon in raids?

i have a perfect iv shiny rayquaza from a link trade and i put it on pokemon home and it seems to be genned not sure if genned pokemon make the pokemon have a bunch of ribbons (like my case)

As far as I'm aware, so long as a pokemon is: A: Able to be acquired as shiny at one point or another, and can be home transferred over its safe. B: so long as moves are legal and a Pokemon's stats are completely possible. It's legal. C: if said Pokemon can't be acquired in the current version of the game, has illegal moves or stats and is a shiny locked pokemon in that version. That's a ban worth offense. WHAT I HAVEN'T HEARD OF, is people being banned over having said illegal mons in their save game that they never go online with.

according to serebii home connectivity is happening may 30. do not get your hopes up because they announed it for may 24 which was a false news

I just wanted to check I won’t get banned for just keeping genned mons in a box?

Does anyone know if we have theese illegal mons like shiny koridon and hoopa of we connect to home if there is a chance to get banned? I haven't connected scarlet to home yet because im scared lol

Welp I didn't expect to see this video today 😂

I genned some pokemon through a Twitch stream, would those be able to go Pokemon Home into Violet? thanks

Can I reference this video in my sysbot server please, this is actually perfect lol

Some guys end up winning national pokemon tournaments and only got caught using a non legit Pokemons in the 2nd and 3rd round of the Finals in Japan. If someone can go that far in the official tournament with real referees checking everything being legit then playing Pokemon with your friends should be fine. In spring 2024 they will stop support for older consoles and games. This mean many moves and even some pokemons won't be accessible anymore.The only way will be from spawning them by codes.

When you make a new link code cud it be past and future shiny pokemon pls ( my brothers idea)?

That mega Salamance is an iron hands?!?

Thank u for confirming it cause I joined give aways from the union thing I thought I was gonna get banned I just wanted to keep them but now I can still keep them

Thanks for the shiny Decidueye from the Home GTS!

I’ve had a Pokémon shiny that has a website on it is that a hack Pokémon

How do I know if a Pokémon is genned?

So i joined a friends union group and caught shiny koraidon, which is obviously hacked into the game. Now, I'm wondering, will i get banned for just having him? Should i get rid of him?

i have like 50 sobbles in my boxes right now

Im afraid to grab a shiny miraidon /koraidon or the other unreleased legends from takemi tv its hella tempting and ithought i was the only one wondering if i can get banned for having them in your party 😭 but now i know dont use them for tera raids

Still no date on Pokémon home huh? Bummer. We’re in spring already. They told us spring. No surprise though

I do wanna know, since i have a shiny hoopa and isnt real. What happens if i transfer it from my 3ds all the way to home?

People have been telling me to get rid of my main Pokemon that has websites and I'm literally scared of bringing those Pokemon in the tournament because of you know the Pokemon company / game freaks strict policy. I actually don't do vcg but I kind of want to but I also don't because I do have Shiny Pokemon that has websites as their names which really creeps me the hell out I don't want to release them because I became attached to them. I have this in three Pokemon games Pokemon Ultra sun and moon, Pokemon sword and shield, and Pokemon violet. Game freak needs to do something about this and they need a compensate people who have been scammed by this we all know that Nintendo ain't going to do that not in 8,000 years because they're going to be going like how would you fall for something that freaking stupid oh we're literally kids teenagers or adults and we can't afford DLC content that is literally $34 like half of these Pokemon are either in Pokemon go or other Pokemon games I don't physically have I can't even play Pokemon go because of personal reasons and that's due to them begging you Pokemon go begging you to have your location on which my mom is hella superstitious about it and I mean very superstitious

I managed to find a few Union Circle genned legendaries. 2DOS3Gamers and Takemi TV. Are those keepable? Zacian is shiny but I know they ran that before. Could you tell me if I could keep them safely please? Thank you for your time.

Too KevDog I got your miraidon

So let’s say hypothetically I have a shiny zacian from a union circle and I used it in a battle online what could happen?

When are you gonna do another tiktok giveaway?

I have hacked pokemon like Mewtwo and mew and iron leaves hoopa walking wake meloetta chi yu

How did you spawn kyogre? Because I would like to catch it

How is there so many shinies

Pourquoi mon échange pokémon et toujours annulé ?

You only get banned if you mod your switch and the only genned Pokemon that can get you into trouble are unreleased shinies. But I still wouldn't use them in ranked you can use them in any other mode cuz that doesn't affect someone's actual gameplay in a negative way I don't think anyone cares about genned mons helping in raids especially with the new Mewtwo one geeeeeeez..😂😂😂😂😂

Hey, what are the benefits of a hacked switch? I might look into doing that with my own switch.

First 5 mins he alr got a new sub

I was just playing xenoverse2 and checked my phone to see this also I joined today hi

I have just a little question how do you even able to connect to the internet with a hack Switch

I agree

I clicked on the vid just to see if you can actually get ban you for using hacked pokemons. There’s a lot of people playing Pokemon (online) Very hard to track every single Un-Legit players. I haven’t seen like a report button in pokemon so far, which makes Legit/Un-Legit Players harder to detect I haven’t seen some-kind of In game Support. So I was wondering can you actually get banned for using hacked pokemons? How People that makes Pokemon giveaways with hacked switches manages to avoid this 😅

No different if you cheat on Pokémon go you can only get 3 strikes they ban you permanently

Worried for a second there because you uploads are like “how to get ANY shiny Pokémon with my hacked Pokémon code” to “can you get banned on Pokémon?”

and yet the can not trade this pokemon desnt work with hacked shinys from websites trust me i get over 3 hacked shinys a day and it annoys me sometimes why people cheat for shinys dont know if you call it something else but thats what i call it

Kinda mad tho , defeats the purpose of gettin the shiny unreleased mons if you cant even flex in raids 😪

Someone gave me a shiny rayquaza through trade in scarlet. Everything looks good to me but I can't put it into pokémon home. Anyone know what that could mean?

The other day I was in the surprise trade and came a shiny 100% ivs. Was it one of those?

OH NO

As KevDog's Brazilian Member all i can say is: He is 100% right here.

yes

Yes, you can host these. (union circles). But modding the game data online will send flags to Nintendo. and no, you won't get banned immediately. it took 4 months for someone. the tera raids are more of a flag lol. generating pokemon won't get you banned if they are legal, as kev said. And also, there are two types of bans. a console ban and a profile ban. console bans make it so where you can't go online AT ALL on the switch that it was banned on. profile bans are arguably worse, as they restrict the profile on all devices. You won't just get banned in one game, unless it's Fortnite or something. it's either console, or profile. (Pin if you think this is helpful)

has this game been out long enough for it to be an "age old question"?

Can I get banned on Pokémon home for having gened Pokémon’s

Whale power

das crazy

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How does Drizzle and Drought work in the game if no Pokémon can change the weather???

oof

Yo

Pkhex is still cheating. You had to go out of your way to make it shiny, 6iv, and also Moon ball(while possible, likely to be a long time since Paradox pokemon are hard to catch.) Also in Gen 9, none of the paradox pokemon and Gholdengo can be 6iv at all.

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Still think you should get banned for catching pokemon in a hacked circle.

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