So I've been working on my pokedex and I've gotten down to the last 19 to catch/15 to see and joined this website when I googled something along the lines of "trading pokemon".
I've learned a lot has changed and I don't know much of anything about the game.
People hack and change pokemon? I got asked about my Event Shiny Entei if it was legit. So there's some huge problem with fake pokemon all over the place?
Everyone has shiny's and hidden abilities. In my whole time playing and seeing pokemon in the wild I've seen 1 shiny and caught it, noticed one of my one per game pokemon is a shiny, and have 3 event shiny's. I thought the whole personality thing was weird awhile ago but now you can breed/catch a pokemon with the perfect personality/ability/appearance? Random thought does Vivillion have multiple shiny versions?
Trading over the internet has gotten very confusing. I've now agreed to a trade and figured ok I'll just go on the PSS thing and there must be something I just put in their ID # and boom! we'll both go online and can trade. I can find nothing of the sorts. And they gave me some name to find them by, huh?
I just learned how people are flying on the youtube videos (that took me a few months to figure out I don't need an event code like I had read when originally looking it up) and just saw today that I could also trade pokemon on the PSS on the GTS but people have trades posted on there that are literally impossible like a manectrick between level 11-20.
I don't know if I should be laughing or shaking my head at all this. Well once I've got this trading thing down off to find these shiny's. How much easier are they to find once you have the completed pokedex and talk to the professor again? Also, how rare is it to find a pokemon with the hidden ability?