The Current State of Sun/Moon's GTS (ruined)

Pokémon Sun & Moon are now over 7 years old, and the current state of online play in these games has gotten pretty bad to say the least. In a previous video I checked out the GTS on Pokémon X & Y, and people told me that on Sun & Moon, it's EVEN WORSE...
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[@winxclub998wizardmaster]

there gotta be a way to still get some pkm like i am still looking for shiny necrozman for my ultra moon like pls somebody help also aloah 9 tials to

[@Eaglebrace]

Its very unfortunate that a few misreable scums ruined the GTS. Fortunate there is ways to counter it, like friend trading but would be awesome if Nintendo did something about it atleast in the first place.

[@Breadstockimage]

Yeah, something like guidelines or bot/hack detectors removing those pokemon from the GTS would be amazing

[@xavtop]

Pokemon Home still suffer from this i think

[@sho829]

​@@xavtopit does and wondertrade is also awful too

[@Luke25437]

in my opinion they are lazy

[@bigchungus7870]

It doesn't make it any better that they're shutting off the online in april

[@iDerpen]

Yeah, the GTS has been screwed for quite a while. I remember seeing people "trading" level 100 legendaries for Female Latios and other impossible pokemon and that was only a year or so after the game came out.

[@aikou2886]

The GTS had the worst system I've seen. One time I just left a Charmander (or something, can't remember) and typed what I wanted to request. Wanna know what I was requesting? An Agumon. And it actually worked!

[@MarkTron]

​@@aikou2886*Loud Lie Buzzer*

[@lilyofthatvelley]

​@@MarkTronadditional buzzer noises with reverb

[@K.Bbluesword]

Pokemon home

[@gustavorocque1876]

People used to try and trade for level 10 ledgendarys

[@MegaMewtwoYPlayz]

@KevdogPlays That Japan Kebuju trainer is the one responsible for the game freezing because he flooded the GTS with his hacked pokemon requesting for yungoos and magikarp and other common baby pokemon and so when you pass him your game freezes. Also if you search for a pokemon that Japan Kebuju deposited in the gts your game may freeze instantly. He is the reason that everyone quit using the GTS on pokemon Sun and Moon games as well as Pokémon Ultra Sun and Moon games. That is why pokemon sun and moon series is not very popular on average 6 players play on festival plaza now vs the 40 players from back then.

[@KevdogPlays]

People like that are so lame. There’s nothing to gain from it, so disappointing

[@giovannihansen7406]

What a scumbag

[@blobbyfishman5524]

ima be honest when i was 11 i got some free hacked mons using this app, which just shows u how easy it was to get a hacked mon on the gts.

[@Fig_Bender]

Crazy how one guy can ruin online functionality for a game that is part of the highest grossing franchise in history, run by one of the largest companies in the world.

[@giratina6665]

As far as I'm aware the game doesn't freeze because the Pokémon are hacked but because the trainer profile pictures overload the 3DS. Just having Pokémon with impossible combinations of traits (Lv.1 male Latias in a cherish ball with V-Create for example) isn't gonna freeze your 3DS because all of these traits are feasibly achieved on some mons individually. It's not like the game punishes you for some illegal Pokémon but your 3DS stops working correctly. Corrupted Pokémon shouldn't be able to be uploaded anyways. There's a community made fix on hacked consoles iirc

[@ATSaale]

The worst part? this issue didn't pop up after the game was past it's life span, this issue existed while ultra sun and moon were the current titles.

[@jadedfire4351]

Yeah nintendo wasn't great about doing anything when it came to making the gts better at aall lol

[@IamBardsongWolf]

Adventure Snivy is a menace and irritating. The fact you can't even use the GTS in this generation is incredibly sad. And these other hackers are absolutely terrible.

[@MysticalHaloZ]

agreed

[@PokeKnoxDSRomHacker]

yes I would have never released this exploit if I knew that peoole like AdventureSnivy would go crazy with it. Im really sorry

[@Scorbunnyear]

i remember my brother trading with him and getting the temp ban

[@UnchainedPandoran]

It’s not just with legendarys that this happens. I searched up Chespin and my game still froze. It seems like no matter how rare or common the Pokémon is, there’s people that are doing this

[@lullabene]

This! I was trying to find a Whimsicott, and discovered just how bad the GTS was a few months ago.

[@WGOWeekdayGamersOfficial]

That's why I rarely went on GTS ages ago I got the same soft ban because of some vile person putting up a fake Pokémon there's no point

[@mds_main]

I suggest to use it by depositing pokemon instead, that won't freeze your game and if the trade is good you will get a legit mon back. I recently finished my pokedex this way.

[@JunoTheSpongey]

funny thing is only snivy is safe, adventuresnivy is maybe behind this

[@abigailbullington9855]

I SEARCHED A GODDAMN VULLABY AND IT CRASHED- I JUST WANTED IT FOR THE DEX

[@oldoutlet6946]

I'm surprised no kid made a bad creepypasta out of the game freezing before going over certain trainer profiles. That's a "spirit got trapped in my garage-sale-bought game" story waiting to happen.

[@sleepysadpoet]

Actually seems low-key interesting

[@whyhesoears]

do not tempt me.

[@waddledee6642]

Pokemon Ultra Moon was the first ever video game I got over 500 hours in. It's so dissapointing to see them shut down, and it's just as dissapointing to see none of the issues with the hacked GTS pokemon have been fixed. I hope that when the 3DS pretendo servers come out, the pretendo network somehow bans these people so they can finally stop ruining the fun for everyone else once and for all.

[@KyloZach]

I've played over 380 Hours cause it's that amazing. Sun and Moon will always have a place in my heart!

[@kiedisboughen5318]

Wait, there's going to be servers after Nintendo shuts them down? Or am I misinterpreting it?

[@KyloZach]

@@kiedisboughen5318 Heard that 3DS and Wii U Online will shut down in April next year. 😔

[@damlatorun6756]

@@kiedisboughen5318hackers (the good ones) are gonna make custom servers

[@AedraRising]

@@kiedisboughen5318 Fanmade servers, yeah. They do require a modded 3DS to work, but the Pretendo Network is working to recreate the online servers of 3DS and Wii U games to people can still experience them once Nintendo shuts them down.

[@lissastargazer]

The girl trainer in pink is also ChloeGarcia, and while it looks like they tried to do the same “fix” that others did before by flooding the GTS with tradeable hacked Pokémon, a lot of their hacked Pokémon are faulty too and cause the same freeze, which… just makes the issue worse actually 🙃

[@doomadreadon]

What's worse is that she is a scumbag and she does have her own subreddit. What does the hacked pokemon have are z-moves in the moveslot which makes them illegal to be traded for and gives you a communication error or a game freeze

[@thehanahakiwolf]

Despite Japan Kebuju messing the GTS up we luckily had some bot trainers on the game that’ll give us the desired Pokémon, Misuki Tv is one of them where you just put a Diglett on the GTS with the desired Pokémon and you’ll get a shiny variant of the Pokémon in under 10 minutes. That’s how I finished the Pokédex for Ultra moon

[@ItsDaNewGuy]

Mitsuki and deadcns have been godsend for a lot of people. Honestly. Usually people hate hackers, but they've done everyone a huge favor by doing that.

[@theredeft5319]

Good to know. I might have to do that now that the servers are gonna be shut down and GTS has been broken for years…

[@96cespinoza]

Same here!!!! Also came in clutch in the previous generation. Deposit Machop lol

[@UrSoulsBelong2No1]

The GTS has got to be 1 of GF's biggest regrets given how quickly it was ruined long before the 3DS shutdown was announced...there's a reason why we don't see it anymore in Gen 8 & Gen 9 Although it apparently exists on the mobile app for Pokemon Home...tho it can't be that much better lmao

[@Breadstockimage]

Home has hack detectors, making you unable to deposit hacked mons, so it is a lot better than the 3DS gts

[@UrSoulsBelong2No1]

@@Breadstockimage That's good, but, aren't there still ppl asking for mons that can't be transferred up to the current gens tho ?? It's probably just a few, but, I know Furfrou is 1 of them lmao

[@Breadstockimage]

@@UrSoulsBelong2No1 yeah, but I've never actually seen the home gts crash or have seen pokemon with inappropriate names,so i think even if the hacked pokemon are transferred they can't be deposited

[@fractalisomega9517]

No.... it was amazing, just horribly moderated... or not at all

[@pigeonleader]

Thats just them not wanting to get rid of the hackers

[@hallowlitten1018]

Something I’ve realized is some Pokémon seem to be “safe” on the gts and stuff like Youngoos for shiny legendarys you can get without getting temp banned For example: I have an entire box full of hacked Drampa

[@shiotanagisa2362]

Do you have any more examples of safe Pokémon?

[@StickMaster500]

If there was one feature I'm not sad of going is the 3DS GTS in it's current state

[@mukomaryan4919]

I started playing Ultra Sun recently, and decided to do my first ever Wonder Trade. I got a Gastly who'd go on to become part of my main team. Nothing seemed off about him, and he's a fully grown Gengar now. But I'm starting to wonder if I got lucky with my trade if the trading scene in the 3DS Pokemon games is this bad.

[@RTMP_]

In my experience, wonder trades are perfectly fine. You might get a hacked legendary or two occasionally, but nothing that’ll crash your game if you look at it funny like the GTS.

[@P4ndaGamesBrNoCeuTemPao]

Wonder Trade is completely safe to use, never had any Pokémons that would freeze my game. You can get some nice Pokémon that people chainbred with good IVs as well (they appear to actually be legit), along with some hacked ones.

[@cogbait]

This reminds me of the shiny keldio I got from a random wonder trade I did for something like a yungoos

[@hallowedchromee310]

When going to shiny hunt pokemon like Eevee I’d try to get perfect IVs and then I’d breed it with special moves that are harder to get or more valuable like Wish, and then I’d just Wonder Trade them to people for fun! Its nice giving someone a PKM they can actually use that isn’t just a caterpie or yungoos lol.

[@leob.4962]

I remember doing GTS before the problems starting, only way I could complete the Pokedex

[@bidoof_]

When you get banned from the gts in the gen 7 games, you only have to wait about an hour in game for it to allow you to trade again.

[@Her_Imperious_Condescension]

"only"

[@itsnotderryl]

Only is valid​@@Her_Imperious_Condescension continuous hacking should be a permanent ban ngl

[@JustADoodle00]

It varies. I was banned for 3 days as a kid.

[@bidoof_]

@@JustADoodle00 I’ve only ever done it a couple of times and that’s what my experience has been. Did you get it multiple times in succession or were you just unlucky?

[@JustADoodle00]

@@bidoof_ multiple times in a row. I was a dumb kid and thought maybe it was just some weird occurance. I played a lot of animal crossing new leaf online and that game you would end up with the same error every time. It was just a ticking time bomb of when the server would crash and disconnect you with your new friends. I met a lot of hackers in that game and most where really nice but due to their shinanigines the game would often dissconnect so i had this thought in my head that there is just connection issues with hacked stuff on 3ds. The thing is i know im not the only one to have fallen victum to this. When i got banned as a kid i went online and saw other children just like me getting banned for up to a week because we wanted the cool looking shiny legendary.

[@obisidianusyuh9721]

It makes it worse that on the last day of pokemon GTS we won’t even be able to use it to send it off properly. 😢

[@samachu09]

I remember trying to use the GTS for trade evolution Pokémon but kept crashing every time I'd scroll through so I resorted to cloning my Type: Null and asking for the trade evos instead, it's somehow possible for people to find my offers.

[@TheBlackMage9]

Quick note about the shiny Regice: it has to be from original RSE (or at least genned to look that way). Pokemon originating in ORAS have the Kalos "pentagon" origin mark.

[@Detective_asparagus]

I remember as a kid I was trying to get a shiny Jirachi in the GTS with a Kakuna. I got a 3DS error (not an in game error, a system error). I can't fully remember what it said, but it did say it was an illegal trade and it could potentially threaten my system. Fortunately nothing bad happened to my system, but god it scared me!

[@makavelithedon6656]

The servers shutting down could be a good thing. We could possibly get the same exploits we got in the ds. I'd love to get the event pokemon in my ultra moon that are now unavailable

[@TheBlackMage9]

Regardless of whether or not anyone ever makes a fake GTS/event server for 3DS, if you have a modded system, PKSM can inject the events, among other things.

[@makavelithedon6656]

@TheBlackMage9 I don't trust myself to mod my system so I'll count on that hope or use an emulator on pc

[@whyhesoears]

​@@makavelithedon6656theres super easy like. beginner friendly tutorials to mod ur 3ds, im talking so easy that u would have to be bricking ur 3ds on purpose levels of easy haha

[@fractalisomega9517]

Gamefreak never implimented something to screen pokemon that were already in the system Once you hack through the screening it's there till you remove it, Gamefreak doesn't have moderators or a system to double check existing pokemon It just piles up until it's unusable which is another issue, there is no sendback system that clears the GTS if your pokemon has been in for too long

[@Depressed_Dandelion]

There's... No trade back if they sit there for too long? Is that only if you don't connect to the GTS? Because everytime I deposited something (in XY/ORAS) and then checked in months later, it always came back, you immediately notice it because the message is different. I assumed they timed out at some point and got listed off, but if it only updates when you log in again... yikes

[@punkocto]

Unfortunately, the GTS freezing has been like this for at least 2 years.

[@Killanator5]

I still trade shinie's on the GTS for people who need some help sometimes, Mostly on ORAS or X/Y. It's a shame all this happened i had alot of memories with these games.

[@Oriana_leung]

The online features since Dia and Pearl(Pokemon park) and Black and White(ease of trades and battle, secret bases) are what makes the game extra fun.

[@Strawhatsnow]

this breaks my heart that nintendo doesnt really care to fix these issues. why would they? whatever ill stick to "single player" experiences on pokemon. it really is an end of an era

[@Hyuduro]

Especially when it's going the same route it did with Gen 2 -> Gen 3.

[@PokeKnoxDSRomHacker]

They didnt care to prevent it either. You wont believe me how easy it was finding this exploit, but I would have never guessed peope will go crazy like this with it.

[@MrLeach-cp9ib]

This is why I don’t trade online, sick of the cons and trade backs for evos are rarely honoured.

[@Odd-Bike]

Fun fact, the more you get banned, the longer the time is (don’t ask me how I know this 😅)

[@KevdogPlays]

Oh boy

[@erikdeaf9740]

Yep, it was frustrating! The fact that the GTS mode of generation 7 Pokémon 3DS games froze when it was filled with hacked Pokémon is one of the reasons why I moved my Masuda method hunt of a shiny Froakie from Pokémon Ultra Moon to Pokémon Scarlet.

[@Twinklethefox9022]

I didnt look up videos on the gts so i was super surprised to see how hacked gen 6 gts got. I was just looking for a crogunk or toxicroak to masuda method with and yeah.. the gender of the pokemon they wanted was super broken...

[@WyvrnOnYT]

I remember being 10 and just finding as many shiny legendaries as possible, not knowing that they were all hacked in 😆

[@shayne537]

That’s why we can’t have nice things. Probably the reason why GTS never came back in Sword and Shield, Scarlet and Violet.

[@munchyaface506]

To be honest it really sucks and it makes me kinda sad that these games are like this, I can only hope that once the old pokemon games are shut down that they will remake them for the switch because I absolutely loved them as a kid❤

[@maroonmball]

I wonder if there is a way your whole system can get bricked by trading via GTS. It may be possible for the save file, but not as easy for the entire 3DS.

[@lissastargazer]

It’s possible in theory. Luckily the people that know of the exploit refuse to share it with dumb script kiddies and bad actors who would spam the entire GTS with it just for funsies.

[@linklinksson6885]

It's definitely possible for the save file idk about system

[@cockerspanielfan56]

3:03 yeah I didn’t find that out till last year. They ruined GTS forever since they traded hacked Pokémon. You can’t even find Pokémon at any level anymore since there’s a chance you may encounter people who have hacked Pokémon. The game works by the way, it’s that part of GTS is the problem. Man I wish that action replay thing didn’t exist cause cheat codes ruin everything

[@Mimiyan_or_Pikapikafan]

The only reason I'd say the Gen 6 GTS is better is because you could technically use it, but the gen 7 GTS is a minefield not worth exploring. Regardless it just sucks. Hopefully when the servers shutdown, the people setting up unofficial servers will actually essentially create a new GTS and find a way to actually moderate it.

[@dr.toxicgamingmadscientist]

Honestly not surprised because of the fact that idiots love ruining everything pokemon related.

[@lissastargazer]

What do you get when you cross a script kiddie with a maladjusted weirdo? This, basically.

[@dr.toxicgamingmadscientist]

@@lissastargazer Rather crude joke don't you think? But you're not that far off.

[@rpgfanatic9719]

Pokemon is just way too popular for much to come good from it anymore.

[@dr.toxicgamingmadscientist]

@@rpgfanatic9719 Compare it to Team Fortress 2's Popularity back in 2012, like iirc it BLEW up in 2012

[@rpgfanatic9719]

@@dr.toxicgamingmadscientist Mickey mouse and friends was made in 1924, Pokémon was made in 1996. Pokemon despite being very new, surpassed Mickey in revenue by 70%. Pokemon is the most popular media franchise in the world. Its popularity not even remotely rivaled.

[@guacchigga_gaming]

It's been like this year's how do people only see now

[@internautaanonimo]

Try the gen 5 GTS. I know, it's not really bad, but can be funny, for some reason

[@natecgames4612]

I remember needing a cosmoem because i traded my cosmog not knowing that it had an evo at the time, and once i traded for a Cosmoem, my game crashed and i needed to wait 24 hours before i just popped a female salandit in the gts and got my cosmoem like that.

[@didy3615]

Whenit shuts down, Pretendo will take care of onlne servers for Wii U and 3DS

[@iman-2880]

The solution to this using 2 3ds with both of the games and trade. Gts is on life support and only has a few months to live

[@sweetwolfsteve5583]

Wondertrade is just as bad tbh you have all those shiny hacked pokemon with websites for names or ots it makes me even madder when people retrade a hacked mon through wt all your doing is helping the bot even more

[@gabykitsu]

I got switch online and don't think it's different on SV, I got 3 of those in one day

[@gwrgamer3606]

it sucks so much that these idiots who are advertising their Discord servers and flooding the servers with hacked Pokemon are allowed to operate on the GTS for the gen 6 and 7 games, they've ruined the expereince for the dedicated players like me who just want to enjoy these games while they last.

[@linklinksson6885]

I'm surprised nobody is doxxing them on discord for this tbh

[@KaoruMzk]

The wait time due to interrupted trade was implemented to prevent people from trade cloning. That was a pretty well known exploit during XY and I think they introduced that cooldown in ORAS to punish people that abused it. Not sure if you can still do it in Sun/Moon, but they probably left the code in the game anyway just in case.

[@FryGuy909]

also i remember a hacker named adventursnivy where they would always ask for a snivy and had i believe dexio as their pfp

[@shaunduzstuffs]

Yeah I remember that person

[@stevancavalcanti1452]

ultra sun gts is horrible too because when i search for a pikachu the game freezes lol

[@FryGuy909]

funny thing is, i usually use the gts to actually connect with my friends to do trade evos for nuzlockes

[@yaakovyitzchaklancaster3838]

It sucks they're shutting it down. I only have one 3DS and that's how I trade between my ultra sun and ultra moon.

[@rpgfanatic9719]

They aren't shutting down bank

[@linklinksson6885]

Did you not get bank before eshop closed? It's free now

[@MrMonkey2150]

I liked the gts because it meant I was able to fully complete the Pokédex and get every legendary and shiny version of every legendary Pokémon in the game at that point.

[@linklinksson6885]

In gen 6 my game would crash on gts but i had an even worse situation about 2 weeks ago A wonder trade caused my game to crash in pokemon x i just reset like i would for gts and my heart sank when i read *the save file is corrupted* i didnt wanna lose this file. It had my living dex and my first shiny which was a protean froakie(i dont count the freebie gyarados haxorus dragonite or garchomp) i tried everything that was suggested to do using bank to move stuff and see if it read it right. Bank didnt recognize the save file anymore. I finally deleted it and it let me restart. I got all the way to dendemille in X and saved the game and it crashed when i saved. Restart and oh look save file is corrupted again So i delete data and new game again Get my starter and save It freezes during the save I play around with it go all the way through the game without saving at all and nothing happens it works perfectly fine I forgot about the save issue and tried connecting to pss Game freezes Save file is corrupted again Fml Pretty sure somehow the glitched wonder trade bricked by ability to save specifically

[@EngineerMonkey-zp3yj]

Jesus Christ. People really like ruining people's games, huh?

[@eclipse3874]

That sucks

[@mercuryinyourwalls]

I'm currently trying to complete my Pokedex in Ultra Sun and I don't have Ultra Moon, so pretty much my only option to get the version exclusives is the GTS. I actually madages to complete a trade a few days ago, but the freezing thing is a really big problem because sometimes it happenson the first Pokemon so I can't even look at what people are offering

[@atomicmays]

Could help you out since I’m playing ultra moon

[@giratina6665]

All of this annoyed me to death when I was trying to complete Ultra Sun's Pokédex a few months ago. I do regret nit having done that while my friends still played that too.

[@netherwarrior6113]

I had such a hard time in Ultra Moon completing the dex as well. The only advice I can give if you ever want to do it again is don’t look for Pokémon, only request, and then wait about a day for it to trade, then rinse and repeat.

[@AdrianDX]

How in gods name have the devs not been able to counter this kind of stuff? Super weak

[@CherylPie29]

I remember using the GTS a lot to complete my Pokédex in Ultra Moon. Wish we had a similar feature in the switch games because o don’t have many friends who are willing to help me complete the Pokédex.

[@saIami2]

In the GTS, you must scroll pass those people quickly or else your game will freeze and you gotta power off and on your 3ds, also dont do the absol, or abra trades, your trades are disabled for a while, also theres some people named MistukiTV and deadcns and if you put in like a diglett and you want a rayquaza, they give you a clearly hacked pokemon (Also do not even look at the people who want snivy for shiny legendaries)

[@picat_]

Hey, I remember that I’ve encountered both Mistuki and deadcns many times at the start of this year

[@saIami2]

@@picat_ yeah none of their legendaries are legit, you can also find em in wonder trade ;w;

[@picat_]

@@saIami2 Yeah, I know

[@Doubl3_Black]

deadcn dosent even give you corrupted guys like the others. Gives any Pokemon you request Completed the Pokédex w that lol

[@saIami2]

@@Doubl3_Black yeah they also helped me with the dex but their pokemon still hacked ;w;

[@erecto_patronum]

That is why I only use Wonder Trades. Sometimes you get hacked shiny Legendary holding a Master Ball or a Mega Stone. I just take the free Master Ball then release the hacked Mon

[@KevdogPlays]

I did about 10 wonder trades for this video and they were all normal, legit-looking stuff so I just scrapped it lol

[@sparks3642]

@@KevdogPlays Getting those hacked pokemon from wonder trade are pretty rare. I think I always get one everyday, sometime two or three if I'm verry lucky. I always release them has well.

[@hello-xm5il]

​@@KevdogPlaysyou're more likely to get hackmons through wonder trade if you're doing it at a weird time of day for most of the world. You also have to spend a lot of time trading them out if you want to amass a large quantity of hackmon. Back when I was playing the 3ds pokemon games regularly, about a year ago, I'd average about three hackmon per box wondertraded, depending on the time of day, and how lucky I was. The most interesting hackmon I've recieved is a (well, two, actually) nameless cherish ball zigzagoon from X and Y. I believe the trainer is nameless too, but its been a while, so I'd have to go check.

[@CatKat4008]

:3

[@leonseuropeanislandadventu7398]

​@@sparks3642That whole comment is a contradiction. They cant be pretty rare, with you saying you get one every day. Which is it? Are they rare or not?

[@zed54]

Lmao I got the same shiny sceptile from the exact same trainer. It is definitely hacked

[@TheBestKindOfFailure]

Besides these losers, there are also bots set up to give you any Pokémon you want. Don't use the global search, pointless endeavour, just put any kind of dweeb Pokémon online, ask for the Pokémon you want in return (no matter how ridiculously rare), and within 10 minutes or maybe a day you'll receive it, shiny as well. It's happened consistently for me, made me curious to look up the name of the user that kept sending me these, led me to a live stream where I literally saw my name pop up as this bot traded with me. Of course, these Pokémon will also not be legitimate, but it's an easy way to complete your Pokédex.

[@phorchybug3286]

Am I the only one with reasonable trades? I usually sac my starter for a rare find.

[@maria_silly]

why do people do this? the 3ds online services are coming to a end it doesn't make sense why people purposely mess up the gts

[@PatSmashYT]

Wasn't the GTS ruined from the start with people wanting a level 100 shiny Mew in exchange for their Magikarp

[@HarunoSoul]

Its sad that people have nothing better to do than putting up mons that crash your game.

[@itsnothiptotimetravel3757]

about a year ago I started playing ultra moon and wanted to 100% the pokedex for first time in my life. It was a mistake. My 3ds crashed so many times everytime i found a pokemon I needed. I was so pissed at one point that I decided to find information on one specific person that kept crashing the 3ds for me specifically so I ended up looking into their information found out that it was some indian guy that lives in canada lol.

[@taxtapyinc.2921]

I remember using the GTS to finish my ultra sun dex in 2020, so frustrating but I'm kind of proud I managed to do it, I was new to pokemon at the time

[@Hyuduro]

I still play these games and I gave up on completing the Pokédex because of the GTS. Most of it was completed through Wonder Trading all of my Breedjects, but I set up a few of my games to where they're randomized as my way of completing the Pokédex. Edit: It sucks that my Pokémon aren't going to be legitimate, but it is sad that I have to complete the Pokédex through hacking with extra steps.

[@reverseshin]

Well at lease the Pokemon White, Back, white2 and black 2 GTS isn’t that bad (you can get back on it with a DNS server code)

[@Barakon]

Y’a know, the fans can make their own servers, right?

[@gmont28]

People messed up the oras ones too,

[@KevdogPlays]

Figured, I’m pretty sure OR/AS shares the X/Y GTS

[@fletchermed]

As a pokemon person I can confirm that this is a video

[@KevdogPlays]

It is indeed a video

[@Trollfox64]

This is heartbreaking.

[@duesa2203]

So sad to see these games die…

[@ElectroBlastLuigi]

I've made a similar video last year and an updated video on this exact topic. It's sad to see that things didn't change at all.

[@cooldistinctamvs]

I appreciate this video man, because I just got into Pokemon Sun and beat the Elite 4 got all the Tapu, and Ultra Beasts. But I still know there has to be more legendaries and Mythicals I guess to get or transfer to the game. I didn’t know about that other cool feature in the game where we could do Island scans I missed out on that back then because I didn’t have 2DS or 3DS handheld. I’m glad I got back into Pokemon it’s all thanks to Sword & Shield. And from watching some Pokemon play throughs. It’s definitely cool that I found your channel awhile back I appreciate your content dude.

[@liviniarose5]

Yeah this has been a problem for years, hopefully when fans make their own fan servers for GTS this problem is curbed, your whole game freezing and having to rest your console is absolutely ridiculous

[@gronky_donkey01]

Another way to tell if a pokemon is hacked is if they have a held item on the gts

[@RiqMoran]

Nah you can have held items on gts. Its actually how i manage to do trade evos on one 3ds. I just offer up a pokemon with an item, then i get on my other game and trade for it so it evolves.

[@Salmon_Lamb0]

Glad I found this, very informative. I’m super disappointed and scared now.

[@SuperJibulus]

What bad stuff can happen to your game from trading on the GTS?

[@anonymoustoes]

Very disappointing about the development of the gts... I remember when x and y just came out and it was a new feature, you couldn't find any of this gross stuff on there. Barely any hacked pokemon or anything malicious! I got a lovely leavanny and beartic from the gts that I used on my team until the elite four.

[@apocalypseofplush]

I only ever got a semi-harmless “connection error” when trading for a hacked mon. I didn’t know THIS was happening…

[@Floof_aka_Sofa]

Yeah, in Sun and Moon, never go on the gts. It's almost guarenteed that your game will freeze when viewing a hacked pokemon, and when you manage to reset your console, you will be banned from trading for a while. It's safe to say that the gts is dead these days (rip gts).

[@strix3688]

unfortunately... I got a Shiny Shaymin from Wonder Trade.... so its better be careful for what we got, even though it's a shiny pokemon

[@TakuroSpirit]

Really had to hit me with the "Sun and Moon are turning 7 years old" right in the first sentence, huh? I'm turning into dust as we speak.

[@theballoonfamily9539]

While HOME's GTS also kinda... sucks... it's mostly just the case of people finding ways of making impossible (or near-impossible) request or requests nobody would ever make. Also with near-impossible. I mean stuff like a LV 1-10 Sinnoh dragon (Dialga, Palkia, Giratina) from the HGSS games. Because that's a thing.

[@BlazingK9-uv6wx]

I want to know why people do this in the first place? like what do they gain from this?

[@theballoonfamily9539]

@@BlazingK9-uv6wx they prolly just wanna flex their "totally legit shinies that are definetly not from a bot"

[@darrow74]

I just got usum and the gts has been the worst part. If anyone besides me is still trying to complete Pokedex or some trades I'm down.

[@ChicagoMel23]

For the weird impossible pokemon it’s a dang plugin on modded 3ds and it’s so annoying

[@masterwizardwither7444]

From what I heard, there is another hacker going around on the Gen 7 GTS who will accept any trade for a Litten on there with something that should bypass any hack checks. So if you need Pokédex completion in Gen 7 or HOME without genning missing Pokémon yourself, just breed Litten and put them on the Gen 7 GTS. Just make sure to release what you afterwards if you put it in HOME because you don't want to be victim to a banwave just for owning them.

[@jamesroy791]

The GTS for all the 3d's games have been screwed for years now and gamefreak never fixed it so the hackers bugged it so bad that the game just crashes just by looking at the pokemon

[@Wonkyweewee]

If the OT is Mitsuki its hacked but still legal

[@netherwarrior6113]

When it comes to fixing the crashing, the only thing I can think of is have someone go into the code and disable the player profile pics, for that is what causes the game to crash. They could even then try and get rid of the hacked Pokémon through a bot or just delete them. I don’t know if this is possible, but if anyone wants a temporary fix, if you spam the home button while holding right, it won’t load any player profile pics and you can get passed Japan Kebuji, but this is very very inconsistent.

[@kittykitty168]

someone’s gonna bring back the 3DS online servers

[@Poke-ladd]

When I go to the gts it always freezes I literally can’t use it at all 😢

[@KevdogPlays]

such a shame. If all you do is deposit, then you *should* be fine

[@Lodestone8]

Yup I got perms banned for browsing the GTS and then turning off the 3ds to unfreeze the game

[@Petruso_]

the crashing is the worst thing, my game crashed two times and i thought that the cartridge was broken

[@jackiemartin4942]

Man I come back to this game every few months to do random trades and online double battles.. I remember collecting caterpies on route one for like an hour getting as much as I can to trade then 😭😭

[@KillerSkullX]

The connection error won’t let you trade because they’re hacked Pokémon. Same issue DPP

[@BoroWizard]

Does the update count as a cheat tho? Like can I update and still transfer pokemon up?

[@youngpickle33]

Surprised someone did a video on this, for the past few months I’ve been playing ultra sun and regular sun since I’m too poor for the new games. The GTS has given me Pokémon I really shouldn’t have. Almost every shiny legendary with almost every badge. At one point I had 5 shiny zekroms. Now most of the GTS are impossible trades that crash. But, it’s fun to have these Pokémon I’ve never been able to see, especially shiny versions.

[@GenixgoldZ]

So if I want to do trade evolutions past April 2024 will I need to do it prior Gen 4 and 5 because having a 2ds and DS for getting competive stats

[@Senessim]

Kebuju Japan.... If you know, you know