The Current State of Pokémon XY's GTS (it's bad)

Pokémon X & Y are now over 10 years old, and the current state of online play in these games has gotten pretty bad to say the least. In this video I check out the GTS specifically, and it was far worse than what I expected...
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[@samachu09]

Shout-out to my fellow back genders! 🤗

[@robertlupa8273]

Gotta be one of my favourite genders.

[@Vinniflame]

As a member of the Pokémon you sent gender community I’m offended you didn’t represent us in your comment

[@PugandOwn]

much love from the quit the gts community

[@daofficerofthenoodles7504]

I’m sorry but I’m pokemon you want gender

[@Sub2MisterEnderboss]

Dont forget about my Quit the gtses out there

[@enoyna1001]

Those MFs have ruined the GTS for at least 5 years

[@MischiefProLion]

Yeah I still remember seeing avatars of users with bits missing like their face, or other parts of them. Its really strange...

[@Lokear]

​@@MischiefProLion I don't even understand how they did that. I modified my save to remove the hat (because they don't let you normally for some reason) and it functions perfectly fine, PSS icon and all...

[@kirklinguinihoodinithecubo8525]

More than that

[@enoyna1001]

@@kirklinguinihoodinithecubo8525 That's the >>at least

[@Cryoispainful]

It was even a thing back in heartgold

[@StickMaster500]

It's even worse with Pokemon Sun and Moon where if you try and view a hacked Pokemon, it completely freezes your game and have to force shut off your 3DS

[@hamburgerbroz6439]

came here to say this. its shocking how bad theyve let it get :(

[@joeyno137]

I read somewhere that someone made a patch to counter it but u ofc need a jailbroken 3ds

[@hallowedchromee310]

Its actually not the Pokémon that crashes your game, its when the game loads their profile picture. But there isn’t much you can do about that unless you hacked your own 3ds.

[@Mimiyan_or_Pikapikafan]

​@@hallowedchromee310which I definitely fully recommend doing even if you don't care about installing Homebrew Apps, but it shouldn't be a barrier to entry to use the base feature of a game. This is hackers at there bad to worse

[@PickledL]

XY/ORAS also has that

[@muma-kitty1639]

hopefully the future fanmade servers will be moderated in order to prevent this

[@KevdogPlays]

Yeah. It would be sad if those hackers migrated over to some fan servers just to trash those as well

[@Top10AnimeGerman]

@@KevdogPlays if we get fan made servers this will be fixed easily i think

[@TheBruin42]

​@@KevdogPlaysThose hacked entries were probably added years ago for the most part back when those games were most popular, and the hackers hopefully won't care enough to bother coming back in the future to spend all the effort to add them all back again. And maybe the devs of the fan servers can do what Game Freak should have done and periodically purge old trade offers. I don't think many trolls will be dedicated enough to repeatedly upload new glitched trades for a decade old game just out of spite.

[@conlenodriscoll4464]

How do you get on fan servers? X was my favorite I wanna replay it

[@TheBruin42]

@@conlenodriscoll4464 Right now you don't, I don't think anything is publicly available yet, or even necessary have any sort of release date. I think right now this is more speculation based on the fact that people managed to create replacement servers for Gen 4/5 after Nintendo pulled the plug on those, and that there is a project called "Pretendo" already in progress for replacing Nintendo servers for 3DS in general, but right now I don't think any of the 3DS Pokemon games are listed as supported, and that might have to wait for some person or group to take up the project of writing the necessary code for those specific games and host it on those fan servers or however it works. I think people are pretty confident that someone will eventually do this for Gen 6/7 sooner or later, given the popularity of those games and the fact that other people have successfully set up servers for other 3DS games already and there shouldn't be much that would make it impossible for Pokemon. But it might not be until after the official servers go offline next year.

[@MidnightUmbra]

I remember GTS Giveaways on the GTS, I have so many fond memories of this, just because it gave me access to pokemon ive never used before, and shinies. I feel like sometimes I would "steal" someones free trade on accident "shiny kyogre for a bellsprout? WHAT A BARGAIN"

[@mimikyu2008]

LOL I REMEMBER THE ONES FROM THE ADVENTURESNIVY SERVER!! I remember sitting with my 3ds trying to get the shinies opening and closing from the search menu to that pokemon

[@bluemario5266]

That also happens in Oras for me sometimes

[@Cozumii]

@@bluemario5266that’s because XY and ORAS servers are the same I think

[@jaydenc367]

Bruh I remember trading a random low level Pokemon for a Zapdos in wonder trade...that really made my day.

[@luisbetancourt-dp7hh]

I was the guy gifting pokemon that way, I had a few saves I was gonna reset so I just gifted most on wonder and gts

[@wormysquirmy573]

Even though the GTS was far from perfect it's still upsetting to see it end in this state.

[@kai_3788]

Imagine being the mc and the GTS is a physical place you can go to, you go in there and just see a horde of faceless monsters that are spouting slurs. That’d be horrifying.

[@EngineerMonkey-zp3yj]

Honestly, yeah.

[@dookiegobbler9706]

that just sounds like the UK ngl

[@totally_not_lorenzo]

Shocking to see some of these trainers have corrupted icons

[@sweetypusssupremacy4264]

I remember the corrupted icons way back when I played ORAS. Usually whenever I clicked on them, my DS would freeze and have to be shut down.

[@VeganLatte]

I messed around and modifed my game and still couldn't figure out how they did that

[@axelltheswampert7553]

At least Gen 6 GTS is still "functional". In Gen 7 your game freezes just by looking at something :/

[@Burning_Soup]

the gts was this bad 4 or 5 years ago, super sad cause i was trying to complete the pokedex and all the pokemon were hacked :(

[@gatofan5920]

Same I was trying to finish my Pokédex like 2 yrs ago in sun and moon and I needed specific Pokémon and the GTS was bad and my 3ds will freeze but at least I finish my Pokédex 😅

[@ViniciusVZR]

I have all gen 6 and 7 games, so I can get the legendaries and starters from a legit source, but I have a moddes 2DS, which I will use for the mythicals. Honestly, with the eshop and servers closing, I think it's OK to hack the Pokémon in your own game (if you're using for dex purposes and it's not gonna trade)

[@hallowedchromee310]

@@LuLu-uz3lg Some people made it so when the game loads their character picture it crashes USUM/SM. Thats not a issue in XY since they don’t have pictures that load, just icons. People really are just jerks sometimes.

[@alexkemplen772]

​@@hallowedchromee310I agree with you

[@bigchungus7870]

I can actually help with that

[@CatKat4008]

Going to the GTS and then seeing a pokemon have "quit the GTS" as the wanted gender and level has to be the most frighting thing ever, sounds like something from a creepypasta

[@hoennfanboy]

True, if i was a kid on my 3ds and saw that, it would freak me out so bad

[@justinhamilton8647]

Right???? I had seen that last year i was so creeped out lol

[@Eaglebrace]

This is the same for Ultra Sun & Moon but worse, The GTS is completely skewered - if you say search for a Pokemon that is last than 1-10 level or say 90-100 on level - especially legendaries, you will get a result of some odd profiles that completely freezing your game and forces you to do a manual reset. So far there is 3 of these hackers that has been doing this for a very long time now. And if you look this up, you will find a lot of threads from past year about it. And the most outrageous about this is there has not been a fix of this. I am very angry and frustrated about this, cause i just want to complete the Dex on the old games, guess i have to get the version of the game or something to tackle it. I think many of us have to create a dedicated and safe way of trading pokemons in the older gen while its available. Be happy to help out if people need with any trade, got pokemon x, alpha sapphire, Moon and Ultra Sun.

[@ItzNiekoyo]

If you really need to complete your Pokédex then look up Mitsuki on Twitch. Any released Pokémon/shiny you want minus mythicals if you’re in Gen 7.

[@Magikarpador]

I have a gen VII living dex if you need help. never transferred over cause i didn't like home but will probably have to

[@MissInformer]

To be completely honest, I was debating trying to make a new forum/discord server exactly for this purpose, but I wasn't sure if there would be interest in it. If a new forum, mine or otherwise, were to pop up for people seeking legitimate GTS trades, what do you think would be the best way to get it out there Infront of other like minded people without trying/having the appearance of trying to spam existing forums and breaking their rules? I love the communities that pokemon has created over the years, and I don't necessarily care if there are people out there that are okay with hacked pokemon, I just want to provide a spot that excluded those trades for people trying to get a living dex in the switch titles, which necessitates non-hacked pokemon to get from bank to home.

[@Turbo12544]

Do you have any own tempo rockruff’s?

[@Eaglebrace]

@@Magikarpador Sounds awesome, I pretty much dont need much in particularly just Palkia to unlock Giratina to catch it. I have like two Dialga laying dormant haha.

[@Rot8erConeX]

It's actually really weird because if you *look* at the GTS, it's a mess full of hacked Pokémon and corrupted data entries. But if you decide to not look, and throw something of your own on there that's actually possible to trade, you'll get what you want within a day - within an hour if it's a reasonable trade like counterpart version exclusives. Sure, if you want to avoid obviously-genned Pokémon it's not helpful since a lot of the ones I get are the shinies that advertise genning websites, but if you're just going for completing the dex in a game you already beat, it's not only serviceable but probably the most efficient way. People are saying that Gen 7 has an issue where if you look at a hacked Pokémon your game freezes, which I guess means that no one can trade since the people actually fulfilling the requests are walking on eggshells.

[@SnoFitzroy]

This is the most accurate of the incorrect takes on the gen 7 gts. I really don't know why people haven't looked it up to see that it's the profile image, not the pokemon, that causes the system to freeze (it's corrupted on purpose) - you don't even have to look at the entry which is how we know this is the case, as the pokemon is not loaded until you actually hover the offer, but profile information is loaded for all three trades on your bottom screen. You're correct that people fulfilling requests are walking on eggshells tho, as someone who was doing that on gts (giving out my legendaries for dex completion, and offering good things for cheap just to help ppl)

[@mds_main]

I also want to add that even if you receive an obviously genned mon you can always most of the time hatch an egg for a legit one and then release the genned one.

[@juanin200]

That's why you get your requests within an hour, there's bots looking for trades to advertise

[@ronniemakinen]

I loved gts back when it was not like this. I remember when i played alpha sapphire at the first time. Gts were awesome. 😊

[@KevdogPlays]

Same, I’ll always cherish those memories

[@xD0nReeZyx]

Honestly a modern gts with some actual moderation would make so much more sense although I think home has some system like this but for some reason the Pokémon home app just doesn’t work for me

[@904funny]

When wonder trading in ORAS, you often see a gift icon instead of one of the trainer icons

[@bellablossomz]

I miss when gts was good. I’ll always cherish those days of early x and y and ORAS.

[@sakress]

In reality, the GTS has been like this for a very long time now. During the prime of Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, the GTS on pretty much all of the 3DS titles were wastelands of hacked and glitched garbage. I tried to clean up the hacked Pokémon using a software called PKMN-NTR to live inject Pokémon into my save data, so that children playing the games wouldn’t be tricked or have their console freeze up. Fast forward to today, I still have a backup copy of my Ultra Sun save data that has boxes filled to the brim with level 6 shiny Giratina with no names, level 10 Xerneas with offensive slurs as names, and so on.

[@dookiegobbler9706]

Imagine sending the Xerneas up into SwSh... that asshole Leon and his dumb lizard are NOT gonna see that coming

[@midgetwaffles8635]

Pokemon XY was my very first Pokemon game. I LOVED the online features, and it kept me playing for years. It's so sad to see the servers in this state, but I'll ALWAYS cherish the memories.

[@StefiStarlite]

The GTS: An absolute ****show with blatant glitches, hacked Pokemon, and offensive names. TPCi: Let's block legitimate Shiny Jirachi from the Wishmaker Bonus Disc from being imported into Pokemon Bank. TPCi Games: Releasing unfinished games in a glitchy and poor performing state. TPCi: Let's release a DLC (that ends up being unfinished, glitchy, and poor performing) What an utter mess, that is absurd. Thank you for sharing. Also - Rayquaza is ray-kwey-za, kinda like the words "ray" and "quasar" (minus the ending "r" at the end).😊

[@darkhavoc6104]

5:38 Event Legendaries (or Mythicals as you said) and other event pokemon have never been able to be traded through GTS, despite being listed as searchable options. So all those Jirachi are illegitimate.

[@fafunir]

There was ONE that could be traded actually. It was the Pokemon Coliseum bonus disc Jirachi. I own one & used to mess around on the GTS a lot way back in the day.

[@YuiFunami]

@@fafunir there was also one you could get in pokemon HGSS via using the pokewalker add on

[@mds_main]

If I remember correctly they only check the presence of the event ribbon on them. If they have the ribbon you cannot deposit them, but if you create a perfectly legal event mon and then you take the ribbon out (through hacking) the gts will accept it just fine.

[@hhjan594]

Glad that you mentioned the feeze part, I was going through Gen7 GTS last week and almost every pokemon I searched caused my system to freeze. It was so annoying. Also if you try to trade those Pokemon with the "Gender Back" or "Gender QUit the GTS" you will find out can't actually do that, because you don't have a Pokemon with those genders. SO those entries are just stuck there forever, which is quite stupid.

[@xxAryAryxx]

It's so frustrating how GameFreak basically decided to get rid of the GTS instead of actively banning these users and coming up with ways to fix this problem. A couple years ago I was trying to complete the Dex on Y and Alpha Sapphire but I kind of gave up after I kept receiving hacked mons whenever I requested something. I was a bit scared that eventually I'd get something that would completely destroy my game. Is there any place/community where we can still set up 1:1 trades to complete our Gen6 Dexes? I'd really love to actually finish everything and get the Shiny Charm, but I won't be touching that hellhole of a GTS anymore.

[@baxterbruce9827]

The GTS still exists, it's part of Pokemon Home (The Mobile version)

[@xxAryAryxx]

I know, but it's not the same. First of all, being unable to make Pokemon hold items makes it useless for what used to be one of its most handy usages - getting all the trade evolutions easily. It also forces you to keep an app on your phone, which is ridiculous (also detrimental to an extent since GameFreak wants their games to be for little kids too and this way they're telling kids they' need a phone - and no, kids do not need a phone and games that run on CONSOLES shouldn't push them towards these damned devices. Especially when consoles could be seen as an alternative to help kids avoid smartphones which may be dangerous with an Internet connection and all). The trading and GTS options should be available on the Switch version of Home too. And anyway, the passage from Home makes the whole process more tedious and it's easy to fill the only Free Box you're given, making its existence on Home just an excuse to convince as many people as possible to buy the subscription service to get more boxes and features. Home just feels so scammy with the way it's built. And for what reason? Hacked Pokemon get traded anyway.

[@hongqipiao]

@@xxAryAryxx try putting your save onto citra then trading on their servers

[@fautex47]

I would love to help with trading. At the moment I'm trying get a living dex for each version of the gen 7 games, or at least the minimum that is needed. I really despise having such a time limit

[@rutgerniemeijer]

The mythical Pokémon will be difficult I guess. Personally mine are all in Pokémon Home now, so I cannot trade them with you, but I hope you succeed. Omega Ruby was my first time completing the national dex, even though that was mostly from the work I did in Pokémon Y.

[@jordan.7]

In 2021, I got on the GTS for the first time on Omega Ruby for some of the trade evolutions like Alakazam. It worked out fine. If you're looking for realistic options like those, the GTS is fine but if you're looking for a Shiny Mew, its going to come at a cost.

[@tk-oyote]

even realistically, you can't do thar much anymore. From what ive seen now, nearly everything on there is hacked and can break the game. Ive tried putting legit pokemon up myself for people who need some, but there's just too many hacked pokemon getting put in every second

[@grizzlycharizard0017]

Nintendo seriously should keep their older servers open, they should know many people wanna go back on their wii or wii u or 3DS to play online with each other.

[@ignitus3844]

Bro its not only in X,Y this problem is happening in ALL mainline 3ds pokemon games and has been like this for some years now, for example back when Sword/Shield released this problem was already happening in the GTS of pokemon USUM. Its sad to see the GTS in this state :/

[@Collato]

The GTS was mostly just used for completing the Pokedex and getting a foreign ditto anyway, sometimes people would practically give away shinies or legendaries but you were always skeptical if they were hacked or not. GTS will be missed but honestly it became apparent at one point that wondertrade was always better, if you didn't have people just putting in route 1 Pokemon it would be perfect.

[@stonalisa3729]

It’s hacked. I’m not sure who would shiny hunt for hours or bother rng manipulating the game for that shiny to just give it away. They used pkhex

[@adityabagwadkar9253]

I am disappointed about this. These pokemon games should be updated to solve this problem.

[@KevdogPlays]

Absolutely agree, it’s unfortunate that the servers shutting down is probably the only “fix” coming for it

[@Eaglebrace]

I feel ya man, this issue could bee resolved many years ago but unfortunately we are so abounded.

[@TheDarknash]

Im 95% sure HB community will re-enable online (like with the wii), but idk if it’s gonna get better or worst

[@seijakijin1160]

Gamefreak didn’t even have the decency to fix issues in PLA like the shiny giratina crashing the game. No way they would address this, and now that the servers are offline, even more so

[@supersaiyaneevee1573]

GTS was always packed with crazy stuff. Seems worse now. But if they just made it where you can put your pokemon up for like a week before it gets removed, that would be better. This way people cant stuff it with crappy trades. Like a nidorino for a jirachi or something. Also, all these hacked ones would come down eventually.

[@bashfulwolfo6499]

I actually just restarted X a few months back and used the GTS for the first time, and immediately got what I wanted… but shiny. I figured I would put a Clauncher up so I can get a Skrelp and someone (in France) decided to gift me a shiny Skrelp that was caught and I absolutely adore him. I’m gonna have to use the GTS more before I never get the chance to on all DS games now, it’s really depressing that they’re gonna be shut down soon :( Also I have my Twitter on my bio for X but all I do is post art (that’s if I even post at all, I post on twitter once every 5 months at this point). I 100% know people won’t see it, but oh well UPDATE: I just checked the GTS for Druddigon (the best Pokémon) and man it sure does seem like FunkyGamer26 has a lot of free time to shiny hunt 100+ Druddigon all at lvl 100, all with Leftovers, and only wants a Zigzagoon for all of them. Jokes aside, that is quite insane. I’m currently like 6 pages in and it’s still the same guy. If Druddigon is this bad, then all Pokémon have to be. NAHH HE GAVE ZOROARKS MASTER BALLS TO HOLD

[@bashfulwolfo6499]

I also got Pokerus for the first time ever on X??? This restart was INSANELY lucky for me. I’ve also discovered how OP Gogoat is, she demolishes everything. UPDATE I JUST GOT POKERUS AGAIN DAWG WTH

[@bashfulwolfo6499]

Sorry for all the comments and how long they are but at this point I’m documenting myself lmao: Just did some Wonder Trades for the first time, went really well… until a faceless discord tag person appeared and I knew it was gonna be a hacked ‘mon. It’s a lvl 100 shiny Regigigas with Pokerus, holding a master ball, and the user is Spanish (at least according to the language tag). Gonna be releasing it, and any other hackmon I find.

[@Poyomini]

Is it weird that I got invested in your GTS updates?

[@TheZane03]

lol I actually got a 6 shiny charizard and 2 shiny rayquaza and transferred them to the latest game

[@obisidianusyuh9721]

It’s crazy because surprise trade still has this problem in scarlet and violet.

[@steampunk-llama]

Fr, the amount of hackmons holding things like ability patches I've encountered within 5 mins of trading is nuts

[@hoennfanboy]

Same with sword & shield. I re played it recently and got a lvl 100 perfect IVs EV trained shiny Regidrago holding a master ball 🙄

[@Edgee_yy]

This is the reason why the GTS is never coming back lmao

[@blazinglightgt8673]

It would probably be a mobile app, probably easier to moderate.

[@ItsDannyIMT]

The GTS exists on Pokémon Home

[@baxterbruce9827]

​@@blazinglightgt8673It literally is right now, it's part of the Mobile version of Pokemon Home

[@gameliking]

It's on the mobile version of Pokemon Home lol

[@sangan3202]

its in home but it still sucks since the genuises that made it didnt even try to solve simple problems like people asking for mythicals (Home doesnt let you trade them on the gts), no option to list a shiny for a shiny so everyone just uses certain legendaries to trade shinies and people asking for impossible pokemon (like a lvl10 hisuian zorua before they added it to gen 9)

[@blissfulzane7154]

Good lord. I was a teenager when XY came out. It felt so fresh. Yeah there were some nonsensw but this is on another level

[@FubukiTheIcyKing]

There seems to be one hero called deadcns who will usually trade you the Pokemon when you deposit.

[@NENJUK0NRANCHU]

Every time I deposit a Pokemon in Ultra Moon, deadcns always trades me Im pretty sure I have a box completely full of deadcns Pokemon

[@FubukiTheIcyKing]

@@NENJUK0NRANCHU At least you'll have good iv fodder for breeding.

[@Randomperson462]

If you catch the streams on Twitch you can manipulate it to wonder trade him almost every time.

[@NENJUK0NRANCHU]

@@Randomperson462 I remember trying to do that before, but I never traded with him . . . what's the secret ?

[@Randomperson462]

@@NENJUK0NRANCHU best thing to do is wait until they pick a Pokemon for trade as soon as they search for someone wait like 2 seconds then search yourself. The later in the day it is the better your chances. If you don't have any luck with that use GTS and deposit the Pokemon they have at the bottom screen for XY/ORAS or US/UM.

[@Iatemykids]

It’s been like this for a few years now unfortunately. I remember actually going to one of the channels which ended up with me joining a discord. They weren’t bad people by any means but the main guy was selling hacked in shiny dexes for sun and moon. Unfortunately I bought one and never received my shiny dex or money back. Worse part is he traded me the first 30 or so Pokémon so I didn’t mind trading my legendaries and shiny Pokémon I already had. So now I’d either have to restart my save losing any of the Pokémon I had left just to get my region exclusives back or stop playing Pokémon sun. I haven’t played a mainline game since all the new games are too expensive for me to play unfortunately. But yeah the gts people only care about money so beware

[@fridaypurples2441]

I got a legitimate Shiny Yvetal in my Alpha Sapphire and all they were asking for was a pretty common Pokémon (forgot what it was.) But yeah, the Gen 6 GTS is done for. I'm SO SICK of seeing these hacked Pokémon all over the GTS, I'm starting to think that I'll never get a Wooper or Quagsire to breed -_- Edit: Another great trade that I got from the GTS was when I put in a Thundurus (one I got from Wonder Trade or GTS, I don't remember) and asked for a Groudon. I ended up getting an event Groudon from HGSS, I know because it was in a normal Pokeball, that and it said 'it seemed to have traveled across space and time to reach you from the Johto region', pretty cool :D Edit 2: I also got a legitimate Shiny Rayquaza. I think it was an Event Rayquaza because it knew V-create.

[@borby4584]

If you want, I can provide you one. Do you mind if it's transferred illegitimately (Ie caught in HGSS, but transferred via PKSM?)

[@fridaypurples2441]

@@borby4584 Hello! Thanks for the offer but I already got a Quagsire from the GTS, they were asking for a Carvanha. Pretty fair trade in my opinion.

[@cjmayer9424]

Looks like somethings never change with the GTS lol. Alas, its the only way I can hope to get a foreign Ditto, so I must press on.

[@joel198d]

You can’t sail the seven seas for a foreign language game and trade it over to yourself with let’s say maybe a cheaper option like a 2ds?

[@ItzNiekoyo]

If you need a foreign ditto then I will just trade you one lmao.

[@gamer-jm6my]

if you have multiple games you can set secondary cartridge to a different laguage and it works as a diff language. it dose not have to be a cartridge that comes from a different country

[@joel198d]

@@gamer-jm6my I did not know you could do that which is why I hacked my 3ds for that masuda method dif language pokemons

[@gamer-jm6my]

@@joel198d oh I see also idk how I got that jm6my in my username iv noticed it recently and it was not always there i don’t even know how it got tacked on it said gamer2.0 before oh well maybe it’s a bug or something I did wrong no idea really

[@eye_cancer]

I can't believe it has gotten worse then when I used to use the GTS

[@HighProteinPowder]

i love oras and xy, sucks that the gts is now corrupted. in usum, your 3ds gets frozen by the sight of a corrupted trainer icon. cant even use the gts in gen 7 😭😭

[@conlenodriscoll4464]

Honestly looks lit for a game that came out 10 years ago

[@TKnHappyNess]

At least the Gen 6 GTS is searchable, unlike Gen 7. At least those on the latter's Wonder Trade aren't sending out Yungoos and Gumshoos with THAT nickname

[@mariahs6]

It’s sad to see what happened to the GTS here, I had fond memories of breeding Feebas and catching Female Combee and trading them to people in exchange for other Pokémon needed to finish the Dex. As much as I like Wonder Trade, it has a different vibe and even that has hackers on it.

[@TheCronq]

The guy that said quit the gts as his pokemon really shows that they are doing this just because they can. 😠

[@FamitsuMagazine]

the reason why i couldnt finish my dex when i was a kid lol

[@thecatarmy3485]

I’m gonna miss the GTS, even in the state it is. I’ll miss 3ds online.

[@dinisfernandes8818]

I've completed a live Dex on alpha sapphire and that GTS is a nightmare. Funny enough is no where near as bad as sun and moon. On these, just seeing a hacked Pokémon will freeze your game. And they are all hacked, so the GTS is effectively dead.

[@Twilit_Gamer]

Unfortunately, this is how it was when I got the game back in 2019, so I'm just used to it. Even then, there used to be a lot more legit Pokémon, but since there are newer games on the switch now, everyone has pretty much left. If you do want to try getting one of those hacked trades to work just know that it'll never work if the gender or level wanted are the button options. Your only hope is if both say "Any". It's sad that this is how it is, but that's life I guess.

[@PastelBumbleBee]

Yikes. I've been trying to get into Pokemon Sun, and now I'm worried

[@thatoneannoyingtornadosire8755]

It's just as bad, GTS is almost completely useless due to this

[@PastelBumbleBee]

@@thatoneannoyingtornadosire8755 Nooo! Aw man, that sucks so much

[@Infindox]

The Sun gts is *worse*, there's Pokemon that can freeze your 3DS

[@Eaglebrace]

yeah, the gts is completely screwed so the only way i guess we have to find a dedicated community for those games to do trading and complete the dex or try to get hands on the other version of the game if do have the pokemon bank available.

[@doomadreadon]

@@Infindox Its not just that. The trainer profile loading can freeze the game too

[@yougotsstyle]

thank you for bringing awareness to this issue. Once I reached Y in my marathon through the mainline series (since I only beat Heart Gold but have played the other entries) seeing the infestation of clearly hacked Pokemon upset me. I know if I don't put my attention to clearing gen 6 and 7 before the official servers go down I won't be able to use the gts till a community alternative comes through (I know of Pretendo Network but unfortunately it's not publicly ready yet) but hopefully, when it happens we see an end if not a huge decline of hacked trades

[@symphony-of-the-mint2008]

This is why i just try to put out pokemon and ask for the ones i need to fill my pokedex in return. I do tend to get hacked shiny versions but i guess thats still fine

[@OHKOKyle]

Still Better than ever TRYING to view the GTS with Sun & Moon. Who the heck ever thought the "plaza" was a good idea

[@SNS3000]

If you have PowerSaves you can change the OT to yours and then rename them (I believe it involves turning them into shinies and then back). But then again some would probably say if you have PowerSaves then you wouldn't even need to bother with these trades when you can just mess with the Pokémon yourself for what you want.

[@Irene-uy7pc]

Hacking the 3ds and using PKSM or PKhex is probably an easier option unless you already own a powersaves

[@heyitshollis9278]

i agree with the other comment pksm is super easy to change names on

[@WatsonDynamite]

Actually, "Testicle" isn't in the word filter for X and Y, when i was a kid (read: I was 17) i tried nicknaming a Wobbuffet that and it just worked. I guess they must have missed that one

[@rpgfanatic9719]

If your testicle looks like a wobbufett, see a doctor.

[@WatsonDynamite]

@@rpgfanatic9719 it's because Wobbuffet is blue and I was going through some shit at the time

[@BlazeNextGen]

to be fair it has always been a problem on the GTS especially given the fact what kind of mons they one in return especially if they want a level 1 legendary (which is almost impossible to get) and it kinda sucks how awful it has gotten. I am kinda glad that SWSH and SV don´t have exactly that problem anymore but you could get it perhaps in surprise trades still

[@suppengroove]

the gts was already bad when gen 6 was current 😂 time just made it WAY easier

[@damonrichardson1999]

The GTS was always a mess and still is. Back then people kept asking for Mew and Arceus for stupid Vivillon patterns. People ask for Furfrou trims, which are impossible to trade on GTS. People ask for male/female Ditto, which is impossible without hacking. I speak from experience when I say there is a very special place in hell for the people who requested Mews for Vivillons when I first played Y way back then.

[@lespaular]

I had a lot of hours on ORAS and in Y and i used the GTS a lot and i loved every second of it. I used to bring my 3DS almost everywhere i went and i felt with the 3ds that i could run into someone and have a battle. Conventions such as PAX i truly felt like this was the case. One time while i was at one of the PAX conventions my dad accidentally bumped into me while holding a sparkling water drink without the lid on and it spilled on my 3DS, and eventually i couldn't play on it anymore unless i got a fixed one. Seeing this video years later reminded me of how passionate i was about Pokémon and how much i enjoyed playing the 3DS Pokémon titles and how i coped with my parent's divorce and having to deal with my dad and marrying to a bad woman. I remember seeing these kinds of Pokémon back then and seeing how far more corrupted it is now makes me sad on top of the online servers shutting down makes me really sad. I hope that one day modders will be able to reboot the 3DS online servers so that one day when i am able to fix my 3DS, that i will be able to play on them. Just as how I did as a kid. Kevdog, you deserve my subscription.

[@highway.]

@5:11 i was experiencing this while using it for ahwile now and i was shocked that you were able to scroll so far on the gts without you freezing

[@jeltemreal]

Ah yes, my favorite 3 genders! Back, Pokemon you want, and Quit the GTS

[@jeltemreal]

3 genders, 3 likes!

[@cool_skeleton696]

im happy someone finally talked about this issue and it just gets worse by the day sadly, also who remembers adventure snivy i feel as if he could still be behind this stuff he did some pretty bad stuff

[@KevdogPlays]

I didn't see any from them, but I didn't check OR/AS or the Alola games yet

[@cool_skeleton696]

@@KevdogPlays i know there is still some in alola that still crash your game, but in x and y i know for sure celebi has a few of his listings for pokemon and i know he has been around for the past three years

[@cool_skeleton696]

Im sorry for the late response as well I’ve been trying to pick his story apart to figure out what happend

[@VanitasYoutube]

Its incredible how gamefreak stops using some incredible things on games and stays using shit things every gen

[@saphinitygaming]

It's so unfortunate it's been in this state since around 2015-2016. Really miss using it for actual trades

[@trotteri]

I frequented the Gen 6 GTS back in 2019-2020 from my Old 3DS, and these hacked Pokémon seemingly has been there for a LONG time (I even remember the slurQuazas lol). some of these blank name Pokémon are safe to trade and are usually distributed by KZbinrs via Wonder Trades in order to promote their channels. I have a box or two of these myself back from the days I was an active pkmn trader. but curiosly, once I was trading in a WT (and not the GTS, which is, as you saw, is far more broken than all the other trading ways), and one of these hacked mons froze my 3DS right in the middle of the trade, I was super scared back then, but now I'm just wondering how they did it in a WT. thank you for the nostalgia blast and an awesome video in general!!

[@Xennikx]

Shout out to the shiny Entei I got on the GTS named “POOPY ASS”. Just like that all in caps. I cherished him

[@StepDownNerdenProductions]

I really hated the GTS in Pokemon Sun and Moon. It's Even worse than X and Y. One time I went to search for Lunala, but the game froze and I have no choice to shut off.

[@justinhamilton8647]

I’m so happy I decided to complete a living dex in 2016, the GTS was a big part of getting pokemon i wanted and I would have never been able to do it in the state it’s in now

[@rioluinriomain7771]

The Glitched Trainer Faces are Probly from the Ones Injected with the Code that Crashes Your Game that you Mentioned

[@TransNFLGirl]

It's HELL in ORAS. Every time I look for something, it's all hacked.

[@Fradiger27]

so if they close the servers are u able to send pokemons still to pokemon home?

[@GoddamnAxl]

Same thing still happens in SV too. Just less often. People still put up shiny max IV Pokémon with a name of a website out in the surprise trade.

[@Finalfazone]

even ultra sm gts are freezing when seeking trades, when loading certain trades. I was mostly looking for version exclusive pokemon but that seem impossible now. Now i just wonder trades for luck chance if i can get one

[@VocaPigeon]

I was trying to redo my vivillon collection 3 years ago to have a spare and every single one was a communication error..

[@dedennebroz3567]

You actually cannot trade for any of the Pokémon with odd wants. If the person is asking for a quit the gts level, you do not have what they are looking for. Assuming it’s not a crash

[@Butterbunbun]

Feels like it's been like this for awhile now. I remember the same type of thing happening in the wondertrade. I was trading random pokemon for old times sake, and suddenly some hacked guy with a discord invite pokemon or message shows up. Super sketchy.

[@Jahames2010]

I’ve been having the freezing problem, it is good to know the cause of it now.

[@Leto85]

I'm glad I could still get my hands on the Vivillon from the GTS I couldn't get myself in my European card ridge.

[@makithedude]

i was just playing around yesterday with the Gen6&7 GTS and this video just showed up in my recommended videos! But yeah, the state of the GTS is so bad, the second i found those hacked mons, my 3ds froze, I had to restart my console and when I wanted to enter the Plaza in gen 7 i got a ban for a while from GTS...

[@doomadreadon]

I only got a soft ban once. I had to wait for a full 30 minutes in the game without resetting before I could trade again

[@leob.4962]

I used GTS a lot on Moon back in the day to finish the pokedex. I hope we keep the wondertrade system at least, that was always a blast. Though recently I have noticed a lot more shiny hacked pokemon. Also in Scarlet, but I don't really mind keeping those as long as I don't use them

[@DankyApe]

Bro i wish more people battle. It’s hard finding people to play

[@memedealer5556]

It’s been like that for a while now 😢. Rip 3ds Pokémon and the 3ds.

[@Mutty99]

All we can do is wait for a fan server to recreate and moderate a good gts system. Gladly I finished the National Dex in Sun and Moon in 2017.

[@Nix1onit3]

In my country guys i cant download Home 😢😢. So what happens if I want to trade a competive Machamp a special set or a physical Alakazam

[@Cuprite1024]

I was able to get a Zangoose out of the ORAS GTS early this year, I think the main reason is cause I deposited the Seviper for the trade myself. It's actually *searching* for a trade that'll be... problematic. It's really unfortunate that the GTS is like this now, and that we never got the system back in the Switch games. :P

[@coreyphillips8352]

Back in the day of x/y i heavily relied on the gts to get just about every single pokemon, filling pc box with all 1-720 pokemon. I tried to do the same thing with moon but few years ago when i was trying, a good chunk of gts trades would just freeze my 3ds, did get a ton of legit trades but it was bad then and seeing the state of it now.. oof a goal like that would be impossible

[@Anoobvia]

It's best to just deposit a mon with what you're looking for as a trade for it. If you leave it for at least a day the robin hood hacker will have traded you the mon you wanted with it being full IV's and shiny.

[@spiritr4248]

Idk how to feel now because I have a real Shiny Rayquaza from a mystery gift which isn’t hacked

[@matthewdivoll3453]

Within the past year I put up a request for an Amaura. Within an hour I received one that was shiny, holding a rare candy, and had been hatched that day. I looked at it and went... yeah....

[@ashleeramey]

It sucks that they're shutting down the Internet gts, and wonder trade for the pokemon 3ds games! Hopefully you'll still be able to transfer pokemon back in forth to other games without the gts and Internet!😮😢😢

[@doomadreadon]

Luckily, Pretendo is pretty much prepared for the server shutdowns. They have their own 3DS servers as long as your 3DS is modded, you'll be online again even after Nintendo shuts down their servers.

[@Elegant_Owl]

Homie is saying a no-no word is scarier than a direct link to a stranger that could get a child groomed.

[@KevdogPlays]

I didn't say or imply anything remotely close to that

[@joeytroost791]

I had this issue years ago on omega ruby when completing the regional dex 😂 took months to get a kyogre

[@imhooks9403]

I dont think the GTS works in ultra sun and moon anymore, as I keep getting crash messages.

[@cestrumnocturnum5075]

I grew up without friends that liked pokemon, so I could only trade for first time when the GTS came out in game. I really liked to search for pokemon there, I found it relaxing. Too bad they let it become like this.

[@AkaAkiraKasai]

Only thing I remember from GTS was people wanting the most absurd trades, like I remember seeing someone who wanted a hoopa in exchange for his weedle.

[@KevdogPlays]

LOL same, the casual "I want your Arceus for my Fletchling"

[@Drexsanity]

I remember this crappy state from a year ago- looking on the Omega Ruby GTS for a Zekrom, and finding all of them lvl. 100 with ridiculous parameters and some sus nickname. I've since then stopped playing ORAS. It's honestly sad watching this, I remember the GTS during my tweens helping me exponentially with National Dex, back when the 3DS was front and center. Man those were good times.

[@904funny]

Very similar stuff has been going on with wonder trade for the past 2 years

[@itsprod.472]

The fact there are still people are out there doing this for 10 plus years is wild to me

[@AlloCyberSaur]

Glad someone’s finally talking about it

[@AlexsaurusRex]

Currently shiny hunting legendaries in ultra sun and moon, are they still going to be transferable to Pokemon home?

[@vkaelvkael]

Yes, as long as you have bank downloaded and connect it to home

[@AlexsaurusRex]

@@vkaelvkael thank you! I'm wondering if that will ever be discontinued though. The answer is probably yes

[@Reefer-Rampage69]

I haven’t played my 3ds in years but this was so nostalgic to watch lol. I remember using the GTS so much back in the day it’s crazy how time flies 😢😢

[@shinygatrgamer593]

I hope that one guy gets their lv90 Delcatty