The is not slowing down any with its releases of new expansion sets to, and this next one may be the most popular yet. The set will kick off the TCG's 2024 lineup with 240 cards, over 100 of which will feature shiny and new Pokémon ex variations. A comparable set has already debuted in Japan with the name although the full card lists for the two will not be identical. While, at the time of writing, there has not yet been a full reveal of which cards will carry over to, there are many that are expected to.
Why it’s OK that so many top Pokémon players ‘cheat’
14.11.2023 - 20:27 / polygon.com / Many
Does a Pikachu lose legitimacy if you didn’t organically breed and train it yourself? What if you hacked a copy of a game and created it? Both are virtual, but is one less valid? I don’t think any of the great philosophers pondered the ethics of hacked Pokémon, but these questions have long served as the center of debate within the ranks of the world’s best competitive Pokémon players.
During the 2023 Pokémon World Championships in Yokohama, Japan, a number of players were disqualified for using hacked Pokémon. In a recent interview with gameland.gg, one pro player estimated as many as 90% of players in tournaments use hacked Pokémon. To some, this reveal is scandalous: These are supposed to be the world’s best players. Why would they need to cheat? However, the debate brings up genuine questions about the challenges of training and catching Pokémon fit for competitive play. It also brings up questions about the strictness of the rules behind competitive play, and the way that current versions of Pokémon, including Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, lack certain gameplay features that would benefit top competitive players.
First, it’s important to note that competitors are not using hacks to create Pokémon that surpass the limits of what’s mathematically or strategically possible in the game. A Pokémon’s stats vary within a set range based on a number of factors — take a Pokémon like Dragonite, for example, and its speed stat. The slowest possible Dragonite will always be faster than the fastest possible Slowbro, because the range of Dragonite’s speed stat is higher than Slowbro’s. If you hacked a Slowbro into your game that was faster than a Dragonite, that would be clear-cut cheating, because it’s not possible to achieve by playing the game normally.
A high-tier player wouldn’t hack the game to create a Slowbro that can outspeed a Dragonite. Instead, they will hack in a Dragonite that has the best stats a Dragonite could possibly have. You could get this Dragonite legitimately in the game, but without hacking, you’d have to spend time and a lot of in-game resources on training the Dragonite and maxing out its stats. One Pokémon might not take much time to train, but pro players are often iterating on an idea dozens of times across all six Pokémon they’d have on their team, which adds up to hours and hours spent making the Pokémon rather than battling with them.
Scarlet and Violet contain quality-of-life features that making acquiring and training tournament-ready Pokémon easier than it was a few years ago — items like mints and Bottle Caps let you adjust a Pokémon’s stats more easily — but they still take time and in-game money to get, and earning more money in Scarlet and Violet can be a massive grind.
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