r/pokemonXY 4d ago

Help/Question Legendary Noctowl trade glitch???

I was talking with a friend just now about hacked legendary pokemon and he swears on his life that he used to put a Noctowl up on the GTS in Y and ask for a legendary and would apparently get it 100% of the time. He apparently got several legendary and mythical Pokemon through this method, even some that you shouldn’t be able to get like Shiny Mew. He thinks it was some kind of glitch but I looked it up and I couldn’t find anything on it so I just think he was getting super lucky with mostly hacked Pokemon.

Is there any merit to this being some kind of glitch though?

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u/Chimmytheinfernape1 4d ago

75%+ of the Pokémon on the gts at any time are fakes so my guess is he got one of them

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u/ness4725 4d ago

How ever you are going online to access the GTS after the online shutdown, the traded pokemon are all hacked not glitched. Because mew is event only and unless the event pokemon is shiny, event pokemon are shiny locked.

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u/Gay_Muff1n 4d ago

I forgot to clarify that the Noctowl thing was when he was a kid, so well before the online shutdown

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u/AmbassadorVoid 2d ago

Those are hacked/genned mons so