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  1. Okay, first of all, none of these so called arguments that completely prove you to be correct or destroy hackers are not real arguments. All you do is complain and make silly statements and excuses that make absolutely no sense. Blatantly calling people who disagree with you morons just because you think your arguments prove the superiority of legitimate breeders makes me so mad that I feel like it's necessary for someone to prove you wrong. I'm going to go over all you said in this video and show you how your "tryhard" opinions you call "arguments" make absolutely no sense.
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  3. As a disclaimer: I breed my own Pokemon because I enjoy it. However I don't care if my opponent uses hacked mons as long as the move sets / builds are legit. I don't care if I receive hacked mons via wonder trading or something like that and when I trade with people I'm not going to track all the way to its origins in order to make sure it is not hacked. There is no difference between hacked and bred Pokemon in a battle and that is what matters. Onwards.
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  5. Your first argument is: "You don't have time to play Pokemon if you don't have time to breed". Do you even realize how stupid this sounds? Let's say that you have an hour of free time every day and you want to use that time to play Pokemon. The rest you have to spend at school/work, taking care of family, sleeping or what have you. You can choose to use that one hour with breeding or you can use it to battle with people. The point of playing Pokemon is to do something you enjoy and if you don't enjoy breeding but have to do it to be "legit" it takes way your free time you could have used to do something you like. Breeding and playing should be treated as two separate things in a sense that you need to prioritize on what you enjoy the most to get the most out of your free time.
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  7. The second one is the classic dumbest argument of all time: "Yes, people do have time because I did it too". Good on you, but does this prove anything? People have different priorities in their life, different capacities of taking stress and mental pressure, different needs for sleep and other necessities and stuff like that. Just because you managed to have time to breed your mons under all the mentioned circumstances doesn't mean everyone is able to do that. The main difference is that you are passionate with this and obviously you are going to make time for something you have the passion for. If you were a huge basketball enthusiastic of course you would find time to play / watch it every now and then. This idiotic argument is like homeopathy: just because a miraculous cure happened to you doesn't mean that the homeopathic whatever you were taking would actually cure anything on a larger scale.
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  9. Next you go on a rant about getting an unfair advantage when skipping the training part and using that time to battle to gain competitive experience. First of all: after a certain point of playing enough you will be good enough of a battler to know how to use a team simply by looking at it. An experienced player knows how to use a team of six really well after few battles, so this would only apply to newer players who are getting into the competitive playing in general. However new players will be going through guides and replays all the time to soak up all the information possible, and even breeding a competitive set teaches them a lot about competitive battling in general (stuff like optimal spreads / moves and reasoning behind them, team roles etc.) Also by following that logic all the battle simulators like Showdown and Pokemon Online should be banned as well since you can use them to practice and gain experience without breeding your mons. Taking this logic even further you could even say that is an unfair advantage if you have played the game for 7 years compared to 2 months. No matter which way you look at it people have invested different amounts of time and effort into becoming a better player and if you are new to the game you are new to all aspects of it and if you are experienced you are experienced with all the aspects of it. True: it saves time, but since there are so many other ways of getting better at the game than just playing on Wi-Fi (for example, watching videos of competitive games, battle simulators, guides etc.) you can't really use that as an argument. And if you are that convinced that this gives you an advantage you can watch videos or even play on Showdown while breeding since cycling around in game doesn't really require that much concentration to begin with.
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  11. Also you go on a mini rant about how everything is so luck based that apparently in 90 % of the cases skill doesn't matter. I have no idea why you even bring this up since it completely disregards your argument of having extra time to gain experience. Why would you need experience if almost every time the winner is decided by luck? I'm not going to go over how wrong you are with this also but I'm just gonna go on a limb and say that you make arguing against you really easy by disproving your own points within the same sentence.
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  13. "By using a hacked Pokemon you prove that you've had no ability to bring that Pokemon". Really? How does this make any sense? If you have the means to make a competitive by breeding it but you decide to make that by hacking it why does it make a difference? The beginning of a team building process is always the same: you choose six mons, figure out optimal move sets and EV spreads and then you make the team and then you use it in the battle. Whether you hack the mon or breed it you have the ability to bring the Pokemon since it's possible to get it in the game. It's not like hackers magically see your team and then instantly generate a counter out of nowhere and use something they didn't have access to as the battle was about to start. All this "argument" is, is just a salty whining after losing. The opponent made a better team and that very same team could have been made by breeding all the mons. I have hard time saying anything more because of how flat out ridiculous this argument is.
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  15. Now what I'd be mostly interested in is to see this official, universal rulebook that applies to every single Pokemon game played. I tried to search and all I could find was the ruleset for official Nintendo VGC format. This can be applied to other Nintendo metagames such as battle spot, but has nothing to do with other metas, such as smogon singles or random battles between people. Saying it's illegal because it says so in the VGC rulebook is like saying you are not allowed to use Greninja in battle spot because Smogon rules disallow it. There is no universal Pokemon codex that would apply to everything you do in the game. The VGC rulebook is by no means applicable to any other way of playing so why should we assume that this rule specifically can be applied to even battles between friends. Yes, you are not allowed to use hacked Pokemon in official Nintendo events but that doesn't mean that if you own a hacked Pokemon a special anti-hack agent of Nintendo is going to find you and take your DS because of cheating.
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  17. Secondly, this is a rule created by Nintendo for their official metagames. It is not a universal ethic problem or an official law. None of the rulesets include any reasoning as to WHY this would be illegal. Nintendo has just decided that hacked Pokemon are illegal and that's it, but no one bothers to question why this is the case? "Do this because this person says so" is not a convincing argument if it cannot be backed up by anything. In my opinion it is a stupid rule to begin with since the point of official Nintendo competitions is to test who is the best battler in their format, not who has the most dedication to breed their mons. You can think about any law or rule in a same way: if you can find reasoning as to why a national law or official rule should be changed it should spur conversation and using it as an argument without any reasoning behind it loses its meaning. Think about how stupid it would sound if I said that same sex marriage shouldn't be allowed since it says so in the official law book, end of conversation. Not a convincing argument, huh?
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  19. "I would say that the best comparison is steroids". That is the worst comparison ever. By using steroids you can boost your performance to higher than normal levels or achieve levels of muscle strength or fitness that you couldn't even achieve just by training. Using steroids is like using all 252 IV mons. That is wrong since it cannot be achieved in a normal way and it gives you an advantage over others. If we use bodybuilding as an example, using hacked mons is like using protein supplements: it speeds up the process or training but by using them you cannot reach higher levels of fitness than people who excercisee without them. And I'm not even going to touch all the health risks of steroids which is one of the big reasons behind them being illegal.
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  21. What I agree though is that if a community wants to keep themselves hack free they should be allowed to do so. They can have whatever reasons for that, but nevertheless that should be respected in a way that Smogon community should respect VGC community and vice versa. However just because their community doesn't allow it, it shouldn't once again be a universal rule for all the communities.
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  23. Last but not least, just because something is easy or easier than it used to be doesn't mean that everyone should do it. Yes, breeding might be easy and fast compared to something that was hard and time consuming before doesn't mean that everyone gets the same amount of satisfaction out of it. Mathematics has become way easier since introduction of calculators and other machines but does it still make it enjoyable to everyone? No. If you enjoy breeding and you feel like it gives you something you should be free to do it but if you hate breeding, think it as a chore or task and want to focus on actual competitive battling, why should you waste your time?
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  25. Even after watching this video and answering with way longer post than what I originally intended, I do not understand why this is even a matter of debate. As I said above using hacks takes nothing away from people breeding their mons and vice versa. What matters is how you use those Pokemon in a battle. If you lose to someone who played by using hacked mons with legit sets with your self-bred Pokemon you didn't lose because he cheated. You lost because the opponent played better, had a better team or in some cases had better luck. All this is in my opinion is just breeders and anti-hack people taking cover behind "you cheated" arguments after losing in a battle.
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  27. Just like with basically every single one of your videos you go over your arguments and then proceed to claim that this 100 % proves you to be right without ever taking counterarguments into account. Once again you have proved nothing. You have stated your arguments an here you have valid counterarguments to everything you said. It's extremely arrogant to state that you straight up win an argument if you even refuse to listen to other people's arguments. If you want to convince anyone you need to defend your opinions when something opposing is being presented instead of just calling them "disgusting cheaters that you just completely trashed".
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