/EKX/ pkhex Guide

Taken from https://pastebin.com/Sqd1zHXh Modified for SWORD AND SHIELD
QR INJECTIONS ARE KILL

Keeping the rowlet Example, making a totally legal rowlet:

1.To start, you will need the latest release of PKHeX: https://projectpokemon.org/forums/files/file/1-pkhex/

2. Extract the .zip file to any location on your computer and open PKHeX.exe.

3. In the Species field, type Rowlet, then hit enter. Below that, in the Nickname field, type Robin Hoot. If you don't want a nickname for your own Pokémon, you can untick the checkbox next to Nickname

4. Click on the Reroll button at the top of the Main tab. This isn't strictly necessary, but it will make your Pokémon appear more legal. If you want your Pokémon to be shiny, click the star button next to PID (this will change your Pokémon's PID). If you want a square shiny pokemon, hold shift while you click the star, it will become a yellow square. If you want to change the gender of your Pokémon, click on the red female symbol between the PID field and the Reroll button (if the female symbol is just a black hyphen, then you're working on a genderless Pokémon). Note that it is impossible to give a gender to a genderless Pokémon.

5. Ignore the EXP field and go to the Level field. Type in 10, and EXP should change to 560 (the experience that a Rowlett would have if it just became level 10). Obviously, you can set the level to anything between 1 and 100.

6. Change Robin Hoot's Nature to Adamant. For your own Pokémon, a list of all the natures can be found here: http://www.serebii.net/games/natures.shtml

7. Change the Held Item to a Gold Bottle Cap. A Pokémon's held item can be anything, but use your head, don't give it a key item.

8. Leave Friendship alone (unless you're injecting the Pokémon yourself). Trading a Pokémon sets its Friendship back to its base value (usually 70). If you're injecting it yourself, then you can set the value to anywhere between 0 and 255 (0 for max power on Frustration, 255 for max power on Return, FRUSTRATION AND RETURN ARE DEAD). Note that Friendship is NOT Affection (Refresh hearts).

9. Keep Robin Hoot's Ability at whatever you like. For most Pokémon, you can change the value to any of its 3 abilities. When a Pokémon evolves, it's ability number stays the same (1, 2, or H), so keep that in mind when requesting/injecting a Pokémon that can still evolve. If a pokemon has an unreleased hidden ability, the legality checker of pokehex will warn you about it, like unaware clefable, it is unreleased till pokemon home is available.

10. Tick the "Infected" box underneath Language. When you do, a drop-down box will appear beneath the checkbox, and the Cured box will tick itself. Untick the Cured box and another drop-down box will appear. Set the PkRs box to 3 and the d box to 4 to give Robin Hoot 4 full days of Pokerus. If you don't want your Pokémon to have Pokerus, just leave the boxes unticked. ALWAYS leave "Is Egg" unticked unless you are injecting the Pokémon yourself.

11. Change language to whatever you like, this new version of pkhex automatically changes the name of the pokemon to the set language.

12. Now click on the Met tab. This is where most people go wrong, so PAY ATTENTION.

13. Change Origin Game to Sword.

14. Change Met Location to Route 1. Doing so will be legal for any breedable Pokémon (ie. no Legendaries/UBs/Ditto) once we get to Step 19.

15. Keep Ball at Poké Ball. You can change the ball to anything you want with your own Pokémon (except Cherish), but you have to be able to breed the ball down.

16. Change Met Level to 1. Unless you're making a Legendary/UB/Ditto, ALWAYS DO A MET LEVEL OF 1.

17. Click the Calendar symbol inside the Met Date field and click "Today". If your computer's internal clock is correct, then this will always be legal.

18. Leave Fateful Encounter unticked. Fateful Encounter is for Pokémon received for Events and are very hard to fake without the real Event Pokémon to use as a base.

19. TICK "AS EGG". This makes the Pokémon a result of breeding and makes it easier to choose a Met Location. Without this, you need to figure out the exact level and location a Pokémon appears at and also makes it impossible to put Egg Moves on the Pokémon. (The Date field should automatically set itself to today's date, but if it doesn't follow step 17.)

20. Now click on the Stats tab.

21. Find the "Randomize IVs" button and CTRL + click on it to set all IVs to 31. If you want different IVs, you can edit them individually. IVs can be any value between 0 and 31 and will always be legal with PKHeX.

22. Click on the Hidden Power Type drop-down box and change it to Bug. This will change the IVs to match your IV spread automatically. Of course, you don't need to change Hidden Power Type if you don't plan on using Hidden Power, HIDDEN POWER IS KILL.

23. Change Robin Hoot's EVs to 252 in Atk, 252 in Spe, and 6 in HP. 252 is the highest number of EVs a single stat can have, and 510 (252 + 252 + 6) is the maximum EVs a Pokémon can have overall. EVs can be distributed in any fashion, however. They don't need to always go to 252. Keep in mind that fewer than 4 EVs won't change a stat at all.

24. Click on the Attacks tab. This is another area where people go wrong often.

25. Change Robin Hoot's first attack to Leafage and his second attack to Peck. Alternatively, you can click on the words "Current Moves" and it will give your Pokémon a fully legal (and randomized) moveset that will always work. Don't worry if there are exclamation points next to a move (yet!).

26. Click the words "PP Ups" to give Robin Hoot 3 PP Ups for each of his moves. You don't have to apply PP Ups if you don't want to, however.

27. RELEARN MOVES: The absolute easiest way to make your Pokémon untradeable is by fucking up its relearn moves. All you need to do is click on the words "Relearn Moves" and it automatically set the relearn moves necessary for the moveset you defined. There is a catch though: clicking "Relearn Moves" will try to make your moveset legal, even if it can't. This means that it will remove the exclamation points next to your moves in Current Moves, but there can still be an exclamation point next to the move in Relearn Moves. THIS MEANS THAT THE MOVE CANNOT BE LEARNED BY YOUR POKEMON UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. If there is an exclamation point next to a move under Relearn Moves, take it out of Current Moves and try again.

28. Click on the OT/Misc tab.

29. TID and SID don't matter unless you want your injected Pokémon to "yours" (ie. no boosted XP due to being traded). 2 ways: Hack yourself and check, but that would turn all this guide kind of useless, trade one of your pokemon to someone who can check for you.

30. You can change OT to be your character's name, if you want. On the surface it will look like you caught the Pokémon, but you'll still get the boosted XP of a Pokémon that you got from a trade. I definitely recommend changing it from "PKHeX", though. It screams "INJECTED" if you don't (it will still be legal if you don't).

31. At the bottom of the tab, click Reroll next to Encryption Constant. Like before, it's not 100% necessary, but it makes your Pokémon look more legit.

32. By this point, you should see either a green check mark next to the sprite of your Pokémon or a red exclamation point. Regardless of what it is, click on the symbol. If a window pops up and says "Legal!", go to the next step. If it gives you an error, ask in the /ekx/ thread.

33. You're done! Right click on your Pokémon's sprite and click "QR!" (or shift + click on the sprite) and a window will pop up with your QR code. Copy the QR code by clicking on it and paste it into Paint/GIMP/Photoshop/whatever and save the image as a .png to upload. QR is gone, this is left behind as a legacy of what it was to inject a pokemon and how easy it was before.