The other day, the brother in law was outside with his friend (They're  both around 10-11) and I decided to stir some emotions up and told them they both have weak pokemon.  Of course as children thinking they're Gods of gaming they retorted back and hopefully in the near future I can battle them and have my giggles.

The problem is with local wifi play, all the cups have so many restrictions on them, you can't battle with half of your team.  So you're stuck using No Restrictions, which is where my problem lies.  My pokemon are all evel 70-80.  I hate the grind to 100, it's long, boring and extremely tedious.  From what I've gathered, all their pokemon are level 100 (Assuming AR was used for rare candies).  So my question is do you guys think using cheats to get 999x Rare Candies to save yourself the time of levelling them up is cheating?  Having a fully charged VS Seeker to decrease EV training times cheating?  Battle Items, TMs, etc?

My biggest issue with cheating is pokemon having moves they shouldn't, abilities they shouldn't, and stats they shouldn't.  I figure as long as I don't do that, put all the grunt work of EV/IV breeding/training in myself, it isn't a huge issue as it just saves hours and hours of work.  I'd like to think and assume most people have or do similar things to save time, so this should be at least acceptable.

Thoughts?

Use of artificial rare candy i wouldn't consider cheating (especially since it's only going to hurt you in the long run), directly messing with EV's/IV's, or assigning either illegal moves (like giving an Empoleon Megahorn), or just assigning breed-only moves, those i would consider cheating.

Hell, i wouldn't consider making many copies of certain TM's cheating.

Rare candies won't hurt in the long run, because I fully EV train my pokemon first, then level them. If I just did it to level them, then it would.

Moan. Glad, my thinking wasn't flawed then.

Yeah, Rare candies would save a lot of time once a pokemon is fully EV trained.
Anything that you can't do in the game normally is cheating to me :s
I don't do any of that. My pokemon are all legit. None are level 100 though.

I consider use of a cheating device, for whatever purpose, to be cheating.

@ Mr Khan

I would have to replay the game multiple times to get multiple TM's, while some other guy can have 99 in 10 seconds? Seems like cheating to me.

pokemon red...i had a level 100 charzard without cheating =D


it took me my whole 4thgrade year lol

^^
And that's the point. It takes a LOOOOONG time to get them to 100, and local play has some crappy rules, so the only way to have it fair is to use the crappy rules and have crappier pokemonz, or use WFC, and not get to see the look on his face when I dominate. D:

As long as you don't do stuff that wouldn't be possible normally (illegal movesets, massive EVs, and so on), it's fair game, imo.

You could always also do WFC, but sitting next to each other.

im done with EV training, its such a waste of time.
id just rather use Action Replay and get a godly Deoxys

so what if i cheat, the more fun i have :D

The wifi in my house is crap, drops all the time. Local is just easier.