Ok, I've been looking at this skizoo thing for a while and would like to put it to rest. Let me go over what has been found:
-- On Jul 9th, 2009, 5:41:19 PM I got a private message from skizoo asking an installation question regarding RNG Reporter -- He had not downloaded the .NET framework, which is required for the program to run. I replied on Jul 9th, 2009, 5:42:09 PM. So, at this point it is pretty safe to assume that he had no knowledge of how to abuse for Shiny or IVs.
-- Skizoo made a
post in discuss my pokemon at Jul 9th, 2009, 8:18:04 PM declaring sucess. This is 2 hours and 36 minutes later:
Got shiny Infernape - rash
30/31/30/31/31/31 HP ice 70
Breeding moves - thunder punch.
My initial assumption was that he had abused for IV's, but even in that short a timeframe I was suspicious. It takes a while to reset for a usable nature and it generally takes a while to run through calibration for IVs and then to actually hit it. I would be hard pressed to do this in 2:36. I was really curious as anyone who has done it can tell you just how difficult it is to learn everything that is required to abuse IVs. It's not a 2:36 thing.
So I PM'd him and he explained that he had watched a video (as he did in the DMP post). I asked for the link, since I wanted to see if there was actually a video on resetting IVs. He linked me to a video that explains how to get a shiny egg. Nothing about IVs.
When pressed on this he explained that he reset this Pokemon the old fasioned way.
So that's a hex flawless mixed hidden power Pokemon done in whatever the time that was left over between him getting locked on to a shiny egg of the correct nature and posting in DMP. His explaination was that he learned how to use fast hatch for this and that it took him 30 eggs.
Now even with the parents he told me he had the odds on hatching flawless are: Probability is 0.0%, or 1 in 243,937 eggs. Not bad for doing this in 2 hours and some change with 30 eggs.
But that doesn't mean much, anyone can get lucky once or twice.
-- Next up is this
post in discuss my pokemon in which he has bred a two from flawless mixed monster. Again, no RNG abuse on the IVs. Not much taken on its own, but an extension of an already incredible run of wonderful luck.
-- Next he
declares his intent to breed a bold weezing or mix thyplosion on Jul 11th, 2009, 2:21:22 AM. Now these he never posted on DMP, BUT his
next post on Jul 12th, 2009, 2:09:14 PM (1 day later) has him locked in on a new monster. Which means that he must have bred this two in that days space, as they are BOTH on his thread.
So what we have bred in that day, still without IV abuse is:
Typhlosion (OT)
Shiny: Yes
Gender: Male
Nature: Mild
Ability: Blaze
IVs:
31/
30/
30/
31/
31/
31
EVs:56 atk. / 252 sp.atk / 200 speed or UT
Hidden Power:
Ice 70
Tutor/Egg Moves: None
PokeBall: PokeBall
Location: Solaceon Town
Discription:
Weezing (OT)
Shiny: Yes
Gender: Male
Nature: Bold
Ability: Levitate
IVs:
31/x/
31/
31/
31/
30
EVs:252 HP / 242 def/ 16 Sp.atk or UT
Hidden Power:
Ice 68
Tutor/Egg Moves: Pain Split
PokeBall: PokeBall
Location: Solaceon Town
Discription:
Not too shabby. Another hex flawless mixed hidden power Pokemon (and giving him the benifit of the doubt yeilds Probability is 0.0010%, or 1 in 161,508 eggs) and a quint flawless hidden power Weezing.
-- Back to that Eevee, he claimes to have locked in at
this post on Jul 12th, 2009, 2:09:14 PM. Someone else wondered why he was getting non-perfect IVs when it was assumed that he was abusing for IVs and asks him. To which he replys:
yea I am RNG abusing.
im just gonna reset my DS until I get the right IV's and the HP ground 67+
Which is really an indication that he is not, because you don't reset your DS until you get some arbitrary spread, you reset until you get your target. This lack of understanding about the process really underscores that the previous perfect Pokemon were not IV abused.
-- The next day (Jul 13th, 2009, 1:48:57 PM ),
in this post he claims that the (non abused, look at the IVs) eevee was completed, and that, oh another non-abuses (again, look at the IVs) monster (kecleon) was completed. Pretty amazing speed there.
-- And then finally his
Thread Opened at Jul 13th, 2009, 5:37:32 PM this same day. Except there are a few other flawless or near flawless Pokemon in the mix that were never discussed, but also bred over the last 4 days (and keep in mind that these are ALL shiny which means that non of them were bred earlier than the 9th when he "learned to RNG abuse":
Gyarados (OT)
Shiny: Yes
Gender: Male
Nature: Impish
Ability: Intimidate
IVs:
31/
31/
31/x/
31/
31
EVs: 252 hp / 252 def / 4 speed or UT
Hidden Power: None
Tutor/Egg Moves: None
PokeBall: PokeBall
Location: Solaceon Town
Discription:
Completely perfect, Probability is 0.024%, or 1 in 4,221 eggs with flawless parents.
Scizor (OT)
Shiny: Yes
Gender: Female
Nature: Adamant
Ability: Technician
IVs:
31/
31/
31/x/
31/
31
EVs: 200 hp / 252 atk. / 56 speed or UT
Hidden Power: None
Tutor/Egg Moves: None
PokeBall: PokeBall
Location: Route 210
Discription:
Completely perfect, Probability is 0.024%, or 1 in 4,221 eggs with flawless parents.
Skarmory (OT)
Shiny: Yes
Gender: Female
Nature: Careful
Ability: Sturdy
IVs:
30/
31/
30/x/
31/
31
EVs: 252 HP / 56 def. / 200 Sp.Def or UT
Hidden Power: None
Tutor/Egg Moves: Brave Bird, Whirlwind
PokeBall: PokeBall
Location: Route 210
Discription:
Two off flawless, still quite a breed.
Crobat (OT)
Shiny: Yes
Gender: Male
Nature: Timid
Ability: Inner Focus
IVs: 27/x/
30/
30/26/
30
EVs:Pending
Hidden Power:
Fighting 68
Tutor/Egg Moves: Nasty Plot
PokeBall: PokeBall
Location: Route 210
Discription:
Tangrowth (OT)
Shiny: Yes
Gender: Female
Nature: Naive
Ability: Chlorophyll
IVs: 24/
30/27/
30/
31/
30
EVs:56 Atk. /200 Sp.atk / 252 Speed or UT
Hidden Power:
Fire 69
Tutor/Egg Moves: Leaf Storm, Leech Seed
PokeBall: PokeBall
Location: Route 210
Discription:
Ambipom (OT)
Shiny: Yes
Gender: Female
Nature: timid
Ability: Technician
IVs:
31/x/
30/
29/
31/
31
EVs:4 HP/ 252 sp.atk/ 252 speed or UT
Hidden Power:
Ice 59
Tutor/Egg Moves: Fake Out
PokeBall: PokeBall
Location: Solaceon Town
Discription:
Completely perfect, Probability is 0.024%, or 1 in 4,221 eggs with flawless parents. Yes, the 29 SpA is perfect for the techni set to get the 59 Hidden Power.
Sceptile (OT)
Shiny: Yes
Gender: Male
Nature: Hasty
Ability: Overgrow
IVs:
31/
30/
30/
31/
31/
31
EVs: 56 atk. / 200 sp. Atk / 252 speed or UT
Hidden Power:
Ice 70
Tutor/Egg Moves: Leaf Storm, Leech Seed, Crunch
PokeBall: PokeBall
Location: Solaceon Town
Desciption:
ANOTHER mixed hidden power monster: Probability is 0.0010%, or 1 in 161,508 eggs.
Shiny: Yes
Gender: Female
Nature: Bold
Ability: Marvel Scale
IVs:
31/x/
31/
30/
31/
31
EVs:148 HP / 252 Def. / 108 Sp.atk or UT
Hidden Power:
Electric 68
Tutor/Egg Moves: Mirror Coat
PokeBall: PokeBall
Location: Solaceon Town
Discription:
Completely perfect, Probability is 0.024%, or 1 in 4,221 eggs with flawless parents.
-- So really at this point he was being very sketchy with regards to IV abusing (even though his posts denoting a clear lack of understanding of it are very telling) but this exchange (which happened on the 17th of this month and was forwarded to me by a user) really clinched it for me:
yea IDK how to RNG abuse IV's. I just know how to do shiny eggs. Im still learning how to do it. I still needa learn how to do RNG legends.. This shit is complicated.
To me I believe that RNG abusing IV's for eggs is very stupid. I just believe thats hacking. (To my opinion) So the thing I do is just, lock in the nature I want, And use my Pokemon parents to do the Iv's. No IV abuse for me.
So basically look at all of the above Pokemon that were bred in the space of four days (they are all shiny and he came directly to me when he needed RNG reporter AND posted his first shiny in DMP) and consider the probabilities and the likelyhood of his Pokemon not being hacked.
So skizoo to the blacklist.
Also, if anyone is interested see his previous thread and note the other two hex flawless mixed hidden power ice Pokemon he's bred in the past. Without AR, again that 1 in 161,508 eggs thing. It's not really important, but just provided to show the pattern --
http://www.smogon.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50913
Keep in mind if you have faith in him, love him, or don't believe that he hacked despite the evidence -- that's fine. Continute to trade with and support him.