Title. The two Hisuian Pokemon aren't shiny but they are in Apriballs.
I'll trade all 3 for the 1 Vivillon, so I'll obviously go first when trading and send 2 of the 3 for it.
I don't mind if it's cloned, but I do want a legit one.

Ok, so this is gonna be an odd one.
It's not intended to be a Stinkpost, but I saved it for Sunday just in case.
Some necessary context:
For approximately 10 years now, I've been playing in a fan-made 6 v. 6 singles cartridge format inspired by Smogon but that aspires to make as many different fully evolved Pokemon playable within a single tier. It's not perfect, as some Pokemon are simply impossible bad (e.g., Luvdisc) and some Pokemon are so good on stats/typing alone that they rock even heavily restricted (e.g., Aegislash was still OP even after we outright banned King's Shield on him). But it does a decent enough job.
The way we collapse the tiering is by imposing significant estrictions based on power level. For example, the strongest offensive Pokemon generally can't hold Choice items or Life Orb, and only the weakest offensive Pokemon are allowed to Terastalyze. Notably, we have a global rule applicable to all pseudolegendary 'mon that prevents them from holding Choice items, Life Orb, Leftovers, or Assault Vest.
Beyond that, it has the standard Smogon clauses, more or less, plus some additional, very impactful rules. Most notably, Stealth Rock and Swords Dance are banned outright, and all moves must have their base PP (i.e., no PP Ups used). I'd say the format is roughly RU or NU in power level (maybe somewhere in between).
Generally speaking, the only Pokemon that are banned are legendaries. (Other comparably strong Pokemon are allowed but simply heavily restricted.) The rationale for this legendary ban originally (in the X/Y era) was as follows: (1) they're hard to obtain, as they can't be bred and are often event exclusive or transfer only, (2) they are hard to get correct IVs on without hacking or resetting a billion times, and (3) most of them are overpowered given our intentionally suppressed power level.
However...
The current situation:
The passage of time has whittled away the basis for the legendary ban. Power creep among nonlegendaries has given us numerous "stronger than a legendary" 'mon like Aegislash, Toxapex, or Palafin. And old legendaries are no harder for a new player to get than Hisuian evolutions that only evolve in Legends: Arceus, which are allowed. But most notably, Scarlet/Violet makes it so legendaries are actually easier to IV train than nonlegendaries!
So our council is now, for the first time ever, debating removing the legendary ban. We would still ban all legendaries with above 600 base stat total (our current ceiling), which addresses most of the Ubers-tier guys, but everyone else is theoretically fair game.
The problem is that even a "weak" legendary, if completely unhit, would dominate this low power format, and so virtually every legendary would need serious restrictions to be balanced without raising our power level (which we do not want to do). And there are enough 600 bst or below legendaries that balancing each individually would probably more than double the length of our banlist (which we do not want to do either).
So the proposal under consideration is to try to come up with a single rule that addresses almost all of the 600 bst or below legendaries cleanly and makes them acceptable to use. By definition this would "overhit" the weaker legendaries and we are generally OK with that. We are also fine with individually banning a few specific legendaries if necessary for this to work (for example, Urshifu and Chi-Yu seem like they'd be an issue almost no matter what we do).
So, why am I telling you all this?:
I need your help!
Because these are the rules we've played under for years, we have almost no exposure to using any of the legendaries in a competitive game. So, frankly, we don't know what the best way to balance them might realistically be. We don't have the faintest clue!
But you guys, regardless of which Smogon format you play, probably have lots of experience using and going up against these legendaries, and so I want to tap into that experience, if you can spare the time.
So basically, I'm looking for suggestions!
The current "front runner" is: "Legendary Pokemon can't hold items or know status moves." That is extremely restrictive, I recognize, and it may need to be broadened a bit (e.g., maybe they can still hold Berries), but it may also be that we need a different approach entirely. But that at least, I think, would nerf most of the 600 bst and below legendaries down to the point of not being broken (even if it significantly overhits a few poor souls like Kantonian Articuno).
But am I dramatically underestimating or overestimating the legendaries (such that this hit is woefully inadequate or would make them all unplayable)? Are there legendaries that would dominate an RU / NU power level format even with those restrictions (like Chi-Yu)?
What would you do, if you were making a rule to try to solve this problem?

so as the title says my mom is a cheater. I just caught on to what she was doing earlier(couple hours ago). I was on her phone playing pokemon go and curiosity got the better of me and I went through her texts and saw that she was f*cking another guy.. my dad loves my mom to death he would do anything for her but my mom just doesn't even care anymore. I know i violated her privacy but now I just hate her more, I'm so disappointed and disgusted.. what do I do..?

Found this at a carboot sale, our little boy loves Mewtwo so had to buy it... Looking online it says it says it's a some what 'rare card'. Can anyone provide some more information?

Happy Sunday all!
Sadly, looking to sell my Switch OLED and every game/accessory I have with it. Could really use the cash and I don't use this as much as I would like anymore. Switch was bought last year at Target and is in mint shape. Includes original box and dock/cables. Also, will include a Pro controller, Hori split pads, Pokeball controller and Pokémon hard case.
The 10 games being sold with it are
Legend of Zelda Breath of the wild, Tears of the Kingdom. pokemon Shield and Pokemon Lets go. Super Smash Bros. Fate Extella. Diablo 3. TLoZ Links Awakening. Kirby Return to Dreamland and Remi Lore.
EDIT: Forgot to include Switch comes with a 128gb microsd
Looking for $600 OBO shipped.
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[LV50 players]-[Norway]-[Continental]
-If you just want free gifts, just add us, open the gifts, just remember send one back the rare tim we open.
-Want free gifts and benefit from the XP boost, please read the full post :)
(- Side note: Currently I send the max 100 gifts every single day)
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[JUST OPEN THE GIFT] But always send one in return the rare times we open a present :D
-We will rename our buddies when we plan to open the pressent that will give the XP boost so that you can be prepared to.
- It will always be on a Sunday at 9PM CET/Central European Time (Paris, Madrid, Oslo). Check the buddy name (in almost 3 years I've been doing this I was forced to change it once.)
(I have too many international friends on my friendslist to find a time that will benefit everyone on event days. Sorry!!! I thought it best to stay consistant...)
- When we do plan to open the gifts we will always send you one first so that you can open it: you have about 20-25 min to open it before we eventually open the gift.
(We tend to open about 9:25-9:35pm (never before 9:20) - Just FYI if you have opned max amount of gifts this day)
- I am an active gamer and will join good raids, don't hesitate to invite me, (but please know I have been playing since the start and there's is so many I need of each pokemon, lol) don't be discouraged if I don't join inn, also sometimes I just plain miss my opertunity to join. :)
- If I have removed you previously it's because you have been inactive for a long time; ABSOLUTELY nothing personal. I have near the max amount of friends possible, so if you're inactive I got to make some space. HOWEVER! Just re-add me and we will pick up where we left off, NP! :)
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If you unfortunately were not on when I opned the present and you wanted to use a XP egg; next time you open POGO, instnatly go to your friends list (don't give it time to load on the map) and check if we have gone up to the next LV of friendship.
If so, I DO NOT GUARANTEE it will work ( as pogo can change it's settings at any time, but I haven't heard it has yet as of now), but it has worked perfectly fine in the past I've been in that situation, and as long as you don't get the "Friendship LV up screen" you can still pop a egg and wait for the mentioned text pop and you should get double XP.
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Summed up, hurry to the friendslist (don't let pogo load properly on the map), check if our friendship has hit the next milestone, if so you can pop a XP egg, go to the map and wait for the page to load properly and then the "Friendship XP gain" page will load and you will have your double XP as well.
If done exactly right it should work just fine unless Niantic has made changes to the game.
Note: If the "Lv up friendship" page loads, where it notifies of your XP gain, before you pop a XP egg, then it is too late, do not use a XP egg at this point.

I cant read japanese

What up Pokefam and friends. My new Pokemon Trade Up Challenge Video is now up! 8th video in the series as I go to local card shops to see how high I can trade up, starting from a paperclip. Tune in now to see the results! #Pokemon #hype #zarmy #YouTube u/YouTube u/TeamYouTube #PokemonTCG

I don’t know what’s happening with online but it seems like something is. I keep seeing countdown posts on here. Here are some final codes if they are still useful!

So I'm using hshop to redownload this game as I want to restart it. Anyways I go on hshop, extra, misc, and I find 3 Pokemon rumble worlds. First I download the biggest file and I was confused as the image was different than the one I had (from the eShop before it passed). I played through it though it had some weird red text on the bottom. I played until I reached the shop, which was when the game crashed. Afterword I decided to download the second biggest file, which had the same image. I thought screw that, and uninstalled. The smallest file I downloaded has the correct image, but still had the red text. I got a little bit further before my 2ds crashed, and I had enough so I uninstalled that one. Is this normal or am I doing something wrong?

I recently moved into a new place and going through boxes and totes I found my old Pokemon card collection, I spend a good amount of time and money into it quite a long time ago, do cards still go for decent money or did they go the way of the Beanie Baby? Lol
Also where is good place to find cards to complete my collection? I never finished getting some of them like the Eevee evolutions and now I'm kinda getting that itch lol
I also have other cards but only 20 pictures and some underneath other cards in the binder

I've been wanting to get a tattoo of my favorite pokemon. I found an artist that I was interested in and asked what his rates were and the shop said his rates are $250 an hour. I told the tattoo shop I wanted the tattoo on my leg and it would be about 4 inches tall and maybe 2-3 inches wide. They said it would take around 3 - 3.5 hours to complete. I don't think I'm going to go through with it, but I just wanted to know if this is too much to pay for that size.
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Main wants are here: google sheets Values for the PC cards can also be seen in the values tab. I am flexible with some of these. TCGcollector images
I am willing to look at binders but I ask that you identify the cards you are interested in of mine first.
Personal Collection
Gold, Rainbow, Full Art, Etc Binder
VMAX, V, GX, VSTAR, Etc Binder
Holos and misc Binder
Misc Items
Close Ups:
Gengar
Tyranitar
Alakazam
SETS: not looking to split portions of sets (holos, rares, unc/com)
Base Set Holos
Jungle Holos
Fossil Holos
Team Rocket Holos
Base 2 Holos
Non Holo Rares
Base-Jungle-Fossil Common and Uncommons
Base 2-Team Rocket Non-Holos
I am also open to buying/selling but prefer to trade first. I will be using TCG Verified Sellers with ~1000 sales in combination with Ebay recently sold as the baseline for pricing.
NO LONGER AVAILABLE/PENDING
GG35 Leafeon Vstar
GG51 Hisuian Samurott V
TG23 Umbreon VMAX