Question, is there anyway to tell if a pokemon you got on the GTS is legit or not? I heard once (not sure if true or not, just want to be cautious) that breeding with a hacked pokemon could produce a bad egg which could corrupt your save file.
Reason I ask is 3 part. First I was trading a level 44 Skorupi back and forth inbetween my HG and Platinum game a bit back to transfer a few items over, and was doing so for my Platinum's Garchomp (which was 50 up at the time). Thinking no one would trade a Garchomp for a Skorupi. When I tried to trade I noticed he was gone, got back on HG and noticed someone had traded a Garchomp for him, it was exactly level 50, with PKRS, and had moves you'd expect to find on a wild Garchomp (like dig).
Second time was when I traded for a Metagross, I got one, but it was level 54 and only knew takedown. Which I know Metagross's first stage can learn only that move, but not sure how a lvl 54 Metagross has only that.
Third was recently when I just for the heck of it I put one of my female pain split Spiritomb's up for a Manaphy over night, not expecting anything, and when I checked the next day someone had traded a shiny level 35 Manaphy for it.
I guess I was more asking if you guys thought it was ok if I breed one of them, as I didn't want to take the chance. Also just thought I'd offer, I taught a Smeargle morning sun and flare blitz and plan on breeding them into a Growlithe eventually if anyone wants one when I do. When I start Heart Gold over I was planning on a morning sun Growlithe, breeding the above Metagross, and also having a Larvitar, Evee (prob for a Jolteon or Vaporeon), and a Bagon (since I have 60 plus Garchomp and Dragonite, to complete the collection lol) as my starting team. Getting that Smeargle ready tho made me realize how awesome it is for breeding, never tried it before. I was wanting morning sun, and thought the only option was a lvl 71 Espeon, which was out of the question. When I found out that with next to no effort I could challenge the couple below Solaceon Town and teach it morning sun with a lvl 20 Beautifly, it was
(didn't hurt that I could tack flare blitz on via my Infernape so I didn't have to wait forever to evolve Growlithe.)