Is this a legit shiny?

[RoseVex]

I got this Togekiss through a wonder trade. It's lvl 100 and shiny. As far as I can tell it's legit but I'd like it if someone could definitely confirm it one way or the other.

 

[Gengarzilla]

It sure... looks legit to me, but I'm no self-professed expert. See that black icon near the red "shiny" star? I'd say that verifies the location of hatching.
Have you checked its IVs?

 

[RoseVex]

It sure... looks legit to me, but I'm no self-professed expert. See that black icon near the red "shiny" star? I'd say that verifies the location of hatching.
Have you checked its IVs?

I've only just started getting into that side of it and trying to breed for perfect IVs and using Wonder Trade/GTS so i'm not 100% sure how you would even check that.

 

[Gengarzilla]

I've only just started getting into that side of it and trying to breed for perfect IVs and using Wonder Trade/GTS so i'm not 100% sure how you would even check that.

I see. It's a little different from past generations but this Bulbapedia page might help.

 

[RoseVex]

I see. It's a little different from past generations but this Bulbapedia page might help.

Finally got out to the Battle Tree

 

[Gengarzilla]

All six of them are perfect? I might be totally wrong here but that just feels too good to be true on a shiny, Pudding reminds me of this level 100 shiny Groudon with five perfect IVs (just missing the unused Sp. Atk) that I got from a trade back in my Omega Ruby. It's from HGSS, back before legends were guaranteed three perfect IVs.

I am a little bit suspicious now, maybe someone else here can confirm this for me?

 

[SirOni]

The date the egg was hatched is earlier than the date it was received. I'm gonna say it's a been generated. It's got absolutely everything in the right place for it.

 

[SpikOriundo]

Yeah, the 6IVs plus being shiny and lvl 100 makes it fall onto the suspicious side. Plus, as said, the date of hatching is before the egg was received, so yeahhh...
Put it on your collection, or use it to get some IVs, wouldn't recommend using it.

 

[CynthiaLover]

I agree with everyone else. I'm no expert, but 6 perfect IVs, shiny, and Lv 100 seems too good to be true. Plus, like everyone else said, the hatch date is before the egg was actually received, so, yeah, that's very fishy. Reminds me of the time I go a 6 IV, shiny, and Lv 100 Azelf via wonder trade in Y who has an origin dating back to Gen IV (forgot which game, but since they hadn't implement the 3 perfect IV rule for such Mons until much later, it seemed very fishy). But keep it for you collection and perhaps exploit it for breeding purposes yourself, as it is a rare female regardless. But I'm leaning toward the hacked side of the argument here.

 

[Pilup99]

Just a note, that date is only impossible in US versions of the games. Everywhere else they do DD/MM/YYYY, so if this is a European copy, or really anywhere outside of the US, the dates check out as Jan. 4 and Mar. 3.

Though that doesn't discount the other observations.

 

[DoctorWhy]

It's within bounds, but definitely obtained by cheating generation.

 

[corysmith]

I have a few that have messed up dates because I created the egg on the current date and then Pelago glitched them to hatch.

 

[Gengarzilla]

I'm a Brit so the dates weren't coming across as unusual. Thanks for picking it up, guys.

 

[Pilup99]

I'm a Brit so the dates weren't coming across as unusual. Thanks for picking it up, guys.

If you have a British copy of the game then the dates should display as you would expect them. So the dates are fine. Which means it's technically possible that it's legit, even if it's pretty unlikely.