aww. Shame. I thought it would be a grand debate about the 'evasion clause' or about how ridiculously overpowered Garchomp is and whether or not either should be considered cheating in battle simulators such as "pokemon online". Alas, i was wrong.
Hmmm, touchy subject for me to be honest. I consider getting your high level pokemon from D/Pe/Pl and tranferring them through the time capsule in SS/HG so you can use them to fight the gyms to be cheating. My friend did this and i found it quite saddening. He might as well have not bothered buying it really, but i got over it.
I think what you're doing can be defined as cheating. Lets liken it to a bank. You have money in the bank. You want that money but there is a queue of customers in front of you and no cash machine for miles around. So you instead use a machine to break into the bank vaults and take out a value of money that you actually have stored in your account. This is still going to be labelled a bank robbery. It is still illegal. Sure, the customers weren't too bothered and were able to do their business, sure you'd have got the money out had you waited in line or travelled to a cash machine. But you didn't. You did something that is deemed illegal to satisfy your own comforts. Sure, by getting these pokemon early on, the story and game progression probably won't be bothered, sure you'd have got these pokemon later on after the league or even through trades had you beaten the first few gyms. But no. You had to use an Action Replay in order to satisfy your own comforts.
I know this probably seems like an extreme of the situation, but its still a worthy parrellism (in my head, i'm sure someone will point something wrong out with it, which will be fair enough).
On another note, seriously, having qualms about the new generation of pokemon is silly. I missed out on Diamond, Pearl and Platinum this way, because Garchomp's over-poweredness-to-easiness-to-get ratio aggravated me to no end. Those games were great and i regret not playing them when they came out with my friends. I thought all Black and White pokemon looked ridiculous, but i bit the bullet and played the game and have come to realise that actually, they aren't that bad. By being all stubborn and "THESE POKEMON ARE GONNA SUCK I WANT MY TYRANITAR!" you're going to miss out on wonders such as Excavalier, Liligant and Litwick. You probably can't comprehend what i mean, but imagine if someone told you that they thought only pokemon in the Unova pokedex should be in any pokemon game. This person wanted to hack the remake of pokemon crystal so that he could battle using his Hydraigon, Excadrill and Bisharp that he'd become so accustomed to.
It just sounds silly and very childish. Its almost like complaining when playing Final Fantasy VIII because you can't play as Cloud. If you don't like the new pokemon then just buy a new copy of Platinum.
I hope i managed to make my point.
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