A typical Pokémon Moon save editor (e.g., PKHeX) consists of four core modules:

: Create any Pokémon from scratch or modify existing ones.

If you plan to trade online or battle in Rated battles, your edited Pokémon must be , not just "Legit."

Pokémon Moon (2016) stores all player progress in a single 512KB save file located on the Nintendo 3DS SD card ( /Nintendo 3DS/[ID]/title/00040000/00175e00/data/ ). The file is encrypted using a per-console AES-128 key and includes multiple hash-based checksums. A save editor is a software application that decrypts, decodes, modifies, re-encodes, and re-integrates this data to alter in-game attributes without executing game code.