It just dawned on me that I never did post this here. Better late than never, I guess.
Several months ago, I was replaying Pokemon Colosseum and ended up snagging a Shadow Qwilfish that turned out to be Jolly, with an IV spread of 28/31/24/5/27/30. I didn't soft-reset it or anything; I just caught it and went along with the story, so I was surprised and excited when I noticed its stats were unusually high (though finding out its Spe was 30 instead of 31 was a bit of a sucker punch). If my avatar wasn't enough of a giveaway, Qwilfish is one of my favorite Pokemon, and the fact that a Gen III-born Qwilfish can learn Swords Dance was another plus. I ultimately decided to do a ribbon project on it, which I managed to complete a little over a month ago. Pics will go below, of course.
In order to obtain the Wi-Fi Tower ribbon from Gen IV, I ended up having to utilize homebrew Wi-Fi servers since the official servers are obviously dead. But beyond that, the rest of the ribbons were obtained through hard work and insanity dedication. The Gen III ribbons were easy enough to get; the tower ribbons were quick to obtain since I already had a dedicated frontier team of RNG abused Pokemon, and the contests were a cakewalk in spite of the contest stats not being maxed. Gen IV contests were still easy, though the tower ribbons gave me a hard time. Setting up the altwfc server to work with my retail platinum cart was problematic mostly due to my router not supporting WEP encryption, meaning I had to change my router settings every time I needed to connect. The double-based ribbons especially were a pain; I couldn't utilize Rain Dance with Qwilfish since its ability was initially Poison Point (thank Arceus for ability capsules in Gen VI), dealing with the dumb AI of the partner characters of DPPt with only two Pokemon led to many tries, and don't even get me started on how painfully slow Link-Multi is. Thankfully, the Gen VI ribbons were easy enough to grab; the contests were even easier to complete since the Pokeblock limit was lifted in Gen VI, allowing me to finish maxing out all the contest stats, and the Maison is easy enough to complete since you can cheese it with Mega Kang and friends, and I didn't need to bring Qwilfish until right when I had to battle the Chatelaines.
So long story short, I caught a Qwilfish from Colosseum with really nice IVs and nature, and now have a complete set of obtainable ribbons on it along with the Gen III-exclusive Swords Dance. Of course, shortly before I finished the RP, we find out that we will be able to boost and max out IVs in SuMo through Hyper Training. On one hand, I'm sorta disappointed that the value of the Qwilfish will be slightly undermined, but on the other hand, it still holds a great deal of sentimental value to me, and being able to finally max out the IVs (including that trollish 30 Spe) will be an amazing feeling.