17-08-2014, 06:34 AM
(you can download it here: PokemonBreedingGuide)
The Pokémon games in the beginning empathized solely on battling. Later on, they introduced the breeding mechanism which answered some of our questions such as “where do Pokémon come from?” As the years passed, this mechanism was improved dramatically. It was a foreseen move by Nintendo because most of us got obsessed with online battles when they were introduced in the 4th Generation.
Some trainers hate the idea of breeding because they might think it’s difficult and takes a lot of effort due to ridiculous myths circulating the web in the recent years. But don’t be afraid dear trainer, as our master breeder, grassdragon, has made an awesome guide that even a newb can understand. It explains every single thing you need to know in order to create the perfect Pokémon with the perfect moves. It’s literally the Alpha and the Omega.
You will no longer get pwned by those ridiculously overpowered Pokémon you see online. Actually, you will come to love breeding since you will produce your own perfect 5IV Pokémon and if you can, by any chance, produce more than one perfect IV Pokémon, you can trade that for another perfect IV Pokémon in order not to start from scratch again.
So, let’s start from the basics, shall we?
Pokémon Eggs are produced by breeding two Pokémon as well as when the following 5 (five) conditions are met:
• The two parents must share the same egg group
• They must each have a different gender (male & female) (We know about Ditto, calm down)
• They must NOT be Legendary (except Manaphy)
• They must NOT be Baby Pokémon (such as Pichu, Elekid, Magby and so on)
• They must NOT be Nidorina or Nidoqueen
Ditto can breed with any Pokémon other than the Pokémon in the Undiscovered group and itself, including some genderless Pokémon, to produce Eggs of the other's species. In this way, you can breed a Beldum, Porygon, Carbink etc. Furthermore, by breeding either Manaphy or Phione you can produce a Phione egg (though Phione is unable to evolve into Manaphy).
There are thirteen Egg Groups in all. Pokémon are placed in these Egg Groups by appearance. For example, Lucario and Bisharp both have human characteristics in that they are both bipedal and walk upright like humans. They are both in the same Egg Group; therefore, they can breed to produce an egg.
Out of the thirteen egg groups, only twelve of the Egg Groups have Pokémon that can actually produce Eggs. The last of which is the No Egg Group (Undiscovered). This Egg Group consists of Legendaries, Baby Pokémon that cannot breed as well as Nidorina and Nidoqueen…which for some reason…Nintendo decided to make them unable to produce eggs. These Pokémon cannot even breed with Ditto. However, Nidorino and Nidoking can breed. It actually makes no sense to me because Kings and Queens need to have children to inherit the throne…but oh well. That’s Nintendo’s logic for you.
The chance of the two Pokémon producing an egg depends on 2 (two) things:
• Their species (Pikachu and Raichu are two different species)
• Their Original Trainer’s ID
![[Image: 1zpppnn.png]](http://i60.tinypic.com/1zpppnn.png)
If you are still unsure about the chances, you can talk to the grandpa outside of the Day Care house:
![[Image: jl4dv9.png]](http://i58.tinypic.com/jl4dv9.png)
Now that you’ve finally gotten the coveted prize of a Pokémon egg, the question is: How in Arceus’s name are you going to hatch it? The answer is simple! You just start walking. Each species of Pokémon has a different but set amount of steps that are required to hatch the egg. You can walk, run, ride your bike, or roller skate! All of which will help you hatch your eggs. After awhile, you say, “It takes forever to hatch my eggs this way!” Don’t worry! There are two ways to speed up the process.
The first way is to have a Pokémon with the ability Magma Armor or Flame Body in your party. These abilities decrease the amount of steps required to hatch an egg by exactly half the original number. The other way is to use Hatching O Power 3. It also decreases the amount of steps required to hatch an egg by exactly half the original number. These two methods can be combined to decrease the total steps required to hatch an egg by one fourth the original amount.
![[Image: 2r7mzhw.png]](http://i57.tinypic.com/2r7mzhw.png)
Congratulations, if you’ve made it this far, you’ve successfully bred a Pokémon. Now you’re ready for some of the advanced techniques that make Pokémon Breeding a real challenge with fantastic rewards.
I know what you’re thinking...WHAT IN THE NAME OF SWABLU DOES A POKÉMON’S PERSONALITY HAVE TO DO WITH BREEDING. A Pokémon’s nature reveals which stat gets a 10% increase and which stat gets a 10% decrease. Also, if a Pokémon has a Neutral Nature, it means that the same stat gets a 10% increase and a 10% decrease thereby negating any change. The Neutral Natures are Bashful, Docile, Quirky and Serious. They are NOT in the chart.
Now it’s time to actually breed for Natures. As you are breeding, you will notice that the Pokémon that you hatch will be all sorts of different natures. This is normal as you kidnap the Pokémon before it’s born so its parents can’t teach it how it should behave……However, if you give one of the Pokémon that you are breeding an Everstone, all offspring will have the same nature as the parent holding the Everstone. Let’s say you have an Adamant Arcanine and you want to make sure the baby Growlithe is Adamant. Give the Arcanine an Everstone and the nature is guaranteed to be passed on.
![[Image: 28ho5jq.png]](http://i62.tinypic.com/28ho5jq.png)
Individual Values are like the genetics of each Pokémon. For each stat, a Pokémon can have an IV of 0-31. This is what makes Pokémon of the same species and level different. For example, if you have two Arcanines. Both are level 50 and both have Flare Blitz. If an Arcanine with an Attack IV of 31 fights an Arcanine with an Attack IV of 0, the Arcanine with the 31 IV for Attack is going to do more damage with Flare Blitz than the Arcanine with an Attack IV of 0 would.
These values are hidden in that you can’t actually see them in the game. However, if you talk to the IV Judge in the Kiloude City Pokémon Center, you can figure out a rough estimate of the IVs for each stat are. You can use the info below or you can use the IV calculator on http://www.legendarypokemon.net/ivcalc (Please note that this is only accurate on high leveled Pokémon. It will NOT be accurate on a low leveled Pokémon). You must also account for the Effort Values that your Pokémon has acquired. It’s easier if you reset all the EV’s with the Reset Bag in Super Training. That’s how you see the EV’s and raise them.)
If you have a Pokémon with High IVs, he’ll say: "Incidentally, I would say its greatest potential lies in its <best stat>." (Then if there are more, he will add all that apply)
"But its Attack stat is good, too."
"Hmm. And its Defense stat is good, too."
"Although its Sp. Atk stat is equally good."
"Its Sp. Def stat seems just as good, though."
"And, well, its Speed stat is good, too."
The final line (the chart below) will tell you the range of the IV’s of your Pokémon.
![[Image: vq7k7m.png]](http://i61.tinypic.com/vq7k7m.png)
Now it’s time to learn how to breed for IV’s. It’s not as hard as you think it would be. Let’s say you catch a Ditto and you talk to the judge and it has 31 IV’s in HP and Speed. Then you catch a Pidgey that has 31 IV’s in Attack and Defense. Before you even start breeding you’re going to want to catch more Pidgey or Ditto that have 31 IV’s in Special Attack and Special Defense as well.
Now, let’s say your Pidgey has the nature you want, so you give it an Everstone to pass on the Nature. Then you’ll give the other Pokémon the Destiny Knot because the Destiny Knot guarantees that 5 of the IV’s from BOTH parents will be passed to the offspring. (This means that out of the total 10 IV’s of the parents, 5 are randomly selected and the final IV is randomly generated)
After hatching many eggs, you’ll hopefully hatch an egg with four 31 IV’s. If you are extremely lucky, you’ll have another Pokémon with four 31 IV’s. (Keep in mind you have to talk to the judge each time) Then you transfer the items to the offspring and continue breeding until you hatch Pokémon with more 31 IV’s. You continue this process till you have a Pokémon that has 5-6 31 IV’s.
Hopefully if you have an IV that isn’t 31, it’s a stat you don’t really need on that Pokemon. (such as Special Attack on Pidgey because Pidgeot is stronger as an Attacker.) Breeding for IV’s is a necessity if you are going to be a competitive battler.
Sometimes, when you are breeding, you may get a Treecko with Dragonbreath or a Gardevoir with Destiny Bond….These are moves that the Pokémon don’t normally learn but can be passed down by breeding.
In order to transfer the moves to the offspring the following condition must be met:
• Moves in baby's Level Up: Both Parents must know the move
• Egg Moves: The Father must be a different Pokémon from what you are trying to breed
• Move Tutor Moves: Cannot be passed down to offspring
• The Pokémon must be in the same Egg Group
For example, if you have a Male Blaziken with Blaze Kick and a Female Lucario, when you breed them together, the Riolu will have Blaze Kick.
A list of egg moves that a Pokémon can learn can be found here: http://www.serebii.net/pokedex-xy/
Just select the Pokémon you want to see the egg moves for and scroll down to the bottom of the page.
Shiny Pokémon are alternate color variations of Pokémon. For example, if you receive a Pink Mudkip from Professor Birch….no the game isn’t glitching, I just hate you because you got a Shiny without putting any effort into it whatsoever.
Shiny Pokémon are extremely rare! To increase the odds of getting a Shiny Pokémon, you can breed using a technique called the “Masuda Method.”
Mr. Masuda made it to where if you put two Pokémon in the Daycare of different nationalities (for example an American Ditto with a Japanese Greninja) the chance for getting a Shiny is increased!
You can combine the Masuda Method with the Shiny Charm (the reward for completing the National Pokedex) to increase the chance of hatching a Shiny Pokémon to 1/512!!!!!!!!
You now know all there is to know about breeding! Now get out there and breed some awesome Pokémon. If you’re kind enough, you can always use Wonder Trade to distribute some of your awesome Pokémon you don’t need or want.
Feel free to anything here or join us in our chatroom: #Legendary_Pokemon @ irc.purplesurge.net
We want to thank the interwebz, Serebii.net & Bulbapedia. ~90% of the guide was done by grassdragon. He’s the awesome dude that compiled everything he knows into this awesome (and hopefully easy to understand) guide. We also want to thank all of you for reading this! Have fun with your games!
Breeding Pokémon
By grassdragon & fr3quency
The Pokémon games in the beginning empathized solely on battling. Later on, they introduced the breeding mechanism which answered some of our questions such as “where do Pokémon come from?” As the years passed, this mechanism was improved dramatically. It was a foreseen move by Nintendo because most of us got obsessed with online battles when they were introduced in the 4th Generation.
Some trainers hate the idea of breeding because they might think it’s difficult and takes a lot of effort due to ridiculous myths circulating the web in the recent years. But don’t be afraid dear trainer, as our master breeder, grassdragon, has made an awesome guide that even a newb can understand. It explains every single thing you need to know in order to create the perfect Pokémon with the perfect moves. It’s literally the Alpha and the Omega.
You will no longer get pwned by those ridiculously overpowered Pokémon you see online. Actually, you will come to love breeding since you will produce your own perfect 5IV Pokémon and if you can, by any chance, produce more than one perfect IV Pokémon, you can trade that for another perfect IV Pokémon in order not to start from scratch again.
So, let’s start from the basics, shall we?
THE BASICS
Pokémon Eggs are produced by breeding two Pokémon as well as when the following 5 (five) conditions are met:
• The two parents must share the same egg group
• They must each have a different gender (male & female) (We know about Ditto, calm down)
• They must NOT be Legendary (except Manaphy)
• They must NOT be Baby Pokémon (such as Pichu, Elekid, Magby and so on)
• They must NOT be Nidorina or Nidoqueen
Ditto
Ditto can breed with any Pokémon other than the Pokémon in the Undiscovered group and itself, including some genderless Pokémon, to produce Eggs of the other's species. In this way, you can breed a Beldum, Porygon, Carbink etc. Furthermore, by breeding either Manaphy or Phione you can produce a Phione egg (though Phione is unable to evolve into Manaphy).
Egg Groups
There are thirteen Egg Groups in all. Pokémon are placed in these Egg Groups by appearance. For example, Lucario and Bisharp both have human characteristics in that they are both bipedal and walk upright like humans. They are both in the same Egg Group; therefore, they can breed to produce an egg.
Out of the thirteen egg groups, only twelve of the Egg Groups have Pokémon that can actually produce Eggs. The last of which is the No Egg Group (Undiscovered). This Egg Group consists of Legendaries, Baby Pokémon that cannot breed as well as Nidorina and Nidoqueen…which for some reason…Nintendo decided to make them unable to produce eggs. These Pokémon cannot even breed with Ditto. However, Nidorino and Nidoking can breed. It actually makes no sense to me because Kings and Queens need to have children to inherit the throne…but oh well. That’s Nintendo’s logic for you.
THE FRIENDZONE!
The chance of the two Pokémon producing an egg depends on 2 (two) things:
• Their species (Pikachu and Raichu are two different species)
• Their Original Trainer’s ID
If you are still unsure about the chances, you can talk to the grandpa outside of the Day Care house:
Hatching Eggs
Now that you’ve finally gotten the coveted prize of a Pokémon egg, the question is: How in Arceus’s name are you going to hatch it? The answer is simple! You just start walking. Each species of Pokémon has a different but set amount of steps that are required to hatch the egg. You can walk, run, ride your bike, or roller skate! All of which will help you hatch your eggs. After awhile, you say, “It takes forever to hatch my eggs this way!” Don’t worry! There are two ways to speed up the process.
The first way is to have a Pokémon with the ability Magma Armor or Flame Body in your party. These abilities decrease the amount of steps required to hatch an egg by exactly half the original number. The other way is to use Hatching O Power 3. It also decreases the amount of steps required to hatch an egg by exactly half the original number. These two methods can be combined to decrease the total steps required to hatch an egg by one fourth the original amount.
Congratulations, if you’ve made it this far, you’ve successfully bred a Pokémon. Now you’re ready for some of the advanced techniques that make Pokémon Breeding a real challenge with fantastic rewards.
Natures
I know what you’re thinking...WHAT IN THE NAME OF SWABLU DOES A POKÉMON’S PERSONALITY HAVE TO DO WITH BREEDING. A Pokémon’s nature reveals which stat gets a 10% increase and which stat gets a 10% decrease. Also, if a Pokémon has a Neutral Nature, it means that the same stat gets a 10% increase and a 10% decrease thereby negating any change. The Neutral Natures are Bashful, Docile, Quirky and Serious. They are NOT in the chart.
Now it’s time to actually breed for Natures. As you are breeding, you will notice that the Pokémon that you hatch will be all sorts of different natures. This is normal as you kidnap the Pokémon before it’s born so its parents can’t teach it how it should behave……However, if you give one of the Pokémon that you are breeding an Everstone, all offspring will have the same nature as the parent holding the Everstone. Let’s say you have an Adamant Arcanine and you want to make sure the baby Growlithe is Adamant. Give the Arcanine an Everstone and the nature is guaranteed to be passed on.
Individual Values (IV)
Individual Values are like the genetics of each Pokémon. For each stat, a Pokémon can have an IV of 0-31. This is what makes Pokémon of the same species and level different. For example, if you have two Arcanines. Both are level 50 and both have Flare Blitz. If an Arcanine with an Attack IV of 31 fights an Arcanine with an Attack IV of 0, the Arcanine with the 31 IV for Attack is going to do more damage with Flare Blitz than the Arcanine with an Attack IV of 0 would.
These values are hidden in that you can’t actually see them in the game. However, if you talk to the IV Judge in the Kiloude City Pokémon Center, you can figure out a rough estimate of the IVs for each stat are. You can use the info below or you can use the IV calculator on http://www.legendarypokemon.net/ivcalc (Please note that this is only accurate on high leveled Pokémon. It will NOT be accurate on a low leveled Pokémon). You must also account for the Effort Values that your Pokémon has acquired. It’s easier if you reset all the EV’s with the Reset Bag in Super Training. That’s how you see the EV’s and raise them.)
If you have a Pokémon with High IVs, he’ll say: "Incidentally, I would say its greatest potential lies in its <best stat>." (Then if there are more, he will add all that apply)
"But its Attack stat is good, too."
"Hmm. And its Defense stat is good, too."
"Although its Sp. Atk stat is equally good."
"Its Sp. Def stat seems just as good, though."
"And, well, its Speed stat is good, too."
The final line (the chart below) will tell you the range of the IV’s of your Pokémon.
Now it’s time to learn how to breed for IV’s. It’s not as hard as you think it would be. Let’s say you catch a Ditto and you talk to the judge and it has 31 IV’s in HP and Speed. Then you catch a Pidgey that has 31 IV’s in Attack and Defense. Before you even start breeding you’re going to want to catch more Pidgey or Ditto that have 31 IV’s in Special Attack and Special Defense as well.
Now, let’s say your Pidgey has the nature you want, so you give it an Everstone to pass on the Nature. Then you’ll give the other Pokémon the Destiny Knot because the Destiny Knot guarantees that 5 of the IV’s from BOTH parents will be passed to the offspring. (This means that out of the total 10 IV’s of the parents, 5 are randomly selected and the final IV is randomly generated)
After hatching many eggs, you’ll hopefully hatch an egg with four 31 IV’s. If you are extremely lucky, you’ll have another Pokémon with four 31 IV’s. (Keep in mind you have to talk to the judge each time) Then you transfer the items to the offspring and continue breeding until you hatch Pokémon with more 31 IV’s. You continue this process till you have a Pokémon that has 5-6 31 IV’s.
Hopefully if you have an IV that isn’t 31, it’s a stat you don’t really need on that Pokemon. (such as Special Attack on Pidgey because Pidgeot is stronger as an Attacker.) Breeding for IV’s is a necessity if you are going to be a competitive battler.
Egg Moves
Sometimes, when you are breeding, you may get a Treecko with Dragonbreath or a Gardevoir with Destiny Bond….These are moves that the Pokémon don’t normally learn but can be passed down by breeding.
In order to transfer the moves to the offspring the following condition must be met:
• Moves in baby's Level Up: Both Parents must know the move
• Egg Moves: The Father must be a different Pokémon from what you are trying to breed
• Move Tutor Moves: Cannot be passed down to offspring
• The Pokémon must be in the same Egg Group
For example, if you have a Male Blaziken with Blaze Kick and a Female Lucario, when you breed them together, the Riolu will have Blaze Kick.
A list of egg moves that a Pokémon can learn can be found here: http://www.serebii.net/pokedex-xy/
Just select the Pokémon you want to see the egg moves for and scroll down to the bottom of the page.
SHINIES 
Shiny Pokémon are alternate color variations of Pokémon. For example, if you receive a Pink Mudkip from Professor Birch….no the game isn’t glitching, I just hate you because you got a Shiny without putting any effort into it whatsoever.
Shiny Pokémon are extremely rare! To increase the odds of getting a Shiny Pokémon, you can breed using a technique called the “Masuda Method.”
Mr. Masuda made it to where if you put two Pokémon in the Daycare of different nationalities (for example an American Ditto with a Japanese Greninja) the chance for getting a Shiny is increased!
You can combine the Masuda Method with the Shiny Charm (the reward for completing the National Pokedex) to increase the chance of hatching a Shiny Pokémon to 1/512!!!!!!!!
Congratulations!
You now know all there is to know about breeding! Now get out there and breed some awesome Pokémon. If you’re kind enough, you can always use Wonder Trade to distribute some of your awesome Pokémon you don’t need or want.
Got any questions? Visit us!
Feel free to anything here or join us in our chatroom: #Legendary_Pokemon @ irc.purplesurge.net
Credits
We want to thank the interwebz, Serebii.net & Bulbapedia. ~90% of the guide was done by grassdragon. He’s the awesome dude that compiled everything he knows into this awesome (and hopefully easy to understand) guide. We also want to thank all of you for reading this! Have fun with your games!
