Toothache
November 24th, 2007, 02:51 PM
Hello and welcome to my breeding project. This post will be updated regularly, in an effort to teach people who are new to IV breeding the way it is done, as well as updating my wifi team with better team members. I may eventually offer these Pokemon out for cloning and redistribution, so if you can offer cloning let me know.
Ok, so in an effort to get some good IVed Pokemon on my list of wifi battlers, I thought I'd start with one of the best defensive walls in the D/P game, Hippowdon. I didn't give this guy much thought at first, but after using him on shoddy I was converted. Here is the eventual point I want to finish at:
Hipppowdon @ Leftovers
Ability: Sand Stream
EV: 252 HP / 6 Att / 252 Def
Nature: Impish
Earthquake
Roar
Slack Off
Stealth Rock
with at least these IVs (speed last)
31/x/31/x/31/x
basically giving him as much damage taking ability as possible.
Ideally, the best Hippowdon would have these IVs:
31/31/31/x/31/31;
although you are not likely to see it, it is possible.
In this post, I intend to give regular updates of how my breeding is going.
Day 1: The beginning
Since I am more or less starting my breeding from scratch on my D/P game (all my good Dittos are on Emerald just in case), the start is gonna be the hard part, having no real good selection of high IVed breeders to get me started.
I started with the following:
Hippowdon male. Mild, 18/27/3/21/24/29
Ditto, Modest, 17/28/29/31/17/9
I didn't need the max SpAtt, but it was my best Ditto so far so it would have to do. I held out for an Impish female, which took me about 40 or so eggs. Replacing the Ditto and adding an Everstone, I got:
Hippopotas female, Impish, 23/28/3/6/8/29
which in turn got replaced with:
Hippopotas female, Impish, 24/28/25/21/3/29
I was starting to cook with gas. Four high IVs, and I've kept that Speed IV all the way through, which will be helpful for faster Roars. I eventually got my first 31 IV with the following:
Hippopotas male, Impish 31/27/3/13/3/29
At this point I realised that Slack Off was an egg move, and the easiest way was to breed with Slakoth. So I figured I would try and pass that max HP IV to Slakoth (and the speed if I am lucky), learn Slack Off and breed that back to my female Hippopotas. HP is actually one of the hardest IVs to pass on next to Defence, so I was glad at this early stage to pull it out.
My DP Slaking was male, so that would have to be bred for a female (I usually do 2-3 eggs if I need a certain gender and the odds are 50%, as in this case. Something like Eevee or the starters with a 1/8 chance of being female take usually between 10 and 30 eggs to be female). I didn't hold out for a good IVed Slakoth, since I was passing one down anyway and the RNG (random number generator) for IVs would do the rest.
Taking a break now, since my battery light is going, but I will return with further updates.
Ok, so in an effort to get some good IVed Pokemon on my list of wifi battlers, I thought I'd start with one of the best defensive walls in the D/P game, Hippowdon. I didn't give this guy much thought at first, but after using him on shoddy I was converted. Here is the eventual point I want to finish at:
Hipppowdon @ Leftovers
Ability: Sand Stream
EV: 252 HP / 6 Att / 252 Def
Nature: Impish
Earthquake
Roar
Slack Off
Stealth Rock
with at least these IVs (speed last)
31/x/31/x/31/x
basically giving him as much damage taking ability as possible.
Ideally, the best Hippowdon would have these IVs:
31/31/31/x/31/31;
although you are not likely to see it, it is possible.
In this post, I intend to give regular updates of how my breeding is going.
Day 1: The beginning
Since I am more or less starting my breeding from scratch on my D/P game (all my good Dittos are on Emerald just in case), the start is gonna be the hard part, having no real good selection of high IVed breeders to get me started.
I started with the following:
Hippowdon male. Mild, 18/27/3/21/24/29
Ditto, Modest, 17/28/29/31/17/9
I didn't need the max SpAtt, but it was my best Ditto so far so it would have to do. I held out for an Impish female, which took me about 40 or so eggs. Replacing the Ditto and adding an Everstone, I got:
Hippopotas female, Impish, 23/28/3/6/8/29
which in turn got replaced with:
Hippopotas female, Impish, 24/28/25/21/3/29
I was starting to cook with gas. Four high IVs, and I've kept that Speed IV all the way through, which will be helpful for faster Roars. I eventually got my first 31 IV with the following:
Hippopotas male, Impish 31/27/3/13/3/29
At this point I realised that Slack Off was an egg move, and the easiest way was to breed with Slakoth. So I figured I would try and pass that max HP IV to Slakoth (and the speed if I am lucky), learn Slack Off and breed that back to my female Hippopotas. HP is actually one of the hardest IVs to pass on next to Defence, so I was glad at this early stage to pull it out.
My DP Slaking was male, so that would have to be bred for a female (I usually do 2-3 eggs if I need a certain gender and the odds are 50%, as in this case. Something like Eevee or the starters with a 1/8 chance of being female take usually between 10 and 30 eggs to be female). I didn't hold out for a good IVed Slakoth, since I was passing one down anyway and the RNG (random number generator) for IVs would do the rest.
Taking a break now, since my battery light is going, but I will return with further updates.