I usually make my ditto hold the destiny knot if I don't need its nature. I use to just hope for the IV at random that I needed, but I found that it actually went quicker if I found something with that nature that could breed with what I wanted out of the ditto...hang on, lemme explain by example.
My ditto is careful and my Fennekin is Timid but i want a modest baby. I find the first 3 IVs get bred in as females very quickly no matter what IVs I start with. So, I find something else the fennekin can breed with that's modest, such as a modest eevee. First girl with the correct ability becomes the new mother to breed with the ditto. She gets the everstone, the ditto gets the destiny knot. Then I just upgrade the parent everytime a female with the right specifications but better IVs hatches.
I'm not telling you that to say you have to do it that way for me by any means. You just mentioned you only recently got into breeding though so I thought my tip might help since I too started out by just hoping for a random nature and stubbornly refusing to take my destiny knot ditto out of the day care lol. There's a bit more day-care merry-go-round to my new method (and it probably costs me more pokedollars), but it's way faster most of the time and when I'm breeding, the less eggs I have to sort through, the better.
That is super helpful. I usually always have the ditto holding the destiny knot myself since the pokemon I breed generally have a good nature or I'm trying for a specific nature for later breeding purposes. I keep trying until I get one with the desired nature and then use that one holding an everstone to breed with the ditto holding the destiny knot. Usually this takes an hour or two; but after that every baby is going to have the correct nature guaranteed. I'll give your method a try though to see if it helps me speed up :)
What sort of pokeball is your skrelp in? I like the more specialized designs, so I usually pass if it's in a standard pokeball, great ball, or ultra ball.
Standard pokeball unfortunately.
Also, I'm guessing since you are offering up your Swablu in addition to the dratini, then you do want the careful ditto clone?
That's correct :)
I'll start your seviper tonight Oh, and if you're anything like me, if I'm breeding for someone and get an upgrade parent, I keep it for myself and use it to continue breeding them up what they want. To save you on breeding, I can send you back a clone of that upgrade and you can just send me back whatever spares you have, even if it's just "wonder trash."
That's exctly what I do too! If I breed a better parent (so let's say I was breeding using a 4IV Dratini) and I manage to get a 5IV one then I keep that one and use it for breeding and then keep on breeding it until I get what I want for the other person :)
I wanted a modest swablu upgrade for pixilated hyper voice as a mega (special attack move), but if your skrelp is in a luxury, premier, net, dive, or dusk ball I'll take one of it instead.
It's in a regular ball unfortunately; but I'll let you know if I get one in any of those balls you're looking for.