PlumpyFoof's [On-going] Comprehensive Breeding Guide

Hello everybody, recently I've been trying to unravel the secrets to breeding the perfect Pokemon.
Now this guide will eventually (hopefully) contain every single piece of information regarding breeding the perfect Pokemon. and will be even more helpful than Bulbapedia and Serebii
If anybody has any good information that is not up here please post and I'll add it as soon as possible.
So far all the information I have will be regarding Gen V and onwards simply because I don't have any DPPt games to work with.
Copyright shizz:

Let's start a the beginning I suppose.

Now.. Within the world of Pokemon there is a place in every region where a lovely old couple will look after your Pokemon and raise them for a small fee.

You may have noticed sometimes that if you have left two Pokemon with them at any time they have an egg for you to raise. Hence the purpose of this guide.
The mechanics of breeding are here:


Now we know we can breed how can we breed something we want?
The most important thing to note with breeding is that the baby will ALWAYS be the same species as the MOTHER. Unless the mother is ditto in which the case the father will be the same species (We'll get back to breeding with ditto).
The easiest way to breed is to get two of the same species right? YES! (Please note that whenever I say species, I am referring to the entire evolutionary family, so if I say the Pikachu family I am referring to Pikachu, Raichu and Pichu. If I say Abra species I am referring to Abra, Kadabra and Alakazam :))
But you can also breed two Pokemon of different species. The two Pokemon must be in the same Egg group.
If you're interested you can find a list of these on Bulbapedia or Pokemondb but for convenience I'l post it here.
BREEDING GROUPS

Any of these Pokemon species can breed if you have a male and a female and they're in the same egg group.
Here's how you know if they'll breed


But why would you want to breed with a different species?
The answer, to get a Pokemon with egg moves.

Egg moves are moves a Pokemon can only learn via breeding a Male with a move you want to have the baby learn with a female of the species you want.
For example, the Bulbasaur line can earn Ingrain but only via breeding.
I'll explain this in depth more in the next section.

Breeding For baby Pokemon

Breeding For Moves

Breeding for Natures


IVs
No doubt the most frustrating part if breeding.


Abilities


Gender

Chaining for Egg moves


Chaining for IVs


Some people find that breeding for correct IVs and Natures far too tedious if that person is you open this spoiler.

Here we go..
First I should explain that I have two Ditto's I will be using throughout the course of this experiment.
DITTO 30, 30, 3, 24, 28, 8 Sassy
and Ditto 20, 9, 16, 31, 11, 31

The Scyther I began with was this:
16, 4, 1, 8, 15, 8 (f) (nature)
DITTO 30, 30, 3, 24, 28, 8 Sassy - Power Bracer(Atk)

From here I'll just list who I put In Daycare after each swap in steps.