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Breeding: How long before you just give up?
I've been biking up and down route 34 trying to hatch a female riolu for about 4 hours.
I wanna hear your stories of the hours spent breeding that you wish you could add back to your life. Success stories welcome too! Im sure I'll be less bitter when I see that female sign... |
i have been biking for 3 hours for male charmander
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I've been trying to get a shiny magickarp (DO NOT ASK!) and so far only ****** ones. but I did hatch one with a good ivs
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I spent about an hour trying to hatch a munchlax a few months ago..only to remember that I forgot to give the Snorlax the full incense I had >_<.
Another time I was trying to hatch a shiny pokemon from my shiny Starmie..and lets just say it took too long and I never got it in the end. Sorry for your news, your female should come sooner or later! |
Why is it taking so long? I don't remember Breeding taking this long in previous games. I haven't tried breeding in my SS yet, but maybe I should... I remember in LG that I could hatch a Charmander by biking for like... ten minutes at most. I had a circuit I would do, which included going down that biker hill.
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That would be the only thing that would make sense to me. I really am not joking when I say that it did not take me long to hatch Charmanders/Squirtles/etc. in LG. And actually I hatched Togepi in SS before I even go to Azalea Town. I did a lot of training before even going into the cave. I'm a nut when it comes to training before I get to certain areas. XD
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I hatched a female riolu finally but it was the wrong nature...AHHHH!
It'll probably be faster just to keep on trying for the right-natured one rather than evolving the one I got into lucario so I can put it with a raticate then pray for a hasty riolu. Breeding takes some time and dedication let me tell ya... |
Yeah I think I'll use Pearl as my "breeding cage" for now. Until Bulbapedia or something does a study. rofl. I'm trying to be a top of the line breeder. Hahaha
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I always do my breeding on Pearl... I haven't even tried it on SS yet lol.
I really haven't had many success stories so far, since I've just started breeding, but I find something kinda hypnotic and fun about biking for hours on end.. Is that just me? And even though I'm still learning all the ropes, it's like I'm a proud parent every time one o' those cute lil guys pop out of their eggs! (: |
I remember trying to hatch pokemon in pearl! I just got a slugma from my emerald version using pal park with the ability flame body and it cut the time it took to hatch my eggs, I would just get on a bike and travel around sinnoh endlessly just for the fun of it! Oh and I used to run around in amity square so not only would I just get a newly hatched pokemon but 10000x items (useless accsessories) my pokemon picked up while running XD
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I did a charmander in 15 mins in heart gold :s Why is it taking you 3 hours? Are you doing 5 steps every 10 mins or something?
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I usually do all of my breeding in Pearl, as it's where I keep all my pokemon. However, the one time I did breed in SS it seemed a little quicker, perhaps because it was biking around Goldenrod instead of the same old up/down path I usually follow in Pearl!^Q^)/
Magby really helps with 'flame body', it honestly only take a few minutes to hatch an egg, at most, when you have him in your party. |
Put a Magmar in your team with the ability "Flame Body". It cuts the hatching time in half.
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lol, i just breed and deal with the nature, cycling road in thisgame is small... so i just have a race with myself to go from safari zone to bills house, about 2 regions long with 5 eggs and my lv. 100 shiny toxicroak
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I took a few days to breed 8 female eevees, they kept hatching as males. It took forever to do, but I didn't feel like giving up.
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8! wow! dont you only need 7 though?
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I got a Japanese Ditto and decided to try to Masuda a shiny Skarmory...
I hatched about 100 of them before getting frustrated and stopping. I'll continue one day when I literally have nothing to do but ride up and down in a straight line. |
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Question, why does the gender matter (unless it's a Combee)?
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Still nature breeding for a Timid female treecko xD I forgot how long it's been (I've played on and off lately) ^^;
But at least a shiny treecko hatched yesterday =D |
Great balls of fire! I never knew that Magmar/Magby's "flame body" did that? I'm never going to try to hatch my pokies again without it! (:
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Technically, gender only matters if you are wanting to breed specific natures (female) or egg moves (male) onto your pokemon, but for me it has more to do with those little symbols than anything else... |
Yes, that's why I love my Magmar. Also, is it more likely to hatch a shiny Pokemon or something? I don't understand why people breed for shinies...
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I've been using my Magmar for years to aid in hatching, and I've never hatched a shiny. I guess people breed for them simply so they can say "..ooh, I have a shiny pokemon!" I must admit, there are a few pokemon that I would love in shiny (Umbreon!。・ω・。), but I don't think I'd ever have the patience/determination to actually breed for one. |
This is definitely something I can relate to and is one of the reasons why I've been so withdrawn from breeding Pokémon lately. I used to spend hours amongst hours trying to hatch for the right nature depending on what Pokémon it was, and even then, if it had the right nature I needed to make sure it had decent IVs for when I EV train it. So, if I could, I would definitely take back those hours spent on breeding for something more time worthy. I guess it's just all part of the fun in the game though.
Seeing as this thread related to more than just HeartGold and SoulSilver, I'll go ahead and move this to General Pokémon Gaming. |
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A lot of people prefer to breed shinies for several reasons, the most obvious being that you can control its IVs and natures, rather than relying on catching something in the wild. |
Ive biked For 4 Hours today trying too hatch a female squirtle for my friend.He always hates breeding cuz of the time so I do it for him.
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I was breeding so I could get crunch as an egg move. That's why I wanted the female riolu, which I finally got. All that cycling paid off!
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I often hatch about 10 eggs a day because I want a pokemon with good IVs and not to mention the right nature and ability. HGSS is great for that sort of stuff mainly because of the power items and Everstone working on both males and females.
I don't care about shinies though. |
I"m trying to catch a ditto, becuase I just got the evee. I saved and then talked to bill, and hopefully the evee would be female. But no. So iI did that for 2 hrs. And i cant catch a ditto, since they never show up. But whatever.
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I've been trying to breed for a female Eevee (that or catch one in the wild) so I can hopefully turn it into a Glaceon and call it a day. I want do to the same with Vaporeon, but I'm kinda weird like that.
Haven't had luck with that yet, keep getting male Eevees.. haven't really been working on it much. Friendly evolutions are just as frustrating. FINALLY got Jigglypuff out of the way! Oh yeah.. get a Magcargo. I called mine "Hatcher" .. lol makes things so much easier |
I usually breed batches of pokemon for about 3 days before I go, "Oh screw it, I'll just go with whatever nature. D:"
One time I got really lucky with Eevee and got a female with the right nature right away. Lol |
I'm really bad at breeding pokes with decent IV's, so I just get my friend to breed all my pokes :3
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I get bored quite quickly, but it took ages to get the Feebas I wanted, cus I wanted a girl as well as one who liked the right type of Pokeblock.
I've tried Breeding for shinies, but cus I don't really understand it, I give up quite quickly. I also always leave pokemon in the dayacre too long, after the pokemon I want has hatched, so I have an extra egg. I then put it in my box and forget what it is. It's quite weird. |
Well i once was breeding for a whole day in my SS trying to get a shiny haunter. when i did actually get one my game crashed! i hsad to breed for a whole day again after that trying to get him again. oh and another story is when i was breading for a shiny nidoking. every single egg was a male until a shiny one came out and it was a female :/ she's just sat in my box now at Lv. 100 doing nothing while her brother is a major part of my team :P
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I decided to ignore IVs.
I breed 6 pokemon that fit the nature/ability criteria, and then check the IVs of those 6. I choose the best one and raise it, even if the IVs are bad. I've bred about 300 Electrike's though... only 2 came out to be right nature with Hidden Power Grass.... still trying for 4 more. |
I'm still trying to hatch a Modest Feebas after...um, three days. :U I'm kicking myself because when I restarted Platinum I forgot to rescue my Modest Ditto + Everstone, so I'm stuck with an Adamant Ditto and a series of Adamant, Calm or Bashful natured Feebas. :| I caught a load of Ditto on LG last night to see if one of them would come up as Modest, but they were all useless too. Pah. PAH I SAY.
The only thing I've ever given up on breeding-wise was breeding a Shinx with Ice Fang. And that's only because I couldn't find a female Shinx anywhere wtf. |
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