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"Curse of the Breeder" - Griffy
As breeders we've all done some stupid things. Here you can share some of the dumb things you've done while breeding. No picking on each other though and be civil! :P
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1. Cycled up and down that road outside daycare center... just to realize that all eggs were hatched a good 10 minutes ago
2. Cycled up and down that road outside daycare center... just to realize that the parent didn't get along with my HM slave Talonflame 3. Cycled up and down that road outside daycare center... just to realize that both parents were the same gender 4. Cycled up and down that road outside daycare center... just to realize that only half of the pair is in the daycare 5. Reversed Destiny Knot and Everstone by accident and hatched crappy babies 6. Double Everstone hold Ahhhh, the curse of the breeder. |
Cycled back and forth to realize both parents are still in my party...
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Put a female Breloom and a Gourgeist in there only to realize that the latter is only in the Amorphous Egg Group and not Plant like Breloom is.
Also, at one point I thought this one Smeargle I was trying to breed had max Special Attack, and after a ton of eggs out of what I got didn't have it, I checked, and it had max Attack instead. Ouch. |
I once put an egg in PC, thinking it was some Pokémon. After about ten to fifteen minutes of biking, I started to wonder why it wasn't hatching, aaand, yeah, finally managed to realize what I actually did.
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Just not long ago I just got a HA pokemon with egg moves (level 1) and started to breed it with a ditto to hopefully get some more and I had a trade were i needed to breed something so i took it out and once i put it back in the daycare i stored like 10 eggs of it and when they hatched none of them had egg moves so i checked my pokemon to see that the daycare had removed its egg moves with other level up moves >.<
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Oh, here's another one. Breeding Ralts with another 'mon in the Humanshape group and not getting any eggs because Ralts is AMORPHOUS. Seriously, it has a humanoid shape. IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE!
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Apparently I hatched a shiny squirtle, but due to the little change in shiny form I did not realize I hatched it till I started releasing my boxes of squirtle. Right as I confirmed the release I realized that the Squirtle had the shiny star. In my desperation to get one, I looked on the GTS for one, only to realized that I saved so I could not soft reset. >.< I really hate myself.
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Cycled back and forth realizing I still have both parents in my party. Cycled back and forth and only have ditto in the daycare. Cycled back and forth and realized I forgot to put the items on the parents ;;
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Hahahahaha this thread is amazing. Not once, but twice, I have let the mother of a breeding pair evolve and then saved the game.... When the move I wanted for the offspring could only be learned by the unevolved form. This happened recently with a yanma that was supposed to pass hypnosis. The first time, I let my Lv 91 Trapinch evolve - SO MUCH LOST EFFORT.
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-Cycling back and forth the daycare until I realized I didn't leave the parents in the daycare.
-Cycling back and forth the daycare and picking up eggs until I realized I hadn't switched parents. -Cycling back and forth the daycare wondering why there were no eggs until I remembered togepi is a baby pokémon and can't breed. |
-Cycling back and four repeatedly hatching eggs containing 3IV Skrelps, beginning to yell at my game while trying to figure out why they would never get over 3IVs with a 4IV parent and 6IV parent, exclaiming that my luck can't possibly be this horrible... Two boxes of flawed Skrelp later, checked to see that I forgot to give the Destiny Knot to either of the parents... >< Facepalm.
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Cycling back and forth and realizing no pokemon are in the daycare >_>
Also, cycling around Prism Tower for a good 30 minutes after all my eggs were hatched. Don't judge me. |
Let's see, I'll give a little back history, I started playing Pokémon with Red Version, played Gold and Silver then pretty much quit until I purchased Black 2 the end of 2012. I played here and there randomly but not for longer than a couple days, years separating these occasions until Black 2.
My mistake? Trying to MM a Ditto in Gen 5. I didn't remember much from Gen 2 regarding breeding and Ditto is my favorite Pokémon, especially Shiny, I wanted one!! Too bad Ditto can't breed, I still don't have the competitive Ditto I want. |
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The only thing that pisses me off is this...
Cycled up and down that road outside daycare center... just to realize that the man was just too lazy to turn around to let me know that an Egg was already ready for pickup Since then, I switched from moving back and forth on that route to circle around the fountain in the <insert town name here> Town 5 - 6 times and then go back and talk to the Egg Guy. >:/ Works almost all the time. >:\ |
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I've definitely biked up and down a million times and wondered why nothing was happening, only to find out that all the eggs already hatched a long time ago. x3
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On several occasions, I accidentally put two babes in the daycare and couldn't figure out why no eggs were produced after 10 mins. I can't help it I get these ladies straight from Wonder Trade. >:O
Oh, and while holding 5 eggs, I continue biking around waiting for the 5th egg to hatch, but it already hatched a half hour ago. |
Accidentally released Pokemon with Power Item I needed.
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^ That reminds me!
I Wonder Trade all the parents that I no longer need to clear them from my boxes. One time, I accidentally almost traded away a parent holding my only Destiny Bond. I saw it having the item and I freaked and shut off my game so fast. I saved it! xD |
^ Yeah... I think they should make a system that notifies you before you offer a poke with any item and say "Are you sure you want to trade/release this Pokemon? It has [item]!"
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Or even more so, they should allow you to cancel a Wonder Trade when you haven't found a partner yet instead of having to shut off your game.
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I've had to DC a few times when I noticed "Oh wait, I need this for something" |
Ever do that "miss the door" dance? It's terrible when biking but just as bad with roller blades. I keep missing the Daycare man too so nowadays I just crash into the fence and then crawl up to him.
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hey, ok i have done something that is really stupid lol, i was trying to get a baby Bulbasaur for egg moves slowpoke had curse to give to a baby Bulbasaur.
female slowpoke + male Ivysaur = baby Bulbasaur that's was my thinking but i need a female Ivysaur + male Slowpoke / curse. LOL :-) |
This actually happened to me once. I was cycling around the day care and waited for the dude to turn his head around to tell me that an egg is ready. After wasting a good 10 minute, I got fed up of waiting and cycled toward him to check on the parents status. Then I finally realized that the parents are still in my party and I completely forgot to put them inside the daycare. *face palm*
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I accidentally Wonder-Traded away a Pokemon holding my Everstone, and then I had to wait around for Geodude hordes for about an hour or so in Terminus cave and try to steal another one from one of them (which is a 5% chance, by the way ;-;) before they killed each other using Magnitude. At least it wasn't my Destiny Knot, or I would've cried (unless you can actually find more of them on wild Pokemon, but I didn't think you could).
There have also been many occasions where I've cycled back and forth infront of the Daycare for at least like 15-30 minutes before I realized that both Pokemon were either the same gender or not even in the same egg group. Oh, the curse of the breeder is a vile one, hehe. |
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I've been a victim of the "bike round luminose for 10mins before realizing my eggs have hatched" multiple times because I don't really pay attention while I'm doing it haha. Other standouts include breeding Gardevoir with a Machamp and having to get off my skates to talk to the day-care man as I would constantly skate around him with the circle pad ugh |
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I thought you could beed Unown! I walked up to the day care man after 10 minutes of cycling to have him say that my Unown and Ditto prefer to play with other Pokemon... |
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Also, 20%? That's pretty good; I didn't think it increased that much. I thought it would only be just a tiiiny bit less rare. But after checking Bulbapedia and such, I learned that since gen V, it no longer increases your chances by 50%, but it increases it to a set amount. Well then. The more you know~ |
I`ve once cycled in a small circle in front of the daycare guy in x and y and started screaming in frustration because my eggs wouldnt hatch and i realized i had both parents in my party, and i didnt even had any eggs with me.
I always crash my bicycle into the fence when trying to recive and egg from the daycareman, and ALWAYS ALWAYS miss the door at least 3 times before being able to get in to talk to the daycarewoman. Hatch about 50 crappy iv eggs and never wonder what was happening because acording to me i just had "bad luck" only to later realize i places the wrong parents. |
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You just saved my life. I didn't know you could go as many times as you want to get Destiny Knot, i'll give it a shot. But yeah, these things happen a lot. |
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I had never battled with it directly and thus never saw the sparklies. All the experience was from the Exp. Share. I checked and found I did import it as a Meowth; the Shiny form was in my Dex. That Persian has been benched now while I do my Meowth breeding with multi-IV recipients. |
I have many times continued biking with all my eggs hatched already. :3c Since i got frustrated with this, i just use the ST menu to check at a glance if eggs are hatched. :)
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So today. I dropped off my newly evolved 4IV Pikachu at the breeder...or so I thought. It apparently didn't go in, I thought it did, and I just went roller skating for five minutes before thinking of asking "Egg Man" about their status. "Oh, your Ditto's doing just fine!"
Damn you, finicky controls. Damn you. |
I been breeding charmanders and I never get great speed IVs just attk, spattk, def, and hp, I need to figure how to get good speed IVs for a fast charizard.
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Over sixty-five Lileep with a 6IV mother and a 5IV father.
Maybe six females so far, of which two had the wrong ability (looking for Storm Drain). All with 3-4IVs. Kill me. [Edit] Just hatched a 6IV Male. YOU WILL ELUDE ME NO LONGER, 5IV FEMALE!!! |
I forgot to IV check 5 boxes of Eevees, had a 6IV ditto and 5IV parent eevee. Probably had a 6IVs in there... Other than that, not much except occasionally forgetting I have a full party and still biking around the daycare for eggs.
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I found myself circling Lumiose Tower hatching 0 Eggs the other day. It was only for about five minutes, and partly because I was watching something on the computer, so I wasn't paying full attention or I'd have known I'd hatched the last Egg already. An actual curse: I started an Eevee project and didn't get a female until the 49th Egg. The 54th Egg (same batch of six) was an exact female I needed (IVs didn't matter fully at that point). From there I was able to breed and succeeded in getting my result. However, in 78 Eggs, I had a total of three females. Supplementary curse: the first 18 Eggs included a few 5IVs, but also 2-4IVs. I had a single 1IV Egg. That one was Shiny. Kill me. |
Oh, here's a new one.
Pulled Crustle out of the PC for a quick breeding project, to pass Rock Blast to someone. Teach it the move through the relearner. Then I look at the gender. It's female. Insult to injury: it learns the move at Lv.5. Good thing Heart Scales are so easy to find in this game. At least, when the holder is. |
I have to breed a perfect growlithe and to do that I have level up a regular to learn flarblitz, evolve it to learn extreme speed via relearner then breed it with a close combat one I got from WT and hatch a perfect one with all three moves and breed stealth rock to certain pokémon plus hatching a shiny honedge and gible, Im going to have a headache after all this.
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Bred a Naive 4EM Pichu, where one of the EMs was Volt Tackle. Being a mixed attacker, it was pretty nice to find out its stats were 31/31/31/28/31/31.
And then heart sink: Hidden Power Electric. Of all things. Electric. #crushed |
I can't remember what, but one time I'd bred an offspring I wanted to keep and accidentally put it on Wonder Trade (along with the millions of other offspring I'd bred). I tried to shut off my game as soon as I realised which one it was, but it was too late. I loaded my game back up again, checked my PC box, and what did I get in return?
A Bunnelby. Named 'Hahahaha'. Karma better hit that guy hard. |
Breeding a Squirtle and getting the wrong nature so i can do it all over again.
And released all the squirtles with egg moves Dragon Pulse and Aura Sphere so i have to start from the beginning and breed a Clawlitzer with a female squirtle with hidden ability from scratch. Now that is a pain in the @$$. I did get a female shiny modest Squirtle in the prosses though with 2 max IV's. |
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So I was trying to breed some rare ball Johto Starters, and I'd been restarting after a while of not getting a female. so, I restarted agaaain, and I had 2 Totodiles in my party.. I assumed they where just random males, so I WT'd one of them witout looking. Turns out I WT'd one of my EM Totodiles. >.>
THANK GOODNESS though, that I didn't accidentally trade my Dive Ball Toto, or THAT would have been horrible. ^_^' |
Spent like 2 days trying to breed my female Ultra Ball Froakie with my Protean male Froakie and didn't know that males can't pass down their HA with a female.
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Ohoho, there's this one time when someone was looking for a Flawless/Perfect 5IV Female Heal Ball 4EM HA Fennekin. I tried it out, and it ended up with a ton of 4-5IV baby foxes released into the wild searching for that one female HA Fennekin with that perfect 5IV spread.
...And guess who, already at the point of stopping and just going to give an imperfect 5IV spread to the requester (she knew it'll be hard so she was willing to take it), got a flawless HA female one... Really, 6IV before a perfect 5IV one. Pokemon sure loves to troll around with me. |
Usually my Ditto has the DK and my Pokémon has an Everstone, but in the cases where my Pokémon requires the nature Ditto has, I obviously switch.
How many times have I gone from breeding one Pokémon to another without switching it around... Instead, hatching Adamant Lapras or some other dumb combination :pink_frown: hmph |
Was breeding Larvitar.
Forgot to put Everstone. Got an Egg. Remembered about Everstone. Changed Item. Got 4 more Eggs. First Larvitar was Adamant (not bad), all others were Jolly. Adamant Larvitar was 31 / 31 / 31 / x / 31 / 31 All others were not that spread ^ ^ (RAGEEEEEEEE) Did 3 more cycles (15 more Eggs) None had that spread (MORE RAGEEEEEEEEEEE!) Did last cycle. Last Egg was right. So annoying when of course the "bad egg" has what you want, and then everything else is missing either HP or Atk. SOOOOOOOOOO ANNOYING! |
I think the dumbest thing I had done was delete a 4IV female when I had a 5IV female to replace it. I accidentally marked the wrong female parent that was only 3 IV... I biked back and forth getting eggs for about an hour(maybe more) just thinking I was having bad luck.
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...The same gender mistake XD
Or to remove the parent with the egg moves, only to realize a while after that the babies din't had any egg moves. |
I spent 15 minutes riding around on my bike trying to hatch an egg only to realize that I forget to grab the egg from the daycare man.
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I had a female excadrill that was wild caught and wanted to breed one with good IVs. Looking through my box of breedjects for a mate, I found a cubchoo with 5 perfect IVs and decided that breeding it with my excadrill would be a good start. After leveling it up a bit to avoid racking up a large daycare bill, I realized that the cubchoo was also female. Herp-derp! o_O
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