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Breeding: How long before you just give up?

RodeoJones

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    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 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.
     
    DarkSlayer1331 said:
    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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    I wonder if the steps increased or something. Because I HATE breeding because of that one reason.
     
    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
     
    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...
     
    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
     
    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?
     
    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.
     
    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
     
    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.
     
    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.
     
    AceOfSpades0707 said:
    Put a Magmar in your team with the ability "Flame Body". It cuts the hatching time in half.
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    This is what I always do when it comes on hatching a Pokémon. I'm surprised your Riolu hasn't hatched yet, it usually takes me around 10-20 minutes to hatch a Riolu.
     
    Question, why does the gender matter (unless it's a Combee)?
     
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