Breeding...what's the general idea?

[xeephran]

Hi all,

I started playing pokemon Heartgold some time ago and am currently up to the pokemon league (grinding before the fihgt at the moment).

Anyway, I came across the idea of breeding on some websites but I don't quite get it and wondered if you guys could provide some general ideas/methods.

As I understand it the pokemon offspring will inherit TMs from dad, level-up moves from mum & dad and egg moves...I don't quite understand, you don't fight with an egg do you?

Also, the pokemon you wish to end up with needs to be able to obtain the moves you want ordinarily anyway. So, if you want it to inherit a TM from dad the baby would have to be able to learn that anyway. I see the advantage in this i.e. you've only got one of that TM but level up moves I don't quite understand...if the baby you want would ordinarily be able to learn those moves why do you require breeding to pass them on?

And chain breeding...what are you trying to achieve? lots of TMs in the same pokemon?

As you can see I'm quite confused.

My idea was to breed a Corsola that was quite powerful but I don't really understand the whys and hows of the method involved.

 

[Fever]

The only time I start breeding is to get the right gender and the right nature for what Im after in each pokemon. It can take about the same amount of time as going out and trying to catch a heap in the wild hoping that you'll get there with one of them, but through breeding Im saving tons on pokeballs.
All Im doing though is breeding a pokemon with a ditto to get the egg.

I have no desire to breed for perfect IVs or anything, and I dont quite understand that whole thing properly yet anyway. As I understand it there are some reasonably complicated formulas that go along with working out a pokemons IVs.

It is fun though to breed pokemon.

 

[Timbjerr]

ugh, so many questions...so poorly organized. XD

As I understand it the pokemon offspring will inherit TMs from dad, level-up moves from mum & dad and egg moves...I don't quite understand, you don't fight with an egg do you?

No, you don't fight with an egg. You walk around with it until it hatches (just like the event Togepi egg you had at the beginning of the game).

The baby's base moves will be their species' base moves plus any TMs/HMs the father knows that be baby is compatible with, any egg moves that the father knows, and any level-up moves that both parents know. If all these amount to more than four attacks, the base attacks will start being eliminated (because they're easily relearned with a Heart Scale)

Also, the pokemon you wish to end up with needs to be able to obtain the moves you want ordinarily anyway. So, if you want it to inherit a TM from dad the baby would have to be able to learn that anyway. I see the advantage in this i.e. you've only got one of that TM but level up moves I don't quite understand...if the baby you want would ordinarily be able to learn those moves why do you require breeding to pass them on?

For TMs, it's as you said, to get more use out of one TM, but for level-up moves, it's usually to get a baby knowing a very powerful STAB move as soon as they hatch, i.e. a Skorupi born knowing Cross Poison.

More important than TMs and level-up moves are the egg moves that can't be acquired any other way than by breeding the attack on the baby. :P

And chain breeding...what are you trying to achieve? lots of TMs in the same pokemon?

Chain breeding is passing a TM/egg move from one species to another by way of overlapping egg groups. For the sake of simplicity, I'll give an example with a universal TM, Toxic. You can use your precious TM06 on a male Snorlax and then breed it with a female Venusaur and the (preferably male) baby Bulbasaur will know Toxic. Because Bulbasaur is in two different egg groups, it can then be bred with say, a female Cacturne so that the baby Cacnea knows Toxic. Since Cacnea is also in two egg groups, it can then proceed to breed with a fairy, and so on...

My idea was to breed a Corsola that was quite powerful but I don't really understand the whys and hows of the method involved.

What you're describing seems more like breeding to get perfect IVs and I know nothing of IV breeding other than it takes extreme patience. XD

 

[Sydian]

Hope Timbjerr answered that good enough for ya. Next time you need breeding help, there's a sticky for those questions in the Diamond/Pearl/Platinum here.

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