4th Gen How long did it take you to get a pokemon you were happy with?

Lady Nicole said:
Aww let me help you.

This is what I do when I aim to breed a Pokemon with near perfect IVs (no, it's never taken me more than 2 weeks).

Decide which stats you'd most like to have 31 in. Say you were breeding a DD Bagon, then you'd want 31 in attack and speed; or if you were breeding a Donphan, then you'd want 31 in HP and defense.

Start with your Dratini and your Ditto. Breed a few Dratini until you get ones with better IVs than the Ditto and/or the other Dratini. Keep replacing the parents with the better Dratini babies once you've bred them (gross I know, but it has to be done XD). Anyways, keep breeding until you get a 31 IV in speed or attack, regardless of the other IVs. Once you get this Pokemon, breed from it. Make it one of the parents. Then wait for another baby with 31 in one of its stats (if it's speed again then great, that's absolutely fine; make it the other parent provided it's the opposite gender). Now you have both parents with a 31 IV in speed, so your babies are highly likely to get 31 in speed. Keep breeding until you get a 31 IV in another stat like attack, and hopefully it will also have the 31 in speed you already had on the parents. If not then don't worry, breed them both. Just keep going like this until you're satisfied. Don't just mass breed from the Ditto and original Dratini cos that won't get you anywhere. I hope that made sense >.<

As for IV checking, use this IV calculator. It's really accurate and you don't have to level to lv.50 or anything like that.

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention: HP and defense are harder to inherit than the other stats. Uhh... that takes a lot of explaining. I don't want to put you off reading my already length post XD
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wow thats really helpful, thanks

at the moment i've just caught a ditto with
29/30 IV in hp
30 IV in attack

I'm hoping my next few dratini's have that
it's possible to get more than 2 29+ IV's on a pokemon right?
if it is how should i get 29+ speed on my dratini? - What pokemon should i breed it with? (that has great speed, or more chance or having a 29+ speed IV)
 
Everything I've breed takes less than a week because I'm just awesome.

In order to get a Ditto with 31 Speed IVs, research the maximum speed stat that the wild Ditto can have at a certain level with what nature you'd like it to have.

Next, bring a Synchronizer with the desired nature that has 1 point less in speed that the maximum speed Ditto.

If Ditto outspeeds the Synchronizer, it has 31 Speed IVs.

Lady Nicole said:
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention: HP and defense are harder to inherit than the other stats. Uhh... that takes a lot of explaining. I don't want to put you off reading my already length post XD
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Actually, this is not true. It depends on the IVs of the parent pokemon.
 
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GeneralGuy said:
Actually, this is not true. It depends on the IVs of the parent pokemon.
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You don't believe me? Let me explain...

The IVs for the baby are first generated at random. Then a random IV from one of the parents is selected and passed to the baby. Then a random IV from the other parent except the HP IV is selected and passed to the baby. Then a random IV from a random parent except the HP IV or Defense IV is selected and passed to the baby. These IVs overwrite the originally generated IVs of the baby. Also, these three random IVs may overlap. That is, the same random IV can be chosen to be inherited in the second or third IV transfer and the one will overwrite the other.

Let me give an example.

Let's suppose the parents' IVs are as follows.

Parent A:
HP: 17
Attack: 5
Defense: 26
Sp. Att: 15
Sp. Def: 30
Speed: 21

Parent B:
HP: 23
Attack: 28
Defense: 14
Sp. Att: 22
Sp. Def: 19
Speed: 11

Now the baby's IVs are first generated at random. Suppose they are:

HP: 9
Attack: 16
Defense: 22
Sp. Att: 31
Sp. Def: 10
Speed: 18

Then a parent's random IV is chosen and passed to the baby. Suppose Parent B's Sp. Attack IV is chosen. That makes the baby's new IVs:

HP: 9
Attack: 16
Defense: 22
Sp. Att: 22
Sp. Def: 10
Speed: 18

Then the other parent's random IV except HP IV is chosen and passed to the baby. Suppse Parent A's Defense IV is chosen. That makes the baby's new IVs:

HP: 9
Attack: 16
Defense: 26
Sp. Att: 22
Sp. Def: 10
Speed: 18

Finally a random parent's random IV except HP IV or Defense IV is chosen and passed to the baby. Suppose Parent A's Speed IV is chosen. That makes the baby's new IVs:

HP: 9
Attack: 16
Defense: 26
Sp. Att: 22
Sp. Def: 10
Speed: 21

The number of IVs passed to the baby is not always 3. It may seem as though the baby was passed more than 3 IVs from the parents if some of the IVs of the baby already matched those of the parents. It may seem as though the baby was passed less than 3 IVs from the parents if 2 or 3 of the IVs passed to the baby were in the same stat; this causes the one to overwrite the other.

Therefore the baby will always be passed between 1 and 6 IVs from the parents. The chances are as follows.

1 IV: 2.44% chance
2 IVs: 34.41% chance
3 IVs: 53.01% chance
4 IVs: 9.55% chance
5 IVs: 0.58% chance
6 IVs: 0.01% chance

So most eggs will have 2 or 3 IVs passed from the parents.

HP and Defense are less likely to be passed to the baby. I have no idea why this was decided, but there we go, that's just the way it is. The chances for each stat being passed to the baby are as follows.

HP: 8.02% chance of being inherited
Attack: 19.55% chance of being inherited
Defense: 13.78% chance of being inherited
Sp. Att: 19.55% chance of being inherited
Sp. Def: 19.55% chance of being inherited
Speed: 19.55% chance of being inherited

That is taking into account the fact that the baby's IVs may have already matched the parents' IVs.

Hopefully that made sense.
 
mandella said:
I have a long-winded way of checking my IVs.
It will take some time to do this, and is only recommended if you plan to train lots of high-IV pokemon.

1. Acquire 3-6 Pokemon with Pickup and level them to level 50-100.
2. Take your pickup team into the grass, kill wild pokemon.
3. Every few battles, check your Pokemon. Remove all items.
4. Continue until you have anywhere from 24-99 Rare Candies (99 allows 100% accuracy with IVs)
5. Hatch the Pokemon you are trying to IV breed.
6. Save.
7. Use all Rare Candies on them and check IVs.
8. Turn the Power off and on.
9. If you like the IVs, go and EV train it. Otherwise, repeat steps 5-8.

And there you have it. I myself don't bother too much with IVs yet, but I did use this strategy once. And the other items you get from Pickup are nice too.

Strategy 2:

Alternate method of Rare Candy collection:
1. Get good at the Battle Tower.
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Do i have to accually send the pickup pokemon into battle?
 
I am still not completely happy with any pokemon, im new to expirimenting with EVing and ive not even licked the I spoon
 
Oh, i skipped the EV training phase
striaght into IV breeding phase
i dont' want to waste time Ev training then finding out it has rubbish IV's
so i'm going stright into IV's =)
currently spent 10hrs ish on dratini's...
 
My milotic had great IVs as soon as I caught it as a feebas (30 in sp atk, 27 in sp def, 28 in def, 24 in speed, 21 in hp and 7 in atk...ok atks bad but I never taught it atk based moves), my umbreon however took about 13 generations of breeding because I was trying to get it perfect.
 
Destiny100 said:
Do i have to accually send the pickup pokemon into battle?
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No, as long as it's in your party, there's a random chance that it'll pick up a random item after a battle. So you check your Pokémon's item slot after you battle to see if there is one.

As for me, it took me a month of soft-resetting to get a Latias of the nature I wanted, and luckily for me, her IVs aren't too bad (it allows for a Fighting type HP).Then I EV trained her as I should have as well.

For the OP, it may not take as long since you are able to breed. As long as you have a reliable method for checking IVs, you should get where you want to after not too long.
 
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