Introduction Topic

[HoninboShusaku]

Hello everyone!! I'm ieatbabies34 and I'm a Pokemon Breeder. I love to breed Pokemon because it's fun.

 

[Dragon]

Hey there! Welcomeeeee, and even more awesomely special welcome to PC! I like breeding pokemon in the games from time to time too! It was actually a weird and awkward sounding concept at first but.. gotta train those pokemon to be strong! I'm breeding a Electrike and a Swablu right now myself. |D

Mmm, looks like you're enjoying yourself over on the Trade Corner already! Which is good; as you may know, it's where you can have some trading, as well as some breeding-related topics, and some helpful tips to help you on breeding pokemon! It's pretty cool! Mmm, but yeah, we hope to see you soon, and it's great having you with us! If you have any questions about the forum, don't beafraid to ask!

 

[Ash Ketchum 11]

Ooohhhhh a breeder! I wish I new the secrets of breeding!

 

[HoninboShusaku]

Hey there! Welcomeeeee, and even more awesomely special welcome to PC! I like breeding pokemon in the games from time to time too! It was actually a weird and awkward sounding concept at first but.. gotta train those pokemon to be strong! I'm breeding a Electrike and a Swablu right now myself. |D

Mmm, looks like you're enjoying yourself over on the Trade Corner already! Which is good; as you may know, it's where you can have some trading, as well as some breeding-related topics, and some helpful tips to help you on breeding pokemon! It's pretty cool! Mmm, but yeah, we hope to see you soon, and it's great having you with us! If you have any questions about the forum, don't beafraid to ask!

^_^ Thanks for the warm welcoming. Yeah, I needed a few Pokemons so I could breed egg moves. It's actually pretty fun when you know all your hard work will get you a shiny Pokemon. I'm breeding an Ivysaur atm. It's already got egg moves ready. Now just waiting on the HA or a shiny. It's tough to know which one is going to be shiny. XD But I like it for some reason. Indeed I will ask if I need help. Thanks again for the warm welcoming.

 

[Ash Ketchum 11]

Actually, in my day I bred countless monsters... They turned out really powerful!

 

[praj.pran]

Hi
Where did you learnt to breed pokemon ?

It takes years to breed I get bored breeding a pokemon so I never breed

 

[Ash Ketchum 11]

Hi
Where did you learnt to breed pokemon ?

It takes years to breed I get bored breeding a pokemon so I never breed

If your talking to me, take a look at your profile picture, there's a "slime, and a king slime"
They are from dragon quest, Tara's and Cobis journey/adventures. I spent over a hundred hours on those gb color games.

 

[HoninboShusaku]

Hi
Where did you learnt to breed pokemon ?

It takes years to breed I get bored breeding a pokemon so I never breed

If you're talking about how would one breed a good Pokemon then I suggest getting a Ditto with either 5IV or 6IV. Most likely I would recommend the 6IV one. It's a lot better. Then get any Pokemon you want to breed.

Here are some tips.

• Know which egg types there are. Here is a link that I always use to help me out. (https://pokemondb.net/mechanics/breeding)
• Dittos can breed with anything regardless of its gender. There are only a few genderless Pokemon that can breed with Ditto. All Legendary Pokemons are off the map. You cannot breed any Legendaries with Ditto unless if it's Manaphy.(That's what I heard.)
• Each Pokemon has it's own egg cycle. What this means is that each Pokemon has a different number of steps that you have to take in order to hatch your egg. Example: Bulbasaurs take about 5,355 Steps to hatch while Lapras takes about 10,455 Steps to hatch its eggs. That's a super long time.
• As of Pokemon X and Y, females can now pass down Pokeballs, this is a great thing if you like different balls. If you breed a female with Ditto and the Ditto has Timer Ball and your female has the standard Pokeball, the offspring will have a standard Pokeball regardless of what Ditto has. If you breed a female with Timer Ball and a Male of its kind with an Ultra Ball, the offspring with have the Timer Ball regardless of what the Male has. If you breed a male with let's say Luxury Ball and a Ditto with a Timer Ball, the offspring will have a standard Pokeball.
• With Pokemon X and Y, males can pass down hidden abilities, but only with a super low chance. (Highly recommend using a female if you are going to try to pass down different Pokeballs.)
• Use Everstone for natures you want. It's a guarantee to give the offspring the nature. Example: If I wanted a Timid Froakie, I would put the Everstone on my female Froakie with Timid nature. Don't put it on the other parent if it doesn't have Timid nature.
• The new item Destiny Knot will pass down 5 IVs, that's not really a guarantee because I've tried it many times. I had a 6 IV Ditto and I had a 5 Iv Gastly and I put the Destiny Knot on my Ditto and the Everstone on my Gastly because Gastly had Timid and Ditto had 6 IVs. About 40% of the offspring had 4 IVs and 50% of the offspring had 5 IVs and about 10% of them had 6 IVs. In the end, I ended up with a bunch of 4 and 5 IV Gastly and about 2 6 IV Gastly.
• There's also the new Hatching-o-power feature. This will increase your hatch rate. (I have no idea by how much.)

Now since you have that in mind. What I normally do is, I decide what my Pokemon should have as egg moves. So example of what I'm trying to do right now.

I'm trying to get a shiny Bulbasaur with a Heal Ball as a Pokeball so I gave it good egg moves; Leaf Storm, Power Whip, Giga Drain, and Ingrain. I kept breeding until I finally got a female with all 4 egg moves and it's in a Heal Ball. (Refer to this link if you want to know which Pokemons in specific has which egg groups https://pokemondb.net/pokedex/national)

How I got the egg moves: Simple, I got a female Ivysaur and I bred it with a Victreebel to get Leaf Storm. I kept breeding it until I got a female Bulbasaur with Leaf Storm. Then I got a male Tangela and evolved it into Tangrowth and kept leveling until it learned Power Whip. Then I leveled up my Bulbasaur because it can't breed with other Pokemons (Read the 3rd to last paragraph on why I did this.) and once it evolved, I bred her with the Tangrowth until I got a female with Leaf Storm and Power Whip. Now that I got those 2 moves down, a surprise for me was around the corner. Not knowing that Tangrowth also knows Giga Drain, it passed that move down as well when it passed the Power Whip. So now I have 3 egg moves. The last one was pretty simple. If you didn't know, Tangrowth and Tangela knows Ingrain so you could of passed down 3 moves all at once without having to swap different Pokemons, but if you didn't know that. Carnivine and other various grass Pokemons know it as well.

That's how I got all 4 egg moves. I don't really know, but what I'm thinking is that egg moves are first priority so even if you had a parent that knows something like SolarBeam, it wouldn't really get passed down unless if there's actually an empty move spot left over. (Please correct me if I'm wrong because I don't really know how this works.)

Then I leveled it up until the point where it can't learn any moves. (This is good practice because if you are already satisfied with all 4 moves, then you shouldn't have to keep it in the day care because the day care lady doesn't know which moves you want so she will indeed replace your good moves for crappy moves that Bulbasaur would learn when it levels up.) So I know that Bulbasaur's last move that it can learn by leveling up is Seed Bomb which is at level 37. So I go level it up and I don't evolve it because when it evolves, then you'll have to worry about the max level Ivysaur learns its last move.
So I suggest don't level the Pokemon up unless you really really have to.

Example of what I'm talking about: Togepi. Togepi can't breed with Ditto because it's in its premature evolution. So in order to actually breed Togepi, you need to evolve it into Togetic and then you can breed it. This wouldn't really affect the egg moves because Togepi and Togetic learns the same exact moves on the exact levels.

So, once you've got all that in your head. If you really want IVs (Individual Values), you would have to put the Destiny Knot on either your 6 IV Ditto or your 5 IV Pokemon you are trying to breed. Once you've got that all ready, what I always like doing is, I hit the day care. Then I ride my bike back and forth in a straight line from the day care to the next town and then go back to the day care again. Once I've received an egg, I deposit that egg because I want to hatch 30 eggs at once and not 1 egg at a time. Once I get my 30 eggs, I fly to Lumiose City where the Gym is. Since that place is a huge circle, I just ride my bike in a straight line going East.

And there you have it. That's how I breed my Pokemon.

EDIT: I should of included this in there, but I forgot. Someone in this forum had helped me out with 1 breeding tip. Here are the 3 tips that you should also include if you are using the Friend Safari.

• Cute Charm. Cute Charm will always guarantee you the opposite gender. Sometimes you may come across the same gender, but you will most likely meet the opposite gender. Example: I have a male Jigglypuff with Cute Charm, every encounter I get will always be a female species. Only a few out of the encounters will be male.
• Trace (@stevenmannn showed me this). Trace will allow you to see the ability of wild Pokemons. This is a great thing because if you are like me and a hidden ability hunter, this will help you dearly since you won't have to waste so many Pokeballs anymore on Pokemons that you'll just end up releasing.
• Synchronize. Synchronize will some what guarantee you the nature. Sometimes you'll get different natures, but most of them will the the nature of the Pokemon that has Synchronize. Example: If I have an Alakazam with Timid nature and Synchronize, the wild Pokemon will guarantee have Timid as a nature. Sometimes this may not work so you'll have to keep searching.

Remember to keep this in mind. You'll have to have 1 of those Abilities in your first slot. I'd suggest Cute Charm first then Synchronize and then Trace.

 

[praj.pran]

THANKS BUT I DID NOT UNDERSTAND YET

 

[Ash Ketchum 11]

Lol I tried to read it in a email, and wow did he try I give him props for trying.