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Breeding Pokémon

In the all out quest to have one of the best Pokémon, many people have turned to breeding. There are many advantages to breeding that you can't obtain with the normal catch-in-wild routine. Some of them are getting moves that you can't normally obtain on a Pokémon, getting somewhat better Individual Values for your Pokémon (stats), and just a less harder impact on your wallet in the game since you're saving pokeballs. If you want to obtain some interesting movesets or would like to have some better stats for your Pokémon, then breeding is for you.

To start off, let's talk about the basics of breeding. When you get to Mauville City in Pokémon Ruby or Sapphire, go west from the city and the first thing you should see is a house with a man in between a fence to the left, in Diamond, Pearl & Platinum in Solaceon Town to the left, in Route 34 in HeartGold/SoulSilver, near the eastern exit of Route 3 in Black & White there is a house and in the middle of Route 7 in X & Y, the ranch in Paniola Ranch and in Route 5 & Bridge Field in Galar. This is where you can breed. Obviously, you need a male and a female Pokémon to breed. They also however, need to be in the same breeding group or “Egg Group”, in which different Pokémon are assigned. These are the groups:

Breeding Section Bug Egg Group Ditto Egg Group Dragon Egg Group Fairy Egg Group Field Egg Group Flying Egg Group Grass Egg Group Human-like Egg Group Amorphous Egg Group Mineral Egg Group Monster Egg Group Water 1 Egg Group Water 2 Egg Group Water 3 Egg Group Pokémon That Can't Breed

Thirteen in all. The No Egg group at the bottom includes all genderless Pokémon, baby forms of certain Pokémon, and Latias and Latios. As the name says, you can't breed them unless you have a lovely Pokémon called Ditto, but even then you can only breed some of the non-legendary genderless Pokémon for eggs of that Pokémon. Anyway, if you're having trouble finding a Pokémon's egg group, try to compare the physical appearance of that Pokémon to another. Absol is a Pokémon that has four legs and paws to go with them, so a Pokémon in its breeding group should have a similar appearance, like Manectric. Wobbuffet is a Pokémon that relates to no animal or plant, so Koffing can be a mating partner with it.

So after you stick a compatable male and female Pokémon into the daycare, the old man outside will tell you the status of your two Pokémon, if they're going to mate or not. Out of the few things that he says to you, there's one thing that he will say that tells you that they will not mate at all. After that, they'll produce an egg depending on, again, what the daycare man says. It could be almost instantaneously to get an egg, or it could take a whole boring day. You will get one though, be patient. This is all dependant on several things, their natures, ID numbers and so forth. It will say that they prefer to play with others if the two Pokémon are not going to breed. A Traded Pokémon for example can take less time to get an egg with than one you personally caught. The rates are as follows;

  • Same species with different ID numbers: Chance of getting an egg; 70% | Statement; "The two seem to get along very well!"
  • Same species with same ID numbers: Chance of getting an egg; 50% | Statement; "The two seem to get along"
  • Different species with different ID numbers: Chance of getting an egg; 50% | Statement; "The two seem to get along"
  • Different species with same ID numbers: Chance of getting an egg; 20% | Statement; "The two don't seem to like each other"
  • Different Egg Groups: Chance of getting an egg; 0% | Statement; "The two prefer to play with other Pokémon more than with each other."

After every 256 steps, the chance is taken and if the random value is selected to allow for an egg, the egg shall be created for you to pick up at the Day Care centre. If no egg is produced, then you need to go back and partake in another 256 steps.

Eggs

A common question is what will hatch from the egg? The egg will contain the lowest form of the female Pokémon's evolution change, barring any pre-evolutions added after the Pokémon was first created. There are several exceptions to this however. The Pokémon Nidoran ♂ & Volbeat are always male while Nidoran ♀ & Illumise are always female. Despite this and them being different species, the egg that the Nidoran ♀ and Illumise hatch will have a 50% chance of being Nidoran ♂ and Volbeat respectively and a 50% chance of being the same as the mother. In addition to this, some genderless Pokémon can also breed. While they're included in various egg groups, they can only breed with Ditto and so the Pokémon will be the base evolution of the genderless Pokémon.

So after you get the egg after the daycare man, you're probably wondering when it will hatch. No, leaving your Gameboy Advance/DS on for 3 hours will not hatch the egg. Like training a Pokémon, it takes effort to hatch the egg. You need to walk a certain amount of steps in order to hatch the egg, depending on the Pokémon you're trying to hatch. It could take from 1,000 to roughly 10,000 steps to hatch the egg, depending on the type of Pokémon. Daunted? Use the Bike and go back and forth withing some routes routes to the east and west. Eggs hatch quickly wherever you use the Bike really. Each egg has a cycle of 255 steps of which you need to complete in order to hatch the egg with the cycle being dependant upon the Pokémon species within the egg. This process can be sped up by having a Pokémon with the Flame Body or Magma Armor abilities which make counts each cycle as two cycles in order to make it progress faster.

Now, when your egg hatches, you may notice a few things about it. For example, it is at level 1 (Level 5 in Generation II & III) and the stats are according to that. One interesting thing you may see is that the Pokémon knows more moves than it should at level 5. For example, I bred my female Gardevoir and male Wobbuffet together and when I hatched the Ralts egg, it knew Growl, Safeguard, and Destiny Bond. But wait! It's not supposed to learn Destiny Bond, and Safeguard comes as a TM! Why does this Ralts have both of those moves already?

The way the Pokémon inherits moves are based solely upon the base form's own learnset. The parents that need to know the moves are as follows;

  • Moves in baby's Level Up: Both Parents
  • TM Moves: Father (pre-XY)
  • Egg Moves: Father
  • Move Tutor Moves: Cannot be bred

As of Pokémon X & Y, it's now also possible for the mother to pass Egg Moves down. If the mother has one of the Egg Moves of the baby, it will pass the move down. In Pokémon Sword & Shield, you can now even pass the Egg Moves from parent to parent if both parents are of the same species and the parent wanting the egg moves has got a deleted slot.

Breeding is a very useful technique when you want to aquire your movesets because of the fact that you can breed over two different sets of moves: Technical Machine aquired moves, and “Egg Moves”. You can however chain-breed it to any Pokémon you would like. Chain breeding? Some Pokémon can only get a move through breeding only if you first breed two other Pokémon for a male version and breed it again to the Pokémon you wish for a certain move to be on. For example, say I wanted to breed Rock Slide to a Cradily. First, I would need to get a Male Relicanth and Female Corsola, breed for a Male Corsola with Rock Slide and breed that with a Female Cradily/Lileep for a Lileep with Rock Slide.

For the games from Pokémon Emerald onwards, you have the ability to pass Natures on through breeding. This is done by attaching the Everstone to either of the Pokémon or the Ditto. Once attached, there is a 50% chance of the baby Pokémon having the nature of the female. This changed to being for either Pokémon in HeartGold & SoulSilver and changed to a 100% likelihood of passing down in Black 2 & White 2.

In Diamond & Pearl onwards, if you breed two Pokémon from different language games, the chances of them being Shiny is reduced to 1 in 2,048, reduced to 1,366 in Black & White and 1 in 682 from Pokémon X & Y onwards.

HeartGold & SoulSilver add another means to transfer specific IVs over from parent to child.The manner of doing this is in having either parent hold a specific item. These Items are the "Power" Items introduced in Diamond & Pearl which boosted Effort Values earned when held. Attach these Items to either of the parents and their specific Individual Value will be passed on to the baby. Consult the table below to see which item causes the baby to inherit which stat.

No Incense Igglybuff No Incense Tyrogue No Incense Magby Sea Incense Budew Luck Incense
Clefairy
Clefable
Togetic
Togekiss
Electabuzz
Electivire
Marill
Azumarill
Wynaut Lax Incense Wobbuffet
Chansey
Blissey
Munchlax Full Incense Snorlax
Mantyke Wave Incense Mantine
Riolu No Incense Lucario
Toxel No Incense Toxtricity

And that's everything related to breeding. Use the Drop Down Menu below to check out all Egg Groups and all Pokémon in them

Generation 9 Breeding Section Bug Egg Group Ditto Egg Group Dragon Egg Group Fairy Egg Group Field Egg Group Flying Egg Group Grass Egg Group Human-like Egg Group Amorphous Egg Group Mineral Egg Group Monster Egg Group Water 1 Egg Group Water 2 Egg Group Water 3 Egg Group Pokémon That Can't Breed Generation 8 Breeding Section Bug Egg Group Ditto Egg Group Dragon Egg Group Fairy Egg Group Field Egg Group Flying Egg Group Grass Egg Group Human-like Egg Group Amorphous Egg Group Mineral Egg Group Monster Egg Group Water 1 Egg Group Water 2 Egg Group Water 3 Egg Group Pokémon That Can't Breed Thanks to Dragonair for writing this for us Databases
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