jamesnail12
Ultimate Yu-Gi-Oh Nerd
Towns Folk
Okay, so here is a rundown of the regular breeding, so then you can understand the shiny breeding.
Gotta start with the basics, right?
When you breed two Pokemon, you get an egg. I am pretty sure you already knew that, because why else would you come here? Instead of boring you with long monotonous speech, let me just put up a chart showing how the egg groups connect:
(yes, got it from PokemonDB. Credit to them, they have an awesome breeding guide if you don't like mine.)
So, now for the Pokemon that can breed. EVERYTHING can breed, BUT these following Pokemon:
-All Baby Pokemon
-Unown
-Nidorina and Nidoqueen (What the heck is up with that logic? I dunno.)
-All Legendaries (EXCEPT Manaphy, Manaphy will always produce a Phione; and Phione will always produce a Phione.)
-Genderless Pokemon can ONLY BREED WITH DITTO!!!!
And everything else can breed with Ditto. It is that simple.
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So, now that you have basic breeding down, let's get into the area where nobody else dares do delve into; the world of IVs, Natures, and Egg Moves. Only the most dedicated Pokemon fan will know what I am talking about by these terms, and if you do, then consider yourself smart. If not, then pay attention, and you will be smart shortly.
We will do IVs first, since they are the easiest. There are 6 IV stats, which are your normal stats. Each one can max out at 31, and, unlike EVs, these cannot be altered and you can have a perfect 31 on ALL your stats. Now, you may ask, "How do I check my IVs? The game doesn't just tell me this stuff!" Don't worry; there are IV checkers in all games back to generation 2. I know the location of 2 of them; the IV checker for X/Y is in the Poke Center in Kiloude City, and the IV checker for Platinum is in the Battle Tower. If they say that the stat is 'above average', 'very good', or something similar, then it is between 19 and 30. If he says that 'it can't be any better in that regard', or similar, you have 31 IVs in that area. Now, getting 31 IV Pokemon are rare. Not like shinies or Pokerus, but still decently rare on their own in the wild. Now that you have a base knowledge of IVs, now about the breeding portion. Let's say that you have a Ditto with 31 IVs in each stat, and a Skarmory with 6 IVs as well. When you breed them, they have a chance of passing down their IVs to the baby; so, if the Ditto passed down its HP, and the Skarmory passed down its Defense, then the baby would have 31 IVs in HP and Defense. Simple so far, right? Here's where it gets a little more complex. I assume that you know about the EV training items, the Power Weight, Power Anklet, etc. Let's say that you give the Power Weight to the Ditto. The Power Weight raises HP, right? Well, since Ditto is holding the Power Weight, the baby Pokemon will have a 100% chance of inheriting the Ditto's HP IV. You can use this to control what IVs you get, and where. (NOTE: It only PASSES DOWN the IV, NOT guarantees a 31 IV Pokemon) There is much more to IV breeding, but that is all you need to know for breeding a good Pokemon with good IVs. Also, if a Pokemon is holding a Destiny Knot and other is holding an Everstone, it will always inherit 5 IVs from both parents and the one with the Everstone will pass down the nature.
Next, Natures. This is a little tricky, trying to get the right combo of natures and IVs, and you will see why in a second. Natures are completely random, so you must use an item. This is where the all-useless Everstone comes in, making it useful. Upon a Pokemon holding an Everstone, it will pass its nature down to the baby, guaranteed. So, if I use my ditto and skarmory from previous example, and the ditto has a Quirky nature, and I let it hold an Everstone, then the baby's nature will be Quirky, 100% of the time. (NOTE: If both parents are holding an everstone, then the baby will have a 50/50 chance of getting the nature from the mother or father, but never any other nature. This can help in cases when you don't care about IVs, but you want 2 certain natures.) Also, if there are no Power items involved, then the Pokemon will inherit 2 random IVs from both parents; and if the IVs land on the same stat for each parent, the father's IV will overwrite the mother's IV on the baby. That's all you really need to know about the IV bit.
Now, on to the Egg moves. This is VERY hard without Smeargle, which can learn all moves by Sketch; because only the father can pass down egg moves. Let me use PokemonDB's example here, with Charizard learning Dig and Iron Tail.
Now, that should cover the majority of basic competitive breeding. If you just want the shiny Pokemon and don't care about this junk, then ignore all of the previous.
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Now, on to shiny breeding. The Shiny Charm increases chances of shiny Pokemon by 2x. This can be VERY interesting, and is pretty hard, if you don't have a shiny charm Japanese ditto. I will NOT drone on and on like I did up above, but instead will give you this nice pretty little chart I developed:
Normal English + Normal English = 1x Shiny rate
Normal English + Normal Japanese = 6x Shiny rate
Shiny Charm English + Normal English = 6x Shiny rate
Shiny Charm English + Shiny Charm English = 12x Shiny rate
Shiny Charm English + Normal Japanese = 18x Shiny rate
Simple enough?
That is pretty easy to understand. The least shiny rate is 1/8192, while the best you can have is 1/60!!!!!!!!!
(The 1/60 is only in Japanese games, should probably mention; the most in English games is 1/512)
This is to help all new people to breeding.
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EV training section, for those who need it.
The EVs come from Super Training in X/Y/OR/AS. You can have 512 EVs maximum, 255 per stat for 2 stats. Or, you can evenly distribute them across ALL your stats. This is known as EV training, and is what normally what makes a Pokemon competitive. Here is the rundown on the stats:
4 EVs = 1 Stat Point (ex. base 255 HP gains 4 evs from super training now base 256 HP)
255 EVs per Stat = 63 stat points per stat for 2 stats, 3 remaining EVs (save these last 3 EVs for now)
6 EVs remaining = 4 into 1 stat (+1 for it) and the last 2 can go wherever
That is all there is to EV training, really.
Gotta start with the basics, right?
When you breed two Pokemon, you get an egg. I am pretty sure you already knew that, because why else would you come here? Instead of boring you with long monotonous speech, let me just put up a chart showing how the egg groups connect:
So, now for the Pokemon that can breed. EVERYTHING can breed, BUT these following Pokemon:
-All Baby Pokemon
-Unown
-Nidorina and Nidoqueen (What the heck is up with that logic? I dunno.)
-All Legendaries (EXCEPT Manaphy, Manaphy will always produce a Phione; and Phione will always produce a Phione.)
-Genderless Pokemon can ONLY BREED WITH DITTO!!!!
And everything else can breed with Ditto. It is that simple.
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So, now that you have basic breeding down, let's get into the area where nobody else dares do delve into; the world of IVs, Natures, and Egg Moves. Only the most dedicated Pokemon fan will know what I am talking about by these terms, and if you do, then consider yourself smart. If not, then pay attention, and you will be smart shortly.
We will do IVs first, since they are the easiest. There are 6 IV stats, which are your normal stats. Each one can max out at 31, and, unlike EVs, these cannot be altered and you can have a perfect 31 on ALL your stats. Now, you may ask, "How do I check my IVs? The game doesn't just tell me this stuff!" Don't worry; there are IV checkers in all games back to generation 2. I know the location of 2 of them; the IV checker for X/Y is in the Poke Center in Kiloude City, and the IV checker for Platinum is in the Battle Tower. If they say that the stat is 'above average', 'very good', or something similar, then it is between 19 and 30. If he says that 'it can't be any better in that regard', or similar, you have 31 IVs in that area. Now, getting 31 IV Pokemon are rare. Not like shinies or Pokerus, but still decently rare on their own in the wild. Now that you have a base knowledge of IVs, now about the breeding portion. Let's say that you have a Ditto with 31 IVs in each stat, and a Skarmory with 6 IVs as well. When you breed them, they have a chance of passing down their IVs to the baby; so, if the Ditto passed down its HP, and the Skarmory passed down its Defense, then the baby would have 31 IVs in HP and Defense. Simple so far, right? Here's where it gets a little more complex. I assume that you know about the EV training items, the Power Weight, Power Anklet, etc. Let's say that you give the Power Weight to the Ditto. The Power Weight raises HP, right? Well, since Ditto is holding the Power Weight, the baby Pokemon will have a 100% chance of inheriting the Ditto's HP IV. You can use this to control what IVs you get, and where. (NOTE: It only PASSES DOWN the IV, NOT guarantees a 31 IV Pokemon) There is much more to IV breeding, but that is all you need to know for breeding a good Pokemon with good IVs. Also, if a Pokemon is holding a Destiny Knot and other is holding an Everstone, it will always inherit 5 IVs from both parents and the one with the Everstone will pass down the nature.
Next, Natures. This is a little tricky, trying to get the right combo of natures and IVs, and you will see why in a second. Natures are completely random, so you must use an item. This is where the all-useless Everstone comes in, making it useful. Upon a Pokemon holding an Everstone, it will pass its nature down to the baby, guaranteed. So, if I use my ditto and skarmory from previous example, and the ditto has a Quirky nature, and I let it hold an Everstone, then the baby's nature will be Quirky, 100% of the time. (NOTE: If both parents are holding an everstone, then the baby will have a 50/50 chance of getting the nature from the mother or father, but never any other nature. This can help in cases when you don't care about IVs, but you want 2 certain natures.) Also, if there are no Power items involved, then the Pokemon will inherit 2 random IVs from both parents; and if the IVs land on the same stat for each parent, the father's IV will overwrite the mother's IV on the baby. That's all you really need to know about the IV bit.
Now, on to the Egg moves. This is VERY hard without Smeargle, which can learn all moves by Sketch; because only the father can pass down egg moves. Let me use PokemonDB's example here, with Charizard learning Dig and Iron Tail.
Charizard, like many other Pokémon, can learn the move Dig via TM28. But if you already used the TM then you may be able to breed it onto a Charmander. Let's assume you taught TM28 to a male Aggron (who has also learnt Iron Tail by level up) and we also have a female Charmeleon. Charmeleon and Aggron are both in the Monster group so they can breed. When we breed these two Pokémon, the resulting Charmander will know Dig and Iron Tail, since it can learn both those moves by TM (even though Iron Tail was not actually taught by TM). Depending on what other moves the parents know these two moves may overwrite other basic moves like Growl or Scratch.
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Now, on to shiny breeding. The Shiny Charm increases chances of shiny Pokemon by 2x. This can be VERY interesting, and is pretty hard, if you don't have a shiny charm Japanese ditto. I will NOT drone on and on like I did up above, but instead will give you this nice pretty little chart I developed:
Normal English + Normal English = 1x Shiny rate
Normal English + Normal Japanese = 6x Shiny rate
Shiny Charm English + Normal English = 6x Shiny rate
Shiny Charm English + Shiny Charm English = 12x Shiny rate
Shiny Charm English + Normal Japanese = 18x Shiny rate
Simple enough?
That is pretty easy to understand. The least shiny rate is 1/8192, while the best you can have is 1/60!!!!!!!!!
(The 1/60 is only in Japanese games, should probably mention; the most in English games is 1/512)
This is to help all new people to breeding.
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EV training section, for those who need it.
The EVs come from Super Training in X/Y/OR/AS. You can have 512 EVs maximum, 255 per stat for 2 stats. Or, you can evenly distribute them across ALL your stats. This is known as EV training, and is what normally what makes a Pokemon competitive. Here is the rundown on the stats:
4 EVs = 1 Stat Point (ex. base 255 HP gains 4 evs from super training now base 256 HP)
255 EVs per Stat = 63 stat points per stat for 2 stats, 3 remaining EVs (save these last 3 EVs for now)
6 EVs remaining = 4 into 1 stat (+1 for it) and the last 2 can go wherever
That is all there is to EV training, really.
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