PSA: Relatively new to comprehensively breeding pokemon

I have a 0-speed ditto and a 0-atk parent. The ditto is holding the power anklet to facilitate passing down the 0 speed; the non-ditto parent is holding the power bracer to facilitate passing down the 0-atk. Somehow, I am ending up with resulting pokemon with 0 speed ivs but not 0 atk ivs.

Am I doing something wrong, or can only one pokemon pass down ivs with the power items at a time? Thanks very much.

I want to breed a pokemon on pokemmo that has engrain, aqua ring and has leftovers , apparently corsola can learn both but you need to breed the engrain as an egg move.

After searching i cant find a pokemon from the egg groups water a and b that know engrain.

So i need help

I’ve been soft resting the sea mauville rematch for almost two hours and i still haven’t gotten it . Any tips??

I’m breeding a Heavy Ball Kantonian Voltorb(with destiny knot) and a Pokeball Hisuian Voltorb (with everstone) to get a Heavy Ball Hisuian Voltorb and for some reason they haven’t produced an egg. They’re both under my OT so I know it can take longer but I’ve been using egg power lvl 2 to improve the chance and they still haven’t produced and egg after 20 minutes of waiting. What am I doing wrong?

it's a cool pokemon but need the ha to be good! but the nature is trash and I can't change it, but the only egg I got from it didn't give me the ha, even tough the "ditto" too has it

Hi first time playing Pokémon white version and want a scraggy with drain punch, ice punch, thunder punch, I’ve never done chain move breeding before and could use some help

If I swap dittos with my little sister who uses scarlet, I use violet, can I do masuda breeding? Is it diff OT or have to be language?

I wanted to use a Persian with Hypnosis on my team, so I am currently breeding a female Meowth with a male Stantler. The Stantler knows Tackle, Leer and Hypnosis. The Meowths I have gotten so far only know Scratch and Growl, not Hypnosis.

What am I doing wrong?

Replaying SS on my 3DS for the first time in 10 years and I've gotten through the E4 with my Modest Lapras

However, it has Shell Armor, not Water Absorb. Didn't want to bother Soft Resetting in Union Cave over and over so I just went with the Modest Shell Armor Lapras

Now that I have the time to breed for it (or maybe I finish all 16 Gym Leaders + Red first, idk)

I don't have a perfect IV Female Lapras, Male Ampharos (both have Thunderbolt which I want to pass down), or a perfect IV Ditto

I don't have any perfect IVs, actually.

How/What will it take for me to get

1. Perfect IV Lapras/Ampharos/Ditto to

2. then pass down onto a Modest Water Absorb Lapras

3. Is it even worth doing all this if I want to try Battle Frontier?

Anyone with any advice on how to breed Lapras is greatly appreciated!

No intention to play comp or transfer to other games (don't have a switch, for EX)

I’m trying to get a Shiny Hisuian Voltorb in a safari ball, but it has a bold nature. I have a timid Ditto, but will it work if they both hold an everstone and hopefully get a timid Hisuian Voltorb?

I got a male anorith in sapphire, and forgot to reset and now I really want a female one to get egg moves, how can I get a female one?

I’m trying to decide when to save, for soft resetting. When are egg values determined?

I’m breeding a male Adamant Wimpod with a ditto in the nursery, til I get a female adamant Wimpod.

This shouldn’t take long, but I want to understand and I’m finding conflicting info. Some say to save right before talking to the nursery lady to receive the egg. Some are saying something about how the next several eggs are already pre determined from the previous egg?

I would assume to save right before talking to the nursery lady to receive the egg. Can someone walk me through this? Hoping to just keep hatching an egg and soft reset when it hatches til I get the desired baby (ok this case, a female adamant Wimpod).

Am I doing this right?

TL;DR: I have a male Adamant Wimpod and a female Aqua Jet Tirtuoga. What’s the fastest, most straightforward way to get an adamant natured Wimpod that knows Aqua Jet?

First time playing Gen VII and I want to use Golisopod, and I’d love to have it learn Aqua Jet. Seeing as it’s an egg move, I thought I’d give breeding a try.

From what I understand, one of the parents needs to know the desired move to pass it down. I found out I can restore a cover fossil to a level 15 Tirtuoga that knows aqua jet. Easy enough.

Here’s where it gets tricky. I got an Adamant nature Wimpod on only the second try. I was stoked! It’s a male. I also heard fossils are 7:1 male, so females are rare. I saved right before restoring the fossil so I could get a female. First try: it’s a female! I’m stoked, but I then decided I should double check I’m doing it right.

I then learn that the egg Pokemon will be the same species as the mother! So instead of saving, I’ve had my 2DS kept on for days while I’ve been trying to learn what to do in the meantime. Figured I’d ask for help.

I assume I have 3 options:

1. Ditch my male Adamant Wimpod and go try to catch an Adamant female one.

2. Breed my male Adamant Wimpod with my female Aqua Jet Tirtuoga to get an Adamant natured Tirtuoga that knows Aqua Jet (I’d give an everstone to Wimpod to pass on the nature). Hope that it’s a male. Then breed with a female Wimpod.

3. Keep resetting at the fossil restoration trailer and restore the cover fossil til I get a male Adamant Tirtuoga, then catch any female Wimpod.

Is there another way that I’m not considering?

I just felt so lucky to get an adamant Wimpod and then a female Tirtuoga to breed with it, then I realized I had it backwards!

This is my first time actually trying breeding, so I’m trying to make sure I’m doing it right! Any help is appreciated 🙏🏼

Hi. Breeding in gen 3, i currently am breeding a tyranitar with dragon dance on it, with a ditto with an everstone. Im trying to get perfect atk/hp/speed on one, along with dragon dance. But i keep running into this issue where the eggs come out not knowing dragon dance. Can someone dumb this down to why this is happening to me?

so i’m trying to IV breed/train for a riolu

so i breed a Ditto(Naive) with a Lucario(Quiet) for a Naive Riolu, then when i try to breed my Riolu(Naive/ H: Everstone) with any other Ditto (H:Destiny Knot) it just says “they dont seem to like playing together at all” but i’ve IV bred/trained in the past and never had this issue.

What am i doing wrong?

I'm trying to get a cyndaquil with reversal but I don't know how I know it's with reproduction but I don't know how to do that and it's in the original Pokémon Gold and Silver in this case the second generation

I finally got my hands on a switch and am going to get a copy of Scarlet, but I'm currently trying to breed for some Shiny HA fossils in USUM. Should I move my Pokemon over to Scarlet to continue breeding there? Or should I leave them in UM? Whats new about breeding in Scarlet/Violet?

I just started a new game and want to use a ground themed team with roggenrola as my starter

Hello,

I have a male frigibax that I've been trying to breed with a ditto in Pokémon scarlet. Not sure why, I waited probably 15-20min and no results. I haven't had any egg-enhancing items either. But is it unbreedable? Do I have to delete some moves? Please help. Thanks

I want to breed for a shiny impidimp via the Masuda method, but im not sure how since every source I see says Impidimp is a Male only species. Does that mean I NEED a Ditto to breed?

I am trying to be weird and breed a Veluza that knows recover significantly earlier than I would otherwise be able to catch the wild tera that knows it, however according to bulbapedia Veluza is the only water group 2 pokemon that can learn it by breeding and it also says it can learn it by chain breeding. How would this be possible? I feel like I'm missing something and it's getting really annoying.

I returned to Pokemon Sword after a long break and decided to update some of my mons with "better" balls (Poke or Quick to Dive/Net/Dark/Nest lol). I had a lvl 1 Skwovet in my Home I'd obviously need some time ago with the moveset

• Bite
• Rollout
• Super Fang
• Bullet Seed

I know Rollout is an egg move and Bullet Seed is a TM move...

How did I get Bite and Super Fang when they are level up moves? Is there a mechanic I've forgotten in this gen? I have several mons where I've obviously done this (Grookey with Branch Poke), and I'd just like a memory jog

Thanks for any help!

I used to have a masuda ditto in my ultra sun game but moved it up to home at some point. I didnt think to get a new one before the 3ds internet server shut down (I was very focused on getting all the friend safaris I could get lol) and was wondering if it was possible to get another now servers are gone. I already checked all my other 3ds pokemon titles and none of them have a ditto I could use.

I have the shiny charm in that game and had a good time breeding in it so I'd like to go back to it for some pokemon if possible. I know festival plaza has a bunch of features I never used so I didnt know if that had any that would allow for that. I'm kind of assuming not, and I'm pretty sure this is an impossible task, but I figured it was worth the ask.

I do have a masuda eevee that I was breeding with (which is why I never realized I moved my other ditto up) but I dont know how many pokemon can be bred like that (I've only ever ditto masuda bred solely for shiny and a little bit for IVs so I know next to nothing about egg groups and parent match ups or how all that works)

Any advice is appreciated, thanks!

But the DVs for defence are ALWAYS 11, even when using one with 10 DVs. Help?

Scarlet/Violet

If Pokémon have identical IVs will this lessen the chance of them getting better ones?

I have two Pokemon both with 5 perfect IVs and the same pretty good IV, is it harder to get that last one to best as well because they’re both the same?

One does have Destiny Knot, should I give the other an item as well?

Basically if I get a Ditto and Make It's IVs perfect, will those IVs still pass down

Hi; so I'm kind of new of understanding how breeding actually works within Heart Gold but do have a few questions to ask about using Smeargle specifically with it.

1. Is it possible to sketch Substitute as a move using Smeargle? If so; can I than have it pass on to a female Pokemon through breeding in order for that egg to get Substitute overall? Can I use it to breed with a female Ampharos and have the egg get Substitute as a move?

2. Does the AI Pokemon have to do the move against you in order for Smeargle to sketch and copy it? I've heard that it doesn't always work because you are "sketching a statue" but actually copying the move is possible. I'm thinking of using a level 29 Mr. Mime through dual battling? Can I use do a battle against myself with two DS devices with an online battle in order to copy the move itself?

Thanks to anyone that can help me.

I am trying to breed a Snorlax to have both curse and zen headbutt but can’t get one to hatch with both moves.

I have a female Snorlax that knows curse and is holding full incense and a male Snorlax that knows zen headbutt but the munchlax are hatching with just zen headbutt.

Both Snorlax only know their one move, nothing else. What am I doing wrong?

I have a female Garchomp with Outrage and a male Marowak with Earthquake, but the child only inherits Outrage. I also have a female Feebas and a male Horsea with Scald and Dragon Pulse, but the child inherits no moves. My understanding was that children can inherit TM moves from the father, so I don't understand why that's not working here.