I got a perfect 6 IV Toxtricity from a raid in Shield today (lvl 60). If I gave it vitamins and finished leveling it to level 100, would it be just as strong as if I bred it? As I understood it, breeding them is always the best way to get them the most powerful, but raids have complicated my understanding. Sorry I am ignorant if this has been asked before.

Hey everyone,

Can hidden ability’s be passed down cross-species? For example I have a male Lycanroc-midnight form with hidden ability (no guard). I’m trying to get an Eevee with hidden ability, so I’ve been breeding it with a female Eevee with normal ability.

I was under the impression that parents can pass down hidden abilities, however I’m like 20 Eevees in and still I’m only getting normal ability. Am I doing something wrong? Is there a special item required? For context the Lycanroc is holding a destiny knot as I want it to pass down IVs and the Eevee is holding an everstone as I want the nature. Thanks in advance

I'm trying to get an adamant quaxly by breeding an Oinkologne (male, with adamant nature) with a quaxly (female) and even though I do have egg power 2 by the end of timer for the egg power I still don't have an egg.

Hey y’all I’m playing Emerald on an emulator, trying to figure out breeding in Gen 3. Specifically if I’m attempting to breed the move Drill Peck onto a Skarmory, does one of the parents HAVE to know the move? Any help would be appreciated.

I’ve waited 30 minutes with ditto and gallade no egg

Just wondering can Ditto and Eevee breeding in Pokémon gold silver and Crystal

So if i were shiny hunting lets say Charmander, would it create eggs in the basket faster if i had multiple partners in my party?

Would having 3 male and 3 female charizard increase the amount of eggs i recieve in the time frame the meal power is active?

If so would this work for ditto? If i had 5 male charizard and a ditto would they all have a chance to generate an egg at the same time or would they all take turns generating eggs?

Would 3 female charizard and 2 male charizard further those odds? Having 2 pairs of charizard to pick from and then on top of that have the 5 pairs of charizard/ditto all to pull numbers through?

Or are eggs just generated between a set 2 partners?

Haven't tried it yet but if we have to wait a certain amount of time for an egg to pop put, could we in theory set up a turno button and eventually get eggs?

In Platinum: I have 2 nincada in the daycare She's Jolly, holding an everstone. He's DEF31 IV, holding the power belt. Why are my lvl 54 ninjasks having anything other than 70 defense when I candy test them? Some do, but many have been anything else, and I have never experienced a training weight fail in breeding before. Is it 50/50 in platinum?

i wanna get shiny larvitar and im using ditto but it feels slow

So I am planning on starting a new game and I am trying to breed a few selective types that I can put into my new game at what point is everything determined in the egg like abilities nature or if it’s shiny or not is it on hatching the egg or is it already determined when the egg is generated so if I hatch the desired Pokemon with stats I can just reset it to before it was hatched and it will remain the same?

So I've revived my good old GBC 2 weeks ago and changed the internal batteries on Pokemon Silver, Crystal and Yellow (will come back to yellow later). So I've been studying the breeding mechanics for gen 2 alot closer the last couple of days and want to breed my Skarmory to (whatever other pokemon that knows "Drill Peck & Sky Attack"). But when I started looking closely 'Sky Attack' can only be chain breed in Crystal and not Silver (as I am currently playing). This is according to the website serebii. Can anyone confirm if you were able to breed Gen 1 attacks on Gen 2. This is why I am currently playing Pokemon Yellow to past certain moves to Gen 2. So here is my few questions, can some of you explain why it is not possible on Gold/Silver but it works on Crystal. Also if the case is latter, can I transfer 2 pokemons to my crystal-game and breed them there and get my BABY the parents ID aka Silver savefile ID or will the baby get the Crystal-savefile ID?

Hi, I Was trying to get a 6 IV Larvitar and from there get one with a good nature. I managed to get two 5 IV Larvitar, one with hp as the bad stat, the other with speed. I gave the power anklet to the one with bad hp and the destiny bond to the other. The best I’m getting is other 5 IVs with a random bad stat. Are the odds low? And if yes, how much? Thanks in advance guys.

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’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

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