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?

In scarlet and violet I just got a greninja and tried to breed it with a ditto for 2 hours,for one hour I had the level 2 egg power and they still wouldn't breed.I am the original trainer of the ditto not the greninja,can someone please help me?

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 decided to take up a challenge to iv breed for the 1st time as I'm trying to get a shiny and in a couple of days I ended up with mons who match eachothers. They have now made +100 eggs without full IVs so I started to suspect if they are even able to make it? I'm using destiny knot and ever stone so if there's any tips, I'd appreciate to hear them!😁

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.

so I bred two pokemon and an egg came out (yippee!) But i'm wondering since one of the pokemon is a shiny ditto, I was planning to soft reset if the egg didn't turn out to be a shiny pokemon when it hatched, so my question is, when do i save and soft reset too if the egg fails to be a shiny pokemon?I

I need advice on the most efficient way to get a Shiny Pawniard with Sucker Punch in Pkmn Sw/Sh. I already have a Japanese save file of Sword which I get my foreign language Pokemon for masuda method, but I need help knowing what steps to do, or what I should do in general to breed a pretty blue Pawniard with the egg move

Hi all, I'm having trouble with a breeding project and hoping for some help. Thanks in advance. I'm playing Pokemon Diamond and trying to breed a Misdreavus with the moves Nasty Plot and Ominous Wind inherited as egg moves from its father, a Spiritomb. His moveset was as follows, all learned from leveling up:

Hypnosis
Dream Eater
Ominous Wind
Nasty Plot

But I just bred a few Misdreavuses with the following moveset:

Growl (lv. 1 move)
Psywave (lv. 1 move)
Ominous Wind (egg move)
Dream Eater (egg move I guess, but I didn't even think this was possible?)

I wanted it to learn Nasty Plot as its second egg move, not Dream Eater. I made my Spiritomb forget Dream Eater so he couldn't pass it down, but now I've hatched a baby Misdreavus who only knows Growl, Psywave, and Ominous Wind. Nasty Plot isn't showing up at all, even though her dad knows it and it should work as an egg move. What am I doing wrong? How do I get her to be hatched knowing Ominous Wind and Nasty Plot? Thanks for any help!

I got a shiny ditto from my friend, but it wasn't foreign, and i have a foreign nonshiny, and I dont know if that would help or hinder.

EDIT: This is in Violet

Hi all does anyone know if it's possible if an egg can be resetted until it's shiny if I save right before receiving it from the daycare man in white2? I plan to use the join avenue nursery to instantly hatch it

Currently I'm in Australia and caught a ditto on pokemon go. If I transfer this ditto to pokemon home to use in Pokemon Violet. Will it keep it's country as Australia and does it work for the Masuda method that way? For extra info 99% of my pokemon are New Zealand based 1 from a friend in Canada.