Miscellaneous Breeding Notes

If you've been reading the blog from the beginning, then you know just about everything there is to know. This post is merely going to wrap up the loose ends that I left out because, on their own, they cannot make for a good update.

Baby Pokemon

Baby Pokemon were introduced in Generation II, and were released in the following Generations as well. These are often not found in the wild, while their evolutions are. Baby Pokemon cannot breed until they evolve. They include....

Pichu, Cleffa, Igglybuff, Togepi, Tyrogue, Smoochum, Elekid, Magby, Azurill, Wynaut, Budew, Chingling, Bonsly, Mime Jr., Happiny, Munchlax, Riolu, and Mantyke

Some of them can simply be bred for, but some can only be bred if the mother holds one of the Incense items.   To get an Azurill, the Marill/Azumarill parent must hold the Sea Incense. To get a Wynaut, the Wobbuffet parent must hold the Lax Incense. To get a Budew, the Roselia/Roserade parent must hold the Rose Incense. To get Chingling, the Chimecho parent must hold the Pure Incense. To get a Bonsly, the Sudowoodo parent must hold the Rock Incense. To get Mime Jr., the Mr. Mime parent must hold the Odd Incense. To get Happiny, the Chansey/Blissey parent must hold the Luck Incense. To get a Munchlax, the Snorlax parent must hold the Full Incense. To get Mantyke, the Mantine parent must hold the Wave Incense.

If you breed without the Incense items, you will not get the Baby Pokemon, but rather the next stage of evolution. Baby Pokemon often have different Egg Moves than if the Incense item was not held. Budew can learn Extrasensory as an Egg Move, but Roselia cannot learn it as an Egg Move.

Dual-Species Pokemon

4 Pokemon are actually just 2 families of Pokemon. Nidoran♀ can be bred with a compatible Pokemon, and if the result is a female, it will be Nidoran♀, but if the result is male, it will be a Nidoran♂, a different evolution line entirely. A similar result if you breed a Nidoran♂ with a Ditto.

The other family is Illumise and Volbeat. If you breed Illumise with a compatible Pokemon, a female baby will be an Illumise, but a male will be a Volbeat. Again, a similar result if you breed Volbeat with a Ditto.

And it should be noted that while a Nidoran♀ can have Eggs, Nidorina and Nidoqueen may not. No reason has been given for this, but it is just something that should be noted. Nidorino and Nidoking are able to produce an Egg.

The Dream World & Breeding

The Dream World does not have a huge part in breeding, just one thing worthy of mentioning. If you breed a female Dream World Pokemon, there is a 60% that the Dream World Ability will pass down to the Egg. It's difficult to find a female in the Dream World, only about a 25% chance. Any Dream World attacks will not carry through.

Breeding for Shiny Pokemon

In case you are unaware, a Shiny Pokemon is a Pokemon that has a different color than it's supposed to have.  The first Shiny Pokemon most all of us know of is the red Gyarados from the Lake of Rage in Generation II(and the Generation IV remakes). This Gyarados, like all Shiny Pokemon, had no special Ability, no unique attacks, he had the same potential as any other Gyarados. But he was Shiny. Shiny is rare. If you are a person who likes to have something rare, you want a Shiny Pokemon.

The mighty red Gyarados that lives in the Lake of Rage

Before Generation IV, the chance for hatching a Shiny Pokemon from an Egg was the same as your chance of finding it in the wild, 1/8192, or .01%. When the Generation IV games were created, however, the Director of the game, Junichi Masuda created a way to increase those chances dramatically. The Masuda Method, as it has come to be known as, is a way to increase the chances of getting a Shiny Pokemon through the Egg. If you breed 2 Pokemon from different language games, your chance goes from 1/8192 to 1/1639, or .06%. That may not seem like much, but it's still a better chance that may as well be taken advantage of. To make things better, come Generation V, the Masuda Method's success rate went from 1/1639 to 1/1366, or .07%.

Yeah, the chances still are not great, but you are 7 times more likely to get a Shiny Pokemon if you use this method. It was probably put into the game to make people want to use the GTS more, and that's just fine. Try to get a Ditto from another language, it may very well make your life easier. Misty got a Japanese Ditto.

Graduation

Congrats, you are now well-versed in the art of Pokemon Breeding! *"Pomp and Circumstance" plays*

There is nothing more for me to teach you. Not that I know of. If I find anything out, I will of course post it to this blog. So far, I've posted a lesson, then 2 examples of Masterbred Pokemon. From here on, unless I learn something else, it will just be example Pokemon, and if they occur, some videos of some good battles I was a part of.

You may have noticed a few changes in the format of the blog. At the bottom, you can see that there are ways to follow the blog via email, as well as buttons to share it via Facebook and Twitter. I also added a Labels display at the top-right of the blog. There are currently 2 Labels, "Breeding Guide Posts" will make the site display only the lessons, and "Masterbreeding Demonstrations" will take you to the example Pokemon. This way, no matter how many examples I put up from here on, you'll be able to quickly get to the lessons if you are new or just need a reminder.

Thank you for your continual patronage, and for boosting my ego! If you have any questions or comments on anything covered in this post, just leave a comment below.

Brock out.