So I got Pokemon X for Christmas, beat it the other day, it was a very enjoyable experience. Now for an update on EV Training! There are two effective manners of EV Training in these games.
The simplest is the Super Training. Located on your bottom screen, it's pretty self-explanatory, and yo do not need any of the fancy stuff to do it. You play a little mini-game that will reward you with 4, 8, or 12 EVs depending on which level of the game you play. As an additional reward for winning the mini-game, you get a training bag. There are a good variety of training bags, and breaking them will give certain rewards or perks. The more common bags give you extra EVs; a small (S) bag gives you 1 EV in the listed stat, a medium (M) gives you 4 EVs, and a large (L) gives you 12 EVs.
There are also bonus bags that you may get that are less common. The Double-Up Bag doubles the EVs you get from your next mini-game, so if you activate this bag and win a lv 1 game, you'll get 8 EVs, and 16 EVs for a lv 2 game, and 24 EVs for a lv 3 game. A Reset Bag will reset all of the EVs the Pokemon has, so you may restart a Pokemon's EVs to zero and start again if you decide to change them. A Soothing Bag will increase the Pokemon's happiness. The Team Flare Bag makes it easier to defeat other training bags, and the remaining bags (Swiftness Bag, Toughen-Up Bag, Strength Bag, and Big Shot Bag) all make the mini-game easier. None of the EVs given by the mini-game or training bags are affected by Pokerus or the Power Items.
The other method is making use of the Horde Encounters. You can trigger one of these through the use of Honey, or using Sweet Scent outside of battle (NOTE: the in-game weather must be clear for this to work). Each of the Pokemon you fight in the Horde Encounter will give EVs, and these EVs will be affected by Pokerus and the Power Items. For example, if you fight a horde of Axews, you will get 1 Attack EV for each of the Axews, 10 EVs each if you have the Pokerus and Power Item. Therefore, defeating all 5 of the Axews in the horde will grant you 50 Attack EVs. Defeating a horde becomes significantly easier if you have a multi-hit move, such as Surf or Rock Slide.
Unlike in the Gen V games, there are no set routes in which only Attack EV Pokemon reside, so these are your best options. Certainly if the weather is not permitting it, the Horde Encounter option is off the table. If you do not like the mini-game, Horde is your better option. I myself prefer the Super Training method, just because it's more engaging in my opinion. Try both and see which one you prefer!
Brock out.
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Monday, January 13, 2014
Thursday, October 24, 2013
Generation VI Breeding Updates!!
Hello breeders! Pokemon X & Y have been released and with it some new breeding mechanics, so here they are.
(1) The mother can now pass down egg moves! About time the mother had some power outside the Dream World.
(2) The Destiny Knot now helps in breeding. If either parent holds it, 5 IVs are carried from the parents, rather than the usual 3 IVs, chosen at random.
(3) Hidden Abilities can now be passed down if a Ditto is bred with a male Pokemon that has the Hidden Ability. Presumably the same 60% as before, I will confirm this later.
(4) The Pokeball the baby comes in will match the Pokeball the mother was caught in (unless the mother is a Ditto). This doesn't really help breeding other than making an entrance. Now your perfectly bred Pokemon can enter the field with the style of a Quick Ball or Dusk Ball!
That's all that Serebii says is new. If more is found I will of course add it here. Once I learn the EV Yields for everything in X & Y I will also post updated locations to raise your Pokemon.
Brock out.
(1) The mother can now pass down egg moves! About time the mother had some power outside the Dream World.
(2) The Destiny Knot now helps in breeding. If either parent holds it, 5 IVs are carried from the parents, rather than the usual 3 IVs, chosen at random.
(3) Hidden Abilities can now be passed down if a Ditto is bred with a male Pokemon that has the Hidden Ability. Presumably the same 60% as before, I will confirm this later.
(4) The Pokeball the baby comes in will match the Pokeball the mother was caught in (unless the mother is a Ditto). This doesn't really help breeding other than making an entrance. Now your perfectly bred Pokemon can enter the field with the style of a Quick Ball or Dusk Ball!
That's all that Serebii says is new. If more is found I will of course add it here. Once I learn the EV Yields for everything in X & Y I will also post updated locations to raise your Pokemon.
Brock out.
Sunday, January 13, 2013
Advanced IV Breeding
A while ago I posted the basics of IVs and how to breed for them. However, I feel I didn't make it clear enough how to get the most out of the Egg, so this post is to clarify a few things about IV Breeding.
It is possible to breed for 3 max IVs, and it's what I recently started doing. As previously stated, IVs are semi-dependent on the parents' IVs. 1 comes from the male parent, 1 comes from the female parent, 1 comes from either the male or female parent, and the other 3 are completely up to chance. As breeders, we focus on those first 3 IVs that we have some control over.
Above we have an example I made to illustrate breeding 3 IVs and an Egg Move into a Pokemon, in the form of a family tree. This takes several steps as you can see, so if you don't have patience, you may as well stop reading right now. I've gotten what I wanted as early as Egg #16, or as late as Egg #48, and that can take about a full day.
The example is to get a Solosis that knows Confuse Ray and has max IVs in HP, Sp. Attack, and Sp. Defense, making it a good Special-Tank-style Pokemon. I'll list the steps of the example by number.
(1) Breed a female Litwick with a male Gastly that has a max HP IV. The Gastly must be holding the Power Weight so that the HP IV will carry down to the Egg. Hatch Eggs until you get a female Litwick with the max HP IV.
(2) Breed the new female Litwick with a male Castform that has a max Sp. Attack IV. Either have the Litwick hold the Power Weight, or have the Castform hold the Power Lens, it doesn't matter. Hatch Eggs until you get a male Litwick with both the max HP IV and the max Sp. Attack IV.
(3) Level the male Litwick up to lv 10 to teach it Confuse Ray.
(4) Breed a female Solosis with the male Gastly from Step 1, once again having the Gastly hold the Power Weight to carry down the max HP IV. Hatch until you get a female Solosis with a max HP IV.
(5) Breed the new female Solosis with a male Frillish that has a max Sp. Defense IV. Either have the Solosis hold the Power Weight, or have the Frillish hold the Power Band, it doesn't matter. Hatch Eggs until you get a female Solosis with both the max HP IV and the max Sp. Defense IV.
(6) Breed the male Litwick from Step 3 with the female Solosis from the end of Step 5. Either have the Litwick hold the Power Lens, or have the Solosis hold the Power Band, it doesn't matter. Hatch Eggs until you get a Solosis(gender doesn't matter) that has the max HP IV, the max Sp. Attack IV, and the max Sp. Defense IV. It will also know Confuse Ray. If that Solosis has a good Nature and the right Ability, keep it and you're done. If the Solosis does not have a good Nature and/or lacks the correct Ability and is male, see Step 7a(this is what the picture illustrates). If the Solosis does not have a good Nature and/or lacks the correct Ability and is female, see Step 7b.
(7a) Breed this male Solosis with its mother, having the male Solosis holding the Power Lens to carry down its max Sp. Attack IV. Hatch Eggs until you get a Solosis that has the Nature and Ability you desire.
(7b) Breed this female Solosis with its father(the Litwick), having the female Solosis hold the Power Band to carry down its max Sp. Defense IV. Hatch Eggs until you get a Solosis with the Nature and Ability you desire. NOTE: You may need to take the Litwick out of the Daycare Center and reteach it Confuse Ray if it has forgotten it already, though I am not certain if this is necessary.
Like I said, this takes patience. And now to summarize that in general terms. Basically, you breed for a female of the Pokemon you want in the end, with 2 IVs. Then you breed a male of the Pokemon that has the Egg move you want, with 2 IVs, 1 of the IVs its shares with the female, and the other is the 3rd IV you want in the end that the female doesn't have. You teach this male the move that will be an Egg move for the female, and breed the two until you get one with the 3 IVs you're breeding for. If it has a good Nature and a good Ability, you're done. If it's male, breed it with its mother, having it hold the Power item for the max IV the mother doesn't have. If its female, breed it with its father, having it hold the Power item for the max IV the father doesn't have.
Some FAQs(that I assume are frequently asked even though I'm making them up on the spot);
Q: Why do we have 2 IVs on each Pokemon, when we breed for 3 IVs in the end?
A: This is to increase the chances of getting what we want sooner. We put in one of the same IVs on both the male and the female(in the example the common IV is HP) so that if HP comes down, regardless of which parent it will be max. We use the Power item to carry down one of the IVs that is unique to a parent(in the example we can have the male Litwick hold the Power Lens to ensure the Sp. Attack stat is carried down). Then we just need patience while we wait for the other max IV in the gene pool to pass down.
Q: Why do we have the first egg with all 3 max IVs breed with a parent?
A: This is again to speed it all up. If you breed a Pokemon with all 3 max IVs you want with a Pokemon that has 2 of the 3 max IVs you want, then you have 2 common IVs between them, increasing the chances of them being carried down. Have the 3-max IV Pokemon hold the Power item for the IV the other one doesn't have, and wait for the Egg you need. Also, if the 3-max IV Pokemon is male, it can increase the rate you get Eggs, because they will be the same species(as explained in the post "Faster Than the Speed of Breed").
Q: What if I am breeding a genderless Pokemon, like Staryu or Beldum?
A: It will take longer for sure, as such Pokemon can only breed with Ditto. You can breed and just hope the IVs show up, though it isn't super-likely they will. However, I advise catching an absurd amount of Dittos and praying to Arceus that they have max IVs, as that is the only way to get the IVs you need. I myself have a few Dittos that cover all IVs between them, except for Defense. That Defense IV Ditto eludes me. Koga told me he has one but he isn't sharing. Kill Koga if you see him. And bring me his Ditto of course.
Okay then, that is how to breed for 3 max IVs in a single Pokemon. It's a long process, but you get some powerful Pokemon in the end. And even if you get a Pokemon with 3 max IVs that doesn't have the right Nature or Ability for it, if it's male you can still send it down to other Pokemon so don't be super-quick to get rid of it. Comments and questions are always welcome.
Brock out.
It is possible to breed for 3 max IVs, and it's what I recently started doing. As previously stated, IVs are semi-dependent on the parents' IVs. 1 comes from the male parent, 1 comes from the female parent, 1 comes from either the male or female parent, and the other 3 are completely up to chance. As breeders, we focus on those first 3 IVs that we have some control over.
The example is to get a Solosis that knows Confuse Ray and has max IVs in HP, Sp. Attack, and Sp. Defense, making it a good Special-Tank-style Pokemon. I'll list the steps of the example by number.
(1) Breed a female Litwick with a male Gastly that has a max HP IV. The Gastly must be holding the Power Weight so that the HP IV will carry down to the Egg. Hatch Eggs until you get a female Litwick with the max HP IV.
(2) Breed the new female Litwick with a male Castform that has a max Sp. Attack IV. Either have the Litwick hold the Power Weight, or have the Castform hold the Power Lens, it doesn't matter. Hatch Eggs until you get a male Litwick with both the max HP IV and the max Sp. Attack IV.
(3) Level the male Litwick up to lv 10 to teach it Confuse Ray.
(4) Breed a female Solosis with the male Gastly from Step 1, once again having the Gastly hold the Power Weight to carry down the max HP IV. Hatch until you get a female Solosis with a max HP IV.
(5) Breed the new female Solosis with a male Frillish that has a max Sp. Defense IV. Either have the Solosis hold the Power Weight, or have the Frillish hold the Power Band, it doesn't matter. Hatch Eggs until you get a female Solosis with both the max HP IV and the max Sp. Defense IV.
(6) Breed the male Litwick from Step 3 with the female Solosis from the end of Step 5. Either have the Litwick hold the Power Lens, or have the Solosis hold the Power Band, it doesn't matter. Hatch Eggs until you get a Solosis(gender doesn't matter) that has the max HP IV, the max Sp. Attack IV, and the max Sp. Defense IV. It will also know Confuse Ray. If that Solosis has a good Nature and the right Ability, keep it and you're done. If the Solosis does not have a good Nature and/or lacks the correct Ability and is male, see Step 7a(this is what the picture illustrates). If the Solosis does not have a good Nature and/or lacks the correct Ability and is female, see Step 7b.
(7a) Breed this male Solosis with its mother, having the male Solosis holding the Power Lens to carry down its max Sp. Attack IV. Hatch Eggs until you get a Solosis that has the Nature and Ability you desire.
(7b) Breed this female Solosis with its father(the Litwick), having the female Solosis hold the Power Band to carry down its max Sp. Defense IV. Hatch Eggs until you get a Solosis with the Nature and Ability you desire. NOTE: You may need to take the Litwick out of the Daycare Center and reteach it Confuse Ray if it has forgotten it already, though I am not certain if this is necessary.
Like I said, this takes patience. And now to summarize that in general terms. Basically, you breed for a female of the Pokemon you want in the end, with 2 IVs. Then you breed a male of the Pokemon that has the Egg move you want, with 2 IVs, 1 of the IVs its shares with the female, and the other is the 3rd IV you want in the end that the female doesn't have. You teach this male the move that will be an Egg move for the female, and breed the two until you get one with the 3 IVs you're breeding for. If it has a good Nature and a good Ability, you're done. If it's male, breed it with its mother, having it hold the Power item for the max IV the mother doesn't have. If its female, breed it with its father, having it hold the Power item for the max IV the father doesn't have.
Some FAQs(that I assume are frequently asked even though I'm making them up on the spot);
Q: Why do we have 2 IVs on each Pokemon, when we breed for 3 IVs in the end?
A: This is to increase the chances of getting what we want sooner. We put in one of the same IVs on both the male and the female(in the example the common IV is HP) so that if HP comes down, regardless of which parent it will be max. We use the Power item to carry down one of the IVs that is unique to a parent(in the example we can have the male Litwick hold the Power Lens to ensure the Sp. Attack stat is carried down). Then we just need patience while we wait for the other max IV in the gene pool to pass down.
Q: Why do we have the first egg with all 3 max IVs breed with a parent?
A: This is again to speed it all up. If you breed a Pokemon with all 3 max IVs you want with a Pokemon that has 2 of the 3 max IVs you want, then you have 2 common IVs between them, increasing the chances of them being carried down. Have the 3-max IV Pokemon hold the Power item for the IV the other one doesn't have, and wait for the Egg you need. Also, if the 3-max IV Pokemon is male, it can increase the rate you get Eggs, because they will be the same species(as explained in the post "Faster Than the Speed of Breed").
Q: What if I am breeding a genderless Pokemon, like Staryu or Beldum?
A: It will take longer for sure, as such Pokemon can only breed with Ditto. You can breed and just hope the IVs show up, though it isn't super-likely they will. However, I advise catching an absurd amount of Dittos and praying to Arceus that they have max IVs, as that is the only way to get the IVs you need. I myself have a few Dittos that cover all IVs between them, except for Defense. That Defense IV Ditto eludes me. Koga told me he has one but he isn't sharing. Kill Koga if you see him. And bring me his Ditto of course.
Okay then, that is how to breed for 3 max IVs in a single Pokemon. It's a long process, but you get some powerful Pokemon in the end. And even if you get a Pokemon with 3 max IVs that doesn't have the right Nature or Ability for it, if it's male you can still send it down to other Pokemon so don't be super-quick to get rid of it. Comments and questions are always welcome.
Brock out.
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Black 2/White 2 EV Update
Just a small update for the new games and where the good spots for EV Training are.
HP: Route 8, you'll either encounter Palpitoad or Stunfisk, both of which give you 2 HP EVs.
Attack: Dragonspiral Tower, you'll encounter only Golurk on the 2nd floor, and he gives you 2 Attack EVs.
Defense: Relic Castle, you have a 60% chance of encountering either Sandshrew or Yamask, both of which give you 1 Defense EV. There is no definite place to encounter a Defense EV Pokemon.
Sp. Attack: Celestial Tower, on the 1st floor you will encounter only Litwick, which give out 1 Sp. Attack EV.
Sp. Defense: Virbank City, if you surf you will encounter only Frillish, which give out 1 Sp. Defense EV.
Speed: Route 19, while surfing you will encounter only Basculin, which give out 2 Speed EVs.
I got this information from the website listed below. Best of luck, breeders!
Brock out.
http://nuggetbridge.com/breeding/ev-training-hot-spots-in-black-2-white-2/
HP: Route 8, you'll either encounter Palpitoad or Stunfisk, both of which give you 2 HP EVs.
Attack: Dragonspiral Tower, you'll encounter only Golurk on the 2nd floor, and he gives you 2 Attack EVs.
Defense: Relic Castle, you have a 60% chance of encountering either Sandshrew or Yamask, both of which give you 1 Defense EV. There is no definite place to encounter a Defense EV Pokemon.
Sp. Attack: Celestial Tower, on the 1st floor you will encounter only Litwick, which give out 1 Sp. Attack EV.
Sp. Defense: Virbank City, if you surf you will encounter only Frillish, which give out 1 Sp. Defense EV.
Speed: Route 19, while surfing you will encounter only Basculin, which give out 2 Speed EVs.
I got this information from the website listed below. Best of luck, breeders!
Brock out.
http://nuggetbridge.com/breeding/ev-training-hot-spots-in-black-2-white-2/
Monday, October 22, 2012
Black 2/White 2 New Breeding Mechanics
Black 2 and White 2 were recently released worldwide, and with them comes some new breeding mechanics that you should probably be aware of. This information comes from Serebii.
Nature Breeding:
Before, if a Pokemon held an Everstone, its Nature had a 50% chance of being passed down to the Egg. Now in B2/W2, it is a 100% chance of it being passed down. So breeding for Nature's has been made easier. If both parents hold the Everstone, the chance is 50% for either parent's Nature.
Ability Breeding:
Before, a Pokemon had a 50% chance of receiving either of its Abilities(or of course 100% if it can only have one Ability). Now, they have given the female parent a bigger role, that is, whatever Ability the mother has, the Egg has an 80% chance of having that Ability(or whatever Ability the Egg would have that would become that Ability, the example Serebii gives is a Venonat's Compound Eyes Ability becoming Tinted Lens as a Venomoth.). With a Ditto, the chance goes back to 50% for both.
As for Dream World Abilities, the mother must have the DW Ability, and if it does, the Egg has a 60% chance of hatching with that Ability, and 20% for each of the other two.
Nurseries:
This is a new mechanic, that unlocks after you beat the Elite Four and you get your Join Avenue up to level 15. You will be able to purchase items that decrease the hatching time of the Eggs in your party.
http://serebii.net/black2white2/breed.shtml
Brock Out.
Nature Breeding:
Before, if a Pokemon held an Everstone, its Nature had a 50% chance of being passed down to the Egg. Now in B2/W2, it is a 100% chance of it being passed down. So breeding for Nature's has been made easier. If both parents hold the Everstone, the chance is 50% for either parent's Nature.
Ability Breeding:
Before, a Pokemon had a 50% chance of receiving either of its Abilities(or of course 100% if it can only have one Ability). Now, they have given the female parent a bigger role, that is, whatever Ability the mother has, the Egg has an 80% chance of having that Ability(or whatever Ability the Egg would have that would become that Ability, the example Serebii gives is a Venonat's Compound Eyes Ability becoming Tinted Lens as a Venomoth.). With a Ditto, the chance goes back to 50% for both.
As for Dream World Abilities, the mother must have the DW Ability, and if it does, the Egg has a 60% chance of hatching with that Ability, and 20% for each of the other two.
Nurseries:
This is a new mechanic, that unlocks after you beat the Elite Four and you get your Join Avenue up to level 15. You will be able to purchase items that decrease the hatching time of the Eggs in your party.
http://serebii.net/black2white2/breed.shtml
Brock Out.
Monday, January 9, 2012
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.
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.
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.
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| The mighty red Gyarados that lives in the Lake of Rage |
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.
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Chain-Breeding and the Lack of a Witty Title
This is a fairly simple concept. Chain-Breeding is the process of getting a Pokemon to learn an Egg Move that is outside of its Egg Group. The following example was taken from http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Chain_breeding.
Suppose you would like an Eevee to know Wish. Wish is an Egg Move for Eevee, who belongs to the Field Egg Group. You would have to breed it with another Field Pokemon in order to get Eevee to learn it. The problem lies in that no Field Pokemon can naturally learn Wish. So we need a dual-Egg Group Pokemon, one that is Field and one that shares an Egg Group with a Pokemon that learns the move naturally. Togetic learns Wish naturally, and he belongs to the Flying and Fairy Egg Groups. Pikachu belongs to the Field and Fairy Egg Groups, and Wish is an Egg Move for him. So we breed a male Togetic with Wish and a female Pikachu, until we get a male Pikachu with Wish. Then, we breed the male Pikachu with a female Eevee(or evolution of Eevee) and the result will be an Eevee that knows Wish.
This is a chart of all the Egg Groups that are shared in Pokemon. If there is a straight line between 2 Egg Groups, there is at least a single Pokemon that is a part of both Egg Groups, and if not, there is not. Make note of the key in the top right corner. I based this off a similar chart that can be found here; http://pokemondb.net/mechanics/breeding. It was designed to cover up through Generation IV, and I just updated it to cover Generation V as well.
Chain-Breeding can also be used, not only for egg moves, but for IV-breeding as well. My friend Koga had an Eevee with a max Sp. Defense IV, and he wanted a Tentacool with that IV. Using the method described in the IV entry, he carried the IV from Eevee(Field) to a Seedot(Field/Plant), to a Paras(Plant/Bug), to a Skorupi(Bug/Water 3), and then to a female Tentacool(Water 3). He'll carry that IV down and breed Egg Moves into it from there. One thing he could do is teach a Mantine(Water 1) Aqua Ring and Confuse Ray, breed those into a Corsola(Water 1/Water 3), teach the Corsola Mirror Coat, and then breed with the female Tentacool(Water 3) while it holds the Power Band. The end result would be a Tentacool with Confuse Ray, Aqua Ring, and Mirror Coat that also has a max Sp. Defense IV...and a really weird family tree.
So that is the gist of chain-breeding, and you may just find it to be necessary at times(especially when you don't want the tainted blood of Smeargle flowing through the veins of your Pokemon). Thanks to Koga for allowing me to make use of his example of IV breeding. If you have any questions or feel I've forgotten anything, just leave a comment!
Brock out.
This is a chart of all the Egg Groups that are shared in Pokemon. If there is a straight line between 2 Egg Groups, there is at least a single Pokemon that is a part of both Egg Groups, and if not, there is not. Make note of the key in the top right corner. I based this off a similar chart that can be found here; http://pokemondb.net/mechanics/breeding. It was designed to cover up through Generation IV, and I just updated it to cover Generation V as well.
Chain-Breeding can also be used, not only for egg moves, but for IV-breeding as well. My friend Koga had an Eevee with a max Sp. Defense IV, and he wanted a Tentacool with that IV. Using the method described in the IV entry, he carried the IV from Eevee(Field) to a Seedot(Field/Plant), to a Paras(Plant/Bug), to a Skorupi(Bug/Water 3), and then to a female Tentacool(Water 3). He'll carry that IV down and breed Egg Moves into it from there. One thing he could do is teach a Mantine(Water 1) Aqua Ring and Confuse Ray, breed those into a Corsola(Water 1/Water 3), teach the Corsola Mirror Coat, and then breed with the female Tentacool(Water 3) while it holds the Power Band. The end result would be a Tentacool with Confuse Ray, Aqua Ring, and Mirror Coat that also has a max Sp. Defense IV...and a really weird family tree.
So that is the gist of chain-breeding, and you may just find it to be necessary at times(especially when you don't want the tainted blood of Smeargle flowing through the veins of your Pokemon). Thanks to Koga for allowing me to make use of his example of IV breeding. If you have any questions or feel I've forgotten anything, just leave a comment!
Brock out.
Friday, August 26, 2011
Putting in an Effort
Before I begin, I want to say that this section has nothing to do with Breeding whatsoever, but it is a good thing to know when it comes to training a pokemon.
You may have heard about Effort Values, or EVs, somewhere before. EVs are another factor that determines how strong your pokemon will be in the end. Unlike IVs, which are randomly determined strictly from birth, you actually have full control over what EVs you're pokemon will have.
All pokemon are able to get 510 total EVs. For every 4 EVs in one stat, that stat will get an extra point. Because 4 is not evenly distributed into 510, 2 EVs will go unused, so only 508 of the 510 EVs really count. Also, it should be noted that each stat can only get a maximum of 255 EVs into(again, not evenly divisable by 4, so really only 252 count).
How does one get EVS you ask? If you shut up and have some patience, I'll tell you. You get EVs through the use of Vitamins, Wings, the Power items, and battling. All pokemon give out a certain amount of EVs to one or two stats, from 1 to 3 EVs in a single stat. A good way to find out what pokemon give what EVs is here; http://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/
Vitamins will give +10 EVs to their respective stats with each Vitamin, and you can use up to 10 of a single Vitamin for a single stat, meaning at lv 1, you can have +100 EVs already on one of your pokemon's stats. You can buy Vitamins for $9800 at the Pokemalls in any region.
Wings are similar to Vitamins. There are 2 differences, however. A Wing will give just +1 EV to its stat. You can also use a limitless number of Wings on a pokemon, however. So if you had 510 Wings, you could have a pokemon fully-EV trained at lv 1, without using Vitamins. Wings are also the only way to EV train a pokemon at lv 100. Wings can only be found on the bridges of Unova(not including Skyarrow or Tubeline).
The Power items that I mentioned in the IV post, will give you +4 EV points in its respective stat at the end of a battle, along with the EVs given by defeating the pokemon itself. For example, if you send in your pokemon holding a Power Belt to fight a Durant, and you win, you will get +2 Defense EVs for killing the Durant, and you will also get +4 Defense EVs for holding the Power Belt. Same scenario, but you're fighting a Victrebell, you would get +3 Attack EVs for killing the Victrebell, and +4 Defense EVs for holding the Power Belt. The Macho Brace is similar to the Power items. It doubles the EVs the holder receives from a battle. Though inferior, it is found free of charge on your journey, so you can make use of it if you haven't gotten the BP for the Power items. You'll find it in Nimbasa City in Generation V, and in Generation IV a trainer will give it to you if you show him a set of Pokemon he is looking for.
Then there is the magical "Pokerus" virus. Nearly impossible to obtain, but if you do get it, cherish it. A pokemon with the Pokerus virus will get DOUBLE EVs through battle. Using the above example, you kill a Durant while holding the Power Belt, and you have Pokerus; you will get +4 Defense EVs for killing the Durant, and +8 for holding the Power Belt, a total of +12 Defense EVs from a single battle.
I'll go into the rules of Pokerus more. You get Pokerus from doing wild battles...and you have a very small chance to get it(just less than the odds of finding a wild shiny pokemon, if that gives you an idea). That's the hard part. Once you get it though, it's easy to keep. Pokerus is cured after midnight comes around, and a little mark will appear on your pokemon's summary saying it used to have Pokerus. This pokemon will still recieve the benefits of Pokerus, but will be unable to spread it to other pokemon. However, a pokemon in the PC will keep Pokerus in its full, so always make sure you have a spare in you PC. To spread Pokerus, you just battle, and there is a 50-50 shot of the Pokerus spreading to other pokemon in your party. If the Pokerus spreads, it will spread to the pokemon before and after itself in the line up.
The Exp. Share is the last tool. Most know it for splitting experience between 2 Pokemon, but most are not aware that it also gives the holder the base EV gain from that Pokemon. For example, if you go into battle with a Machoke against a Basculin, and you have a Bagon in your party holding the Exp. Share. The Machoke will get the 2 Speed EVs for killing it, and the Bagon will also get 2 Speed EVs, 4 if the Bagon has Pokerus. You don't get as many EVs as if the Bagon had held a Power item and been in the fight himself, but you do save the time and trouble from switching out.
Some FAQs now;
Q: How does one keep track of their EVs, Oh-Mighty Masterbreeder?
A: Firstly, thank you, that is high-praise indeed. The only way to keep track of your EVs is with a pencil and paper, I'm afraid. There is a person ingame, however, that will tell you if you've maxed out your EVs or not. You can find her in Opelucid City(I can't recal where in Sinnoh, however). She'll say something along the lines of "Your pokemon put in a great effort". But she'll only tell you if you maxed out or not.
Q: What generation does this apply to?
A: I'm not answering unless I hear some praise.
Q: What generation does EV training apply to, oh Lord of Breed?
A: That's better. It applies going back to the original Gold and Silver games, if not to the very beginning. Wings were not introduced until Generation V, however, and Power items are an addition from Generation IV.
Q: Are there any ways to lower my Pokemon's EVs once he's gotten them, Prince of the Egg?
A: Oh stop it, you're making me blush. The only way to lower EVs is through the use of certain berries. They are the Pomeg, Kelpsy, Qualot, Hondew, Grepa, and Tamato Berries. Each removes 10 EVs in their respective stat. You can use these Berries to fix any mistakes you may have made while EV Training. In Generation V, these are only found in the Dream World. They are found in the wild in Generations III and IV.
Q: What are some good locations for EV breeding, oh magnificant King of the Egg?
A: Come up with your own praise, geez. It all depends on what you're trying to raise. I'll list here;
HP: Stunfisk are garenteed to be found in the dark spots in the water of Iccurus City, he is worth +2 HP EVs. If you have the Victini event, you can kill Victini for +3 HP EVs, exit the room, and go back in to do it all over again.
Attack: Patrat and Lillipup are also garenteed to be found on Route 1, giving +1 Attack EV each, and all the pokemon outside Dragonspiral Tower, in the thick grass, give +2 Attack EVs(except for Mienfoo, who gives +1 Attack). NOTE: In Winter, Vannilish can appear, who give Sp. Attack, not Attack.
Defense: Durant are found fairly often in Victory Road, and they give +2 Defense EVs. Roggenrola that are found fairly often in the Wellspring Cave give +1 Defense EV each. There is no place garenteed to let you encounter a Defense EV pokemon.
Sp. Attack: Liwick and Elgyem are garenteed to be found in the Celestial Tower, and each give out +1 Sp. Attack EV.
Sp. Defense: Frillish are garenteed to be found in the waters of Driftveil City, and give out +1 Sp. Defense EV.
Speed: Basculin are garenteed to be found in a lot of water, but I'm gonna list just Route 3. They give +2 Speed EVs.
So any other questions or comments?
Brock Out.
You may have heard about Effort Values, or EVs, somewhere before. EVs are another factor that determines how strong your pokemon will be in the end. Unlike IVs, which are randomly determined strictly from birth, you actually have full control over what EVs you're pokemon will have.
All pokemon are able to get 510 total EVs. For every 4 EVs in one stat, that stat will get an extra point. Because 4 is not evenly distributed into 510, 2 EVs will go unused, so only 508 of the 510 EVs really count. Also, it should be noted that each stat can only get a maximum of 255 EVs into(again, not evenly divisable by 4, so really only 252 count).
How does one get EVS you ask? If you shut up and have some patience, I'll tell you. You get EVs through the use of Vitamins, Wings, the Power items, and battling. All pokemon give out a certain amount of EVs to one or two stats, from 1 to 3 EVs in a single stat. A good way to find out what pokemon give what EVs is here; http://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/
Vitamins will give +10 EVs to their respective stats with each Vitamin, and you can use up to 10 of a single Vitamin for a single stat, meaning at lv 1, you can have +100 EVs already on one of your pokemon's stats. You can buy Vitamins for $9800 at the Pokemalls in any region.
Wings are similar to Vitamins. There are 2 differences, however. A Wing will give just +1 EV to its stat. You can also use a limitless number of Wings on a pokemon, however. So if you had 510 Wings, you could have a pokemon fully-EV trained at lv 1, without using Vitamins. Wings are also the only way to EV train a pokemon at lv 100. Wings can only be found on the bridges of Unova(not including Skyarrow or Tubeline).
The Power items that I mentioned in the IV post, will give you +4 EV points in its respective stat at the end of a battle, along with the EVs given by defeating the pokemon itself. For example, if you send in your pokemon holding a Power Belt to fight a Durant, and you win, you will get +2 Defense EVs for killing the Durant, and you will also get +4 Defense EVs for holding the Power Belt. Same scenario, but you're fighting a Victrebell, you would get +3 Attack EVs for killing the Victrebell, and +4 Defense EVs for holding the Power Belt. The Macho Brace is similar to the Power items. It doubles the EVs the holder receives from a battle. Though inferior, it is found free of charge on your journey, so you can make use of it if you haven't gotten the BP for the Power items. You'll find it in Nimbasa City in Generation V, and in Generation IV a trainer will give it to you if you show him a set of Pokemon he is looking for.
Then there is the magical "Pokerus" virus. Nearly impossible to obtain, but if you do get it, cherish it. A pokemon with the Pokerus virus will get DOUBLE EVs through battle. Using the above example, you kill a Durant while holding the Power Belt, and you have Pokerus; you will get +4 Defense EVs for killing the Durant, and +8 for holding the Power Belt, a total of +12 Defense EVs from a single battle.
I'll go into the rules of Pokerus more. You get Pokerus from doing wild battles...and you have a very small chance to get it(just less than the odds of finding a wild shiny pokemon, if that gives you an idea). That's the hard part. Once you get it though, it's easy to keep. Pokerus is cured after midnight comes around, and a little mark will appear on your pokemon's summary saying it used to have Pokerus. This pokemon will still recieve the benefits of Pokerus, but will be unable to spread it to other pokemon. However, a pokemon in the PC will keep Pokerus in its full, so always make sure you have a spare in you PC. To spread Pokerus, you just battle, and there is a 50-50 shot of the Pokerus spreading to other pokemon in your party. If the Pokerus spreads, it will spread to the pokemon before and after itself in the line up.
The Exp. Share is the last tool. Most know it for splitting experience between 2 Pokemon, but most are not aware that it also gives the holder the base EV gain from that Pokemon. For example, if you go into battle with a Machoke against a Basculin, and you have a Bagon in your party holding the Exp. Share. The Machoke will get the 2 Speed EVs for killing it, and the Bagon will also get 2 Speed EVs, 4 if the Bagon has Pokerus. You don't get as many EVs as if the Bagon had held a Power item and been in the fight himself, but you do save the time and trouble from switching out.
Some FAQs now;
Q: How does one keep track of their EVs, Oh-Mighty Masterbreeder?
A: Firstly, thank you, that is high-praise indeed. The only way to keep track of your EVs is with a pencil and paper, I'm afraid. There is a person ingame, however, that will tell you if you've maxed out your EVs or not. You can find her in Opelucid City(I can't recal where in Sinnoh, however). She'll say something along the lines of "Your pokemon put in a great effort". But she'll only tell you if you maxed out or not.
Q: What generation does this apply to?
A: I'm not answering unless I hear some praise.
Q: What generation does EV training apply to, oh Lord of Breed?
A: That's better. It applies going back to the original Gold and Silver games, if not to the very beginning. Wings were not introduced until Generation V, however, and Power items are an addition from Generation IV.
Q: Are there any ways to lower my Pokemon's EVs once he's gotten them, Prince of the Egg?
A: Oh stop it, you're making me blush. The only way to lower EVs is through the use of certain berries. They are the Pomeg, Kelpsy, Qualot, Hondew, Grepa, and Tamato Berries. Each removes 10 EVs in their respective stat. You can use these Berries to fix any mistakes you may have made while EV Training. In Generation V, these are only found in the Dream World. They are found in the wild in Generations III and IV.
Q: What are some good locations for EV breeding, oh magnificant King of the Egg?
A: Come up with your own praise, geez. It all depends on what you're trying to raise. I'll list here;
HP: Stunfisk are garenteed to be found in the dark spots in the water of Iccurus City, he is worth +2 HP EVs. If you have the Victini event, you can kill Victini for +3 HP EVs, exit the room, and go back in to do it all over again.
Attack: Patrat and Lillipup are also garenteed to be found on Route 1, giving +1 Attack EV each, and all the pokemon outside Dragonspiral Tower, in the thick grass, give +2 Attack EVs(except for Mienfoo, who gives +1 Attack). NOTE: In Winter, Vannilish can appear, who give Sp. Attack, not Attack.
Defense: Durant are found fairly often in Victory Road, and they give +2 Defense EVs. Roggenrola that are found fairly often in the Wellspring Cave give +1 Defense EV each. There is no place garenteed to let you encounter a Defense EV pokemon.
Sp. Attack: Liwick and Elgyem are garenteed to be found in the Celestial Tower, and each give out +1 Sp. Attack EV.
Sp. Defense: Frillish are garenteed to be found in the waters of Driftveil City, and give out +1 Sp. Defense EV.
Speed: Basculin are garenteed to be found in a lot of water, but I'm gonna list just Route 3. They give +2 Speed EVs.
So any other questions or comments?
Brock Out.
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Individual Values: Everyone is Unique
You may have been battling in the Battle Tower with, for example, your Golbat, and the enemy may happen to be using a Golbat as well. You are the same level, an you attack with Bite. It does decent damage, let's say it takes a quarter of your health away. The enemy Golbat then uses Bite on you as well. You lose half of your health. What happened here? "Individual Values" happened.
Individual Values, or IVs for short, determine how powerful a pokemon will be, and they cannot be changed. All pokemon have 6 IVs, one for each stat, and each IV ranges from 0-31. Once they are hatched from the egg, the IVs are set in stone. This is stepping into something I am not fully knowledgable on, and many websites make things vague or too much to swallow. I will tell what I know to be true, and please contribute if you know something I have not listed.
Let's start with an example to show you how much IVs can affect a pokemon. This example is taken from "gamespot.com";
You can see the difference in the stats of those Heracross. That's due to their difference in IVs. Natures play a role in IVs, but as you can see from the example, there's more to it than just that, since those Heracross had the same Nature.
Breeding for IVs;
The parents of an egg pass down IVs to their children. These children have the potential to take these IVs and improve them in their own IVs. So if you breed the children and then breed their children, and continuously breed children, getting better and better IVs each time.
NOTE: When passing down IVs, you should know that each parent passes down 1 IV, and then one of the parents will pass down a second IV. The remaining 3 IVs the child will have are chosen at random, and are not dependent upon a parent. In HG/SS and beyond, if a parent is holding one of the "Power Items" that can be purchased in the Frontier/Subway, the IV that that item represents will be passed down to the child. If both parents are holding a Power Item, only one of those stats is garenteed to pass down.
So that is how to alter IVs in the egg. It will prove to be very useful. You can find out your pokemon's best IV by talking to the man in the Battle Tower in Generation IV, or the Subway in Generation V. The Stat Judge, as he is called, will tell you a pokemon's "overall potential" and its highest IV stat.
"Overall Potential" is the total amount of IVs a pokemon has, ranging from 0-186. But he will not give you a number, but rather a ranking, and each ranking has its range of IVs. They are as follows;
"Decent": 0-90
"Above Average": 91-120
"Relatively Superior": 121-150
"Outstanding": 151-186
The Stat Judge will do the same for your highest IV stat. He'll tell you a stat, then a description of it, and these descriptions also represent values. They are as follows;
"Rather Decent": 0-15
"Very Good": 16-25
"Fantastic": 26-30
"Can't Be Better": 31(perfection!)
The characteristic on your Pokemon's description page is a representation of your Pokemon's highest IV. The chart above tells you what each characteristic indicates. I found the information from http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Characteristic and made my own chart because I couldn't just copy-paste their's.
Brock out.
Individual Values, or IVs for short, determine how powerful a pokemon will be, and they cannot be changed. All pokemon have 6 IVs, one for each stat, and each IV ranges from 0-31. Once they are hatched from the egg, the IVs are set in stone. This is stepping into something I am not fully knowledgable on, and many websites make things vague or too much to swallow. I will tell what I know to be true, and please contribute if you know something I have not listed.
Let's start with an example to show you how much IVs can affect a pokemon. This example is taken from "gamespot.com";
For this set, a Hardy Heracross has an IV of 0 in every stat.
HP: 270
Atk: 255
Def: 155
Spa: 85
SpDef: 195
Spe: 175
Now to show you what a Hardy Heracross looks like with every IV at 31.
HP: 301
Atk: 286
Def: 186
Spa: 116
SpDef: 226
Spe: 206
You can see the difference in the stats of those Heracross. That's due to their difference in IVs. Natures play a role in IVs, but as you can see from the example, there's more to it than just that, since those Heracross had the same Nature.
Breeding for IVs;
The parents of an egg pass down IVs to their children. These children have the potential to take these IVs and improve them in their own IVs. So if you breed the children and then breed their children, and continuously breed children, getting better and better IVs each time.
NOTE: When passing down IVs, you should know that each parent passes down 1 IV, and then one of the parents will pass down a second IV. The remaining 3 IVs the child will have are chosen at random, and are not dependent upon a parent. In HG/SS and beyond, if a parent is holding one of the "Power Items" that can be purchased in the Frontier/Subway, the IV that that item represents will be passed down to the child. If both parents are holding a Power Item, only one of those stats is garenteed to pass down.
So that is how to alter IVs in the egg. It will prove to be very useful. You can find out your pokemon's best IV by talking to the man in the Battle Tower in Generation IV, or the Subway in Generation V. The Stat Judge, as he is called, will tell you a pokemon's "overall potential" and its highest IV stat.
"Overall Potential" is the total amount of IVs a pokemon has, ranging from 0-186. But he will not give you a number, but rather a ranking, and each ranking has its range of IVs. They are as follows;
"Decent": 0-90
"Above Average": 91-120
"Relatively Superior": 121-150
"Outstanding": 151-186
The Stat Judge will do the same for your highest IV stat. He'll tell you a stat, then a description of it, and these descriptions also represent values. They are as follows;
"Rather Decent": 0-15
"Very Good": 16-25
"Fantastic": 26-30
"Can't Be Better": 31(perfection!)
The characteristic on your Pokemon's description page is a representation of your Pokemon's highest IV. The chart above tells you what each characteristic indicates. I found the information from http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Characteristic and made my own chart because I couldn't just copy-paste their's.
Brock out.
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Faster than the Speed of Breed
This section will discuss how to speed up the breeding process. Let's start with getting an egg.
First of all, recall the basic rules of breeding as explained in the first post, what pokemon can breed with others and which cannot. Now when you talk to the Day-Care Man, he'll say how well your pokemon are getting along with each other;
1) "They seem to get along very well" - fastest egg production rate
2) "They seem to get along" - average egg production rate
3) "They don't seem to like each other" - slowest egg production rate
4) "They prefer to play with other pokemon" - no egg production, pokemon are not compatible
The way(s) to achieve the fastest egg production:
1) Two pokemon of the same species with different ID numbers.
The way(s) to achieve average egg production:
1) Two pokemon of the same species with the same ID number.
2) Two pokemon of different species with different ID numbers.
The way(s) to achieve the slowest egg production:
1) Two pokemon of different species with the same ID number.
So that's how to get the eggs. I highly recommend migrating a Ditto and male Smeargle from a game, so you can use them to breed and still have a decent egg production rate.
The fastest ways to hatch an egg once you have it, just follow these guidelines:
1) Have a pokemon with Flame Body or Magma Armor for its ability in your party, it halves the hatch time
2) Ride your Bicycle, it makes you go twice as fast, there for halving the hatch time(again!)
3) Use a nice straight area to hatch your pokemon, it makes things easier. In Unova games, the Skyarrow Bridge is best. In Sinnoh, the right-most edge of the dirt road by the Day-Care Center is best. For Johto, the middle path of Goldenrod is your best bet.
Use these tips to get what you want faster!
Brock out.
First of all, recall the basic rules of breeding as explained in the first post, what pokemon can breed with others and which cannot. Now when you talk to the Day-Care Man, he'll say how well your pokemon are getting along with each other;
1) "They seem to get along very well" - fastest egg production rate
2) "They seem to get along" - average egg production rate
3) "They don't seem to like each other" - slowest egg production rate
4) "They prefer to play with other pokemon" - no egg production, pokemon are not compatible
The way(s) to achieve the fastest egg production:
1) Two pokemon of the same species with different ID numbers.
The way(s) to achieve average egg production:
1) Two pokemon of the same species with the same ID number.
2) Two pokemon of different species with different ID numbers.
The way(s) to achieve the slowest egg production:
1) Two pokemon of different species with the same ID number.
So that's how to get the eggs. I highly recommend migrating a Ditto and male Smeargle from a game, so you can use them to breed and still have a decent egg production rate.
The fastest ways to hatch an egg once you have it, just follow these guidelines:
1) Have a pokemon with Flame Body or Magma Armor for its ability in your party, it halves the hatch time
2) Ride your Bicycle, it makes you go twice as fast, there for halving the hatch time(again!)
3) Use a nice straight area to hatch your pokemon, it makes things easier. In Unova games, the Skyarrow Bridge is best. In Sinnoh, the right-most edge of the dirt road by the Day-Care Center is best. For Johto, the middle path of Goldenrod is your best bet.
Use these tips to get what you want faster!
Brock out.
Nature vs. Nurture? The Truth Revealed
But what do the stats mean? Why should one stat be more important than another? Allow me to show you.
Attack: This stat determines how powerful your Physical-based attacks will be.
Defense: This stat will determine how much damage you take from a Physical-based attack.
Sp. Attack: This stat determines how powerful your Special-based attacks will be.
Sp. Defense: This stat determines how much damage you take from a Special-based attack.
Speed: This stat determines when you will attack in battle, the highest speed attacks first, the lowest attacks last(except for attacks that bypass this, such as Quick Attack or Dragon Tail).
Some attacks will go around the rules of these stats, however. Psyshock is a Special-based Attack, but will attack the enemy at its Defense stat rather than it's Sp. Defense stat. Bullet Punch will make the user attack first. Dragon Tail will make the user attack last. There are many other attacks like these that bypass the laws of stats. There are certain abilities that do this as well, for example, Stall makes you attack last.
Different pokemon work better with different Natures. The Vulpix I recently put up, for example, it uses only Special-based attacks, meaning its Attack stat will go unused. So for this pokemon, we'd want a Nature that lowers your Attack and raises something useful. We look look at the pretty chart, and see that the Attack-lowering Natures are Bold, Timid, Modest, and Calm.
The Growlithe I put up is a little more tricky. He uses both a Special-based attack and a Physical-based attack. Lowering Defense or Sp. Defense wouldn't be smart ever, really. Nobody likes low Speed. The stats of Arcanine are fairly well-balanced, so we don't really want to lower any of them. So we would want a neutral Nature. So we see in the chart that the neutral Natures are Hardy, Docile, Serious, Bashful, and Quirky.
Let's look at Sableye. This pokemon will have the Stall ability, meaning he will go last. This means his Speed stat is pretty much pointless. So why not get a Nature that lowers Speed and raises something else? We look at the chart and see the Natures we'd want are Brave, Relaxed, Quiet, and Sassy.
Also, if the female pokemon in breeding(or the ditto substituting for the female) is holding the Everstone item, there is a 50% chance that that pokemon's Nature will carry through to the baby. A good technique to get a Ditto with a nice Nature, I have a Calm one, and let it hold the Everstone when it's appropriate(like for the Vulpix for example).
This isn't directly related to breeding, but if the Pokemon leading your party has the ability Synchronize, a wild Pokemon you encounter has a 50% chance of having the same Nature as the Pokemon with Synchronize. This can be useful if you are searching for a certain Pokemon with certain Natures.
There are a lot of things to look at when deciding your Nature. Your moveset, the Pokemon's Base Stats, and so forth. So just study the Pokemon you'll be breeding and figure out what you think will be the best approach.
In the Battle Park/Frontier/Subway, you can purchase items called "Power ---". Each of these help your pokemon grow stronger in that particular stat on lv up. The Power Anklet, for example, will help your pokemon to level up with more Speed boost. Similar items are the Vitamins availible for purchase at the regional malls, or the Park/Frontier/Subway. These items are one-time use, but will make your pokemon stronger in their given stats, and as a nice bonus, will make your pokemon a little happier.
Through breeding for a desired Nature and using the Vitamins and Power items, you can breed pokemon with unimaginable stat increases. Have you ever seen a Crobat get +11 Speed in one level up? I have.
Brock out.
The Cheaters of the Breeding World
There are 2 pokemon that exist in the game that made breeding much easier.
First, there is Ditto. Ditto is a pokemon that can breed with any pokemon that can breed at all. It breeds with male or female pokemon. This is useful if you are in need of a different gender of a certain pokemon for breeding reasons(for example, you need a female Gastly but you only have a male). Or if you are giving a friend a pokemon, this is the easy way to do it.
Then there is Smeargle. Smeargle is a member of the "Field" egg group, so he can only breed with Field pokemon. Now the thing about Smeargle is that it can learn any move in existance. This means it can breed any combination of egg moves into a pokemon if the Smeargle is the male. Smeargle learns the move Sketch, and you can learn moves through doing Double Battles with the pokemon that has the move you desire to teach your Smeargle. For example, if you want Smeargle to learn Mean Look, you would send it into a Double Battle with a pokemon that knows Mean Look. After that pokemon uses Mean Look, have Smeargle use Sketch on that pokemon. Smeargle will now know Mean Look until you decide to erase it.
Now I have a problem with Smeargles. They annoy me. I'm not a racist or anything in the real world, but I do not enjoy my pokemon being tainted with the blood of a Smeargle, even if it doesn't truly do anything. It's just the knowledge that this horrible Picasso-wannabe is a part of my pokemon. So I tend to dilute the Smeargle blood by breeding the offspring with its mother, or a Ditto if I'll get the same result.
Incest is better than tainted blood.
Brock Out.
First, there is Ditto. Ditto is a pokemon that can breed with any pokemon that can breed at all. It breeds with male or female pokemon. This is useful if you are in need of a different gender of a certain pokemon for breeding reasons(for example, you need a female Gastly but you only have a male). Or if you are giving a friend a pokemon, this is the easy way to do it.
Then there is Smeargle. Smeargle is a member of the "Field" egg group, so he can only breed with Field pokemon. Now the thing about Smeargle is that it can learn any move in existance. This means it can breed any combination of egg moves into a pokemon if the Smeargle is the male. Smeargle learns the move Sketch, and you can learn moves through doing Double Battles with the pokemon that has the move you desire to teach your Smeargle. For example, if you want Smeargle to learn Mean Look, you would send it into a Double Battle with a pokemon that knows Mean Look. After that pokemon uses Mean Look, have Smeargle use Sketch on that pokemon. Smeargle will now know Mean Look until you decide to erase it.
Now I have a problem with Smeargles. They annoy me. I'm not a racist or anything in the real world, but I do not enjoy my pokemon being tainted with the blood of a Smeargle, even if it doesn't truly do anything. It's just the knowledge that this horrible Picasso-wannabe is a part of my pokemon. So I tend to dilute the Smeargle blood by breeding the offspring with its mother, or a Ditto if I'll get the same result.
Incest is better than tainted blood.
Brock Out.
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Genders in the Pokemon Universe
In the Pokemon Universe, there are 3 genders of pokemon. The Males, the Females, and the Genderless pokemon. Let's go a little into these before I give more of my own builds.
Firstly, Genderless pokemon can only get eggs through breeding with a Ditto. This means that breeding for egg moves is impossible, and in fact, breeding anything into them is futile.
The Females decide the gender of the pokemon that will come from the egg. The Females also allow you to breed moves the pokemon would eventually learn into the egg, but only if the Male you are breeding with also knows the move.
The Males have the power to decide what moves the offspring will hatch with. They control egg moves, TMs, and contribute equally in the eventually-learned moves.
If a Male breeds with a Ditto, any TMs and egg moves that pokemon has will carry through. If a Female breeds with a Ditto, prepare to have a basic pokemon.
The Males have much more power in breeding than the Females. Generally, I want my final pokemon in my breeding to be Male, so that if I want, I can carry the moves through to other pokemon, or breed with a Ditto if I just want to help a friend. So I treat Female pokemon the same way I treat Female humans;
"Use 'em, and Lose 'em."
Brock Out.
Firstly, Genderless pokemon can only get eggs through breeding with a Ditto. This means that breeding for egg moves is impossible, and in fact, breeding anything into them is futile.
The Females decide the gender of the pokemon that will come from the egg. The Females also allow you to breed moves the pokemon would eventually learn into the egg, but only if the Male you are breeding with also knows the move.
The Males have the power to decide what moves the offspring will hatch with. They control egg moves, TMs, and contribute equally in the eventually-learned moves.
If a Male breeds with a Ditto, any TMs and egg moves that pokemon has will carry through. If a Female breeds with a Ditto, prepare to have a basic pokemon.
The Males have much more power in breeding than the Females. Generally, I want my final pokemon in my breeding to be Male, so that if I want, I can carry the moves through to other pokemon, or breed with a Ditto if I just want to help a friend. So I treat Female pokemon the same way I treat Female humans;
"Use 'em, and Lose 'em."
Brock Out.
Intro to Breeding 101
I'm Brock "the Rock" Obama, and my job will be to teach YOU how to breed the ultimate pokemon!
First some basics, so I do not overwhelm you.
1) Not all pokemon can breed together. All pokemon are divided in "Egg Groups", and only pokemon that share an egg group can breed. A good site to find which pokemon are compatible is this one: http://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/
2) Most pokemon have a few moves that they can learn only if the father has it in his moveset, and this is the key to breeding a pokemon with an excellent moveset.
3) If both parents know a move, and the offspring can learn the move, then the offspring will exit the egg knowing that move. This turns out to be a key technique for breeding, because pokemon get better stat increases when they evolve, but will sometimes not know these moves until later. This helps get the most out of your pokemon.
4) If the father knows a TM or HM move, and the offspring can know it, then the offspring will hatch from the egg knowing that move. This was much more useful in Generation IV games, when TMs were one-use only, but it is still nice to have in Generation V.
5) When hatching eggs, be sure to have a pokemon with the ability "Flame Body" or "Magma Armor" in your party. This will make the hatch-time halved, so you can get what you want faster.
I'll go into more later, but for now that's all I'll say for the rules of breeding. Trust me, it can get more complicated than that.
So enjoy reading "Masterbreeding in my Room"! Comments will be allowed of course, so you'll be able to contribute your thoughts into the builds I put up here. I know I'm not perfect(though I'm pretty close), so I'll keep an open mind. No pokemon is intended to have just a single build. Certain builds are better than others.
Also, a disclaimer. I've thought all of thes builds up myself unless I state otherwise in that post, but I am not certain by any means that I am the first to create the builds.
First some basics, so I do not overwhelm you.
1) Not all pokemon can breed together. All pokemon are divided in "Egg Groups", and only pokemon that share an egg group can breed. A good site to find which pokemon are compatible is this one: http://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/
2) Most pokemon have a few moves that they can learn only if the father has it in his moveset, and this is the key to breeding a pokemon with an excellent moveset.
3) If both parents know a move, and the offspring can learn the move, then the offspring will exit the egg knowing that move. This turns out to be a key technique for breeding, because pokemon get better stat increases when they evolve, but will sometimes not know these moves until later. This helps get the most out of your pokemon.
4) If the father knows a TM or HM move, and the offspring can know it, then the offspring will hatch from the egg knowing that move. This was much more useful in Generation IV games, when TMs were one-use only, but it is still nice to have in Generation V.
5) When hatching eggs, be sure to have a pokemon with the ability "Flame Body" or "Magma Armor" in your party. This will make the hatch-time halved, so you can get what you want faster.
I'll go into more later, but for now that's all I'll say for the rules of breeding. Trust me, it can get more complicated than that.
So enjoy reading "Masterbreeding in my Room"! Comments will be allowed of course, so you'll be able to contribute your thoughts into the builds I put up here. I know I'm not perfect(though I'm pretty close), so I'll keep an open mind. No pokemon is intended to have just a single build. Certain builds are better than others.
Also, a disclaimer. I've thought all of thes builds up myself unless I state otherwise in that post, but I am not certain by any means that I am the first to create the builds.
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