Feel free to skip this section if you only want to breed one pokemon or don't care about hidden abilities, otherwise pay attention, because this is going to save you a lot of time.
While I'm sure some of you have already figured it out via me describing everything above, some of you are probably asking:
Wait, Youko, you just told us how to breed pokemon to 6IVs, what else is there to learn?
Say you want to breed a whole bunch of pokemon, but don't want to go through that mess of the duplicats again. What do we do? Simple!
We create something called a "breeding chain".
A breeding chain is basically where you breed one (near)perfect male pokemon with a female pokemon of the same egg group and the egg group of the pokemon you're targeting next to produce 2-4IV pokemon. After you've produced a (near)perfect male pokemon of the second species, since it can breed with your target pokemon, you then pair it up with a female of your target and breed it until you reach your goal.
While I'm sure some of you have already figured it out via me describing everything above, some of you are probably asking:
Wait, Youko, you just told us how to breed pokemon to 6IVs, what else is there to learn?
Say you want to breed a whole bunch of pokemon, but don't want to go through that mess of the duplicats again. What do we do? Simple!
We create something called a "breeding chain".
A breeding chain is basically where you breed one (near)perfect male pokemon with a female pokemon of the same egg group and the egg group of the pokemon you're targeting next to produce 2-4IV pokemon. After you've produced a (near)perfect male pokemon of the second species, since it can breed with your target pokemon, you then pair it up with a female of your target and breed it until you reach your goal.
Example 1:
You want to breed Volchik(Flying, Dragon) and Eevee(Field).
Volchik and Eevee cannot breed because they do not belong to a common egg group.
Notice, however, Dunsparce(Dragon, Field) belongs to one of each of their groups, therefore, Dunsparce can breed with both Volchik AND Eevee.
Since it is much easier to get great IVs from 5IV/6IV pokemon by breeding with 6/5IV pokemon (literally shortens the time by 300% at least) than to start all over again with duplicats, it would make more sense to breed a perfect Eevee or Volchik until you produce a perfect Dunsparce to breed with the other.
This means that, by applying the principle I covered in step 2 of how to breed from scratch, we can quickly produce a 5-6IV pokemon to act as our conduit to pass IVs around!
The following is a list of "link" pokemon I have personally used to breed:
This means that, by applying the principle I covered in step 2 of how to breed from scratch, we can quickly produce a 5-6IV pokemon to act as our conduit to pass IVs around!
The following is a list of "link" pokemon I have personally used to breed:
Dunsparce (Dragon, Field)
Baashuan (Monster Field)
Volchik (Dragon, Flying)
Jerbolta (Fairy, Field) (Yes, the event one from mystery box is perfect for this!)
Jackdeary (Fairy, Human-like)
Eletux (Monster, Water 1)
Cassnail (Amorphous, Water 1)
More can be found on this chart here (along with all the egg groups of all pokemon). (Thanks Pokespecial!)
It is advisable to go poke around on the wiki to try to find more link pokemon if you don't wish to use the chart or find it too complicated.
So that's all well and good, but what does this have to do with hidden abilities?
As you may have read in section 3, abilities only 60% of the time from females of the pokemon if they're breed with a male that isn't duplicat.
This means that you need a father that's in the same egg group of the female HA pokemon AND have the IVs to pass to the offspring. If you don't have such a pokemon, I'm afraid you're going to have to breed one from scratch with duplicats and then breed chain into whatever pokemon you want to have HA!
However, this means that you actually need a female pokemon that has HA to begin with.
How do you get a pokemon with HA?
The PokeRadar!
If you don't know how to use the PokeRadar, I suggest you visit my friend Monkeylord's guide about it linked below:
As you may have read in section 3, abilities only 60% of the time from females of the pokemon if they're breed with a male that isn't duplicat.
This means that you need a father that's in the same egg group of the female HA pokemon AND have the IVs to pass to the offspring. If you don't have such a pokemon, I'm afraid you're going to have to breed one from scratch with duplicats and then breed chain into whatever pokemon you want to have HA!
However, this means that you actually need a female pokemon that has HA to begin with.
How do you get a pokemon with HA?
The PokeRadar!
If you don't know how to use the PokeRadar, I suggest you visit my friend Monkeylord's guide about it linked below: