Step 3: Aiming for 5IVs
Once you have two pokemon that are the opposite gender and have opposing IVs, you can start breeding them together.
For my example, I'm going to assume PKM C is female and PKM D is male. It's fine to have it reversed, but remember to read it like it's reversed when you're actually applying this guide.
For my example, I'm going to assume PKM C is female and PKM D is male. It's fine to have it reversed, but remember to read it like it's reversed when you're actually applying this guide.
Example 1:
Your current Pokemon ready for breeding:
PKM C (F): 31 31 31 xx xx xx
PKM D (M):xx xx xx 31 31 31
If focusing on Natures:
Nature Holder: Everstone
Other: Destiny Knot
If no nature present/Don't care:
Here, the item really does not matter. As long as one has the destiny knot and the other has a power item to pass an IV the other does not have, that should be sufficient. However, to increase the number of viable pokemon, I urge to look the base stats of your pokemon species and pick to try to pass down its highest stat instead of, say, a dump stat.
For example purposes, I'm going to assume Atk. is the most important stat for this pokemon.
PKM C: Power Weight
PKM D: Destiny Knot
Once you've moved the items, drop them off in the daycare and prepare to hatch a ton of eggs.
NOW. THIS PART IS THE MOST IMPORTANT STEP OF BREEDING SO MAKE SURE YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT IS HAPPENING.
As you can tell via playing around the probability tool and common sense, breeding high IV pokemon together will have a higher chance of resulting in higher IV pokemon. Because of this, we want to replace our parent pokemon as soon as another pokemon with a great number of IVs INCLUDING the original parent IVs is hatched. We only replace under this circumstance specifically because there's no guarantee that a pokemon with more IVs will fill every single flaw of the other parent. Since we want as little variables as possible to increase out chance of producing what we want, we try to compensate for all IV flaws!
This is where your note keeping skills come into play. It is important to keep track of the full stock of possible breeders you have in the chance that a pokemon that will fill its holes appears.
This is sort of confusing so here are a few examples:
Nature Holder: Everstone
Other: Destiny Knot
If no nature present/Don't care:
Here, the item really does not matter. As long as one has the destiny knot and the other has a power item to pass an IV the other does not have, that should be sufficient. However, to increase the number of viable pokemon, I urge to look the base stats of your pokemon species and pick to try to pass down its highest stat instead of, say, a dump stat.
For example purposes, I'm going to assume Atk. is the most important stat for this pokemon.
PKM C: Power Weight
PKM D: Destiny Knot
Once you've moved the items, drop them off in the daycare and prepare to hatch a ton of eggs.
NOW. THIS PART IS THE MOST IMPORTANT STEP OF BREEDING SO MAKE SURE YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT IS HAPPENING.
As you can tell via playing around the probability tool and common sense, breeding high IV pokemon together will have a higher chance of resulting in higher IV pokemon. Because of this, we want to replace our parent pokemon as soon as another pokemon with a great number of IVs INCLUDING the original parent IVs is hatched. We only replace under this circumstance specifically because there's no guarantee that a pokemon with more IVs will fill every single flaw of the other parent. Since we want as little variables as possible to increase out chance of producing what we want, we try to compensate for all IV flaws!
This is where your note keeping skills come into play. It is important to keep track of the full stock of possible breeders you have in the chance that a pokemon that will fill its holes appears.
This is sort of confusing so here are a few examples:
Example 1:
Parents:
PKM C (F): 31 31 31 xx xx xx
PKM D (M):xx xx xx 31 31 31
Child:
PKM E (M): xx xx 31 31 31 31
Since PKM E has more IVs than PKM D and covers all the flaws of PKM C, we replace PKM D with PKM E.
Example 2:
Parents:
PKM C (F): 31 31 31 xx xx xx
PKM D (M):xx xx xx 31 31 31
Child:
PKM E (M): xx 31 31 xx 31 31
PKM E is missing the sp. atk IV. Since PKM C is also missing the Sp.atk IV, replacing PKM D with PKM E will result in all pokemon we hatch from then would be missing its Sp. Atk stat.
In this case, PKM E should not replace PKM D even if it has more IVs.
Example 3:
Suppose we hatch another pokemon with the following stats after we hatched PKM E(M).
PKM F (F): 31 31 xx 31 31 xx
If we compare PKM E and PKM F as a couple:
PKM F (F): 31 31 xx 31 31 xx
PKM E (M):xx 31 31 xx 31 31
Since PKM E and PKM F both have more IVs than their parent counterparts and cover each other's IV flaws, we should replace both parents with PKM E and PKM F.
Basically you keep doing this until you reach 5IV pokemon who can cover each other's flaw IV.
If you want to pass down abilities or hidden abilities, ONLY SWITCH OUT THE FEMALE IF SHE HAS THE ABILITY YOU WANT ON THE OFFSPRING.
What ability the male has doesn't matter.
Once you complete that mess, proceed to step 4 here:
If you want to pass down abilities or hidden abilities, ONLY SWITCH OUT THE FEMALE IF SHE HAS THE ABILITY YOU WANT ON THE OFFSPRING.
What ability the male has doesn't matter.
Once you complete that mess, proceed to step 4 here: