Sub Section: Duplicats
Unlike the official games, Pokemon Uranium features a pokemon called "Duplicat" that, for all intensive purposes, functions as this game's ditto. The ditto egg group is special in the sense that it is able to breed with any pokemon outside of the undiscovered group and produce an egg, no matter the gender of the original pokemon. As such, Duplicats are an easy way to transfer IVs without producing a breeding chain (more on this later) and a useful tool in every breeder's belt.
The resulting pokemon will always be the same species as non-Duplicat, no matter the gender of said pokemon!
The resulting pokemon will always be the same species as non-Duplicat, no matter the gender of said pokemon!
How to Find a Duplicat/ How many you are required to catch
Important note: If you already have a 3+ IV pokemon of any species, I urge you to finish reading this guide before duplicat hunting.
This also applies to the 6IV jerbolta from mystery gift or breeder freebies (even if it's female).
This also applies to the 6IV jerbolta from mystery gift or breeder freebies (even if it's female).
Welcome to your first official hurdle! While I'll get into the specifics of what you're supposed to do with a duplicat once we get into the nitty gritty of IV breeding, let me tell to where you actually catch one!
They are more or less exclusive to route 13 (just outside of Venesi town) and the Labyrinth (the cave connected to route 13). The spawn rate is an extremely low 5% and you're expected to literally catch something like 60 of these guys (no seriously). The goal is to try to get one duplicat for each stat that has a perfect IV in it.
In other words:
You need a Duplicat with a Perfect HP IV, another with perfect Atk IV... etc.
The rate of catching one of these is somewhere around encountering a female eevee in the wild... and that's not even saying anything about it being a perfect IV in the stat you want!
They are more or less exclusive to route 13 (just outside of Venesi town) and the Labyrinth (the cave connected to route 13). The spawn rate is an extremely low 5% and you're expected to literally catch something like 60 of these guys (no seriously). The goal is to try to get one duplicat for each stat that has a perfect IV in it.
In other words:
You need a Duplicat with a Perfect HP IV, another with perfect Atk IV... etc.
The rate of catching one of these is somewhere around encountering a female eevee in the wild... and that's not even saying anything about it being a perfect IV in the stat you want!
How to Actually Catch the Damn thing
Remember how I asked you to get a "False Swipe" TM? Well, it's time to put that to some good use! Chances are, at this point in the game you are so over powered that you'll destroy the poor little guys in literally on hit with even your weakest move from pokemon on your team. Getting a random pokemon of its level to fight with it is a pain and slow as hell, so how do we try to remedy this problem?
Take a look at False Swipes' move description:
Remember how I asked you to get a "False Swipe" TM? Well, it's time to put that to some good use! Chances are, at this point in the game you are so over powered that you'll destroy the poor little guys in literally on hit with even your weakest move from pokemon on your team. Getting a random pokemon of its level to fight with it is a pain and slow as hell, so how do we try to remedy this problem?
Take a look at False Swipes' move description:
False Swipe inflicts damage, but will leave the target with 1 HP if it would otherwise cause it to faint. If the target has 1 HP remaining, False Swipe will hit and leave the target at 1 HP.
high speed stat so you almost always go first (except for when the duplicat has the Prankster skill) so you can throw down your move before it can act.
Don't worry, if the Duplicat doesn't have enough HP for a substitute, the move will simply fail.
"But, Youko, I don't want to teach a pokemon False Swipe!"
...I'm not sure why you won't save yourself the trouble, but if you're that against false swipe, you can throw quick balls. Why? Take a look at the description for them:
Don't worry, if the Duplicat doesn't have enough HP for a substitute, the move will simply fail.
"But, Youko, I don't want to teach a pokemon False Swipe!"
...I'm not sure why you won't save yourself the trouble, but if you're that against false swipe, you can throw quick balls. Why? Take a look at the description for them:
Basically, the Quick Ball has a x4(x5?) catch rate compared to a normal pokeball at the start of a battle. There's a fairly good chance you'll be able to.
You can find them on the 2nd floor of the Bealbeach PokeMart for $1000 each.
Considering how many duplicats you will have to hunt, I'm not sure why you would go for this option, but here you are....
You can find them on the 2nd floor of the Bealbeach PokeMart for $1000 each.
Considering how many duplicats you will have to hunt, I'm not sure why you would go for this option, but here you are....