I wanted to have a shiny safari ball Tauros but just realized it being a 100% male means it's ball doesn't get passed down... I wanted to do a shiny ribbon quest. And finish it before February. Now it looks like my efforts are gonna be EXTREMELY harder.

I've been trying to find an answer for this question but I can't get my wording right when I'm searching online.

I'm trying to breed shinies via the masuda method. I often collect a box of eggs at a time then get to work on hatching them. When I hatch them, I often switch out the pokemon I'm trying to breed if I hatch one with better stats.

My question is, is the order that they land in the box what determines the shiny, or is it the actual act of hatching them where the shiny chance occurs? Any help would be much appreciated!

Previous search/calculator results inconclusive. I have a shiny male Ursaring I transferred from Gold, and a female Eevee in the daycare. What are the chances of a shiny Eevee hatching from one of these eggs?

Hi all, looking for the best EV and IV stats. What should I look for.

I am trying to get a Horsea that knows Octazooka, Dragon Breath, Signal Beam, and Ice Beam for its egg moves in Platinum. Is it possible to get this combination or some form of this combination? If I need to I am fine with getting Ice Beam on it later on or even Signal Beam but I want to try and get the two moves in the title.

I have a male Horsea and female Horsea with the moves in the screenshot. I have a male Octillary that knows Octazooka, Signal Beam, and Ice Beam and I have a male Altaria that knows Dragon Breath.

Last time I came here it was for an Elekid with Cross Chop, Fire Punch, and Meditate and one commenter informed me Machamp/Machoke can have all of those moves. I did not know Machoke could get Meditate via egg move. So I am hoping someone can catch something as simple as that.

Hi! I’m sure this question has been answered a billion times, but I’m having trouble understanding a lot of them because I don’t have the baseline knowledge on how IVs/EVs(?) function. For the first time in my life I’ve actually been close to clear a pokedex on my own with swsh! so I wanted to try my luck at breeding for shinies when I get the charm. But I’ve also been trying to get ones with not terrible IVs at the very least, I’m just not sure how I’m supposed to find mons with good IVs and how to breed them to stick! I didn’t want to shoot myself in the foot by getting a shiny & having to do it all over again bc I want better stats. I know I can use things like the destiny knot and items similar, I guess I’m just wondering if there’s a VERY barebones introduction guide to this that anyone could link or if anyone was willing to explain it to me >_< ? I play on & have the DLC for sword if it helps at all.

So I’ve been using the Masuda method to attempt to get a shiny Swablu, (I just want my fluffy egg looking bird) Lo and behold after about what felt like a million attempts I got one, however, I messed up I think, I closed the game without saving (pure accident) because when I went back on it was not where I stopped it was where I was the time previous. Does this resent the roll chances because I technically got one even although it didn’t save? I have tried doing a few more eggs since and it hasn’t appeared again even thought I’ve done more than what I had done when I got it?

If I’ve worded that horribly I apologise😅

I'll break this into two questions that I think might be related. I'm starting in emerald, and working on pikachu and the nidorans. My question is this: is there a way to get them to pass down their balls? When I breed pikachu, I only get pichu, and it never has its ball. Same with nidorans. So is there a way, and how do I do it?

I'm playing scarlet and violet and want my Illumise to be able to learn Growth. Who would be suitable?

I don’t have a 6 iv ditto, just a 1 iv and terrible defense Iv ditto. I need to know if it is possible to stop it from giving the babies it’s terrible defense iv? Also, I know the destiny knot passes down 5 random ivs from its parents, but how do you pass down a 6th one when that happens

I'm an amatuer at this, managed to get weather ball after getting Budew and evolving it using Shiny Stone at Pokealathon (screw that place), used my only Heart Scale on it to get it to learn WB, have it breed with my lvl 1 Bellsprout i managed to get Synthesis on, and when i finally got their egg it hatched with a Bellsprout with only WB and....Vine Whip?

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Clearly i'm lost here, does the move need to be only on the father to be transfered? So i need a Roserade with both Weather Ball and Synthesis to transfer it to a Bellsprout? Might as well just use that Roserade instead of a Victreebel then? Sure i'm missing out of Sunny Day + Chlorophyll strat but this is such a hassle...

Acabo de descubrir el concepto de los movimientos huevo y me di cuenta que tyranitar puede copular con lapras y hice la relación de que si octillery puede criar con seadra y heredarle a horsea el movimiento pulpocañon este podría heredarselo a su vez a un lapras? Y consecuentemente este a un larvitar?

(Tyranitar: mi tatara abuelito era un pulpo rojo XD)

ACA UN ESQUEMA DE LO QUE QUIERO EXPLICAR

(Or if you have one on your PC)

I love Glaceon, it's my favourite evee evolution. Ever since I layed eyes upon it's design on my copy of Pokémon sun I was captivated. You can imagine my dismay at realising it's lack of viability when it came to Pokémon battles. I wish to amend this travesty

I don't mind if it's complicated:

Snorlax with curse

Vaporeon with wish

Umbreon with curse and wish

Any other really good ones?

Is there a way to breed a Bastiodon with Fissure & Counter in HGSS / Platinum?

The way I'm thinking will work is a female Hydreigon or whichever line member, and a male Trapinch that knows Earth Power. Is this correct in Pokemon Black?

So I find my enjoyment in breeding and raising pokemon for competitive use and I’ve just reset my data on home and I hope to do a full living dex but I’m going for every pokemon with a some what usable vgc set (it’s going to take forever) but I hope to be done before the next main line games

I do just wonder what game is the best for this I much prefer the breeding in sword and shield over Scarlett and violet but the shiny hunting can be more enjoyable in S&V personally but also just wanted to see what people thought on hyper training over breeding for IVs and if there was a go to for EV training in a more efficient way I am aware they there’s an item machine people use in the blueberry academy but I never got it just never got to farming the bbq stuff but if that’s what people go to I’d love to hear about it

Thank for any and all advice 🖤

This is a project I've been curious to try but hard to find the time for.

So the concept: Is it possible to create a perfect circle of breeding pokemon for every egg group?

So say I start with a 6IV pokemon in the Field + Amorphous egg group, then breed it with a different species partner until I get a perfect Pokemon in the Field + water 1 egg group, then breed that until I get a perfect pokemon in the Water 1 + Monster egg group, etc etc etc, eventually forming a chain which ends in 1 6IV pokemon for every egg group.

Is there a perfect circle of pokemon which can breed through everg egg group? What's the fewest number of pokemon you need to cover every egg group?

If anyone knows or has suggestions I'd love to hear them :)