Saturday, January 18, 2014

The quest for Nita: One down!

The first step in breeding perfect Pokémon is to catch a whole bunch of Dittos at the Friend Safari in order to get many combinations of perfect IVs. I caught 15 of them, then proceeded to breed one of them that had perfect defense, special defense and speed with my female Jolly Heracross (which knew Rock Blast to boot). I know it's going to be hard to believe, but the second egg I hatched had all three. So I bred that one with a Ditto with perfect HP and attack, and made five eggs. One of them had a different combination of three 31s, so I took that one and bred it with a Ditto that also had three 31s, including two in different stats (meaning both parents had 31 in defense).

The second egg was a perfect Heracross.

Since you're probably thinking you misread that, I'll type it again:

THE SECOND EGG WAS A PERFECT HERACROSS.

Sure, that's without factoring in special attack, but still, it means that I went from zero to five 31s in NINE EGGS. Unfortunately my perfect Heracross is female, meaning I can't use it for Durant, but I have a male that has 31 in HP, defense, special defense and speed, so it's not too bad.

Next up is Durant, which is going to be a little more complicated, since a female with a DW ability only has a 60% chance of passing it down to its offspring. This means that any female with Swarm or Hustle, no matter how good its IVs are, is useless as a replacement mother.

3 comments:

  1. On your last post you mentioned Ditto in the FS. Who has the Friend Code for it?

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  2. Breeding shenanigans, huh? I actually had amazing luck with this one Drilbur. The two parents had the combined IVs I needed, but neither had the right nature, so I was just mass-breeding for the nature so I could everstone it down later. After about 5 duds, the next one I got was not only Adamant, but also had the 5 perfect IVs. Without an everstone, mind you.

    You want to talk breeding nightmares, though, try Switcheroo Noivern. You have to pass that move down about 3 times just to get it on a parent that can breed with Noibat. It didn't help that while I was breeding it, the pre-parents in the chain seemed to never want to give me male offspring, so I went through at least a dozen females of everything in the chain before even getting to the hard part of getting the IVs and nature right for the resulting Noibat. >_>

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