In Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, you can create an Egg Power 3 sandwich using only one Herba Mystica by combining 3 Bananas, 2 Chorizo, and 1 Sweet Herba Mystica. Sparkling Power affects encounters but doesn’t help with hatching eggs. Instead, you can make a shiny sandwich and despawn them in and out until you get a shiny. If no shiny is found within 30 minutes, close your game and return your herba mystica.
The Masuda method is for hatching eggs, and using a Sweet Herba Mystica for a special sandwich recipe grants Egg Power Level 3 and an Encounter Power Level 3 of a specific type. However, it’s not advisable to use this item on sandwiches with Egg Power Lv. 1, as they work just as well. Herba Mystica is rare and should be used on Sparkling Power Sandwiches to boost your chances of finding shiny Pokemon.
In Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, players can obtain Herba Mystica by participating in five and six-star Tera Raid battles. Spicy Herba Mystica is a Sandwich Ingredient that drops from high-level Tera Raids. Sweet Herba Mystica is good for gut health, aiding digestion, curing stomachaches, and stimulating appetite. Bitter Herba Mystica is good for blood circulation and warms up.
Herba Mystica is primarily used to create sandwiches that increase the rate of finding shiny Pokemon. It’s more convenient to buy food at a restaurant than creating your own sandwich. The Sparkling Power meal effect doesn’t work on eggs, but it works for other items.
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Make sure you on a completely empty box when you start breeding. Nothing more annoying then having all your eggs mixed in with your pokemon when its time to hatch. Also its a lot easier when it is a box with nothing but eggs, because you can use the minus button to select an entire vertical column and move it to your party all at once, rather then doing it one by one like in the article.
This article is so helpfull! Pokémon Scarlet and Violet is the first Pokémon game where I am really interested in hunting shinies or get them through breeding and before I watched this I didn’t even know where to start. I had heard of the Masuda method, but I never fully understood what to do. So thank you very much! The first shiny I’m going to hunt for is Dratini, she is my favorite!
I just got the shiny charm TODAY after completing the Pokedex and came to your article first to get the full detail on how to Masuda hunt in Pokemon Scarlet & Violet. My first official Masuda Method hunt is going to be for Fuecoco since I chose Sprigatito as the starter! I’ll come back and let you know when it hatches.
Btw, just throwing this out there: I always go to the very first town you come across in the game (Los Platos) and buy an Egg Power 1 ice cream for 900 money at the ice cream stand near the Pokémon Center. But since this article explained- and showed where to simply buy something that gives you Egg Power 2 rather than make it yourself, I decided to try it out. It appears to NOT be worth it. The ice cream is 900 bucks. The sandwich is 2800. From the ice cream I got 57 eggs. From the sandwich I got 62. Barely any difference for that much more money. I suggest going for the ice cream or perhaps making your own sandwiches if that’s cheaper; I haven’t really tried my hand at making my own food much lol.
honestly you can also get a foreign ditto by making another playthrough in another language if you have 2 switches (I have regular and OLED) It’s pretty fast – i spent longer just waiting on a foreign ditto in SWSH than quick playing through to the ditto location. I’m going for Sprigatito right now! Excellent article!
Hey Beacon of Nick, I would just like to say as someone who recently joined the PkMn Community again after a long hiatus with Legends, I had no clue what Masuda or Foreign ditto had to do with shiny hunting…heck until Legends I didn’t really even know about Shinies. Thanks to this article and your excellent explanation, I will be using this method on the starters.
BTW, if you do have multiple Pokémon at the same time with a ditto at a picnic, you can actually see which Pokémon is in the egg depending on the ball of the egg, because the egg will be in the same ball that it’s parent Pokémon of the same species is in. So if you’re trying to breed multiple Pokémon, just have them with different balls, and then sort the eggs into boxes depending on their balls, and then when you have enough you can just run through all the boxes one at a time.
Nice tutorial, thanks! If I have a bunch of eggs, and I start hatching without saving, close and open again, are the hatched pokemon the same? Like if I don’t get a shiny from the eggs, if I close, the game, open and hatched the same eggs again, would I eventually get a shiny? this is just to avoid releasing a bunch of pokemon one at a time.
Question, If you have a party full of eggs (with a flame body Pokémon of course) once they all hatch and there is isn’t a shiny, does restarting the game help with odds or are they all set as non shiny when egged (like not when they hatch) Trying to see how to optimize my time and not have to release 999 Pokémons if that’s what it takes to get the shiny. Thanks a lot!
Ive been Masuda hunting Fuecoco on and off since literally the game came out last November. I still havent gotten 1 shiny through Masuda in all these months. Ive literally gotten every single shiny in the base game and Teal Mask lol. So until Indigo Disk comes out i have nothing to do except get the shiny starters. Ive probably hatched close to 5000 eggs, ive swapped parents over and over and no luck. The only thing keeping me patient is the fact that i literally have nothing else to do lol. What do you guys think is it just insanely bad luck or is the game bugged? Is there an exploit i dont know about?
I have a friend of mine that says Shiny charm doesnt affect the odds of shiny when breeding. He said it was datamined and also the description says “you’ll encounter shiny pokemon in the wild”, yet when I go to almost all pokemon websites about shiny pokemon odds when breeding, they all say shiny charm does work. im quite confused on that part
Do bOTH pokemon have to be from Different countries??? Like the one I want is From the US and the Ditto is from asian countries I’m from the US and you kind of made it seem like they BOTH have to be from a country YOU are not from, You mentioned 2 dif countries ….. I’ve never heard of that, Wouldn’t it be just ONE from YOUR country And a ditto from ANOTHER COUNTRY… This is CONFusIoN
I’m trying to shiny breed with ditto (JPN) and Charizard holding Destiny Knot (event raid pkmn) in hopes of hatching my first shiny ever. I have never had any luck with getting shiny pokemon before unless I joined a raid on Pokemon Go which was more rare than most people’s in-game shiny encounters based on youtube articles lol
i Highly recommend that you only use Masuda for Pokémon that you physically cannot get from the wild. Pokémon that you can obtain using other methods in wild encounters are much much faster and efficient that masuda. It took me about 7-8 hours to hatch my first Masuda shiny psyduck when i could of probably found it in under an hour using the sandwich wild encounter technique. Masuda method is still a great way to catch shiny’s like the starter Pokémon but I wouldn’t really recommend using it for any other pokemon other than them.
I’m currently hatching shiny axew for a all shiny dragon team to use in the pokemon league ✨️ so far I caught in the wild shiny noibat, 3 shiny dratinies, shiny gabite and drakloak. But I wanted a little challenge and I’m gonna hatch aplin and axew with this method,thanks to this article I got the inspiration also I don’t have a shiny charm 😅
hey beacon of nick, i’m very new to this and i’m just wondering as i tried this method on two boxes worth of eggs with no luck using a japanese lechonk and an english fuecoco, do the parents of the eggs need to be from regions that speak different languages other than from english? if so do you have a code for where i can potentially find someone trading a fuecoco from a different region and language? thanks!
So they need to both be different languages from what you selected? So if my game is in english I cant just take a japanese ditto and catch something in my game to breed and that would give me the masuda method. I would have to trade for a french pokemon to breed with that japanese ditto in my english game to have masuda method work?
So get the egg boost… get Foreign Ditto… have the only two you want… get eggs… flame body… hatch them… got it… I have two questions though. 1. Do I NEED the shiny charm or is it optional? 2. Who should I hunt for that first? Rock/Poison or Pure Water pokemon? (Said this instead to avoid spoilers for others)
Hi. Thank you for the short article, but could you just clarify the below? This is my first time actually trying to shiny hunt and finally have the shiny charm. Do I have to have 2 completely different language pokemon other than my main language being English, so say Japanese and German etc? Or can I use English x pokemon with my German ditto? And do I have to put away Moriadon? Thank you.
Oh~! so both pokemon have to be from separate irl regions from eachother and the default of the game for the Medusa method. I’ve been trying with a Japanese Gardevoir and and Ditto I just caught. Breeding without a hint of luck while MHA plays in the background and irony of Dabi’s origin story hitting differently.
Hey new shiny hunter here, had a question. For this masuda method do both the parent pokemon need to be from languages different from MY game? For example I have been trying to hatch a shiny Noibat for days now with no luck. I have a Noibat from MY game and a foreign ditto I traded for. Does the Noibat also need to be from a different language than my game? Or am I just incredibly unlucky so far?
Couple of questions, If I have a German Ditto and my own pokemon I’ve caught is that still a masuda, or do I need 2 different regions. I’m in Australia. Also follow up do eggs have predetermined results. As in can I just get 5 eggs save, hatch them them then just reset to roll shiny on them again or do I need to hatch like 50 Fuecoco.
Hey, I’m new to shiny breeding and I was wondering a few things. Does only the language of the Ditto matter ? Or the console/game region as well ? To clarify, I’m French, but play with the game in English on an French Console set in English and with a French Eshop (I got the game on the Eshop). So would the Ditto need to come from a game set in any other language than English ? Or from somewhere else than France ? And would the Sandwich Sparkling Power give more odds of hatching a shiny pokemon ? Or is it just about encountering shinies in the wild. Much thanks to anyone reading and even more for anyone answering ~
I’m trying to get a shiny Sprigatito. So basically all I have to do is have a foreign ditto and a foreign Sprigatito and use those 2 for breeding? that’s called the masuda method? do I have to level up and make that foreign sprig evolve into it’s 2nd form in order to breed with my foreign ditto or just a sprig will do?
Thank you so much for this guide! I’m actively using the Masuda Method to try and get a shiny fidough to evolve into dachsbun and name after my first ever best friend, a dachshund named Ralph (who looked a lot like dachsbun in his prime mind you, longhaired, with light brown fur, darker brown on his back and ears, and lighter still on his chest and belly). The ditto trading method is super helpful and it’s good to know the chance without even a shiny charm is still more than 1 in 1000 as long as you have a foreign ditto! Here’s to hoping I get success! Also, a tip for everyone–you can look up egg recipes and make them yourself even before you unlock the recipe in game by making a custom sandwich during a picnic, and you’ll unlock the recipe afterward. I did this with the ultra sweet sandwich which has level 2 egg power, but I think you need 5 badges to get some of the ingredients. The sweet sandwich can be easily made from the start of the game and only requires strawberries and jam I believe, it’s one of the first recipes you also get.
People say to turn off auto save, then do a hard save, then put up a picnic to egg the eggs, then hatch them. But would it be fine to save after the eggs have already been added to the boxes just so that I can reset the game if I don’t hatch any shinies so that I don’t have to wait another 30 mins to collect eggs?
I have been using the Masuda Method and Shiny Charm to try and hatch a Shiny Rockruff with Own Tempo for nearly a week and I have got nothing. I must have bred around 600 to 700 Rockruffs, was able to breed Rockruffs with Perfect IVs in all stats, but still no Shiny. I’m using a Ditto, too, from another country with 4 Perfect IVs. I know it takes patience for this, but I’m starting to lose it. Maybe I should try breeding another Shiny Pokemon that I want.
So with this method am i able to save before the picnic and laying the eggs, hatch all of the ones i collected and if there isn’t a shiny then soft reset my game and “re-lay/pick up” all the eggs and repeat? bc i know when you pick up the eggs they are locked if they’re shiny or not but not before right?
Hey! Beacon of Nick Random question here m8! Ive been shiny hunting Larvitar on Violet through the matsuda method! Im at 420 eggs now and Ive been breeding a Japanese ditto with an ENG Larvitar ( im assuming its from england) My scorbunny took 256 eggs to hatch a shiny, im not finding the shiny Larvitar through breeding as of yet! My question is do you think there is an issue when breeding an England pokemon with Japan pokemon? Maybe its causing it to not be shiny on hatches?
So, is it confirmed that you can fill a box or two with eggs, save, hatch all the eggs, and then reset the game (if no shinies are found) to rehatch the eggs with a different outcome? Does the shiny roll happen when the egg is laid or when hatched? I don’t want to waste time resetting the game if the eggs accumulated will have same outcome.
Something I want to throw into the mix that might have been left out in editing: The Pokémon you are trying to teach the egg move to NEEDS TO BE HOLDING the “MIRROR HERB” which can be bought in Cascarrafa. (You can see the azumarill holding it in the article). Thanks Austin for the articles, you’ve been cranking these out at an incredible pace, and the shiny rng seems to be favoring you for it!
Haven’t been into breeding since X and Y so this is very helpful. I especially appreciate the way you articulate yourself a very thorough and very to the point without getting overly complex. So far, this specific article has been the best article I have seen that explains the full run down of the mechanics
I know austin will probably not see this, but I wanted to let people know. If you are playing multiplayer via the Union circle, and you have a picnic with everyone joins, the game will try to breed everyone’s pokemon that are brought out for the picnic that are compatible. (The host’s team of 6, and all the additional players’ first pokemon in the party.) A friend and I found just this out while playing. They had an arcanine (i assume male) and I had a female eevee as my first pokemon, and they got 6 eggs that turned out to be eevees. (They had not caught an eevee before this) I know austin may not see this but I want to spread this info/glitch (unsure if intended) around since I have not seen anyone make mention of it before.
As a person who enjoys breeding in Pokémon games for all reasons: shinies, IVs, dex completion, etc. I really enjoy articles that explain the rules and nuances of breeding in these games. Especially in as much clear and concise detail as you do. I watch all your articles and really enjoy your content for all games. Please, keep up the amazing work! Much Love and Prayers 💚🙏
Heya folks, if it isn’t mentioned in the comments with more likes elsewhere, quick comment about regional forms at 14:05. I did some experiments with the fixed given galarian meowth, turns out you CAN breed a new nature onto it, if you so desire. Simply have its breeding partner have the nature you want then have BOTH mons hold Everstones. The result is a 50% shot at the nature sticking to the regional mon! Great if you wanna do the whole shebang for a competitive viable mon, then breed for a shiny. My method was female g.meowth + Zoroark for night slash, then female g.meowth and male k.meowth (who had Adamant). Both times mom had everstone and k.meowth also had everstone during the second run. The second batch ended up with 3-2 split of children with Adamant and the g.mama’s nature. So as long as egg groups work, it is totally viable! Hope this helps someone, g’luck out there folks.
Not sure if this is common knowledge or if it’s been mentioned but I haven’t heard it mentioned yet. I found this out just having started my 1st masuda method attempt. You don’t have to keep checking the basket every 20-60 seconds to get an egg like you used to have to with the day care people. You can leave your game on, walk away for 10 minutes and come back and there will be 4/5/6/more eggs in the basket you can claim at once.
Possible Spoilers Ahead If you’re at the point where you can fly to the Zero Gate, the area in front of the door is perfect for hatching eggs. You just hold left or right and dash, and the camera follows you so you don’t need to manually rotate it. And you can set up a picnic there for your Egg sandwiches!
First off, THANK YOU for this awesome article explaining all of this! I finally understand all of the breeding mechanics in Pokemon. Now, I’d like to share what I’ve come up with as my go-to breeding method in ScVi that handles some of the issues, like dealing with the lack of mass release. First, acquire a 6 IV foreign Ditto. Obviously. Give it a Destiny Knot. Next, acquire the target Pokemon that you want to breed. In this example, let’s use one of the 7 star raid event Pokemon, Charizard. This makes it somewhat easier as it starts out at 6 IV. Now, this method assumes you are playing on a docked Switch, and not a Switch Lite. Make sure under System Settings -> TV Settings, that “Screen Burn-In Reduction” is enabled. This will dim the screen after 5 minutes of inactivity. This part is critical. Pick a good location to picnic and hatch. I like using the Segin Squad (dark crew) base, just South of Cascarrafa. There’s a nice loop path that’s easy to circle when hatching, and you can picnic almost anywhere on the path, save for where some of the squad may be nearby. Plus, no random encounters, and no chance of any sparkling item spawns that can intermingle with gathering eggs. Now, have a picnic with your 6 IV foreign Ditto and your target Pokemon. Make a Great Peanut Butter sandwich. Plant yourself in front of the basket, set the controller down, and proceed to watch YT. In 5 minutes, the screen will dim. This is your cue to pick up the controller and gather your eggs. 9 times out of 10, I always get 10 eggs doing this.
My favorite thing Austin does is teach as if you’ve never done this before while avoiding a condescending tone AND reiterating information that might otherwise go unnoticed. For example, mentioning that the female of the egg group is the species of Pokémon you’d get and breaking down item combinations between destiny knot and everstone make this article exceptionally thorough and well done.
Just wanted to give a correction to what Austin John says about passing down egg moves at 18:43. If you give your pokemon a move this way it WILL pass down to its offspring. I was breeding Azurill using an Azumarill that got Belly Drum from Hariyama, and a ditto. And all of my Azurill were bred with Belly Drum. Thank you for the guide Austin!
6:40 It is worth mentioning that I like to turn off learn moves when I’m hatching eggs, because if you have a 4 freshly hatched lvl 1 mons in your team and you end up battling something, it avoids having to click through the questions about whether you want them to learn the move or not when they all level up to 12 after one battle.
I can’t wait to start competitively building teams, and playing online. Gonna shine like I’m terastallized, get my EVs up and IVs maximized. Can’t wait for next VGC. I’ve never been more excited to get back into it ya see? So many options to choose for Terastallizing, Fairy, Ghost, Fire, with Skeledirge on board he’ll end ya, gonna need to setup some ofrendas. I may have just beaten Ryme and she was a HOOT.
One MAJOR correction and a two minor things: Egg moves from Mirror Herbs do in fact breed down. They can also be relearned. I have done this many times. 18:43 Naive is not a neutral nature. 12:31 After being so histrionic about egg move simplicity, you neglected to mention that holding a Mirror Herb is a necessary step at 18:33. You briefly reference it later in the article, but this will likely confuse newcomers. Also, as someone who hatches a lot of eggs, something incredibly important to mention is how quickly parents produce them based on their fondness toward each other. Two Pokémon of the same species from different OTs would be the fastest, and two different-species Pokémon from the same OT would be the slowest. The “Masuda Ditto” is right in the middle, and is a great catch-all—so to speak—if you’re not planning on spending days hunting for a shiny due to bum luck.
For the people who didn’t get to participate in Charizards event and want a Charmander. I’m shiny breeding ATM for him. So if you don’t want to rush through the game, or didn’t get to compleate the event and can’t wait for next event or Pokemon home, hit me up for your fav gen 1 starter. (Or if you just want to add to your collection.)
Correction to the information at 14:38, that you have to use a mint for the offspring: If the regional form doesn’t have the nature that you want for your egg, but a another of your Mons of that Egg Group does, you can still breed that down and also the regional form. You give BOTH parents an Everstone and the game will gamble between it’s parents natures for the offspring, but it will still become the regional form (ofc providing, that the mother was the regional mon or the mother was a Ditto and the father had the regional form) After breeding down the nature and the regional form, you can use the new made Pokémon (Regional form + correct nature) to replace the regional form parent, and give it an everstone to it. Potentially swap the other parent aswell, for example for a Ditto or whatever Father with close to perfect iv you can provide from that egg group and give that Pokémon the Destiny Knot. Happy Breeding <3
Thanks for the great guide, AJP! Looks like besides the picnics it’s pretty similar to SwSh 🙂 One cosmetical thing I’d like to add is the Pokeball the hatched Pokemon are in. If I remember correctly, the Pokeball of the female is passed town. So if you want a Pokemon in a certain ball, first catch a female of that species in that ball.
Destiny Knot and Power items no longer guarantee passing down the traits. there appears to be around a 20% chance for a power item to pass down a random stat instead of the parents’. (Not sure if destiny knot is around 20% or what it is but i can confirm at least it no longer guarantees 5 stats from parents 100% of the time
I’m not sure if I encountered a major glitch or if it’s a part of the game now but… ability patch effects breeding now. I bred a spriggatito and quaxly for a friend, my final form of the grass starter I used the ability patch I found to give it protean. Well the first spriggatito I hatched I just discovered has protean instead of overgrow
One thing that was forgotten in this article concerns passing down IVs. You can speed up the process of securing a parent with more than one IV at Best by using the Power Items. These items, when equipped to one of the pair of breeding Pokemon, will guarantee that the corresponding stat gets passed down to the offspring. Using Austin’s example of Ditto and Sprigatito, if we wanted to pass down Ditto’s 31 in Atk, we would have Ditto hold the Power Bracer while Sprigatito holds the Destiny Knot. The game will still roll five IVs at random for the offspring, but the Power Bracer ensures that the Ditto’s 31 in Atk will be chosen among those five. Since the offspring is now guaranteed to hatch with a 31 in Atk, you can then move on to the next stat until you eventually reach a point where the only RNG that remains is getting an egg that ignores the one stat that you don’t need and rolls it at random. With Sprigatito, who will typically become a Physical Attacker, you would want Special Attack to be ignored by the Destiny Knot, and then whatever it rolls at random won’t concern you.
Thanks for the article, it helped me a lot. Quick question though, my understanding from the article is that breeding for perfect IVs is no longer necessary? So if I want a shiny Kingambit with high IVs I’d better off just shiny hunting in the wild and then using bottlecaps to fix the IVs, is that right?
Egg times are not random, egg power 1 is 1 egg every 60 seconds, for a total possible count of 30 eggs per sandwich, egg power 2 is 1 egg every 30 seconds for a maximum possible of 60 eggs per sandwich, egg power 3 is 1 egg every 20 seconds for a maximum of 90 eggs per sandwich. Assuming you check exactly when the basket is full every time to get 6 boxes of eggs it would take 3hrs with lvl 1, an hour and a half with egg power 2 and only 1 hour with egg power 3
We were doing a union circle and my friend found a shiny voltorb and I was like, wow that’s cool, and then it transformed into a shiny ditto, and we all were screaming, and then one of my other friends was begging my friend if he could catch it, so my friend agreed, and then when he left the battle the shiny ditto disappeared, and I was laughing at how dumb he was for running 😂
I dont know if someone is going to see this coment and knows the answer, but do you know if you do a picnic with egg power, gets about 50 eggs, save, hatch those eggs, no shiny and soft reset, after that soft reset the eggs would be different so you can be able to get a shiny pokemon without doing and waiting another 30 mins for eggs in the picnic. Thanks!!
So i played pokemon mostly as a kid and at some point knew about IVs and such but never really cared to min max. I was curious did they do away with “training” the IVs. I thought at one point you had to fight specific types of pokemon to train specific stats but I may be wrong. Also how potent are the nature buffs/nerfs percentage wise?
I’ve tried everything and my ditto refuses to produce any eggs. I’ve tried things people suggest online like the non ditto pokemon holding an ever stone, having koraidon stowed away, specific times of the day etc, along with egg power 2 and I’ve not gotten a single egg in several hours of attempting breeding. Something is very wrong with this game. I miss daycare breeding already.
I tried breeding this game to see how it worked, mainly because I wanted to try to get a Shiny Sprigatito, Got a Foreign ditto, gathered 3 boxes worth of eggs, and I kid you not, the first egg gave me the Shiny Purple eyed kitty. Im both happy about it and sad. Cuz now I have to hatch 3 boxes worth of eggs
Hello Austin. Was wondering if you knew about egg power 3, shiny boost for that type, and forgot the 3rd. Lol. Like red pepper with one salt and one sweet herb gives fire level 3 shiny boost and egg boost 3. Letters with same herbs is grass level 3 with eggs 3. Cucumber will be water boost 3 with eggs level 3 and so on. Love all your articles and I screen sht the charts you post to help me later on when I need them.
Saw from another YouTube article that if you have an egg with a shiny Pokémon in it and you go to look at your “shiny Pokémon battled” portion of your profile it should go up without having to actually hatch that egg so you can just check all your boxes without wasting time hatching each one. Can anybody confirm this?
Hey man i do have a question. So i try to hatch shiny sprigatito since 1 week ( 3 full egg Boxes a day cuz of work) but still nothing. Both parents from other region but what about game crashing? my game crashed 2 freaking times and idk if i have to start all over again or if that doesnt matter. I got my shiny water starter very quickly but this bad boy wont come out lol…
I’m the champion and went through the crater and rolled through the credits. Why hasn’t the poke center let me check IVs? Im at the point where I talked to the director and initiated the second phase of beating the gyms. Do I really have to go through all 8 gym battles again to use this or is my game broken
EDIT I was just having bad luck its working now —————————————- can this be done without egg powers? and how long should it take for an egg too show up? I have a espeon with different OT and a ditto I caught myself just trying to get more eevee but ive been sat here in game for like 5 minutes and no egg yet. apparently its only supposed to take a minute or so :” ) I miss daycares lmao
Keep in mind that any pokemon that learns egg moves by using mirror herb will not be able to “remember” those moves from the move relearner. The best thing to do is to use the mirror herb to teach the egg moves and then breed the new pokemon with a ditto so that it saves those moves as learned moves.
Oh hey! Great article! I didn’t know if I missed it, or anyone else had already said it, it is about the PokeBall the new baby pokemon is gonna be in. (It is a 50/50 or follows the non ditto, except for certain balls such as masterballs). And also, some pokemon requires special items to hold for breeding (eg Rock Incense for Sudowoodo to breed Bonsly – not too sure for ScVi if it is still applicable). Oh, and also about abilities. Pokemon with dual abilities will have 80percent of inheriting mum’s/non ditto’s ability, and hidden ability can only be passed down (60percent) from hidden ability mum/non ditto. Heehee and can we petition to have an increase rate of shinies when both same species parents are both shinies? (Makes more sense if we talk about biology and math)
So I’ve recently gotten into breeding and have researched for weeks on just about everything lol you’re article had helped me out quite a bit understanding how it all works. I am now breeding 6iv stat pokemon with ease, and I am loving it!! Thank you so much for your help and sharing your knowledge. If I could I’d like to share something I’ve learned through my experience. I’ve tested this with a few different species, but it seems that at Egg Power lvl.2 your basket will be full every 5 minutes exactly. Don’t check it early at like 4:30 or you’ll only get around seven. I’ve tested this at different set timers to see which produces more eggs, and in my experience I would suggest waiting the entire 5 minutes until emptying your basket and you should receive 60 eggs per sandwich. This is the conclusion I’ve come up with in my experience, I don’t know if it’s been different for anyone else or not, but I hope it helps. Quick Update So not 100% sure what just happened🤔🤔 but I’m in the middle of breeding so I ran another test just to check and make sure. Same set up; EP lvl.2 sandwiches, check basket every 5 minutes. Even counted every egg when I checked, 60 eggs. Did this twice, should be 120 eggs right? checked my boxes and had 152 eggs, sooo..??🤨🤨
Hello Austin! I have a question, maybe you or somebody else can help me with…. I’m breeding my team with ditto to get them to max IVs over the day but now after like eight or nine cyrcles of making a sandwich with egg power 2 and hatching the eggs to making new ones, nothing happens anymore! I’m not getting new eggs, not a single one so far even though I did everything the same as before! Is there an egg limit per day? Or is it something else?
i actually have an interesting question. i have ADHD and after 4 days, i’m getting burnt out of hatching sprigatitos with no luck and want to focus on breeding the rest of my team (not for shinies, just better nature and IVs) and come back to sprigatito if the shiny rate is 1/600 something, and i decide to breed other pokémon, after hatching an insane amount of a different pokémon with no luck, does that increase shiny odds overall? like is it incredibly likely if i swap to breed other pokémon, i might hatch a shiny of the others? since i haven’t hatched any yet (i’ll probably stick with hatching the cat anyway but im so tired lol)
Maybe some one should look into this 🤔 on my pokemon violet I bred two Hawlucha male and female male lv 60 female level 40 I’m hatching my eggs all off a sudden I get a pichu I think to myself that’s strange another egg another pichu have I done something wrong? My third egg was a Hawlucha tho but strange on the 1st two eggs I know this is so jumbled up now but hatching more eggs and my ratio was 10 pichu to 1 Hawlucha wtf?
Just so everyone knows, the math on destiny knot IVs works different than the way he’s explaining it. The game doesn’t choose 5 out of 12 IVs, it picks 5 stats and then you have a 50/50 chance to get either parent’s IV. If the game chose 5 out of 12, it could pick two special attack stats for example which wouldn’t make sense. So it is very beneficial to have two parents that share perfect IVs, but ALSO make up for each other’s imperfect stats.
Hello, thanks for all the tutorials on youtube! they are really useful! I have a question for you: I would like to teach azumaril perishsong, looking at serebii’s site I can do it with wigglytuff (or its evolutionary line). But wigglytuff can only learn this move by breeding with azumarill’s evolutionary line or its own. Since neither of the 2 species can learn perish song by leveling up, how can I do? Thanks in advance and keep up your phenomenal articles 😊.
Okay so something isn’t adding up here. Got a perfect IV Goodra from my first six-star raid. (Luck goes both ways, I know.) Playing on an English-language account. Also have a Japanese Ditto with three “Best” IVs, two “Decent” IVs, and one “Pretty good” IV. Was trying to breed it down via Masuda to try to get a shiny Goomy with excellent IVs, so I handed a Destiny Knot to the Goodra. I just had a Goomy hatch that had FOUR “Decent” IVs, and two “Best”. This doesn’t add up! Destiny Knot’s supposed to make five random IVs from the parents pass down, yes? So, at WORST, it’d be the Ditto’s stats, but with that “Pretty good” replaced with simply a “No good”, or perhaps a THIRD “Decent”. Where did the fourth “Decent” IV come from? Am I not understanding the Destiny Knot correctly? Is it only a 50% chance or something, like the Everstone? EDIT: Oh, no, the game just conveniently took the Destiny Knot OFF the Goodra, that’s all. She definitely had it before…
Hi Austin! Love your vids, they’re always very helpful. I’m having some AWFUL luck hatching a shiny Quaxly- I’ve got a Chinese ditto and everything, and 1500 eggs later: nothing. What I did find out after getting bored is how to get more eggs per yield. Using the ditto I was averaging 60 eggs per 2 egg power, same as you. Recently I’ve been breeding a French Quaxly with my English Quaxly, and I’ve gotten an average of 90. This is probably intuitive, but it seems the egg yield is higher the more comparable your breeding groups are
Hey, guys! didn’t you know that in terms of Male Pokemon♂️ and Female Pokemon♀️ breeding? Well, then. let me tell you. For Example: a Male Charizard♂️ breeds a Female Sylveon♀️ and they wanna make another Eevee. if it’s a boy♂️ or if it’s a girl♀️ he♂️ or she♀️ will evolve into another strong Flareon.
I haven’t played pokemon in over 15 years and feel completely overwhelmed. Where do you I look to find the egg type thingy with IVs and what’s the point of breeding? Can I breed different species? How I know which breed would hatch from the egg if I breed 2 different species? I am so confused and feel so dumb 😵💫😵💫😵💫
So basically I can’t get a shiny starter through breeding unless I either buy a second copy of the game and a second console to give myself a ditto from another language, search to the ends of the internet for someone who speaks ANOTHER LANGUAGE and NOT ENGLISH, literally the most common language on the entire planet.. AND one who has a ditto they’re willing to trade, use Google translate to attempt to trade with them. Or get extremely lucky. As in 4000 in 1 chance lucky. Bro legit, Arceus was an infinitely better game with NO breeding
I have been trying to hatch a Shiny Rockruff with Own Tempo using the Masuda Method and Shiny Charm for 4-5 days now and I must’ve filled about 20-30 boxes worth of Rockruffs, but still I have not gotten a Shiny Rockruff. Am I doing something wrong or does it just take patience? If it’s the latter, I’m starting to lose it. I managed to hatch 4-6 Rockruffs with perfect IV’s in all its stats, one of them I’m using to breed with a Ditto with perfect IV’s in 4 of its stats and is from another country. What’s funny, though, is that in Pokemon Sword, I didn’t have a Ditto from another country or the Shiny Charm and I hatched a Shiny Lilipup when I wasn’t even trying to hatch one.
I’m trying to breed down a Grimmsnarl right now and no matter how many eggs I hatch the HP NEVER hits above or below decent. Idk if I’m doing something wrong or my luck is that trash. I even put a power weight on him and it changes nothing 🥲 Edit: took the power weight off and don’t know if it’s coincidental or not, but the values have skyrocketed LMAOOO