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Pokmon breeding guide

Since the second generation of Pokmon games, Pokmon have been able to reproduce to create new Pokmon. Pokmon can learn new moves through breeding, and
furthermore some Pokmon are only obtainable with this method.
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The basics

Egg groups

Breeding occurs at the Pokmon Daycare. If two compatible Pokmon are left with the daycare lady, they will
produce an egg. (The games are purposefully vague about how this happens.) Pokmon are compatible for
breeding if:

Each Pokmon is assigned to one or more egg groups,

and only Pokmon in the same egg groups may breed.

They are not legendary Pokmon, baby Pokmon, Unown, Nidorina or Nidoqueen.
They are of opposite genders.
They are in the same egg group (see right).

Name

Pokmon

Amorphous

54

Bug

70

A Pokmon meeting the first criteria can also breed with Ditto. Genderless Pokmon can only
breed with Ditto.

Dragon

45

Fairy

47

Once you take the egg and walk around with it for a while, it will hatch into a level 1 Pokmon (or level 5 in
Generations 2-3). The Pokmon that hatches will be the same species as the female, but at the bottom of the
evolutionary chain. For example, breeding a female Blastoise with a compatible Pokmon would generate a Squirtle
egg. In the case of Ditto, the Pokmon egg will always be the non-Ditto Pokmon - so if you breed Ditto with a
male Charizard, the egg would be a Charmander.

Field

202

Exceptions

Flying

50

Grass

59

Human-Like

52

Mineral

55

Monster

75

Water 1

87

The same goes for male-female counterparts, Illumise (female) and Volbeat (male) - breeding Illumise will give you
either an Illumise or Volbeat egg. Note that in both these cases breeding the male variant with Ditto will always
give you the male variant, never the female.

Water 2

23

Water 3

29

Some Pokmon also produce variable eggs, based on the item held by the parent. When a particular Incense is
held, the offspring will be a baby Pokmon, otherwise it will be the next stage up in the evolutionary line. For
example, breeding a female Roserade will produce a Roselia egg, but if the Roserade is holding a Rose Incense, it
will produce a Budew egg. See below for the baby Pokmon and items.

Undiscovered

Breeding a Nidoran (the female variant) with any compatible Pokmon (say, a Golduck) can produce either
Nidoran or Nidoran (the male variant), even though they are technically different evolutionary lines.

Ditto

1
82

Examples

The Pokmon Manaphy and Phione are listed in the Water 1 and Fairy egg groups, however they cannot breed
with others in that group, only with Ditto. For each of them the result is a Phione egg (but Phione does not evolve
into Manaphy).

Here are some examples to make things clearer!

Passing down moves

If we have a female Raichu and we want to get a new

one, we can breed it to get Pichu. First we need to find a
compatible Pokmon. A Pikachu/Raichu of the
opposite gender will always work, otherwise we need
to look for other Pokmon in the same egg group.

The main purpose of breeding is usually to obtain a Pokmon that knows certain moves. If the male Pokmon
knows moves that the baby Pokmon is capable of learning, it will know them when it hatches from the egg. This is
a good way to reuse TMs that you taught a Pokmon and cannot re-obtain in another way like buying.
The baby will know any move that it learns at level 1. If both parents know a move that the child would learn by
level up, the child will also know it upon hatching.
Furthermore, there are some moves Pokmon can only learn by breeding - these are called egg
moves, and are listed in our Pokdex alongside the other moves. In most cases, a Pokmon in the
same egg group learns the move by level up and can pass it on by breeding, but sometimes you
need to chain breed from one Pokmon to another to another.
If there are too many candidate moves that the baby can learn, they follow this precedent, with each new move
overwriting previous ones:
1. Level 1 moves.
2. Moves that the child learns by level up, if both parents have them.

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1. Basic breeding

Raichu is in Fairy and Ground egg groups, so we have

plenty of Pokmon to choose from! For example a male
Shinx, Bidoof, Umbreon or Granbull or over 130 other
Pokmon will do the job just fine.

2. Breeding with Ditto

We can breed a male Primeape with Ditto. The baby
will be a Mankey. If we bred the Primeape with a
female Pokmon then the baby would be that species,
not Mankey.
A Pokmon such as Magneton must breed with Ditto to

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2. Moves that the child learns by level up, if both parents have them.
3. Any compatible TMs, HMs and move tutor moves known by the father.
4. Any egg moves known by the father.

get Magnemite, because it is genderless.

3. Charizard with Dig & Iron Tail

Passing down IV stats

From Generation 3 (Ruby/Sapphire) onward, Pokmon offspring will also inherit some of the Invidiual Values from
the parents. (IVs are hidden values that improve your final stats.)
The baby will inherit three stats from either parent. So if you were breeding a male Infernape and female
Ninetales, the resulting Vulpix could inherit the HP and Defense IVs from Infernape and the Speed IV from
Ninetails.
The IVs chosen are random and in the case of the same one being selected twice, the former would be overwritten
with the latter. For example, if the game chose Ninetails' HP and Attack, then Infernape's Attack, then the baby
would only inherit two IVs - the HP from Ninetails and Attack from Infernape.
In HeartGold/SoulSilver, a new mechanic was added to control this. If either parent is holding one of the EV-training
'power' items then the child will inherit the corresponding IV. The other two stats are then chosen at random as
normal. The power items are:

Charizard, like many other Pokmon, can learn the

move Dig via TM28. But if you already used the TM
then you may be able to breed it onto a Charmander.
Let's assume you taught TM28 to a male Aggron (who
has also learnt Iron Tail by level up) and we also have a
female Charmeleon. Charmeleon and Aggron are both
in the Monster group so they can breed.
When we breed these two Pokmon, the resulting
Charmander will know Dig and Iron Tail, since it can
learn both those moves by TM (even though Iron Tail
was not actually taught by TM). Depending on what
other moves the parents know these two moves may
overwrite other basic moves like Growl or Scratch.

4. Drapion with Night Slash

Power Weight (HP)

Power Bracer (Attack)

Drapion has a cool ability, Sniper, which does 3x

damage under critical hits instead of the usual 2x. So it
will be quite handy to have the move Night Slash since
it has a high critical-hit ratio.

Power Belt (Defense)

Power Lens (Sp. Attack)
Power Band (Sp. Defense)
Power Anklet (Speed)
So holding the Power Belt means the baby will inherit the Pokmon's Defense IV. If both parents hold a power
item then one of the two stats is chosen at random.

Baby Pokmon
Some Pokmon may only be obtained by breeding - these are known as baby Pokmon. Many baby Pokmon can
be obtained in the wild in later games. Several baby Pokmon also require an item to be held by the parent.

Skorupi/Drapion learn Night Slash through breeding.

There is no TM for it, so we will need to breed with a
compatible Pokmon that knows the move. Drapion is
in the Bug and Water 3 egg groups, so we look there for
any Pokmon that can learn Night Slash.
It turns out that Scyther among others learns it at level
45. (Yanmega and Heracross can get it from the Move
Relearner, which may be easier.)
So now we just breed a male Scyther knowing the
move, with a female Drapion to get a Skorupi that
knows Night Slash!

5. Using Smeargle
#172

#173

#174

#175

#236

#238

Pichu

Cleffa

Igglybuff

Togepi

Tyrogue

Smoochum

#239

#240

#298

#360

#406

#433

Elekid

Magby

Azurill

Wynaut

Budew

Chingling

Sea Incense

Lax Incense

Rose Incense

Pure Incense

#438

#439

#440

#446

#447

#458

Bonsly

Mime Jr.

Happiny

Munchlax

Riolu

Mantyke

Rock Incense

Odd Incense

Luck Incense

Full Incense

Wave Incense

Egg group connections

The chart below shows how each of the egg groups are interconnected. It will give you an idea of how easy it will
be for your Pokmon to learn a move from another Pokmon (e.g. a TM you taught and can't get again).
So, for example if you had a Blissey (Fairy egg group) with a move you wanted to breed onto a Gardevoir
(Indeterminate egg group), you would find a Pokmon that straddles both groups and chain-breed. In this case you
would need to breed onto Castform, then onto Gardevoir, assuming all three Pokmon can learn the move.

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In example 3 we taught Dig to a male

Aggron. If we had taught it to a
female Aggron there would normally
be no way to pass the move down
through breeding. Enter our good
friend, Smeargle.
Smeargle is unique in that it only learns one move
directly - Sketch - which permanently copies the
previous move used in battle. With a male Smeargle we
can copy Dig from our Aggron, then breed Smeargle
with a female Pokmon to pass the move down.
You can copy any move from any Pokmon (e.g. wild
Pokmon), but for more reliable results, you will want
to enter a double battle with Smeargle and your own
Pokmon with the move you want to copy. There are
plenty of double battle trainers around the game, you
can use the Vs. Seeker to call for a rematch. Then
simply use Sketch on your companion and voila! You
will have your move ready to breed onto any Pokmon.
Smeargle is in the Ground egg group, so it can breed
with a large number of Pokmon. This also means all
Pokmon in the Ground group can learn egg moves
without chain breeding (see below).

6. Chain breeding
This can get quite complex, but we'll provide a
straightforward example. Sometimes a Pokmon can
learn an egg move, but there are no compatible

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learn an egg move, but there are no compatible
Pokmon that get it easily. This is the case with
Umbreon and Wish - Umbreon can learn Wish through
breeding, but no compatible Pokmon learn it by level
up.
Umbreon is in the Ground egg group, so we look there.
The other Eevee-lutions can learn Wish via breeding
(which doesn't help us much), but so too can the
Pikachu/Raichu line. Since they straddle two egg
groups we can now look in the Fairy group for
compatible Pokmon, where we find Togetic, learning
Wish at level 28.

Don't forget the colors; You can chain from Indeterminate to Water 3 using Water 1 as a bridge.

This means we can chain breed Wish from Togetic to

Pikachu, then from Pikachu to Umbreon. Here is the
process:
1. Find a male Togetic (or Togepi) and train it to level
28 where it learns Wish.
2. Breed Togetic with a female Pikachu/Raichu to
obtain a baby Pichu that knows Wish.
3. We need a male Pichu to pass the move to
Umbreon, so now we'd keep breeding until we
have a male Pichu. It's 50/50 so should only take a
few eggs to get one.
4. Pichu can't breed, so we need to level up a bit and
keep it happy so that it evolves into Pikachu.
5. Breed our male Wish Pikachu with a female
Umbreon to get an Eevee knowing Wish.
6. Now we need to level up and evolve into Umbreon.
Of course, we could evolve Eevee into any of the
evolutions (Glaceon, Leafeon, etc) if we changed
our mind.
Whew! We finally got there! This can be a long process
but if you want the perfect moveset, sometimes it's the
only way. Note: we did neglect Smeargle in this
example. If you have one then you could sketch Wish
from Togetic and breed straight onto Umbreon; It cuts
out the hassle of breeding and evolving Pichu but it's
still the same number of Pokmon.

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