Breeding guide by Taco

So… you want to get a competitive team. But you don’t have 300K to spare? Well I, your delicious savior, am here with my amazing guide of awesomeness to your answer! BREEDING.

 

Introduction:
Okay, let’s start at the beginning. Every Pokémon spawns with 6 random generated stats called IVs. And what are those you ask? Well IV stands for Individual Value. Each stat can range from 0 to 31. 0 being the minimum and 31 being the maximum. This stat influences the final statistic with some difficult calculation I don’t know.
Each egg has 2 parents, who together have a total of 12 different IV stats. When breeding, the parents pass down 3 IV stats down to their offspring, the other 3 being random generated.

Example:

Charmander 1
Nature: Jolly	Gender: Male	Held Item: None
HP	Attack	Defense	Special Attack	Special Defense	Speed
15	6	28	13	18	14

 

 

Charmander 2
Nature: Serious	Gender: Female	Held Item: None
HP	Attack	Defense	Special Attack	Special Defense	Speed
18	30	6	11	4	6

 

If these 2 Charmander would breed, their offspring could result in the following:

 

Charmander 3
Nature: Impish	Gender: Male	Held Item: None
HP	Attack	Defense	Special Attack	Special Defense	Speed
15	15	28	11	16	3

 

As you can see, combined together the parents passed down 3 of their own IVs to their offspring.

Besides IVs, a Pokémon has EVs, and EV stands for Effort Value. Each Pokémon spawns or hatches with 0 EVs and these go up as the Pokémon defeats other Pokémon.
Conclusion: these have nothing to do with breeding.

Finally, every Pokémon species has 1 or 2 egg groups. For 2 Pokémon to be able to breed, they need to share at least 1 egg group.

 

Held items:
Now that we have done the introduction, we can start talking about items that influence breeding in some possible way.

First off, there are the incenses. These are held items that can result in the egg containing a baby Pokémon if the mother pokemon (The base/final form) is holding the correct incense.

Example:
If a female Snorlax breeds whilst holding a Full incense, the resulting egg will contain a Munchlax. If the mother Snorlax has any other held item, the resulting egg will contain a Snorlax.

The incenses and their matching Pokémon are as followed:

 

Base/final Pokémon form	Type of Incense	Resulting Baby Pokémon
Chansey/Blissey	Luck incense	Happiny
Chimecho	Pure incense	Chingling
Mantine	Wave incense	Mantyke
Marill/Azumarill	Sea incense	Azurill
Mr. Mime	Odd incense	Mime Jr.
Roselia/Roserade	Rose incense	Budew
Snorlax	Full incense	Munchlax
Sudowoodo	Rock incense	Bonsly
Wobbuffet	Lax incense	Wynaut

 

Next up are the Power Items. These are held items that, when carried during breeding, pass down a specific IV of the parent that carries said item. The following Power Items exist with their respective IV.

 

Power Item	Matching IV Stat
Power Weight	HP
Power Bracer	Attack
Power Belt	Defense
Power Lens	Special Attack
Power Band	Special Defense
Power Anklet	Speed

 

Example:
Take the following 2 Charmander.

 

Charmander X
Nature: Jolly	Gender: Male	Held Item: Power Weight
HP	Attack	Defense	Special Attack	Special Defense	Speed
31	6	28	13	18	14

 

 

Charmander Y
Nature: Serious	Gender: Female	Held Item: Power Anklet
HP	Attack	Defense	Special Attack	Special Defense	Speed
18	30	6	11	4	31

 

If these 2 Charmander would breed, the male Charmander will pass down its HP IV and the female Charmander will pass down its speed IV, resulting in the following child:

 

Charmander Z
Nature: ???	Gender: ???	Held Item: None
HP	Attack	Defense	Special Attack	Special Defense	Speed
31	???	???	???	???	31

As you can see, the parents passed down their respective IV that their power item is linked to.

Now that we’ve explained these items, we can move on to the interesting items that affect breeding. There are 2 items that fall into this category. The Destiny Knot  and the Everstone . But what do these items do exactly? Well continue reading and find out my friend, because these explanations are directly copied from the Pixelmon Wiki :)

 Destiny Knot: If held by either parent, five IVs will be passed from the parents to the offspring instead of three.

 Everstone: If held by a parent, the offspring's Nature will always match the nature of the parent holding the Everstone. If both parents are holding Everstones, the offspring will randomly inherit one of the parents' Natures.

Example:

We once again take 2 Charmander as an example.

 

Charmander X
Nature: Quiet	Gender: Male	Held Item: Destiny Knot
HP	Attack	Defense	Special Attack	Special Defense	Speed
11	21	2	8	6	19

 

 

Charmander Y
Nature: Calm	Gender: Female	Held Item: Everstone
HP	Attack	Defense	Special Attack	Special Defense	Speed
1	7	27	15	16	21

If these 2 Charmander would breed, their offspring could be as follows:

 

Charmander Z
Nature: Calm	Gender: Female	Held Item: None
HP	Attack	Defense	Special Attack	Special Defense	Speed
1	21	13	15	16	19

 

As you can see, the parents now passed 5 of their IVs down to their child instead of the usual 3 and the child has inherited its mother’s nature. It’s like magic!

 

Getting started:

Phew, now that we got the theoretical things done it’s time to finally get busy and start breeding a battle ready Charmander. The only thing is that the practical part of this requires 2 things besides those held items… they’re patience and luck.

Okay so let’s say we are aiming for the following Charmander:

Charmander A
Nature: Jolly	Gender: not important	Held Item: not important
HP	Attack	Defense	Special Attack	Special Defense	Speed
31	31	31	???	31	31

Pretty straightforward right (the A stands for Amazing)? Okay so let’s get started.

Say for instance we skip the first few sessions of breeding and we now have these 2 Charmander:

Charmander 1
Nature: Jolly	Gender: Male	Held Item: Everstone
HP	Attack	Defense	Special Attack	Special Defense	Speed
31	31	18	10	5	21

 

Charmander 2
Nature: Bold	Gender: Female	Held Item: Destiny Knot
HP	Attack	Defense	Special Attack	Special Defense	Speed
17	8	31	26	13	31

The first thing you can see is that the nature of the father is guaranteed to be passed down due to the everstone the father is holding. And because the mother is holding a destiny knot, the parents will pass down 5 IVs instead of 3.
So in the ideal situation their offspring would look like this in 1 go:

Charmander 3
Nature: Jolly	Gender: Male	Held Item: None
HP	Attack	Defense	Special Attack	Special Defense	Speed
31	31	31	24	13	31

It’s clear to see that in this situation the parents passed down the four wanted IVs and the Special Attack IV, so this is great. Unfortunately this often isn’t the case, because the parents can also pass down the wrong IVs and you’ll end up with a worse Charmander then you started with, or you end up with only 3 of the 4 wanted IVs passed down to the child. But WAIT! That last situation isn’t necessarily bad.

Say for instance the offspring Charmander 1 and 2 ends up looking like this:

 

Charmander 4
Nature: Jolly	Gender: Male	Held Item: None
HP	Attack	Defense	Special Attack	Special Defense	Speed
31	31	2	26	19	31

Your first thought might be “Dang, I only got 3 IVs passed down, down the trash chute with you”. Well this Charmander is actually useful for us, because if you replace Charmander 1 with Charmander 4, you then have a bigger chance of ending up with a Charmander that has the 4 wanted IVs.

*An eternity later*

Great! We finally have our Charmander looking like this:

 

Charmander 3
Nature: Jolly	Gender: Male	Held Item: Everstone
HP	Attack	Defense	Special Attack	Special Defense	Speed
31	31	31	14	17	31

 

Only 1 IV to go! Well the last one might be the most annoying one.

After some more time breeding you also end up with this Charmander:

 

Charmander 5
Nature: Quiet	Gender: Female	Held Item: Destiny Knot
HP	Attack	Defense	Special Attack	Special Defense	Speed
31	31	12	14	31	31

 

Amazing, we now have 2 Charmander with 4 IVs, one of them has the correct nature and we only have 1 IV to go. Well… now it is time for a lot of time to waiting (or not if you’re lucky). Just pop these 2 into a breeding ranch and pray for the best, because it could take a few (or A LOT) of tries, but eventually you will end up with Charmander A looking like this:

 

Charmander A
Nature: Jolly	Gender: Male	Held Item: not important
HP	Attack	Defense	Special Attack	Special Defense	Speed
31	31	31	???	31	31

Woohoo! Party!!! We’re done! So with this I hope you now understand how breeding works and you can move on to breed your own team completely.

I hope this guide was helpful to you!
Love, Taco!

 

Wait wait wait… I forgot something: The environment.
Okay, so I will not be explaining what blocks are useful for what type and whatnot, but I can explain the basics and some math I did.

Each Pokémon has 1 or 2 typings, the Charmander we used in this guide is a Fire type Pokémon.

On the Pixelmon Wiki you will find this chart:

 

Satisfaction	Strength	Text	Duration of breeding process	Duration per breeding stage
<35	0	"Pokémon 1 has a crush on Pokémon 2, but doesn't feel comfortable in this environment!"	Infinite	-30 minutes
35-69	0.5	"Pokémon 1 has a crush on Pokémon 2, but doesn't feel comfortable in this environment!"	2 hours, 30 minutes	30 minutes
70-104	1	"Pokémon 1 is more attracted to Pokémon 2 every day!"	1 hour, 15 minutes	15 minutes
105-139	1.5	"Pokémon 1's love for Pokémon 2 grows rapidly every day!"	50 minutes	10 minutes
>139	2	"Pokémon 1 falls madly in love with Pokémon 2 every single day!"	37½ minutes	7½ minutes

 

But now the question is, what is the correct ratio of blocks when breeding multiple types to get the highest satisfaction and get the fastest breeding time? Well after some calculations, I ended up with the following 2 charts, one for people who want their ranches to always be in the perfect middle of their breeding area and one for people who don’t care about symmetry.

In this chart I made the assumption that you are using a type of block that gives 3 satisfaction to the typing of environment it belongs to.

Please note that in this chart I did not take in the consideration that the Ground and Dark Typings have a block form that gives 4 satisfaction.

Chart for people with OCD:

 

Amount of typings in the ranch	Ranch size	Min. amount of block A	Min. amount of block B	Min. amount of block C	Min. amount of block D
1	9x9	47
2 (Same types)	11x11	47	47
2 (Different types)	11x11	47	47
3 (1 type in common)	13x13	47	47	47
3 (0 type in common)	13x13	47	47	47
4	15x15	47	47	47	47

 

 

Chart for chaotic people who don’t care about symmetry:

 

Amount of typings in the ranch	Ranch size	Min. amount of block A	Min. amount of block B	Min. amount of block C	Min. amount of block D
1	9x9	47
2 (Same types)	10x10	47	47
2 (Different types)	10x10	47	47
3 (1 type in common)	12x12	47	47	47
3 (0 type in common)	12x12	47	47	47
4	14x14	47	47	47	47

 

As you can see, it’s not that difficult a chart :)
the number 47 is calculated as follows.
If you want a Pokémon to breed as fast as possible, you need a minimum of 139 satisfaction, each block we used in this is worth 3 satisfaction. 139/3 = 46.333 = 47 because we can’t have a third of a block. If you’re using blocks that have different satisfaction values, the ratios will change.

So you can use more blocks if you want to make it pretty or something. But technically, 47 blocks worth 3 satisfaction of each type is needed for maximum results. If you really want me to do more math and calculate ratios with the 4 satisfaction blocks, comment and I'll think about it.

Once again,
I hope this guide helped you one your path!
Love, Taco