My OperaIv breading guide
By Bdark mewtwo. Saturday, March 22, 2008 6:59:46 PM
So, you want to breed a Pokemon, give it a move that it doesn't learn by levelling up or TMs, or just want to increase your Pokedex? Well, look no further, this one stop guide will attempt to explain all.
Catching suggestions.
First thing I'd recommend for anyone who wants to get a more varied moveset for a Pokemon, is to catch a female of that Pokemon. Female Pokemon determine the type of Pokemon that is bred. So, if you want to breed an Igglybuff, for example, catching a female Jigglypuff will mean any egg bred with this female, will eventually be an Igglybuff. If you want a specific type of Pokemon with more varied moves, catch a female.
Does that mean males are useless? No. Males are just as important as females, and here's why. The female determines the Pokemon type, but the males govern which moves are actually passed down to the Pokemon. So if you want to breed Drill Peck onto a Skarmory, for example, you would need to have a male with the move Drill Peck, not necessarily a Skarmory, but something in the same egg group (I'll explain egg groups further down the guide) as Skarmory. Breed that Pokemon with a female Skarmory, and voila! The baby Skarmory will be born with Drill Peck. If you know a Pokemon has a certain move, and you want to give that move to a similar Pokemon which doesn't learn it naturally, catch a male of that species.
Advantages of breeding.
Breeding moves onto a Pokemon has several advantages. First of all, you can gain more varieties of moves for the Pokemon, increasing the options of it's movesets, and often making your Pokemon more difficult to counter. Second of all, while levelling up, you can have more powerful moves than it's level would normally allow, meaning a Pokemon will be slightly easier to raise.
Disadvantages of breeding
Well, not many at all. It will take time to level up the Pokemon, as well as the parents if you are after specific moves which are learned at higher levels than they were caught at. Certain Pokemon cannot breed at all, the legendary Pokemon. Some are limited to only breeding with Ditto. Certain Pokemon always male, so they are limited. Not every move is possible to breed over, only those in the egg moves list for each Pokemon is possible to breed.
Overall, breeding is worth the time and effort you spend to raise the Pokemon.
Egg Groups.
The Pokemon are split into egg groups, which means that they can only breed with those Pokemon in the same egg group. Most individual Pokemon exist in two groups. For example, Abra and their evolutions belong to the Human-Shaped Pokemon Egg Group, which means they can breed with other Pokemon in the Human-Shaped Egg Group, and only those Pokemon.
Egg Groups names:
Bug, Dragon, Fairy, Field, Flying, Genderless, Human Shaped, Monster, Unbreedable, Grass, Mineral, Amorphous, Water 1, Water 2, Water 3. Check the Egg Groups sticky to see which Pokemon exist in each egg group.
TMs and breeding.
Now, in your game, you will usually pick up 1 TM of each type (1 to 50), except for those that you can buy. Just purchase as many of those as you think you'll need. For the rest of TMs, you are given or find one of each type only per game. Did you know, that by breeding, you can pass on TMs from one Pokemon to another? Yes! That way, you can make your TM last, and if you want two or more Pokemon using the same TM, then it is actually possible (but it may take several breeding events to actually pass the TMs along. This is called a breeding chain). Because most Pokemon exist in two egg groups, it is usually possible to breed a TM from a very different type to it's own, by following a breeding chain.
Abilities and Breeding
Each Pokemon also has a special ability, like Early Bird and Color Change. This does not change between breeding types, and as such you cannot breed an ability from one Pokemon to another. So, no you can't have a Sableye with Wonder Guard (immune to all attacks except indirect attacks), for example.
Nature and breeding
Each Pokemon has a nature, which affects it's statistics. A nature increases one stat by 10%, while reducing another by 10%. Natures are not passed on by breeding, and are completely random. So, it is not possible to breed directly a nature from one Pokemon to another. If you want a baby Pokemon with a specific nature, you'll have to keep breeding and hope it gets the one you want. It's a time consuming process, but it may be worth the extra effort.
Update: In Emerald only, if the female or Ditto is holding an Everstone, they can pass their nature to the child. Thanks to Iveechan for this information.
IVs and breeding.
The Individual Values of the parents actually influence the IVs of the child, to some degree. 3 of the 6 stats are based on the parent's IVs, the rest are chosen at random. So, for example, a male Volbeat may give it's HP and Sp Attack IV, and a female Illumise could give it's Speed IV. Each parent will contribute at least one IV, though.
Sometimes, the same IV value is chosen, meaning only 2 IVs from the parents influence the child. This only happens however, if the IV value is the same on both parents. If the Volbeat and Illumise both had 14 IV in Attack, and both of their Attack stats were chosen, then the child will have 14 IV in Attack. One other stat is chosen from the parents, not two others (cos 2 of the 3 slots are taken from the Attack value of both parents).
If you are lucky to get a Pokemon with 31 IV (the highest obtainable) in one stat, you can potentially breed children with 31 IV in the same stat. Yes, that means after a lot of breeding (and a whole load of good luck!), it is possible to breed a child with 31 IV in 3 of it's 6 stats. Good luck :-)
Azurill and Wynaut
Azurill and Wynaut are special cases when it comes to breeding. They do not appear when a Marill or Azumarill, or Wobbuffet parent, is bred normally.
How do I get one, I hear you ask? Well, it's not actually too hard. To get an Azurill child, one of the parents must be holding the Sea Incense item. Otherwise, a Marill will be the child. To get a Wynaut child, one of the parents must be holding the Lax Incense item, else you will just breed a baby Wobbuffet.
Pichu and Volt Tackle
A new move, Volt Tackle, can only be acquired by Pichu and his evolutions, by breeding in Emerald. By having the Pikachu or Raichu female holding a Light Ball when breeding, the baby Pichu will be born with Volt Tackle. In case you don't know, Volt Tackle's stats are below:
Volt Tackle
Base Power: 120
Accuracy: 100%
Type: Electric
Base PP: 15
A life-risking tackle that slightly hurts the user. (in the same way as Double-Edge)
FAQs:
Q: What's so good about Ditto?
A: Ditto can breed with any Pokemon that isn't a legendary or a baby. Gender does not matter. Even for genderless Pokemon like Starmie or Metagross, a Ditto can breed and still produce a baby. Ditto even breeds with male Pokemon, so if you want another of those super-rare Pokemon that always seem to be male (the starters, Eevee, Hitmon family), breeding with Ditto still is possible.
Note that no egg moves are passed on this way (since Transform is not an egg move), and Ditto does not determine the Pokemon in the egg, only the Pokemon it breeds with does.
Q: What's so good about Smeargle?
A: Smeargle is unique in that it can learn every single move in the game, by using it's signature move, Sketch. When facing an opponent Pokemon, Smeargle uses Sketch, and then Sketch is replaced by the last move a Pokemon used. Even unique moves like Luster Purge and Doom Desire can be gained this way.
Smeargle is most commonly used to gain Heal Bell from Miltank, because this was the only way a Chansey could be bred with Heal Bell. Now that Skitty and Delcatty can learn Heal Bell naturally, Heal Bell can be bred directly to Chansey.
Still, that does not dismiss the usefulness of Smeargle. By being able to learn all the moves in the game, Smeargle can succeed in being a notable chain breeder, passing on several moves at once. Complex breeding chains can often be cut down by having Smeargle Sketch the desired moves, and often certain chains only start with Smeargle.
Q: My Pokemon is male, can I get another?
A: Only by breeding with Ditto
Q: I can't get my Ditto and my Rayquaza to breed
A: That's because legendary Pokemon cannot breed, even with Ditto
Q: I have an egg. How do I make it hatch?
A: Walk. No, really. To make an egg hatch, you need to walk several hundreds of steps in game before it hatches. If you are breeding a baby Pokemon, they take the shortest number of steps to hatch, where as some of the more powerful Pokemon like Larvitar take the longest to hatch. Just be patient, and it will hatch eventually. I personally use the Mach Bike (in R/S) to speed things up.
Catching suggestions.
First thing I'd recommend for anyone who wants to get a more varied moveset for a Pokemon, is to catch a female of that Pokemon. Female Pokemon determine the type of Pokemon that is bred. So, if you want to breed an Igglybuff, for example, catching a female Jigglypuff will mean any egg bred with this female, will eventually be an Igglybuff. If you want a specific type of Pokemon with more varied moves, catch a female.
Does that mean males are useless? No. Males are just as important as females, and here's why. The female determines the Pokemon type, but the males govern which moves are actually passed down to the Pokemon. So if you want to breed Drill Peck onto a Skarmory, for example, you would need to have a male with the move Drill Peck, not necessarily a Skarmory, but something in the same egg group (I'll explain egg groups further down the guide) as Skarmory. Breed that Pokemon with a female Skarmory, and voila! The baby Skarmory will be born with Drill Peck. If you know a Pokemon has a certain move, and you want to give that move to a similar Pokemon which doesn't learn it naturally, catch a male of that species.
Advantages of breeding.
Breeding moves onto a Pokemon has several advantages. First of all, you can gain more varieties of moves for the Pokemon, increasing the options of it's movesets, and often making your Pokemon more difficult to counter. Second of all, while levelling up, you can have more powerful moves than it's level would normally allow, meaning a Pokemon will be slightly easier to raise.
Disadvantages of breeding
Well, not many at all. It will take time to level up the Pokemon, as well as the parents if you are after specific moves which are learned at higher levels than they were caught at. Certain Pokemon cannot breed at all, the legendary Pokemon. Some are limited to only breeding with Ditto. Certain Pokemon always male, so they are limited. Not every move is possible to breed over, only those in the egg moves list for each Pokemon is possible to breed.
Overall, breeding is worth the time and effort you spend to raise the Pokemon.
Egg Groups.
The Pokemon are split into egg groups, which means that they can only breed with those Pokemon in the same egg group. Most individual Pokemon exist in two groups. For example, Abra and their evolutions belong to the Human-Shaped Pokemon Egg Group, which means they can breed with other Pokemon in the Human-Shaped Egg Group, and only those Pokemon.
Egg Groups names:
Bug, Dragon, Fairy, Field, Flying, Genderless, Human Shaped, Monster, Unbreedable, Grass, Mineral, Amorphous, Water 1, Water 2, Water 3. Check the Egg Groups sticky to see which Pokemon exist in each egg group.
TMs and breeding.
Now, in your game, you will usually pick up 1 TM of each type (1 to 50), except for those that you can buy. Just purchase as many of those as you think you'll need. For the rest of TMs, you are given or find one of each type only per game. Did you know, that by breeding, you can pass on TMs from one Pokemon to another? Yes! That way, you can make your TM last, and if you want two or more Pokemon using the same TM, then it is actually possible (but it may take several breeding events to actually pass the TMs along. This is called a breeding chain). Because most Pokemon exist in two egg groups, it is usually possible to breed a TM from a very different type to it's own, by following a breeding chain.
Abilities and Breeding
Each Pokemon also has a special ability, like Early Bird and Color Change. This does not change between breeding types, and as such you cannot breed an ability from one Pokemon to another. So, no you can't have a Sableye with Wonder Guard (immune to all attacks except indirect attacks), for example.
Nature and breeding
Each Pokemon has a nature, which affects it's statistics. A nature increases one stat by 10%, while reducing another by 10%. Natures are not passed on by breeding, and are completely random. So, it is not possible to breed directly a nature from one Pokemon to another. If you want a baby Pokemon with a specific nature, you'll have to keep breeding and hope it gets the one you want. It's a time consuming process, but it may be worth the extra effort.
Update: In Emerald only, if the female or Ditto is holding an Everstone, they can pass their nature to the child. Thanks to Iveechan for this information.
IVs and breeding.
The Individual Values of the parents actually influence the IVs of the child, to some degree. 3 of the 6 stats are based on the parent's IVs, the rest are chosen at random. So, for example, a male Volbeat may give it's HP and Sp Attack IV, and a female Illumise could give it's Speed IV. Each parent will contribute at least one IV, though.
Sometimes, the same IV value is chosen, meaning only 2 IVs from the parents influence the child. This only happens however, if the IV value is the same on both parents. If the Volbeat and Illumise both had 14 IV in Attack, and both of their Attack stats were chosen, then the child will have 14 IV in Attack. One other stat is chosen from the parents, not two others (cos 2 of the 3 slots are taken from the Attack value of both parents).
If you are lucky to get a Pokemon with 31 IV (the highest obtainable) in one stat, you can potentially breed children with 31 IV in the same stat. Yes, that means after a lot of breeding (and a whole load of good luck!), it is possible to breed a child with 31 IV in 3 of it's 6 stats. Good luck :-)
Azurill and Wynaut
Azurill and Wynaut are special cases when it comes to breeding. They do not appear when a Marill or Azumarill, or Wobbuffet parent, is bred normally.
How do I get one, I hear you ask? Well, it's not actually too hard. To get an Azurill child, one of the parents must be holding the Sea Incense item. Otherwise, a Marill will be the child. To get a Wynaut child, one of the parents must be holding the Lax Incense item, else you will just breed a baby Wobbuffet.
Pichu and Volt Tackle
A new move, Volt Tackle, can only be acquired by Pichu and his evolutions, by breeding in Emerald. By having the Pikachu or Raichu female holding a Light Ball when breeding, the baby Pichu will be born with Volt Tackle. In case you don't know, Volt Tackle's stats are below:
Volt Tackle
Base Power: 120
Accuracy: 100%
Type: Electric
Base PP: 15
A life-risking tackle that slightly hurts the user. (in the same way as Double-Edge)
FAQs:
Q: What's so good about Ditto?
A: Ditto can breed with any Pokemon that isn't a legendary or a baby. Gender does not matter. Even for genderless Pokemon like Starmie or Metagross, a Ditto can breed and still produce a baby. Ditto even breeds with male Pokemon, so if you want another of those super-rare Pokemon that always seem to be male (the starters, Eevee, Hitmon family), breeding with Ditto still is possible.
Note that no egg moves are passed on this way (since Transform is not an egg move), and Ditto does not determine the Pokemon in the egg, only the Pokemon it breeds with does.
Q: What's so good about Smeargle?
A: Smeargle is unique in that it can learn every single move in the game, by using it's signature move, Sketch. When facing an opponent Pokemon, Smeargle uses Sketch, and then Sketch is replaced by the last move a Pokemon used. Even unique moves like Luster Purge and Doom Desire can be gained this way.
Smeargle is most commonly used to gain Heal Bell from Miltank, because this was the only way a Chansey could be bred with Heal Bell. Now that Skitty and Delcatty can learn Heal Bell naturally, Heal Bell can be bred directly to Chansey.
Still, that does not dismiss the usefulness of Smeargle. By being able to learn all the moves in the game, Smeargle can succeed in being a notable chain breeder, passing on several moves at once. Complex breeding chains can often be cut down by having Smeargle Sketch the desired moves, and often certain chains only start with Smeargle.
Q: My Pokemon is male, can I get another?
A: Only by breeding with Ditto
Q: I can't get my Ditto and my Rayquaza to breed
A: That's because legendary Pokemon cannot breed, even with Ditto
Q: I have an egg. How do I make it hatch?
A: Walk. No, really. To make an egg hatch, you need to walk several hundreds of steps in game before it hatches. If you are breeding a baby Pokemon, they take the shortest number of steps to hatch, where as some of the more powerful Pokemon like Larvitar take the longest to hatch. Just be patient, and it will hatch eventually. I personally use the Mach Bike (in R/S) to speed things up.
Bdark mewtwo # Saturday, March 22, 2008 7:00:04 PM
Congratulations, by reading this, you must now understand pretty much everything you need to learn about IV’s and the battling aspect of Natures. This guide assumes you have read and understood the previous guides on IV and Natures. So if you haven’t, click on the links to them in the signature.
This guide will tell you how to breed for both IV’s and Natures, and by doing so, you will have very strong pokemon. I’m giving you the secret to battling competitively in these guides, so you better use the knowledge well. This guide can might get confusing, but you can always leave questions, comments, concerns, complaints, or even compliments.
Background for breeding for both:
In the previous guides, they only showed you how to breed for either IV's or Nature separately, but when you want to breed for both, you do things a little differently. It will be much more time consuming then breeding for either aspect alone, so prepare for some tediousness.
This guide will show you how to breed for pokemon with the right gender, nature, and good IV’s. I think males are better, but if you want a female, know this, if you have a male, it will pass down any moves it learned by TM’s if you breed it.
How to breed for both:
First, you breed your pokemon like how it said in the IV guide, breed until you find one with more good IV’s in the stats you care about than the parent of the same gender, then replace. You keep doing this until both of the parents have good IV’s in all the stats you care about.
While this is going on, if you find a female with the right nature and enough good IV’s to replace its mom, then give it an everstone before you replace it, this will make things easier in the long run. So if you ever come upon this female and you make it the new mom, I suggest if you come upon another female with enough good IV’s, make sure it has the right nature before you replace it. If not, it’ll be your choice if you want to replace the mom or not.
You keep going through the breeding process until you finally get both of the parents to have good IV’s in all the stats you care about. At this point, check the IV’s and natures of your remaining eggs to see if any of them are worth keeping, but don’t pick up any new eggs when doing this.
Now when all of your remaining eggs are gone, save before you pick up a new egg. Hatch the egg and see if it is the right gender and nature, if not, just release it, save before you pick up the next egg, then pick it up. Make sure you don’t pickup any more eggs when you’re hatching your current one. Keep doing this until you find the one with the right nature and gender.
NOTE: Having the female parent already have the right nature, and holding the everstone will make you come across the pokemon with the right nature faster. Also, if you already have a female, and it already has good IV's and the right nature, you could stop here and use that pokemon if you don't care about the gender.
Once you do get the pokemon with the nature and gender(if you care about gender), don’t save yet, give it as many rare candies as you are willing to part with forever, and check the IV’s. If the IV’s aren’t good in all the stats you care about, then reset the game.
Here is the most accurate IV calculator out there I think, so it will minimize the amount of rare candies you will need to use to get a somewhat accurate result here
When you restart, you be back to when right before you picked up the egg. When you pick it up again and hatch it, the gender and nature should be the same, that is because they are determined already when the egg becomes available. However, the IV’s will be different, because IV’s are determined when you pick the egg up. So check the IV’s and see if they are good this time. If not, reset and go through the process again until you come across that final pokemon that has the right gender, nature, and IV’s in the stats you care about.
Congratulations when you finally come across this potentially very powerful pokemon. All you gotta do now is EV train it, and it will be one of the strongest of its kind.
Bdark mewtwo # Saturday, March 22, 2008 7:02:57 PM
Each of your pokemon have natures. The nature of your pokemon can affect its stats in some way. They could either raise one stat by 10% and lower another by 10%, or they can be neutral and not do anything. Here’s a list of all the natures and what they do to your pokemon’s stats.
-Lonely: +Attack, -Defense
-Brave: +Attack, -Speed
-Adamant: +Attack, -Special Attack
-Naughty: +Attack, -Special Defense
-Bold: +Defense, -Attack
-Relaxed: +Defense, -Speed
-Impish: +Defense, -Special Attack
-Lax: +Defense, -Special Defense
-Timid: +Speed, -Attack
-Hasty: +Speed, -Defense
-Jolly: +Speed, -Special Attack
-Naive: +Speed, -Special Defense
-Modest: +Special Attack, -Attack
-Mild: +Special Attack, -Defense
-Quiet: +Special Attack, -Speed
-Rash: +Special Attack, -Special Defense
-Calm: +Special Defense, -Attack
-Gentle: +Special Defense, -Defense
-Sassy: +Special Defense, -Speed
-Careful: +Special Defense, -Special Attack
-Hardy: Don't do anything
-Docile:
-Serious:
-Bashful:
-Quirky:
Breeding for nature:
When you breed or catch pokemon, which nature they have is normally random, but there is a trick to help manipulate a bred pokemon’s nature.
If you give a female pokemon an everstone to hold, and breed it with a compatible partner, the offspring will have a 50% chance of inheriting the mother’s nature. You can get an Everstone from the girl in Snowpoint City by trading her a Medicham for her Haunter, which is holding an Everstone. You can also dig them up from the Underground and get them from wild geodudes and gravelers.
So if you are breeding for a male with the right nature, you should either continue catching or breeding pokemon until you get a female with the nature you want, give it an everstone, and breed it with a suitable partner...either that or you can continue catching or breeding pokemon until you get a male with the nature you want.
Breeding non-gender pokemon for nature:
Normally when you breed for natures, you would give the female an everstone, but genderless pokemon make it a little different. A genderless pokemon can only breed with dittos, and dittos can only breed with other pokemon, so that gives you 3 possible combinations of genderless pokemon breeding.
1. Ditto + Female
2. Ditto + Male
3. Ditto + Genderless
In situation 1, you would give the female the everstone to pass down its nature.
In situation 2, you would give the Ditto the everstone to pass down its nature.
In siutation 3, I'm am not completely sure, I am testing this, but can't find any other information about this online, some say that you would give the Ditto the everstone to pass down its nature.
Bdark mewtwo # Saturday, March 22, 2008 7:06:08 PM
IV's are random numbers from 0-31, each of your pokemon stats have one of these randoms numbers, and those are the IV's. The number means how many additional stat points that stat will have overall, when it reaches level 100. So lets say a pikachu with 0 IV's in speed will have 200 speed at level 100, but a pikachu with 31 IV's in speed, will have 231 speed at level 100.
However, you do have some control over what IV's your pokemon have, but you can only do this through breeding. When you breed a pokemon from the daycare center, all of its IV are randomly set initially, then one random IV from either of the parents is inherited and overwrites the initial IV of that stat. . Then a second IV that is not an HP IV, is randomly inherited from either of the parents. Then a third IV that is not an HP or a Defense IV is randomly inherited from either of the parents. So a total 3 IV's are inherited from the parents, however, HP and Defense IV's have less of a chance of being passed down. These IV's may overlap, so the same kind of IV could be selected more than once and overwrite the previously selected IV.
You can find out how many IV’s your pokemon have in each stat by using several online calculators that are available online. They require you to know how many EV’s your pokemon have in each stat, so make sure you know that. Pokemon you just caught, hatched, or only leveled up by rare candies or day care will not have any EV’s.
In terms of accuracy, Metal Kid's calculator is the best IV calculator out there. Click here.
Example of IV breeding:
format:hp/atk/def/sp.atk/sp.def/spd
Parent 1 IV: 31/30/29/28/27/26
Parent 2 IV: 25/24/23/22/21/20
Offspring IV: 19/18/17/16/15/14
So in the first round of inheritance, lets say the offsrping inherits parent 1's HP IV, so now the offsprings IV's are...
31/18/17/16/15/14
In the second round of inheritance, it can't inherit HP IV's from the parents, so lets say it gained the speed IV of parent 2...
31/18/17/16/15/20
In the third and last round of inheritance, it can't inherit HP or defense IV's, so lets say it gained the sp. def IV of parent 2...
31/18/17/16/21/20
So these are now the IV's of the offspring.
Tips on Breeding for IV’s:
When people try to breed for IV’s, they usually only care about 2 or 3 stats that they think are most important. If you want to breed an Alakazam for example, most people would only care about good IV’s in its Sp. Attack and Speed stats.
This is because it can take an extremely long time to breed for good IV’s in all, or nearly all of its stats. Remember that even if the parent pokemon have good IV’s in all of its stats, only 3 are randomly inherited by the offspring and the rest of its stats are random. Although, having the parents have good IV’s in all the stats you care about will give the offspring a better chance of getting good IV’s in those stats as well.
What I suggest you do when breeding for IV’s is to first choose what stats you want good IV’s in. Then find out the IV’s of the parents. Know the number of acceptable IV’s each parent has in those stats you care about. Then start breeding with those parents. When you start getting offspring, check their IV’s. NOTE: The calculators you use to find IV’s are more precise at higher levels, so its best to save the game give it some rare candies or leave it at the day care, I’d say to around level 15, check the IV’s, and then reset.
If there are more good IV’s in the stats you care about in the offspring than in its parent of the same gender, then you should replace the parent with the offspring. If the offspring have a less amount of good IV’s or the same amount of good IV’s as its parent with the same gender, then you should just release it. Making the parents have more good IV’s in the stats you care about will make the offspring have a better chance of getting good IV’s in all of the stats you care about. You should keep doing this until you finally breed the pokemon with good IV’s in all the stats you care about.
Breeding non-gender pokemon:
If you read the guide, you pretty much know almost everything you need to know on specifically IV breeding. However, there is one situation that makes things just a tad little more complicated. That is trying to IV breed pokemon that don’t have a gender.
Pokemon with no gender can only breed with ditto and that’s it, not even a pokemon of the same species. So a Metagross can breed with a ditto, but not with another Metagross. Also, dittos can’t breed with other dittos, only with other pokemon.
So, if you want to IV breed a ditto, it’s impossible, can’t happen, forget it. But you can still IV breed other non-gender pokemon. What you should do to IV breed that other pokemon is to keep catching dittos until you find one with good IV’s in all the stats you care about. Then you can start breeding with that other non-gender pokemon.
Check the IV’s of the offspring, replace the parent if the offspring has more good IV’s than the parent, release if not. Then continue until you finally breed the one with good IV’s in all the stats you care about.
IV Characteristics:
When you look at the summary of your pokemon and look at the trainer memo page, the page where it shows the nature and such. The second comment from the bottom, the one above what kind of food it likes, tells what may appear to be a random comment like "mischievous" or "somewhat of a clown." These descriptions however actually identify an IV that your pokemon has. Here is a list of what the descriptions mean, but some do repear however.
HIT POINTS
31-Often dozes off
30-Loves to Eat
29-Likes to Relax
28-Likes to scatter things
27-Often Naps
26-Often dozes off
ATTACK
31-Likes to thrash about
30-Proud of its' Power
29-Hot Tempered
28-Quick tempered
27-A little Quick-Tempered
26-Likes to Thrash about
DEFENSE
31-Capable of taking hits
30-Sturdy Body
29-Good perseverance
28-Good endurance
27-Highly persistent
26-Capable of taking hits
SPEED
31-Alert to sounds
30-Likes to run
29-Quick to flee
28-Somewhat of a clown
27-Impetuous and silly
26-Alert to sounds
SPECIAL ATTACK
31-Mischeivous
30-Highly Curious
29-Very Finicky
28-Often lost in thought
27-Thoroughly cunning
26-Mischeivous
SPECIAL DEFENSE
31-Somewhat Vain
30-Strong Willed
29-Somewhat Stubborn
28-Hates to lose
27-Strongly Defiant
26-Somewhat Vain
These characteristics could give you a quick early look on an IV your pokemon have.
Natesergeant-snow # Friday, February 20, 2009 4:35:16 PM
Bdark mewtwo # Saturday, February 21, 2009 12:51:54 AM