 Hey everyone, welcome to the channel. My name is Philly B2 and a lot of you guys have been asking about this video and here it is, the ultimate breeding guide for brilliant diamond and shining pearl. I know breeding may sound complicated to a lot of you guys, but I'm gonna make it very simple and break down a lot of things in this video. There's gonna be a lot of information in this video that you may not have heard in any other breeding guides before. So because of all the information that we have, there's gonna be a lot of timestamps down below. So make sure to check the description to see the sections of this video that way once you get to the end and if you're confused, you can go back and rewatch those parts. So if you're excited for this video guys, make sure to leave a like, subscribe if you're new and let's get on into this guide. All Pokemon have a certain amount of base stats that is the defining characteristic of each Pokemon species. Base stats include things like HP, which are your health points, attack, which is the moves that make direct contact, defense, which has a certain amount of resistance to attack, special attack, which is not really the physical contact but the things you throw from long distance like ice beam and surf. Special defense is the amount of resistance to those special attacks and speed. Speed is basically whoever's Pokemon is faster will move first in battle. All these numbers from these stats will then get added up to make a grand total of the base stats. You'll usually find legendary Pokemon, pseudo legendaries and third form evolutions to have the higher base stats. Let's talk about Pokemon natures. Natures are responsible for making Pokemon unique from one another aside from the changes and gender differences. There are a total of 25 different Pokemon natures in the game. 20 of them are going to increase stats by 10% and decrease stats by 10% and five of them are going to just be very neutral and do nothing. On the screen, you can see the list of natures, bashful, docile, hearty, quirky and serious to absolutely nothing. While all the other natures have four boosts in one stat and then subtract from the other stats. So example, adamant, brave, lonely and naughty all increased attack but will have their consequences and reduce other things. If you have a physical attacking Pokemon like Machamp who is specializing in attack then you wouldn't really care that it's special attack is down so an adamant Machamp would be a great example of that. Then you got bold, impish, lax and relax which all increase defense and reduce other things. Then we have modest, mild, quiet and rash which all increase special attack and reduce some other stats. Calm, careful, gentle and sassy these all increase special defense. The final ones are hasty, jolly, naive and timid. Timid and jolly are very popular ones. You want a fast physical attacker or a fast special attacker and these will just reduce the opposite stat of that Pokemon. When you open up your Pokemon menu in the game and check the summary of those Pokemon you go into the second tab and you can see their nature. It says this Pokemon is pretty lonely by nature and when you go over to this page it'll show exactly where the increase is and the decreases. So for lonely, you can see that the attack is boosted in red and the defense is reduced by the blue. Getting the right nature on your Pokemon isn't hard in this game. What a lot of people like to do is catch a bunch of Pokemon with synchronize. Synchronize will cause the Pokemon that you encounter in battle to match the nature of your Pokemon with the ability synchronize. So by hoarding a bunch of synchronized Pokemon with different natures you can choose exactly what you want to hunt and what nature you want to show up during that Pokemon encounter. Two Pokemon that come to mind when I think of synchronize are Abra and Ralts. You can also purchase nature mints from the battle tower in the end game that will just readjust your stats to match a different nature. There's also an item called the Everstone that when you equip it to a parent when breeding it'll pass on the parent's nature to the offspring Pokemon. So those are three ways of securing the proper nature you want in this game on your Pokemon. You'll never be in a position without having the means to get that nature. Now let's talk about IVs also known as individual values. Here's a really good way for you guys to memorize the difference between IVs and EVs because there's a lot of confusion. Think of I as an I inherit these which means I'm born with those stats. Think of EVs as evolved or I gain those or I evolve over time. So once again, you are born with IVs and you gain EVs. By the way, this video is not going to be covering EVs at all. So if you wanna know everything about EV training make sure to check out the video over here in the corner all about EV training. It's a really good video. I highly recommend you check out this video after this if you have not watched it yet. So as you can see on this screen on the right side you can see the stats of HP attack, defense, special attack, special defense speed. So you can notice words on the side that it says under these stats like decent, pretty good, best, very good just things like that. But the only thing I want you to really learn in this video is what best means. Basically what you're born with you have a zero to 31 value. 31 equals the best. You always want best when you're breeding Pokemon. Once you acquire the judge feature in the post game you'll also be able to see all things like this under it. So if you're not able to see it right now it's probably because you are not in the post game. But once you get there you should be able to see all of this. I also have a video on how to check all your Pokemon's IVs right over here. You're basically just wanna go for the best in every single stat that you care about. Now I think five IV Pokemon are perfect as there's certain stats you never really care about but there's always gonna be people that really do enjoy six IV Pokemon or perfect Pokemon. Overall with everything we talked about so far you'll be able to see how powerful a Pokemon can get with their base stats, having the right nature, having high individual values that it's born with and eventually being able to be completely EV trained. Pokemon go to a whole new level once you start focusing on those things. Okay, let's talk about Pokeball Breeding in the game. Now you're gonna be catching a lot of Pokemon and a lot of different Pokeballs. And a lot of people like to hatch Pokemon in certain Pokeballs. So this chart that we have on the screen is basically going to explain everything. If you breed any Pokemon with a ditto doesn't matter if it's male, female or genderless. That Pokeball of the Pokemon you breed with ditto will be passed on to the baby. Ditto does not pass on its balls. If you have a male Pokemon and a female Pokemon with different Pokeballs for this example we're gonna be using Badoof you'll have a 50% chance of having either Pokeball on the offspring. And for the final picture, you'll see that we have two different Pokemon species within the same egg group breeding. And you can see that Badoof does not pass on its ball. In fact, it's just the females that pass on their balls and not the males. Now we're gonna be talking about abilities being passed down to Pokemon. Specifically the example I'm gonna be focusing on here is the hidden ability. If you wanna know how to get hidden ability Pokemon make sure to check out this video over here on the screen. Now Pokemon either have one ability, one hidden ability or two regular abilities and one hidden ability. Hidden abilities don't just appear on baby Pokemon out of nowhere. It never happens. There's no random chance of that happening. On the first image, as you can see we have a ditto breeding with a Pokemon. In this case Badoof. It could be a male Pokemon, a female Pokemon or a genderless Pokemon. It doesn't matter. The baby will result in being a hidden ability Pokemon. 60% chance. And 40% chance it'll have a regular nature. Next, if we have a hidden ability male with the hidden ability female Pokemon you still have a 60% chance of having a hidden ability Pokemon. If you have a male Pokemon with no hidden ability and a female Pokemon with hidden ability you'll see that you also have a 60% chance of having hidden ability. You can see it strongly correlated to the female Pokemon but it doesn't matter when you're breeding with a ditto. The fourth row basically confirms this as you have a male Badoof here hidden ability breeding with a female Badoof with no hidden ability resulting in a chance of zero hidden ability offspring. On the fifth row we have a hidden ability male breeding with a female of a different species and you still get 0% at getting hidden ability. The final one at the bottom you have two different species Pokemon. You got a Badoof and a Remorade and you'll see that the female has a hidden ability. The resulting baby ends up looking exactly like the female and you can see that it has a 60% chance of getting hidden ability. The next thing that we need to talk about are egg groups. Ditto is not the only Pokemon that has to be used for breeding. All the Pokemon can even breed within themselves but here's where egg groups come into play. As you can see, egg groups are categories which determine which Pokemon are able to be interpret. For example, you can see the egg groups all the way on the right side of the screen right over here. And you can see we got monster, human like water one, water two, water three. There's so many water Pokemon that they have to be split up into different categories. You got bug, mineral, flying, amorphous, field, fairy, grass, dragon, gender unknown which includes things like Rotom and then you have a separate category called Ditto because Ditto's cannot make Ditto's and things that fall into the no eggs discovered category cannot produce eggs or are not able to breed at all. Now something that's really awesome is that all the egg groups are literally online for you to take a look at. So if you look at the first gen starter Pokemon, you can see that they're all in the monster group. Bulbasaur, Charmander and Squirtle which means they can all breed with each other to make babies. But this doesn't mean that Bulbasaur can just start to learn flamethrower. This simply just means these Pokemon are compatible with breeding with each other. Charmander also falls under the category of dragon which means that it can start to breed with Ekans. It can also breed with Sidra and Horsey. It also has the ability to breed with Magikarp and Gyarados. I can keep going on and talking about these things but I'm definitely getting distracted by the amount of Pokemon there are and all the egg groups that are in it. Having access to a database like this is very important because if for some reason you do not have access to a Ditto or a good Ditto, you can use these Pokemon in order to breed. So take a look at this. This is really cool to know and important to know what Pokemon can be with what and now you know if they're in the same egg group, they can breed with each other. If they're not in the same egg group, the daycare lady will literally say they don't wanna play with each other. The next thing that we are gonna be talking about are egg moves. Now you're going to want to use online resources when figuring out what egg moves to use with what Pokemon because there is a plethora of Pokemon and a lot of egg moves. Pokemon with egg moves are a lot more desired within the trading community and the breeding community when you go online. I'm pretty sure in our Discord, people want Pokemon with a lot of egg moves. Now on Sarabee.com, they have a whole list of every single Pokemon. So if you wanna figure out what egg moves you can use on them, all you gotta do is simply just click on the Pokemon's name. So I'm on Chimchar's name. I'm gonna scroll down. It's gonna tell its basic moves, standard level up moves, the technical moves that you can teach it, all the TMs. And then we're gonna go down here and it has egg moves. So we're gonna hit the details of these egg moves, scroll down here and it's gonna tell you Pokemon you can learn fire punch from specifically, Pokemon that you can learn thunder punch from. The baby Pokemon that you get will be identical to the female Pokemon that you have. So when you're trying to pass down an egg move from another species, make sure that it's a male breeding with the female and then you get the baby. For example, I would have a male Raichu that knows thunder punch that would breed with a female Chimchar, which would give me a baby Chimchar that knows thunder punch. But that pretty much is all I have to say about egg moves. Use this website. I'm linking it down in the description below. And you guys can come up with a lot of cool Pokemon moves that maybe have never been used on a Pokemon before to make it valuable. You guys have made it through so much in the video, just in a short amount of time, you guys have already learned all about base stats, Pokemon natures, IVs, Pokeballs passing down, hidden abilities passing down, all the egg groups that exist in the game and egg moves. And now with all that knowledge you have equipped we will be moving into the next section, items. One of the big items in the game that you should really be unlocking is the national decks. The national decks will give you access to all of the Pokemon from generations one to four, which means you can start to find Pokemon you never found via the Poke Radar in the overworld, or you can start finding new Pokemon that you never saw before in the Grand Underground. One of the most important breeding items that you need is the Destiny Knot. This can be found on Route 224. This place is literally just east of the Pokemon League going through the cave, coming out onto that Route 224 and heading straight up that path, you might have to battle a couple of trainers and as you go up that path, you will eventually be able to find the Destiny Knot it's sitting right out there in the open. The Destiny Knot passes down five random IVs from both parents. It's an RNG completely, but it guarantees five are passed down. Now you can see in this example that the Starleys are perfect Pokemon, six IVs, they got 31 IVs in all the stats. So what I circled was five random IVs from both the parents. From the male Starleys, I took the HP defense and special defense. And from the female Starleys, I took the attack and the speed. So that's five IVs taken from both parents. And the one that you see that have not taken from both is special attack. So this guarantees the baby will have five perfect 31 IVs. Guaranteed, two six IV Pokemon will always make a five IV Pokemon with the Destiny Knot. But the special attack can be anywhere at random from zero to 31 because you cannot guarantee this one. The next item that you're going to need is the Oval Charm. This Oval Charm is gotten after you become the Pokemon champion. And all you got to do is go to Valor Lakefront and fight Morimoto, who has a pretty tough team in my opinion if you're not prepared for it. But after you do defeat him, you will hand you the Oval Charm and Oval Charm just increases the chance of Pokemon in a daycare center producing an egg, which will be very helpful when it comes to breeding. Another very important item that you need is the Everstone. Now the Everstone is responsible for passing on the nature from the parent Pokemon to the baby Pokemon. So it must be equipped by the Pokemon to do that. If you are digging a lot in the Grand Underground, you probably have one already sitting in your inventory. If you don't just go ahead and start digging. You also have a 5% chance of finding Everstones on Geodudes. So go ahead and catch those if you do need it. Power items basically ensure that parent that's equipped with a specific power item will pass on that IV 100% of the time. If I was to equip the power bracer on a Pokemon that had best in attack or has a score of 31 IVs in attack, I would 100% pass down those 31 IV of attack to the baby Pokemon. The power belt is for defense. The power lens is for special attack. The power band is for special defense. The power ankle it is for speed and the power weight is for HP. You can purchase these all at the battle tower for 10 battle points each. Quick side note, if you are putting a power item on one Pokemon and putting the destiny knot on another Pokemon, you will still get an RNG selection of those IVs. You will guarantee the IV you are specifically going for by having one of those power items. A bonus item that you can get is the Shiny Charm from the game directors after you have seen every single Pokemon in the national decks. Your odds of hatching a Shiny Pokemon are one in 4096 but with the Shiny Charm, it reduces down to one in 1365. Another quick thing to point out, if you have two Pokemon from different regions breeding together, that is called the Masuda Method and that makes your eggs one in 683 chance of it being shiny. If you have the Shiny Charm while doing this Masuda Method, you have a one in 512 chance. Again, this item is not necessary. It's just for people who want to Shiny hunt while doing this. Pokemon that are essential to your breeding are going to be ones with the ability called Flame Body. Flame Body literally cuts in half the number of steps you have to take in order to hatch an egg. All Pokemon that have Flame Body in this game are Ponita and it's evolution Rapidash as it's hidden ability, Magmar and Magmortar but it's a pearl exclusive, Maltress hidden ability, E-Trans hidden ability, Slugma and it's evolution Macargo. Now that you have your Flame Body Pokemon it's time to do what is known as the Ditto Method. What you're going to need for the Ditto Method is a Ditto and any Pokemon that you're willing to breed with that Ditto. You're going to enter the Daycare Facility. You're then going to go into your bag and give the Destiny Knot to your Ditto. You are then going to add the Everstone to the other Pokemon who's going to pass down its nature to its offspring. All right, so my Ditto and Charmander are now with the Daycare Lady and I'm just going to ride a bike until we get some eggs happening here. Finally, this egg is hatching. Ooh, not shiny. Looks like it got the exact same nature from the parent. Man, these Charmander IVs are absolutely horrific. Ditto completely sucks in this game. When you are using the Poke Radar to try to get Ditto you have to chain it 40 times. The big problem in Brilliant Diamond and Pearl is that it's a 5% chance that you will even make it to 40. And the worst part is you only are getting three guaranteed IVs at 40. Three is not enough for a Ditto that is going to be responsible for breeding all of your Pokemon. It's just not going to cut it. And in order to get a 5IV Ditto you have to make it to chain 100. And do you know the rates of getting to chain 100? 0.07% chance that you will even make it to 100 to get a 5IV Ditto. That's nearly impossible. The only way you're going to be getting a 5IV to 6IV Ditto is one, you're the most lucky person in the world and you make it to chain 100. Two, somebody just gives you a hacked Ditto and you just end up using that. Or three, you wait for Pokemon home and you're able to get your 5IV to 6IV Dittos from Pokemon Sword and Shield that are transferred into home which you can probably bring into this game. Hopefully you can. Otherwise the Ditto method is going to be absolutely garbage. Essentially all you're doing with this method is having a destiny knot on a high IV Ditto putting whatever Pokemon you want in, breeding the Pokemon, the offspring come out. If the offspring have higher IVs than the parent you replace the parent out with the offspring, continue to breed, you get babies. If the babies are better than the parent again you just keep replacing and replacing. And that's pretty much how you breed with a high IV Ditto. But since that method is no good let's talk about the next one, the Badoof method. So let's take a look at phase one of the non-Ditto breeding guide. So as you can see over here I have a Badoof that's two to five IV with, it's a male. I put the destiny knot on it and I get a female Badoof that's two to five IVs that's a female. As you can see here, it says catch two Badoof, male and female with Poke Radar or Wild Encounter with two or more IVs. Breed until offspring are higher than parents and replace them out. Keep doing this until you get a male six IV Badoof. Now something that you want to know is that Badoof is part of the water one and field group. So in phase two, we're going to use the same six IV Badoof from phase one in order to reproduce in phase two. So since it's a male Pokemon, it will not be producing Badoofs. What we're doing is we're now mixing it with other species that share the same egg groups as it. So Badoof is water one and field group. So what we do is we breed it with a Remarade and we get access to water one and water two group when the baby's successfully made. Now we do the same method as above, but instead of replacing the Badoof nonstop, we're now replacing the Remarade nonstop until we get a five or six IV Remarade. Once you have that, you then have a Pokemon with high IVs that has access to the water one group and water two group. Now we take the Badoof and we put it with a Nidoran. Nidoran is part of the field and monster group. So once we're able to successfully do that, we'll finally get a male Nidoran with five to six IVs and this Nidoran will be able to completely breed into the monster group. This Nidoran can breed with Charmander, Bulbasaur, Squirtle and many others that you have to go take a look at on the chart. We take our same Badoof and then we put in a Farfetch. Now Farfetch shares the field typing with Badoof and Farfetch also has flying. So by breeding a Farfetch with this Badoof, we then get access to all flying type Pokemon or the flying egg group. So do the same procedure over again, replace, replace until you get yourself a five to six IV Farfetch and that Farfetch will then be responsible for all the flying Pokemon. Once again, you're gonna grab your six IV Badoof with the Destiny Knot and breed it with a Spinda. Now Spinda gives you access to the human-like group and that's pretty much it for all that the Badoof can do. So your six IV Badoof was responsible essentially for getting access to water too, the monster group, the flying egg group and the human-like group. And now you have these Pokemon that lead the way for those specific groups. Now let's move on to phase three. We're gonna take the Remorade now and put the Destiny Knot on top of that since your Remorade is gonna be a five to six IV Remorade and breed that with a Magic Carp. Because you breed it with a Magic Carp and you do the whole replace method and you finally end up with a male Magic Carp, you're then going to have access to the dragon group and that opens a whole lot of possibilities. You're gonna do the same thing with Meryl and once you get your male Meryl that's five to six IVs, you're then going to have access to the whole entire fairy egg group. After that, you're gonna breed your six IV Remorade with a Corphish and then once you keep doing the replace method, you're gonna end up with a six IV male Corphish and have access to water three group. Grab that six IV Spinda from phase two and start breeding it with Ralts. You eventually will start producing a lot of babies. You're gonna keep replacing the babies out nonstop with the original one if they have better IVs and you eventually will get access to the Amorphous group and that's what Ralts will represent, your access point of being a six IV Pokemon to the Amorphous group. Phase four, now you're gonna use your six IV Meryl in order to get access to the mineral group. Meryl can breed with Snow Runt. So by having Snow Runt, you then have access to the whole entire mineral group and you'll have a six IV Snow Runt if you do this right and replace things out with the IVs and just like that, mineral group access, how sick is that? Now, while Meryl is in water typing and Hopup is a grass typing, Meryl is part of the fairy group and Hopup is also part of the fairy egg group. Because of that, they can mutually breed and you can eventually end up with a six IV Hopup that's gonna have access to the grass group. So the Hopup that you produce from the Meryl by doing the IV switchouts is eventually going to have access to the whole entire grass group. So Water Pokemon is eventually gonna be responsible for all the grass Pokemon that are going to exist under this Hopup. The final one is taking your magic harp from phase three, your six IV magic harp, slapping the Destiny nut on it and breeding it with the Trapinch. That Trapinch will eventually get you to have a five IV to six IV Trapinch Meryl which will give you full access then to the bug group. The mutual interest shared between the magic harp and the Trapinch is being hybrid part of the dragon group. At the bottom of this chart, I wrote that the only Pokemon group you won't be able to breed for is the genderless group. So you won't be able to get things like Rotom. I wrote that each of the Pokemon on the right side will act like your ditto because each of the male Pokemon on the right have access to two egg groups completely. And now you have six IVs of all those egg groups in the game. And eventually you're going to be using those to breed whatever you need in the game. It's actually kind of mind blowing that Badoof is going to be the one responsible for getting six IVs for all Pokemon to breed in the game. In fact, Badoof is better than ditto in Brilliant Diamond and Pearl because of this reason. If you need that image, by the way, it's going to be in my Discord. So make sure to head to the Discord and I'll be posting that there. So now you are an expert on Pokemon breeding and I've been introduced to almost every single type of breeding mechanic within the game. Guys, if you enjoyed this video, make sure to hit that like button and let me know what's your favorite part of this whole entire breeding guide was. I had a lot of fun making it and I hope you guys really did enjoy this video. If you're new to the channel, please make sure to subscribe. I put a lot of work into these videos and they're a lot of fun. And we have a lot more to do when it comes to all these Pokemon games. So thank you again, guys, for all the support you're showing on the channel. My name is Philly Beats you and I will see you guys in the next video. Peace.