 This is the ultimate breeding guide for Pokemon, Scarlet, and Violet. Okay, so one of the first things you want to do is head over to this town of Medali because this is the place where you will be able to find dittos pretty easily and it's a fast teleport area. To help you out on the map, this is an area map of where ditto's habitat is. It says it lives near towns and cities and it disguises itself as other Pokemon. So this is a very big hit of where ditto could possibly be and what Pokemon it is. So a little trial and error, you pay attention to how the Pokemon are behaving and you should be able to bump into a ditto. So let's go ahead and bump into some and maybe I get lucky. That's not normal. It's not coming at me. Okay, Persons usually attack you. This one's not. This could possibly be our ditto. Ditto, okay. Yeah, you saw that weird behavior. So pay attention to Pokemon that normally come after you but they start to act a little weird and that is how you find a ditto. Now, because this is an open world game, it is pretty easy to get ditto and ditto is the universal breeder of all Pokemon. Any Pokemon can be with ditto. Hence why you should probably go ahead and grab a ditto. But if you wanted to breed with other Pokemon that are not ditto, all you have to do is make sure that they are in the exact same egg species group. A great website and tool to use will be serabii.net. I'm going to make sure to link this down in the description below for you guys. But basically, if you want to see what egg group your Pokemon is in, for example, if we were to see something in the field group, there's a lot of new Pokemon in there. Okay, let's say we're in the field group and we grab something like Pommy. Let's say you found a Pommy and you wanted to breed it with something like a Cyclizar or if you just want to look back and see the starters, they're also in the field group. So again, this is a very great website and tool to see what Pokemon fit in what egg group so you can know compatibility because you don't want to be in a position where you are trying to breed Pokemon together and they're just not making eggs. It's a very big waste of time to do that. Okay, so the big question is how do you make eggs? Like I mentioned before, you have to have a compatible Pokemon or you can use ditto. If you want to get eggs really fast, you have to have something known as egg power. I'm going to be linking you this Google spreadsheet that pretty much tells you what ingredients do what. You can see that tomatoes are going to be for encounter power. And if we go to anything really sweet here, you're going to see that it has more of an impact, for example, on things like egg power. So apples are sweet egg power. So you can go through this Excel sheet. It's again, it's going to be linked down in the description below and you can figure out what sandwiches you want to make. I also want to state you can go around to any shop in the game and you'll find something that has egg power one. Once you consume that and eat that at a restaurant or a shop in town or at your picnic, if you make a sandwich that boosts egg power, you then will be able to produce eggs a lot faster. If you went to class, you would know that sweet foods help with egg power and this was confirmed by the teacher itself. So make sure you've got a class and pay attention for things like this. How many eggs can you make at once? The total amount of eggs you can get by just waiting is 10. After 10 eggs, the stack is done. So they can completely stack up to 10 eggs. You have to take out all the eggs. The eggs would then go into the inventory box that you last set up your Pokemon box. The last one you had set up is where the eggs will start stacking up. Then you can wait again and go ahead and collect more eggs. Now, you'll know how long you'll be able to collect these eggs fast by hitting the right arrow that'll show all the powers you have in the boost and for how long to know how long you have egg powers for. Just go ahead and hit the right control stick and it'll show the timer counting down. The best thing you can do is open up your phone and set a 30 minute timer. And as soon as you have that buff, hit that 30 minute timer so that way you don't have to keep checking the time and see how long the buff lasts for. And your phone can just tell you what to do. How can you hatch your eggs fast? If you have the current bonus from the egg powers one, two or three and you have a Pokemon leading at your party with Flame Body, Pokemon that do have Flame Body in this game are Fletchling, Charcandet and Bulkarona. Those are great Pokemon that have Flame Body and they'll help your eggs hatch faster. If you combine Flame Body and you combine the egg power, your Pokemon is going to hatch so much more faster. This was also tested and this information was provided by Matt. So thank you Matt for doing the research on a lot of these points for breeding. Make sure to exit the picnic and start running with your mounts in order to hatch these eggs really fast. After you hatch that batch, you can go back in your Pokemon box and get the next batch of eggs and keep on hatching with that Flame Body and egg power. Real quick, I'm going to need you to hit that subscribe button so we can catch all these dragon Pokemon and get Mariah down to the finish line. Thank you very much for hitting that subscribe button and let's get on with the video. So the first thing is what are base stats and what do they really mean? So I'm going to open this Ganger and go to this screen and you can see on the top right side that you have HP which is going to be the health the Pokemon has. Special attack is going to be all the special attack moves it has. Basically, they're not going to make direct contact. Physical attack, which is basically attacks is going to be lower on this Pokemon. You can see that this is a special attacker. Special defense is whether they can handle that special attack. Defense is how much of the attack that Pokemon can handle. Their level of defense means they resist attack more. So these kind of go hand in hand. That's why you have attack and defense right from each other and special attack and special defense. And speed is going to basically determine how fast your Pokemon is. If you have a higher speed than another Pokemon, you're going to move faster than them and most likely put your move to do damage before they can probably move on the field. If you look at Dream Eater, you can see that it has a circle, circle, circle right to the left of me over here and that is indicating that is a special attack versus something like Sucker Punch. You can see that spiky explosion looking thing. That is indicating that it is a regular attack or physical attack. So knowing these stats is going to be very important to knowing how your Pokemon is built. Something new that they added in Scarlet and Violet is removing something known as Split Breeding. Basically, Pseudo-Woodles will now be able to breed out Bondsleys without the incense. Marils will be able to make the babies. Pikachu's will now be able to make Pichu's and all the baby, baby Pokemon can basically be made when you breed like it's supposed to be because I think it's weird that a Pikachu back in the day would make a Pichu and all these adult Pokemon would make the same adult Pokemon. So they basically took out incense and that's all you need to know about that. What are Pokemon natures? I opened up this Gengar just to help explain this. So we're going to go ahead to the final summary stat and you're going to see that above there it is brave in nature and what brave means is if you look at this entire diagram on the left, you can see that the attack has a red up and the speed has a blue down. So by that you can now know that every single nature that is brave is going to increase attack and decrease speed and for Gengar that's not good because he's a special attacker. So this nature is pretty much useless on it and I'm going to want a different one. So in this game there are 25 natures and a great thing that you can do is always check the natures of your Pokemon so you know what they're really good at. You can see on this chart that there is things like Bashfield, Docile, Hardy, Perky and Sirius. These do not have any benefits or they do not have any cons to them. They're just natures that stay flat. So you can determine if you would like to have that on a Pokemon. But then you have natures like Adamant, Brave, Lonely and Naughty. These all are going to be boosting attack while decreasing things like special attacks, speed, defense and special defense. A great example is if I have a powerful Pokemon that can use a lot of physical attacks and punches like a fighting Pokemon. I'm probably going to want Adamant because I'm never going to be using special attack and I just want to boost attack. So that's how you would think of natures by this chart. Moving down we have bold, impish, lax, relax. These are all going to boost defense. So Pokemon with defense are going to be able to take physical attacks and defend better against those and those also have their consequences and tradeoffs. We have modest, mild, quiet and rash. Those are all going to be great for special attackers. Those are great. A great one to look at is modest. If I have a pure special attack or Pokemon, maybe one that just shoots electric attacks and special beams and hyper beams and dragon pulses. I'm going to want to have modest because it's going to boost all that while decreasing attack and I should have no consequences because attack is going to be just physical. Moving along the list we have things like calm, careful, gentle and sassy. These are going to be reducing special defense and the ones below are really meant to speed up your Pokemon more than they should be already. You have hasty, jolly, naive and timid. Jolly is really meant for physical attackers because you're going to increase the speed while decreasing the special attack. So those are two notable ones to also take a look at when it comes to boosting speed with certain Pokemon natures. How can I get the right nature on my Pokemon in the wild? Luckily, Game Freak has created Pokemon that have this nice ability called synchronize. Now what synchronize does is if that Pokemon is the first one leading in your party it'll cause any Pokemon you interact with in the wild to be the exact same nature as the Pokemon leading your party. So if you're someone who's crazy like me you probably want to go ahead and catch a bunch of different synchronized Pokemon with natures that matter and go ahead and encounter Pokemon that you want. Now Pokemon that do have synchronized in this game are going to be Rapska which is a Dung Beetle. The evolution of it. Espeon, Umbreon has synchronized. Ralts is an area one very good Pokemon would synchronize from the early game and Indidi which is also in the game. Those Pokemon will definitely help you find natural natures so you don't have to really try to figure out how to get the right nature. It's a very good early game strat as well. There are also some very unnatural ways of making your Pokemon have the right nature and these things are called nature mints. And basically what they do is when you apply a nature mint to a Pokemon it switches the bonus and the decrease of the stat to match that nature. For example, if I had a modest Pokemon with increased special attack and decreased attack and I add an adamant mint to it it's then going to get an increase in attack and a decrease in special attack. That's all it's going to do and when I do happen to decide to breed that later that mint will not pass down to my baby. My Pokemon is still going to be the original nature that I started off with. So mints are just like an effect for your Pokemon that are currently there nothing to pass on but it's a great way to get your Pokemon to be competitive without having to go through breeding. If you need to buy nature mints you can go ahead to the chance you supply. As you unlock them they will show up there. So all you got to do is just buy them with your LP or money and adjust the Pokemon stats to match whatever nature you were going for. It's a really fast way to make a garbage Pokemon into a good Pokemon. Now this next item can be bought from the deli bird present shop. This is going to be the Everstone. Now what is the big deal about an Everstone? Everstones if you put it on a Pokemon and it's a parent it'll 100% pass down the nature from that parent to the baby. So if I had an adamant parent attached with an Everstone the babies will then be adamant just like that. So that is the natural way of passing it down and that's how you guarantee 100% passing a nature from a parent to a baby. So all three things like synchronize, nature mints and Everstones are ways you can get the buff in the proper nature that you want. Those are the ways to secure the right nature on your Pokemon. This is a really confusing thing for a lot of current Pokemon players and a lot of new players. What is the difference between IVs and EVs? The best way to remember this is I stands for inherited values or in this game it's actually called individual values and E stands for effort values and you have to think of this like I have to do effort to get these values. So IVs you are born with EVs you have to train to get these but don't worry about EVs I'm going to have a whole another video dedicated to that. In order to see IVs in the game you're going to have to complete the main three story paths and once you talk to a nurse Joy at a Pokemon center station it is then going to give you the notification that you have unlocked this feature. Now to see this feature I'm going to just open up my Pokemon menu I'm going to go ahead and click on my boxes. Once I click on my boxes I'm then going to select this Gengar and you can see something at the bottom of the screen I'm going to move my head above it right below me it's called Judge you are going to unlock Judge and once you click on Judge just like that you're going to see things on the Pokemon like decent, pretty good, best best best best. Now I'm going to pull up this chart and basically IVs like we mentioned are determined from when the Pokemon are born or when you find them out in the wild. This Gengar specifically was found in a five star Terra Raiden which pretty much confirms you're going to get high IV Pokemon from these Terra Raids and the only thing you need to know is that when a Pokemon is born it is either going to have an IV stat ranging from 0 to 31 and what you just want to have is best and best equals 31 in a stat so if it says best it is a perfect IV so this Gengar essentially is perfect in attack, special attack, HP and defense but it is decent, really bad decent is not the best in special defense so special attacks can probably do a lot of damage to my Gengar and its speed is pretty good which is not the best. Gengar I want to have as a fast Pokemon so the IVs to me matter I want Gengar to be a fast speed Pokemon and his fast special attack Pokemon so my goal is to have IVs in all of that. Now an unnatural way to gain IVs in this game is going to be by simply using these items called bottle caps. Silver bottle caps are going to increase one IV to a max stat. Gold bottle caps will increase all these stats to basically be best. Now, just like nature mints these bottle caps will not let your Pokemon pass down these enhanced IVs down to baby Pokemon but it is going to be really good if you just got a Pokemon you quickly want to change the nature you put a naturement on it and you quickly want to get its stats to 6 IV you throw some bottle caps on it and just like that you have a full blown all powerful Pokemon using these unnatural items so this is if you're going the non-breeding route which is going to cost you money and having to take down raid dens. Now there are some very important items for breeding and the big one is going to be the destiny not you can go ahead and purchase the destiny not from deli bird presence if it doesn't show up in your shop you just have to progress further in the story until it does now what exactly does the destiny not do the destiny not passes five random IVs from both parents in this graphic example I have on screen I have a male starly and a female starly and both of them are going to have six IVs each indicated by the name best on both of them when you give a destiny not to one of the starlies and they both freed it will randomly select five IVs from both parents and give it to the child in this example we got a perfect IV from HP defense and special defense from the male and from the female we got a perfect attack and speed and that is sent over the one that is not carried over in this RNG example is the special attack stat that one is going to be random anywhere from 0 to 31 so you're going to have to rely on RNG for that to kind of stop a little bit of RNG from this random destiny not that they've also been included power items in this game and this is something that you can get very early on as soon as you start your game these power items by the way can also be used for EV training but again that's going to be talked about in another video here are some of the power items you have the power bracer which is attack power belt which represents defense power lens which is special attack power band which is special defense the power anklet which is speed and power weight which is for HP now here's the fun thing if you put this power item on a parent it's going to guarantee that that specific IV from that stat is going to be 100% passed down to the baby so if I put a power bracer on a guard chomp that has a perfect 6 IV then its baby is going to have a perfect 6 IV in attack if you have two Pokémon that are 6 IV and you take a destiny knot on one parent and you put a power item on the second parent then you'll get a random 5 IV selection from both parents but the difference is one of those IVs aren't random so it's 4 random and 1 guaranteed because of the power item so this can help you when you are determining what exactly you want to have on your Pokémon another big item or breeding is going to be the shiny charm the shiny charm you can obtain once you collect every single Pokémon in the game and show that to Jacques and he will hand you the shiny charm and this is going to help boost shiny Pokémon hatching from your eggs but let's go over the shiny data real quick so you know exactly how this works so the base shiny rate without anything is 1 out of 4096 if you have the shiny charm that is going to be a 1 out of 2048 if you do the Masuda method which is taking Pokémon that has a different language or from a foreign Nintendo switch and putting it with your Pokémon on your Nintendo switch together someone trades you over so make sure you ask a friend from a different region to send you over their Pokémon especially a ditto dittos are the best because I said they can breed with everything then you're going to have a 1 out of 683 chance of having a shiny Pokémon with just the Masuda method not even the shiny charm out of 683 eggs you have a chance of one Pokémon being shiny and if you do the shiny charm plus the Masuda method together then you're going to have a 1 out of 512 chance of getting a shiny Pokémon so that's the shinies for the eggs this part is going to be talking about Pokéball Breeding what is Pokéball Breeding? it's when you're trying to get a specific Pokéball passed on to the babies so in this example on this chart we have a ditto that's caught in a regular Pokéball a Lechonk that's caught in a Duskball and it shows that if you breed any Lechonk with a ditto it can even be a genderless Pokémon like Magnemite you will then get a Lechonk with a Duskball so balls will always pass down from male or female to the baby Pokémon on the first example if you have a male Lechonk with a Pokéball and a female Lechonk with a Duskball they have a 50% chance of having either Pokéball dedicated to that Pokémon they have a 50% chance of having either Pokéball being on the babies of that Pokémon now if you take Pokémon that are part of the same egg group which we've talked about at the beginning of this video if I have a Lechonk with a Pokéball and I have a Meowth with a Duskball then the Meowth will be the one that is going to be the baby and have the Duskball basically females are going to determine the Pokémon species of the baby and they're also going to be the ones responsible for passing the balls down not the males, the females there are three Pokéballs that cannot be passed down the Master Balls the Cherish Balls and any balls that come from Hisui they're all going to be turned into Pokéballs in the game when you're trying to pass on the balls to other Pokémon and most likely the Hisui Balls will just transform into Pokéballs when they come into the game now let's talk about Hidden Ability Breeding by the way Hidden Ability doesn't just naturally spawn in a Pokémon you have to get Hidden Abilities from Terra Raid Dens or from Special Encounters or Gift Pokémon in order to have them they're not going to just be randomly appearing on a Pokémon you're breeding with you can also get Hidden Ability Pokémon by using an item drop from Raids known as the Ability Capsule but keep that in mind with Hidden Abilities so this only applies if you have a Hidden Ability Pokémon let's start off so if you have any Pokémon with a Hidden Ability and you're breeding with a Ditto you have a 60% chance of that offspring or baby Pokémon being Hidden Ability if we have a Hidden Ability Male Pokémon and a Hidden Ability Female Pokémon of the same species you're also going to have a 60% chance of having a Hidden Ability Offspring if you have a Male Pokémon and a Female Pokémon with Hidden Ability you're also going to be having a 60% chance of Hidden Ability being passed on what this can tell you is that the Female Pokémon are very important in sending down not only just Pokémon Balls and Pokémon Species but also responsible for Hidden Ability if you have a Male Pokémon with Hidden Ability with a Female Pokémon with no Hidden Ability you have a 0% chance of the Hidden Ability being on that baby Pokémon if you have a Male with Hidden Ability and a Female different species with no Hidden Ability you're going to have a 0% chance of having that offspring with Hidden Ability males just don't want to pass on their Hidden Ability a Male Lechonc with no Hidden Ability and a Meowth Female with Hidden Ability you're then going to have a 60% chance of getting that different species Pokémon with Hidden Ability now this is something new in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet and this discovery was also found out by Matt basically to share an Egg Move from another Pokémon the target must be holding a Mirror Herb this is even possible with Pokémon of different species and Egg Groups a Haruyama with Fake Out can give that move to Grookey despite them being in completely different Egg Groups this is a big deal because now Pokémon of different species if they have that Egg Move in their pool can share that move with another species by just holding that Herb so big game changers when it comes to Egg Moves and making it a lot easier for people than just having to breed these Egg Moves down let's also talk about the new one Terra Type Reading now Terra Type does not pass down for example I caught a Gengar in a Terra Raiden and it was an Electric Terra Type when I bred that Gengar with Ditto the baby Gasties were either just Poison or Ghost so they had a 50% chance of being either of the dual type Gengar so you cannot pass on different Terra Types that don't naturally belong to the Pokémon initially though I hope that makes sense there's a lot more things to talk about but you're going to have to click on this video to find out more information