Getting ready for perfect hunting can be a grueling process. It takes a lot of time and even more patience to get the perfect pokémon so you can rest easy knowing that you’re mons are going to be in tip top shape! In my little bit, I’ve learned a couple of tips and tricks to breeding perfect pokémon. Here’s what I’ve learned!
Get a good Ditto!
Having a good ditto is so important, but it’s one of the hardest pokémon to get a really good IV because of the fact it’s not breedable. If you can find a Ditto Raid or be super lucky enough to get one by a surprise trade that will help immensely. If not, you’ll have to go on a catching spree. The only really tricky thing with that is it’s actually really really unlikely you’ll get anything higher than just Great! stats when catching normally. Hypertraining also doesn’t help because hyper trained stats don’t pass through breeding.
Once you have a good ditto (normal/shiny doesn’t matter. Foreign would be good for shiny hunting but not important here) you’ll want to throw on an item. If you’re going exclusively for IVs and not worried about nature or abilities or the like, you’ll want to put a Destiny Knot on that, hopefully near perfect, Ditto. Destiny Knot is an item that passes down almost all of the stats of the parent pokemon into the baby. So if your Ditto is perfect, 5/6 of it’s stats at random will be passed down to it’s offspring. Which is awesome.
If you’re looking at going super hard into the whole breeding aspect, you’ll need two Dittos, one for each nursery. You can warp back and forth and get all the eggs in the world, and then go hunting for Chloe or watts or what have you in the mean time!
Get a decently stat pokémon you want to be perfect
I’ve always bad the best luck getting perfect IVs when I’ve had a decent Ditto and a decent base pokémon. This way, the stats that aren’t passed down by the Ditto can hopefully be filled by the other parent and they even out well. If the base parent, not Ditto, pokémon has better stats then the Ditto, it may be worth putting the Destiny Knot on the one with the higher stats. That way, you continue to get the best as fast as you can.
Breeding something not native to Galar?
For this, you’ll Everstones will come in handy! Say you have a Kanto Ponyta and want that pretty fire pony perfected. In order to ensure you get your fire type and not fairy type, you’ll need to have an Everstone on your Ponyta.
Wait Ry! That means that I can’t have my Destiny Knot on my Ponyta!
Correct! That’s why having an amazing Ditto is so much more important than having an amazing base pokémon. That way you can get all the variations from the games you love that have Galar variants! Some of these have special conditions to get and some are based on evolutions so need special items to get after the fact, but it’s completely possible tog et everything easily.
Time to get things hot
The final step is making all the eggs hatch fast. This is done by finding a fire based pokémon with the Flame Body ability. The tough thing with this ability is most times it’s hidden. There are only a handful of pokémon who have it as their main, seeable ability. If you have the base version of Sword/Shield, you’re looking for Sizzlepede and Centiscorch. If you have the expansions, in Isle of Armor Flechinder, Talonflame, Larvesta, and Volcarona are added, in Crown Tundra Magby and Magmortar have the ability too. There are also more that you could get from a super lucky surprise trade or if you use Pokémon Home to transfer in one from another game.
Don’t forget to swap out!
If you breed a pokémon with a better set of stats then the parent currently in, swap it out! The better stats in the nursery the better chance you’ll get your long coveted perfect. I, personally, will try to find one that’s all perfect but one stat and then have that one not perfect stat be fantastic. That way I know it’s as close to perfect I can get before it’s perfect and at that point I won’t pay as much attention to the stats unless they’re perfect from there on out.
