Breeding Guide

Breeding is a method used to obtain a new Pokémon by producing and hatching an Egg.

How to breed
Two Pokémon can breed when you leave them at the Day Care. In order to breed, these Pokémon need to be in the same Egg Group and have the opposite gender. Additionally, Genderless Pokémon can only breed with Formling, and Pokémon in the Undiscovered (Egg Group) cannot breed at all.

Information on the breeding data of Pokémon can be found at the List of Pokémon by breeding stats.

Breeding rate
The chance of any two Pokémon producing an Egg is determined by their species and their Original Trainers(OT). The Day-Care Man will describe the two Pokémon's compatibility when the player speaks to him. The Oval Charm also increases the chance to obtain an egg. An Egg may be generated after every 256 steps the player takes.

Inheriting stats
A Pokémon normally inherits 3 of its IVs from one of their parents. The other 3 IVs will be random.

If a parent is holding a Destiny Knot, 5 IVs will be passed down and only 1 will be random. If a parent is holding a Power Item, the stat that Power Item boosts will always be inherited and always from that parent.

Inheriting Natures
If a parent is holding an Everstone, its Nature will always be passed down.

Inheriting Abilities
An Egg's ability depends on the ability of the female parent, having 80% chance to be the same (including HA), and 20% chance to be a random non-hidden ability.

Hatching Eggs
Eggs will hatch after the player travels a specific amount of steps with the egg in their party. The number of steps needed vary depending on the species of Pokémon and can be found on the List of Pokémon by breeding stats or the Pokémon's own page.

Having a pokemon with the ability or the  ability halves the number of steps needed to hatch the egg. However, this does not stack if there are multiple members of the party with either of these abilities.

Egg Moves
Moves that are registered as egg moves of a certain Pokémon will be passed down if either its mother or father has the move. They are relearnable from the Move Reminder in Sailport Town if they are somehow forgotten.

Moves that the Pokémon can learn by leveling up can be passed down to the offspring if both parents have the move when producing the egg. Moves passed down this way cannot be relearnt at the Move Relearner.

TM moves can also be passed down, if the father knows it and the offspring can also learn it.

Shiny Pokemon
The chances of breeding a shiny Pokémon are the same as finding one in the wild and can be increased by having the Shiny Charm. The parents being shiny has no effect.