Hidden Power breeding is very annoying sometimes. Try breeding for HP Ice anything, and like 1/2 of all your good IV pokes have HP Dragon or Dark. Its really annoying. I find myself screaming + or - 1 def!
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Annoying Breeding Moments
- Thread starter Goodbar
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At least you get the right natures >_>;; Even with the everstone, I'm lucky if I get ONE right nature within 30 tries. It got to the point where I checked three times to make sure that the female was holding it.
But that's not the most frustrating thing that's happened to me. Pain Split Spiritomb... I was breeding for a good female to pass the nature down to (see above) and after I finally did that, I start breeding. Well the first SEVEN eggs I hatched lacked Pain Split! Maybe I'd forgotten to pull out the eggs? Well, that's impossible. I'd already dumped the remaining ones in the box. So seven eggs later, I *finally* start getting Pain Split to show up. That was frustrating. I don't even understand why it wasn't working. But then, after that, it was hell getting a Relaxed one. Don't even think about IVs...
when i was breeding in emerald, getting the abilities was kinda difficult.
But the most annoying moment was hatching pokes who got the wrong nature or abilities (for about 15 abras, 7 of them were adamant and Synchronize, 3 of them were Docile and Inner Focus, 4 of them were a mix of Naughty and Quiet) and one had the perfect things...but a zero in SPECIAL ATTACK! argh!
But the most annoying moment was hatching pokes who got the wrong nature or abilities (for about 15 abras, 7 of them were adamant and Synchronize, 3 of them were Docile and Inner Focus, 4 of them were a mix of Naughty and Quiet) and one had the perfect things...but a zero in SPECIAL ATTACK! argh!
I find it really annoying how there's always one stat that you need that you don't get (it's usually HP for me), and there's another stat that you don't need that gets the IV you need in the first stat.
Just for me it is nature obtaining. Ugh, what I would give for a Timid, Adamant, Jolly and Modest ditto with good ev's!
You have no idea.
I breed in Sapphire. No Everstone, Magma Armor, or even Ditto. Lovely. Still I have random nice Nosepass running all over the place (I was breeding for HPIce) and managed to get a 31/26/30/30/31/31 Timid Castform with HPWater (Pretty much only useful on the Ice form, but it's not like Castform can use a lot of HPs with that huge movepool) another Castform that might be 5-31 (But is Careful) and another Docile 4 31 that I use as a parent.
Expectably, this took a lot of time.
I breed in Sapphire. No Everstone, Magma Armor, or even Ditto. Lovely. Still I have random nice Nosepass running all over the place (I was breeding for HPIce) and managed to get a 31/26/30/30/31/31 Timid Castform with HPWater (Pretty much only useful on the Ice form, but it's not like Castform can use a lot of HPs with that huge movepool) another Castform that might be 5-31 (But is Careful) and another Docile 4 31 that I use as a parent.
Expectably, this took a lot of time.
This is exactly why I don't get people can invest so many time in the daunting task that is breeding.
I invested in an Action Replay. I have to say, 'breeding' Pokemon has never been easier! It may be cheating, but my god, I just stopped enjoying the games once I started learning about breeding for stuff.
You have to tap it to make it reset; I tap mine every five seconds... well, I did before I got so frustrated, I bought an AR.
Seconding the Hidden Power breeding.
God, why doesn't the game just randomizes an even Defense? I have plenty of Ralts and Misdreavus and [whatever else] that doesn't have something like HP 68+ because of one Defense point -_- While the Attack is even...
And sometimes I forgot to pick the egg (I do soft-resetting) and starts racing without it too, lol. At least I don't breed for Bagons anymore.
And when you don't have any more Rare Candies and just one Exp. Share, it turns out somewhat annoying to check the IV's. Good thing is, at level 10, mostly all stats for the majority of the pokémon will be 30-31 at their highest (for instance, a Ralts with 30 IV SAtk will have 17 stat, while a 29 IV will have 16).
God, why doesn't the game just randomizes an even Defense? I have plenty of Ralts and Misdreavus and [whatever else] that doesn't have something like HP 68+ because of one Defense point -_- While the Attack is even...
And sometimes I forgot to pick the egg (I do soft-resetting) and starts racing without it too, lol. At least I don't breed for Bagons anymore.
And when you don't have any more Rare Candies and just one Exp. Share, it turns out somewhat annoying to check the IV's. Good thing is, at level 10, mostly all stats for the majority of the pokémon will be 30-31 at their highest (for instance, a Ralts with 30 IV SAtk will have 17 stat, while a 29 IV will have 16).
Breeding Lucario is simply annoying in general. Riolu is considered a pre-evolution in regards that it can't breed, and yet you get them every time you breed Lucario. This means every time you hatch one that you want to breed again, you have to go through the annoying process of maxing it's happiness and evolving it in the daytime. No 'baby becomes the mother/father immediately' stuff here.
Getting egg moves on one was also a serious pain in the ass.
Getting egg moves on one was also a serious pain in the ass.
Tell me about it. I'm going for HP Ice, and it's proving really fucking annoying. It's gonna take a miracle to get a female with perfect speed, special attack and special defense. My chances aren't good at all...
So, so true.
I had the same problem when I was breeding my Pikachu's. For anyone that hasn't realised, I found the easiest way was to breed two projects at a time, and keep and Parents-to-be Pichu's in my party to get happy while I bound back and forth breeding, in this case, Anoriths.
Lucario is hands down the hardest Pokemon to breed in the game.
- Hatched version is in the No Egg group
- Happiness evolution required to breed further
- Evolution can only occur during specific hours in the day
- 12.5% chance of female
- 2 possible abilities (thankfully their nearly identical)
Right now I've got my Alert to Sounds Riolu that I'm looking to breed with my max attack Ditto. Any suggestions for evolving it quickly that don't involve spending a fortune on Vitamins?
- Hatched version is in the No Egg group
- Happiness evolution required to breed further
- Evolution can only occur during specific hours in the day
- 12.5% chance of female
- 2 possible abilities (thankfully their nearly identical)
Right now I've got my Alert to Sounds Riolu that I'm looking to breed with my max attack Ditto. Any suggestions for evolving it quickly that don't involve spending a fortune on Vitamins?
I have 2 suggestions;
~I used this method while evolving a Togepi - Go to the Fuego Ironworks, and find a long strip ending in a panel going back the other way. If you tape down your D-Pad and leave it overnight, while letting the Riolu hold a Soothe Bell, it's happiness should be large enough to evolve by morning. You just level, and it's done.
~I found while carrying a CHansey while I EV'ed another Pokemon, that it evolved quite quickly while I walked, though I don't know how effective this is. By the time I finished EV'ing/Pokerus transferring, I levelled her to Blissey in one battle.
I've got the same issue right now, I'm breeding for Pichu. On average, just battling with it while holding a Soothe Bell, it takes till level 22 - 25 to evolve.