Pokemon Scarlet and Violet Egg and Breeding Guide

Breeding is an important part of the Pokémon main series, whether you’re hatching eggs to complete your Pokédex or assembling a competitive team with flawless stats. While the main breeding mechanisms have remained the same since their inception gold and Silver, Pokemon scarlet and violet make a few important changes. Our Pokemon scarlet and violet Eggs and Breeding Guide describes how to get and hatch Eggs, what items are needed to breed them, and how to breed the best Pokémon possible.

Which Pokémon can breed?

Pokémon are compatible if they share one egg group and are opposite sexes; The resulting egg will be the same species as the female parent.

Alternatively, you can pair a Pokémon of any gender with one Dito breed more non-Ditto Pokemon, and this is the only way to breed sexless Pokemon like Voltorb or Pokemon that can only be male. Keep in mind that certain Pokemon, including some genderless Pokemon and most Legendary and Mythical Pokemon, are in the “undiscovered” egg group and cannot breed at all.

How to get Scarlet and Purple Pokémon Eggs

In a big change from previous Pokémon games, there’s no daycare where you can leave two Pokémon to spawn eggs. Instead, you can find eggs while on a picnic.

Make sure you have two compatible Pokemon in your party – it’s easiest if you put the other four in your Pokemon Boxes, which you can access from the menu – and prepare a picnic. The next step is to wait! Walking around, making sandwiches, hanging out. After some time, Pokémon Eggs should appear in the basket next to your picnic table. Press A next to the basket to collect the eggssent to your Pokémon Boxes.

You can increase egg spawning rate by eating a meal with the eggs egg power Bonus. Restaurants around Paldea sell food with this meal power, and you can also make your own sandwiches with the egg power effect during the picnic.

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How to hatch eggs

Once you’ve collected some eggs, it’s time to hatch them. To do this, just put the eggs in your party and walk around (or ride Koraidon/Miraidon).. (Some species take longer to hatch than others, so be patient.) Keep in mind that you’ll always need at least one non-Egg Pokémon in your party, and unlike collecting Eggs, you’ll actually need to move around to hatch them – idle doesn’t count.

To speed up the hatching process, you can include a Pokémon Flaming Body, Magma Armor, or Steam Engine abilities in your party. The most efficient way to hatch Eggs is to limit your party to just that Pokemon, with Eggs taking up the remaining five slots. The Egg Power bonus also makes eggs hatch faster, so try to hatch eggs while the bonus is still active.

Pokemon one scarlet and violet which can have flame body, magma armor and/or steam engine:

• Fletchinder and Talon Flame
• Larvesta and Volcarona
• Rolycoly, Carkol and Coalossal
• camerupt

How to learn Egg Moves and where to get Mirror Herb

scarlet and violet Also, make a convenient change to Egg Moves, or moves that a Pokemon could previously only learn through breeding. Like farming itself, it’s also tied to picnics, and you’ll need a brand new item, the Mirrorweedto make it work.

Add a Pokémon that knows the Egg move you want and the Pokémon you want to teach the Egg move to your party. give the latter a mirrorweed to hold and then organize a picnic. The Pokémon holding Mirrorweed can learn any Egg-type move its type can learn from any other Pokémon in your party, even if they’re the same gender, different species, or in different Egg groups. That way, you don’t have to breed a brand new Pokemon just for the Egg Move.

You can buy mirrorweed from the Delibird Presents store on the second level of Cascarrafa. You are under “combat items‘, and each costs 30,000. In battle, these are disposable items, so discard them before battle so you don’t lose them!

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Helpful items for breeding Pokémon

As in previous games, the parent Pokémon can hold items to affect what is passed on to the resulting eggs. These items include the immerstein and the destiny knotand using them is the most effective way to breed a Pokemon with the stats and nature you want.

A parent holding an Everstone passes its nature, which affects how its stats evolve, to the resulting Pokemon. Giving the other parent a Fate Knot to hold will ensure that five IVs (or base stats) are passed from the parent’s collective 12 base stats, meaning only one stat will be randomized and not multiple.

With or without held items, eggs inherit:

• IVsbut without a Fate Node, more base stats are randomized
• Capability, although it’s not a 100% chance if the Pokemon has more than one possible ability; Hidden Ability is inherited from the female parent unless bred with Ditto
• Most types of Poké Balls — females if they are different species; 50/50 chance of both parents if species is the same; Non-Ditto Parents when paired with Ditto
• Egg movesas well as certain moves from the Pokémon’s usual movepool

Eggs do not inherit:

• electric vehicles (Effort values ​​that affect stat growth and are separate from base stats)
• Natureif neither parent owns an Everstone
• master ball and Treasure ball; The resulting Pokémon has a regular Poké Ball instead

Get the baby Pokémon from eggs

Note that unlike previous games, you no longer need incense items to breed the “baby” Pokémon like Azurill and Bonsly from their respective evolutions like Marill and Sudowoodo. Instead, all of these Pokémon’s eggs will hatch as baby or pre-evolved.

For example, in previous games, breeding Marill or Azumarill without the Sea Incense item resulted in Marill Eggs and not Marill’s pre-evolution, Azurill. Now each egg of a Marill or Azumarill hatches an Azurill, so you don’t have to sacrifice an Everstone or Destiny Knot to breed the baby Pokemon.

Brilliant hunting with the Masuda method

As Jacq alludes to in a biology lesson, the Masuda method still exists in scarlet and violet. If you pair two compatible Pokemon from different language versions of the game, the resulting eggs have an increased chance of being shiny. This stacks with the Shiny Charm to increase your Shiny chances when breeding.

Here’s how to choose your parent Pokemon

When breeding Pokémon, it helps to start with good parents. Tera Raid battles, especially 5- and 6-star Pokemon, are the most efficient way to find Pokemon with multiple perfect stats (and maybe some Egg-type moves), and Terastal Pokemon you find in the wild also have some perfect stats . On the other hand, regular wild Pokemon are unlikely to have good stats.

First, you should check the parent Pokemon’s base stats (IVs). You can check IVs once you’ve completed all of the story quests and seen the game’s credits. Speak to the woman at any Pokémon Center who will tell you about the “judge function‘ in your Pokémon boxes. Once you’ve unlocked the judge feature, you can press the plus button while looking at any Pokemon in your boxes to change the view to its IVs. Our full IV training guide has more details on how this works.

For example, for a Special Attack, you want at least one parent to have a perfect Special Attack IV (and ideally a few other perfect IVs). You also want to make sure that one of the parents has the nature you want the resulting Pokemon to have; In the Special Attack example, you might want the Humility, which increases Special Attack and lowers Attack, since this Pokemon doesn’t need a good Attack stat. The parent with the right nature keeps the Everstone in breeding, while the other Pokemon gets the Fate Knot.

As you breed, you hatch better and better Pokémon. You can swap out one parent for another with better stats as you go.