Pokémon/Breeding

To breed Pokémon, you must leave two Pokémon in the Daycare centre. The Daycare in the Kanto Region is located on the fourth of the Sevi Isles, the Daycare in the Sinnoh Region is located in Solaceon Town, and the Daycare in the Hoenn Region is located in Mauville City. In Generation 3, the egg will hatch to a Lv 5 Pokémon. In Generation 4, the egg will hatch into a Lv 1 Pokémon. If you deposit two Pokémon, there is a possibility that that they may leave an egg, depending on the circumstances.


 * 1) Both Pokémon must be in the same Egg group. If two different Pokémon are used in the breeding process, the baby Pokémon will be the same species as the mother.
 * 2) There must be one male and one female (unless the Ditto Rule is used).

The Pokémon must be given enough time to breed. This time will vary. The Old Man standing outside the Daycare will tell you how well the two Pokémon get along. The more the Pokémon get along, the faster an egg will appear. He will respond to one of the following things that will cause you to have an egg or not:


 * They seem to get along well: 70%
 * They seem to get along: 50%
 * They don't seem to like each other: 30%
 * They prefer to play with other Pokémon: 0%

After this is said, start walking, and after a certain number of steps, if the conditions are right, an egg will be produced. Regardless of the percentage, if they have a base chance higher than 0%, enough steps will get you an egg. The resulting Pokémon should be in the form of the lowest evolution of the female, but there are some exceptions to this:
 * A Nidoran female's egg could result in a Nidoran male or a Nidoran female.
 * An Illumise's egg could be an or a.
 * A Azumarill or Marill egg will usually be a Marill.
 * A Wobbuffet's egg will usually be a Wobufett, not a Wynaut.

The Ditto Rule
The one Pokémon that ignores the second rule is .A Ditto can be used as a substitute of another Pokémon. Some Pokémon are genderless, like, and can breed with a Ditto. Other species like are male-only, thus breeding with a Ditto would yield an egg Nidoran. Any Pokémon not in the unbreedable group can breed with a Ditto. Dittos cannot be used to breed most Legendary Pokemon, however is the only method of obtaining, by breeding a Ditto with a.

Item effects on eggs
When breeding a female Wobbuffet or Azumarill (or Marill) they will end up the same Pokémon normally. But a Wobbuffet with a Lax Incense will create a Wynaut. And a Azumarill or Marill with a Sea Incense will create a Azurill. So items can have an effect on the Pokémon in the egg. Some Pokémon change their Inheritance such as a Pikachu holding a Light Ball will get a Pichu that knows Volt Tackle. Sometimes they have effects on natures, for example a Ditto and a Parent holding an Everstone has a 50% chance of getting the same nature as the Parent. For other items and their effects see the item sections.

Inherited/Egg moves
When breeding, the mother passes her ability and species to her baby. The baby's father is the primary contributor to passing on moves. There are several ways a Pokémon can inherit moves. Inherited moves are moves that a Pokémon would not normally learn, but inherits through breeding. There are several ways for a Pokémon to inherit a move.
 * If the father has learned a TM move, the baby will hatch with the TM move, assuming it is capable of learning that move.
 * If the father knows a move that is on the offspring's egg move list, (a list of moves that can only be learned through breeding) then the baby will be born with the egg move.
 * If both parents know a specific move on the baby's level-up move list, then the baby will hatch knowing that move.

Quick Hatching
In Emerald, Fire Red, Leaf Green, Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum if you carry around a Pokémon with the ability Magma Armour or Flame Body as well as the egg the number of steps needed to hatch eggs is halved.

Baby Pokémon
Baby Pokémon were introduced in second generation games as pre-evolutions to existing Pokémon only available by breeding. These baby Pokémon are listed below:
 * Togepi
 * Cleffa
 * Igglybuff
 * Elekid
 * Magby
 * Azurill
 * Wynaut
 * Smoochum
 * Pichu
 * Bonsly
 * Mime Jr.
 * Happini
 * Phione

Incense Rule
If a Pokémon holds an incense when breeding, then you will get its baby form. There are quite a few Pokémon that can do this, including:
 * or with Sea Incense to get  (Gen 3 and 4)
 * with Lax Incense to get (Gen 3 and 4)
 * or with Rose Incense to get  (Gen 4)
 * with Pure Incense to get (Gen 4)
 * with Rock Incense to get (Gen 4)
 * with Odd Incense to get (Gen 4)
 * or with Luck Incense to get  (Gen 4)
 * with Full Incense to get (Gen 4)
 * with Wave Incense to get (Gen 4)

Hatching
After you get the egg from the Daycare Man you need to hatch the egg. Hop on your bike and go on a long ride somewhere, as the time an egg takes to hatch depends on the number of steps you take, so keep on doing this until the egg hatches. If you really want, you can go back and forth between areas to hatch your egg. Every Pokémon takes a different amount of steps to hatch. Here are a few of the amounts:

Also, legendaries become hatchable via GameShark or Action Replay:

All Pokémon in the Third Generation hatch at Level 5. You may notice by looking at the eggs status in your party that the Trainer Memo sometimes changes depending on how many steps you've taken – this comes in handy quite a lot. The type, OT, and IDNo are all ???, but using this Breeding Guide you should be able to find out its moves and the Pokémon it will be.

Egg groups
All Pokémon belong to a group, but a particular Pokémon may be in more than one group. Two Pokémon can only breed if they are in the same egg group. Here's the list:


 * Dragon
 * Fairy-like
 * Field
 * Flying
 * Genderless
 * Human-like
 * Indeterminate
 * Insect
 * Grass
 * Mineral/ Rock
 * Monster
 * Unbreedable
 * Water a
 * Water b
 * Water c

Pokémon fall this way into the groups: