Pokémon/Breeding

To breed Pokémon, you must leave two Pokémon in the Pokémon Day-Care centre. The Day-Care in Red, Blue, and Yellow is located south of Cerulean City on Route 5. In FireRed and LeafGreen, it is located on Four Island of the Sevii Islands. The Day-Care in the Johto region is located south of Goldenrod City, on Route 34. The Day-Care centre in the Sinnoh Region is located in Solaceon Town, and the Day-Care in the Hoenn Region is located west of Mauville City, on Route 117. In Generations 2 and 3, the egg will hatch into a Lv. 5 Pokémon. In Generation 4, the egg will hatch into a Lv. 1 Pokémon. If you deposit two Pokémon in the Day-Care, 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 Day-Care will tell you how well the two Pokémon get along. The better the Pokémon get along, the faster an egg will appear, if ever. He will respond with one of the following phrases, indicating the chances of producing an egg:

• 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. 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 the lowest evolved form of the female, but there are some exceptions to this:

• A female Nidoran's egg could result in either a male or female Nidoran.
• An Illumise's egg could be an Illumise or a Volbeat.
• A Azumarill or Marill egg will usually be a Marill.
• A Wobbuffet's egg will usually be a Wobbuffet, not a Wynaut.

The Ditto Rule

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

Item effects on eggs

When breeding a female Wobbuffet or Azumarill (or Marill) the egg will generally hatch into same Pokémon. But, a Wobbuffet with a Lax Incense will produce a Wynaut egg. Similarly, an Azumarill or Marill with a Sea Incense will create a Azurill. This is known as the Incense Rule. Items can have various effects on the Pokémon in the egg. Some Pokémon will inherit moves or natures from their parents, for example, a Pikachu holding a Light Ball will produce a Pichu that knows Volt Tackle, or a Ditto and a Parent holding an Everstone have a 50% chance of producing a Pokémon with the same nature as the Parent. For other items and their effects see the item sections.

Inherited/Egg moves

When breeding, the Pokémon that hatches from the egg will be the same species of the mother (except when the Ditto Rule is applied). The egg Pokémon usually inherits moves from its father. There are several ways a Pokémon can inherit moves. Inherited moves are moves that a Pokémon would not normally learn, but inherits through breeding.

• If the father has learned a TM move, the baby will hatch knowing 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, FireRed, LeafGreen, Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, HeartGold, and SoulSilver, if you carry a Pokémon with the ability Magma Armour or Flame Body in the party slot next to the egg, the number of steps needed to hatch the egg is halved.

Baby Pokémon

Baby Pokémon were introduced in the Generation II games as pre-evolutions to existing Pokémon, and are usually only available by breeding. These baby Pokémon are listed below:

• Togepi
• Cleffa
• Igglybuff
• Elekid
• Magby
• Azurill
• Wynaut
• Smoochum
• Pichu
• Bonsly
• Mime Jr.
• Happiny
• Phione
• Mantyke
• Chingling
• Budew

Incense Rule

If certain species of Pokémon hold a certain incense when breeding, then you will get its baby form. There are quite a few Pokémon that can do this:

• Marill or Azumarill with Sea Incense to get Azurill (Gen. 3 and 4)
• Wobbuffet with Lax Incense to get Wynaut (Gen. 3 and 4)
• Roselia or Roserade with Rose Incense to get Budew (Gen. 4)
• Chimecho with Pure Incense to get Chingling (Gen. 4)
• Sudowoodo with Rock Incense to get Bonsly (Gen. 4)
• Mr. Mime with Odd Incense to get Mime Jr. (Gen. 4)
• Chansey or Blissey with Luck Incense to get Happiny (Gen. 4)
• Snorlax with Full Incense to get Munchlax (Gen. 4)
• Mantine with Wave Incense to get Mantyke (Gen. 4)

Hatching

After you get the egg from the Day-Care Man, you need to hatch the egg. Hop on your Bicycle, and go on a long ride somewhere, as the time an egg takes to hatch is based 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. Some of the amounts of steps are:

# of Steps	Pokémon
1,280	Magikarp
2,560	Azurill, Cleffa, Igglypuff, Pichu, Togepi
3,840	Caterpie, Corphish, Geodude, Hoothoot, Illumise, Ledyba, Lotad, Nincada, Pidgey, Poochyena, Rattata, Seedot, Sentret, Shroomish, Skitty, Slakoth, Spearow, Spinarak, Spinda, Surskit, Tailow, Volbeat, Wurmple, Zigzagoon, Zubat
5,120	Abra, Aipom, Baltoy, Barboach, Bellsprout, Bulbasaur, Cacnea, Carvanha, Charmander, Chikorita, Chinchou, Clamperl, Corsola, Cubone, Cyndaquil, Delibird, Diglett, Ditto, Doduo, Drowzee, Dunsparce, Ekans, Electrike, Exeggcute, Farfetch'd, Feebas, Gastly, Girafarig, Gligar, Goldeen, Grimer, Growlithe, Gulpin, Hoppip, Horsea, Houndour, Kangaskhan, Kecleon, Koffing, Krabby, Lickitung, Luvdisc, Machop, Magnemite, Makuhita, Mankey, Mareep, Mawile, Meditite, Meowth, Miltank, Minum, Mudkip, Murkrow, Natu, Nidoran♀, Nidoran♂, Nosepass, Numel, Oddish, Paras, Phanphy, Pineco, Plusle, Poliwag, Ponyta, Porygon, Psyduck, Qwilfish, Ralts, Remoraid, Rhyhorn, Roselia, Seel, Seviper, Shellder, Shuckle, Slowpoke, Slugma, Spheal, Spoink, Squirtle, Stantler, Staryu, Sudowoodo, Sunkern, Swablu, Swinub, Tangela, Tauros, Teddiursa, Tentacool, Torchic, Torkoal, Trapinch, Treecko, Voltorb, Vulpix, Whismer, Wingull, Wooper, Wynaut, Yanma, Zangoose
6,400	Absol, Castform, Chimecho, Duskull, Elekid, Heracross, Lunatone, Magby, Mantine, Misdreavus, Mr. Mime, Onix, Pinsir, Sableye, Sandshrew, Scyther, Shuppet, Skarmory, Smoochum, Solrock, Tropius, Tyrogue, Venonat
7,680	Anorith, Kabuto, Lileep, Omanyte
8,960	Aerodactyl, Aron, Eevee
10,240	Bagon, Beldum, Chansey, Dratini, Lapras, Larvitar, Relicanth, Snorlax, Wailmer

Also, legendaries can be hatched from eggs via GameShark or Action Replay:

# of Steps	Pokémon
30,720	Mew, Mewtwo, Celebi, Ho-oh, Lugia, Deoxys, Jirachi, Rayquaza, Groudon, Kyrogre, Latios, Latias
20,480	Moltres, Zapados, Articuno, Suicune, Entei, Raikou, Registeel, Regice, Regirock

Eggs hatch into Pokémon at Level 5 in Generation II and III and at Level 1 in Generation IV,. You may notice by looking at the egg's status in your party that the Trainer Memo sometimes changes depending on how many steps you've taken – this can help determine how many more steps you must take before the egg will hatch. The type, OT, and IDNo values are all ???, but by using this Breeding Guide you should be able to find out what moves the baby Pokémon will have.

Egg groups

All Pokémon belong to at least one group, but certain Pokémon fall into more than one group. Two Pokémon can only breed if they are in the same egg group. The list of egg groups are as follows:

• Dragon
• Fairy
• Field
• Flying
• Genderless
• Human-like
• Indeterminate
• Insect
• Grass
• Mineral/ Rock
• Monster
• Unbreedable
• Water A
• Water B
• Water C

Pokémon fall as follows into the groups:

Flying	Dragon	Fairy	Ground			Genderless
Aerodactyl Altaria Chatot Crobat Dodrio Doduo Farfetch'd Fearow Golbat Honchkrow Hoothoot Murkrow Natu Noctowl Pelipper Pidgeot Pidgeotto Pidgey Skarmory Spearow Staraptor Staravia Starly Swellow Swablu Taillow Togekiss Togetic Wingull Xatu Zubat	Altaria Arbok Bagon Charizard Charmander Charmeleon Dragonair Dragonite Dratini Ekans Feebas Grovyle Gyarados Horsea Kingdra Magikarp Milotic Salamance Sceptile Seadra Seviper Shelgon Swablu Treecko	Azumarill Blissey Breloom Castform Chansey Clefable Clefairy Delcatty Hoppip Jigglypuff Jumpfluff Glalie Granbull Marill Mawile Minum Pikachu Plusle Raichu Roselia Shroomish Skiploom Skitty Snorunt Snubbull Togetic Wigglytuff	Absol Aipom Ampharos Arbok Arcanine Blaziken Camerupt Combusken Cyndaquil Delcatty Delibird Dewgong Diglett Donphan Dugtrio Dunsparce Eevee Ekans Electrike Espeon Exploud Farfetch'd Flaffy Flareon Furret Girafarig Golduck Granbull Growlithe Grumpig Houndoom Houndour Jolteon Kecleon	Linoone Loudred Manectric Mankey Mareep Mawile Meowth Mightyena Miltank Nidoking Nidoran♀ Nidoran♂ Nidorino Ninetales Numel Nuzleaf Persian Phanphy Pikachu Piloswine Poochyena Ponyta Primeape Psyduck Quagsire Quilava Raichu Rapidash Raticate Rattata Rhydon Rhyhorn Sandshrew Sandslash	Sealeo Seedot Seel Seviper Shiftry Skitty Slaking Slakoth Smeargle Sneasel Snubbull Spheal Spinda Spoink Stantler Swinub Tauros Teddiursa Torchic Torkoal Typhlosion Umbreon Ursaring Vaporeon Vigoroth Vulpix Wailmer Wailord Walrein Whismur Wooper Zangoose Zigzagoon	Baltoy Beldum Claydol Ditto Electrode Lunatone Magnemite Magneton Metagross Metang Porygon Porygon2 Shedinja Solrock Starmie Staryu Voltorb
Grass		Human-Like	Indeterminate	Insect		Mineral/Rock
Bayleef Bellossom Bellsprout Breloom Bulbasaur Cacnea Cacturne Chikorita Exeggcute Exeggutor Gloom Hoppip Ivysaur Jumpluff Lombre Lotad Ludicolo	Meganium Oddish Paras Parasect Roselia Shiftry Shroomish Skiploom Sunflora Sunkern Tangela Tropius Venusaur Victreebell Vileplume Weepinbell	Abra Alakazam Cacnea Cacturne Drowzee Electabuzz Hariyama Hitmonchan Hitmonlee Hitmontop Hypno Illumise Jynx Kadabra Machamp Machoke Machop Magmar Makuhita Medicham Meditite Mr Mime Sableye Spinda Volbeat	Banette Castform Chimecho Dusclops Duskull Gardevior Gastly Gengar Grimer Gulpin Haunter Kirlia Koffing Magcargo Misdreavus Muk Ralts Shuppet Slugma Swalot Weezing Wobbuffet	Ariados Beautifly Beedrill Butterfree Cascoon Caterpie Dustox Forretress Flygon Gligar Heracross Illumise Kakuna Ledian Ledyba Masquerain Metapod Nincada Ninjask	Paras Parasect Pineco Pinsir Scizor Scyther Shuckle Silcoon Spinarak Surskit Trapinch Venomoth Venonat Vibrava Volbeat Weedle Wurmple Yanma	Geodude Glalie Golem Graveller Nosepass Onix Snorunt Steelix Sudowoodo
Monster		Unbreedable	Water A		Water B	Water C
Aggron Ampharos Aron Bayleef Blastoise Bulbasaur Charizard Charmander Charmeleon Chikorita Croconaw Cubone Exploud Feraligatr Flaffy Grovyle Ivysaur Kangaskhan Lairon Lapras Larvitar Lickitung Loudred Mareep Marowak	Marshtomp Meganium Mudkip Nidoking Nidoran♀ Nidoran♂ Nidorino Pupitar Rhyhorn Rhydon Sceptile Snorlax Slowbro Slowking Slowpoke Squirtle Swampert Treecko Totodile Tropius Tyranitar Venusaur Wartortle Whismur	Articuno Azurill Celebi Cleffa Deoxys Elekid Entei Groudon Ho-oh Igglybuff Jirachi Kyogre Latias Latios Lugia Magby Mew Mewtwo Moltres Nidoqueen Nidorina Pichu Raikou Rayquaza Regice Regirock Registeel Smoochum Suicune Togepi Tyrogue Unown Wynaut Zapdos	Azumarill Blastoise Clamperl Corsola Crawdaunt Croconaw Corphish Dewgong Dragonair Dragonite Dratini Feebas Feraligatr Golduck Gorebyss Horsea Huntail Kabuto Kabutops Kingdra Lapras Lombre Lotad Ludicolo Mantine Marill Marshtomp Masquerain	Milotic Mudkip Octillery Omanyte Omastar Pelipper Politoed Poliwag Poliwrath Poliwhirl Psyduck Quagsire Relicanth Remoraid Seadra Sealeo Seel Slowbro Slowking Slowpoke Spheal Squirtle Surskit Swampert Totodile Walrein Wartortle Wingull	Barboach Carvanha Chinchou Goldeen Gyarados Lanturn Luvdisc Magikarp Octillery Qwilfish Relicanth Remoraid Seaking Sharpedo Wailord Wailmer Whiscash	Anorith Armaldo Cloyster Corsola Corphish Cradily Crawdaunt Kabuto Kabutops Kingler Krabby Lileep Omanyte Omastar Shellder Tentacool Tentacruel