All About Breeding

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When a Skitty Loves a Wailord...

Victory Road and its predecessor, Route 29, are both heavily based on Pokemon Gold and Silver. These games were the first to introduce breeding to the world of Pokemon, so naturally, breeding is a big part of Victory Road!

Just like in the games, every type of Pokemon lays eggs. How? It is a mystery. Nobody's ever seen it actually happen but there's no doubt about it--where there's a clutch of eggs there will soon follow the pitter patter of little paws, flippers, claws, hooves, and whatever else Pokemon have. The eggs are roughly the size of an ostrich egg, are white, and have pale green spots all over. It is impossible to tell what might come out of one!

Pokemon don't need a special daycare center to produce eggs. Plenty of trainers have discovered their Growlithe happily nestled in their hotel closet with a fresh batch of eggs. To produce a clutch of eggs, a male and female Pokemon from within the same Egg Group are required.

Clutch size depends on whether the breeding was overseen by a Breeder or a Trainer. Trainers, Breeders,
and Rockets may all have their Pokemon produce eggs but being a Breeder comes with special perks. Pairings overseen by Breeders will produce more eggs and are the only pairings that may produce shiny Pokemon, even if a Rocket or Trainer were breeding two shiny Pokemon together.

BREEDING BASICS

Breeders begin their journeys the same way as Trainers, in New Bark Town with a level 5 Pokémon. However, their goal is not to gain badges (though they are free to do so) but instead to breed the best Pokémon possible! Being a Breeder comes with some pretty sweet perks too!

Breeder Perks:

No Badge Necessary to use an HM move! All you need to do is borrow the disc itself from a trainer, and you're set!

Breeding Shinies! Only registered Breeders can obtain shiny pokémon eggs through breeding.

Breeding more Pokémon than trainers.

Every Clutch is Like a Box of Chocolates

First, let's see which Pokemon are actually able to breed. To determine this, you will have to check which Egg Group your parents-to-be are in! Egg groups limit the kind and number of Pokémon your Pokémon can mate with to produce eggs. Simply look up your Pokémon on Bulbapedia or any pokémon wiki. Both pokémon must be in the same Egg Group, but not necessarily the same species, to breed.

Next it's time to see how many eggs a pairing will produce and how long it will take the eggs to hatch by looking at the Egg Cycle chart. Egg Cycles are an indicator of a Pokémon's rarity: typically, the higher the number of cycles, the rarer that Pokémon is and the less eggs it will give out each month. Trainers may breed Pokémon, just as breeders may earn badges; but trainers only get half the monthly allotment of eggs that breeders do. To find out how many eggs your Pokémon can produce, just look here:

Egg Cycles More Info on Egg Cycles List of Pokemon by Base Egg Cycles Numbers inside of [BRACKETS] are for Trainers and Rockets.
egg cycles	avg. eggs laid /month	time to hatch
6	10-12 [5-6]	2-3 days
11	8-10 [4-5]	4-5 days
16	6-8 [3-4]	4-5 days
21	5-6 [2-3]	7-8 days
26	4-5 [2-3]	10-12 days
31	3-4 [2]	12-14 days
36	2-3 [2]	14-16 days
41	1-2 [1]	18-21 days

The mother's egg cycles trump the father's, and in a Ditto mating, the non-Ditto's egg cycles do.

Finally, now that we know how many eggs there are and how long those eggs will take to hatch, it's time to decide what will be inside! To start, all Pokemon eggs have a 75% chance of being the same species as their mother. The father helps provide the Egg Moves.

To calculate these odds, go here. From there, follow the diagrams found here. (Thanks, Cassie!)

All About Egg Moves

Some Pokemon are lucky enough to be blessed with some pretty killer move sets right out of the egg!

Babies from same-species pairings will inherit:
- Any move both parents know that the babies can learn by leveling up but without evolving.
- Any TM move that the parents know that the babies can learn without evolving.
- Any egg move the father can transmit through breeding; check the wiki page to see under "by breeding" moves. Pichu Example for where you want to look.

Babies who are the father's species will inherit:
- Any move both parents know that the babies can learn by leveling up but without evolving.
- Any TM move that mother knows that the babies can learn without evolving.
- Any egg move the father can transmit through breeding; check the wiki page to see under "by breeding" moves. Pichu Example for where you want to look.

Babies who are the mother's species will inherit:
- Any move both parents know that the babies can learn by leveling up but without evolving.
- Any TM move that father knows that the babies can learn without evolving.
- Any egg move the father can transmit through breeding; check the wiki page to see under "by breeding" moves. Pichu Example for where you want to look.

For example, Joe breeds his male Dragonite to his female Charizard; the babies will be Charmanders. The Dragonite knows Flamethrower, Outrage, and learned Rest via TM. The Charizard also knows Flamethrower. Since they'll learn Flamethrower growing up, these Charmanders will be born with it. On the Charmander page, one of the possible moves they can inherit from a Dragonite father is Outrage, so they'll get that, too. Finally, because they can also learn the TM move Rest, they'll get that as well. Not bad for a head start, huh?

Unlike in the games, pokémon in Route aren't limited to four moves, so go crazy. However, like in the games, there are pokémon, such as Magikarp, that can't learn any moves through breeding, so be sure to check! HM moves count as TM moves for the purposes of Route breeding.

One last reminder about Egg Moves! If either Pokemon in a breeding pair is a Ditto, the clutch will never have any egg moves. If you're curious about what a Ditto exactly is, Ditto is every breeder's lynchpin. It is a special Pokemon that can breed with any Pokémon, from any Egg Group, with any gender. Pokémon born from a pairing involving a Ditto will always be the species of the other parent Pokemon.

Shiny Pokemon

Only registered Breeders can obtain shiny pokémon eggs through breeding. The chances of a shiny offspring are 1/50 (2%) with one shiny parent, and 1/25 (4%) with two shiny parents, per egg. We leave it up to the individual breeders to calculate the possibility for each clutch; here is an easy template!

It is impossible for a character to ICly know if an egg has a shiny Pokemon inside.

Newly Hatched Pokemon

When a Pokemon hatches, its egg will start to wiggle. Then cracks will form and a bright glow envelops the egg similar to the glow surrounding Pokemon who are evolving. Naturally, newborn Pokemon are a little smaller than their parents but they grow quickly and are ready to battle in no time at all.

MISC. QUESTIONS

WHAT DO I DO WITH ALL THESE EGGS???
Feel free to have your character sell them, give them away to friends, or simply keep them and raise them as their own.

As a breeder, how I can keep a healthy breeding stock of varying Pokémon with a limited number of available Pokémon slots?
Breeders may pool their money and resources together to rent a place on the outskirts of whatever town they choose for breeding Pokémon, though they will not be keeping any of the resulting Pokémon for long. Their total combined allotment is how many Pokemon they will all be able to have collectively. If trainers ask for a breeder to work their magic on their Pokémon, breeders can borrow them until there is an egg. Breeders should remember to tell trainers to stick around, though not particularly in THAT room, until the egg is formed. You can't quite keep the other trainer's Pokémon after all.


Can Nidorina and Nidoqueen be bred?
Yes. (Just not to each other...) They fall into NidoranF's egg groups, Monster and Field.


If a character has an egg (or several) and is carrying it around so that it hatches, does it take up a party slot like in the games? (i.e. if you have one egg, you can only have five more pokemon with you, etc...)
Yes, the egg does take up a slot, per Jenny regulations, seeing as hatching can be unpredictable and six pokémon is the rule.


Does Flame Body and Magma Armor have the effect of reducing the time it takes an egg to hatch like they do in the games?
Yep, abilities that work in the games generally work here as well, so Flame Body and Magma Armor for egg-hatching is completely feasible!


If one trainer has both an HM like Fly or Surf and the badge to use it, would they be able to teach it to two of their Pokémon and have the second one carry another trainer who doesn't have the badge to be able to use it?
We're going with YES on this one, provided the original trainer was present during the ride!


What about the "baby Pokemon" that were introduced in later generations like Magby, Pichu, and Clefa?
Breeding Pokémon in the world of Victory Road will get you the "baby form" automatically without the need for incense.

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