PhoenixNoah

Sounds like fun, count me in!

As a long time player and breeder, I wanted to make a complete guide. While it won't cover every little possible breed, it will cover examples and other details guides may have left out. Have I seen other guides on breeding? No, cause I learned before they existed. They're probably amazing, but I wanted to make my own anyways. I've split it into 4 parts. The Basics will cover everything a player should know before they start breeding, even if they don't have a goal in mind. This includes how gender/species works, egg groups, how eggs works, and which pokemon can't breed. To summarize for those who prefer to read: Sacrifice two parents to old man in front of daycare, get an egg with the species of the female/non-ditto. Pokemon within the same egg group can breed together, such as charmander and magikarp(dragon egg group), or skitty and wailord(field egg group). Use this to your advantage to reduce costs! The following egg groups have a different name in PokeMMO; Water A = Water 1, Water B = Water 2, Water C = Water 3, Human-like = Humanoid, Amorphous = Chaos. Eggs take 5minutes 20 seconds to hatch without flame body/magma armor, or 4 minutes 20 seconds with. Going into battle messes with hatch time as well. Genderless pokemon can breed within the same line, such as beldum and metang. Be wary of female only pokemon. They can only create more of the same species and can ruin a breed if that's not what you're trying to make! Ditto can breed with any pokemon that is capable of breeding. The following pokemon can not breed: Ditto(with itself), Baby pokemon(pichu, riolu, smoochum, etc), Legendaries(Articuno, Suicune, shaymin, etc), Unown and Shedinja. The Advanced covers the things most players get into breeding for. This includes Natures, IVs, Egg Moves, Incense( since they're mechanically similar), and Costs. To summarize for those who prefer to read: Pokemon natures can influence one stat by +10% and another by -10%. There are also stats that do nothing, known as neutral natures. The preferred stat will depend on the pokemon you wish to breed. Natures are passed down from a parent holding an everstone. This is the only way to guarantee nature. IVs are passed from a parent holding a Power item, one for each stat. To guarantee IVs beyond 2x31, have overlapping stats, as each stat the egg inherits is from one of the parents or an average of the two. If both parents have the same IVs in a stat, the baby is thus guaranteed to have that same stat. Egg moves are moves that can be passed from species to species. You should use the ingame pokedex to check what egg moves a pokemon can learn. This can be transferred multiple times as long as all the pokemon are capable of learning the same egg moves. An example I use in the video is rapid spin Squirtle > Kabuto > Tentacool. PokeMMO also treats tms and tutor moves as egg moves, just double check that the first forms can learn the move. Incense are breeding items used to get certain baby pokemon, This makes some baby pokemon very expensive to breed as incense holds up an item slot. The general minimal cost is 635k for a 5x31 natured(comp). This is just for the Power items and choosing nature of a 1:1 ratio species. This does not include the cost of acquiring the pokemon, everstones, or more skewed gender ratios. The third part will cover the niche stuff, like OT breeding, Shiny breeding, etc. I'll work on this after the holidays as I have things to do. The last part will be a step by step guide where I will breed a pokemon from start to finish and players can follow along. Feel free to suggest what I should breed, but it'll take some time since I catch my own breeders. Thanks for reading this! If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, leave them here! Changelog: 12/22/23 - Added the word "know" between some other words. Thanks SupaHero! 1/2/23 - Added text summaries for parts 1 and 2. As someone who prefers to read, I figured I should add them.

great guide!

we've already got a great ingame pokedex, and we can make it even greater. Very useful for checking costs when you're breeding.

Updated theme, works as of today. Let me know if anything breaks or should be changed!

One of them is 3x31, 2 are 2x31.

I may hunt some more before the event ends, but I just thought it would be interesting to record my results from the 144 needed.

Changed Breed window

Updated to fix pokedex issues. Will change breed window soon.

I don't know that buying an expansion would be a feasible change, considering that it's a part of the UI. There might even be a way to mod it, but I'm not experienced with that stuff.

There are a lot of items that are useful to hotkey, such as ocarinas, key items, moves, Exp. Reamplifier etc. You get the point. Other items are just handy to hotkey to keep track of, like pokeballs and leppa berries. But with 9 slots, it makes it difficult to get all the items you want hot keyed. Here's what mine looks like. I propose an increase in the number of hot keyable items, say, doubled to 18. If you're curious, here's how to hotkey pokeballs. It doesn't do anything, but you can easily see how many you have.

Make a cosmetic glove item based on the farfetch'd leek. On second thought, there should also be a fishing rod cosmetic. fishing rod could be either hand or back, but back would probably be better for the normal fishing animation.

On second thought, there should also be a fishing rod cosmetic.

I think having a system message when they login saying "An Alpha [Pokemon] has spawned already today, an Alpha was recently spotted, or An Alpha has not been spotted yet" would work best.

Make a cosmetic glove item based on the farfetch'd leek,