[Pokémon
Versions Gold and Silver] By
Hugo_the_Wolf
The
baby will always belong
to the lowest Evolution
of the mother's species,
while the baby's moves
will be inherited only
from the father.
Raising the Odds
There are a few things
you can do to improve the
chances that you'll get
an egg. For example, you
should know that tame
pokemon get along better,
and are more likely to
breed. Your pokemon's
"Tameness" can
be improved by keeping it
in the party and often
using it for battle;
another way is to use
items regularly on the
pokemon. Because your
lead pokemon gets more
attention than the
others, it might be wise
to put that fellow up
front, increasing its
keenness for reproduction
that much more. And
finally, nothing says
"BE TAMED!"
quite like taking your
pokemon inside the barber
shop every day. Aside
from the
"Tameness"
factor, know that pokemon
from separate trainers
are more likely to
produce an egg than two
pokemon from the same
trainer. Pokemon that
fight together in your
active party list will
begin to like each other
more as well.
Pokemon seem to prefer
other pokemon who
resemble themselves.
Check it out: even though
Rhydon and Rhyhorn are
basically the same
pokemon, Smeargle prefers
Rhydon because they share
the same ICON.
Don't leave them in a box
for long. An upset
pokemon has a lesser
chance of producing an
egg.
Don't try breeding family
members with each other:
look, they refuse to do
it, and it just makes
them upset-- i.e., if you
breed an Eevee with a
Ditto, that Eevee won't
breed with the new Eevee.
On Breeding Moves
Breeding a particular
move is fairly simple,
for the most part. All
moves are inherited from
the father(unless you're
using a ditto). In a
normal male and female
pair, TM's and HM's that
the father knows will be
learned by the baby, as
long as the baby's
evolutionary form is also
capable of learning those
same TM's and HM's.TM and
HM moves take priority in
breeding, and will
override other possible
moves the baby may have
had. If all you want to
do is have another Rhydon
with Earthquake, this is
easy. Supposing that the
father knows Surf,
Strength,and
Earthquake,and the mother
is Rhydon,the baby will
learn Earthquake, and
Strength. This is because
the baby produced would
be a Rhyhorn, and Rhyhorn
can learn Earthquake from
TM's, and Strength from
the HM, but because
Rhyhorn can't learn Surf
from the HM, Surf
wouldn't be one of it's
starting moves.
Egg moves are moves that
a pokemon can only learn
by breeding from the male
parent. If a move is on a
pokemon's egg move list,
and the father has it,
that move will be learned
in addition to the rest.
Using my example from
above, and supposing that
the father also had
crunch, we would find
that the baby's move list
would include
Earthquake,Strength, and
Crunch-- as Crunch is one
of Rhyhorn's egg moves.
Now let's say you wanted
to breed that same
Rhyhorn with Scary Face.
In this case, you have to
get not only the father
to know the move, but the
mother as well. Egg
moves,TM's, and HM's are
automatically based on to
the baby if the father
already has them--but for
the baby to obtain a move
learned only by the
natural leveling up of
that pokemon, both
parents are required to
know the move. If both
parents know Scary Face,
our sample baby would
come out with a move list
of
Earthquake,Strength,Crunch,
and Scary Face.
On Breeding Stats
The process of breeding
strong stats is fairly
time consuming, and not
as simple as just
breeding moves. The best
way to approach this task
is to focus on the stat
you think is most
important, and train the
parents to improve their
stats in that area. Your
egg pokemon will always
get it stats from the
parent of the opposite
gender.(Unless one of the
parents is a ditto, in
which the stats come from
ditto. This means that
genderless pokemon can't
breed stats beyond what
ditto can give them, nor
can most of the
"Always Male"
pokemon).
If you want a pokemon
with lots of HP, for
example, let the parents
take a lot of damage in
the midst of combat, and
the EXP they will be
allocated to more HP upon
levelling up. You can try
using Carbos, Calcium, HP
UP, Protein,and Iron to
accelerate the process,
but these items are
extremely expensive
especially if you use
them on a pokemon whose
sole purpose is breeding,
and isn't one you intend
to keep. One thing to
keep in mind beyond all
else here is that it's
essential to choose the
right father. Since the
baby is always the same
pokemon type as the
lowest evolution of the
mother, the father can be
whatever pokemon you want
within that egg group.If
you want a female baby,
that means the father's
stats would affect the
baby's stats. If you're
feeling genetically
adventurous, you should
try taking advantage of
some of the odder
combinations that can
come out of all this --
one example might be a
Magikarp baby with stats
based on Dragonite. (This
part takes a lot of luck,
since it's hard to
determine the baby's
gender beforehand.)
Ways
to speed up hatching
There are two ways to
speed up the egg hatching
process. The first and
the most obvious is using
your bicycle, which
doubles your speed,
allowing you to take two
steps to the one you
could do on foot. The
other way is to use
Pokemon Stadium 2 and
play the game in the
Dodrio Game Boy Tower in
that game. That will
triple the speed of your
entire pokemon game.This
means that with your
bicycle and with the
Dodrio Game Boy Tower
mode activated, you can
move at 5 times the
normal rate.The best
place to walk to hatch
your egg without running
into wild pokemon is from
the day care center to
the end of Glodenrod
City. From the day care
center to the end of the
city is exactly 50 steps
each way.
Steps Till
Hatching
Magikarp takes a little
over 1,000 steps to hatch
Cleffa,Geodude,Hoothoot,Ledyba,Pidgey,Rattata,Sentret,Spearow,Spinarak,Weedle,and
Zubat take almost
4,000steps to hatch.
Elekid,Heracross,Magby,Mantine,Misdreavous,Mr.Mime,Onix,Pinsir,Scyther,Skarmory,Smoochum,and
Tyrogue take around 6,500
steps to hatch.
Kabuto and Omanyte take
about 7,500 steps to
hatch.
Aerodactyl and Eevee take
about 9,000 steps to
hatch.
Chansey,Dratini,Lapras,and
Snorlax take over 10,000
steps to hatch.
Everyone else takes about
5,000 steps to hatch.
