ULTIMATE Breeding Guide: Perfect IVs, Natures, Egg Moves, Hidden Ability | Pokemon Scarlet & Violet

***UPDATE: POKEMON NUKED SYNCHORINZE IN THIS GAME!!! You have to just use Nature Mints and RNG LOL

Ability Capsules don't give hidden abilities. you need an Ability Patch for that, those can be found in 6 star raids.

Ditto will be transformed as a different Pokémon. You can hold ZL on the Pokémon to see it’s species and it’s name will appear. Instead of trying to battle each pokemon

I love how simple and easy it is to following along. Haven’t done much breeding since Sw/Sh so this is a great refresher and up to date process…

You need an ability PATCH not a capsule to get a hidden ability. The capsule will swap between two normal abilities, and a patch will switch a normal ability to a hidden ability, but not back to a normal ability (not sure if they changed that, but thats how it worked in gen8)

Minor Correction, you need to beat the game (as in see the credits) to unlock the judge feature, not just beat the three storylines
Minor Correction 2, Ability PATCHES change a pokemon's ability from normal to hidden, ability capsules merely switch between non-hidden abilities for pokemon with two normal abilities

You are the hero we don’t deserve. Thanks for making this

I heard synchronize might not work the same way this gen with breeding, but I have a question: *If a synchronize Pokémon doesn’t affect natures will it instead match tera types?*

Tip: the nature mints don’t change the real nature. They only change the stat. I gave my quaxly a adamant mint and gave it an everstone and the child had docile (it’s parent’s abiliti before I gave it the mint)

Very informative and helpful video! Left a like thanks.

Great job bringing the newcomers up to speed!

I think an easy spot where you can basically go in a circle infinitely is mesagoza pkmn centre west cause there’s a small roundabout so all you have to do is set camp near the west gate just go back and forth

Great vid man, thanks for the hard work

Such a good informative video that I will be referencing many times in the future!

I’ve been playing Pokémon for over 20 years and this all finally makes sense. You are the goat 🙏🏻

Just what i’ll need soon! Thanks for the video!!!

I love this. IVs are extremely important to me. And I don’t even play online at all.

egg moves are also instant with the miror herb, soon as you open the picnic just close it works everytime

I remember seeing a Slaking sliding across the place trying to run away from me, of course, laying down like Slaking always does. That was my first ditto.

omfg I'm overloaded with these infos! o.O I'm about to start breeding for shiny and this video is really helpful and made pretty good. tons of things I learned. kudos!

Ok so I got a question. I know that starters are shiny locked until you breed them to get a chance to get a shiny through eggs. But are the abilities locked as well basically can you actually get the hidden ability on you actually first pokemon

i started my Clawitzer breeding with this video.. really love your explanations 🫡

You can go 1 step further and breed HAs into different balls. For example, you can breed a HA female smoliv in an ultra ball with a male non-HA smoliv in a friend ball in order to get a HA smoliv in a friend ball.

Very important guide. Thank you very much

The pokemon from 5-6 star raids are great for breeding because they can have their hidden abilities and also good IVs. The key is getting that 6-star raid ditto then the game ramps up.

I got hidden ability Pokémon from 2 tera raids. Dedenne with Plus and Noibat with Telepathy. So i think it possible but really low possibility

big thank you!! really summed up everything

you can just press ZL and if you already killed a ditto, the name will show Ditto as a name if it is a ditto

Weird glitch I learned when catching a ditto. I accidentally fainted a ditto the first trying to catch it. So I rebooted the game. I thought I was gonna have to finding it hiding again as another pokemon but I didn't. It was showing up as itself. So it was easier to find. I caught it the second time.

Are hidden ability capsules accessible and are easily dropped from raids? I hope there easy to obtain.

Flame Body isn’t the only ability that makes eggs hatch quicker. So do Magma Armor and Steam Engine.

i wanted to get into competitive with bdsp and i was hoping it would be like that but this is so different lol oh well I want to get into competitve I have to breed viable pokemon so this is super helpful, even tho it makes me wish I knew someone who did all this that I could work with to make teams bc from what remember with bdsp breeding for comp it takes a bit of time getting the perfect ivs and its so annoying lol

👏👏👏 Yo! Great video. Title is accurate as this is the ULTIMATE breeding guide! Definitely subscribed

Helped alot thanks man

cool! im enjoying the game so much!!! i just got my 1st gym badge at Cortondo vs Katy!😁

Question: if a Pokémon has an Adamant nature, does that simply mean that the stat maximum is higher? Or that each “increase” will be more stat points? I am just learning EVs IVs etc. I am planning to make a great Quaxly with adamant nature, but I don’t plan to max out it’s attack, I want to spread the EV training out across the various stats (besides SpecAtk) but I want to know if adamant just means that the maximum amount of training I can do would be higher (which wouldn’t matter to me since I don’t plan to max it) or if it will gain more attack stat points for each level it gains?

@PhillyBeatzU This is in response to 19:15 , I was breeding a wooper with poison point with a ditto with limber in hopes of getting the water absorb hidden ability but after watching your video I stopped, but I still had eggs left over. I ended up hatching a wooper with water absorb from a ditto and a wooper without neither of them having a special ability the only thing that wooper was holding was an ever stone to pass down the adamant nature, i don’t know exactly how but it is possible to get a hidden ability from breeding two Pokémon without them having one them selves, hope this is helpful.
P.s After this happened, I gave the water absorb wooper the ever stone with adamant nature and bread with ditto, and got back 100% water absorb woopers with different IV’s.

I believe it's an Ability Patch for Hidden Abilities not Ability Capsules. Great video!

The 10 eggs basket capacity is soooo important to know

confused, so asking.
Do you NEED egg power to get eggs? or just to speed it up?
could I set up a picnic, go make food, return and have eggs? or do I NEED to get the egg power buff?

Amazing guide

ability capsule change the second ability. ability patch changes to the hidden ability

PSA: Synchronize does NOT work in S&V for wild Pokémon natures at this time.

bro you explain this so good thanks

What if I have a hidden ability Ditto? Would Ditto be able to pass the hidden ability to the offspring?

dang, wow. some good information you presented. some sucks like tera breeding and HA, guess theres still some things that cannot give us the ultimate weapon. thank you though Philly

Does the egg move transfer mechanic still work like it did in sword and shield ex: I have two Meowscarada one with an egg move one with an empty slot

Synchronizers don’t work out of battle anymore, gotta get nature mints which become available after 6 badges

A easier way is if a question mark doesn't appear above it's head it's ditto or zorua

So usefull, got my sub and support

Will using an everstone effect my odds of getting a shiny?

What happens if you have a pokemon with synchonize and try to catch a ditto?
Do they instantly get the same nature you do or does it still randomize?

i just want a video thats a guide on how to breed a pokemon with almost perfect IV’s, like a step-by-step video that explains
what to do, how to selectively breed for the perfect stats, etc

If ditto really is a failed new clone, it sure is spreading across the world rapidly.

So...what I want, for example, Annihilape, to have it's hidden ability. How would I go about breeding ____ with Ditto? This is the 1st game I have even bothered with breeding at all.

You can just lock in to the pokemon and it will tell you it’s a ditto.

TBH when you can buy mint's IV breeding is more to be working at then nature. but to save money with everstone it is still good

Will a ditto with hidden ability and another without allow the baby to have a possibility of having a hidden ability?

I got lucky because my Ditto was already in it’s original form when I saw it

Gastronomie En Famille in Medali has a meal for 2,800 that gives Egg Power lvl. 2. It's a white building in the corner of the plaza with the neon sign arch. A little pricier but easier then making sandwiches every time.

I thought it was an Ability patch that changed a Pokemons ability to a hidden one, not a ability capsule

Very detailed video. These game mechanics are complicated. Don’t think I want to breed. I have to make sandwiches and then EV train. I’m lost.

when you pick up a stack of eggs, will it tell you that there's multiple?

Just press ZL to see if its Ditto. Helps if you’ve caught the pokemon is copying before. Since it will show up as “???”

fun fact if u have 2 ever stones on a pokemon the pokemon will have a 50% chance of getting the nature of a parent pokemon if there both deferent

guys make sure to have a pokemon like talonflame who has the ability flame body in ur party as it makes eggs hatch faster

I've hatched over like 20 eggs from purrserker and no hidden ability yet 🙃

How long does it take to breed? I waited for a while and so far nothing in the basket

Can a HA ditto take the female role and pass down the HA with the male pokemon that is breeding with?

Hi! I'mtrying to breed a shiny Charmander! i have a charizard from the event, and using a shelgon from another language. How do i make sure the eggs that hatch are Charmander? Instead of Bagon. Sorry, as I'm new to breeding!

its insane how totally fine the graphics are until I watch someone else play this game

Does an ability capsule work for hidden abilities? For example if I have a Bulbasaur with it's regular overgrow ability, will using an ability capsule give me the option to change it to it's hidden ability??

Thanks for this cheers mate

Great guide thank you. Though I am fairly confident that Flame body doesn't work on egg hatching this game. I have heard from several sources/leakers that it no longer affects it.

Thanks a ton!

Explain the whole picnic thing please. Would like to get a guide video

You can also lock on with ZL and it'll tell you the name of the pokemon it truly is ;)

Thank you for this video

Question why do we need a mirror herb for the Pokémon that learn egg moves like that

I thought we could leave the picnic alone and go adventure but you can’t. I don’t know how to feel about this breeding system. I’d prefer the regular breeding system

If I give my ditto the ball of twine and the weight to my eevee will that still work for passing ivs from my ditto to the eevee egg being hatched

not like IVs matter in scarlet when you can just max them with bottle caps anyways
and abillity patches and capsules aren't as tedious to get anymore either
the only important things that you can't change anymore are shininess and nature so be sure you have that right on your pokemon
literally everything else can be changed later

4:17 “Make sure to ‘eggs-it’ the picnic…” 😜😂

Why would you catch random dittos when you can acquire them in raids with at least 4 perfect IV’s which you can then use to breed Pokémon and receive more IV’s?

Can u breed the starters you don't got

can you do this with multiple pokemon? like 3 pairs of pokemon in your party? or is it one pair at a time?

Would it be okay if I hyper train a pokemon that I don't plan on breeding with it again?

Great videos bro

Is it best to fill a bunch of boxes then hatch or to do a few at a time?

What about the Pokémon sizes?

Charcadet has Flame Body? I've been catching and breeding Charcadets, and I have yet to encounter one with Flame Body. The abilities it does have are Flash Fire (which is the usual one you will see) and supposedly Weak Armor (rare ability that I honestly have yet to see any of my babies have). Another that does have Flame Body is Carkol which is who I ended up using for my egg hatching purposes.

Where can I find that nature chart?

Is there a reason that my male Quaxwell isn’t needing with ditto? I’m not the original trainer of the Quaxwell, but it’s been like 20 minutes and I haven’t got a single egg. I don’t have the egg power but come on it’s been so long and not even 1? Am I doing something wrong?

Is it possible yo get a starter pokemon bred down to be in a luxury ball ?

I’m confused. You didn’t explain how to get a 6IV mon to breed with?

great video

I have 5 iv ditto and garnacl 1iv theres a possibility that can breed a 6iv on this? Or i need one pokemon that have 6iv to get a perfect ivs even the partner have 2ivs.

What store do you go to get the eggs I been all over and can't find the store to buy the eggs

Hi I'm kinda new to pokemon so correct me if I'm wrong
Does hyper training make the 6iv ditto redundant?

So as of now it’s impossible to get Hidden Ability Starters?