ULTIMATE Breeding Guide for Shiny Pokemon, IVs, & More - Pokemon Scarlet and Violet

Pokémon Scarlet and Violet lets you breed pokemon for shiny pokemon and to get desired stats, abilities, and natures.

Official Playlist of the Pokemon Scarlet & Violet

0:00 Intro
0:29 Breeding Partners
2:28 Egg Power
5:00 Hatching Eggs
7:24 Increase Shiny Odds
9:20 Passing Down Stats (IVs)
12:20 Passing Down Nature
14:05 Breeding Regional Forms
14:47 Rounds of Breeding for Better Pokemon
17:39 Egg Moves
19:07 Getting it ready for Battle
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[Adam-exrx]

If you use thief on a wild pokemon and it doesnt faint, you can run from it and encounter it again and it will have the same item again, unlimitid held items from wilds mons

[InuOski]

Extra tip if anyone wants it:

You can go to team star bases that you've cleared to picnic and run around if you dont want to be interrupted by any wild pokemon! No pokemon will spawn in those areas, so you'll be safe to mindlessly run around.

[drvonrocknstein]

Dude, I haven't competitively played since Gen2/3 and your videos are carrying me. Bread a shiny Charmander and EV&IV trained it to the max. You're the man.

[bluejayway]

For those new to breeding, the order to breeding matters. Start with the nature, then IVs, then ability (or use an ability patch), then EV train or use vitamins. This way you dont lose progress in your breed chain for IVs by having to breed an inferior IV pokemon with the nature you want.

[ajf]

First off, THANK YOU for this awesome video explaining all of this! I finally understand all of the breeding mechanics in Pokemon. Now, I'd like to share what I've come up with as my go-to breeding method in ScVi that handles some of the issues, like dealing with the lack of mass release.

First, acquire a 6 IV foreign Ditto. Obviously. Give it a Destiny Knot.

Next, acquire the target Pokemon that you want to breed. In this example, let's use one of the 7 star raid event Pokemon, Charizard. This makes it somewhat easier as it starts out at 6 IV.

Now, this method assumes you are playing on a docked Switch, and not a Switch Lite. Make sure under System Settings -> TV Settings, that "Screen Burn-In Reduction" is enabled. This will dim the screen after 5 minutes of inactivity. This part is critical.

Pick a good location to picnic and hatch. I like using the Segin Squad (dark crew) base, just South of Cascarrafa. There's a nice loop path that's easy to circle when hatching, and you can picnic almost anywhere on the path, save for where some of the squad may be nearby. Plus, no random encounters, and no chance of any sparkling item spawns that can intermingle with gathering eggs.

Now, have a picnic with your 6 IV foreign Ditto and your target Pokemon. Make a Great Peanut Butter sandwich. Plant yourself in front of the basket, set the controller down, and proceed to watch YT. In 5 minutes, the screen will dim. This is your cue to pick up the controller and gather your eggs. 9 times out of 10, I always get 10 eggs doing this. This means over the course of the 2x egg power sandwich we made, we should get 60 eggs (in practice, with the few seconds of burn time during each collection, it runs out and you only get 58-59 or so, no big deal).

Now, make another GPB sandwich to get another 30 minutes of 2x egg power, and hatch the 60ish eggs. Swap the Ditto out for your Flame Body Pokemon, and bring in 5 eggs. Once you hatch the 5 eggs, go through them quickly, saving the ones with good IVs and/or the nature you are after, AND RELEASE THE REST. Do this by selecting the 2nd Pokemon in your party, and release it. This will shift the rest up by one slot, making it much easier to release them, and also helping to break up the monotonous grind of breeding. Releasing 100+ Pokemon after the fact sucks when you have to move the cursor each time. This way, the next Pokemon to release gets "autoselected".

If you do the math, you've done 2x GPB sandwiches, getting 1 hour of 2x egg power. That should be enough to gather 60ish eggs, and hatch all 60ish eggs, meaning you can average pretty damn close to 1 egg per minute overall, and also dealing with not being able to mass release.

Once you're done with a round, just rinse and repeat. And like any good baking recipe, this can scale down and up! Instead of gathering 60 eggs in one sandwich, get 30 at a time in the first few rounds, while trying to get your target nature and at least a 4 IV, and use the remaining 15 minutes or so of each sandwich to hatch the eggs. What I like to do is do 30 at a time, going after IVs, then once getting a 5 IV of the target nature, give it an Everstone, and go for a 6 IV. Once the 6 IV with the ideal nature is acquired, continue breeding with that, and now double the recipe. Do 2 or 3 sandwiches at a time, gathering 120-180ish eggs at a time, then hatch them, and release them 5 at a time. This also give you a chance to save any non-shiny 6 IV Pokemon you hatch for things like random giveaways or trades. Continue this process until you acquire your shiny.

If you are breeding down a non-Paldean Pokemon like the Galarian Meowth, it gets even simpler, since you have to give it an Everstone from the start, so you don't need to care about going after nature, just breed down the IVs until you get a 6 IV.

I've used the method successfully multiple times now (Cyndaquil, Oshawott, Sobble, Galarian Meowth, Hisuian Zorua, Fuecoco, and Johtonian Wooper). And if you get lucky in your breeding, and get the shiny super quick (like I did with Quaxly in 19 eggs), you just mint and hyper train it!

I hope this helps out anyone that sees this!

[WorldsOfEnzo]

Something I want to throw into the mix that might have been left out in editing:
The Pokémon you are trying to teach the egg move to NEEDS TO BE HOLDING the “MIRROR HERB” which can be bought in Cascarrafa.

(You can see the azumarill holding it in the video).

Thanks Austin for the videos, you’ve been cranking these out at an incredible pace, and the shiny rng seems to be favoring you for it!

[DoTheAstralPlane]

Quick note for others that Austin might've left out for simplicity:
the "Power" items (Power Anklet, Power Bracer, etc.) will carry down that one specific IV to offspring. This is very important for Trick Room pokemon who want 0 speed IVs, or 0 Attack IVs to lower the Foul Play damage it will take.

[mc_K]

I spent a couple hours this morning trying to learn about breeding and found it so confusing. 20 minute video from Austin and I feel I understand it all! So much explained in such a short time, we're super lucky to have you Austin. Time to start shiny hunting!

[alloragamer]

I know austin will probably not see this, but I wanted to let people know.
If you are playing multiplayer via the Union circle, and you have a picnic with everyone joins, the game will try to breed everyone's pokemon that are brought out for the picnic that are compatible. (The host's team of 6, and all the additional players' first pokemon in the party.)
A friend and I found just this out while playing. They had an arcanine (i assume male) and I had a female eevee as my first pokemon, and they got 6 eggs that turned out to be eevees. (They had not caught an eevee before this)
I know austin may not see this but I want to spread this info/glitch (unsure if intended) around since I have not seen anyone make mention of it before.

[SolstaceWinters]

Heya folks, if it isn't mentioned in the comments with more likes elsewhere, quick comment about regional forms at 14:05. I did some experiments with the fixed given galarian meowth, turns out you CAN breed a new nature onto it, if you so desire. Simply have its breeding partner have the nature you want then have BOTH mons hold Everstones. The result is a 50% shot at the nature sticking to the regional mon! Great if you wanna do the whole shebang for a competitive viable mon, then breed for a shiny.

My method was female g.meowth + Zoroark for night slash, then female g.meowth and male k.meowth (who had Adamant). Both times mom had everstone and k.meowth also had everstone during the second run. The second batch ended up with 3-2 split of children with Adamant and the g.mama's nature. So as long as egg groups work, it is totally viable!

Hope this helps someone, g'luck out there folks.

[travisplutotaylor]

As a person who enjoys breeding in Pokémon games for all reasons: shinies, IVs, dex completion, etc. I really enjoy videos that explain the rules and nuances of breeding in these games. Especially in as much clear and concise detail as you do. I watch all your videos and really enjoy your content for all games. Please, keep up the amazing work! Much Love and Prayers 💚🙏

[kirkendauhl]

My favorite thing Austin does is teach as if you’ve never done this before while avoiding a condescending tone AND reiterating information that might otherwise go unnoticed. For example, mentioning that the female of the egg group is the species of Pokémon you’d get and breaking down item combinations between destiny knot and everstone make this video exceptionally thorough and well done.

[wolfsonic]

Mesagoza is perfectly made for egg hatching. There is a nice circle you can ride around in at full speed without having to stop and it's honestly like only a lap or two to hatch anything (that I've bred anyway). Not as mindless/easy as the Tauros circle in sun/moon but probably less boring too.

[red_]

I would also recommend your flame body Pokemon to hold a Smoke ball. So you can always flee a battle. That way your Pokemon level doesn't have to be super high.

[drew]

Got lucky and received a 5 IV Japanese ditto from some kind soul on my third surprise trade.

[Codieno]

Just wanted to give a correction to what Austin John says about passing down egg moves at 18:43. If you give your pokemon a move this way it WILL pass down to its offspring. I was breeding Azurill using an Azumarill that got Belly Drum from Hariyama, and a ditto. And all of my Azurill were bred with Belly Drum. Thank you for the guide Austin!

[beada]

The amount of quality videos he can put out in a row is crazy!

[Manicbeaker]

Haven't been into breeding since X and Y so this is very helpful. I especially appreciate the way you articulate yourself a very thorough and very to the point without getting overly complex. So far, this specific video has been the best video I have seen that explains the full run down of the mechanics

[ADHDummy]

I listened to an hour of guides trying to explain what you did as simply as possible. Thank you for being clear and easy to understand

[LatinKnight]

The pure joy of getting a shiny, brings tears to your eyes. It a majestic feeling, congrats and thanks for all the videos