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Chain Breeding for IVs?

TombStone

Smash Journeyman
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Nov 5, 2006
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Ok, so I do this thing I call "chain breeding" (but that term normally applies for chaining egg moves I think) in order to maximize IVs. Basically, what I first do is select a ditto of my choice nature, and give it an everstone. I breed it with whatever I want to start raising, like milotic or gengar, and I get the pokemon with the right nature from the ditto. Then I proceed to mass hatch, calculate the IVs of the hatched pkmn (rare candy up to level 50 for accuracy), and replace the daycare pkmn with fresh ones that have higher IVs, giving the everstone to any new female replacement.

I am 100% positive this meathod works, because I have made a Milotic with perfect HP, Def, and Speed, and just below perfect in SpAtt and SpDef. Same with my Gengar. It takes a while, but the results are almost comparable to hacked stats (not the 999 in each category mind you).

My question is whether or not there is a technical explanation for this meathod. I think I read somewhere that a hatched pokemon inherits some IVs, and the other IVs are random. Which IVs are inherited, how many are inherited, from which parent are they inherited, and are the other IVs completely random? If anyone knows, please tell me. Thanks.
 

Coen

BRoomer
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From what I know, 3 IVs are passed from parent to baby combined. The rest is completely random. That's why people go on Ditto catching sprees to get some with 31 IV in certain stats.
 
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