one important distinction about the smogon table for IVs is that unfortunately by level 5 a lot of poekmon dont have enough stat growth to really show big changes. that means even if say, a pokemon with 16 speed means they have 31 ivs in that stat, it could also be a range of like 25-31. thats why sometimes you will have the stat that the smogon chart says but the rater in emerald wont tell you its perfect

@nostalgicnighthawk

4 ай бұрын

That would make a lot of sense. I have found the table to be a good guide but yes it is not precise! I wish I mentioned it in the video

In more than 23 years playing pokémon it's my first time breeding, I didn't really know how to start, thanks for explain it so well, great video!!!😸

@nostalgicnighthawk

5 ай бұрын

hope the video helps!

Just a heads up to anyone reading this worried about breeding to do post-game content like battle frontier : you really don't need to stress over perfect pokemon with good IVs. Really all you need is optimal natures and EV training. Ivs are mainly for pvp battling where you need to squeeze every drop of potential you can out of your pokemon.

@nostalgicnighthawk

2 ай бұрын

agreed, spending too much time IV breeding can be somewhat of a waste of time. It takes a while to do. One to two IVs are somewhat easy to get and not time consuming however 3 starts to get tricky and 4+ is not worth it in my opinion!

I bred a perfect Kangaskhan in gen VI once. It definitely takes a long time, but there's something really satisfying in seeing every generation getting a little bit better until you finally hit your goal.

@nostalgicnighthawk

7 ай бұрын

jeez a perfect one just have taken a while!

@louisimission2153

7 ай бұрын

@Drogenkopf08 cool, how many generations did You put into it? And how good was Your Kang?

@Shiny.Articuno

16 күн бұрын

Destiny knot makes it easy to breed perfect pokemon in later generations

I really enjoyed your video! It brought back memories of when I tried all of this back in the day when Emerald just came out! I remember I was so excited, because you were sorta kinda able to manipulate Natures and IVs, which was entirely RNG dependent on RS… I ended up getting a pretty solid team for the Battle Frontier… ❤

@nostalgicnighthawk

4 ай бұрын

happy you like the video! Yeaa there is also that way to get the natures or team your want!

These vids are a great remedy to the mad modern world. Really enjoying them thanks. Would love to see a comparison video between wild caught pokemon, trainer raised pokemon and Iv+Ev trained pokemon - it'd be great to see the power of such dedication.

@nostalgicnighthawk

7 ай бұрын

cool idea for a vid! ill put it on my list of vids to make.

@louisimission2153

7 ай бұрын

Nice. I bet You've already got loads of Pokemon which would show the power of IVs + EVs really well 👍

@nostalgicnighthawk

7 ай бұрын

i have a FEW haha not too many, this is actually my first IV bred pokemon but I have ev trained several! @@louisimission2153

Wish I found your channel earlier. Loved the dedication. I used to cheat heavily with Pokesav and Action Replay for competitive back in high school. But ever since XY the games have been so much better for making your Pokemon. For me though in Gen 3, looking at my pokemon's IV's in Pokesav has been so helpful. Also for Japanese games when I can't read the text I can just look at my sav file. I try to cheat as little as I can now but I did my share of cutting corners.

@nostalgicnighthawk

2 ай бұрын

and there is nothing wrong with cheats or cutting corners. It just comes down to what you want out of the game! If I was focusing on competitive stuff, it would be too time consuming to grind all these pokemon like this so I probably wouldnt.

Thank you for not getting "stuck in the weeds"! I wish this had been the first breeding video I watched. Might have saved myself some grief and confusion 😂

@nostalgicnighthawk

4 ай бұрын

Its a pretty big rabbit hole haha! Even though this video is pretty long, I hopefully only discussed what is important

Massive respect for doing things the grindy way, especially for the IV breeding part. I'd personally just RNG manipulate those Dittos to be 5 IV and correct nature but I really appreciate people who do it the long way. Keep it up!

@nostalgicnighthawk

5 ай бұрын

its the only way i intend on doing it! Nothing wrong with doing some manipulations or emulating but I just wanted to keep it genuine as possible.

@royrogers4468

4 ай бұрын

@@nostalgicnighthawk Exactly. RNG manip is blatant cheating and ruins the genuine-ness of the final product.

@Clooger-

3 ай бұрын

@@royrogers4468 It's not but keep crying, it's funny

@royrogers4468

3 ай бұрын

@@Clooger- how am I crying lmao. Doing things legit will always be more impressive than using exploits. That's a fact

@Clooger-

3 ай бұрын

@royrogers4468 Guess what? You're "legit" Pokémon are PID clones that everyone can also obtain. Again, crying is a bad look.

Just wanna say thank you for this guide over the last 6 days been doing this with 2 of my favorite Pokemon for fun and I somehow bred a Mudkip with 4 flawless stats today!! so hype

@nostalgicnighthawk

Ай бұрын

nice! Thank you for watching and enjoying. Glad you are training some of your fav pokemangos!

@CLmXCriminal

Ай бұрын

@@nostalgicnighthawk DUDE!!! Update on the mudkip my bad you probably dont care but I just had to tell you lmao I still been at it even tho its time consuming I been having a blast trying to get a great Mudkip and broooo!!! I just bred a 5 perfect IV MUDKIP!!! Only non flawless stats is hp which I wanted flawless but its ok ill take it!!

@nostalgicnighthawk

Ай бұрын

@@CLmXCriminal jeezz how did you get 5 ivs?? That is some crazy grind with some luck! Congrats!

@ns-tech1304

29 күн бұрын

Took me 10min to RNG a 6iv shiny mudkip in egg and its fully legal. Stop wasting your time. You guys accidently hit an RNG seed, you cant randomly softreset in GBA games they cant produce randomness.

@CLmXCriminal

29 күн бұрын

@@ns-tech1304 Congrats on ur 6IV with RNG manip! This isnt soft resetting for eggs though lol this is just hatching eggs over and over and I understand this is more time consuming than RNG manip but its a lot more fun imo

The best Pokémon I got using that methot on Emerald was a Timid 31 IVs in Hp, SpDf, Speed and 30 IVs SpAt, with 70 power HP Grass Eevee (I was aiming for a Jolteon) and it took me a whole month breeding like an hour a day using an emulator at 4x speed. I even got a shiny Eevee in that process. Since then, I started RNG manip.

@nostalgicnighthawk

6 ай бұрын

WOW! Thats a crazy one. How did you find that the SpAt was 30 Ivs? Did you ev train in that stat so that is how you knew?

@brunoalonso4943

6 ай бұрын

@@nostalgicnighthawk it's spAt stat at level 5 with neutral nature will be 11 if its IVs are >= than 30. Just found that Eevee, talk to the old man and check he never tells you its SpAt is flawless. Take that Eevee as a new parent and repeat the process for better stats.

I LOVE breeding in pokemon emerald. I do it mainly to chill out now. Create some creative and fun pokemon to use in BF. Currently making a max attack Kingler to use a salac/endure/flail set on lol.

Instead of false swipe you can switch to a magikarp. Repeat ball got 100% catch rate on a ditto transformed to a magikarp since ditto get the catch rate of the pokemon it transformed to in emerald.

@nostalgicnighthawk

3 ай бұрын

wait.... ur a genius

Holy crap this video recently Didnt know people still play this game I still play this game on my jailbreak 3g ipod touch

@nostalgicnighthawk

6 ай бұрын

yeaa still grinddding this game! Awesome game. Gota video coming soon about training an Aggron

I just started playing my old emerald on GBA i loved it so much but only got 3 silver in the BF. Thanks so much for this video will definitely try it while watching some of the Euro 24 games in germany 😍 Do you keep the Ditos if it has a perfect IV stat if the ability is average, or only if the iv checker confirms its in the best or second best section

@nostalgicnighthawk

Ай бұрын

thanks for watching! And it depends, it is sometimes worth it like when you already have a female pokemon with a beneficial nature. I would keep them until you get more dittos and then maybe delete the ones with bad natures with ones that do!

to catch dittos I used a level 5 feebas with splash and smoke ball, all dittos transformed into feebas with splash and had a very high catch rate at full health

@nostalgicnighthawk

Ай бұрын

great strategy! I wish i thought of that before. Someone else in the comments mentioned something similar too

I will still carry flamebody on leaf green. I dont care if it doesnt work! lol so used to it. for OVER A DECADE

FIRST❤

@nostalgicnighthawk

7 ай бұрын

suppp!

Does the Ditto/Synchronize method work on FireRed/LeagGreen too? Or is it only on Emerald? Thanks for the response, I’m not sure I’ll get one since the video months old but I’ll post it anyways

@nostalgicnighthawk

Ай бұрын

Emerald is the only one that has this mechanic in the gen 3 games. source: bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Synchronize_(Ability)#:~:text=Outside%20of%20battle-,Generations%20III%2DV,Pok%C3%A9mon%20in%20the%20first%20slot. BRUUH i reply to every comment. If I dont, it either got lost in the "held in review" section or I never got a notification!

@matt_you9696

Ай бұрын

Thank you so much for your work man!🫶🏻

@nostalgicnighthawk

Ай бұрын

@@matt_you9696 thanks for watching the videos!

Hey man, I've been breeding Bagon's for a while now and I've got this bagon with these stats (IV's between 151 and 186): HP 21 (Perfect IV) ATTACK 15 (Perfect IV) DEFENSE 9 SP ATTACK 10 SP DEFENSE 9 SPEED 11 What do you think? Should I train this Bagon?

@nostalgicnighthawk

Ай бұрын

i would! 100%

Very nice guide! If I have a 6iv ditto and a 6iv pokemon the baby will be 6iv??

@nostalgicnighthawk

4 ай бұрын

there is a table smogon posted that gives the probability. It is REALLY low. But having 6 ivs for each parent gives the highest probability. Odd are 1:59916.... www.smogon.com/ingame/guides/breeding_guide_part3#six

Dude, last night ended 4 days of intense breeding for a perfect feebas. I was able to get Modest 29HP/19At/31Def/31SpAt/31SpDef/31Spe This guide made me understand that it is insanely difficult to 5iv a pokemon in this game. I settled for a pretty good roll. Keep the vids coming brother!

@nostalgicnighthawk

2 ай бұрын

HOLY that is insane. You gota train that one. Yea 5 ivs has such a low probability! Even 4 is hard

So for the Dittos if the old guy doesnt say it has outstanding ability we just wanna release those until one has outstanding? Or Just any that has a flawless stats we want? Sorry if its a dumb question I was a lil confused

@nostalgicnighthawk

Ай бұрын

that depends on what you are trying to get out of the pokemon. Its best to have overall outstanding ivs with flawless ones in the stats you want. However that is time consuming. It is more efficient to get flawless IVs in the 2-3 stats you want the most.

@CLmXCriminal

Ай бұрын

@@nostalgicnighthawk Thanks bro appreciate it ❤

Looking at the chart was incredibly scary when it comes to trying to get a perfect stat salamence. I will come back to this comment if I can do it. At the time of this comment, I have already been grinding for a month just to have a two bagons with two perfect stats. Wish me luck in the replies for my perfect dragon, Warlock, that I am wishing for 🙏🏻 Edit: Dittos were really only useful in the first step of getting a two perfect stat pokemon because it is exponentially more difficult to find an increasingly higher stat ditto than breed a different pokemon for good stats, and you cannot breed dittos themselves to get a better ditto.

@nostalgicnighthawk

2 ай бұрын

best of luck! Agreed to your point with the dittos. They get the ball rolling but arent useful after that.

My old man keep saying only one stat mf

@nostalgicnighthawk

5 ай бұрын

its rough out there. For some of the pokemon i had 3 max stats, the dude only repeated one stat 5 times in a row. I wish he was a little more helpful LOL

@andresrincon7240

5 ай бұрын

@@nostalgicnighthawk thank you for replying. Yeah so this man basically I don’t trust him anymore, now that i started gaining experience I realized He is so inaccurate. What I do is save, give my breed Pokemon level 5 rare candies until it reaches level 100 and then check iv with an Iv checker.

@nostalgicnighthawk

5 ай бұрын

@@andresrincon7240 that is a sure way of doing it i would think. Why dont you trust? I think its a pain in the butt but the stats he does say is flawless does have the 31 IVs

@andresrincon7240

5 ай бұрын

@@nostalgicnighthawk because I already did trial an error

why you look sad

@nostalgicnighthawk

2 ай бұрын

i dont think I was or am, might just be my face and the music haha

@Hydrocannon

2 ай бұрын

If you had spent as much time as he did for one useable pokémon, you'd be sad too.

@nostalgicnighthawk

2 ай бұрын

@@Hydrocannon I didnt force myself to breed/train a pokemon like this. I did it because I wanted to. I am not sad in how much time that took

@Hydrocannon

2 ай бұрын

@@nostalgicnighthawk That's the joke. I know what you did, you did as a passion project. For which you have my respect. Keep up the good work.

@nostalgicnighthawk

2 ай бұрын

@@Hydrocannon LOL! Ok i didnt take it as a joke at first. Sometimes people do be mean in the comments.