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So, it seems you have beaten the game and are ready to take on the big leagues. Such as rank and possibly competitions. However standard Pokemons caught in the wild don’t cut it. You need to begin the process of breeding Pokemons with the perfect IVs and that plays the biggest hours and the meat of the game.

So, what is IVs? IVs are known as individual values for short. Every Pokemon has a personalized number of Stats in their parameter.

Health Points (HP)

Attack (ATK)

Defense (DEF)

Special Attack (SP. ATK)

Special Defense (SP. DEF)

Speed (SPD)

The formula to calculate Pokemon IV stats but you won’t need to bother with this. Instead..

Hidden deep within the gaming codes each stats will have numbers in as 0-31 or no good – best, it involved in some intense calculation. However in Pokemon Sword and Shield, you do not need to do all that calculation stuff above. Your objective is to make your stats “BEST” using the the judge system. Here’s an example below.

In the picture above you noticed that there are 6 Best stats in each stats and probably wondering how to get that. Well, this guide will help you to breed a perfect Pokemon in Sword and shield. Before we begin. Lets look at the checklists.

Checklist

Complete the game Unlock the Judge System (IV Checker) Catch a Pokemon with flame body Acquire Destiny Knot, Everstone and Oval Charm Catch at least 2 Dittos that compensates each others IV Breeding Nursery Location Egg Move Nature Individual Values (IV) Ability Quality of Life (Read this first)

The checklist may seem very overwhelming at first but not to worry. Once you have completed Step 1-5. You would just need to repeat step 7-9 for the rest for Pokemon IV breeding.

1: Complete the game.

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It is blatantly obvious that at this point, you have already completed the game and going to make your competitive team for Pokemon Rank. However, just in case. In order to check off some of the checklists. It is required to complete the game to unlock some of its content.

2: Unlock the Judge System (IV Checker)

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After beating the game. Proceed to the battle tower at Wyndon and battle the tower until you reach rank 4 and you should be up against the former Pokemon Champion Leon (It takes about over 6 battles to meet him). After defeating Leon, you will be rewarded with the Judge System.

To use it. Access into your Pokemon Menu, enter into the CPU and press the “+” button. You should be able to see the Pokemon IVs.

If you feel that your current roster of Pokemon is not up to par, you may rent yourself a team from the rental guy at the right side of the counter. Personally i rent the basic team and use Haxorus to sweep most of the opponents.

3: Catching a Pokemon With Flame Body

Perfect, one check off the list for your goal to breed a perfect IV Pokemon. Now it is time to catch a Pokemon with Flame Body. The Flame Body ability helps to speed up the process of hatching eggs even faster than the usual. We would recommend Carkol. Here’s a very clear-cut video done by Youtuber 1up VS CPU of where to find one.

4: Acquire Destiny Knot, Everstone and Oval Charm

Since you’ve been battling at the Battle Tower earlier. You should have already earned quite an amount of BP (Battle Points). Head to the Central Pokemon Center at Hammerlocke and purchase a Destiny Knot for 10 BP. You may want to have 2 Destiny Knot.

Next. Head to the bridge Field and meet up with the Digging Duo. They will dig up tons of useful items including Everstone. Each digging session costs 500 Watts. So make sure you have enough Watts with you. Should you run out of Watts. You may consider Spoofing your dates to collect more. Here’s a simple guide to collect more watts. You may also want 2 Everstone.

You have to Complete the game to receive the Oval Charm. Travel to Circhester Hotel at right after the Pokemon Center, take the lift to the 2nd floor and enter the first door to the left. You will meet the Police Officer NPC. Battle him you will receive the Oval Charm.

Ok. You’re done and wondering What each item does? Here’s a brief explanation.

Destiny Knot – It passes downs the IVs from the Parent Pokemon to the child Everstone – It passes down the Nature of the Parent Pokemon to the child Oval Charm – To increase the chance of egg appearing at the Daycare Center.

5: Catching Dittos

Things are getting slightly tricky now. But you’re halfway there! This time. You will be catching yourself a couple of Dittos. We would recommend securing at least a 5 IV Ditto, even better if its a 6 IV Ditto to make breeding much more easier. Here’s a 1 minute video done by Youtuber Fallout Plays on how to efficiently catch yourself a Dittio.

If you tried for hours and still could not secure yourself a Ditto. I can suggest catching 2 5IV Dittos instead. However they must have a Best stats that compensates with what the each other are lacking. Let your Ditto hold on to a Destiny Knot so that it will be able to pass over the IV to its child Pokemon.

6: Breeding Nursery Locations

In Pokemon Sword and Shield, there are 2 breeding Nursery. One of them is at Route 5 while the other at Bridge Field. Both Nursery can be traveled directly via map. Best to place one Ditto with a Destiny Knot in each Nursery.

7: Egg Move

We know you are prepared and raring to go to breed yourself a Pokemon with perfect IV! However Please do a little more research before moving on because it may costs you hours hard work. Check at Serebii.net to Make sure your Pokemon needs to learn the moves through egg breeding method. We’ll use a Cutiefly who wants to learn an Egg Move Sticky Web as an Example.

By checking at Serebii.net. We noticed that Cutiefly’s Move Sticky Web is an egg move. We click on Details at the right.

After clicking on Details. You notice there are Pokemon that learned Sticky Web through leveling. Catch anyone of them. For this case we will use Galvantula as Cutiefly’s partner. Make absolutely sure that Galvantula is a male and knows sticky web and Cutiefly is a female. And We’re ready to breed them.

After the egg hatch. Cutielfy will have the Egg Move Sticky Web and you’re set to breed for IVs next!

8: Nature

Now its time to begin breeding. We will use Cutiefly as an example again. My objective this time is to Give her a Timid Nature. I want a boost in Speed stats and i won’t be needing a the Attack stats because the Cutiefly i intend to breed is a Special Attacker. Why nature matters?

Like human personalities. We have our own strengths and weaknesses. Each Pokemon do has different nature as well. Each eggs that hatches gives you a chance of 1 out of 25 natures and each nature gives your Pokemon a higher stats however lowers the other, there are neutral natures too but pay no mind to those. Here’s a chart for reference.

Now with Timid nature in mind. Have a Flame Body Pokemon in your team, its time to start collecting and hatching eggs. Have Ditto with Destiny Knot and a Cutielfy in the Pokemon Nursery. Keep hatching those eggs until you found the Nature you’ve been looking for.

And when you got the desired Nature. Give the newly hatched Pokemon an Everstone. The Everstone helps to pass the Pokemon Nature to its newborn. So this time I’ll let the newly hatched Timid Cutiefly hold an Everstone and pair it up with the Destiny Knot Ditto.

9: Individual Values (IV)

Now the Cream of the Crop. Breeding a Pokemon with the best Individual Values (IV)

Our Objective this time is to Hit Best stats for every Stats except the Negative stats for the Pokemon. For my Cutiefly case. It does not need an attack stats. So i would aim to get the best stats for all stats except Attack.

If you have only 5IV Dittos. Placed a ditto in each day care center. Breed the Pokemon with the first Ditto Until it has the acquired IV the 2nd ditto is missing. Take that Pokemon to the second Day care Center and breed it with the 2nd Ditto until you get the IV you need.

This is the reason why we would recommend to have 2 Destiny Knot and 2 Everstone with you. If you have yourself a 6IV Ditto. Congratulations! You’ve cut the breeding time for a perfect IV Pokemon in Half.

10: Ability

Now on to the final part of breeding. Hang in there.

You would have already notice different Pokemon may have different ability. Cutiefly for example has an ability Honey Gather and Shield Dust. We do not need Honey Gather because its considered not relevant in rank battle. So i have to make absolutely sure that its ability should be Shield Dust instead. If its not the ability you want. You have 2 options. Either Hatch more Eggs until you find the ability you’re looking for or use an Ability Capsule. (Note: Ability capsule won’t help you get hidden ability.)

11: Quality of Life Improvement

Congratulations! You’ve bred your probably your first perfect IV Pokemon! Did you know that Pokemon Sword and Shield has introduced some Quality of life improvement functions to breed your Pokemon easily?

Nature Changing Mints

At the Battle Tower in Wyndon. There is a receptionist who will be selling Mints for 50 BP. All 25 Mints are available for purchase. This helps you speeds up the process of getting the Nature you want.

Ability Capsule

Also at the battle Tower. Another receptionist are selling battle items and ability capsules if you had a perfect IV Pokemon with the ability that you do not need. You can purchase the ability capsule for 50BP and use the item on the pokemon you need to change ability with.

Hyper Training

And lastly, also at the battle tower. If you got yourself an almost to perfect 5IV Pokemon but not the very last IV is what you needed most but you’re bored of hatching eggs. There’s the Hyper Training facility for you. This allows you to spend a bottle cap max an IV stat of your Pokemon. However there are requirements. Your Pokemon needs to be level 100 to be hyper trained.

You can attain bottle caps by spending 25 BP from the same receptionist that is selling the ability capsule or hire the digging duo’s services.

And.. We’re Done!

We hope this covers technically everything about breeding yourself a perfect IV Pokemon! Time to take a breather and be prepared for the next phase of preparation and that is EV training. We have covered everything about EV training too. Click here.

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