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Getting Ready
For the purposes of this guide, we're going to be breeding a Modest Eevee (I'm going to assume you know about the benefits of having a beneficial nature). Everyone likes Eevees, right?

To do this, we're going to need a few things, and they are:

• A Modest-natured Female Eevee OR a Modest-natured Ditto [NOTE: If you're going the Female Eevee route, the Everstone trick WILL NOT WORK if you're breeding it with a Ditto as the FATHER; pick something in Eevee's Egg Group to make it work]
  
• One Everstone
  
• The Daycare
  
• A Pokemon with Flame Body or Magma Armor ability (more on that in a second)

The Daycare can be found in Solaceon in Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum and outside of Goldenrod City on Route 34 in Heart Gold and Soul Silver.

For this demonstration, we're using a Male Eevee of a differing nature and a Modest-natured Ditto. Before depositing both in the Daycare, we're going to attach the Everstone to Ditto. Once this is done, stick them in the Daycare and let the fun begin!

Waiting for Eggs
While we're waiting for an Egg to pop out, let's get ready for hatching. First things first is to empty all your Pokemon into your box except for one, and this particular one needs to be something that has the Flame Body or Magma Armor ability. These are:

• Magby->Magmar->Magmortar
  
• Slugma->Magcargo
  
• Camerupt

For this demonstration, our lucky candidate is Slugma.

Next, hop on your bike, and let's go for a ride.

In Solaceon, there's a straight path that runs from Route 209 below all the way through the town and up into Route 210 (right next to Cafe). I'm fairly certain this path was put in by the game developers for breeders. Basically, you can run this path back and forth to not only wait for Eggs but also to hatch them, picking up more as you go along.

HGSS has no such path, but I generally ride from the Daycare, up through Goldenrod, and to the gate leading to Route 35 (and back again).

You'll be able to tell there's an Egg ready through a number of ways. First is that the old man standing outside the Daycare will turn from his usual front-facing position to a side-facing one. The second depends upon which game your playing. In Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum, you can check the Daycare Checker App on your Poketch (should be number 09). Leave it at the bottom, and tap it every now and again. When a little Egg icon appears between your two Pokemon, you've got an Egg! In Heart Gold and Soul Silver, there is no Poketch, but you do have a PokeGear, and the kind old Daycare Man will call you every time you have a new Egg to pick up (which is kind of annoying, personally, but....moving on).

You Got an Egg! Now Let's Hatch It!
With our Egg in tow, we're going to ride along our Breeder's Path, collecting any Eggs that pop up along the way, until our party is full of our Slugma and 5 Eggs.

Now, Flame Body/Magma Armor is a nice little ability that has an Overworld effect. It helps to hatch Eggs faster! This only works on the Egg right next to it in your party, though. So, for example, if our party looks like this:
x=Slugma
o=Egg
xo
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Then this Egg will have it's required steps halved:
xo<--
oo
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After listening to that lecture, it seems your Egg has hatched! Don't just sit there, check out its status screen!

Q: So now are you going to tell me how to check IVs?
A: Why yes, yes I am.

There are two ways to check IVs, but both of them require one thing, and that's an online IV Calculator. Everyone has one they prefer (I personally like the one at Veekun), and all you need to do to find one is type "Pokemon IV Calculator" into a search engine and pick one. Try a few out, see which one you like best.

Special aside: You could always try and calculate it out yourself with the formula, but...that's just a lot of unnecessary effort, don't you think?

Having selected our IV Calculator, we're now ready to select our method.

Method 1: The (Haxy) Hard Way
If you happen to have 99 Rare Candies lying around, you can feed them to your Eevee until it's level 100, input its stats into the Calculator, and then reload to before you fed them to your Eeevee. This is a very round-about way of doing it, and I don't suggest doing it, but you're more than welcome to, if you really want to.

Method 2: The (Friend Requiring) Easy Way
Easiest route to take is to have an IV battle. What this requires is a Wi-Fi match with the level set at 100. If you happen to have two DSes lying around and two versions of the games, you can have an IV battle with yourself. If you lack such things, ask in the forums for an IV battle until someone politely obliges you.

If you're IV battling with someone else...

• Be courteous. Don't spend any unnecessary time drawing out the length of the battle. Write down your stats and when you're both ready, disconnect.
  
• Be patient. Both when asking for an IV battle and when actually in one, particularly if the other player is doing checking as well. When asking in a forum, do so politely, and don't get frustrated if someone doesn't respond to you right away. Maybe people are busy or don't have time. Don't get discouraged and start calling everyone dumb just because they won't IV battle you; it's rude and will make them less-likely to take up your offer. In the actual battle, if the other player is having to do some checking also, kindly wait for the other person to finish before you disconnect (assuming you finish first). If you're done writing down your stats and are waiting for the other player, maybe you can go ahead and start checking your IVs in the calculator.
  
• Be thankful. It's just good manners to thank someone for doing you a service, so thank the person who IV battled with you for their help in your efforts to breed the ultimate Pokemon. I'm sure they'll appreciate it, plus they might be more willing to do it again if you're friendly.

For our demonstration, we're going to have an IV battle. So let's get ready!

Found a Diamond in the Rough
Did one of your Pokemon turn out to have great IVs? That's fantastic! Your breeding process is done.

Remember: The closer you are to 31 in every stat, the better! As a personal rule, anything over 20 is pretty good, anything over 25 is great, and anything 29 or above is excellent. So if you have one with mostly 31-28 and one 25, I'd personally take it (assuming the 25 is in a stat I don't really heavily need to depend upon). You can always keep trying, though, but set that one aside juuust in case. c:


...Or Maybe It's Cubic Zirconia...
Do all your Eevee's IVs suck? (Heh, "Eevee's IVs"...try saying that 3 times fast wink ) No worries, there are a few things you can do.

1.)Keep breeding with your current Daycare couple. Get another batch and try again. If you still don't have decent IVs after a second batch (making 12 total so far), move on to option 2.

2.)Get some new parents. Look at the IVs of your all the Pokemon you've currently checked. Does one have really good stats in most of what you need, but a few really bad ones? Does something it can breed with have the stats you'd like on the first, but not the good stats your first one does?

For example, let's say we have two Modest Eevees, one male and one female, with the following IV spreads:

(HP/Atk/Def/SpAtk/SpDef/Spd)
Male: 31/31/29/2/3/20
Female: 20/2/24/31/20/3

See, our Male would be perfect if it weren't for that awful Special Attack! gonk But look, our Female has a great Special Attack IV! Why don't we try breeding these two together? (It's okay; in-breeding is perfectly legal in the Pokemon world. ninja )

Repeat the whole process of breeding and checking this way.

Note: If even after a second couple you're not getting good results, pick a new pair and try with them, building up your chances of having better IVs.

Q: This sure takes a long time...Is it really worth it?
A: Why yes, yes it does. Whether or not it's "worth it" to you depends on whether or not you'd like extra points in your stats. In the end, it's all your choice.


Q: What about Pokemon I can't breed, like Legendaries and Trio Pokemon?
A: I'm glad you asked that. Simply put, if you're hunting down a legendary, you're probably soft resetting for a good nature (or at least you should be). Thankfully, most of the legendaries start at higher levels, so you can check them as they are. The IV calculations won't be exact, but they'll give you a good idea of what that Pokemon's final IVs look like. So if you get the right nature but the IVs suck, you can reset again without having to save for an IV battle.


And....that's pretty much it. I've taught you all I know. Now it's up to you to go out there and breed the most godly Pokemon you can. Good luck~!

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