Decor 4: Breeder's block

[pikajanken]

[Yayoi sounds really tired and even fights back a yawn but fails as the feed starts.]

Oh, sorry! Breeding is a lot harder than I thought. You have to figure out which moves are passed, how to price the eggs and other things. It makes my math homework back home look easy! Anyways, I've hit a sort of... breeder's block.

A breeder's goal is to create the strongest pokemon, right? To be honest, I don’t have a specific goal besides that. I do want to be the best electric type breeder but I feel like I should do something to help me stand out but I’m not sure what exactly.

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[teablossom]

...I don't have much advice to share, seeing as I'm not a breeder.

But I'm surprised you can put that much consideration into it. Certainly, egg moves and such need to be considered... But I assumed it must be a great deal of luck or "setting the stage" well.

Can you really prompt eggs so directly?

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[pikajanken]

Well, not all of it actually. Majority of the eggs will be the same species as the mother. Two of my first egg batch were actually Shinx, the father's species instead of Mareep. You can't really time when the eggs will come though.

Plus, the eggs don't receive all the moves their parents have since not all pokemon can learn the same moves. I've been reading up on breeding lately. Sometimes to get the right move, you might have to chain breed to get the move to a pokemon that's compatible to breed. It gets complicated very quickly.

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[teablossom]

-I read a bit about it myself in some manuals, but having it all laid out like that... It's even more complicated than I imagined.

What does a breeder need to do, then? Are you meant to focus on more - egg moves, a high number of eggs, or producing rare species?

Or is it just a combination?