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Breeding and Eggs

Breeding is very important in the Pokémon games. Breeding was introduced in Gold and Silver, and it is in every game after that. It allows you to get more than one starter and get the rare Pokémon, Phione, along with some duplicates such as Tyrogue. Every step you take ingame when a Pokémon is in the Day Care will get it that much Experience. For example, if you walked 500 steps after putting a Pokémon in the Day Care, the Pokémon would gain 500 experience.

Diamond, Pearl and Platinum

The breeding center, which is actually the Day Care, is in Solaceon Town. When you go inside for the first time, put a Pokémon in the Day Care and get the Pokétch App #9 for checking on your Pokémon on the go. Pokémon can breed only if they are in the same Egg Group and one is male and one is female. An example of Pokémon that could breed are Gloom and Weepinbell. The female Pokémon will be the one that the baby will turn out to be, in its lowest form. Male Pokémon are useful too, because they can pass on moves to the baby such as Earthquake, a hard to obtain TM. Moves that can be passed on from the male father are called Egg Moves, and are often TMs or moves that can be learned by level up by the female Pokémon that is in the Day Care.
After you put compatible Pokémon in the Day Care, watch the Pokétch App for your Pokémon in there and walk or bike 256 steps. You'll have to press the Pokétch to have it refresh the status of your Pokémon, and going inside or outside of buildings will refresh it too. Every 256 steps, your Pokémon has a chance of making an Egg. As well as checking the Pokétch, you can see if the Day Care Man turned toward the right to know if an egg has been bred. Once you get the Egg, depending on what Pokémon is in it, will hatch after so many steps. Most Pokémon hatch with 5,120 steps, but some hatch with more and some with less.
Also in Diamond, Pearl and Platinum, you get a Happiny Egg from a Hiker in the southeast corner of Hearthome City, which takes 10,240 steps to hatch.

HeartGold and SoulSilver

Everything is pretty much the same in HeartGold and SoulSilver, but the Day Care is in a different place in Johto; it's right before you get to Goldenrod City, on Route 34. When you get here, you can put two different Pokémon in there by talking to the Day Care Lady, the wife of the Day Care Man. After you walk for 256 steps, you'll have a chance at getting an egg. One thing different in these games is that if you talk to the Day Care Man, he'll let you get his PokéGear number. You can check on your Pokémon by calling him when you're far away from the Day Care. You can also have him call you when your Pokémon have breed an egg.
You also get a Togepi Egg from Professor Elm's assistant after Professor Elm calls you when you beat Falkner. You can pick up this egg in the Violet City Poké Mart. Togepi hatches after only 2,560 steps.

Black and White

On Route 3, just after Striaton City, the Day Care Lady can take two of your Pokémon and if they are in the same egg group, they will breed, just like in previous games. One difference in these games though, is that if you have an open slot in your party and your Pokémon make an egg, the Day Care Man will call you over, telling you that your Pokémon have made an egg. This makes up for the lack of PokéGear or him facing a different way than normal, since he always faces down in Black and White.

Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald

The Day Care Center is on Route 117 in these games, right in between Mauville City and Verdanturf Town. The Day Care Lady will take two of your Pokémon and after walking or biking 256 steps, if they're in the same egg group, they have a chance of breeding. You'll be able to tell if they did because the Day Care Man will step out a little from his usual position.
If you talk to the old lady right below the Hot Springs, she'll offer to give you a Wynaut egg. After walking with it for 5,120 steps, it will hatch and you can enjoy it!

Red, Blue and Yellow

You can't breed in Red, Blue and Yellow, but there is a Day Care. Just south of Cerulean City, a man will raise your Pokémon depending on how many steps you keep them in there. In these games, you can only store one Pokémon in the Day Care.


That’s about all there is to breeding! Hope this helps to hatch good Pokémon. A couple other things is that starting in Emerald, if you have a Pokémon that has the Ability Magma Armor or Flame Body in your party, eggs will hatch in half the amount of steps. Also, Ditto is important in breeding as it can breed with any Pokémon that can breed, even male Pokémon, but the egg that is bred will never be a Ditto, but instead the lowest form of the other Pokémon in the Day Care.

Pokémon with the Flame Body or Magma Armor Abilities
(Other possible ability is in parentheses)


Happy breeding!
~Slix