I was a total noob at the time when I was mass breeding piplups for my vgc2010 team consisting of empoleon, swampert, flygon, alakazam, hypno (for status conditions), and gengar (to cover the only other status condition moves that the hypno didn't). I knew about ivs (they were too hard to calculate via the one on serebii at the time, and they looked uber hard to do) so I just want and filled 97% of my pc boxes with piplups and I wanted a female one that had 6 in every star except for hp. Little did I know at the time that due to the law of probability I should have had at least 8 perfect iv piplups out of the HUNDREDS that I bred. *face desk face desk face desk*Got another Shiny Pancham today; this time completely flawless and with four Egg Moves... but it's a Female, the fourth Shiny Female Pancham in a row. Where some people would call this a breeding win, I'd call it a breeding fail for me. Not that I'm sexist or anything, but can I at least get one Male to be shiny >.< The RNG mocks me. It's like having a Male Lopunny or a Female Machamp. It's just weird if you think about it too deeply, but I think it comes down to preference.
Is there anyone who nitpicks like me over the tiniest details while breeding such as Gender? Maybe Abilities, Egg Moves or IV's?
I did not do so well that year.
(I got to my third round and lost to a little girl that was using soul dew on a latias/os and cried because I had been working for months on the team and lost my chance the previous year due to my old doctor being a dumbass and refusing the fact that I had the flue "due to me being home schooled so I couldn't POSSIBLY be going out enough to get the flue" which lead to pneumonia and a two week hospital stay in where I had an allergic reaction to a drug there, and missed the tournament, FUN!
So, you really are not alone in being uber precise when it comes to every last detail.
Also, I thought attract would be a commonly/semi commonly used move, so that's why I was obsessed with the gender thing.