Ok I am trying to breed Tentacool and something is going wrong when I am using the "time machine" method.
This is what I did:
1. Breed 2 magikarps holding an everstone and destiny knot
2. bike until the guy gets the egg
3. reject the egg, save
4. bike until the guy gets another egg
5. check which stats each parent gives the the child, reset if undesired pattern
6. Repeat steps 2-5 until I got the pattern I wanted: female gives HP and Male gives Special attack and speed
The thing is, its not working. Currently if I make an egg and hatch it, and then check it, the Magikarp will always have the same pattern. So, after resetting, I take the Magikarps out, put in a female Tentacool with 31 HP and male with 31 speed and special attack, holding everstone and destiny knot.
I should be getting a Tentacool with 31 HP, Special Attack, and Speed right now, but I am only getting one's with perfect Speed.
Simply put, what the heck am I doing wrong here?
1. put two magikarp in the daycare. mine are :
Magikarp (f destiny knot) - #129 (Adamant) : 4 - 5 / 18 / 19 / 6 - 7 / 6 - 7 / 14 - 15
Magikarp (m everstone)- #129 (Adamant) : 6 - 7 / 31 / 16 - 17 / 31 / 0 - 1 / 10 - 11
2. bike until egg appears. Reject it. Save.
3.bike until another egg appears. Accept it. Hatch it. Take it to the battle institute to check stats.
4. It's Iv's are: 6-7/31/18-19/6-7/6-7/12-13
which means
F inheritance: Def, Sp Atk, Sp D
M inheritance: HP, Atk
Random: Speed
5. At this point I reset (if i were going for a specific spread, i would then 1.hatch another egg, 2.reject, 3.save again, 4.check ivs etc -until i got the desired spread)
6.In my boxes i found a Gastly (f) timid IV's : x/x/31/31/31/31
and a Duosion (m) lax IV's : 31/31/xx/xx/xx/xx
If it works, their child should inherate the HP and Attack from the father and the Def, SpA,SpD from the mother, while the speed is wildcard. Note there also have a 50/50 m/f ratio, which is the same as magikarp.
7. I give the female Gastly the Destiny Knot and the male Duosion the everstone, and put them in the daycare.
8. I took the gastly to the IV checker since it's a simple spread, and he said that the HP, Atk, Def, Sp A, and SpD couldn't be beat. So it worked.
Im not exactly sure what problem you are having
Princess Bubblegum , but if you follow these steps exactly you should get the correct result.
So I spent forever trying to get Articuno to rest at the Sea Spirit's Den, but I didn't save beforehand. Wanting to soft reset for IVs, etc I just ran from the battle, and now it says that Articuno's location is unknown in the Pokedex. Did I screw up?
I tried beating the Elite Four again as well as restarting. Neither moved Articuno back to the Den.
After you battle the legendary bird without catching it, ie it faints, you run, or your team faints, then it dissapears without another chance of catching it. If you have saved your game after you defeated it, then it's gone. If you saved sometime before, but not after, then you wuold be able to return to that earlier save state.
If you did save afterwards, you can always trade another legendary or high value mon on GTS for an Articuno (this is very easy if you don't mind letting go of your zyguarde/yveltal/xerneas/mewtwo and soon with pokemonbank, other legendaries) and hope to eventually get one that has a satisfactory IV spread. Good luck :)