Hey everyone, Im glad to announce that the breeding secret from the ADV generation is still in Diamond and Pearl! If you didnt already know, I discovered a secret a few years ago when playing around with breeding in my Ruby version. I found that right when an Egg is created (the Day Care man has it), the Pokemon inside already had its gender and ability set in stone, and once you took it, it was then that its nature and IVs were created for it. I spread it through Gamefaqs, but I still dont think its a very known fact, yet it helped me and some others breed a couple Pokemon with a required ability much easier...
Later when Emerald came out, someone using the secret discovered that in that game, gender, ability, AND nature were all set in stone when the Egg was created. Only IVs were ever random anymore when you took the Egg. This sounded too good to be true, but it was, and its likely a result of the new Everstone feature. I was able to breed many competitive worthy Pokemon by merely soft resetting in front of the Day Care Man and hatching the Egg over and over until the IVs were right...
Now come Diamond/Pearl. I just got to Solaceon Town about an hour ago, and when I saw the Day Care, I wasted no time. I decided to use Bidoof as my test, as a common Pokemon with 2 abilities and 50% gender chances. I went down to catch a couple of Bibarel, then let them have their fun. When I saw the Day Care Man looking to the right, I saved it in front of him, then took the Egg. Did the tedious part, then hatched a level 1 Male Bidoof with Lonely nature and Unaware ability. I did a brief estimate of IVs at level 5, then soft resetted and hatched the Egg again. This hatchling was again a Male Lonely Unaware Bidoof. Its starting stats were a bit different, so I immediately knew the IVs were not the same. I did one last test, and once again a Male Lonely Unaware Bidoof hatched. Extremely low chance of all that 3 times in a row...
So there you have it. IVs are the only random things when you take an Egg from the Day Care Man. The advantage of this secret is that you can "lock" a necessary nature and ability and even gender into an Egg before you take it, then just keep hatching that Egg over and over until you get some satisfying IVs. The disadvantages are that you dont get to hatch multiple Eggs, and you cant do an IV battle with this method. I prefer this way though, it has saved me much time with certain Pokemon that need one ability over the other...
Whoo, I didnt expect to type that much... Hmm, if someone deems this off topic or something, I will gladly summarize the info and post it in an info thread...
Later when Emerald came out, someone using the secret discovered that in that game, gender, ability, AND nature were all set in stone when the Egg was created. Only IVs were ever random anymore when you took the Egg. This sounded too good to be true, but it was, and its likely a result of the new Everstone feature. I was able to breed many competitive worthy Pokemon by merely soft resetting in front of the Day Care Man and hatching the Egg over and over until the IVs were right...
Now come Diamond/Pearl. I just got to Solaceon Town about an hour ago, and when I saw the Day Care, I wasted no time. I decided to use Bidoof as my test, as a common Pokemon with 2 abilities and 50% gender chances. I went down to catch a couple of Bibarel, then let them have their fun. When I saw the Day Care Man looking to the right, I saved it in front of him, then took the Egg. Did the tedious part, then hatched a level 1 Male Bidoof with Lonely nature and Unaware ability. I did a brief estimate of IVs at level 5, then soft resetted and hatched the Egg again. This hatchling was again a Male Lonely Unaware Bidoof. Its starting stats were a bit different, so I immediately knew the IVs were not the same. I did one last test, and once again a Male Lonely Unaware Bidoof hatched. Extremely low chance of all that 3 times in a row...
So there you have it. IVs are the only random things when you take an Egg from the Day Care Man. The advantage of this secret is that you can "lock" a necessary nature and ability and even gender into an Egg before you take it, then just keep hatching that Egg over and over until you get some satisfying IVs. The disadvantages are that you dont get to hatch multiple Eggs, and you cant do an IV battle with this method. I prefer this way though, it has saved me much time with certain Pokemon that need one ability over the other...
Whoo, I didnt expect to type that much... Hmm, if someone deems this off topic or something, I will gladly summarize the info and post it in an info thread...