Wouldn't using Picnics trigger Affection?So for those of you who want to use egg moves for ingame runs, doing it is easy! Just buy a Mirror Herb from the Delibird Gifts in Casacarrafa! It's the town with the Water-type gym in it.
First of all, options, second, because blowing 120k+ on a shitmon gotta feel terrible.A lot of people are talking about breeding for IVs but now that Bottle Caps and Mints are purchasable for just $20k and Bottle Caps can be used starting at level 50, what's the point of breeding for IVs? For specific balls in the rare case I guess but other than that, why?
Imagine dropping a house's worth of cash on a Squawkabilly (Bird Up!) because it gets Intimidate + Parting Shot and all that VGC shit that makes things a slog to watch.
Matter of fact, I pulled up some VGC finals to watch while having lunch.
I managed to clean my plate before a single point of damage was dealt.

That's why VGC doesn't get to eSports potential man, that shit is boring to watch! What is this, GSC?

Real talk, I appreciate the flavor text and caps and mints are great.You get it. I even have some crazy friends that don't mind bottle capping because they like to go for certain Characteristics. The famous proud of its power Lucario guy was just ahead of his time!
This game is all about paradoxes, it's all good.btw one more funny layer to the mirror herb breeding stuff: you can inhert moves from eggs.
Seriosuly, I have a Quaxly egg that I bred Roost on, and Quaquaval with Mirror Herb got Roost from it DESPITE THE EGG NOT EVEN BEING HATCHED.
I can not even imagine the logic behind this beyond "whoops someone at gamefreak messed up".
Maybe eggs really are magical like the daycare folks used to say lol