Abilities Useful with IV Breeding?
What are some abilities that will help me with finding Pokemon of the right gender, ability and so forth. Basically stuff that will making the catching and breeding process faster
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You can use the ability Synchronize (Found in Pokemon like Ralts) to catch a Pokemon with the nature you want for eg: Calm Ralts, with Synchronize, now if this Pokemon is first in your part there is a chance that the wild Pokemon will be of the same nature. Then if you get your desired nature on your desired Pokemon you can give it the Everstone to pass Nature during breeding,
Flame Body and Magma Armor (Abilities) helps hatching the eggs faster. You can also alternatively use the Hatching O-Power.
As for finding Pokemon with the right Gender, you’ll have to depend on your luck.
When searching for a Pokemon with the correct nature, you must acquire aRaltswith the same nature that you wish to have, e.g. aModestRalts and make sure it has the abilitySynchronize. Keep Ralts as the first Pokemon in your party. This will give you a 50% chance of finding a wild Pokemon with the Modest nature, stacking the odds hugely in your favour. Then when breeding, give the Pokemon with the Modest Nature anEverstoneto make it pass the nature.
When searching for a Pokemon with the correct gender, there is no surefire way to make, say, a Male wild Pokemon appear, nor is there any ability to influence a male being hatched. Sorry. You’ll have to rely on your luck. Usually, there is a 50/50 chance of finding a male or female, but sometimes the chance is 87.5% Male and 12.5% female, sometimes only males or females are available.
Sometimes you can use tricks to find the right ability in the wild. I recently caught aHawluchafor breeding, and I wanted it to have theUnburdenability. Hawlucha can have either Unburden orLimber(which makes it unable to be paralyzed). My Manectric knowsThunder Wave, and I used it to paralyze Hawlucha. This is just an example. The point is, use tricks manipulating your Pokemon’s moves and abilities to find out before you catch 10 of the Pokemon and hope to get lucky. If it got paralyzed, then it had Unburden. As of Generation 6, any-nonDittoPokemon when breeding WILL pass it’s ability (and if you want to pass a Hidden Ability, there is a 20% chance)
If you want to pass IVs faster, you can use one of these two items. The first is one of the Power items (e.g.Power Bracer), which can be found in theBattle Maison, or you can use aDestiny Knot, which passes a grand total of 5 IVs, making the IV Breeding substantially easier.
When hatching the eggs, use a Pokemon with the abilityFlame BodyORMagma Armor. This reduces the time required for an egg to hatch by half (EDIT: This is confirmed). I personally caught aLarvestain one of my Friend Safaris. To add to this, as Kero said, you can also use Egg Hatching Power to further speed the process up (although Flame Body is more efficient and recommended for mass breeding). Some Pokemon you can catch easily that have Flame Body areMagmar,Slugma,Litwick, and most notablyTalonflame and Fletchinder. Slugma also can get Magma Armor, just for reference.
If you need any more help, feel free to ask. Hope I helped!
Also, while searching for pokémons for breedding you can use the following abilities, in addition to the other answers for your question:
These are all items, abilities, attacks, that I know so far. Also, here are some tips for finding pokémon:
I hope it helps while catching your pokémon!-Komaoto
EDIT: Remembered more 2 items for breeding:
Some information was got from bulbapedia, others are experience.
