What can I breed a Shiny Umbreon with to get Shiny Eevee?

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I’m trying to get Shiny Eevee on Pokémon Crystal. But when I looked on bulbapedia, it said if it says " It’s brimming with energy, it has 0% chance to have an egg. That’s what it said. Please help me get one.

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Pokemon will breed if they are from opposite genders and have a matching Egg group, or if one of the partners is Ditto. They will not breed if they are the same gender as each other, if they do not have a matching Egg group, if a Pokemon is from the Undiscovered Egg group or if one of the Pokemon is genderless. (Note that genderless Pokemoncanbreed with Ditto, which is an exception to just about every breeding rule in the game.) Based on this, your Umbreon will breed with any Pokemon from the opposite gender that also belongs to theField Egg group(or is Ditto).

However, in Generation II only, if the two Pokemon’s IVs are too similar, they will not breed with each other. This is anextremelyrare occurrence all things considered, and unfortunately, the two Pokemon you’re breeding for a Shiny Eevee fall under this category. According to thatsame Bulbapedia page you were reading, if both Pokemon’s Defence IVs are the same and their Special IVs are different by 0 or 8, the “It’s brimming with energy” message will appear. As you know, that means that the Pokemon have a 0% chance of breeding. Unfortunately, as IVs cannot be changed, you will have to change Umbreon’s breeding partner in order to get an Egg.

Changing Umbreon’s breeding partner should be simple enough. However, unfortunately this is not the only issue standing in your way. Shininess is not one of the things that a baby Pokemon can inherit from its parents. In other words, the fact that you’re breeding with a Shiny Umbreon doesn’t mean the resulting baby Eevee will be Shiny. However, you’re lucky that you’re playing a Generation II game. IVs play a role in determining whether a Pokemon is Shiny in Generation II, and since babies inherit IVs from their parents, the baby Eevee could have as high as a 1/64 chance of being Shiny. That might not sound like much, but when you compare that to the dreadful 1/4096 in more recent games, you’re in luck.

So, to sum this up for you if it didn’t make any sense:

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