When breeding competitive pokés, should I start with IV's or Egg moves?

The title says all. I’m starting to breed for competitive, but I have this little question about how should I start. Do people start right to IVing, or to Egg moves? Or do they mix this things? Eg. getting IVs while getting egg moves. Because, for my view, I thing it’s more “easy” to start with egg moves, and then go to breed with a Ditto(I have a 6IV one) to get a perfect one. What do you guys do when breeding?

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Ordinarily, you’d need to breed both Egg moves and IVs together at the same time to produce better parents for passing down the IVs, egg moves and nature you want. This is fairly simple: if you don’t include Pokemon with a sufficient amount of perfect IVs, the baby won’t have good IVs and won’t make a better parent than the parents you already have. If you don’t include Egg moves, the baby obviously won’t have the Egg moves you want, so it won’t work well as a parent. However, if the two parents you choose collectively have good amount of perfect IVs and the Egg moves you like, the baby will have both of these traits, essentially making it a two-in-one and thus a more useful parent. There is no point in breeding like this if the offspring you get don’t make better parents than you already have, because then you get absolutely nowhere.

However, your 6 IV Ditto changes everything, and basically means you can focus on Egg moves first and save IVs for later. Obviously, there’s nothing wrong with adding IVs into the mix if you can, but it’s completely fine if you can’t. For your exact situation, this is the process I’d follow:

Without a 6 IV Ditto, you’d have to follow a process like the onehere, except the initial parents you choose would have to have the desired Egg moves as well as good IVs to pass down with Destiny Knot or Power items. As you can see, the 6 IV Ditto makes breeding competitive Pokemon far more simple than it normally is.