Esterina

Gosh friggin' dangit, that is a beauty. I hate you! D:

Yeah, I'll probably just keep an eye out for 4x31 Dittos regularly, that's the best I can do. Really, it would be enough if genderless Pokies could breed with their own species - it would make way more logical sense and allow for a properly planned breeding process... ... and thus, most importantly, it would also make genderless Pokémon like Starmie more popular and accessible, most of all to people who are very competitive and insist on their natured 5x30/31s = good for healthy variety in the PvP scene. Really, there's no reason for it to not work that way. It'd be beneficial to everyone and the game itself, with no downsides. :/ PS: Though I'd definitely exclude Ditto from this... that'd be pretty broken.

Well... in other words, I'm not overlooking something vital, and there simply is no reliable (or even reasonable) way of breeding a 5x30/31 natured Starmie. Great... so much for that Starmie. >.>

Hello there. Well, to keep a long story short, I'd like to breed myself a 5x30/31 Starmie for my competitive team. Thing is... well, y'know, Starmie is genderless. And if I'm not getting something seriously wrong here, genderless Pokémon can't even breed with their own species (even if that doesn't make the tiniest bit of logical sense). They can only ever breed with Dittos... but you can't breed Dittos, so you have to always use a Ditto as-is. The problem is obvious: How in the world is one supposed to breed a 5x30/31 genderless Pokémon with the right nature? Even just getting to 5x30/31 seems practically impossible, and even then, a 4x30/31 partner with the right nature is also still required. How is one even supposed to do that? Is there some sort of reliable method here that I'm completely overlooking? Thanks in advance for any useful replies.

You mean literally every single stat will go down by at least one?

Hi there. I'll cut straight to the point! My Jolteon has 31/16/31/31/31/31. That gives it Dragon-type Hidden Power. I want to change its Hidden Power to Grass-type. The minimum IV change for that would be just -1 to SpAtk... ... so 31/16/31/31/31/31 -> 31/16/31/30/31/31. But is that what the NPC in Lavender Town will do? Will he go with that absolute minimum reduction? Or is there a randomness factor to it, and I would run the risk of heavily reducing Jolteon's IVs? I hope you can give me a clear answer on this... ... I don't want to mess up the Jolteon I spent so much time on breeding. :/ Greets