Do you IV Breed Pokemon? (competitively)

[Farobi]

Because let's face it what can you do postgame other than online battling, EV training, money hoarding, and i guess shiny hunting and breeding???

I IV breed and I actually enjoy doing it. It's annoying but it pays off in the long run. It's also fun trading the iv bred Pokemon in other sites such as GameFAQs and Serebii (this site's trading board is more or less barren tbh) to get more IV bred Pokemon, which can be used for battling online

So basically the question can also be: "Do you play competitively?"

 

[Nefarious]

I just got into IV Breeding. Got my first perfect Pokemon today (technically yesterday.)!
It's a Froslass. ^^

 

[franza]

I IV breed Pokemon and I play competitively, I'm new to competitive battles though...
Cool sig xD

 

[Ricardo]

I've IV breeding for a few weeks and it goes by fast if I watch something or listen to music. I believe I have 4 pokemon that have great IV stats now thanks to IV breeding and I hope to use them competitively in a week or so. Right I am working on 5 IVs Skarmory

 

[Horus]

Hell yeah, go hard or go home

 

[Farobi]

Nice to see an active IV Breeding community here. Since I usually sometimes end up with extra 4-5IV Pokemon, i end up trading them for other freshly-bred viable Pokemon online. I ended up with Marills, Fletchlings, Drilburs, Rotoms, and Scythers this way just by trading away my excess Charmanders and Larvitars xD

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Cool sig xD

#bestsig2013

 

[radical6]

i actually wanna get into iv breeding and battling?? except im a big baby so i would probably cry if someone challenged me so im like.....reading everything i can on it oh boy

 

[KarlaKGB]

Yes and yes. Pokemon is all about the battling for me.

 

[Scribbler397]

I haven't started IV breeding yet, but I plan on doing so. I have been so busy shiny hunting. I will probably start alternating half and hour of shiny hunting with half an hour of iv breeding.

 

[Jennifer]

You can finish catching them all, enjoy exploring, and just have fun with your team... I also enjoy getting ribbons on my entire party.

I have never IV Bred nor do I ever plan to as it goes against my main enjoyment of Pokemon. Part of why I hate all the Battle stuff is it's made for those kinds of things and it's just...not something I enjoy, but as a completionist, I have to anyway... So frustrating. But to me, I'd want to do everything with my main team and I'm not going to toss aside the team I got in the first place and grew to love just to try and breed out some perfect product.

I don't think I'd ever even consider it unless they let you modify a Pokemon's IVs ingame as I'd never replace the party that helped me get to that point.

 

[Silversea]

I always wanted to but its too complicated and too much time for me to do.

 

[Heir]

I IV breed, and I'm pretty excited to get into competitive battling. Surrre, it'll be a few weeks until my team is done, but it is something I'm really looking forward to and I believe it'll be worth all my time, effort, and tears :U

 

[Gingersnap]

I'm going to start IV breeding soon the only problem I have is no Destiny Knot...I accidently sold it. I just need to get it in my X playthrough.
Battling looks fun, I may not be good at it but raising a bunch of Pokemon to their full potential looks extra fun!

 

[Sheepish]

Yep. I had read about how accessible it is to breed this generation, so I decided to join in on the fun.
I don't quite have a full team ready yet (I've mostly just been breeding random Pok?mon I like), but it has been fun messing around online with what I've managed to breed so far.

 

[KarlaKGB]

I'm going to start IV breeding soon the only problem I have is no Destiny Knot...I accidently sold it. I just need to get it in my X playthrough.
Battling looks fun, I may not be good at it but raising a bunch of Pokemon to their full potential looks extra fun!

There are two destiny knots per game.

 

[Croconaw]

I honestly don't do it.

 

[Gingersnap]

There are two destiny knots per game.

ooh really? where are they found if you know?

 

[Dembonez19]

I breed for good IVs in the stats that matter. I don't shoot for perfection, but this generation sure made it easier to achieve. I have a lot of fun with it, and I like testing egg moves.

 

[KarlaKGB]

ooh really? where are they found if you know?

So you probably got the first one from a maid in Cyllage City. There's also a woman in Lumiose who you can find in one of the little streets/plazas who gives you one everytime you beat her in a battle.

 

[Paperboy012305]

I do. I'm about to try competitive battling in-game for the first time ever instead of using Pokemon Showdown thanks to the destiny knot. I'm Iv breeding right now. Getting a 5 Iv Joltik is such hard work, at first I thought it was gonna be easy, but I thought wrong.