Breeding

How does breeding work in Pokémon Wilds?

1. **Female Pokémon will lay eggs of their own species.** The only exception is when breeding with a Ditto in which case the Ditto will lay the egg if the other Pokémon is Male.
2. **Pokémon can breed within the same Egg Groups.**
3. **Pokémon need to stay close to each other to breed.** If they wander too far off they will lose attraction. They can also lose attraction to other Pokémon who wander close to them ruining your breeding process, so it is best to make sure that your breeding pairs are separated from other Pokémon.
4. **In order to breed, Pokémon need to be happy which requires the use of the proper habitat tiles.** These can be found in the Useful Links for Breeding section below.
5. **Female Pokémon/Dittos need space to move.** The Pokémon producing eggs by leaving one behind when moving to another tile. Depending on the enclosure and random movements, it's possible for the Pokémon to become trapped and incapable of laying more eggs until they are picked up/removed with Attack.

**Useful Links for Breeding:** Pokédex: Habitat Tiles and Egg Groups

## Eggs

Eggs display a Pokémon's gender, move set, and even whether or not it's shiny (symbol next to gender in the top right corner) when viewing its status screen. To Hatch one, you must walk with it for a while.

### Egg Moves

Breeding special moves onto Pokémon is possible, see Egg Moves for a full list.

To breed moves onto a Pokémon, you need a male from the egg group with the desired move and a female whose offspring are capable of acquiring said move. Another method of getting certain moves involves breeding two Pokémon with the same level-up moves as each other to pass them to their offspring.

For example, if two Exeggcutes with Sleep Powder were bred with one-another, the offspring would have the move immediately upon hatching. This is significant because Exeggcute doesn't normally learn the move until level 37, thus allowing the player to evolve it into Exeggutor earlier to take advantage of stronger attacking moves like Stomp and Egg Bomb without having to rely on the lower accuracy sleep move Hypnosis. This type of breeding only works if the moves both parents know are moves capable of being learned via level up by the offspring, so if one were to breed two Exeggutors with Stomp or Egg Bomb, it would not work because Exeggcute cannot learn those moves.

However, it's not yet confirmed if this type of breeding is in the game yet.

## Notes

a. It's best to use Ditto as the female Pokémon in a breeding pen, and have a male trapped in the middle.

b. Pokémon **without** a gender like Beldum or Unown cannot be bred with either a Ditto or a Pokémon of their own egg group*(as of v0.8.9).*

c. As soon as a Heart appears above 2 compatible Pokémon an invisible countdown will start and an egg can spawn. A maximum of 7 eggs in the pen pictured above is possible in a given amount of time *(assuming the female Pokémon doesn't trap itself with its own eggs)*. A user tested this with an Eevee farm, taking a little under 15 minutes to get 6 eggs. The user's Dratini farm took over double that time. Depending on the Pokémon's type, it may take less or more time, possibly related to how many steps it takes for those Pokémon's eggs to hatch.