Triple Masuda Breeding in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet

[@AustinJohnPlays]

Here's a big heads up that I mentioned in the video but some people glossed over. ONLY pokemon holding breeding items will breed. So either DON'T give your ditto destiny knots, or make the other 3 hold everstones or something.

[@Johnnyc0822]

3 to 3 with items not working Let me know what I'm doing wrong I've tried destiny knots on each ditto with 3 male have nothing, didn't breed I've tried destiny knots on each male with 3 dittos have nothing, didn't breed All 6 pokemon have items, didn't breed Does breed 1 ditto with destiny knot 3 males with items each Or 1 ditto with destiny knot, males with no items Looking at your video All no items does breed Conclusion Its not possible to breed 3 ditto with 3 male with any items?

[@password4531]

Does it matter what item the pokemon (other then Ditto) hold? Like could I give the 3 starters all like, the EV training items while ditto holds the destiny knot and it wouldn't matter?

[@CGammer101]

But I want to IV breed a shiny skeledirge for raids. Can't they both have destiny knots, or one knot and one everstone?

[@Johnnyc0822]

@Pass Word well As explained on my experiment Talking about 3 ditto with 3 starters If the dittos have destiny knot and the 3 starters have iv training items This scenario doesn't breed If you are talking about 1 ditto 3 starters Yes it will breed as per my experiment

[@Johnnyc0822]

@Claregammer101 if u are referring to 1 ditto 1 bird Then it will breed 1 ditto 3 birds, will breed but no point because each time the game generates an egg, it's pairing 1 at a time anyway 3 dittos 3 birds, won't breed, I assume

[@joshuasims5421]

After all this research, Austin is the real Pokemon Professor. Let's get him a Pokemon PhD!

[@Cosmo4728]

He doesn’t have that yet? Could of sworn he got that when bdsp or swsh came out

[@Dat_Thing88]

Lol

[@-solus-]

Gen 10 we will have professor Austin John confirmed

[@wubbt]

Professor Austin Or Professor John Plays First or last name? CHOOSE RIGHT NOW

[@kingdoppless2938]

You dont need to say pokemon PhD, that's what the P stands for. It's like saying rip in peace

[@kodylucier206]

Just a quick tip for the breeders; Psyduck can breed with every starter in scarlet and violet.

[@pablotwigman21]

So would a foreign psyduck and a not foreign starter would have mesuda boosts??

[@Calafraze28]

@@pablotwigman21 yea 😊

[@honeysal]

Very helpful thank you!!

[@kodylucier206]

@@pablotwigman21 yes it would.

[@ericasdf5250]

That’s kinda weird ngl

[@NoahRSilva]

Fair warning to everyone triple-Masuda-Method-hunting the starters: Sprigatito and Fuecoco are in the same Egg Group, so if your breeding partners are opposite gender, make sure they’re from different languages for the Shiny boost! You’ll also notice slightly more of the female starter’s Eggs

[@johnnyp1986]

you can just have all the starters be male (which is the most common anyway) and then have the Ditto be foreign (which is the preferred way by most anyway) so its highly unlikely for someone to encounter this issue honestly

[@NoahRSilva]

@@johnnyp1986 Not really, it’s WAY easier to trade for three random foreign starters and use 5IV or 6IV Ditto you found yourself in your own language. Since male-female ratio is 7-1, you have a 1/3 chance basically of one of your three starters just being a female. There’s too much demand nowadays for foreign 5-6IV Ditto, it’s tricky to get three as soon as you start the game, without good Shinies or Apriballs to trade

[@johnnyp1986]

@@NoahRSilva it’s not hard to get a foreign ditto. I literally got on in surprise trade and I’ve yet to get all foreign starters. Obviously if you want perfect IV Ditto that’s gonna be harder to trade.

[@DHunter_47]

@@johnnyp1986 The Kingdom of God is at Hand John 3:16 King James Version 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

[@Crayziebone17]

I love the Breeding Changes and the added Sandwich stuff. They really nailed this game outside of the Frame rate issues and Slow loading screens. Feel like the next installment could be one of the best games every when they iron out these issues and add onto the new features.

[@DrawciaGleam02]

Yeah, it's nice. But I'm surprised people and mons in the overworld don't react to the hatching eggs. In the anime, an hatching egg is basically a mini light show. Hard to not notice that, especially if it's happening every two minutes. 😂😂

[@DHunter_47]

@@DrawciaGleam02 The Kingdom of God is at Hand John 3:16 King James Version 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

[@sacumblousi]

Friendly reminder that in front of the Area Zero Entrance you can run left (or right) infinitely because the camera follows you. Makes hatching eggs as easy as it was back in Pokémon X/Y where you would use a rubber band or a coin on the joycon so it does circles until the eggs hatch

[@captain_britain]

Hey - might be hard via text, but could you explain this a bit further? I'd like to try it out

[@ConnorKrohnicles]

@@captain_britain I haven’t tested but this is what it sounds like. Fly to area zero. Walk off the ramp to the stony area between the ramp and the gate. Hold left (or right). Done.

[@gamingkeepstudios3504]

@@captain_britain hey fastest way to hatch eggs is a Pokémon with flame body in your group then fly to uva acedmey go to the top battle court. Then hold the left stick straight to the left. Player will run around in a circle and egg will hatch very fast. I hold down the stick with my thumb while I watched TikTok videos lol

[@ryanbolson23]

Man with the $2k sandwich my eggs hatch in like 1 minute We don’t need to cheese that any quicker IMO. On top of already needing the egg power for breeding eggs in the first place. Y’all do you, but like I think that’s over kill.

[@sacumblousi]

@@ConnorKrohnicles this is the way. In front of the bottom of the ramp you should be able to just hold down left on the joystick and camera follows you around causing you to go in circles.

[@Ssolahtar]

For simple hatching I recommend just riding around that big circle in the middle of Levincia, you just have to hold up and a little to the side and the camera follows automatically. You may bump into npcs the first times but when you get the hang of it you will figure out the perfect place to ride in it and the perfect angle you have to hold on your joystick

[@Toebees_]

I use the fairy team star base for this! No npcs and there's a big ircular island lower down perfect for riding in circles and picnics ^^

[@TonyGunk135]

You could also go to the lighthouse in area one and hold left or right

[@someusername4129]

A great place I found is up at the stadium where you challenge the elite 4. Pokemon don't spawn close to the building and there's a quick travel stop right there, don't have to navigate around NPCs 👍

[@williamwolfe9112]

For hatching I just ride around in the wild looking at random pokemon with no boosts, just shiny charm. Am 300 eggs in on my applin and have found 4 random wild shinies in that time.

[@Merlin13371]

Area zero engrance way better big circle no npcs no pokemon

[@itsthundrr]

idk why but austins laugh when he finds a shiny gives me life

[@defenseducc3529]

yeah its so wholesome and genuine

[@ryansaunders8099]

the level of scrutiny and science that goes into your tests appeases the engineer inside of me. great videos. I'm a new follower as of a few weeks ago but your content is unlike anything ive seen. very robust and you truly care about the game so i like that

[@morganmcnellis7067]

Austin John has some of the most informative and painstakingly researched pokemon content. Straight-forward information and so well explained in every video.

[@nctwl]

I still love the Masuda method as someone who goes after IVs. I know you can bottle cap now extremely easily, but I like seeing the "Best"s on my judge function :P

[@アオインク-k6v]

I bred a 5 iv Shiny Charcadet and it felt AMAZING

[@stompingpeak2043]

Yes I do it to get shiny comp mons and I'll usually wonder trade my amazing or better dupes

[@AMcPhee578]

How did you get your Masuda ditto? I have plenty of 5iv english ditto’s but haven’t been able to find a trade for a foreign one.

[@JR-ht4lz]

@@AMcPhee578 idk if you found one yet or not, but the link code for trading masuda ditto is still going strong, thats how i got mine just a few days ago.

[@MacTavishG]

also, if you catch the pokémon you’re trying to get in different balls and heal your team at a poke center it shows what ball the eggs are “in” which ofc tells you what pokémon you’re getting. a fun little thing to do :)

[@skylergarza8371]

You can also see it from the summary

[@Jamstaro1]

@@skylergarza8371 most based reply yet so wise.

[@DHunter_47]

@@skylergarza8371 The Kingdom of God is at Hand John 3:16 King James Version 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

[@colechandler736]

"Don't do a 5 hour hunt it'll stress ya out" ME who just finished hatching 200 zorua eggs in 1 session 🗿

[@tymen9989]

I have a shiny one

[@colechandler736]

@@tymen9989 same I got 2 out of those 200 eggs. Insane luck

[@tymen9989]

@@colechandler736 damn

[@SashaNLGT]

@@colechandler736 if that doesn't bother you of course, may i get one? i'll trade you whatever you want (unles i don't have it )

[@josephstumpff650]

Literally same

[@machocamaroz28]

As always, more helpful info for those of us that don’t have the time to test these theories. Thanks!

[@jamescarrington6504]

Thank you so much for these tips. I love how streamlined breeding and shiny hunting has become. It really makes me think back to how much effort I put into shiny hunting in the past

[@evanshaw6132]

So glad Austin came out with this video. I'd been hunting Fuecoco, and stopped at 1000 for a break, now I'll wait to shiny hunt three different pokemon at the same time, and see what happens. Glad to see Austin still making these videos years later from when I started watching

[@PolarisYun]

What were your results? I have hatched 1200 eevees (+300 Charmanders) and not a single shiny. I'm using Masuda method+ shiny charm btw

[@deinonychus1948]

@@PolarisYun in BDSP I bred nearly an entire PC's worth of Roselia's before I got a shiny... I then did the same for Feebas... only to get a Shiny Budew and Shiny Feebas in Pokemon GO a little later... at least my main game shinies have God Tier IVs lol In Violet I am currently breeding for a max IV and/or Shiny Glimmet... started from a low IV one and now my current pair of Glimmet both have max Hp, Atk, Sp.Atk and every other stat is Pretty Good, I hope to get a shiny soon; and after that I will probably farm for a shiny Zorua... once I catch one as a matter of fact, as I am typing this comment; more Eggs are spawning lol edit: just to clarify, I am not using a Ditto... I haven't acquired a good IVed Ditto in Violet yet

[@rasmoose1997]

This man is honestly the best pokemon creator, so much time spent researching, making videos, and staying up to date, and to top it off frequent uploads? Exquisite.

[@JrockProject1]

And no clickbait with a good personality

[@rasmoose1997]

@@JrockProject1 Yes that too

[@jeanward2052]

I was insanely blessed to get Sprigatito within 28 eggs. I'm mentally preparing myself for Fuecoco and still searching for a Quaxley. 😅

[@zweetsouffle9567]

I wish you luck! 🍀

[@nelson444C]

28 that's pretty good hopefully I get lucky when I start shiny breeding sword and shield hated me took 500+ eggs to get dreepy

[@DarkStealth574]

Holly molly im at 700 rn ;_;

[@wandering4104]

@@nelson444C 500 is normal, so prepare youself. My best masuda hunt was 27 eggs, and worst was 2238, both in sword and shield. I've been above 500 eggs many times.

[@globox1998]

I hate you Just kidding

[@FuryTigresse]

I usually do about 30 min of collecting from 5 'mon + Ditto, then put them in my party with a Volcarona and run around between raid dens, hatching and trying to find wild shinies while I'm at it too xD It makes it less tedious :)

[@joshuatorres101]

what about the 5 ditto and 1 mon no offense to masuda method but rileys method might be more effective

[@duragle]

@@joshuatorres101 😂

[@keithpalacios9417]

I made a sandwich that had Sparkling Power Fire for Fuecoco. Not one egg even appeared in the 30 mins and I wasted my herbs. Why? I don't understand.

[@duragle]

@@keithpalacios9417 I tried using 3 Ditto with Destiny Knots and no eggs appeared, afterwards I removed two Ditto and added 2 normal Pokémon and tried again, had no issues getting eggs. What I assume the issue is is that having multiple Ditto with Destiny Knots prohibits the production of eggs

[@keithpalacios9417]

@@duragle I was only using one, Bro. The problem is that I already had 3 active Meal Powers, but none was "Egg Power". I wasted my herbs.

[@agroslavplays7026]

As always a good and informal video. You make the life of us other gamer who'd like to try different methods for breeding or hunting a shiny in the wild way easier by doing it for us, showing your results, how you did it and your effort in general. I personally really appreciate it and like to watch your videos.

[@otamatone603]

It would be informational not informal

[@agroslavplays7026]

@@otamatone603 Ah, true. :D Just typed it wrong, sorry for not being native speaking. xD

[@AustinJohnPlays]

Most every video I make it something that I’ve done or tested myself, and then I know I can make the video. Sometimes I learn something new in testing, sometimes it confirms what I already know, and sometimes it’s just fun to share what I’ve learned. I also like to be transparent on what I’ve done beforehand.

[@oatman6178]

@@otamatone603 actually pretty sure it would be informative

[@AlanRedgown]

@@oatman6178 Yes. Informational means "providing information"; informative means "providing *useful or interesting* information". This video is informative, if you ask me.

[@Raiynachan]

Ugh, this was SO helpful, i just wish I'd known about the whole everstone/destiny knot before. After going over odds on both Toxel (867) and Sprigatito (1450+) i was so about ready to give up on breeding, but i definitely could have saved myself a lot of time and headache by doing the reset method and having two sets of pkmn breeding at once. Fantastic video as always, and I'll definitely use these tips in the future. :D

[@DefOfDopeProductions]

‘Dont do a 5 hour breeding session.’ “Me 3 days deep hunting shiny grimsnarl”

[@pandobobo]

Not worth it just use sandwich lmfao. I only use this method for starters, spirit tomb, perserker and 7 star raids. Or maybe also zoruark

[@DefOfDopeProductions]

@@Seafowl wanted 0 speed iv. Cant shiny hunt and still get the IVs i want without breeding.

[@abdelrahmanhisham-i7o]

Btw you can mass release on Pokémon home So it just takes max 2 minutes to get things done for the switching between apps.

[@nabeelalmulla8587]

As usual thanks you Breeding is my favorite method since XY glad you make new ways of doing it now 😊

[@damienw95]

Been Masuda breeding starters for myself and my friend that helped me complete the dex, got 1 quaxly and 1 sprigatito so far. Just to put a few more numbers out there for people, I've gotten roughly 60 eggs per 30 minutes checking every 3 minutes, with a low of 55 and a high of 68 across about 20 picnics. I've averaged 17 minutes of hatching per box of eggs (so 30 eggs) without any egg power to speed that up, so each sesh takes roughly 65-70 minutes. One big tip to anyone who reads this and may wanna do this: if you're gonna turn off autosaves and close the game if your sesh yields no shinies: Double check your boxes before you start grabbing eggs. I swear the game still autosaves at times with the autosaves off, resulting in things like eggs scattered across small holes in my boxes because I switched boxes to get my flame body pokemon and the game stayed there on reload even though there was no save with me on that box. If that would bother you make sure you're on the right box before you start breeding.

[@AustinJohnPlays]

that pretty much lines up with what I observed in this video as well! gg my dude

[@chillcloak]

I’ve done two masuda hunts so far for Quaxly and Flabébé, can confirm my results were roughly the same, though I never had the issue with eggs being misplaced because I always ensured that I was on an empty box when I started. Masuda method hunting in this game is a lot more relaxing since you only really need to pay attention to check your basket every few minutes, but it does take longer now imo.

[@rodrigolima4751]

I tested this method with the 3 starters together with the ditto, however, only my sprigatito was equipped with an Everstone. Result: All the eggs turned out to be sprigatito eggs. I don't know if this was already general knowledge, but apparently Everstone indicated which pokemon the ditto should breed with.

[@sujubeun8328]

I only know that you can lock in Pokemon by giving them a destiny knot.

[@Commoncurates]

What if all 3 hold everstone?

[@rodrigolima4751]

@@Commoncurates interesting... I haven't tested it with the 3 yet

[@bmoney668]

can confirm if all hold everstone ull get all 3 pokemon. I'm currently hunting Skeledirge& Charizard doing masuda with just 1 ditto& am getting 1 egg of each in rotation evenly

[@oswald3505]

Been breeding for a shiny Sprigatito for about 3 weeks now, just over 3k eggs in and loosing hope but watching this video has given me determination to keep pushing forwards! Thank you!

[@serentine7]

Omg do you have a foreign ditto?? If not I have an extra I can trade you! I hatched my shiny Sprig in 343 eggs with masuda!

[@Killerpixel12]

I am also pretty unlucky with masuda and Sprigatito xD but I am 'only' over 1k so far, so there is hope I won't get to the 3k xDD

[@LoveKasumin1253]

Jesus christ sounds like your problem may just be luck.

[@BlinkOniRenjo]

2 shiny charmanders in 50 eggs. 0 shiny sprig in 700 egg. Starting to hate sprig.

[@Reusky]

Also breeding for shiny Sprigatito, over 1.5k eggs in, good to know I'm not alone but the thought of doing this for 3 weeks terrifies me lmao

[@fredelmalo]

Omg! Austin, you called the starters being in the DLC right here

[@FullHouselEdmMusicc]

The in depth analysis in all your videos is why i love them.

[@maigistr]

i've been hating breeding in this game since you cant hatch eggs while waiting for more eggs to appear so thank you for this, i already know it's going to be super helpful. you're a life saver as usual austin! edit: after 3 hours of breeding for 15 minutes with 3 dittos and the 3 starters and then hatching, i got my shiny fuecoco!

[@tomis080]

Of course this video drops just a few hours after I hatched my shiny starter! It only took a few days!

[@LegacyGrid]

same boat. sprigatito and fuecoco down... just have quaxley now

[@Jkizzle4996]

Charizard took me about 350 eggs smh

[@izzyviridian1485]

Skeledirge's hot pink is soooo nice!!! Wish the white and black were swapped though since hot pink and black go so good together but it's still amazing!

[@Squirtletang]

The destiny knot phenomenon works for everstone as well. I gave an everstone to one of my three starters and the only eggs that came out were of that one starter only

[@Steve_SBU]

Super happy for you finding that shiny at 8:20, but from a guy who is over odds hunting fuecoco by over 100 encounters I will say it’s a little painful

[@TheAntiburglar]

Once again coming in clutch with exactly what I was wondering about right as I happened to be wondering about it! Austin you are the Realest of MVP's :D

[@DHunter_47]

The Kingdom of God is at Hand John 3:16 King James Version 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

[@shaneowens5011]

Important note on turning off autosaves with eggs: I don't know how bred shinies are calculated in this game, but I know in Sun and Moon the shiny rolls are already done out to a certain number of eggs. If SV calculates egg shinies the same way as SM did, then turning off autosaves and resetting would be a total waste of time. Just be careful unless you have confirmation that the rolls are done when the egg is generated! Edit: if the shiny Fuecoco he hatched was hatched using the autosave mass release method, then disregard the above concerns ;)

[@Healsloth]

i got shinies after the 4th reset with egg power 3 (so about 3 boxes full of hatching and then reseting)

[@wejhvabewjty]

In SV the RNG gets seeded using a CryptoSecure function for all types of encounters, including eggs, which makes it completely unpredictable. SM was unique, there was an egg RNG seed which followed a predictable path every time an egg was accepted/declined. This seed didn't change after restarting the game either.

[@NotchGY19]

Its the same in this. By resetting, youre getting different eggs than before since the eggs are non existant. However, if your box is full of eggs, save, hatch, then reset, then your eggs will be the same hatches

[@mobious01]

Bro this is a switch game, they changed the way eggs work and to answer your question is all random and cant be decrypted aka no patterns like gen 7

[@theryanrockett]

I use Los Platos for my egg. I start my picnic outside near the pokemon center, after I have all my eggs I then have three different paths I can take. 1. Going back and forth the main strip inside Los Platos 2. Still inside Los Platos going around in the circle forming a D shape 3. Going all the way around the full circle including the dirt path that leads to the school town and coming back around to Los Platos coming back in I cut to the left of the circle and then making a sharp right on the road and restarting that path.

[@deinonychus1948]

4:32 doing this to transfer the eggs into your party speeds up the process SO much!

[@adamsager22]

I discovered this on accident once. I had my fire starter male, then a female Zoroark, then a female Lucario. I ended up with 3 eggs... It was a picnic and I wasn't really even trying for anything. The first 2 eggs were Zorua and the third was riolu. I thought it was some kind of mistake. It is really nice to know that you can breed for several different pokemon at once. I just caught the first riolu I saw initially and didn't realize it was female. It used to be that the gender ratio favored finding a male. I only knew that I wanted a Zoroark and Lucario on my team. I always find your content helpful and amazing!! Keep up the awesome work and have a great day!!!

[@heyitsAmethyst]

The "Oh it's darker now" moment LMAO!! Thank you for all your hard work Austin!

[@jamesdunstan9138]

Found out a few breeding things. If you have 2 Pokemon with destiny knots then they will be the only ones to breed, so if you have 2 dittos, both with destiny knots then they won't breed with the other Pokemon. Also, if a Pokemon has an ever stone (because you want to keep the reginal form) then it also will be the only one ditto breeds with

[@TooBizzyDrawing]

Thank you for this, had no idea why I wasn't getting any eggs!

[@AustinJohnPlays]

This was discussed at 10:19 all items or no items :)

[@alexanderramsey1377]

Your dedication is astounding. With the sole exception of Serebii, you have been my #1 source for information this generation. Thank you for continuing to make this game easier for us to navigate! Random but I hadn't realized until I watched this video that they eliminated the swap breeding loophole in SwSh, so it never occurred to me that I could save before collecting the eggs and then just reset my game if I didn't hatch a shiny. This is going to save me *so* much time. The lack of mass release has been an enormous timesuck with Masada Method in SV -.-

[@kaeldrarhiannon]

15:20 this is so true. I did so much Masuda breeding in SwSh that I just completely burned out and never even finished the DLC. Monotonous breeding is so exhausting. 😢

[@prince_kz]

5:56 He predicted it LOL

[@frankmanson3]

Did a total gathering and hatching of 82 charmander eggs in 1hr and 45 mins for a shiny charmander no luck. Glad I watched your video though because I was gonna slowly fill up all my slots with eggs and just hatch em all. No mass release is rough. That should be a patch update.

[@zacharyhensley6894]

Almost every video I have seen: “Hey it’s Austin John here! Turn off your auto save.” LMAO

[@AnAlphaWolf]

I tried to breed my starter without an egg power sandwich and gave up after 90 mins without getting a single egg. I'm amazed at the difference the sandwiches make.

[@Fayklore]

2:50 Love that you thought of this too, I realized this a while ago and it helps alot, saves me like a minute and a half every thirty eggs. I always get thirty eggs (fills a whole box) which takes around 12 minutes from the food buff, then I put 5 at a time in my party and hatch them all. Usually my food buff ends before I hatchd them all but honestly the hatch speed withoutt he buff isn't long so I don't bother renewing the buff until the next 30. Then, if the thirty I hatched have nothing I want - like no max IVs (If I'm wanting it) and/or no shiny, I reset and easy, no work necessary releasing.

[@HeldyyBoi]

I used to get all my Pokémon info like literally 100% of it from mystic umbreon and after probably a decade I started watching other people and dude your content is hands down FIRE please keep it up great work my guy.

[@darrenzhu241]

Great video, I did notice that when I was using Everstone the other breeding partners in my team didn't have an effect on the eggs, so it's cool to see some hard confirmation around it. I usually do all my shiny breeding in handheld mode so I can use my screens for other things and I've found that setting the switch to auto-sleep after 3 minutes has been great to automatically track and maximize the egg power since the egg power pauses when the switch sleeps. It's about 5-9 eggs when I turn the screen back on and I usually get 60-70 eggs after 30 minutes this way with just one Masuda pair so I'm curious how a similar optimisation could be done with 3 pairs.

[@6pickachu]

Try having the pokemon play with a ball while breeding or increase affection values. I average around 60-65 eggs per lvl. 2 egg power sandwich this way. Just want to add: absolutely love your videos, Austin. I'm a long time pokemon player, but new fan to your channel and your videos have helped immensely in navigating the amazing intricacies of these newer games.

[@getsinged7631]

Any info on what happens if you try 5 different region Dittos with 1 Pokemon in your party? I would hope it might let you collect eggs of a specific Pokemon extremely quickly. Especially since egg shiny hunting is the best way for colorblind people to collect shinies, or to collect shinies of Pokemon that are too small or indistinct from their standard form in the overworld. If only they would bring back the overworld sparkle and sound cue from PLA.

[@AustinJohnPlays]

it would be the same results as the 1 ditto and 3 starters. If you have >1 ditto and 1 partner, it's still only 1 possible match. The only thing that sped up the eggs was the amount of 'pairs' that could produce an egg, which will never be more than three, unless you mess around with co-op. but I haven't done that yet.

[@getsinged7631]

​@@AustinJohnPlays Is that for sure confirmed? I ask because in theory, if the method they use for spawning eggs is something like: every game tick, every Pokemon checks for a potential mating partner, and selects a random number from 1-256 for each potential partner, if the number is below 10 an egg is spawned; that would potentially allow every ditto to check for the chance of an egg with that one partner, increasing the number of chances to spawn an egg. If only non ditto Pokemon can run the check, I would also wonder if 1 male and 5 females or vice-versa would be effective as well. Because currently, breeding for shinies really sucks compared to almost every other shiny hunting method in the game, anything that might make it better would be amazing news.

[@bobzilla-1]

@@getsinged7631 2 parents 1 egg. I've tried doing the same w/ volcarona, t-tar, and a starter all in different egg groups w/ even 2 dittos and the game just got confused trying to assign parents to who. I would always do 1 ditto to 1 parent ratio no matter what.

[@SurrealKeenan]

The info about destiny knot and everstone makes sense. I recently tried to breed a ditto holding destiny knot with a wooper holding everstone and oricorio holding power band and all the eggs were wooper eggs

[@stompingpeak2043]

Well wooper probably had to hold the stone right? Just like meowth or something

[@chibinecco1981]

AJ: "Now, if you want to keep those Pokemon, cool, save your game. If not..." YT: *cuts to an ad for tea where someone is doing a SUPER Sus sipping motion* Me: *cracks up*

[@Derbearian]

It's insane how much work you put into this! It motivates me man but you are the GOGOAT.

[@Tamugetsu]

Using a Masuda ditto, I got scary lucky and got shiny Sprigatito and Fuecoco in less than 10 eggs each - in both cases, I got a shiny from my first picnic!!!

[@jw_gojifan19]

Lucky

[@ThrustyRobot]

So much work and passion for pokemon. You have my respect Sir. New pokemon professor In DLC should be Austin. Thank you for everything ♥️

[@Wicksta473]

Great video! For what it's worth on your trainer card where it says shinies battled, it seems based off one experience I had, that the counter only goes up if you send a shiny into a regular battle. I had received a traded shiny Diglett. I never threw it into a regular battle. I got it close to the required level to evolve with quick battle, then used a rare candy to level it up and start evolving it. Afterwards, I threw the Dugtrio up as leader and did a regular battle this is what increased the shiny counter on my card. I had been tracking each shiny I encountered manually (and comparing it to the shiny battle counter) and was keeping them in a separate box. At the time it never registered the Diglett as a shiny I battled. I Masuda'd out a Shiny Diglett and then did a normal battle and finally got the increase on the card for my Diglett. I have now seen 19 shinies and of those 19 shinies one was a Chansey I accidentally knocked out. I would recommend that anyone with shinies use candy, normal battles, or trainers to level up shinies to add the evolved forms to your counter. Also for tracking shinies (using the trainer card (shinies battled) counter is inefficient) check your pokedex and use the D-Pad UP/Down or LEFT-RIGHT to toggle between the alternate forms of Pokémon if you have seen the shiny you'll have the sparkle icon on the Pokémon summary and pokedex screens. Otherwise, if you don't see it you might have blundered like I did with the Diglett/Dugtrio. It should be obvious but each Pokémon only counts once, I have 2 Shiny Flittle and had 2 Shiny Deino. I doubt the trainer card will ever say you've battled more than 400 shinies (until they add dlc) and right now since Charizard and Cinderace don't exist in the Paldea Dex (The National Dex isn't there yet if ever?) you won't see them listed. I don't know if there's a reward in game for seeing all shiny variants, or even all foreign language variants, but I did find the fact that the pokedex lets you see that now to be pretty interesting.

[@PokePaulie]

At 5:55 you were gifted with the gift of prophecy

[@_Pixiara_]

I’m not sure but I think how well the pair get along still helps with egg numbers in picnics. I tried breeding my scyther with scatterbug and the eye eye one (snoodle? I forgot the name) and barely got any eggs in 15 mins but when I tried with the spider one scyther was obsessed with it and followed it around everywhere. I got a ton of eggs :) so now I have a scyther that’s in love with a walking ball of yarn, lol.😅

[@angellambert1070]

So are the eggs predetermined from the moment they are taken from the picnic? If so, wouldn't it be cool to have a mod that shows what egg will have a shiny pokemon (like a super green egg with pink or some weird stuff)?

[@tyrant0424]

Takes the fun out of it

[@andrewpickett722]

This is exactly what I've been thinking of doing for the last couple days (im currently shiny hunting for competitive starters). Was wondering on the ins and outs Thank you, good sir

[@angelzuniga3713]

How do you have have it set up I’m trying to do the same thing but I’m getting no eggs

[@andrewpickett722]

@angelzuniga3713 When breeding I take these steps for every non-ditto parent for every breed. i used an ability patch for my starters hidden abilities so they can be bred down to nearly every egg, gave my starter an everstone to lock the nature for the eggs if beneficial, gave ditto destiny knot. Make or buy a level 2 egg power sandwich, then sit in picnic mode and breed 10-20 eggs. With the judge function I look for the best IV spread, that becomes the new parent to hold the everstone. Rinse and repeat until satisfied. Every 5 min or so I generally end up with 7-10 eggs

[@angelzuniga3713]

@@andrewpickett722 how many dittos do you use

[@andrewpickett722]

@angelzuniga3713 only 1 right now I need to get a couple Mesuda Ditto

[@tacoherotay]

Austin is the best pokemon youtuber and connoisseur, S tier video!

[@Ageman20XX]

Austin John you are one of my favourite people on the entire internet. I love the work you do, and I love the way you make your videos, and I absolutely love your passion and personality. You are just so friggin cool. Love ya.

[@amandagreene4990]

Got a Masuda Ditto finally last night! Definitely going to try some breeding today. 😄

[@JonnyVerace]

I know having a shiny foreign ditto doesn’t increase the odds but in my mind it makes me feel like it does

[@TheBenignSeraphim]

This video couldn't have came at a worse time. I just decided to toss in the towel on breeding a shiny Bounsweet for a friend. Over 5 pages of breedjects and I decided to call it good. But now...now I'm gonna try multitasking to bend some luck my direction!

[@snoosnoo8445]

Tried for shiny Charmander for 4 days no luck. Tossed Mankey with Charmander and Ditto. Got shiny Mankey and Charmander in one batch 30 eggs. Lol so dont give up.

[@snoosnoo8445]

@Diablo Impact No one is acting with a sense of FOMO, where did you get that from? Reaching a bit. If you dont care why be an ass in comments. Just move on.

[@sgvibes4192]

I can't remember if you covered this in the video but something I just found out while doing this method of multi breeding if you give multiple Pokemon items like the destiny knot, you don't get any eggs! I waited about 6 minutes with my foreign ditto, charizard and grafaiai (Both zard and graf were holding destiny knots) with an egg power lvl 2 active and didn't get a single egg! As soon as I removed the destiny knot from one of The Pokemon a re set up the picnic I received an egg in the first minute! Sorry if this has already been covered I just wanted mention it in case it hasn't been mentioned! Great video as always. :)

[@Ccorleone1609]

For now on iam going to call you professer austin john phd. This man is a living legend. What youve done to the community is prizeless. Thank you for that. By the why i masuda hunted for fuecoco yesterday and it took me 256 eggs to get one. Yes theres no mass release. I do is hatch and release 5 pokemon like every 2 minutes.

[@sharrnat]

Thanks for doing the test Austin! Now I need two more foreign dittos to increase my egg numbers. I typically do a 30-60 minute run, often when I'm watching tv to avoid going insane. Edit: I've just now done a 3 ditto with 3 male starters. In 25 minutes I ended up with 54 eggs, so that's 2.16 eggs per minute. It is to be noted I was walking away while getting ready for a Christmas family party. At times I hit the cap on eggs, so in theory my numbers should have been slightly higher.

[@AdrunkT1G3R]

I'm not getting any eggs for some reason

[@sharrnat]

@@AdrunkT1G3R that's weird. what was in your party exactly, including items? Austin did say you either need all 3 dittos with destiny knots or none at all. My guess is that's the same with the everstone.

[@AdrunkT1G3R]

@@sharrnat I have 3 ditto with destiny knot and 3 male fuecoco

[@sharrnat]

@@AdrunkT1G3R mmm that should be working with all 3 dittos with destiny knots. Are the Fuecoco's holding items?

[@AdrunkT1G3R]

@@sharrnat no, the fuecoco have no items. Appreciate the responses

[@OuchXXI]

it'd be so nice to hatch multiple eggs at once, that would be a game changer

[@Bladehound83]

Uhh, can't you already hatch five eggs at once?

[@RobfJennings]

What if you used 5 dittos and 1 starter? any chance the egg rate would increase further?

[@west8336]

Great Question :o

[@athormaximoff4634]

The "save and reload if you don't get a shiny" is the best possible tip anyone could have given me. No longer will my pc be full of breeding rejects.

[@prestonarballo2124]

i like how he posted this way before the dlc info got released and he said “who knows the starters may be in the DLC and now we know they’ll be found in the wild

[@SirLucianYoungblood]

You make such amazing videos. You are our real life pokemon professor. Thank you professor Austin for teeaching us so much!!!

[@TreTheSage1006]

So true. Im 7 hours in masuda + shiny charm for a male ralts and its so annoying. Also after the 5 eggs hatch in your party just release the 5 pokemon before you start hatching another set. It doesn’t save time but it help your boxes from getting cluttered.

[@OreoAndJeans]

Doesnt shiny charm not effect eggs

[@TreTheSage1006]

@@OreoAndJeans The shiny charm does

[@erin6534]

That's the same method I was just using for the shiny Spiritomb I just hatched. :D

[@chillcloak]

Honestly, I would recommend just using a sandwich power to hunt for Ralts. Unless you’re going for IVs and natures there’s no reason to go through the stress of masuda methoding for one. I actually was able to find two shiny Ralts in about three hours on the first area right before the first pokémon center, where you can find igglybuff and fidough. Keep in mind that Ralts only spawns during the daytime, so every half hour you wanna turn back the clock and try again. But it’s way easier imo.

[@TreTheSage1006]

@@chillcloak ive tried that area for 3 days with no luck. Then i switched to the kirlia spot near levincia and still the same. I hatched over 400 eggs still no shiny ralts. Im going try resetting the tera kirlia next

[@mingkatz1621]

I LITERALLY JUST GOT A SHINY FUECOCO WITH 380 EGGS

[@doctorkogan]

I have a tip to share with you, to hatch without doing "nothing" try the area zero enter zone and just hold L and R stick in Left or Right way, dunno if this will help someone

[@kevindiaz8946]

"Crocalor Si señor" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Gold 👌👌👌

[@navi_6621]

I’m having such good shiny egg luck. I’ve been doing masuda method one day a week, but I end up only playing for like 35 minutes! I hatched a shiny Galarian Meowth with egg #3 and WHILE I WAS WATCHING THIS VIDEO hatched shiny Sprigatito with egg #6 😂

[@jdw9]

I'm interested in seeing how much time you've put into SV so far across all your switches

[@AustinJohnPlays]

~500 hours

[@tonymaffiola8475]

@@AustinJohnPlays is own tempo rockruff worth breeding im 400 eggs in and idk if there a much easier method im over looking

[@j_kilowatt_2181]

Hey Austin, you should look into what happens if you had 3 male skeledirge and 3 female skeledirge in a party. I tried this out with ralts before I found out synchronize doesn’t work, and it wasn’t producing ANY eggs, even with level 2 egg power. I’m curious if you would experience the same thing or if it was patched or something.

[@Riddimensaur]

I had this happen to me trying to do the three ditto method shown in the video. The only way I've been able to get them to actually produce eggs was to make sure that either none of the pokemon were holding Destiny Knots or have all 6 of them holding knots. If you had half of the party holding knots and not the other that might be why. I'm not sure if this is the way it's always worked or if they patched it or what.

[@williamdorsey3389]

Omg i though it was just me. Had 3 dittos holding DN and 3 other mons without, no eggs. Then did one ditto with DN and the 3 mons and started getting eggs. I will have to buy 3 more DN and see if all 6 of them holding it will work.

[@Riddimensaur]

@Slaven Harkin Maybe it always worked this way and people were just always using all or no knots every time. If not then maybe an update along the way borked it. It's definitely been working with all knots for me though. I should check to see if it works with everstones as well. Maybe half knots and half stones works and could save some pokédollars for people.

[@watsongames5543]

@@Riddimensaur I've been trying this with 2 massuda ditto with destiny knots and 2 riolu with destiny knots and no eggs

[@watsongames5543]

@@Riddimensaur I swapped one of the riolu out for a charizard and it started working so it appears you need different Pokémon with multiple dittos

[@jmillz674]

It's that first statement that has my attention. I need herba mystica. I do have another switch and both games. Looking forward to hearing more on that! Great content, thanks for sharing!

[@kylemills7161]

Using this info, even if you are trying for a single Pokémon you could still put three in your party with three dittos and get more eggs just of that one Pokémon than you would with just one pair breeding. Good stuff to know

[@SproutTussle]

OMG ive been doing this with three female scovillians and a foreign ditto the past couple of days cause I get a bunch of eggs outta it I didnt think anyone else knew

[@TinyWarriorAnimations]

Austin, if you were named after a Tree to apply for your Pokemon Doctorate; what tree would it be?

[@kizoomtite4779]

Professor Ash-...stin

[@cockashe1363]

I’m not Austin but I would say Professor Acacia

[@AustinJohnPlays]

The Basswood tree grows regularly here in NJ. And that’s a pretty dope name for a Prof. :) And it produces flowers for honeybees, and bees are bros. So I see that as a win-win.

[@TinyWarriorAnimations]

@@AustinJohnPlays Oooh, that certainly is a win-win. Basswood is a pretty tree as well, thank you for taking the time to respond; I ask because my dad likes to say that he would be professor RedWood.

[@GunmarTheBlack]

I hatched the couple Fuecoco eggs I had bred to trade them away for the other starters as I was filling my dex and the first egg I hatched was a Shiny! It was insane, that's THE best shiny luck I've ever had

[@crimsonteacakes3369]

Egg hatching is my favorite so much!! Idk why but I love running round paldea and exploring while egg hatching and completing my dex too

[@White-Wing]

4:35 Hi Austin, I found that if you go to the Olive Challenge in the Bug Gym: Get inside with the Flame Body Pokémon and 5 eggs, put a rubber band from the left joy-con to right joy-con and it will auto Hatch your eggs.

[@alilinsane]

Has the rumor of being able to tell there’s a shiny in your egg by looking at your profile section at the “shiny battled” number been confirmed yet? I want to know before embarking on my breeding sessions.

[@fenrael3021]

proven to be false by quite a few players including myself

[@alilinsane]

@@fenrael3021 darn! I’ll start hatching my sets then I guess!

[@alilinsane]

@@fenrael3021 okay proven false by me as well. My shiny was in my first set of eggs!

[@icr5663]

Was looking for this confirmation, thanks!

[@anwajo5629]

I learned about the everstone trick the hard way. I had a party of 5 random mons and a Ditto with Magnemite being one holding an everstone. 55 eggs later… 55 Magnemite🙂

[@NixieShimo]

What's the everstone trick? I know he briefly mentioned it and Destiny Knots but I'm new to Shiny hunting and didn't quite understand that part of the video.

[@soup_weaver]

@@NixieShimo i think the everstone thing is when you have for example; Hoppip, Tarountula, Quaxly, and Ditto. when you put the everstone on Quaxly the Ditto does not breed with the other Pokémon that doesn't have the everstone, Hoppip and Tarountula. i don't know alot about the picnic Pokémon breeding so i might be wrong lol

[@AngelofThorns]

Something that I had read and cannot confirm; when you pick up an egg with a shiny Pokémon in it, you’re “Shiny Pokémon Battled” stat on your trainer card will increase. Something worth testing at the very least. Could save a lot of time.

[@carter9607]

I just saw this comment, was this ever proven?

[@Jmulvez]

they said this about sword and shield but it was fake. probably someone trolling

[@shelbywright9134]

It does. When I finally hatched my sprigatito my shinies battled turned to 1. I never encountered a shiny until that point.

[@carter9607]

@@shelbywright9134 I just saw your comment, in your example what the OP meant, was that your shinies battled would say 1 before you hatched sprigatito when it was received as an egg. Do you know if it did by any chance?

[@Jmulvez]

@@shelbywright9134 hes talking about seeing the shinies battled number go up *before* you hatch the eggs

[@mackniffy]

The synchronize change really killed my strategy of having a box of Ralts/abra for every nature and catching a box of dittos for breeding but mints being easy to get now nerfed it anyway.

[@KageMH]

They changed synchronize?

[@mackniffy]

@@KageMH yes it doesn’t work in the field

[@kirmeister8207]

Same, ive captured 10 different ralts before i found out it doesnt work anymore. Now we need 6iv dittos of different nature to be efficient.

[@mackniffy]

@@kirmeister8207 the biggest crime is static encounter mons

[@mackniffy]

@@kirmeister8207 truthfully I think they intended to kill breeding to make competitive more accessible and that did that for the most part

[@ErwinSolorzano]

"Crocalor Si Señor" 😂😂😂😂💙

[@NathanTruby]

Welp, this is certainly good to know. Also, poor Ditto. Little dude got his back blown out for this video.

[@RyanK3tchum]

Just attempted this w/ 1 ditto and 3 starters, was able to get 52 eggs in a half hour 👍🏽

[@JediMasterRevenantMADNESS]

For me, the Masuda Method is definitely a last resort. While Cetoddle can be an outbreak mon, it is incredibly hard to hunt and hard to get to spawn. And the starters REQUIRE the Masuda Method, unfortunately.

[@aaryavaze1496]

It was my go to method for sword I averaged 5 shinies in one week Yeah, it's not optimal

[@09jesusm]

its more fun to do mesuda method + doing random encounters in the wild, way faster to get shinys

[@Kezzic]

Yeah but with the Masuda method, you can breed the perfect IVs that you want.

[@aaryavaze1496]

@@Kezzic just throw bottle caps They are EASY to obtain in this game

[@JediMasterRevenantMADNESS]

@@Kezzic Exactly, who cares when bottle caps are as easy to get as candy?

[@toasteredbreadofficial]

"Maduda breeding"😍

[@AustinJohnPlays]

fixed that real fast lol

[@_nicotine5553]

essentially running a train on ditto, got it

[@christianflores9948]

This is wild, I thought what if we could add more dittos for breeding. And you manifested a video! I got a sprigatito shiny off your video! Solid help Austin!