Your Guide to 90%+ Breeding Pairs

It's not an additive percentage — it's multiplicative. 64 * .2 = 12.8 64 + 12.8 = 76.8 76.8 round down = 76%

Oh interesting. Where is the 12.8 coming from?

The 20% boost from happiness is +20% of the base, when multiplying that 20% becomes 0.2, which then times 64 (base breeding percent) is 12.8, which is then added to bring it up to 76%

@Hamez 64 x 0.2 = 12.8 The 0.2 is the 20% Happiness

OH i'm losing my mind. And I"m a math teacher, thanks again haha Looked right over the first line

Okay, I think I can ask this here… Does anyone know how much lineage affects the breeding percentage? From what I understand breeding 2 pokemon from the same parents have a lower percentage, but I can't find anything on how much lower it actually is, and how far back it goes. Does breeding two pokemon with the same grandparents lower the percentage as well, and by the same amount? Does it still apply to pokemon that have the same parents 10 generations back? I know adopting eggs from the lab is better, but that gets a bit harder when trying to make 6 IV pairs, which is why I'm asking.

I'm not sure liniage affects the breeding directly, more that lab eggs, and I believe varients that were bred from the original pokemon (like a snow combee bred from two combees, or a seasonal turtwig bred from a turtwig and a deerling) a better chance of a higher score. You can get a 99% without these factors, but there's a slightly higher chance of it hitting 99% with them, though it is still randomly generated the moment a pair is put into the daycare together. I don't think it's much to do with the 'parent' pokemon rather than the 20% boost from trading, example two pokemon hatched by me will get somewhere like 50-59%, if one of those pokemon were hatched by someone else then traded to me, that goes up to 70-79%, and if both pokemon were hatched by two different people, then traded to me, it's between 90-99%. That 20% boost comes directly from the trade so is not something you can grab from the shelter So, tl;dr it's not the parent pokemon that's really gonna affect breeding %, its the making sure seperate users hatched and then traded them to you

Ahh I see, thank you so much for explaining! ^^ The way it was phrased on the wiki kind of confused me I guess. But if you can still get 90%+ pairs either way, that's great :D

How exactly do some pairs get low 90%? I have this pair that is a 91% Drampa pair and idk how that happened.

There are many factors but it does boil down to some randomness once you have paired pokemon of the appropriate types. This is why you can go many tries before you get a 99% even if you are pairing the same species of pokemon to each other.