Platinum Breeding Calculator: Egg Chance, Masuda & IVs
Pick two Pokémon: Egg chance, steps to hatch, gender, Nature, IVs, egg moves and Masuda method shiny odds in Pokémon Platinum.
Pick the two Pokémon you leave at the Solaceon Town Day Care; the answer updates as you go.
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The interactive calculator runs in your browser. Its default example:
| Egg chance | 20% every 256 steps (“The two don’t seem to like each other much.”) |
|---|---|
| First Egg | ~1,279 steps on average, 9 in 10 by 2,815 steps |
| Baby | Turtwig, ♂ 87.9% · ♀ 12.1% |
| Hatching | 5,355 steps, 2,805 steps with Flame Body or Magma Armor in the party |
| Nature | Random; 52% the mother’s with an Everstone |
| Shiny | 1 in 8,192; 1 in 1,639 with parents from games in different languages (Masuda method) |
| IVs | three from the parents 53.3% of the time; HP only 16.7% |
| Egg moves | Body Slam (Snorlax learns it at level 33), Amnesia (Snorlax learns it at level 9) |
| Ball | Poké Ball, level 1 |
Reading the answer: Egg chance, hatch steps and Gen 4 egg moves
Every 256 steps the game rolls once for an Egg. The hatch count starts when you take the Egg, and the Egg loses one cycle every 255 steps — two with a Flame Body or Magma Armor Pokémon in your party. The mother decides the species; the father passes on the egg moves he knows. An Everstone on the mother or Ditto passes her Nature about half the time. Power items do nothing for breeding in Platinum.
Masuda method odds in Platinum
When the two parents come from games in different languages — a Japanese Ditto with your English Pokémon, for example — the Egg gets five tries at being shiny instead of one: 1 in 1,639 instead of 1 in 8,192. The extra tries replace the Egg, so an Everstone’s Nature is lost unless the first try is already shiny.
Platinum breeding calculator FAQ
- On which dates do Eggs hatch faster in Platinum?
- On January 12, February 14, March 3, April 1, May 1, June 11, July 7, August 21, September 7, September 28, November 21 and December 14 an egg cycle is 230 steps instead of 255 — as long as you have not just changed the DS clock.
- Why does the HP IV rarely pass down in Platinum?
- Platinum picks three stats to copy but can pick the same one twice, and HP only gets picked 1 time in 6. HeartGold and SoulSilver fixed this.
- Does the calculator work for Diamond and Pearl?
- It follows Platinum’s Day Care. Diamond and Pearl have not been checked against it yet, so treat their numbers as close, not exact.
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