Breeding Thread

Maybe you can catch regular shuckles from smashing rocks instead of the friend safari. And you can keep breeding those until you get low/0 IV into att/sp att/speed? Then after, you can just breed it with something that has 31 IVs into def/sp def.

I'm wondering what you're planning on doing with that shuckle. Shuckle seems to be better at annoying people in this generation than any other. Taunt/trick ruins it, but I can see the huge annoyance look from people when it can successfully pull it off. In trick room teams, it can annoy with infestation/yawn/toxic/rest with a chesto berry.

[COLOR="#cc8899"]Toxic Spikes support and Infestation, Protect, Rest, Power Split/Knock Off. If you taunt it, it's still got 2 ways to do something annoying. Knock Off absolutely RUINS several pokemon that rely on items to do their job (even hitting the Leftovers off of a wall can be a big deal). Infestation is guaranteed 1/8 damage per turn, nothing's immune to it, and Protect guarantees that it'll do at least 1/4 of something's HP. Infestation and Knock Off give Shuckle something to do when taunted. Basically just there to annoy people and/or cripple a major threat. Debating Leftovers/Binding Band for him...

Under ideal circumstances he'd be trapping a toxic'd enemy and adding his own damage over time through Infestation. Worst case he simply acts as a item-killer. Power Split would be an alternative to Knock Off to cripple sweepers, given the way it works making boosts almost complete ineffective and also increasing Shuckle's longevity.[/COLOR]