What happens if you give a Destiny Knot to a female pokemon?
What happens if you give a Destiny Knot to a female pokemon? For example, if you have a female 5IV Talonflame and a 4IV male Fletchinder, will the IVs still be passed down?
EDIT: Does it matter which parent you give the Destiny Knot to?
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This information provides a correct and detailed answer in relation to how the Destiny Knot works with breeding:
When you breed, you have 3 possibilities for the IV of each stat for the baby. The first is that the child will have the mother's IV for that stat, the second is that it will have the father's, and the third is that it will randomly choose an IV for that stat. When breeding without the knot, three of the IVs will be inherited from the parents. So if you have a set of 6 IV parents, the child might inherit the HP and Def from the mother and the Sp. Atk from the father, resulting in a 31/x/31/31/x/x child. With the destiny knot, five are passed down instead of three. In the example, we might inherit the Sp. Def and Speed from the father as well, resulting in a 31/x/31/31/31/31 child.
They don't pool. If a stat is passed down, it goes to that same stat, i.e. if the mother's HP is passed down, the child's HP will match the mother's. It won't go to a different stat or be added to a total amount to be distributed between stats.
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Which Pokémon do you give the destiny knot?
This process begins by giving one of the four perfect-IV Dittos from Step 2 the Destiny Knot, giving the perfect-natured Pokemon of interest the Everstone, and breeding them together around five times.Does destiny knot take IVs from both parents?
Give either parent Pok\xe9mon the Destiny Knot to hold whilst in the Ranch, and a total of five IVs, taken at random from the IVs of the two parents, will be passed on to the hatched Pok\xe9mon.Destiny Knot: How to use and the Mechanics!
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