'Pokémon Go' Breeding: Niantic Should Add Daycares And Dittos

Pokémon Go is still missing out on some really important features. Players have been patiently waiting for something to do in the mobile app besides walking around and holding onto Gyms for a few minutes at a time. Catching and battling are fun, but trading and even breeding are all important parts of the main Pokémon franchise that would breathe some life back into the game for those that have started to get bored.

Breeding Pokémon would be the easiest thing to implement and here’s how I think they should do it – starting with eggs, which are the byproduct of two Pokémon getting freaky in a Daycare Center, all Niantic would have to do is turn some Pokestops or Gyms into Daycare Centers and allow users to drop two of the same Pokémon off for a few hours until they make a baby. That way, you’d know what exactly is in the egg without having to guess. There’s nothing worse than waiting for a 10 km egg to hatch, only to end up hatching a Pinsir.

Now that we know how the eggs would get made, we have to figure out how genders would work. Right now in the Pokémon games, genders are pretty much assigned randomly to a Pokémon when you encounter it for the first time, with some Pokémon only able to be male or female. With Pokémon Go , I think the same formula could apply, though that would lead to some problems. Finding a specific Pokémon in the real world is difficult enough, imagine if you also had to find one with the correct gender. If you want a male Magmar, you’d have to cross your fingers and your toes every time you’d manage to find one.

One Pokémon fixes this problem entirely – Ditto. Right now, Ditto is the only non-legendary Pokémon you can’t catch in the game without hacking. In the real Pokémon games, Ditto can mate with anyone and create a baby of that Pokémon. We don’t ask questions about how Ditto performs its magic and we don’t ask what goes on behind closed Daycare doors.

The first time you go to a Daycare Center, the kind old man behind the counter could give you a Ditto who can mate with any one Pokémon. That Ditto can only mate with one Pokémon at a time, making it act like the one unlimited Egg Incubator Pokémon Go players get at the start of the game. It eliminates the grindy aspect of trying to find the one Pokémon you need while also allowing you to create stronger and better Pokémon.

Niantic probably has their own plan for this already, but it’s always fun to speculate. I’d love to be able to breed two high CP Dragonites together for the chance of getting a 100 IV Dratini. It would essentially add another layer of depth to the game that might keep players who like training and getting stronger Pokémon.

At the very least, just put Ditto into the game. He’s one of my favorite Pokémon and I miss the purple blob.