Breeding sounds complicated at first, but most of the process boils down to controlling three things: species, nature, and IVs. The game gives you a few key items to help with each. Once you understand how they interact, hatching competitive-ready Pokémon becomes a quiet, almost relaxing background task while you do something else.
The first step is picking your target parents. Catch or obtain a Pokémon with the right ability and nature. If its nature is wrong, you can often fix that with a Mint in newer games. In older games, you will want to give an Everstone to the parent whose nature you like; this significantly increases the chance that the offspring inherit that same nature.
For IVs, the most important item is Destiny Knot. When held by a parent, it forces the game to pass down more IVs total from both parents instead of rolling them all randomly. Your goal is to gradually upgrade your parents: whenever you hatch a child with better IVs than one of the parents, swap them. Over dozens of eggs, this process converges toward perfect spreads almost automatically.
To keep things interesting, you can pair this with the random starter tool and challenge yourself to fully breed a competitive team using only the partners it gives you. Instead of breeding the same top-tier threats everyone uses, you will find yourself optimizing quirky favorites and discovering surprise synergies along the way.
Once a Pokémon is hatched with the right ability, nature, and IVs, the last step is EV training and move selection. That is where other PokeSuite tools come in—use the generators to decide which roles your new partner should fill, then tune its stats to match that plan. Breeding is tedious only when it feels aimless; with a clear goal, it becomes another creative layer in team building.