TEMTEM BREEDING GUIDE BASICS - How To Start Breeding in Temtem 

Fertility isn't just about effort and grind. It's also a safety net to prevent a perfect temtem to mate forever and before you know it everyone got pay pal temtem.

@@raymondschmidt1683 well then they are going to be expesive paypal temtem.

@@MedienGulli if you're lazy. If you do your project correctly you come out with more than one tem. Trade your extras for perfects you don't have. I never suggested real world trading was completely stoppable, what I would suggest is breeding isn't that bad and will likely get easier when we have more ways to make cash.

I have to agree, plus it makes the breeding system more complex which I do like.

Sorry, but I still don't. The limit of 8 is honestly kind of wack and fertility going to the lowest stat of the parent rather than an average is pretty annoying. The game could strike a better balance, having to catch and release up-to-hundreds of the same TemTem is not a good grind for something that imo shouldn't be _the_ endgame goal. Endgame should be competitive and PvE.

@@emmaramirez4330 the issue is since this games an mmo you have to realize the game is going to have an "economy" it's a way to even the playing field between newer players and veterans.

@@emmaramirez4330 it's still early access and things can change, get on their discord or forums and let them know what you think! they also have fruits that you can feed them to increase their stats so you don't need to rely on breeding and you can also trade them so... can always get ones from people that are selling them...

I agree I like the fertility system! But wish you could make more money faster through FreeTem, maybe they will change the rates.

@@TheGamePiece I don't really see no problem in it. Imagine how much money you would have for Luma hunting, if about 35-40 tems is 1-4k That's alot. I think it's fine just as it is. Gotta work hard on your temtems.

@@peagames2002 While I agree to an extent, as it is now I see a lot of people who would be interested in competitive turning away because of the high amount of time investment. There's gotta be a happy medium.

@@TheGamePiece In that matter I don't really see any problem. It shouldn't be quite a problem for those who've played pokemon games before. But it's your thought. I think temtem is what it needs to be. MMORPG, not "Okey I just loop this whole process for 5 hours and I've beated the game." If competitive, you can always go challenge other players. What's really stopping you?

Pea Games what’s stopping people is that their temtem aren’t on par with those who have done all the training and breeding for max stats. Which is a lot of work. I don’t think you understand that he means it consumes a lot of time and people shy away from competitive because they have to work hours into their team first. People coming from Pokémon doesn’t matter because it’s about time and grinding to have a chance in competitive. Also just because they play Pokémon doesn’t mean they want to put in the effort for competitive and it doesn’t mean it’s not an issue for them. I however, enjoy the grind to competitive with breeding and training my temtem but it does take up hours for me to get there.

Choh Sena that’s not a downside for how awesome the game is

That would be cool and also add another layer of things for players to go after, maybe they'll expand on it in the future!

I agree it's kind of an artificial way of prolonging the RNG, we will just have to wait and see if any major feedback they receive causes some changes in the quality of life front.

@@TheGamePiece I think it could be good. Remember that this is an MMO that will keep adding content and not a yearly release like Pokemon. This system ensures that people will have a need to keep catching Temtems and trading since they can't infinitely breed one single pokemon.

@@Rapkannibale i hear ya, but say they were to use the average stat like i mentioned, it will still be a grind but not as tedious. you often see people complaining about how bad a grind is in these hybrid mmo style games ie destiny, division etc, not the same genre but also mmo hybrids

@@TheGamePiece one can only hope :)

I dont know the exact values, but if we assume a fertility of 8 means it can produce 8 eggs, then each of those eggs would have a fertility ranging from 1 to 7, well half the values assuming half are Male and will be breeding with the females, so that gives us 12 with an average fertility of 12, so a further 6 from breeding them, another 3 after, so two 8 fertility tems would result in around 45 offspring, possibly.

My thoughts exactly, this game is an MMORPG first and foremost so systems are going to be in place to necessitate some level of grinding / time gating. I just hope most players will realize that!

@@TheGamePiece this kills the game for me. Time gating is a f2p/mobile mechanic. if im gonna buy a game, i dont like being time gated

@@osueboy I can understand your perspective, its going to throw some people off I'm sure, but it comes with the genre. Maybe they'll change it up down the line to make it more convenient after feedback but we'll see.

@@TheGamePiece i dont think it comes with the genre,i understand the fertility bulls*** but time gating, for a game already paid, tobhave 1 egg every 40 mins. I have 3000 pokemon on bank, my accpunt on sword and shield is full, i had to make another one pass the game a second time so i can have more eggs, and theh are time gating me 40 minutes per egg, give me a fbreak 32 to 50 ivs is already a significant increase in rng from 32^6 to 50^ 7

Rates have to be low so they sell you speed up itemd

To add on, my thoughts about breeding is that it shouldn't be as difficult as it is in Pokémon. The grind from breeding in Pokémon is quite possibly the single barrier to entry for competitive, and makes competitive play about your patience for grinding eggs, as opposed to a test of skill in analysing, reading the situation and taking calculated risks and strategic guesses that is what actually goes down in a competitive game of Pokémon. A player who grinds all day to max out their Pokémon/TemTem can still lose to a player who is more skilled in battling. In these games, grinding out a competitive team is needed to get you a foothold in the competitive scene, but speaks absolutely zero about your ability to pilot your team to victory. I think it should be made as easy and painless as possible, and "it is an MMO" should not be the excuse of a game that endeavours for good a good competitive scene.

Appreciate the kind words and support truly, thank you!

You can either trade other players for high SV value Temtem, catch your own, or breed your own. The only real way to hunt for Temtem to breed is to go to a high spawn rate area for the Temtem you want and capture as many as possible keeping the 50SV valued ones while releasing the others for money. Then you use those 50SV parents with breeding items to pass all those 50s onto one Temtem.

@@TheGamePiece alright, thank you for the advice!

@@templayzandmore1828 No problem! Thank you for watching!

Yes you can just stand around at the breeding center.

@@TheGamePiece awesome. That makes it a lot easier. Time to afk breed xD

@@gabemaurer4969 The only thing to be aware of is that you have to be online for the timer to countdown, it won't lower offline.

If it was the last fertility point the parent had then yes the egg would be born sterile. It's always recommended to be breeding two Temtem of the same fertility when trying to breed for perfect SVs. Does that help?

Yeah you can release them to get some money from the Tem Society, or save them if they do have good stats that you wish to use competitively.

Agreed, but they also have an item that increases fertility it just isnt sold anywhere in the game just yet.

Yeah, that seems weird, if a temtem is strong, it would survive in the wild for longer, meaning that it should be able to produce more eggs in its lifetime than a temtem that has low stats.

@@TheGamePiece i was just thinking they should have the fertility reset after a year (or some other amount of time) in game to keep the value and relevance of the perfect stats....you know, kind of like when real animals go in heat during a certain part of the year etc

The starters in temtem can be caught normally on routes like other temtem, so you're not missing out forever depending on which starter you get. You can breed for lumas like other temtem, but you can also find a luma of one of the starters in the wild

Yes you can breed the starters to get a Luma version, as Halopies stated too you can also capture them in the wild so they have a chance to be Luma that way too.

Yes but it’s the same odds as finding them in the wild. Breeding would give better stats most likely too

The offspring has a 40% chance of having higher parents stats, 20% for the lower, and 40% for the average. That's also why you only see one number if both parents have the same SV

It would take whichever is the females first form and that would be the Temtem that hatches.

Yes that's correct!

I'm torn because I fully agree with your sentiment, but this is an online service game that needs longevity too so it's somewhat understandable. Doesn't make it good or right, but I can understand the logic. I agree though a more accessible competitive scene would be preferred.

TheGamePiece somewhere there is a happy medium. Maybe weekly cooldown per tem or maybe a limit on eggs created per week so you can't spew out 50 7IV tems with ease. As it is now it feels punishing, but it can't be as fluid as Pokemon current system. Also without mmo aspects like raids and dungeons they should drop the mmo tagline. Just call it a community based game or multiplayer. I dunno, they're doing great but this fertility stuff isn't good for the game.

That's my biggest scare, KOing one or it fainting itself, best of luck!!

There's an item in the game called Fertility Enhancer which permanently increases the Temtems fertility by 1 but its unclear how to obtain this item yet.

@@TheGamePiece There is a location with just Saipats and then you can play with ghanki chain lightning and nessla with the ability of not gettin dmg from thunders then you can one hit them all the time..i think a nice techniqe to get this one luma "fast"

@@sametogigetotv4498 I was doing that for an hour yesterday

@@mattwenner8291 I killed a lot no luma..:( and i rly dont like the breedin

To hatch it yes it needs to be in your inventory. The timer won't decrease if they are in the PC.

@@TheGamePiece thanks ❤️

Haha yes it is, sometimes the gender ratio is really skewed depending on what Temtem you're breeding though. Which Temtem are you breeding?

I can see its place with it being an MMO after all, but I agree it's a system that can turn away potential competitive players.

Σcκz reminds me of black dessert online horse system. Its rng and only two breeds per horse there.

Koichi Yh but it makes the game harder and different plus if it’s the competitive scene then you’d want to grind to be the best anyway. I do get what u mean though

@@kgsbrawl4581 grind isn't hard, it's just exhausting in that case, but let me explain it more in depth: There is stuff I call "positive grind", you do something that may take a while to do, but you get your reward after it. As an example you can take luma hunting, it takes time, but you get the reward for it directly at the point you catch the long awaited Luma, there is a reward you want to achieve and a way to do so. In other mmo's it could be armor progressing as an example for positive grind, you farm a armor, you gain stats that help you to defeat a hard boss more easily. But if I put a step more between the reward and the way to achieve it, I get something called "exhausting grind". Again we use armor progressing as a example, you grind materials to craft a armor, but the crafting process can fail, if it does you lose the material and grind again, till you get your armor to progress further in to the game, in this version of grind the player is restricted in what he wants to do. He wants to get to his reward, but he can get trapped in a loop of failing leading to grinding leading to failing and so on, while other player may progress faster, that can be pretty discouraging for a player and some players might just give up before they try. Now we project what I've mentioned so far on to temtem, but first let me thank you for climbing this wall of text I'm creating, you do great^^! Okay first we need to determine what is the reward the player wants to achieve? I would say to crush the opponent, because "the opponent" sounds a bit dry, we will call him Max from now on. Max has more luck than everything else and every single temtem he is using has the best possible stats. To achieve the goal of defeating Max, we will need to even the odds, that means we need to get us some strong temtems, but that means we need to invest time, we may fail we need time and we may fail again, that often that we need to grind new materials/parents and start over, while our main focus isn't the breeding by itself, because what we want to do actually is to get into the competitive battle, hone our strategy and learn more by fighting against other player, wich can be a grind of its own. Pokemon failed this as well,but in another way. its breeding is not transparent enough to make sense for someone who doesn't watch resource in the internet up to understand what's happening while breeding, but at least you cant loose anything while trying. Im most certain that you can learn in Temtem how to breed without even looking up which creatures can breed together, it's intuitive enough that everyone could learn it by themself and this may be the most exciting way to get someone hooked and motivated, the majority of people knows the feeling of achieving something by their own, but if you want to get the most out of this way of learning you need to feel safe while you are leaning, if you are afraid of losing something for the chance of obtaining something, you may not be able to progress further. But thanks God there may be a easy way to fix the issue without changing much and even take care of getting players hooked into the game for a longer period of time. If the fertility stats recovers over a long duration of time (for maybe every temtem in the breedingstation), players wouldn't loose anything, not for ever at least. They had a reason to log in from time to time. They could even create events where you could get items to refill a few points of fertility.

Not necessarily, a regular temtem can have 3 or more perfect svs, so nope, they don't have different stats

It really really is

I disagree.

Kazuto Kirigaya really?!

@@orchiddds If the fertitlity system didn't exist the end game of this game would be absolutely garbage because no lifes would get perfect shit in a competitive environment wayyyyy ahead of everyone else. In a single player game like pokemon thats fine, but this game is an mmo. That shit doesn't fly

i actually like this system it makes more sense then pokemon where they just keep mating and have 1000 eggs

I think it does care, but it's trying to balance competitiveness and an open player-run economy.

in terms of competitive, reverse those 2 in your sentence and you have your answer

@@realKiraMG i meant the breeding part also now that ive seen that this game is respecting the mmo aspect more like the economy of the game and stuff yeah my bad

Pretty sure this is the way they want to establish their own competitive scene. Unlike pokemon which you can easily obtain the desired stats you want, temtem took a different path, making sure that getting perfect SVs temtem to be hard such that players will try to obtain the best stats possible while competing. This in turn allows economy to be establish and a more uncertain outcome to battles.

I wouldn't say they don't care, they just have mechanics in place to prolong playtime which is something that is a staple of mmorpgs, whether it's a good thing or not that's up to each individual but I understand why they have it in place.

Yep

While they have some high SV guaranteed, the base stats are identical to non Lumas just for clarification!