Hi everyone, Squintina here and did you know, that I have a pedigree 9
perfect 4-star racing chocobo?
Spent so many hours on it! It was so
much work and quite a bit of planning.
Now what if I told you, I have not just one,
but TWO perfect 4-star racing chocobos?
Meet my Crystal alt, whom I unlocked
the Gold Saucer on just so I could make this video. That's right, I wanted to
make a chocobo racing and breeding guide, but I knew some people would want to see an actual
example going from pedigree 1 all the way to 9.
So 651 chocobo races later, here I am.
To be clear, THIS is NOT the guide I'm working on, though you can somewhat use it as one. This
video is to go over the progression and logic as I bred my chocobo from one to 9.
And it just so happened that the higher my chocobo's pedigree became,
the more insanity I suffered.
So if I seem a little crazy right now compared
to usual, just know , that I did it.. for you!
Enjoy!
After doing the quest first to unlock the Gold Saucer and then chocobo
racing, and of course leveling up my racing chocobo to rank 40, I was able to retire it.
The first chocobo no matter what, is always 2-stars everywhere. It kind of sucks.
So I went to the NPC, gave her my very best smile, and begged for her to hook up my little
chocobo boy with some beautiful chocoladies.
But, I didn't just pick one. No, I bought
42 coverings. Grade 1 coverings. There is no point in buying the higher coverings,
except to waste your MGP.
Don't fall for it. You are not
guaranteed better star ratings.
You just buy the same level as the chocobo
you're breeding it with. So he's a pedigree 1, and he's getting grade 1 coverings.
Now , my chocobo's seed can only be implanted a total of 10 times, so
only 10 coverings can breed with him.
So why did I buy 42? Well first of all it's the
answer to life, the universe, and everything, so perhaps it was also the answer for praying
to the almighty RNGesus. But more realistically, it's because a lot of them ain't good enough for
my boy! He might disagree but momma knows best.
And so I aimed for female chocobos that had
at least two 4-stars. Everything else is equally as bad. Yes, 1 is just as bad as 3
when your end goal is perfection itself.
So coverings with two or more 4-stars,
and these were the final 10 candidates.
Feel free to pause if you need more
time, but as you can see some of them even have more than two 4-stars.
And at this point, it doesn't really matter yet where these 4-stars are.
I'm just counting by total ok?
Once I got my 10 candidates chosen, I went
to Bentbranch Meadows and taught my little darlings all about setting the mood with
some sexy music. I do have a little video that covers a trick for how to breed
multiple chocobos at the same time,
but anyway, once the timer is up, I can
claim my brand new little chickens.
From these, I picked the one that had
the most amount of 4-stars. Once again, on the first round in the breeding process, I
don't really care where these 4-stars are.
You might notice I only made 5 of them.
That's because the fifth one ended up with three 4-stars.
There are no coverings remaining that have more than three to pass on. So even
if I kept going, I wouldn't get a better bird.
So I sent all of their little
chicken butts back to McDonalds.
Continuing, I ranked up my new little Pedigree
2 chocobo, and once again I bought a bunch of coverings until 10 of them met my criteria.
This time I was aiming for coverings that had at least four 4-stars. Since this is a pedigree
2 chocobo, these are grade 2 coverings.
I was blessed enough that I got
these with only 30 coverings.
Anything that didn't meet that criteria
was considered complete and utter trash and then discarded.
If possible, a covering that has 4-stars in stats that my retired
chocobo didn't have was even better.
For example, let's look at this one.
She's got FIVE 4-stars to potentially pass to the next chocobo
Acceleration is guaranteed to pass a 4-star to the next chocobo
because she has them on both sides.
For those who don't know, when
two chocobos love each other very, very much, each one of them grabs stars from
each of their stats and passes them on.
So she can either pass a 1 or a 4
to her baby in Maximum Speed.
And that also means she can either
pass a 4 or a 4 in acceleration!
Acceleration is a stat the current chocobo does
not have as a 4-star, so that's fantastic.
And she can also potentially fix cunning too.
Now of course, whether lady luck
will actually bless you or screw you, well..there's only one way to find out!
But that's precisely why I need to be so picky this early on to get as
many good chances as possible!
So we've got 10 baby mommies chosen,
and now ... all 10 babies are made, the miracle of life has been completed yet
again, and we're looking for the best one.
There are a few of them that
have received five 4-stars!
But notice, something interesting, something very
interesting between these two in particular.
One is male.
One is female.
And they can pass 4-stars in all stats.
They both can pass Max speed.
She can pass Acceleration.
Endurance is guaranteed in both.
They can both pass Stamina.
And he can pass Cunning.
This is very very early, but those are actually
perfect candidates for breeding together.
Because there is a possibility that if they were
bred, they could create a child with a 4-star in each stat. Potential soul mates indeed.
If multiple such children, of the opposing gender, are made, they could then be used to keep that
gene pool going by breeding their children.
Now sure in real life inbreeding isn't
the best idea, I wouldn't recommend it, it can pass on recessive genes
that cause nasty little diseases.
But here, we actually want that. Well, not the
diseases part, other than being sick of kicking ass all over the place, but the ability to play
God and control the gene pool is very helpful. Most people, however, don't start raising two
chocobos together until pedigrees 5 or 6.
But we do eventually want to get to a
point where we only pass the 4-stars, so even though it's super early, this is
an option, and it's not particularly any different logic than what you would do later
on so it's still a perfectly good example.
And so that's the option I'm taking. This doesn't
mean that I have to keep raising two chocobos after, I can go back to coverings if things
don't turn out well, but I might as well try.
So how do I raise two chocobos anyway?
By registering one chocobo, ranking it up to 40, retiring it
Registering the other chocobo, ranking it up to 40, and then retiring it, now I have two
retirement registrations that can breed 10 times. No Coverings, which means I don't need no pimp.
You might also notice that both of the parents have Head Start. When your chocobo reaches
rank 10 it randomly learns an ability. If you use Lethe waters to forget it, it will learn
a different one when it ranks up again. I simply kept doing this until I got Head Start on both
of them. This is really most worth doing if you're raising two chocobos, like I was here,
because if both of them have the same ability, it guarantees the children will have it too.
If I had not gotten this, I would just try again later. Head Start is the only ability that cannot
be bought, so I wanted to show that the best way to have it for a pedigree 9 is to start trying
for it when you first start dual raising.
So now with the children, first I need to
see whether I have more males or females. That's kind of a requirement for the whole baby
making thing. I ended up with 7 males, 3 females, and my goal is to see if once again, I can find
the best pair that also has at least one 4-star among them both in each stat.
If I cannot meet that criteria, then I need to pick the best one and
go back to Coverings for this round.
But first, since there are less females, that
means they're my little princesses and I need to figure out which one is the queen and holy
moly I got lucky and look at those stars!
Now, to be clear, that luck would not have been
possible at all if I had not been so picky in the first two generations when it came to
coverings, which allowed me to have such good parents that could possibly even make
this absolutely talented and fierce little racing bird right here. EIGHT 4-stars!
So now I already have chances to pass 4-stars in every stat, and I want a
male that also has a lot of 4-stars, but especially if those happen to be in the stats
that still need to be fixed in the future.
There are three of them who have SIX 4-stars,
all of them are viable. This one can potentially help fix the Cunning, and those two can help
fix acceleration. Since 1-stars and 3-stars are considered equally bad when trying to achieve
true perfection, these chocobos are considered all equally good, so it's just a matter of
picking which one has the best color, and I just gotta take a chance at that Woad Blue.
To be clear, you cannot change the color of your racing chocobo other than breeding. That's one of
the few perks of using coverings is having chances at different colors, then you just gotta rely on
whichever of those colors belong to good chocobos to breed and of course, maybe a few lalafell
sacrifices to the almighty lord of RNG.
With both pedigree 4 children picked
out, it's time to start raising them. They both already have Head Start as a hereditary
ability, so the acquired action doesn't matter.
As such, it would be possible to give them
the Dressage III ability from the store to level them faster, since
it is a 30% experience boost. The only reason this was not done is because I
wanted to get a list of experience rewards for the text version of the upcoming guide... because
why not make this even harder on myself?
Sometimes people wonder if they should
train their chocobo. Training doesn't get passed down to children, so from a breeding
perspective, it mostly serves to waste your MGP. You do get more experience if you rank up
higher, but mostly you don't want to end up as 8th place because 8th place experience
actively mocks you for even trying.
The second chocobo got the worst stats (thankfully
it doesn't affect breeding), so having to use a bit of training in order to not constantly
rank as the biggest loser was necessary.
Once both were ranked to 40, it was time to
retire them from racing, and start some sexin'
Our best female was the same as our
previous one. So it's not an improvement but it's not a detriment either.
But our best boy was better for the stamina. This wasn't a great gain
overall, but it's not terrible either and sometimes.. sometimes you just
gotta settle for not getting worse.
Now that we have pedigree 5s we are
essentially halfway there and our stats are actually pretty good, but that cunning
and acceleration still need to be fixed up. From here on, having to do some trainings to not
rank horribly becomes more of a necessity.
Goodbye MGP, Hello Time Savings!
So, what happened when these two chocobos, whom we're totally pretending
aren't siblings and this isn't absolutely messed up, were told to put out?
The 4 female fledglings were the same as their mother - not better, but not worse. that is fine
since the mother was already really strong.
Of the 2 male fledglings, one came out the same
as the father. That's not ideal since the original parent was missing a 4-star in Acceleration
and the point was to try and fix that.
However, there was a male with both
a 4-star in acceleration and cunning. This means this generation attempt was a
success, as we now have the possibility of passing 4-star on both sides.
Perfection is getting closer and closer.
Pedigree 6 to 7 is where things got a
little interesting with the results. As with before, once both parents were
retired, all 10 children were made.
But none of the children came out better than
the parents! 5 came out essentially the same: with a 3 in acceleration and a 1 in cunning.
3 children came out worse, where they managed to inherit both of the parents' 3 in acceleration
or both of the parents' 1 in cunning.
Since there are 5 children, it is possible
to raise one male and one female,
and if the grade 8s don't
come out with better luck, raise the next group of male and female 7s,
and if those children don't come out with
better luck, raising that last remaining male with one of the saved grade 6s
to make new sets of grade 7s.
So that is a possible plan of action.
Hopefully luck happens on the first set with a chocobo that has either nine or
ten 4-stars because I would really prefer not to have to do all this extra work.
Even if I chose not to follow this plan, I can also breed two pedigree 9s, they just
also give pedigree 9s, so it's possible to keep trying to fix stars. But whether you end
up having to do extras now, or later, the point is that it's up to luck to decide how much of
your time is wasted trying to fix things.
But let's see what happened!
After 6 children, I finally got a
perfect 4-star female chocobo.
And so far two male chocobos with 9 out
of 10 stars. Having a perfect grade 9 is pretty much guaranteed at this point. I don't
really need to do the whole back up plan.
Since the female is already perfect,
it can be registered right away to start racing while waiting for the
next set of children to be born.
Matter of fact, at this point I could
stop breeding, the current males are good enough. However, I'm choosing
to keep going for all 10 children in case I get a perfect 4-star male as
well, because it would be nice to breed two perfect chocobos in order to have no
breeding RNG for pedigree 9. Unfortunately, the universe reached out, told me I needed
to make an appointment if I wanted to have such great luck, and just wasted my time.
So I didn't get a perfect male yet.
Unlike other chocobos, the first pedigree
8 was raised to a rank higher than 40. This was so all chocobo challenges up to
challenge 12 could be done and over with.
By doing challenge 12, this frees up the ability
to buy any ability (except for Head Start, which cannot be bought). So you can
pick your perfect hereditary ability.
For the purpose of this journal,
I'll be keeping Head Start.
That being said Cure III is an excellent ability
that goes with a lot of different builds, so if you're not sure what you want, but you know you don't want to have to
make any more chocobos than necessary, I would say to go with that at this point.
After 6 children were made, I finally got
A perfect male
and a perfect female
Making two perfect pedigree 9s is not
necessary. I could have stopped once I got the very first one. But let me explain
really quick why I chose to make two.
Let's say I change my mind and don't
want Head Start as my hereditary ability, I can absolutely rank both of these grade 9s to
40, teach them both the ability I want to switch to, and make a perfect child with that. When
two grade 9s breed, they make another grade 9. So this allows for the chance to switch hereditary
builds without having to start all over. Because no sane person would want to have to
do this from 1 to 9 multiple times....right?
Anyway, let me know if you found this useful
and I look forward to when the actual guide gets released. You also might have noticed
my chocobo on my alt is still only rank 1. That's because I'll be making a separate video
on training it, because yes, there are strategies for maximizing your stats when training that last
chocobo. But that is a story for another time.
What about you? Have you
done any chocobo breeding?
Did you have any trouble or
use different strategies?
Have you managed a 4-star racing chocobo?
Do share your experience in the comment section!
Thank you so much for watching, and
I will see you all for the next time!
