- Can I use this tool to calculate passive skill inheritance or IVs?
- No. Passive skill inheritance, Individual Value (IV) probabilities, and stat mutation rates are outside the scope of this deterministic snapshot. This calculator predicts child species only. Read breeding scope boundaries
- Why does the Path Finder say a Pal is unreachable?
- A Pal is unreachable when it cannot be bred from your selected owned Pals under strict both-parents-available rules. Both parents must already be owned or produced by an earlier step before a step can run. Learn Path Finder availability rules
- Does parent order or parent gender matter?
- For standard wildcard rows in this snapshot, parent order does not change the child species. For gender-specific rows (Katress and Wixen in the pinned dataset), explicit parent gender assignments select different children. View Katress/Wixen gender-specific rules
- What does the 'Unique combination' (override-sourced) badge mean?
- Override-sourced labeling is child-scoped in this project. When a child has at least one parent pair that standard breeding power averaging cannot produce, every row that yields that child carries the override label in the snapshot. Understand child-scoped override labeling
- How does the standard breeding power formula work?
- For standard rows, the tool uses Math.floor((parent1.BreedingPower + parent2.BreedingPower + 1) / 2), filters override-classified children, and selects the nearest eligible Pal with deterministic tie-breakers. Explore the breeding power formula guide
- What dataset snapshot does this calculator use?
- All calculations use the pinned PalCalc v27 snapshot (upstream commit f6cc27362b090dd33c3c3ee612075b9b514ace4d, raw breeding SHA-256 e0f3a3eeca656ff506f4c1307397cad1bf156680d8c90ca6250ea790f11b38bb), retrieved on 2026-07-30. Verify data provenance
- What is the difference between Standard, Unique, and Gender-Specific results?
- Standard results follow breeding power averaging in the snapshot. Unique (override-sourced) results mark child species with child-scoped override labeling. Gender-specific results require explicit gender assignments for the small gender-specific row set. Read how evidence labels are classified
- Does Path Finder guarantee the absolute minimum number of breeding steps?
- Path Finder optimizes for minimum parallel breeding depth, not total sequential operations. The reported step count equals path.length for the returned plan and is not asserted to be globally minimal across all routes. Read parallel depth semantics