Pokémon HA breeding

[Reginald Fairfield]

I took a break from pokemon for a bit. I haven't been keeping up on the new breeding mechanics, regarding retaining balls and hidden abilities. Is it now possible to breed a contrary serperior if I got a male with that ha from the event back in ORAS?

 

[mellachime]

I believe so ! I remember before it was only females who passed HA but, I'm pretty sure in ORAS and sun moon, its possible with a male with the HA!

 

[ILikeFroakies]

I believe so ! I remember before it was only females who passed HA but, I'm pretty sure in ORAS and sun moon, its possible with a male with the HA!

I don't know if it's changed but if that isn't the case you can breed with a Ditto and the male Serperior will pass down the ability

 

[Halloqueen]

I can confirm that a male with a Hidden Ability can pass that Hidden Ability down when bred with a Ditto. I can also say that if you have a male standard Pok?mon with a Hidden Ability that has an Alolan Form, like a normal Geodude, you can breed that male and get a Hidden Ability Alolan Pok?mon. This is very useful as it saves you from the need to hunt bothersome things like Galvanize Alolan Geodude or Slush Rush Alolan Sandshrew.

 

[Reginald Fairfield]

I don't know if it's changed but if that isn't the case you can breed with a Ditto and the male Serperior will pass down the ability

I normally try to avoid breeding with ditto, thank you.

 

[Halloqueen]

I normally try to avoid breeding with ditto, thank you.

Just as a follow-up to this, unfortunately a male Pok?mon with a Hidden Ability cannot pass on a Hidden Ability when bred with a female that doesn't have the Hidden Ability. So yeah, unless the female parent has it, the Ditto will be necessary.

Edit: Upon thinking about it and finding this post of mine redundant and having misinterpreted what you meant, I figured I'd come back and contribute something else.

Since you said you haven't kept up with the ball retaining mechanics, in Sun & Moon and Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon it works like this:

A male and female of different species will always pass on the female's Ball
A male and female of the same species will have an even 50/50 chance of passing on either Ball
Anything that can breed, whether male, female, or genderless, will pass on its Ball when bred with Ditto

The only Ball variations you can't pass down are ones that an individual Pok?mon can't normally be caught in through normal play in any games in the series, Master Balls, and Cherish Balls. Master Balls and Cherish Balls default to normal Pok? Balls.