Hai , I ' m 25 m live in LA . I ' m an editor for Hasbro at the moment <| sep |> Ever seen how she is when you kill her in a genocide run after sparing Monster Kid ? Ohhhhhh boy . <| sep |> Don ' t get too attached next thing you know that will be banned too <| sep |> I will be using the bottle caps a lot . I don ' t think you really understand just how rare these things are . It ' s not like they grow on trees . Every single Pokemon you plan to use a bottle cap on is going to have to be very carefully considered . If you just use them on anything and everything you will very quickly run out and then have to spend hours or even days getting more . For example , I somehow found a shiny Alolan Diglett my first ever shiny just running through the first trial cave because I was on my way back to that spot to smash through the rocks with Tauros . I will most definitely be using bottle caps on it since I can ' t easily just breed another shiny . I ' ll also use bottle caps on anything unbreedable that I want to actually use in online battles . But if I ' ve got a common Pokemon like a Sableye that I want to use competitively , it ' s definitely faster and more efficient to just breed one , especially considering how easy it is to get decent IVs from wild pokemon these days . Just get a good chain going from an SOS battle and you ' ll likely end up with a 4 or 5 IV Pokemon just from that . Then just do a little more breeding to make sure the 5 IVs are on the 5 stats you want them to be on and to make sure you have the right nature . It ' s not like you have to start from scratch these days and slowly build up to 1 perfect IV , then 2 perfect IVs , etc . High IV parents are easy enough to get in the wild thanks to chaining in an SOS battle . The actual breeding part might only take 1 or 2 generations .