Thread:Evac156/@comment-25693270-20141118011916/@comment-24145588-20141118153219

PartyAtTheDukes wrote: why did u delete the riff and pompom breeding combo i did it twice I put a comment on it when I removed it, explaining why. You could have read it the first time, and known there was no point in adding it the second time. It's also been explained in more detail by MildMan and BunsenH now.

The combination you were adding was a "failure" combination: Breeding a 4-element and a 3-element is usually used in an attempt to produce that island's Ethereal, but that will usually fail and produce the three-element parent. It's not a valid combination for anything else. Any combination that can't produce valid offspring (i.e., offspring that use all of each parent's elements with no duplication) will produce a duplicate of one of the parents, usually the more common one. That's what you're describing. If the Breeding section for the monsters included these, it would get ridiculously bloated, because every combination that will fail (or even has some chance of failure) would have to be listed. So for the Pompom, we'd be listing


 * Riff & Pompom
 * Scups & Pompom
 * T-Rox & Pompom
 * Congle & Pompom
 * Clamble & Pompom
 * Thumpies & Pompom
 * Reedling & Pompom

And that's not even getting into all the combinations of a Pompom with a two-element monsters, which can also produce Pompoms.

Since it's generally known that failed breeding attempts create copies of parents, there's no point in an exhaustive list.