Talk:Breeding Calculator/@comment-31200016-20170824130835/@comment-25462635-20170824160353

Of course there is a trick to it. You CAN use any other parent for those dragons listed, and you will always have the possibility to breed Bonfire. But the more elements you introduce into your breeding, the more "concurrence" your desired Bonfire will get.

If you for example use Bat and Bubble (just to pick a random dragon), you will have the black and yellow element from Bat, which are needed to get Bonfire, but you will also have pink and blue in the pool, and pink can (and will mostly) split into white and red, so this gives you a whole lot more possible combinations, and all outcomes that have the same rarity than Bonfire will be in competition with him to be bred.

So it is wise to chose a dragon that has exactly and only the required elements, or an element from which they can split, and a partner that does not carry completely different elements.

Breed for example Bat and Night, so you have 2x black and once yellow. This might even slightly increase the chance to get a black hybrid, since black also loves to split into blue and purple, but if you have 2x the black element, chances are that only one will split. At least that is my hope. :D

Good Luck!