Talk:Chakra Dragon/@comment-30859251-20170129042141/@comment-27957947-20170131060105

Lady Alpha, with the ultra rare diamond-types, more potential offspring doesn't reduce your chances or overcomplicate matters- it just gives you a more interesting range of fails. Here is how I explained it to someone the other day (in a discussion about why using Metal X Goodwitch when trying for Diamond doesn't increase your odds, at all). The same principle applies to all the ultra rare diamond-types:

Look at breeding like two wheels you have to spin. The first wheel is always the same for every breeding pair. It determines the rarity of your egg. The first wheel has 100 slots: 60 slots are labeled common, 30 are labeled rare, 9 are super rare and only 1 is ultra rare. You spin that wheel to land the rarity of your egg. The only way you can possibly breed a Diamond Dragon (or in this case, a Chakra Dragon, which is an ultra rare diamond hybrid) is if you were lucky enough to land on that one little ultra rare slot. Sadly, the odds are definitely not in your favor.

The make-up of the second wheel changes with every breeding- it depends on the results from your first spin and your chosen breeding pair. If you landed on common and your chosen breeding pair has 4 common outcomes, the second wheel will have 4 slots. Spin the wheel to find out which of those common dragons you are getting. Whichever of the 4 you land on is the dragon you have just bred.

If you landed on common in the first spin and your chosen breeding pair has 80 common dragon outcomes, the second wheel would have 80 slots, one for each unique dragon. If you got rare on your first spin, the second wheel would be comprised of only the rare dragons that can come from your breeding pair.

The possibility of breeding Diamond Dragon (or Chakra Dragon or any diamond hybrid) was ruled out as soon as that first wheel landed in something other than ultra rare. Whether a breeding pair has 150 potential outcomes or only a handful- like Metal X Goodwitch- makes no difference.

Having a larger pool of potential results and choosing breeding pairs that can produce other dragons you want is a good way to expand your collection. It has no effect, whatsoever, on the odds of getting (or not getting) an ultra rare. When you narrow the offspring pool when trying for ultra rares, all it does is ensure you'll keep seeing the same small group of dragons as fails, over and over.