Should I care about Pokemon gender?
I never changed my keep vs. transfer approach after Pokemon genders were introduced, but I'm starting to wonder if I should. For Mons that evolve, I currently keep ones with 91%+ IV and also whatever one has the highest CP. Same rules apply for evolved Mons, though moveset becomes a consideration.
Should I start applying that approach to each gender of a species? Meaning I would independently keep the highest CP and highest IV variants of the males and females of a species.
I am not familiar with the importance/value of breeding in the main series (presumably breeding is the reason for the introduction of genders), so I would like to know how other trainers are preparing for it. Also, I have gleaned from other threads that my 100% IV Ditto may significantly alter how I approach breeding.
Answers
Not one bit, as of gen 6, you don't need any specific gender, just one pokemon of the species, and a ditto.
Also CP (level) doesn't matter, what matters are individual IV's, in the main game series you usually look for parents that have 2 IV's at 31 (max value in those games), breed them to get those IV's into an offspring, then swap the parent for the next breed to the offspring that has 3 or 4 perfect IV's and repeat until you get the 5 (or 6) IV's you want at 31 or at the value you need for hidden power.
