Does having more Pokemon in a picnic increase the number of eggs you receive?

Question

I'm hunting the Paldean starters right now and currently, I have all 3 (male) in a picnic with a single Ditto. However, soon, I may need to start single hunting the starters. Right now, with Egg Power 2 active, I get around 2 full boxes of eggs, sometimes around a row more, sometimes a bit less than 2 boxes.
So my questions are (using Sprigatito as my example and assuming Egg Power 2 is active):

1. Would I get around the same amount of eggs if I were to breed with 1 Sprigatito and Ditto(foreign) vs 5 Sprigatito(same gender) and a Ditto?

2. Would I get around the same amount of eggs if I had 5 Ditto and a Sprigatito(foreign) vs just 1 Ditto?

3. Would I get around the same amount of eggs if I had a sprigatito(F) and a different Pokemon of the same egg group, like a like a Fuecoco(M, foreign) vs if I had 3 Sprigatito and 3 Fuecoco?

4. If any of these produces a significant amount of eggs more than the other options, which options produces the most eggs?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Ok so
Yes and no
Having more Pokemon does Technically increase your egg amount in some cases.
For your first question the answer is yes. Five sprigatito and one ditto would just give you the same amount of eggs as one ditto and one sprigatito. Because the ditto would only be able to bread with one sprigatito at a time.
Your second question also has the exact same result. The third on the other hand will definitely give you the most because each sprigatito and fuecoco would be able to bread separately.

5 sprigatito + 1 ditto = baseline amount
5 ditto + 1 sprigatito = baseline amount
3 fuecoco + 3 sprigatito = highest amount possible.

Also each fuecoco could pare with each sprigatito multiple times so you could get up to 9 eggs

Source: experience

Comments

That was what I was thinking in theory but did you actually test this? What egg amounts did you get?

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Yes I did test this. I got 7 eggs relatively fast

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Did you test for a certain amount of time for each batch?

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I didn’t have a stopwatch but the first two times took much longer.

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I could try to find a source to prove this if you need it.

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Is there a reason you didn't go for the duration of an egg power 2 sandwich?