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Egg Move

2022-11-26T23:08:55Z

FlySkyHigh: /* Unobtainable Egg Moves */ Mirror Herb changing Unobtainable status.

An '''Egg Move'''<ref>[http://www.pokemon.com/us/strategy/the-details-of-discovering-pokemon-eggs/ The Details of Discovering Pokémon Eggs | Pokemon.com]</ref> (Japanese: '''タマゴわざ''' ''Egg Move'') is a special [[move]] that a {{OBP|Pokémon|species}} is able to inherit through {{pkmn|breeding}} from only one parent. Egg Moves often (but not always) cannot be learned through other means.

Aside from Egg Moves, there are several other ways of inheriting moves from parents. Prior to Generation VI, a bred Pokémon will inherit any [[TM]]/[[HM]] moves which its father knows, if it is compatible with that TM/HM. In Pokémon Crystal, a bred Pokémon will inherit any compatible [[Move Tutor]] moves which its father knows. Additionally, if both parents know a move that the bred Pokémon can learn via level-up, it will inherit that move. From {{game|Emerald}} onward, a bred {{p|Pichu}} will know {{m|Volt Tackle}} if either of its parents are holding a [[Light Ball]]. However, inheriting moves in these ways is distinct from inheriting moves as Egg Moves.

==Mechanics==
===Breeding===
If either parent (only the male parent prior to [[Generation VI]]) knows a move that is an Egg Move for the child's [[Pokémon (species)|species]], that child will be born knowing the move.

For example, if a male {{p|Snorlax}} that knows {{m|Belly Drum}} is bred with a female {{p|Charizard}} that knows {{m|Dragon Rush}}, the resulting {{p|Charmander}} will know Belly Drum and Dragon Rush (or only Belly Drum, prior to Generation VI).

{| class="roundy" style="margin:auto; text-align:center; background: #A890F0; border: 5px solid #6D5E9C"
|-
! style="background:#{{flying color dark}}; {{roundytl|5px}};" | {{color|{{flying color light}}|Parents}}
! style="background:#{{normal color light}}" | [[File:143Snorlax.png|100px]] {{pcolor|Snorlax|{{normal color dark}}}} {{male}}
! style="background:#{{fire color light}}; {{roundytr|5px}};" | [[File:006Charizard.png|100px]] {{pcolor|Charizard|{{fire color dark}}}} {{female}}
|-
! style="background:#{{flying color dark}}" rowspan="4" | {{color2|{{flying color light}}|Move|Moves}}
| style="background:#{{normal color dark}}" | '''{{mcolor|Belly Drum|{{normal color light}}}}'''
| style="background:#{{Dragon color dark}}" | '''{{mcolor|Dragon Rush|{{Dragon color light}}}}'''
|-
| style="background:#{{psychic color light}}" | {{mcolor|Rest|{{psychic color dark}}}}
| style="background:#{{ghost color light}}" | {{mcolor|Shadow Claw|{{ghost color dark}}}}
|-
| style="background:#{{psychic color light}}" | {{mcolor|Zen Headbutt|{{psychic color dark}}}}
| style="background:#{{fire color light}}" | {{mcolor|Flamethrower|{{fire color dark}}}}
|-
| style="background:#{{normal color light}}" | {{mcolor|Body Slam|{{normal color dark}}}}
| style="background:#{{flying color light}}" | {{mcolor|Fly|{{flying color dark}}}}
|-
! style="background:#{{flying color dark}}" | {{color|{{flying color light}}|Offspring}}
! style="background:#{{fire color light}}" colspan="2" | [[File:004Charmander.png|100px]] {{pcolor|Charmander|{{fire color dark}}}}
|-
! style="background:#{{flying color dark}}; {{roundybl|5px}};" rowspan="4" | {{color2|{{flying color light}}|Move|Moves}}
| style="background:#{{normal color light}}" colspan="2" | {{mcolor|Scratch|{{normal color dark}}}}
|-
| style="background:#{{normal color light}};" colspan="2" | {{mcolor|Growl|{{normal color dark}}}}
|-
| style="background:#{{normal color dark}}" colspan="2" | '''{{mcolor|Belly Drum|{{normal color light}}}}'''
|-
| style="background:#{{dragon color dark}}; {{roundybr|5px}};" colspan="2" | '''{{mcolor|Dragon Rush|{{dragon color light}}}}'''{{tt2|*|Generation VI onward|{{dragon color light}}}}
|}

===Obtaining Pokémon with Egg Moves===
There are some situations where it is possible to encounter a Pokémon that knows an Egg Move in the wild.

* In {{game|Emerald}}, {{p|Seedot}} and {{p|Nuzleaf}} encountered through a [[mass outbreak]] will know {{m|Leech Seed}}, a move otherwise only available to them as an Egg Move.
* In {{g|Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire}}, it is possible to encounter {{DL|DexNav|Hidden Pokémon}} that already know a random Egg Move as their first move. A few special Hidden Pokémon even appear on {{rt|102|Hoenn}} in fixed areas, and these particular Pokémon always have a specific Egg Move as their first move.
* In [[Pokémon Sun and Moon|Pokémon Sun, Moon]], [[Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon|Ultra Sun, and Ultra Moon]], Pokémon obtained via {{DL|QR Scanner|Island Scan}} will know a specific Egg Move (unless they have none).
* In {{g|Sword and Shield}}, [[Brilliant Pokémon]] will know a random Egg Move.
* In {{g|Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl}}, Pokémon found in {{DL|Grand Underground|Pokémon Hideaways}} may know a random Egg Move, excluding the moves that the Pokémon also learn via [[level]]-up.
* In {{g|Scarlet and Violet}}, Pokémon holding a [[Mirror Herb]] may learn moves that they can normally learn only by breeding from another member of the trainer's party while in a picnic and they possess at least one open move slot. This bypasses the need for breeding for a specific move entirely.

===Pokémon Nursery transference===
In [[Generation VIII]], if two Pokémon of the same species are placed together in the [[Pokémon Nursery]], if one of the Pokémon has an empty move slot and the other knows an Egg Move, the Pokémon with the empty slot will learn the Egg Move. This will occur even if the Pokémon are the same [[gender]].

Only Egg Moves for the Pokémon's current species can be transferred. If the Pokémon has a [[Baby Pokémon]] as a pre-evolved form that has different Egg Moves, those moves cannot be transferred by evolved Pokémon this way. For example, {{p|Munchlax}} has {{m|Belch}} as an Egg Move, but {{p|Snorlax}} does not; even if two Snorlax are placed in the Pokémon Nursery, one knowing Belch and one with an empty move slot, Belch will never be transferred because it is not an Egg Move for Snorlax.

Egg Moves are transferred in the same order they appear on the move list; if the Pokémon learning moves has fewer move slots than the number of Egg Moves known by the other Pokémon, only the moves highest up on the teaching Pokémon's move list are learned, up to the number of empty slots.

Prior to [[The Isle of Armor]] expansion, this was the only way for Pokémon with the [[Gigantamax Factor]] to learn Egg Moves.

===Relearning Egg Moves===
From [[Generation VI]] onward, any move that a Pokémon knew when it hatched can be taught to it again by the [[Move Reminder]] if it ever forgets it (unless the Pokémon is given a [[battle-ready symbol]]), regardless of whether that move is an Egg Move. Forgotten hatched moves will be listed at the top of the list of moves that can be relearned, above the Pokémon's forgotten level-up moves.

Egg Moves transferred through the [[Pokémon Nursery]] in [[Generation VIII]] cannot be relearned from the Move Reminder if forgotten.

==Limitations==
===Mutually-exclusive Egg Moves===
Prior to [[Generation VI]], Egg Moves can only be inherited from the father Pokémon during breeding, making certain combinations of moves impossible to possess. Starting in Generation VI, this is no longer an issue, due to both parents being able to pass down Egg Moves at the same time.

For example, {{p|Tentacool}} can learn both {{m|Rapid Spin}} and {{m|Mirror Coat}} as Egg Moves, but no Pokémon in the {{egg|Water 3}} [[Egg Group]] can possess both moves at the same time in any game prior to Generation VI, so it is impossible for Tentacool to inherit both moves together. However, starting in Generation VI, both parents are able to pass down Egg Moves at the same time, making it possible for a Tentacool to inherit these moves if each of its parents knows one of the moves.

====Incense breeding====
For families that have [[baby Pokémon]] which can only be produced when using [[Incense]], often the baby Pokémon and its evolved form have different Egg Moves. If each has an Egg Move that the other does not, and both moves are only available to that family as Egg Moves, the two moves become mutually exclusive.

For example, starting in [[Generation VI]], {{p|Budew}} has {{m|Extrasensory}} as an Egg Move while {{p|Roselia}} has {{m|Bullet Seed}} as an Egg Move, but neither has the other move as their own Egg Move. Because in Generation VI the Roselia line only has access to both moves as Egg Moves, a Roselia cannot know both moves simultaneously.

===Unobtainable Egg Moves===
Prior to Generation IX, sometimes a move was programed as an Egg Move for a certain Pokémon, but there was no way of legitimately obtaining it (without using glitches). This happens when a Pokémon has an Egg Move that no Pokémon in their Egg Group can learn except as an Egg Move and there are no valid chain breeding pathways, or when the only Pokémon in their Egg Group that can learn the move cannot pass it to the Pokémon. This cannot occur for Pokémon in the {{egg3|Field}}, due to male {{p|Smeargle}} being able to pass down any Egg Move.

In {{g|Scarlet and Violet}} however, it is possible through the use of [[Mirror Herb]] for a Pokémon to learn any of their egg moves possessed by another member of a trainer's party while in a picnic and possessing at least one open move slot.

The following is a full list of all historically unobtainable Egg Moves.

{| class="roundtable sortable" style="background:#{{normal color}}; border:3px solid #{{normal color light}}"
|- style="white-space: nowrap"
! Games
! #
! colspan="2" | Pokémon
! Egg Move
! colspan="2" class="unsortable" | Parent Egg Groups
! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
| data-sort-value="2.0" | {{Gameabbrev2|GS}}
| 001
| class="c" | {{MSP/3|001|Bulbasaur}} || {{p|Bulbasaur}}
| {{m|Charm}}
| style="text-align:center; background:#{{Monster color}}" | {{color2|FFF|Monster (Egg Group)|Monster}}
| style="text-align:center; background:#{{Grass color}}" | {{color2|FFF|Grass (Egg Group)|Grass}}
| Regained as an Egg Move in [[Generation III]], when it can be inherited from {{p|Shroomish}} by chain breeding. From [[Generation V]] onward, it can inherit the move directly from {{p|Cottonee}}.

Bulbasaur no longer has Charm as an Egg Move in [[Pokémon Sword and Shield]] due to it being taught by [[TM29]].
|-
| data-sort-value="2.0" | {{Gameabbrev2|GS}}
| 043
| class="c" | {{MSP/3|043|Oddish}} || {{p|Oddish}}
| {{m|Charm}}
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center; background:#{{Grass color}}" | {{color2|FFF|Grass (Egg Group)|Grass}}
| Regained as an Egg Move in [[Generation III]], when it can be inherited from {{p|Shroomish}} by chain breeding. From [[Generation V]] onward, it can inherit the move directly from {{p|Cottonee}}.

Oddish no longer has Charm as an Egg Move in [[Pokémon Sword and Shield]] due to it being taught by [[TM29]].
|-
| rowspan="3" data-sort-value="2.0" | {{Gameabbrev2|GS}}
| rowspan="3" | 120
| rowspan="3" class="c" | {{MSP/3|120|Staryu}} || rowspan="3" | {{p|Staryu}}
| {{m|Aurora Beam}}
| rowspan="3" colspan="2" style="text-align:center; background:#{{Water 3 color}}" | {{color2|FFF|Water 3 (Egg Group)|Water 3}}
| rowspan="3" | Staryu is [[gender unknown]], so can only breed with {{p|Ditto}} and thus cannot inherit any Egg Moves.
|-
| {{m|Barrier}}
|-
| {{m|Supersonic}}
|-
| data-sort-value="2.0" | {{Gameabbrev2|GS}}
| 143
| class="c" | {{MSP/3|143|Snorlax}} || {{p|Snorlax}}
| {{m|Charm}}
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center; background:#{{Monster color}}" | {{color2|FFF|Monster (Egg Group)|Monster}}
| {{p|Nidoran♀}} can learn Charm by breeding and is in the Monster Egg Group, but cannot pass the move down due to being female-only.

Regained as an Egg Move in [[Generation III]], when it can be inherited from {{p|Bulbasaur}} by chain breeding. From [[Generation VI]] onward, it can inherit the move directly from the {{p|Tyrunt}} evolutionary line.

Snorlax no longer has Charm as an Egg Move in [[Pokémon Sword and Shield]] due to it being taught by [[TM29]].
|-
| data-sort-value="2.0" | {{Gameabbrev2|GS}}
| 238
| class="c" | {{MSP/3|238|Smoochum}} || {{p|Smoochum}}
| {{m|Lovely Kiss}}
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center; background:#{{Human-Like color}}" | {{color2|FFF|Human-Like (Egg Group)|Human-Like}}
| Its evolved form, {{p|Jynx}}, can learn the move, but cannot pass the move down due to being female-only. While female Pokémon can pass down Egg Moves from Generation VI onward, making this Egg Move possible, Smoochum no longer has Lovely Kiss as an Egg Move.
|-
| data-sort-value="4.2" | {{Gameabbrev4|HGSS}}
| 299
| class="c" | {{MSP/3|299|Nosepass}} || {{p|Nosepass}}
| {{m|Head Smash}}
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center; background:#{{Mineral color}}" | {{color2|FFF|Mineral (Egg Group)|Mineral}}
| From Generation VI onward, {{p|Aegislash}} could pass down Head Smash as an Egg Move to Pokémon in the Mineral Egg Group, but Nosepass no longer has it as an Egg Move.
|-
| data-sort-value="6.0" | {{Gameabbrev6|XY}}
| 236
| class="c" | {{MSP/6|236|Tyrogue}} || {{p|Tyrogue}}
| {{m|Ally Switch}}
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center; background:#{{Human-Like color}}" | {{color2|FFF|Human-Like (Egg Group)|Human-Like}}
| Several Pokémon in the Human-Like Egg Group can learn Ally Switch, but because the Tyrogue evolutionary line is male-only and none of its evolutions can learn Ally Switch, it cannot inherit the Egg Move from any of them.
|-
| data-sort-value="7.1" | {{Gameabbrev7|USUM}}
| 198
| class="c" | {{MSP/6|198|Murkrow}} || {{p|Murkrow}}
| {{m|Punishment}}
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center; background:#{{Flying color}}" | {{color2|FFF|Flying (Egg Group)|Flying}}
| {{p|Vullaby}} and {{p|Mandibuzz}} can learn Punishment and are in the Flying Egg Group, but cannot pass the move down due to being female-only.
|}

====Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl====
The only possible parents are completely unobtainable in {{g|Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl}}. They are obtainable in previous generations, however [[Pokémon HOME]] resets the moveset of any Pokémon entering Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl that originated outside of those games. Only Pokémon that cannot be directly obtained in the [[Grand Underground]] are shown, unless the evolved form(s) has exactly the same possible Egg Moves.
{| class="roundtable sortable" style="background:#{{normal color}}; border:3px solid #{{normal color light}}"
|- style="white-space: nowrap"
! #
! colspan="2" | Pokémon
! Egg Move
! colspan="2" class="unsortable" | Parent Egg Groups
! class="unsortable" | Possible parents in previous generations
! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
| 143
| class="c" | {{MSP/BDSP|143|Snorlax}} || {{p|Snorlax}}
| {{m|Power-Up Punch}}
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center; background:#{{Monster color}}" | {{color2|FFF|Monster (Egg Group)|Monster}}
| [[Power-Up Punch (move)#By TM|All breedable Pokémon in the Monster Egg Group that can learn Power-Up Punch by TM and can be male]]
| While Munchlax is obtainable in the Grand Underground, it no longer has Power-Up Punch in its egg move pool.
|-
| 276
| class="c" | {{MSP/BDSP|276|Taillow}} || {{p|Taillow}}
| {{m|Boomburst}}
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center; background:#{{Flying color}}" | {{color2|FFF|Flying (Egg Group)|Flying}}
| {{p|Noivern}}
|
|-
| 311
| class="c" | {{MSP/BDSP|311|Plusle}} || {{p|Plusle}}
| {{m|Tearful Look}}
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center; background:#{{Fairy color}}" | {{color2|FFF|Fairy (Egg Group)|Fairy}}
| {{p|Dedenne}} (from {{p|Smeargle}})
|
|-
| 312
| class="c" | {{MSP/BDSP|312|Minun}} || {{p|Minun}}
| {{m|Tearful Look}}
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center; background:#{{Fairy color}}" | {{color2|FFF|Fairy (Egg Group)|Fairy}}
| Dedenne (from Smeargle)
|
|-
| 370
| class="c" | {{MSP/BDSP|370|Luvdisc}} || {{p|Luvdisc}}
| {{m|Heal Pulse}}
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center; background:#{{Water 2 color}}" | {{color2|FFF|Water 2 (Egg Group)|Water 2}}
| {{p|Alomomola}}
|
|-
| 396
| class="c" | {{MSP/BDSP|396|Starly}} || {{p|Starly}}
| {{m|Detect}}
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center; background:#{{Flying color}}" | {{color2|FFF|Flying (Egg Group)|Flying}}
| {{p|Pidove}}, {{p|Tranquill}} and {{p|Unfezant}}
|
|-
| rowspan="2" | 441
| rowspan="2" class="c" | {{MSP/BDSP|441|Chatot}} || rowspan="2" | {{p|Chatot}}
| {{m|Boomburst}}
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="text-align:center; background:#{{Flying color}}" | {{color2|FFF|Flying (Egg Group)|Flying}}
| Noivern
|
|-
| {{m|Encore}}
| {{p|Togetic}}
| While Togetic could learn Encore via level-up, it no longer does so in Generation VIII.
|-
| 442
| class="c" | {{MSP/BDSP|442|Spiritomb}} || {{p|Spiritomb}}
| {{m|Foul Play}}
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center; background:#{{Amorphous color}}" | {{color2|FFF|Amorphous (Egg Group)|Amorphous}}
| [[Foul Play (move)#By Move Tutor|All breedable Pokémon in the Amorphous Egg Group that can learn Foul Play by Move Tutor and can be male]]
|
|}

==Advanced techniques==
===Chain breeding===
{{main|Chain breeding}}
In some cases, a Pokémon species has an Egg Move, but other Pokémon in its Egg Group can also only learn that move as an Egg Move. In such cases, the move must be bred through a series of intermediate Pokémon that are in multiple Egg Groups. This process is referred to by fans as chain breeding.

For example, {{p|Spinda}} can learn {{m|Wish}} as an Egg Move and is in the {{egg|Field}} and {{egg3|Human-Like}}s, but the other Pokémon in those Egg Groups can only learn Wish as an Egg Move. To solve this, a Pokémon like {{p|Skitty}} could learn the move as an Egg Move from {{p|Togetic}}, then breed it onto a Spinda.

===Smeargle===
Because {{p|Smeargle}} can learn almost any move by using {{m|Sketch}}, a male Smeargle can pass down any Egg Move to its offspring. This makes passing down Egg Moves to Pokémon in the {{egg3|Field}} (Smeargle's Egg Group) simpler.

Some Egg Moves require a Smeargle to be initially passed down, due to no other male parents existing in that Egg Group. For example, in [[Generation VII]], {{p|Lillipup}} can learn {{m|Psychic Fangs}} as an Egg Move, but no Pokémon other than Smeargle in the {{egg3|Field}} can learn Psychic Fangs other than as an Egg Move, and no chain breeding pathway exists, so Smeargle is required to initially pass down Psychic Fangs to Lillipup.

Since Smeargle can have any combination of possible Egg Moves to pass down to its offspring, there are no mutually-exclusive Egg Moves for any Pokémon in the Field Egg Group in any generation.

===Previous generation Egg Moves===
Some Pokémon have Egg Moves that no other Pokémon in their [[Egg Group]] can learn in that generation, but that an appropriate parent Pokémon in an earlier generation was able to learn.

For example, from [[Generation V]] onward {{p|Bagon}} can learn {{m|Defense Curl}} as an Egg Move, but no other families in the {{egg3|Dragon}} can learn Defense Curl in these generations. However, Defense Curl is a [[Move Tutor]] move in {{game|Emerald}}, where it can be taught to some Pokémon in the Dragon Egg Group (Alternately, in {{g|Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire}}, Bagon encountered as {{DL|DexNav|Hidden Pokémon}} can know any Egg Move, including Defense Curl). One of these Pokémon is required to initially pass down Defense Curl to Bagon.

===Event-exclusive Egg Moves===
Some Pokémon have Egg Moves that no Pokémon in their [[Egg Group]] can learn except as an Egg Move, but a Pokémon in their Egg Group that knows the move was once available.

For example, from {{game|HeartGold and SoulSilver|s}} onward, {{p|Dratini}} can learn {{m|Extreme Speed}} as an Egg Move, but no Pokémon in the {{egg|Water 1}} or {{egg3|Dragon}}s can learn Extreme Speed other than as an Egg Move. However, in {{game|Crystal}}, HeartGold and SoulSilver, a {{pkmn2|gift}} Dratini received in the [[Dragon's Den]] can know Extreme Speed; additionally, in Generation V and VI there have been event distributions of a {{p|Dragonite}} that knows Extreme Speed. One of these gift or event distribution Pokémon is required to initially pass down Extreme Speed to Dratini.

==In other games==
===[[Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series]]===
In Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: [[Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Darkness|Explorers of Time, Darkness]], and [[Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky|Sky]], Pokémon hatched from {{pkmn|Egg}}s in the {{DL|Treasure Town|Chansey Day Care}} will know Egg Moves. They will know enough moves to fill their initial moveset, meaning that a species with one move at level 1 will be given three random Egg Moves, which is determined when the hatched Pokémon joins the team. The hatched Pokémon's species and gender are determined when completing the mission in the dungeon. Additionally, in Explorers of Sky, some choices for the player and partner's species will initially know a set Egg Move. Egg Moves cannot be relearned if the player chooses to forget them. It should be noted that unlike [[core series]] games prior to [[Generation VI]], it is possible for non-{{egg|Field}} Pokémon to learn any Egg Move combinations.

Although Eggs are no longer present from [[Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity|Gates to Infinity]] onwards, [[Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon]] and [[Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX|Rescue Team DX]] return to giving an Egg Move to certain starter Pokémon species. Unlike Explorers of Time, Darkness, and Sky, they can be relearned by the player and, in Super Mystery Dungeon, even taught to other Pokémon of that species.

==In the anime==
[[File:Azurill Sing.png|thumb|250px|An {{p|Azurill}} using {{m|Sing}}, a move it learned from a {{p|Jigglypuff}} while in an Egg]]
In ''[[AG012|The Lotad Lowdown]]'', when {{Ash}} and {{ashfr}} encountered a group of {{p|Lotad}} that knew {{m|Water Gun}}, [[Max]] mentioned that usually Lotad can't learn Water Gun, alluding to its Egg Move status for Lotad [[Generation III|at the time]].

In ''[[JN021|Caring for a Mystery!]]'', a scenario similar to Egg Moves was presented by [[Professor Cerise]]. While Ash and [[Goh]] were looking after a [[Ash's Riolu|Pokémon Egg]], the Professor told them a story of a {{p|Jigglypuff}} who {{m|Sing|sang}} to an {{p|Azurill}} Egg everyday. When it hatched, the Azurill sang the same song Jigglypuff sang to it.
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==In other languages==
{{Langtable|color={{normal color}}|bordercolor={{normal color dark}}
|zh_yue=蛋招式 ''{{tt|Daahn Jīusīk|Egg Move}}''
|zh_cmn=蛋招式 ''{{tt|Dàn Zhāoshì|Egg Move}}''
|fr=Capacité Œuf
|de=Ei-Attacken
|it=Mossa Uovo
|es=Movimiento de huevo
}}

==See also==
* [[Pokémon breeding]]
* [[Egg Group]]

==References==
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Egg Move

2022-11-26T23:06:22Z

FlySkyHigh: /* Obtaining Pokémon with Egg Moves */ SV Mirror Herb method.

An '''Egg Move'''<ref>[http://www.pokemon.com/us/strategy/the-details-of-discovering-pokemon-eggs/ The Details of Discovering Pokémon Eggs | Pokemon.com]</ref> (Japanese: '''タマゴわざ''' ''Egg Move'') is a special [[move]] that a {{OBP|Pokémon|species}} is able to inherit through {{pkmn|breeding}} from only one parent. Egg Moves often (but not always) cannot be learned through other means.

Aside from Egg Moves, there are several other ways of inheriting moves from parents. Prior to Generation VI, a bred Pokémon will inherit any [[TM]]/[[HM]] moves which its father knows, if it is compatible with that TM/HM. In Pokémon Crystal, a bred Pokémon will inherit any compatible [[Move Tutor]] moves which its father knows. Additionally, if both parents know a move that the bred Pokémon can learn via level-up, it will inherit that move. From {{game|Emerald}} onward, a bred {{p|Pichu}} will know {{m|Volt Tackle}} if either of its parents are holding a [[Light Ball]]. However, inheriting moves in these ways is distinct from inheriting moves as Egg Moves.

==Mechanics==
===Breeding===
If either parent (only the male parent prior to [[Generation VI]]) knows a move that is an Egg Move for the child's [[Pokémon (species)|species]], that child will be born knowing the move.

For example, if a male {{p|Snorlax}} that knows {{m|Belly Drum}} is bred with a female {{p|Charizard}} that knows {{m|Dragon Rush}}, the resulting {{p|Charmander}} will know Belly Drum and Dragon Rush (or only Belly Drum, prior to Generation VI).

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|-
! style="background:#{{flying color dark}}; {{roundytl|5px}};" | {{color|{{flying color light}}|Parents}}
! style="background:#{{normal color light}}" | [[File:143Snorlax.png|100px]] {{pcolor|Snorlax|{{normal color dark}}}} {{male}}
! style="background:#{{fire color light}}; {{roundytr|5px}};" | [[File:006Charizard.png|100px]] {{pcolor|Charizard|{{fire color dark}}}} {{female}}
|-
! style="background:#{{flying color dark}}" rowspan="4" | {{color2|{{flying color light}}|Move|Moves}}
| style="background:#{{normal color dark}}" | '''{{mcolor|Belly Drum|{{normal color light}}}}'''
| style="background:#{{Dragon color dark}}" | '''{{mcolor|Dragon Rush|{{Dragon color light}}}}'''
|-
| style="background:#{{psychic color light}}" | {{mcolor|Rest|{{psychic color dark}}}}
| style="background:#{{ghost color light}}" | {{mcolor|Shadow Claw|{{ghost color dark}}}}
|-
| style="background:#{{psychic color light}}" | {{mcolor|Zen Headbutt|{{psychic color dark}}}}
| style="background:#{{fire color light}}" | {{mcolor|Flamethrower|{{fire color dark}}}}
|-
| style="background:#{{normal color light}}" | {{mcolor|Body Slam|{{normal color dark}}}}
| style="background:#{{flying color light}}" | {{mcolor|Fly|{{flying color dark}}}}
|-
! style="background:#{{flying color dark}}" | {{color|{{flying color light}}|Offspring}}
! style="background:#{{fire color light}}" colspan="2" | [[File:004Charmander.png|100px]] {{pcolor|Charmander|{{fire color dark}}}}
|-
! style="background:#{{flying color dark}}; {{roundybl|5px}};" rowspan="4" | {{color2|{{flying color light}}|Move|Moves}}
| style="background:#{{normal color light}}" colspan="2" | {{mcolor|Scratch|{{normal color dark}}}}
|-
| style="background:#{{normal color light}};" colspan="2" | {{mcolor|Growl|{{normal color dark}}}}
|-
| style="background:#{{normal color dark}}" colspan="2" | '''{{mcolor|Belly Drum|{{normal color light}}}}'''
|-
| style="background:#{{dragon color dark}}; {{roundybr|5px}};" colspan="2" | '''{{mcolor|Dragon Rush|{{dragon color light}}}}'''{{tt2|*|Generation VI onward|{{dragon color light}}}}
|}

===Obtaining Pokémon with Egg Moves===
There are some situations where it is possible to encounter a Pokémon that knows an Egg Move in the wild.

* In {{game|Emerald}}, {{p|Seedot}} and {{p|Nuzleaf}} encountered through a [[mass outbreak]] will know {{m|Leech Seed}}, a move otherwise only available to them as an Egg Move.
* In {{g|Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire}}, it is possible to encounter {{DL|DexNav|Hidden Pokémon}} that already know a random Egg Move as their first move. A few special Hidden Pokémon even appear on {{rt|102|Hoenn}} in fixed areas, and these particular Pokémon always have a specific Egg Move as their first move.
* In [[Pokémon Sun and Moon|Pokémon Sun, Moon]], [[Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon|Ultra Sun, and Ultra Moon]], Pokémon obtained via {{DL|QR Scanner|Island Scan}} will know a specific Egg Move (unless they have none).
* In {{g|Sword and Shield}}, [[Brilliant Pokémon]] will know a random Egg Move.
* In {{g|Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl}}, Pokémon found in {{DL|Grand Underground|Pokémon Hideaways}} may know a random Egg Move, excluding the moves that the Pokémon also learn via [[level]]-up.
* In {{g|Scarlet and Violet}}, Pokémon holding a [[Mirror Herb]] may learn moves that they can normally learn only by breeding from another member of the trainer's party while in a picnic and they possess at least one open move slot. This bypasses the need for breeding for a specific move entirely.

===Pokémon Nursery transference===
In [[Generation VIII]], if two Pokémon of the same species are placed together in the [[Pokémon Nursery]], if one of the Pokémon has an empty move slot and the other knows an Egg Move, the Pokémon with the empty slot will learn the Egg Move. This will occur even if the Pokémon are the same [[gender]].

Only Egg Moves for the Pokémon's current species can be transferred. If the Pokémon has a [[Baby Pokémon]] as a pre-evolved form that has different Egg Moves, those moves cannot be transferred by evolved Pokémon this way. For example, {{p|Munchlax}} has {{m|Belch}} as an Egg Move, but {{p|Snorlax}} does not; even if two Snorlax are placed in the Pokémon Nursery, one knowing Belch and one with an empty move slot, Belch will never be transferred because it is not an Egg Move for Snorlax.

Egg Moves are transferred in the same order they appear on the move list; if the Pokémon learning moves has fewer move slots than the number of Egg Moves known by the other Pokémon, only the moves highest up on the teaching Pokémon's move list are learned, up to the number of empty slots.

Prior to [[The Isle of Armor]] expansion, this was the only way for Pokémon with the [[Gigantamax Factor]] to learn Egg Moves.

===Relearning Egg Moves===
From [[Generation VI]] onward, any move that a Pokémon knew when it hatched can be taught to it again by the [[Move Reminder]] if it ever forgets it (unless the Pokémon is given a [[battle-ready symbol]]), regardless of whether that move is an Egg Move. Forgotten hatched moves will be listed at the top of the list of moves that can be relearned, above the Pokémon's forgotten level-up moves.

Egg Moves transferred through the [[Pokémon Nursery]] in [[Generation VIII]] cannot be relearned from the Move Reminder if forgotten.

==Limitations==
===Mutually-exclusive Egg Moves===
Prior to [[Generation VI]], Egg Moves can only be inherited from the father Pokémon during breeding, making certain combinations of moves impossible to possess. Starting in Generation VI, this is no longer an issue, due to both parents being able to pass down Egg Moves at the same time.

For example, {{p|Tentacool}} can learn both {{m|Rapid Spin}} and {{m|Mirror Coat}} as Egg Moves, but no Pokémon in the {{egg|Water 3}} [[Egg Group]] can possess both moves at the same time in any game prior to Generation VI, so it is impossible for Tentacool to inherit both moves together. However, starting in Generation VI, both parents are able to pass down Egg Moves at the same time, making it possible for a Tentacool to inherit these moves if each of its parents knows one of the moves.

====Incense breeding====
For families that have [[baby Pokémon]] which can only be produced when using [[Incense]], often the baby Pokémon and its evolved form have different Egg Moves. If each has an Egg Move that the other does not, and both moves are only available to that family as Egg Moves, the two moves become mutually exclusive.

For example, starting in [[Generation VI]], {{p|Budew}} has {{m|Extrasensory}} as an Egg Move while {{p|Roselia}} has {{m|Bullet Seed}} as an Egg Move, but neither has the other move as their own Egg Move. Because in Generation VI the Roselia line only has access to both moves as Egg Moves, a Roselia cannot know both moves simultaneously.

===Unobtainable Egg Moves===
Sometimes a move is programed as an Egg Move for a certain Pokémon, but there is no way of legitimately obtaining it (without using glitches). This happens when a Pokémon has an Egg Move that no Pokémon in their Egg Group can learn except as an Egg Move and there are no valid chain breeding pathways, or when the only Pokémon in their Egg Group that can learn the move cannot pass it to the Pokémon. This cannot occur for Pokémon in the {{egg3|Field}}, due to male {{p|Smeargle}} being able to pass down any Egg Move.

The following is a full list of all unobtainable Egg Moves.

{| class="roundtable sortable" style="background:#{{normal color}}; border:3px solid #{{normal color light}}"
|- style="white-space: nowrap"
! Games
! #
! colspan="2" | Pokémon
! Egg Move
! colspan="2" class="unsortable" | Parent Egg Groups
! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
| data-sort-value="2.0" | {{Gameabbrev2|GS}}
| 001
| class="c" | {{MSP/3|001|Bulbasaur}} || {{p|Bulbasaur}}
| {{m|Charm}}
| style="text-align:center; background:#{{Monster color}}" | {{color2|FFF|Monster (Egg Group)|Monster}}
| style="text-align:center; background:#{{Grass color}}" | {{color2|FFF|Grass (Egg Group)|Grass}}
| Regained as an Egg Move in [[Generation III]], when it can be inherited from {{p|Shroomish}} by chain breeding. From [[Generation V]] onward, it can inherit the move directly from {{p|Cottonee}}.

Bulbasaur no longer has Charm as an Egg Move in [[Pokémon Sword and Shield]] due to it being taught by [[TM29]].
|-
| data-sort-value="2.0" | {{Gameabbrev2|GS}}
| 043
| class="c" | {{MSP/3|043|Oddish}} || {{p|Oddish}}
| {{m|Charm}}
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center; background:#{{Grass color}}" | {{color2|FFF|Grass (Egg Group)|Grass}}
| Regained as an Egg Move in [[Generation III]], when it can be inherited from {{p|Shroomish}} by chain breeding. From [[Generation V]] onward, it can inherit the move directly from {{p|Cottonee}}.

Oddish no longer has Charm as an Egg Move in [[Pokémon Sword and Shield]] due to it being taught by [[TM29]].
|-
| rowspan="3" data-sort-value="2.0" | {{Gameabbrev2|GS}}
| rowspan="3" | 120
| rowspan="3" class="c" | {{MSP/3|120|Staryu}} || rowspan="3" | {{p|Staryu}}
| {{m|Aurora Beam}}
| rowspan="3" colspan="2" style="text-align:center; background:#{{Water 3 color}}" | {{color2|FFF|Water 3 (Egg Group)|Water 3}}
| rowspan="3" | Staryu is [[gender unknown]], so can only breed with {{p|Ditto}} and thus cannot inherit any Egg Moves.
|-
| {{m|Barrier}}
|-
| {{m|Supersonic}}
|-
| data-sort-value="2.0" | {{Gameabbrev2|GS}}
| 143
| class="c" | {{MSP/3|143|Snorlax}} || {{p|Snorlax}}
| {{m|Charm}}
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center; background:#{{Monster color}}" | {{color2|FFF|Monster (Egg Group)|Monster}}
| {{p|Nidoran♀}} can learn Charm by breeding and is in the Monster Egg Group, but cannot pass the move down due to being female-only.

Regained as an Egg Move in [[Generation III]], when it can be inherited from {{p|Bulbasaur}} by chain breeding. From [[Generation VI]] onward, it can inherit the move directly from the {{p|Tyrunt}} evolutionary line.

Snorlax no longer has Charm as an Egg Move in [[Pokémon Sword and Shield]] due to it being taught by [[TM29]].
|-
| data-sort-value="2.0" | {{Gameabbrev2|GS}}
| 238
| class="c" | {{MSP/3|238|Smoochum}} || {{p|Smoochum}}
| {{m|Lovely Kiss}}
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center; background:#{{Human-Like color}}" | {{color2|FFF|Human-Like (Egg Group)|Human-Like}}
| Its evolved form, {{p|Jynx}}, can learn the move, but cannot pass the move down due to being female-only. While female Pokémon can pass down Egg Moves from Generation VI onward, making this Egg Move possible, Smoochum no longer has Lovely Kiss as an Egg Move.
|-
| data-sort-value="4.2" | {{Gameabbrev4|HGSS}}
| 299
| class="c" | {{MSP/3|299|Nosepass}} || {{p|Nosepass}}
| {{m|Head Smash}}
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center; background:#{{Mineral color}}" | {{color2|FFF|Mineral (Egg Group)|Mineral}}
| From Generation VI onward, {{p|Aegislash}} could pass down Head Smash as an Egg Move to Pokémon in the Mineral Egg Group, but Nosepass no longer has it as an Egg Move.
|-
| data-sort-value="6.0" | {{Gameabbrev6|XY}}
| 236
| class="c" | {{MSP/6|236|Tyrogue}} || {{p|Tyrogue}}
| {{m|Ally Switch}}
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center; background:#{{Human-Like color}}" | {{color2|FFF|Human-Like (Egg Group)|Human-Like}}
| Several Pokémon in the Human-Like Egg Group can learn Ally Switch, but because the Tyrogue evolutionary line is male-only and none of its evolutions can learn Ally Switch, it cannot inherit the Egg Move from any of them.
|-
| data-sort-value="7.1" | {{Gameabbrev7|USUM}}
| 198
| class="c" | {{MSP/6|198|Murkrow}} || {{p|Murkrow}}
| {{m|Punishment}}
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center; background:#{{Flying color}}" | {{color2|FFF|Flying (Egg Group)|Flying}}
| {{p|Vullaby}} and {{p|Mandibuzz}} can learn Punishment and are in the Flying Egg Group, but cannot pass the move down due to being female-only.
|}

====Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl====
The only possible parents are completely unobtainable in {{g|Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl}}. They are obtainable in previous generations, however [[Pokémon HOME]] resets the moveset of any Pokémon entering Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl that originated outside of those games. Only Pokémon that cannot be directly obtained in the [[Grand Underground]] are shown, unless the evolved form(s) has exactly the same possible Egg Moves.
{| class="roundtable sortable" style="background:#{{normal color}}; border:3px solid #{{normal color light}}"
|- style="white-space: nowrap"
! #
! colspan="2" | Pokémon
! Egg Move
! colspan="2" class="unsortable" | Parent Egg Groups
! class="unsortable" | Possible parents in previous generations
! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
| 143
| class="c" | {{MSP/BDSP|143|Snorlax}} || {{p|Snorlax}}
| {{m|Power-Up Punch}}
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center; background:#{{Monster color}}" | {{color2|FFF|Monster (Egg Group)|Monster}}
| [[Power-Up Punch (move)#By TM|All breedable Pokémon in the Monster Egg Group that can learn Power-Up Punch by TM and can be male]]
| While Munchlax is obtainable in the Grand Underground, it no longer has Power-Up Punch in its egg move pool.
|-
| 276
| class="c" | {{MSP/BDSP|276|Taillow}} || {{p|Taillow}}
| {{m|Boomburst}}
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center; background:#{{Flying color}}" | {{color2|FFF|Flying (Egg Group)|Flying}}
| {{p|Noivern}}
|
|-
| 311
| class="c" | {{MSP/BDSP|311|Plusle}} || {{p|Plusle}}
| {{m|Tearful Look}}
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center; background:#{{Fairy color}}" | {{color2|FFF|Fairy (Egg Group)|Fairy}}
| {{p|Dedenne}} (from {{p|Smeargle}})
|
|-
| 312
| class="c" | {{MSP/BDSP|312|Minun}} || {{p|Minun}}
| {{m|Tearful Look}}
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center; background:#{{Fairy color}}" | {{color2|FFF|Fairy (Egg Group)|Fairy}}
| Dedenne (from Smeargle)
|
|-
| 370
| class="c" | {{MSP/BDSP|370|Luvdisc}} || {{p|Luvdisc}}
| {{m|Heal Pulse}}
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center; background:#{{Water 2 color}}" | {{color2|FFF|Water 2 (Egg Group)|Water 2}}
| {{p|Alomomola}}
|
|-
| 396
| class="c" | {{MSP/BDSP|396|Starly}} || {{p|Starly}}
| {{m|Detect}}
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center; background:#{{Flying color}}" | {{color2|FFF|Flying (Egg Group)|Flying}}
| {{p|Pidove}}, {{p|Tranquill}} and {{p|Unfezant}}
|
|-
| rowspan="2" | 441
| rowspan="2" class="c" | {{MSP/BDSP|441|Chatot}} || rowspan="2" | {{p|Chatot}}
| {{m|Boomburst}}
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="text-align:center; background:#{{Flying color}}" | {{color2|FFF|Flying (Egg Group)|Flying}}
| Noivern
|
|-
| {{m|Encore}}
| {{p|Togetic}}
| While Togetic could learn Encore via level-up, it no longer does so in Generation VIII.
|-
| 442
| class="c" | {{MSP/BDSP|442|Spiritomb}} || {{p|Spiritomb}}
| {{m|Foul Play}}
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center; background:#{{Amorphous color}}" | {{color2|FFF|Amorphous (Egg Group)|Amorphous}}
| [[Foul Play (move)#By Move Tutor|All breedable Pokémon in the Amorphous Egg Group that can learn Foul Play by Move Tutor and can be male]]
|
|}

==Advanced techniques==
===Chain breeding===
{{main|Chain breeding}}
In some cases, a Pokémon species has an Egg Move, but other Pokémon in its Egg Group can also only learn that move as an Egg Move. In such cases, the move must be bred through a series of intermediate Pokémon that are in multiple Egg Groups. This process is referred to by fans as chain breeding.

For example, {{p|Spinda}} can learn {{m|Wish}} as an Egg Move and is in the {{egg|Field}} and {{egg3|Human-Like}}s, but the other Pokémon in those Egg Groups can only learn Wish as an Egg Move. To solve this, a Pokémon like {{p|Skitty}} could learn the move as an Egg Move from {{p|Togetic}}, then breed it onto a Spinda.

===Smeargle===
Because {{p|Smeargle}} can learn almost any move by using {{m|Sketch}}, a male Smeargle can pass down any Egg Move to its offspring. This makes passing down Egg Moves to Pokémon in the {{egg3|Field}} (Smeargle's Egg Group) simpler.

Some Egg Moves require a Smeargle to be initially passed down, due to no other male parents existing in that Egg Group. For example, in [[Generation VII]], {{p|Lillipup}} can learn {{m|Psychic Fangs}} as an Egg Move, but no Pokémon other than Smeargle in the {{egg3|Field}} can learn Psychic Fangs other than as an Egg Move, and no chain breeding pathway exists, so Smeargle is required to initially pass down Psychic Fangs to Lillipup.

Since Smeargle can have any combination of possible Egg Moves to pass down to its offspring, there are no mutually-exclusive Egg Moves for any Pokémon in the Field Egg Group in any generation.

===Previous generation Egg Moves===
Some Pokémon have Egg Moves that no other Pokémon in their [[Egg Group]] can learn in that generation, but that an appropriate parent Pokémon in an earlier generation was able to learn.

For example, from [[Generation V]] onward {{p|Bagon}} can learn {{m|Defense Curl}} as an Egg Move, but no other families in the {{egg3|Dragon}} can learn Defense Curl in these generations. However, Defense Curl is a [[Move Tutor]] move in {{game|Emerald}}, where it can be taught to some Pokémon in the Dragon Egg Group (Alternately, in {{g|Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire}}, Bagon encountered as {{DL|DexNav|Hidden Pokémon}} can know any Egg Move, including Defense Curl). One of these Pokémon is required to initially pass down Defense Curl to Bagon.

===Event-exclusive Egg Moves===
Some Pokémon have Egg Moves that no Pokémon in their [[Egg Group]] can learn except as an Egg Move, but a Pokémon in their Egg Group that knows the move was once available.

For example, from {{game|HeartGold and SoulSilver|s}} onward, {{p|Dratini}} can learn {{m|Extreme Speed}} as an Egg Move, but no Pokémon in the {{egg|Water 1}} or {{egg3|Dragon}}s can learn Extreme Speed other than as an Egg Move. However, in {{game|Crystal}}, HeartGold and SoulSilver, a {{pkmn2|gift}} Dratini received in the [[Dragon's Den]] can know Extreme Speed; additionally, in Generation V and VI there have been event distributions of a {{p|Dragonite}} that knows Extreme Speed. One of these gift or event distribution Pokémon is required to initially pass down Extreme Speed to Dratini.

==In other games==
===[[Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series]]===
In Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: [[Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Darkness|Explorers of Time, Darkness]], and [[Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky|Sky]], Pokémon hatched from {{pkmn|Egg}}s in the {{DL|Treasure Town|Chansey Day Care}} will know Egg Moves. They will know enough moves to fill their initial moveset, meaning that a species with one move at level 1 will be given three random Egg Moves, which is determined when the hatched Pokémon joins the team. The hatched Pokémon's species and gender are determined when completing the mission in the dungeon. Additionally, in Explorers of Sky, some choices for the player and partner's species will initially know a set Egg Move. Egg Moves cannot be relearned if the player chooses to forget them. It should be noted that unlike [[core series]] games prior to [[Generation VI]], it is possible for non-{{egg|Field}} Pokémon to learn any Egg Move combinations.

Although Eggs are no longer present from [[Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity|Gates to Infinity]] onwards, [[Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon]] and [[Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX|Rescue Team DX]] return to giving an Egg Move to certain starter Pokémon species. Unlike Explorers of Time, Darkness, and Sky, they can be relearned by the player and, in Super Mystery Dungeon, even taught to other Pokémon of that species.

==In the anime==
[[File:Azurill Sing.png|thumb|250px|An {{p|Azurill}} using {{m|Sing}}, a move it learned from a {{p|Jigglypuff}} while in an Egg]]
In ''[[AG012|The Lotad Lowdown]]'', when {{Ash}} and {{ashfr}} encountered a group of {{p|Lotad}} that knew {{m|Water Gun}}, [[Max]] mentioned that usually Lotad can't learn Water Gun, alluding to its Egg Move status for Lotad [[Generation III|at the time]].

In ''[[JN021|Caring for a Mystery!]]'', a scenario similar to Egg Moves was presented by [[Professor Cerise]]. While Ash and [[Goh]] were looking after a [[Ash's Riolu|Pokémon Egg]], the Professor told them a story of a {{p|Jigglypuff}} who {{m|Sing|sang}} to an {{p|Azurill}} Egg everyday. When it hatched, the Azurill sang the same song Jigglypuff sang to it.
{{-}}

==In other languages==
{{Langtable|color={{normal color}}|bordercolor={{normal color dark}}
|zh_yue=蛋招式 ''{{tt|Daahn Jīusīk|Egg Move}}''
|zh_cmn=蛋招式 ''{{tt|Dàn Zhāoshì|Egg Move}}''
|fr=Capacité Œuf
|de=Ei-Attacken
|it=Mossa Uovo
|es=Movimiento de huevo
}}

==See also==
* [[Pokémon breeding]]
* [[Egg Group]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

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{{Project Games notice|game mechanic}}

[[Category:Game mechanics]]

[[de:Ei-Attacken]]
[[es:Movimiento de huevo]]
[[fr:Capacité Œuf]]
[[it:Mossa Uovo]]
[[ja:タマゴわざ]]
[[zh:蛋招式]]

Mirror Herb

2022-11-26T23:00:37Z

FlySkyHigh: /* Effect */

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|name=Mirror Herb
|sprite=Mirror Herb SV
|jname=ものまねハーブ
|jtrans=Imitation Herb
|gen=IX
|art=None
|colorscheme=items
|fling=no}}
{{ItemInfobox/BagRowBottom|IX|items}}

|}

'''Mirror Herb''' (Japanese: '''ものまねハーブ''' ''Imitation Herb'') is a type of [[item]] introduced in [[Generation IX]].

==In the core series games==


===Effect===
Mirror Herb will copy an opponent's stat increase once. For instance, if the opponent uses {{m|Belly Drum}}, the Mirror Herb will activate and raise the holder's {{stat|Attack}} stage to +6 as well. 

Outside of combat, a held Mirror Herb will allow a pokemon to learn a move that could be gained through breeding from another pokemon in your party. In Scarlet and Violet, this occurs during a Picnic while the "learning" pokemon has at least one slot open in it's moveset, and the "teaching" pokemon has the move currently registered. After a minute or two of the picnic, the "learning" pokemon will have gained the egg move, and can pass it down normally. For instance, Azumarill can "learn" Belly Drum from Hariyama in this manner.



==In other languages==
{{Langtable|color={{items color light}}|bordercolor={{items color}}
|zh_yue=模仿香草 ''{{tt|Mòuhfóng Hēungchóu|Imitation Herb}}''
|zh_cmn=模仿香草 ''{{tt|Mófǎng Xiāngcǎo|Imitation Herb}}''
|fr=Feuille Copieuse
|de=Kopierkraut
|it=Foglia carbone
|ko=흉내허브 ''{{tt|Hyungnae|Imitation}} Herb''
|es=Hierba Copia
}}

==See also==

{{-}}
{{Project ItemDex notice}}

[[Category:Held items]]
[[Category:In-battle effect items]]

[[de:Kopierkraut]]
[[es:Hierba copia]]
[[fr:Feuille Copieuse]]
[[ja:ものまねハーブ]]
[[zh:模仿香草（道具）]]

Mirror Herb

2022-11-26T22:20:36Z

FlySkyHigh: Correcting Egg Move clarification

{{ItemInfobox/head
|name=Mirror Herb
|sprite=Mirror Herb SV
|jname=ものまねハーブ
|jtrans=Imitation Herb
|gen=IX
|art=None
|colorscheme=items
|fling=no}}
{{ItemInfobox/BagRowBottom|IX|items}}

|}

'''Mirror Herb''' (Japanese: '''ものまねハーブ''' ''Imitation Herb'') is a type of [[item]] introduced in [[Generation IX]].

==In the core series games==


===Effect===
Mirror Herb will copy an opponent's stat increase once. For instance, if the opponent uses {{m|Belly Drum}}, the Mirror Herb will activate and raise the holder's {{stat|Attack}} stage to +6 as well. 

Outside of combat, a held Mirror Herb will allow a pokemon to learn a move that could be gained through breeding from another pokemon in your party. In Scarlet and Violet, this occurs during a Picnic while the "learning" pokemon has at least one slot open in it's moveset, and the "teaching" pokemon has the move currently registered. After a minute or two of the picnic, the "learning" pokemon will have gained the egg move, and can pass it down normally. For instance, Azumarill can "learn" Belly Drum from Hariyama in this manner.-->



==In other languages==
{{Langtable|color={{items color light}}|bordercolor={{items color}}
|zh_yue=模仿香草 ''{{tt|Mòuhfóng Hēungchóu|Imitation Herb}}''
|zh_cmn=模仿香草 ''{{tt|Mófǎng Xiāngcǎo|Imitation Herb}}''
|fr=Feuille Copieuse
|de=Kopierkraut
|it=Foglia carbone
|ko=흉내허브 ''{{tt|Hyungnae|Imitation}} Herb''
|es=Hierba Copia
}}

==See also==

{{-}}
{{Project ItemDex notice}}

[[Category:Held items]]
[[Category:In-battle effect items]]

[[de:Kopierkraut]]
[[es:Hierba copia]]
[[fr:Feuille Copieuse]]
[[ja:ものまねハーブ]]
[[zh:模仿香草（道具）]]

Mirror Herb

2022-11-26T22:15:37Z

FlySkyHigh: Egg Move Learning ability

{{ItemInfobox/head
|name=Mirror Herb
|sprite=Mirror Herb SV
|jname=ものまねハーブ
|jtrans=Imitation Herb
|gen=IX
|art=None
|colorscheme=items
|fling=no}}
{{ItemInfobox/BagRowBottom|IX|items}}

|}

'''Mirror Herb''' (Japanese: '''ものまねハーブ''' ''Imitation Herb'') is a type of [[item]] introduced in [[Generation IX]].

==In the core series games==


===Effect===
Mirror Herb will copy an opponent's stat increase once. For instance, if the opponent uses {{m|Belly Drum}}, the Mirror Herb will activate and raise the holder's {{stat|Attack}} stage to +6 as well. 



==In other languages==
{{Langtable|color={{items color light}}|bordercolor={{items color}}
|zh_yue=模仿香草 ''{{tt|Mòuhfóng Hēungchóu|Imitation Herb}}''
|zh_cmn=模仿香草 ''{{tt|Mófǎng Xiāngcǎo|Imitation Herb}}''
|fr=Feuille Copieuse
|de=Kopierkraut
|it=Foglia carbone
|ko=흉내허브 ''{{tt|Hyungnae|Imitation}} Herb''
|es=Hierba Copia
}}

==See also==

{{-}}
{{Project ItemDex notice}}

[[Category:Held items]]
[[Category:In-battle effect items]]

[[de:Kopierkraut]]
[[es:Hierba copia]]
[[fr:Feuille Copieuse]]
[[ja:ものまねハーブ]]
[[zh:模仿香草（道具）]]

Talk:Mirror Herb

2022-11-26T22:11:49Z

FlySkyHigh: Previously unknown function, inheriting egg moves from non-parents.

One facet of Mirror Herb not currently commented on is it's ability to, while held, allow an existing pokemon (NOT an egg) to "Inherit" an egg move from another pokemon in your party who possesses the move.

Example: In S/V Azumarill cannot receive belly drum via breeding by any non-azumarill parents. However, if you put Azumarill with an empty moveslot, and a Hariyama who knows belly drum into a party together, and have the Azumarill hold a Mirror Herb, after a minute or two, Azumarill will have Belly Drum added to it's moveset.
[[User:FlySkyHigh|FlySkyHigh]] ([[User talk:FlySkyHigh|talk]]) 22:11, 26 November 2022 (UTC)