Egg Group

Egg Groups
Monster		Human-Like
Water 1		Water 3
Bug		Mineral
Flying		Amorphous
Field		Water 2
Fairy		Ditto
Grass		Dragon
No Eggs Discovered
Gender unknown

Egg Groups (Japanese: タマゴグループ Egg Group) are categories which determine which Pokémon are able to interbreed. The concept was introduced in Generation II, along with breeding. Similar to types, a Pokémon may belong to either one or two Egg Groups.

Overview

Egg Groups are based on biological traits of Pokémon species, generally allowing biologically similar species to breed. However, there are some oddities within Egg Groups: for example, the Field Group contains a particularly wide variety of Pokémon species, so that seemingly illogical pairings can be noted within it, such as Skitty and Wailord.

Egg Groups are generally preserved along evolutionary lines; however, baby Pokémon, Nidorina, Nidoqueen, and Shedinja are not in the same group as their evolutionary relatives: baby Pokémon, Nidorina and Nidoqueen are in the No Eggs Discovered Group and thus unable to breed, while Shedinja is in the Mineral Group (although it requires Ditto to breed due to being a gender-unknown Pokémon).

Egg Groups are not displayed in any core series game; however, they have been canonically mentioned in Pokémon Stadium 2 as a part of Earl Dervish's Pokémon Academy's extensive data banks, in Pokédex 3D, and in various strategy guides.

Breeding chains

Many Pokémon are included in two different Egg Groups and can form what are known as breeding chains. These link many unrelated Pokémon together, allowing moves that would not normally be accessible to certain Pokémon to be legal, like Heal Bell on Blissey.

TMs are also passed down through breeding from the father. Any move in the father's current moveset that can be learned via TM, Egg Move, or Move Tutor (in Crystal) will be passed down to the Pokémon hatching from the Egg.

Connections

The groups Ditto and No Eggs Discovered are unique in terms of connectivity, the first one allows breeding with any other group and the second one does not allow breeding with any Pokémon, not within this group nor with Ditto.

In the Generation II, when the Egg Groups were introduced, most of the remaining groups were connected and could allow crossbreeding and passing down moves to other groups with exception of Amorphous, Mineral and Human-Like. All three groups were connected starting from Generation III.

The number indicates the generation in which two Egg Groups were directly connected through a Pokémon.

×	Monster	Water 1	Bug	Flying	Field	Fairy	Grass	Human-Like	Water 3	Mineral	Amorphous	Water 2	Dragon
Dragon	2	2	8	3	2		8			8	8	2	2
Water 2		2			3							2
Amorphous		4				3	6	8		5	2
Mineral	8		5		8	3	5			2
Water 3		2	4	5					2
Human-Like		8	3	8	3	8		2
Grass	2	3	2		3	2	2
Fairy		2	7	2	2	2
Field	2	2		2	2
Flying		3		2
Bug		3	2
Water 1	2	2
Monster	2

Egg Groups

This is a list of Egg Groups by their index number in the games:

1. Monster Group: Pokémon in this group are saurian/kaiju-like in appearance and nature.
2. Water 1 Group: Pokémon in this group are amphibious in nature.
3. Bug Group: Pokémon in this group are insectoid (bug-like) in appearance.
4. Flying Group: Pokémon in this group are avian (birdlike) in appearance.
5. Field Group: The largest group, Pokémon here are terrestrial in nature. In Stadium 2, this Egg Group was known as "Ground".
6. Fairy Group: Pokémon in this group are petite and considered very cute.
7. Grass Group: Pokémon in this group are plantlike in appearance. In Stadium 2, this Egg Group was known as "Plant".
8. Human-Like Group: Pokémon in this group are fully bipedal. In Stadium 2, this Egg Group was known as "Humanshape".
9. Water 3 Group: Pokémon in this group resemble aquatic invertebrates.
10. Mineral Group: Pokémon in this group are inorganic in nature.
11. Amorphous Group: Pokémon in this group are amorphous, having no definite form. In Stadium 2, this Egg Group was known as "Indeterminate".
12. Water 2 Group: Pokémon in this group are piscine (fishlike) in appearance.
13. Ditto Group: As the name implies, Ditto is the only Pokémon in this group, and is capable of breeding with all other Pokémon (regardless of gender) aside from those in the No Eggs Discovered and Ditto groups.
14. Dragon Group: Pokémon in this group are draconic in appearance.
15. No Eggs Discovered Group: Pokémon in this group are unable to breed. In Stadium 2, this Egg Group was known as "No eggs".

Changes

In Generation VIII, several Pokémon that were previously only in one Egg Group gained an additional Egg Group.

#	Pokémon		Prior to Generation VIII		Generation VIII onwards
							0280		Ralts	Amorphous		Human-Like	Amorphous
0281		Kirlia	Amorphous		Human-Like	Amorphous
0282		Gardevoir	Amorphous		Human-Like	Amorphous
0475		Gallade	Amorphous		Human-Like	Amorphous
0328		Trapinch	Bug		Bug	Dragon
0329		Vibrava	Bug		Bug	Dragon
0330		Flygon	Bug		Bug	Dragon
0701		Hawlucha	Human-Like		Flying	Human-Like
0712		Bergmite	Monster		Monster	Mineral
0713		Avalugg	Monster		Monster	Mineral
0714		Noibat	Flying		Flying	Dragon
0715		Noivern	Flying		Flying	Dragon

In other languages

Language Title Mandarin Chinese 蛋群 Dàn Qún French Groupe d'Œuf* Groupe OeufStad2 German Ei-Gruppe* EigruppiergStad2 Italian Gruppo Uova* Gruppo UovoStad2 Korean 알그룹 Al Group Spanish Grupo de Huevo* Grupo HuevoStad2

Related articles

• Pokémon breeding
• Pokémon Egg
• List of Pokémon by Egg Group

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