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===Unobtainable Egg Moves===
===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. This happens when a Pokémon in an Egg Group other than the {{egg3|Field}} (due to Smeargle) has an Egg Move that no other Pokémon in their Egg Group can learn, or when the only Pokémon in their Egg Group that learn the move cannot pass it to the offspring.
Sometimes a move is programed as an Egg Move for a certain Pokémon, but there is no way of legitimately obtaining it. 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.


A {{p|Bulbasaur}} in [[Generation II]], for example, has {{m|Charm}} programed as an Egg Move, and the only other Pokémon in the {{egg|Monster}} or {{egg|Grass}} Egg Groups that can learn the move are {{p|Nidoran♀}}, {{p|Snorlax}} and {{p|Oddish}} (and their evolutions). Of those, Nidoran♀ is a female only species, and so cannot have a Bulbasaur as an offspring. Snorlax and Oddish can both breed to produce a Bulbasaur egg, but those two Pokémon can also only learn Charm as an Egg Move, and have no other Pokémon in their Egg Groups (Monster and Grass, respectively) to pass down the move. As a result, Bulbasaur, Snorlax and Oddish can never learn Charm legitimately in Generation II, despite it being programed as an Egg Move for them.
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
| {{MSP|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
|-
| data-sort-value="2.0" | {{Gameabbrev2|GS}}
| 043
| {{MSP|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
|-
| rowspan="3" data-sort-value="2.0" | {{Gameabbrev2|GS}}
| rowspan="3" | 120
| rowspan="3" | {{MSP|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 {{Egg|Gender unknown|genderless}}, 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
| {{MSP|143|Snorlax}} || {{p|Snorlax}}
| {{m|Charm}}
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center; background:#{{Monster color}}" | {{color2|FFF|Monster (Egg Group)|Monster}}
| Regained as an Egg Move in [[Generation III]], when it can be inherited from {{p|Bulbasaur}} by chain breeding
|-
| data-sort-value="2.0" | {{Gameabbrev2|GS}}
| 238
| {{MSP|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
|-
| data-sort-value="4.2" | {{Gameabbrev4|HGSS}}
| 299
| {{MSP|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="7.1" | {{Gameabbrev7|USUM}}
| 198
| {{MSP|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
|}


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