Gaming Egg Moves (*Sigh*)

[Hyper]

The only thing i have never understood about Pokémon is Egg Moves. I have a slight idea as to what they are, but really I'm quite clueless as to procedures and definition.
I remember Cs explaining it to me once, but I just didn't get it. It wasn't his definition, I just didn't process the thought.

What exactly is an egg move? (I mean the detailed specifics. I know its a move learned through breeding, but I know there's a bit more that that)

Procedures? An example: How to get a certain Egg Move on [i]X[/i]. Just listing simple (accurate) steps and how to get the move would be helpful.

Thankies to all. ^^

[Guest Crimson Spider]

Egg moves are moves that a pokemon would normally not be able to learn. They usually inherit them from their father, and the pokemon is of the same species of the mother. I'll give you an example.

I raisee a male Corsola to Lv. 42 so he knows ancient power and mirror coat. I then bred him with a female tentacruel that I had. After messing around a bit, I came back and found the egg. After messing around a bit more, The egg hatched to form a female tentacrool that knew constrict, poison sting, mirror coat, and bubblebeam.

Each breedable poke that as a female gender has certain egg moves. These moves are built into the game.

The offspring produced will have moves from its parents. These moves learned are

1)A TM that the father knows.

2)An HM that the father knows.

3)A move that both the parents knew (e.i. bubblebeam on my baby tentacool)

4) One of the female species'es egg moves (note mirrorcoat)

There are 3 ways to get egg moves.

1. The one I just showed you above, where 2 pokes breed to have a baby poke that knows the move.

2. A chain breeding. This involves mating multiple pokemon to get a certain move on a pokemon. I'll give you another exampe:

I use the corsola that knew ancient power to teach it to meganium. Problem is that they don't breed. That is where we chain. Looking at the breeding list, I saw that quagsire was in both breeding groups, and learned ancient power. So I bred my male corsola to a female quagisre to get a baby wooper that knew ancient power.

Problem was that he was a girl, and you need a boy to continue the chain. I mated them again, 3 time around it was a boy. I then mated the male wooper with a female chikorita. This produced a male chikorita that knew ancient power!

Q. [B]But what about a chancy with heal bell? I thought that milktank and chancy were only female? [/B]

That is the fourth and final step. This step uses a pokemon just as valuable as ditto. His name is Shmeargle. You can teach a male smeargle heal bell, then breed him with a chancy to get a heal bell chancy. I tell you how.

First, you raise up a Milktank to lv 52 or something like that until it learns heal bell. Then you find a wild male smeargle. You use heal bell as your first move, causing smeargle to sketch the move and actually learn heal bell! You then catch him, and mate him with a chancy. The baby offspring will have heal bell.

Smeagle breeding can be done to any poke in the Gound Breeding Group. Namely, chancy.

That is about all I can tell you due to memory loss. If you have any questions, go ahead and ask.

[Erika]

What I can't figure out how to get 2 Egg Moves from 2 different Poke onto one Poke. ><

[Kei]

[color=royalblue][strike]To do that, the concept is easy, but the actual doing is hard.[/strike]

First, find the Pokémon you want to have the two moves. If there is a Pokémon that has both these moves and is male, breed it with the appropriate female to get the Pokémon, and hopefully, it'll have the moves you wish. If there is no such Pokémon, you'll have to go for the long haul. You'll have to breed a male with the first move with a female and a male with the second move with a female, and get one male and one female (this one having to be the required Pokémon to get the desired Pokémon), each with one of the moves. If CS's and my info are correct, if you breed the children together the result should be the desired Pokémon with the moves you want.

*is all dizzified now*[/color]

[Erika]

:( Thanx, Lady, for the attempted explanation, but...

Well, what I don't get is...ARGH! Okay, I'll give you an example Pokemon that I'm trying to get to Egg Moves on. It'll be easier this way in telling my problem, because I've written it down in chart form...

Alright. I want a Crawdaunt with both Body Slam and Mud Sport. Both Egg Moves are results of a different breeding chain. However, I thought the offspring only inherited Egg Moves from the father Poke. I tried getting the female's Egg Move (resulted from the other chain) passed down to the Crawdaunt, but it didn't pass, only the father's did. THAT'S my problem! That's what I don't understand!

Okay, here's what my chart states:

-Breed male Spheal (Body Slam) with a female Clamperl.
-Set offspring aside (male Clamperl w/Body Slam)

-Breed male Anorith (Mud Sport) with a female Corphish.
-Set offspring aside (female Corphish with Mud Sport)

-Now, breed male Clamperl w/Body Slam with female Clamperl w/Mud Sport.

So, the resulting Corphish should only get Body Slam cuz they only inherit moves from their fathers. I never heard of a Poke inheriting a move from its mother, except their Ability.

That's what frusterates me. It seems that I can't get both Mud Sport AND Body Slam! They're both good moves for it (Body Slam to compliment its good Attack and Mud Sport to reduce Electric damage, since it's a Water-type), and I'm totally angry that I can't get both of them.

Stupid breeding system!! :moron:

[Guest Crimson Spider]

Um... no. That won't work because the only moves that can be passed from the female are moves the male knows also. No moves othewise will be passed on. That is why you have to get eitther bodyslam or mudsport.

[Xra]

Before i try this i thought i could ask.


So if a male Swampert with Surf breeds with a Feamale Sceptile, then the Treecko could get surf, right? If not, is there any way a Treecko could learn Surf?


O yeah i checked, Mudkip and Treecko are in the same egg group.

[Kei]

[color=royalblue]The only way that Treecko could learn Surf is if it's an Egg Move for Treecko. All TMs and HMs survive on through to the next generation of all Pokémon. If not, there's no way to go about breeding it in.[/color]

[Guest Crimson Spider]

Unless an egg move, the only way that a pokemon could learn the move is if it could learn the move through other methods. So it is impossible to have a treecko with surf because he naturally doesn't learn surf and it is not one of his egg moves.

[Erika]

The whole breeding system totally blows. I don't really see the point in the programmers (or whatever they're called) allowing so many different Egg Moves for the Pokes to learn if you can only get one from two different breeding chains. :confused: And I don't see any point in having both genders know the same move if it's just gonna inherit the move only from the father anyways, so it pretty much doesn't make any difference to me...or are you assuming if the father is ABLE to learn the move, than I can do it?? Or does it only work if the father knows the move at the time?

Well, I guess I'll just teach my Corphish Mud Sport, but that means I'll have to get a damn Feebas...now I'm going in circles! I'll have to get a game enhancer one of these days. :cross: