Pokemon Farming: Egg Moves - A How-to

September 1, 2007

Greetings everyone!

Unfortunately I’ll be out of town all day Saturday, so instead of a Pokemon to offer, I’m going to take you step by step through my efforts in my only major moveset breeding attempt.

Skarmory. My goal with Skarmory was to end with the following moveset.

  • Spikes
  • Brave Bird
  • Aerial Ace
  • Roost

Why these moves? Well because they were about the best set you could get. Spikes is a must have for any hope of competitiveness in Skarmory. Brave Bird is the most powerful flying move and it doesn’t take 2 moves to complete. Aerial Ace is a nice never-miss Flying move that gets the STAB bonus. Finally, Roost is the only healing move available to Skarm, and this helps recover from too many Brave Birds.

So now that I had my moveset figured out, I needed to decide how I was going to accomplish it. I started by checking my TM’s to see what I could get done the easy way. Aerial Ace was the only TM I had on hand. I needed to make sure that I had it all figured out to make sure my TM didn’t go to waste. So here’s how it worked.

Roost - Pidgey learns this naturally - which is important because I didn’t have the TM. And, because it is a TM move as well, it’ll move easily through breeding. Check

So I took a Pidgey and stuck it in the daycare with Ditto ( I only had a female) I bred 3 eggs and hatched them, luckily one of them was a male. Here we had the first step almost completed. Off to the Elite Four!

I use the elite four as an easy peasy way to level up pokemon. I used that method here until Pidgey had received Roost at Lvl 37. Move 1 down.

Next, I need to get Roost onto a Pokemon that will be able to naturally learn at least one of the other moves I need. Since I knew Aerial ace transfered easily to all bird types, I went ahead and taught it to this Pidgey. Now what would the next target be? The next move to look at is Brave Bird as it is the only move remaining. (Spikes must come from Skarmory itself)

Looking through the various Pokemon that learn Brave Bird the choices weren’t exactly thrilling, but there was a nice easy one on the list. Starly. One quick check shows that Starly is also capable of learning both Aerial Ace and Roost, so we’re all set! In goes Pidgey and a freshly caught female starly. This works perfectly. My Starlies all hatch with both Aerial Ace and Roost!

In this case, again, I needed to breed until I had found a male. It took about 5 I think before I had a male, but it eventually happened, and I was on my way. What’s next? Yep, the E4.

Here’s where I notice a mistake. Have you spotted it yet? I’ll give you some time.

Ok, my mistake was that Starly learns Aerial Ace on its own already, naturally so I didn’t have to use up my TM. Oh well. Lesson learned.

I level up the Starly (Nicknamed Google, by the way) until he reaches level 37 and learns Brave Bird. This Starly now knows Roost, Aerial Ace, Brave Bird and Wing attack. Not horrible eh?

Alright. Now I have 3 of the moves I need on a male Starly that will be able to breed with my Skarmor…..waitaminute. My Skarmory is a male. Oh well - minor setback. I throw Skarmory into the Ditto-ready Daycare and breed until a female is hatched.

After that setback, I put the Starly into the breeding business with the new female, all of that just to end up wanting a male again…who designed this system anyway?

Alas, I have what will eventually be the Father of all my perfect Skarmories. Male Skarmory with Roost, Brave Bird, Aerial Ace, and Peck. Excellent one last move to take care of and we’re in business. I quickly take this guy through the Elite Four and have him learn Spikes as soon as possible.

YES - I am done messing around! I place this guy who knows all four moves into the daycare with my original female Skarmory, then I get on my little bike and start pedaling away! One egg, then two, then three…soon my party was full and I was on my way!

Once the first egg hatched I had a bit of trouble deciding on a theme of nicknames, but then eventually settled on European Countries. I started naming, and checked his summary so that I could take a look at my first perfe…. waitaminute!

What did I miss this time? This new Pokemon didn’t know all of the moves it should. Which was missing? Spikes. Why was it missing it? I hadn’t the slightest clue…unless…yep, that was it. For naturally learned moves, BOTH parents must know the move in order to get their offspring to hatch with it. I took out the original Skarm and really lucked out. It was about 3 levels below where it would naturally learn Spikes. After I finished that up, I truely was all set and the rest of the new Skarms had everything they should. My mission was complete!

So, lets review what we’ve learned about egg moves.

There are 3 types of moves to transfer.

  • Moves that a pokemon will learn naturally.
  • Moves that can be taught by TM.
  • Moves that are ‘Egg Moves’ for the target Pokemon type.

We all know that the mother of a given egg will determine which species the pokemon is, and the Father has some major input on the moves it will know. Here are the rules that I’ve discovered in this process.

  1. In order to transfer a TM, only the father needs to know the move.
  2. In order to transfer an Egg Move, again the father only needs to know this move.
  3. In order to transfer a move that the Pokemon will eventually learn on its own, both parents must know the move.

Once you get the hang of these rules, you should be able to plan out even the most complicated of movesets!

Best of luck in your future breeding endeavors!

Whit

P.S. - I’ll be back next week with some genetically altered freak of a Pokemon!



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10 Comments

Comment by Nikola
2007-09-01 07:59:11

Wow, that sounds like an intense elaborate headache.

Fantastic move set though!

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Comment by Dimity
2007-09-01 08:51:02

Thanks. I’ve just got interested in breeding for moves, and had no idea where to begin.

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Comment by sam jones23
2007-09-01 12:17:05

it wont let me on the forums ,why is this?

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Comment by sam jones23
2007-09-01 12:30:28

ohh yer i forgot tthank you

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Comment by sam jones23
2007-09-01 12:59:15

Okay i think this is a decent move set ive made loads of charmanders and their moves are

sunny day
flamethrower
overheat
iron tail

im giving them away for free on the forums tommorow!

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Comment by poke breeder
2007-09-25 14:17:35

may i have a charmander my name is luke and my Fc is 2921-6897-2406 thanx

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Comment by Fred
2007-09-01 19:07:01

that was the most informational source on breeding ever.
THANK YOU

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Comment by Tim
2007-09-03 02:42:53

This was a great entry. Very interesting, very useful; now I understand how chain breeding works. I might try some of my own in the future. I think the only chain breed I ever did was to get Trick on a Spoink in my Ruby version.

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Comment by Razorbeam
2007-09-25 13:28:49

i learned the hard way by trial and error. This is great info. now, that explains why pokemons i breed wont learn the moves they naturally learn.

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