Will the Move Reminder re-teach forgotten Egg moves in a different save from the one the Pokemon hatched in?
As stated onBulbapediaabout the Move Reminder:
From Generation VI onward, any Pokémon hatched inGeneration VI onward may also be taught any move it knew when it hatched; this includes Egg Moves, level-up moves bred onto a Pokémon, and Volt Tackle bred onto Pichu. Also in these games, Pokémon obtained via Mystery Gift can learn any specifically flagged move it knew when it was obtained…
I have several competitively-bred Pokemon in my copy of Sun, and I like the insurance of being able to re-teach their Egg moves should I accidentally delete them, or want to swap them around. However, I want to transfer the Pokemon over to Ultra Moon to teach them tutor moves.
I’m unsure if transferring the Pokemon to a different save file would cause the game to ‘forget’ about the moves the Pokemon got from breeding (thus not offer them to be re-taught if I deleted them accidentally). So in other words, does the game retain knowledge of the Egg moves the Pokemon had when it hatched if it is no longer in its original save file?
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If you’re interested in my process, this is where I get into the actual experiments.
There’s a few different combinations of trading that I thought could affect the way the games read Egg Moves. Because of this, I came up with four separate tests:
These four should account for all variations between the games, thanks to each version interacting with the others in some way.
The Pokemon I decided to use was Slowpoke with Stomp, an Egg Move it can inherit from the Rhyhorn family. These Pokemon were somewhat arbitrary – this test will work with any breeding pair. If you’d like to replicate the exact process I used, you’ll need a Rhydon with Stomp and a random Slowpoke of the opposite gender.
The first thing I did was breed the Slowpoke and Rhydon in Ultra Sun, hatching a Slowpoke with Stomp.
This is a photo of the Slowpoke sent to Ultra Moon (“UM Trade”) immediately after hatching it in Ultra Sun. As seen, it has inherited Stomp from Rhydon.
This is a photo of the Slowpoke after using the Move Deleter to remove Stomp. After this, the Slowpoke was traded to Ultra Moon…
And taken to the Move Reminder…
Success! We can confirm thatPokemon bred in Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon will be able to remember Egg Moves in the opposite version.
Just like Experiment One, this test begins with hatching a Stomp Slowpoke in Ultra Sun. S Trade, pictured below, will be going to Pokemon Sun – but otherwise, this test is the same.
And just like that, we can prove thatPokemon bred in Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon will be able to remember Egg Moves in Sun and Moon.
In this experiment, we start the breeding process in Sun. Here we breed another Slowpoke with Stomp so we can trade it to Ultra Sun – named, of course, US Trade.
Expectedly, we can prove thatPokemon bred in Sun and Moon are able to remember Egg Moves in Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon.
We breed another Slowpoke in Sun, name it M Trade, prove it has Stomp, delete it, and send it on its merry way.
…or we would, if my Moon cartridge had gotten to that point. Unfortunately, because I don’t have a Moon file up to the Move Reminder,I can’t conclusively prove that a Pokemon bred in Sun will remember Egg Moves in Moon, or vice versa. However, judging by the previous three experiments, I have no reason to believe the answer would be different.
These tests are easy to replicate, if a bit tedious. I’m happy to answer more questions about the process, but I think I covered everything. Thanks for reading!
Yes, the egg moves should be able to be remembered after the transfer.
But there is a way around this altogether. Reteach them the egg moves now, then transfer them. Now teach them the tutor moves. Therefore you won’t need to worry about them being lost forever because they never left the Pokemon they needed to be on.
