Breeding Egg Moves — That Aren't Egg Moves?

Question

So a couple months back I was breeding a Charizard in my Pokémon White to get a Charmander. I put him in the Day Care with a Ditto, got my Egg and hatched it. To my surprise, the baby Charmander knew the moves Shadow Claw and Flare Blitz. The parent Charizard knew both of those moves, but when I looked up Zard's Egg Moves, Shadow Claw wasn't one of them!

Anyway, this got me thinking: I need a male Dragon Dance Horsea to breed DDance onto a Bagon in X. Right now I have a female with DDance, but I need a male to breed to Bagon. So I was wondering if what happened with my Charizard could happen to my Horsea: I breed the female Horsea with DDance with Ditto until I get a male baby, and DDance will be passed down to that baby. I know that Dragon Dance is not an Egg Move for Horsea, but neither is Shadow Claw for Charmander. Would this strategy work to get a male Horsea with Dragon Dance? Just a recap:

• breed female DDance Horsea with Ditto
• get baby male Horsea with DDance
• breed male Horsea with female Bagon to get DDance Bagon

Please, if anyone can confirm or deny my findings, do so.

Answer 1

You do not need to breed a Horsea to get D-Dance

Horsea learns D-Dance by level up at level 38
You can just get any random male Horsea and level up to 38

Breeding a D-Dance Bagon

• Get a male Horsea with D-Dance and breed it with a female Bagon
• You get a Bagon with Dragon Dance

Its as easy as that :D

Comments

I know that I don't need to breed DDance onto Horsea, I'm just windering if it's able to pass down DDance once it knows it.

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Ye. Its like Pliplup and Surf. Surf isn't an egg move however if one of its parents know it , surf gets passed down

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Okay, that helps.

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Piplup would only know Surf because when eggs are hatched if the parent knows a TM/HM move that the offspring can learn, the offspring hatches know the move.

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TM was a shadow claw learnt my 'Zard