How do the egg groups work? What can breed with what, and if not, what happens?

Question

idk how it works like can meowscrada go to Charizard and if the charizards shiny dose it make shiny sprigatito or if I breed a gardivor with a shiny gallade is it a shiny gardivor and stuff like that

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Does https://pokemondb.net/mechanics/breeding answer your question?

Answer 1

To summarize the breeding section of PokemonDB:

Each Pokemon has one or two Egg Groups. Pokemon can only breed with other Pokemon in their egg group. There must be one male and one female Pokemon, and the resulting egg will be of the female Pokemon. Pokemon of the Undiscovered egg group cannot breed at all.

However, Ditto can breed with any Pokemon regardless of egg group or gender (except for the Undiscovered egg group). The resulting Pokemon will be the one that is not Ditto, and Ditto cannot breed with itself.

Traits like Shinyness are not passed down from parent to child. However, it is possible to pass down certain traits, such as Natures, IV's, and Abilities, if the parents hold an item while having the egg.

Hope I helped!

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yeah but what about gardivor being only female in violet how do I breed it with out ditto
like stuff like that like gallade the one gender pokemon can they breed with the same gender without ditto or no

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It’s only Gallade that’s single gender, Gardevoir can be male. Also, Ditto will always be able to breed with any other Pokemon also able to breed, so no need to go that deep.

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If you have a female Gardevoir, it can breed with any male Pokemon in the Amorphous and Human-Like egg groups to get a baby Ralts.

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The answer didn't say anything about shinyness, but shinyness can't be inherited when breeding. The only ways to raise the shiny chance are Masuda method (breeding Pokemon from games of different languages) and RNG manipulation.

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yeah I mean like one gender pokemon can u breed with others WITH OUT ditto

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100% female Pokemon would be able to produce eggs, but 100% males wouldn't be able to produce eggs without a ditto. They can still pass on egg moves and stuff.

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sumwun Edited the answer to include shinyness