How are egg moves discovered?

May. 12, 2016

So the new starters have been revealed. Soon we will have moves and info on it in the DB. But how do you guys figure out theegg moves. Level up and TM moves are easy to find, but theegg moves?

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I believe egg moves are learned from continuous breeding and from the parents learning moves from move tutors. I think its like if the dad has a move from a move tutor that the female line can learn, the Pokemon that hatched from the egg will have that move. People probably discover them by always breeding with Pokemon that have been taught egg moves. Sometimes they are official leaks of egg moves also.

Source:http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Egg_Moveandhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cT410kgzXk

Pikachu With Wings' answer is correct for X&Y - all the egg moves were discovered by extensive testing. This was only because the 3DS had not been hacked yet.

However for other games, the moves are found in the games' code by hacking. The same should happen with Sun/Moon too, we’ll get a complete list fairly soon after release.