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Egg Groups
Egg Groups are biological categories that Pokémon species are slotted into that determine which species can they interbreed with.
The mechanical details of egg groups in the franchise mainline are at Egg Group.
Mechanics
The Pokémon are slotted into the following egg groups as of Gen Ⅷ:
| # | Name | Identifier | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Monster | Monster or kaiju like | |
| 2 | Water 1 | Amphibious | |
| 3 | Bug | Insectoids | |
| 4 | Flying | Avians | |
| 5 | Field | Mammal / Terrestrial | |
| 6 | Fairy | Small, cute, moe | |
| 7 | Grass | Plant-like | |
| 8 | Humanlike | Fullu Bipedal | |
| 9 | Water 3 | Aquatic invertebrates | |
| 10 | Mineral | Inorganic | |
| 11 | Amorphous | Indeterminate form, ghosts, etc | |
| 12 | Water 2 | Piscine | |
| 13 | Ditto | Ditto | |
| 14 | Dragon | Draconic | |
| 15 | Undiscovered | Unbreedable |
A species, or rather an evolutive stage, can belong to up to two (2) Egg Groups.
This categorization introduces a number of problems because there is no clear distinction between the various values and Pokémon can belong to more than one at a time, for example the fact that Anorith can interbreed with Archen despite they belonging to entirely different clades, as well as the infamous “Hot Skitty on Wailord Action”.
In the Suocéverse
For purposes of the Suocéverse, egg groups are somewhat more restricted, and even then in the wild breeding is restricted to one's own species, with most cases of inter-clade breeding only being viable in the laboratory.
The the Suocéverse, a species (as a whole) at any given time belongs into one of the following egg categories depending on what is the “major” component of their biology:
| # | Name | Identifier | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fungii | Bacteria or Fungal life | |
| 2 | Plant | Vegetal life | |
| 3 | Insect | Non-aquatic bugs in general | |
| 4 | Reptilian | Reptiles | |
| 5 | Mammal | Mammal / Terrestrial | |
| 6 | Mineral | Crystalline or otherwise mineral core | |
| 7 | Object | Objects, in particular man-made | |
| 8 | Manifestation | Ectoplasm, ghost, or object/creature-possessing miasma | |
| 9 | Exclusive | Creatures that can only breed with their own kind | |
| 10 | Nonbreedable | Nonbreedable |
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