How do I teach Sacred Sword to Samurott in SV?

Question

i saw the samurott gen 9 learnset, and it said it gets sacred sword as an egg move. but I saw that there was no other Pokemon that had the same breeding group as samurott and sacred sword. how can I teach my samurott sacred sword in Pokemon violet?

Answer 1

1. Delete any of Samurott's moves. It doesn't matter which one, only that there's now an empty moveslot.
2. Give Samurott a Mirror Herb to hold.
3. Find another Pokemon that gets Sacred Sword, such as Gallade. Gender and egg group are irrelevant; even if you have a genderless Iron Leaves that can't make eggs at all, that still works as long as it actually has the move.
4. Make sure the Samurott and the other Pokemon with Sacred Sword are both in your party, then start a picnic.
5. As soon as you summon all the Pokemon to the picnic, you can immediately end it, and that will be good enough. Samurott will now have Sacred Sword over the empty moveslot (unless it finds another possible egg move earlier in the party), and the Mirror Herb does not get consumed so you can keep reusing it for more egg move transfers. Notably, this process doesn't require getting any actual eggs anymore.

This direct-transfer mechanism, where a move is learned directly by a potential parent instead of being passed down to an egg, also existed in Sword, Shield, Brilliant Diamond, and Shining Pearl. However, the Mirror Herb didn't exist in those games, so it wasn't a requirement. Instead, those games placed the limitation where moves could only transfer if both partners were the same species (and since picnics didn't exist there either, you had to take the two partners to the day care).

Comments

Mirror Herb is so useful omg

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ohhh, I thought the egg group mattered. I know how to teach egg moves to Pokemon, but I thought that they had to have the same egg group. thanks so much!

Answer 2

If you have a smeargle (there’s a guaranteed spawn next to the canyon in the terrarium), you can either use a Pokémon that can learn sacred sword, like Zacian or Aegislash, and use the move against the smeargle so that it uses its ability and copies Sacred Sword and the catch it, or use a smeargle against a Pokémon that can use the move, and then run away. Either way, you’ll have a smeargle with sacred sword. After that, get any Pokémon from the oshawott line of the opposite gender (Smeargle and the Oshawott line are both a part of the Fields egg group) and start up a picnic. After a while, there will be an egg, and just keep on repeating this with only the two in the party until you eventually get a shiny with Sacred Sword! Hope this helps!

Comments

Both examples you provided (zacian and aegislash) aren't good examples because zacian would require trading with someone who has it or transferring from another game, which some players might not be able to do, and aegislash isn't even in Scarlet and Violet.