I've discovered a completely irrelevant glitch in gen V

So last night I was playing White 2 while watching the news when something very interesting happened. I was going around defeating wild Pokemon with my Liepard, Lia, while looking for ones I hadn't caught for my Pokedex. Lia knows Assist, which I love to use when training because randomness is fun. She used one attack that involved bubbles, which I didn't see the name of because I was glancing back-and-forth between the game and the TV. I had no idea what attack it was, since the only Pokemon that knew any water-type moves in my party was a Simipour that didn't know Bubble or Bubblebeam. Lia got that attack from Assist one other time that night, but again I didn't catch the name since I was multitasking. I was really confused until I remembered something: the egg a carrying with me contained a Tympole. Sure enough, when Tympole hatched, it knew Bubble as a starting move.

Conclusion: At least in White 2, Assist will apparently treat the moves of unhatched Pokemon the same as if they were hatched, and therefore giving the Pokemon using Assist a chance to use those moves. This despite that fact that it makes no sense.

I've heard of this happening before on other games. Sounds cool.

...so, assuming this still works in earlier generations, like gen 3...

What would happen if you had a party of two consisting of something that knew Assist and a Bad Egg? Would it use the Bad Egg's attacks? What even are that thing's attacks?

Superbird said:

What even are that thing's attacks?

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Struggle.

Haha no I don't know. I don't think it has attacks o_O

But @eevee_em, that's really cool. I think I have to start training my Liepard while carrying Eggs now, maaaaan.

It seems unlikely to be a glitch, but more of a new, minor mechanic that hasn't really been noticed.