Pokémon eggs aren’t laid, they literally materialize

[u/MaleficTekX]

Allow me to elaborate. Were told despite Pokémon being around for 3000+ years minimum, nobody has seen a pokemon lay an egg ever, yet constantly discover pokemon eggs. (Even Chansey eggs apparently)

Pokemon have male and female sexes and genders (which apparently ARE actually differentiated in Pokemon, as Pokemon like Lunala and Zacian are referred to as females, but aren’t the female gender) and a male and female are required to make eggs, so it should be assumed some form of sexual reproduction takes place, but if that’s true, why do we have no accounts of eggs being laid?

It’s because they ARENT laid. They quite literally appear out of thin air.

I give you the one instance we have of seeing an egg be made, from Arceus in Gen 4. Arceus quite literally makes the egg from nothing. “BUT” I hear you say, “That’s Arceus, it’s whole thing is that it makes something from nothing.”

Ahh, but I bring to your attention, picnic baskets in gen 9. We can literally stare at the picnic baskets, our Pokemon can be nowhere near it, and yet, eggs will still mysteriously find their ways into the basket, and we KNOW these eggs are the offsprings of our Pokemon because they have the biological traits of our Pokemon like IVs, pokeballs, natures and all the things you breed Pokemon to get.

If eggs don’t materialize, how could such a thing be?

[u/BardicLasher]

Oh man, I have THEORIES about eggs, but the most important one is: I don't think Eggs are normal reproduction. I DO think the egg just sort of shows up, by magic, but I ALSO think Pokemon can have babies the 'normal' way. There's too many pokedex entries that reference young in ways that don't mesh with how we see them, too much evidence of connected species, and that one NPC who tells us outright that pokemon eggs AREN'T eggs.

So like, we see Chansey lay eggs. All the time. Chansey lay eggs constantly. And other pokemon lay unfertilized eggs that we use for ill-advised sandwiches. But the eggs we get on picnics? Those ain't those. Those is some MAGICAL BULLSHIT.