Special thanks:

Be sure to check out this RKC thread for a full list of all known signature move examples discovered so far. You can also read through many things that have been discovered or disproven that I may forget to include here, as well as contribute any new knowledge you may discover!

Essentially everything I've learned, and all the tools I use regarding special moves are thanks to Thor. I just thought it'd be helpful to have everything that's been discovered about signature move breeding in one spot. ❤︎

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What you'll need:

• Thor's PetzChecker. This will most likely be a nightmare without it.
• If you're just brushing up, scroll to the bottom for the cliffnotes version.

What is a Signature Move?

A Signature Move (which I will be shortening to SM for the remainder of this tutorial) is a special animation that only a few petz will display, usually when exploring a new toy, or sometimes between interactions with another pet. There is a long list of possible animations that can be used as an SM, though most petz have no SM.

While an SM can be hard to spot at times, it gets easier when you know what to look out for. Many of the animations are motions that will feel a bit out of place when done out of the blue, such as little dance moves, raising one paw then the other, or sitting up. These moves are usually repeated 3–6 times in a row, assuming the pet isn’t interrupted.

Moopy (left) is displaying the dog SM 16, while Twitchy (right) is displaying the cat move 18

The Basics

You can check to see if a pet has an SM by using the PetzChecker, under the Signature Move column. You can see here that Skip, for example, has Signature Move 22

This means that every now and then, he will randomly jump up and wiggle his paws!

Most petz will have a 1 in the SM column, which means they don't have an SM. (However, if they have any number from 2 to 8, they won't have a visible SM, but will instead develop hiccups in unexpected ways!) If you want to find a pet that naturally has an SM, the best way to find one is to adopt a first gen from the adoption center. Especially an Alley Cat, as they have much higher odds of having an SM. Now, why is it that first gens are your best bet? Let's look at another example.

Breeding and Inheritance

This is Prodigy.

And what's that? He has two numbers in his SM column! Does this mean he's super special and can display two different special animations?? Unfortunately...no. In reality, all petz technically have two SM genes. (Instead of Skip having one 22, he technically has two 22s) Prodigy is a mixie, which means he inherited 1 from one parent and 15 from the other.

Now move 15 does have a unique animation attached to it. Does that mean he has that SM?

Also no, all because of that 1. In every test I’ve done, when a pet has two different SM values, the game always reads the lower number first. Since 1 is the lowest (and most common) value, it overrides any higher number and blocks the animation. So the pet appears to have no SM. The good news? That hidden 15 can still be passed down. If Prodigy is bred with a cat whose SM is higher than 15, their offspring might display SM 15!

Breeding Strategies

Petz with high-numbered SMs are especially valuable because they can "unlock" previously hidden SMs in other petz through breeding (so long as the high SM is higher than the number of the other pet's hidden move.) For example,

[1, 15] x [23, 23]

If I bred Prodigy [1,15] with Esnina [23, 23] their kittens could inherit any combination of SM genes from their parents (in this case, [1, 23] or [15, 23])

Since 1 will always suppress the higher number (23), there’s a 50% chance the kitten won’t display an SM at all. And because 23 is the highest number, we will never get a kitten that displays move 23 from this pairing. BUT, there IS a chance of them having a kitten with the genes [15, 23], aka a kitten that displays Prodigy's hidden move!

Now if I wanted to breed another pet that displays Esnina’s 23 animation, I’d need to pair her with a pet that carries 23, 24 or 25, since those are the only SM genes equal to or higher than the one we want the offspring to display. This is what makes mixies with high-numbered SMs so rare. Getting the right combo by chance is extremely difficult. But it is possible! For example…

This is Sucralose. He has the highest known SM, 25, and is clearly a mixie!

The only way to breed a pet that visibly performs SM 25 is by pairing two petz that each carry a 25. The only bred petz that will display a 25 move are the ones that have one visible 25 under the PetzChecker (carrying an implied second 25)

His parents are Sugarbowl [1, 25] and Prismara [22, 25]

Cliffnotes

• The lowest SM value is the one that will be used/displayed in-game.
• 1 is the most common value and has no SM attached to it. Any pet with a 1 present will not display a SM in-game.
• A pet with SM numbers 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 or 8 have no unique animation, but will instead develop hiccups through strange means (usually specific treat flavors) -A pet with SM 20 so far seems to have no unique animation, but instead burps repeatedly in the moments where other petz would display a unique animation. (Their fullness meter seems to have no effect on this)
• All petz have TWO SM values, but if they’re identical, PetzChecker only shows one.
• First gens (especially alley catz) are the most likely to have a visible SM!
• Mixies can have SMs, but it's less common unless bred deliberately. (Especially when it comes to high-numbered SMs)
• A pet with a hidden SM (a non-1 gene that’s not displayed) can pass it down. If the offspring’s other gene is higher, the hidden SM will become visible.

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As usual, if you have any questions that weren't answered here, or if anything doesn't make sense, feel free to leave a comment and I will do what I can. ‪‪❤︎