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Pokémon Movepool Oddities & Explanations
- Thread starter Kurona
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Yeah, but wasn't Stunfisk originally going to be a Water/Electric type?
The Regi trio randomly has Charge Beam, Lock-On, Zap Cannon and Superpower in their level-up movepool
They're supposed to be Golems (esstentially magic-powered robots), so getting Electric moves makes sense. At least to me.
It's been a week, I can double post.
You know how Flareon has no moves? Well, fuck you, it gets Zap Cannon via Gen II TM! Seriously though, what the hell.
Squirtle also gets it via a Gen II event, but at least that makes some sense because Blastoise has giant cannons to shoot it from.
You know how Flareon has no moves? Well, fuck you, it gets Zap Cannon via Gen II TM! Seriously though, what the hell.
Squirtle also gets it via a Gen II event, but at least that makes some sense because Blastoise has giant cannons to shoot it from.
Despite Rototiller boosting Attack and Special Attack of Grass-types, the only two Pokémon that can actually make use of it are Paras and Cacnea, both of which only get it through breeding.
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Then Tornadus would have no type for the rest of the turn.
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Just consider it as a Normal type ... He would love Roost
EDIT: Nevermind. I checked Bulbapedia. If Roost were to be hacked onto a Tornadus and used, it would become pure Normal-type until the end of the turn.
And Drain Punch, Foul Play, Mega Kick/Punch, and of course Knock Off. Yeah, the Original 151 have the most ridiculous movepools, don't they?
Sort of makes sense. The Togepi family seems to have some avian ancestry though with Togepi and Togetic it's not readily apparent. Also many animals you hatch from an egg usually have some sort of beak or tooth they use to break through the egg, so with Togepi being based on an egg it relates that way too (but since Togepi uses the Egg as a makeshift armor it doesn't want to completely break out of it egg shell).
Rotoriller I think is meant for Double Battles. Ground-types provide support for Grass-type allies so they can deal with those pesky Water-types and maybe other Grass-types (of course they both still got a problem with Ice-types).
Same deal with Primeape, previous evolution had a tail. I just assume they make a tail out of Steel energy when they use it (though why any member of the Abra family would have it in the first place would be the real mystery being Special Attackers).
What's so odd about Alakazam knowing those moves? Because its a Special Attacker? Sure, it does mean it won't be using those moves, but at the same time there's no reason it can't learn those moves. It has hands so it can punch (before the category split the elemental punches were commonly seen on Alakazam), it has feet it can kick with, and Foul Play I always imagined it being a tackle (though in the anime its presented as a toss).
On that note:
Cubone wears a skull on its head; when it evolves into Marowak, the skull fuses to its head. Both have Rock Head. Neither learn Head Smash.
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Junichi Masuda likes this!!
Maybe Aegislash can head smash because the whole thing is a head?
No wait, its body style is "Pokémon consisting of a head and a base" according to Bulbapedia.
Despite having Rock Head, Aerodactyl doesn't learn either of the recoil moves it would get STAB on.
I'm not sure why it's not able to learn Brave Bird when Zubat does, but that's Gamefreak for you.
I'm not sure why it's not able to learn Brave Bird when Zubat does, but that's Gamefreak for you.
Wait, Zubat gets BRAVE BIRD?
Do you already see a Zubat doing THIS?
Oh Gamefreak. You always seem to surprise me.
Why not ? It's a just a fast "sky + tackle" :)
Same for Taillow, Starly, etc.. ?
At least those are birds. I just think it's weird that ZuBAT can lean Brave BIRD. Might as well give Alakazam Iron Tail. Oh wait.
You keep saying this... And aren't bringing up the fact that Dodrio can learn Fly.
Either way, drop it and move on.
Arceus not learning any move by TM is should have no problem learning is odd considering its, well, Arceus. At the very least they could have required it to change type in order to learn certain moves. *shrugs*
At least it can learn Draco Meteor, that's something Mew can't learn.