Yes. They draw upon the power of the land to generate "grass energy" to make the leaves. Much like Flash Cannon is a beam of "steel energy"
Because it is a Tutor move, I imagine they go through voice lessons until they can damage the foe. I mean, they are called TUTORS, so they are teaching and training the Pokemon to use that move.
Because it doesn't have scissors. *ba dum tss*
Joke kind of doesn't work when one of the noted moves it can learn is X-Scissor (Scissor Cross in Japanese). :P
They probably would have better spent their time trying to breed to become part Steel-type and kept the Abilities. :P
Now I'm just imagining a herd Zangoose running around a city humping metal objects trying to find out which is a Steel type.
You mean just like Durant somehow evolving to become Bug/Steel to defend against their natural predator... who is a Fire-type.
Sableye probably doesn't learn Power Gem because it would just end up eating the gems it created, rather than use them for fighting. That would be a pretty handy food source though, you've got to admit.
The flavor for Recover suggest it's something most organic Psychic-types should be able to do. I chalk it down to Game Freak being arbitrary.
Actually, scratch that, Sableye actually does learn Power Gem. Maybe it can only use it when it's not hungry or something. What I'd be interested in knowing instead is what realistically happens when Power Gem is used on Sableye. As we're speaking of recovery, it might just heal it!
Well Power Gem aren't the gems themselves. Here's Power Gem's description:
Instead of Power Gem you should be wondering about Diamond Storm.
I always assumed it was the opposite, that Heatmor developed Fire typing because it needed to get inside Durant's Shell.
Durant Dex:
Now I suppose it could have been a chain of evolution. proto-Heatmor evolved to proto-Durant, proto-Durant became part Steel-type to protect themselves, and proto-Heatmor became Fire-type to eat Durant. Dutants now employ a team strategy to drive away Heatmor but who knows whether further down the road they'll change more or its now Heatmor's turn to avoid the Swarm. Would be funny if Durant gets a Mega Evolution first getting the Heat Proof Ability and later Heatmor getting a Mega Evolution with the Mold Breaker Ability.
Maybe even flash fire or other ability that nullifies fire moves.
This is a very good point. I thought maybe those triangles coming out of it's hands might be made of metal, and thus didn't respond well to being set on fire, but Mega Lucario has them on it's legs too. I'm stumped.
Maybe it scrapes its foot against the floor and lights it that way, like a match. That way it only needs to keep its foot alight as soon as it launches the attack which would just be a second or two. It can probably also do it fast enough with its feet than with its fist (and would be harder to see coming). And if you're wondering how scraping its foot on the ground lights it on fire, it is part Steel so it probably create sparks which is what lights its foot on fire temporarily.
Well I said like a match. As I said below in my mind when it uses Blaze Kick, just before it does the kick, it scrapes its foot against the ground creating sparks. The sparks temporarily lights it foot on fire which it then uses to do the kick. As soon as it's done with the kick the fire goes out either due to the motion of the kick or there's nothing on the foot for the fire to fuel itself on. And since it was only on fire for a second or two it would leave no lasting damage on Lucario.
I honestly think this is a massive stretch as it shouldn't be able to work on just any surface like grass or dirt, plus it doesn't work as an explanation for Fire Punch on other mons.
I exclude TM moves since a lot of the time a Pokemon learns them either because it matches their Type or just to add some coverage. Like how can Normal-types learn so many of the elemental TMs?
Well fine, how about we go the meta direction then? Being a Steel-type obviously it would be odd for it to learn a move that would logically hurt it like Fire Punch, BUT since it can breed with the Torchic family, notably Blaziken, and Blaze Kick has a higher power than Fire Punch they decided to give it that as a bonus. That way if you want a Fire-type move on Lucario for whatever reason you have an option unnatural as it seems. So in-universe it could be a genetic thing, the legs of Riolu hatched from a Blaziken father is able to withstand fire so can use Blaze Kick.
