I'd somewhat expect the Geodude-Alola line to also get it if so, since they're the only other non-Steels with Magnet Pull.
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Pokémon Movepool Oddities & Explanations
- Thread starter Kurona
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Doesn't become Steel-types :/
Why do Prinplup and Empoleon have Tackle as a starting move, while Piplup has Pound as a starting move? It seems intentional as it's been this way in every generation. This is something fans could easily miss because no one would really pay attention to Empoleon's starting moves. This is odd to me, is there some lore reason for Tackle instead of Pound?
Actually, why does Piplup even have Pound?
Is Pound really that different from Tackle?
For the first four gens it was better Tackle. 5 points stronger, 5 points more accurate. Then Tackle got buffed to 50 BP/100% for a few gens before going down to 40 BP.
Generally it's given to Pokemon they think are cute and would smack you rather than do a full body tackle. There's a few exceptions here & there and ultimately it is all kind of arbitrary especially now that they're the same move but you see it with things like short limbs, small statures or goop.
I honestly feel like this is just because they started off as copy pasted Squirtle lines as seen in the betas and nobody looked back to change it.
I also feel like they don't really care to align past starters with modern learnset design that much until they need to for a relevant game/remake (or appearing in SWSH and getting your learnset messed up with its sorting by raw power order), so you end up with Cyndaquil in SV learning Ember at 10 since Gen 4, Scorbunny still having it at 6 because of the SWSH tutorial, while the starters that showed up in Gen 6+ games get theirs before 5.