Why doesn't X pokemon get Y attack/ability/typing?

[E123-omega]

Hey look! A thread questioning why certain pokes don't lean certain moves. I'll start.

Why doesn't Torterra learn avalanche? If anyone should learn the move, it would have to be the continent pokemon.

 

[UltiMario]

Why doesn't Metapod get horn attack?

 

[rockem7]

Why doesn't Ampharos get Tail Glow? >.>

 

[E123-omega]

Why doesn't Metapod get horn attack?

What horn?

 

[rockem7]

What horn?

It's entire head area is kind of a horn.

And another one, why doesn't Gengar get Nasty Plot?

 

[Terywj [태리]]

Are we doing this for aesthetic sake or for a more competitive value?

 

[Circa]

Are we doing this for aesthetic sake or for a more competitive value?

I'm assuming aesthetic.

Flygon + SR anyone?

 

[Wave⁂]

Why doesn't Regigigas get Rest? Didn't the ****er sleep for a few millennia or some ****?

 

[rockem7]

How about them Infernapes and Ice Punch?

 

[Fuelbi]

Why doesn't every pokemon, besides the one who already know it, learn Explosion?

 

[Terywj [태리]]

I think it's probably been said, but...Snorlax doesn't learn Slack Off. Slaking does.

Lame.

 

[Charmander]

Why doesnt Blaziken learn close combat, thunderpunch, Extremespeed, or Vital throw?

 

[UltiMario]

Because it's too busy jumping skyscrapers to learn any of that.

 

[Fuelbi]

Because it's too busy jumping skyscrapers to learn any of that.

This somehow reminds of


Why did the chicken cross the road?

XD

 

[Terywj [태리]]

Why doesnt Blaziken learn close combat, thunderpunch, Extremespeed, or Vital throw?

Oh wow. Blaziken doesn't have Close Combat. I guess I've never used Blaziken to know.

Gamefreak, you're doing it all wrong.

 

[Gates]

Why doesn't Flareon know flare blitz

 

[Terywj [태리]]

Why doesn't Flareon know flare blitz

*Sigh* The poor thing.

Gengar, and pretty much all Ghost-types should learn Nasty Plot.

 

[Wave⁂]

Alakazam would give both his legs for Nasty Plot.

 

[Terywj [태리]]

Alakazam would give both his legs and his mustache for Nasty Plot.

You forgot his mustache. Or whiskers. Whatever those are.

 

[Charmander]

Oh wow. Blaziken doesn't have Close Combat. I guess I've never used Blaziken to know.

Gamefreak, you're doing it all wrong.

Bar the physical and chemicalspecial split, The whole fourth generation was "gamefreak doing it wrong"

 

[Fuelbi]

Them doing it wrong produced that >_>

 

[UltiMario]

The Bidoof line is the only line designed that is a legit Pokemon design ala Gens 1 and 2.

Its just that Pokemon are so overly complexified that it looks stupid being so simple >.>

 

[PowerBomb]

Why don't most Grass types get Spore? Plants release 'spores' anyway.

 

[UltiMario]

Because Spore is one of the best moves in the game, and only a select few Grass types are allowed to have the best move in the game.

For example, I bet Breloom would be a somewhat obscure Pokemon without Spore, UU or something. MAYBE BL. It's just such a good move it makes the **** thing Super-OU

 

[Terywj [태리]]

Why don't most Grass types get Spore? Plants release 'spores' anyway.

Because biologically speaking, most plants' life cycles consist of the sporophyte and gametophyte generations. Sporophyte generations producing spores and gametophyte generations producing gamytes / zygotes, hence the name. Bryphytes like mosses have a sporophyte-dominant life cycle, while gymnosperms / angiosperms like flowering plants, etc. have a gametophyte-dominant life cycle.

 

[Charmander]

Only fungus release spores, so only mushroom pokes get the epic sleep move of doom.
I can just barely imagine s-deoxys with spore *shudders*
EDIT- Ninjasked

 

[Wave⁂]

Why doesn't Scizor get Bullet Punch?

 

[Terywj [태리]]

Only fungus release spores, so only mushroom pokes get the epic sleep move of doom.
I can just barely imagine s-deoxys with spore *shudders*
EDIT- Ninjasked

You basically said what I said in less nerdy lingo.

And it's Deoxys-S, I'm pretty sure.

 

[RuNNing Riot]

I can just barely imagine s-deoxys with spore *shudders*

Darkrai and Dark Void. *shudders*

A load of Rock/Steel/Ground types don't get Head Smash.

 

[Fuelbi]

maybe because their heads aren't made out of rocks?

 

[Charmander]

Darkrai and Dark Void. *shudders*

When I use dark void, It never hits.
ever.

 

[RuNNing Riot]

maybe because their heads aren't made out of rocks?

Rampardos isn't made out of rocks. Neither is Aggron.

Meanwhile, poor Regirock resents your mistake. :razz:

@charmander - I would love to battle you someday.

 

[Charmander]

@charmander - I would love to battle you someday.

Well, My team no longer uses darkrai...
Actually, Lets go to the wifi thing, Ill give you my fc, you give yours, and we kill eachother

 

[E123-omega]

Why don't most Grass types get Spore? Plants release 'spores' anyway.

Plant don't release spores, mushrooms do. Which is why breloom learns it.

 

[Gates]

You forgot his mustache. Or whiskers. Whatever those are.

Alakazam definitely has a curleh mustache.

Why doesn't Scizor get Bullet Punch?

Dude, that would totally turn the metagame on its head. I doubt gamefreak would do something as unbalancing as that, stupid as they may be.

 

[Charmander]

Plant don't release spores, mushrooms do. Which is why breloom learns it.

Dude, you got double-mega ninjad dude...

 

[Mic_128]

Why doesn't Scizor get Bullet Punch?

He does in Plat/HG/SS

Why can't Farfetch'd learn surf?

 

[PowerBomb]

Plant don't release spores, mushrooms do. Which is why breloom learns it.

Plants release micro/megaspores in the gametophyte stage of their reproductive cycle. Every plant releases spores. Spores are just for reproductive reasons.

So any/most grass-types should learn Spore anyway. The ones that should learn Spore are the ones like Oddish, Bellsprout, etc.

 

[xLeafybug =D]

That's what Sleep Powder is for. Gamefreak didn't want every grass type to be broken. Spore is a special move that barely any Pokemon learns.

Honchkrow would be the best non-uber Pokemon in the game if every grass type learned Spore. Just saying.

 

[PowerBomb]

orite

Pokemon is aimed at children. Plants releasing spores is too in-depth.

...

Well, it would make Grass-types not as crappy annoying for some people to use.