I don't understand TM21. What exactly is the point of a

>>26140169
It's a powerful move with rentals at the battle frontier.

Mega drain is not that bad.
asure, it's not giga drain, but still...

>>26140538
I think he means from a TM design.

>>26142722
anon was being an ass, op meant tm 21 from gen II onwards, frustration. tm 21 was mega drain in gen I though.

>>26140188
>It was a powerful move with rentals at the battle frontier... 7 years ago

Just give your Pokemon a bunch of herbs instead of potions

>>26140169
Its for pokemon who were raised by negative and unhappy trainers.
Shitty attitude human = shitty attitude pokemon.

>>26140169
>Be shit at the game
>team fainting all over the place
>Pokemon hate your guts 'cos you can't git gud.
Holy shit this move is really powerful on my mons!
>OP move allows you to catch up with the game.
>Suddenly getting back on track
> Move gets weaker to stop you relying on it as a coping mechanism and encourage you to contine gitting gud.
>Eventually Return allows you to work back towards your power move, bit by bit, as your team thrives.

Don't forget, in gen II, it was only handed to you if your pokemon didn't like you, if you were already doing well, you got return.
Return allowed canny trainers to focus on one mons happiness (likely togepi) for a powermove and let the rest use the pretty decent headbutt.

But if you were doing so abysmally your pokemon hated you, well then you got the crutch that is TM21.

Plus it's an interesting take on the JRPG 'move that gets weaker the more you use it'

>>26142831
Its also extremely powerful on shit like Mewtwo and most 'mons you just caught.

>>26140169
In the older games, raising happiness was such a stupidly slow process it was much faster to buy a shitload of bitter medicine and keep the happiness at rock bottom that way.

It fucks with Ditto