>Marowak learns Ice Beam >Slowbro learns Fire Blast >Meowth

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>>31632627
because not everyone is a autistic smogon cuck and just like to have fun?

>mfw teaching persian bubblebeam in the original red/blue and cleaning house against faggy gravelers

>>31632666
>these movepools don't make sense
>WAAA WAAA SMOGON KEK AUTIST

???

>>31632666

Bubblebeam is Smogon-approved on Gen 1 Persian though.

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>>31632688

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>>31632627
The first two are in the Monster egg group, i.e. kaiju, so they get elemental moves.

Normal types just have big movepools. The furry ones tend to get electric moves because fur = static.

In those days, the idea of what each Pokemon should be able to do was a lot less clear.

"They're all monsters, so why shouldn't many of them be able to fire beams", stuff like that.

Fuck that

>Rhydon learns Surf

That's awesome yet unnessesary

>>31632627
>Meowth learns Thunderbolt
Static build up in it's fur, eventually giving the Meowth the ability to fire it at others?

>>31632916
again this is because of the kaiju thing in >>31632805


I'm not really sure that fur = static for persian. I always headcanon'd it was something to do with its gem conducting energy or its whiskers being antenna somehow, the random monsters firing beams thing could just be it.

also gengar learns thunderbolt. also starmie learns thunderbolt.

>>31632974
look at all the furry normal types, they learn electric moves

>>31632710
There's no correlation between movepools and smogon.

>>31632916
>special rydon with surf, ice beam, thunder, fire blast and lighting rod.

Oh, I also forgot that EVERYTHING LEARNS TOXIC. FOR NO REASON.

>>31633023
That still applies today though.

>previous regional rodents learned all sorts of special moves even if they were shit with them
>Gumshoos learns fucking nothing

>>31633023
this is a legit criticism

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>>31633023
That's because the TM is really just a Britney Spears CD

>>31633119
Kek

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>Jigglypuff learns all 3 elemental beams
>Dugtrio learns Sludge Bomb/Wave
>Gengar learns Explosion
>Chansey learns Earthquake

>>31633119
>sensible chuckle

>>31633023
Not everything. Magearna doesn't. So it's something to do with not being an ancient artificial mechanical waifu Pokemon.

>>31633023
The biggest problem with Double Team is how everything, even slow bulky shit, can learn it.
It wouldn't be so bad if the only mons who got it were frail enough to die instantly.

>>31632627
They aren't. In first gen Pokemon were creatures witsh some special yet natural abilities (Normal attacks + some attacks from it's own kind). TMS are teaching machines with no rules. From gen 3- it started to get weird

>>31633023
It's because pokemon are inherently toxic creatures. They are monsters after all.

>>31632627
Because originally pokemon were supposed to be magic

>>31632805
Gen 1 didn't have egg groups, nor breeding.

>>31634524
But pokemon got a menu appearance according to their would-be egg groups

>>31633023
you can produce toxic fluids too anon, all living things can. Giving toxic to a pokemon is essentially letting them use it for combat.

>>31634572
That's untrue

TMs were a new thing, so a bunch of Pokemon just got a bunch of random moves. It became more conservative in later games.

>>31633023
it's shit

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>>31634698
They correspond to monster+humanshape, ground, flying, water (1+2), water 3, fairy, bug, grass, dragon and mineral