Moves Every Pokemon Can Learn [Almost]

Most Pokemon can learn a wide variety of moves by using technical machines, or TMs for short. Some of them are universal TMs, meaning nearly every Pokemon in the game can learn them. Which status condition has a universal move to inflict it? What obscure gender-based move is universal in just one generation? Does Elias know the difference between a period and a comma? All that and more today on MEPlaysGames.
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[@Summonsloth]

The nerve of them to remove return :(

[@calebehhh-jx7ic]

Game freak doesnt like seeing pokemon happy shhh

[@hitkid2456]

Hidden Power for me tho... A lot of special attackers relied on that move =/

[@Alan157]

They gave nothing in return too :)

[@beybreado]

Hope it returns*

[@jesuisunstroopwafel]

#BringBackReturn

[@theonlineninja7596]

An interesting/weird interaction with Protect I learned a little while ago. While the move Wide Guard doesn’t have a fail chance, however if you use Wide Guard then use Protect the turn after that, Protect is more likely to fail as if you went for a double Protect.

[@aty356]

I have read somewhere before that the reason toxic being an universal move was because the move itself made by humans and designed to be usable for every pokemon

[@StarkidPhil]

3:50 so Matt giving Elias a massage and haircut while feeding him berries as Members video when? Ya know, for friendship ahaha

[@SSNNPBCC]

"Your dads a writer & you cant tell the difference between the period & a comma?" "Uh they do look pretty similar." I knew I wasnt the only one😂 Great banter as always.

[@GarrettStelly]

I JUST REALIZED THAT ME STANDS FOR MATT AND ELIAS 💀

[@wolfekupo5651]

So about Gender based mechanics there was a bit in VGC where Enamorus Incarnated was actually seeing some play and would prefer to run Cute Charm for its ability over Contrary since it doesn't have any way to make use of Contrary itself and is a special attacker so it couldn't use the boost off your opponent's Intimidate so ya at this point in time just incase you ran into an Enamorus you would want your pokemon to be female since Enamorus is 100% Female

[@MEPlaysGames]

Smogon has a similar case as well. If Enamorus wants to use Calm Mind, Cute Charm is mandatory for that set too. It's primarily running that ability to avoid using Contrary and making Calm Mind useless. So female Pokemon are also optimal in singles metagames that include Enamorus. That's why I included a note saying that these cases do exist, but they're the exception rather than the rule

[@sandviper5339]

There was also a time where rivalry haxorus was a check for the genies (before enamorus) so people started to run all female teams to counter that

[@HORSECONSUMER]

If it wasn't for facade the cocaine bear wouldn't have been as good as it is now

[@robertlupa8273]

🎵 _Cocaine decisions_ 🎵

[@poppyfrancis7338]

You're not wrong but doesn't it also get double edge? Its way better off for having Facade but it can still deal high damage without it, it just won't stick around for more than two turns

[@jamessambrook5718]

Fun fact, the only pokemon in the entire game that naturally learns frustration through level up is…. Lopunny…

[@Jlaps941]

Buneary is also the only non-legendary/Ultra Beast/Paradox Pokemon that starts at 0 base friendship when caught instead of the usual 70 (which makes evolving a wild one INCREDIBLY frustrating, no pun intended)

[@NeotheHero]

@@Jlaps941It knows about the fandom…

[@gavinaaric]

Before watching I’m predicting that toxic will be here since basically everything knew it before SV

[@mysticmongrel1289]

SW/SH

[@gavinaaric]

@@mysticmongrel1289 Oh I didn’t know that never played SW/SH

[@hey_your_boi_mike_here5025]

Yeah they decided to give it to like everyone in gen 7

[@handicapp21]

Flareon with guts can hold the flame orb in gen 9, as long as you terastallize into a normal type, flareon gets burned and boosts facade

[@bulborb8756]

true...but that ends up being a "tera sink" when your tera could have been used on something else instead of making flareon Tera Normal...man poor flareon can never catch a break

[@ahumanbeingfromtheearth1502]

It's never a good strategy to rely on one particular team member terrastalising.

[@Auwa-racist]

​@@bulborb8756i had one shot a toxapex using flareon

[@AlexanderTelefono]

where's that "evil meplaysgames" guy? he would say something like "every pokemon should learn Explosion

[@EvilMEPlaysGames-p9d]

no i wouldn't

[@AlexanderTelefono]

there it is

[@wentoneisendon6502]

I love gay couple representation 😊

[@cristobalpinochet]

As someone who has stoutland as his favorite Pokémon the deletion of return really hurts me, it just killed his viability

[@randomperson5289]

The reason every pokemon knows toxic is because they just use the gunk and dirt around, or just using feces

[@Jlaps941]

GameFreak told Pokémon they’re not poop throwing monkeys anymore starting in Gen 8

[@ScarletRebel96]

I miss toxic especially since its always been one of my favorite moves too

[@bulborb8756]

personally...I'm fine with the distribution of Toxic being as nerfed as it was starting in BDSP where it's now almost exclusively learned by poison types with some exceptions (ferrothorn, mandibuzz, bellossom, breloom, quagsire, accelgor, hypno, umbreon, dudunsparce, gliscor, shuckle, houndoom, spiritomb, zoroark, goodra, trevenant, bellibolt, toedscruel, pyukumuku, seismitoad and terapagos) but would be nice if chestnaught got access to the move again, sure a number of various defensive mons lost toxic...but im cool with it not being universal

[@hyliasknight]

you two's dynamic is great, I'd like a sequel to this video specifically

[@patrickchipman8652]

Loved the video! I always found it weird that so many Pokémon learned toxic, but I'm kinda sad to see it removed from so many move sets, because it was always such a fun option to use. Also, it's Chipman with an I, not Chapman. Love you guys!

[@MEPlaysGames]

Oh god did i say Chapman? My bad

[@patrickchipman8652]

@@MEPlaysGames All good man, happens all the time

[@djarian_alpharadical]

9:34 It’s because all creatures have germs, bacteria, or something that an opponent might not want. Hell, human bites can be extremely deadly/toxic because of how much bacteria is in our mouths. Before gen 8, if you don’t include Pokémon that can learn toxic once they evolve, only gimmicky Pokémon that are like Smeargle (only learns sketch), Magearna (a medical robot), Unown (only learns Hidden Power), and Wynaut and Wabbofett can’t learn toxic. I’m sure I missed a few, obviously.

[@shardtheduraludon]

12:04 ah, no problem ^-^ I really like the dynamic you two have; the banter’s delightful :D

[@outofideasexe]

Underapprechiated that you always provide English cc

[@djt08031996]

So you're saying I should teach my Smeargle Toxic, Protect, Frustration, and Rest

[@nathanwongchinrenntps2403]

8:08 There is a workaround for that. If the opponent is in their last pokemon, you can leech seed them, bring a level 1 with sash(to survive the hit upon switching in), you can spam Protect AND Substitue since you heal the 25% you lose

[@jake4615]

The pokemon who could learn Toxic for some of those pokemon because they played League

[@moonmoon4537]

4:50 Attract is also good for this reason, since battle sims tend to set gender to male. Change all your mons to female and suddenly your attracts have a higher success rate than on average

[@MEPlaysGames]

Battle simulators pick genders at random normally, that’s the default setting on Pokemon Showdown

[@moonmoon4537]

@@MEPlaysGames Aw man. I felt really smart too, with my decade-old experience on the matter. Whoopsie

[@alexpfeifle879]

Bide would have been a perfect move for the cocoon Pokémon in Gen 1

[@Submissive-Soul]

you ever kick ball through brick wall?

[@carolinedavis8339]

What i'm hearing is all Dittos should run average friendship, make Return and Frustration both like, 60 BP

[@MEPlaysGames]

That would make both moves too weak to be useful. If you picked a middle of the road friendship value, both moves would be roughly 50 power. Even if you take STAB into consideration, the moves would probably be weaker than whatever coverage options the Pokemon you transformed into knows. Most good moves have at least 80 base power, but Return/Frustration would have an effective power of just 75 if they get STAB. So you’re better off taking the gamble and having a 50% chance of having the right friendship, instead of setting it at an average value and almost never getting any utility out of those moves

[@gircakes2]

Toxic is universal since it's the pokemon just flinging its poop at you.

[@WTPokemonToons-rk7ci]

The video was really well-made and informative.

[@Keng04T]

I was today years old when i caught on to your channels name.

[@lubuskimapper4414]

I once gave rest to a Noctowl with insomia. That was by far the most stupid thing ive ever done in pokemon

[@giovannimoya1832]

I was never into pokemon competitive, but during gen 6 I used to teach all the pokemon I used online sleep talk because of the darkrai outbreak 😅

[@eeveewithcoffee9554]

That’s a good friend not taking your stomach because you need it

[@plabcentral630]

You know, there are like 5 guys that can’t learn protect (ok probably more but still) and thank god magerna is one of them.

[@thesillyone3837]

15:48 one of the 2 things visable on team preview 💀

[@MEPlaysGames]

That’s when the battle is about to start, like we said in the video

[@azazel3732]

Breloom with Poison Heal can abuse the hell out of Facade if you give it a Toxic Orb.

[@RandomMehEmoji]

There are a surprising amount of gimik Pokémon that sent suposed to have the same moves as others, remember when shedinja was like the most op gimik Pokémon ever?

[@jemarshaw4986]

I always said toxic is basically a Pokémon pooping

[@Ollieolles]

They really should’ve made splash a TM make it so every Pokémon can learn it

[@robertlupa8273]

What's up matts, my name is Fella.

[@blumwashere]

Moonblast actually isn't a TM. That's Dazzling Gleam.

[@kirbyhasn9047]

Shout outto TMs without them so many pokémons will be stuck with horrible moveset

[@bulborb8756]

yeah if it wasn't for TM's, so many as you said would be cursed with horrific move pools (electric would especially suffer without TM's since almost every electric type would be stuck with normal and electric moves)

[@samuelebertinazzi4468]

Wait if toxic was an(almost) universal move does it mean (almost)every pokemon is poisonous? Or maybe only in the multiverse of gen 1-7 and then we enter another multiverse where they are not in gen 8-9

[@bulborb8756]

Yeah flareon is proof why they never tried putting Guts on a fire type ever again, because fire is the worst type to pair guts with

[@tuntalia]

Smeargle being unable to learn any move via TM or level up 😔😔

[@richarddill692]

14:45 Does that mean there's gay Elias fanfiction floating around somewhere out there on the internet?

[@MEPlaysGames]

not as far as we know

[@probablyzeke6014]

Don't remind me of that torcoal. My only leveled pokemon were male. One was the grass starter, the other was an aron

[@kittstay]

1:19 poor stoutland

[@WyattBehm]

Tera normal flareon with guts and a flame orb Tera first turn it’s out and just spam facade and flame charge

[@VictorHernandez-cz1be]

I love it when people don't know how to pronounce Facade. I have a friend that used to pronounce it as "fa-cha-dee" 😂😂😂😂

[@Jlaps941]

I used to pronounce it fack-kade as a kid 😂

[@animestars8547]

Them emmitihg goodra should been poison typed 9:43

[@shuriflwrs]

Removing various unique moves in gen 8 was so stupid, can someone please explain to me why they would do thay?

[@bulborb8756]

yeah some moves i felt like could have stayed like Return/Frustration and Signal Beam sure i can understand Hidden Power getting removed as it doesn't seem to work well with the last 2 gimmicks we've had (Dynamax and Tera), but there are some they could have kept but they also axed a number of moves that where honestly far too gimmicky to ever be useful like Rototiller or Powder

[@shuriflwrs]

@@bulborb8756 that's true with hidden power, i hadn't thought of that

[@ninomitchell2039]

7:19 i know occasionally if I use a speed boost mon I normally have either calm mind or bulk up IN ADDITION TO protect/detect depending on when I send in my mon and what i send it in against

[@godofdreamzzz]

Omg the guy talking at 2:12 is taking way too fucking fast. I hate when ppl talk like that. I wish it was just one guy

[@SkadingleMadongle]

Why scream in the mic tho?

[@Wyntixty]

Everyone can learn protect right?

[@stevemora6463]

In the "you don't need edge to use double edge" are you a Mathias or are you an Elias? Me? I'm autistic, I never get jokes, so yeah, I'm Elias.

[@pie7956]

b-but…. which pokemon should leave a comment about ???

[@MEPlaysGames]

take your pick

[@pie7956]

@@MEPlaysGames Ledian is such a sad Pokémon. How do you make such a neat design and concept but give it simultaneously the worst typing, stats spread and strangest moveset they could have possibly thought of

[@1.21jiggawatts2]

Wait, Return is gone?!?

[@djarian_alpharadical]

Never to return.

[@bulborb8756]

yup, in gen 8 Return was one of many moves that got axed, which sucks cause Return was such a good move, and now the options for physical normal moves is quite shallow as it's just body slam, facade or double-edge

[@StaminaLoss]

whens the wedding

[@ashmander3465]

Yay for moves

[@SmallJoseph]

Double-Edge is NOT a universal TM in RBY!!! VOLTORB AND ELECTRODE DON'T LEARN IT!!!!!

[@MEPlaysGames]

Every universal TM has exceptions

[@ricardoesco8146]

Y'all a cute couple 😍

[@nk0799]

commenting for algorithm

[@axolotlinabucket1287]

are they boyfriends?

[@Krqze0Official]

Meow 😺

[@danielolivierpepin]

Who is top who is bottom

[@arnoldj.samson5795]

Guts boosted facade silk scarf swellow was a beast back in gen 3