>>55728968There's a good chunk of moves aside from these you didn't cover. I hadn't actually looked into or verified what "one-trick pony" cases there might be, but it is a legitimate criticism.
>>55728649>cobbledev thought themselves smarter than the rest and removed it because they know what's good for peopleIsn't this a little overblown? If a mon is said not to learn a move anymore, it's because of a GameFreak decision, not a Cobbledev one. I'd say there's a pretty marked difference between that and just picking and choosing what's removed on a whim.
>but the reality is that it came with thousands of mons losing moves that brought nothing more than fun one trick ponies to their setsNot really, though. You seem to be conflating the game-centric issue of moves no longer transferring to the mod-centric issue of whether or not a poke can normally learn a move at all.
Flareon being able to learn Growth has no bearing on whether or not that strat is available. The fact of the matter is that Flareon can't learn Growth, but if there was a special method to act as a nod to that event it's equally relevant towards making the strat available.
>>55728919 said it better than I could have. Who would Cobbledevs be to say this poke can just learn this move naturally even though a mon literally can't? The "event move recreation" thing is on the mark, all that would need to be done is ensuring it's reasonably available and not incredibly stupid in practice.
