>>18680662Meowth had a motivation to do so. To impress Meowsie, or however they called her in japanese.
Slowking can learn human language, and other pokemon speak it by telepathy and such, but it seems to be more of a matter of having a true "Motivation" to learn it.
>>18680830They kinda addressed that in one chapter of the old series in a way; meowth demonstrated that he still has a lot of battle potential. It's the fact that he doesn't battle by himself what's really hindering him.
he's not getting exp points at all, hah! 