>>29388071That's irrelevant to my point. HMs don't make the game more challenging, because "I see small thorn bush, I use Cut" is equivalent to "I see red door, I use red key", they don't require any thought.
All they do is inconvenience you. There's no reason to need BOTH the move AND the badge.
>but rocks block...Are you telling me a Scyther with the moves Fury Cutter, X-Scissor, Air Slash and Night Slash is physically incapable of cutting a small thorn bush? Roadblocks have nothing to do with realism or common sense, they're JUST a game mechanic to prevent sequence breaking.
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>>29386112>it would've been so much more practical to just give pokémon those out-of-battle functions depending on which HM moves they could learn 
