>>56943787They're not. We're already breaking the rules by allowing held items to be brought forward, when that's not actually possible. We're already breaking our OWN rules by allowing every 'mon to use Z-Moves, and making special exceptions for status ones. And your argument of
>not every Pokemon can have access to Hidden Power because they're not in games with it available, and we can't assume they'd be able to learn itfalls apart because the universal rule of Hidden Power as a TM - one it shares with Protect, Substitute, and Rest - is that EVERY. POKEMON. That is compatible with TMs, and doesn't have a special design gimmick, like Pyukumuku, was compatible with it. There is literally no reason to think it would be any different if it were present in later games, when this rule has held true for Protect, Substitute, and Rest. Even Regigigas, who famously couldn't learn those three moves because GameFreak didn't want you to "easily" stall out Slow Start, was eventually given access to them.
Your argument is built upon false pretenses, and the only reason it's going the way it is, is due to author fiat (Smogon, in this case).
