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In the Pokémon manga, a situation will sometimes occur where a Pokémon knows a move it cannot learn legally in any of the games. It is unknown whether these are actual mistakes, a writing policy of not having to stick to the games too closely, or merely the Pokémon using an attribute that shares the name of a move in the games.

Occasionally, in-game event Pokémon that can be transferred onto the main series games have a move that is not normally included in that Pokémon's moveset (a prime example being Pokémon Box Ruby & Sapphire, which gave away four separate Pokémon with moves that were not normally available to that specific Pokémon).

List of Pokémon Adventures Pokémon with moves they can't learn in the games

Sprite	Name	Move	First use	Picture
	Sabrina's Kadabra	Hypnosis	1030Zap! Zap! Zapdos!
	Sabrina's Kadabra	Slash	1032A Little Kadabra'll Do It
	Blue's Machamp	Slam	1040A Charizard... and a Champion
	Pokémon Fan Club Chairman's Fearow	Pay Day	1056The Coming of Slowpoke (Eventually)	File:Fearow Rapidash Pay Day Adventures.png
	Pokémon Fan Club Chairman's Rapidash	Pay Day	1056The Coming of Slowpoke (Eventually)	File:Fearow Rapidash Pay Day Adventures.png
	Kitty	Fly	1089The Might of... Metapod!?	File:Kitty Fly.png
	Azalean Boy's Farfetch'd	Wing Attack	1103You Ain't Nothin' But a Houndour	File:Farfetch'd Wing Attack Adventures.png
	Natee	Fly	1119A Flaaffy Kerfuffle	File:Natee Natu Fly.png
	Eusine's Jumpluff	Fly	1126Jumping Jumpluff	File:Eusine Jumpluff Fly Adventures.png
	Wilton's Butterfree	Fly	1152Butterfly Butterfree
	Sham's Persian	Roar	1164Stop Snoring, Slowking
	Elizabeth	Flash	1223VS. Luvdisc I
	Platinum's Piplup	Water Gun	1342A Conk on Cranidos's Cranium	File:Platinum Piplup Water Gun.png
	Cyrus's Magnezone	Rock Slide	1349VS. Probopass and Magnezone
	Platinum's Empoleon	Vacuum Wave	1366VS. Floatzel
	Cynthia's Garchomp	Fly	1367VS. Psyduck
	Mars's Yanmega	Fly	1397VS. Octillery
	Riley's Lucario	Bonemerang	1418VS. Porygon-Z	File:Lucario Bonemerang Adventures.png

List of Pokémon Pocket Monsters Pokémon with moves they can't learn in the games

Sprite	Name	Move	First use	Picture
	Brock's Onix	Constrict	Take Out The Rival Onix!!	File:Brock Onix Constrict PM.png

List of Pokémon Zensho Pokémon with moves they can't learn in the games

Sprite	Name	Move	First use	Picture
	Satoshi's Charmander	Tackle	Prologue: Pallet Town

How I Became a Pokémon Card

Pokémon in How I Became a Pokémon Card will often use moves that they cannot learn in the games. These are generally not errors, though, because this series is based on the Pokémon TCG; the "illegal" moves Pokémon use in this series are moves from their TCG cards.

See also

• Anime move errors

This article is part of Project Manga, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each series of Pokémon manga.