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Trainer's Guide: Technical Machines

• A Technical Machine, or TM for short (Japanese: わざマシン Move Machine), is a machine used by Pokémon Trainers to teach a Pokémon a new move that it might not otherwise learn.
• Up until Generation V, TMs were good for only one use, unlike Hidden Machines, which can be used over and over again on many different Pokémon.
• TMs can be found on the ground or bought at department stores. Some are also given away by Gym Leaders as prizes for defeating them in addition to a Badge.
• There are currently 95 TMs in the games. In Generation I to Generation III there were 50 TMs though the moves the TMs contained would change over the generations. In Generation IV the TM list was expanded to 92 with the 50 TMs from Generation III remaining the same.
• TMs play a similar role the the TCG as most have a compatibility requirements and all those released before Legends Awakened are to be discarded from the Pokémon at the end of the turn they were played. These cards first saw a release in Pokémon VS; however, international audiences did not have access to them until the Expedition Base Set.
• TMs 06, 14, 15, 22, 25, 26, 28, 29, 32, 38, and 44 have contained the same move in all five generations.