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In the Pokémon manga, a situation will sometimes occur in which 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 manga Pokémon with moves that they cannot learn in the games

Ash and Pikachu

Artwork	Name	Move	First use	Picture
	Ash's Pikachu	Tackle	One Half Of A Poké Ball
	Ash's Swellow	Tackle	Battle Till The End! Drake, One Of The Elite Four!l
	Ash's Corphish	Water Gun	A 'Thank You' That Transcends Time

Pokémon Adventures

Artwork	Name	Move	First use	Picture
	Sabrina's Kadabra	Hypnosis	Zap! Zap! Zapdos!
	Blue's Machamp	Slam	A Charizard... and a Champion
	Platinum's Empoleon	Vacuum Wave	Floatzel and Jetsam
	Riley's Lucario	Bonemerang	Deprogramming Porygon-Z
	Phione	Heart Swap	Different Dimension Battle XI
	Petrel's Golbat	Lick	All About Arceus V
	Black's Musha	Teleport	School of Hard Knocks

Pokémon Pocket Monsters

Artwork	Name	Move	First use	Picture
	Red's Clefairy	Barrier	The Big Battle In The Viridian Forest!!
	Red's Clefairy	Transform	Take Out The Rival Onix!!
	Red's Clefairy	Tackle	Pikachu Was Kidnapped!!
	Green's Machamp	Comet Punch	The Pokémon Banana League (Part 2)
	Cleffa	Tackle	Clefairy Becomes a Father…?!
	Red's Clefairy	Hypnosis	Great Discovery of the Fossil of the Era!!

Pokémon Gold & Silver: The Golden Boys

Artwork	Name	Move	First use	Picture
	Gold's Bayleef	Stomp	Extreme Power!! The Friday Pokémon

Pokémon Zensho

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.

Former errors

Pokémon Zensho

Sprite	Name	Move	First use	Notes	Picture
	Blaine's Arcanine	Fire Spin	Cinnabar Island	Blaine's Arcanine uses Fire Spin in the chapter. However, Arcanine was unable to learn Fire Spin until Generation II.

Similar examples that are not manga move errors

Pokémon which can learn a move in a previous generation

Ash & Pikachu

Sprite	Name	Move	First use	Notes	Picture
	Ash's Charizard	DragonBreath	Off To The Battle Frontier!!	Ash's Charizard uses DragonBreath, which though impossible to have in Generation III onwards, was available to teach to Charizard by TM24 in Generation II.

Pokémon Pocket Monsters

Sprite	Name	Move	First use	Notes	Picture
	Red's Clefairy	Rage	Clefairy Transforms?!	Red's Clefairy uses Rage, which though impossible to have in Generation III onwards, was available to teach to Clefairy by TM20 in Generation I.

See also

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