Natural Battle - No TM/HM allowed.

[Snowood]

Is there any competitive format where
Only Level-Up Moves are allowed?
,so no egg moves, tutor, tms, event moves, tradebacks, etc.

Starting from Gen 1 RBY Natural Anything Goes,
Rules:
1. Species Clause: no 2 pokemon can share same national dex number.
2. 50-move rule: Draw if no pokemon faints in 50 moves.
3. Only level up moves are allowed, including pre-evolution's. Trading between Red and Yellow is allowed, but not with other generations.


Important moves' distribution:
Earthquake: Only Dugtrio & Golem lines.
BodySlam: Only Nidoqueen, Wigglytuff, Poliwrath, Jynx, Lapras & Snorlax.
HyperBeam: Only Gyarados, Aerodactyl, Snorlax & Dragonite.
Thunderbolt: Only Raichu...
Psychic: Venomoth, Alakazam, Slowbro, Hypno, Mewtwo, Mew.
Blizzard: Jynx + Articuno. Ice Beam: Dewgong, Lapras, Articuno.
RazorLeaf: Venusar + Victreebel (no change).
Explosion/Self-Destruct: Golem, Electrode, Weezing.
Surf/MegaDrain/RockSlide/FireBlast: Does Not Exist.

Hmm, I wonder what tauros gets.

HP restoring moves:

1. Softboiled/MegaDrain: None. (Chansey did require tm to learn it)
2. Recover: Mewtwo, Alakazam, Starmie, Porygon.
3. Rest: Snorlax, Dewgong, Wigglytuff.
4. Leech Seed(1/16 per turn): Exeggutor, Venusaur.
5. Absorb: Vileplume, Kabutops, Tangela.

 

[mgriffin]

Have you tried building a team in this format? My intuition says that for RBY it would be restrictive to the point of being unfun, but I could be convinced otherwise. Later generations with expanded learnsets are probably much more reasonable.

 

[11wildy]

This could be quite interesting, Id love to try this in multiple generations! May make some underused pokemon viable and some big threats unviable