All good suggestions. I don't think I'll have enough room for all three Fang moves, let alone Poison Fang (which I'd want as the fourth).
I'll have to think about which would be worth adding. Canon distributions:
- Drain Punch: (egg: Ledyba/Ledian) (TM60: many others)
- Trick Room: Porygon-Z (TM92: many others)
- Shell Smash: Shellder/Cloyster, Omanyte/Omastar, Magcargo
- Leaf Blade: Victreebel, Leafeon (egg: Farfetch'd)
- Power Whip: Tangela/Tangrowth (egg: Bulbasaur/Ivysaur/Venusaur, Bellsprout/Weepinbell/Victreebel)
- Wood Hammer: Exeggutor, Sudowoodo
(Non-canon Shell Smash possibilities: Blastoise, Forretress, Lapras, Kabutops... Pupitar would be too overpowered, but fun...)
Anyone else with move suggestions, please take a look at the
learnsets and
available TMs/HMs/tutors. Do any Pokémon stand out as needing just one or two moves to be much more useful in competitive battles?
Moonblast Mismagius, for one. Bellossom should probably learn Moonblast through relearner as well, in case you missed it as Gloom.
As for the moves you're considering adding, I think Shell Smash should be a high priority. It's vital for the sucky Pokemon that get it, it makes Cloyster better, and the non-canon possibilities would be very interesting for the Pokemon who would gain access to it.
I would also like to suggest putting Quiver Dance in the running for the canon mons that get it (Butterfree, Venomoth, Bellossom) and for non-canon considerations. Non-canon options could be special-based Pidgeot (mating dance?), perhaps Tangela (its vines quiver), Jynx (its Pokedex entry mentions its mesmerizing movements), Ledian (it sucks at Attack, gotta give it something. Pokedex entry mentions "fluttering about"),
Hoppip line (it just makes sense to me, dancing in the wind), Yanma line (the way dragonflies hover in one small area but dart around justifies it, I think). Bigger stretches include the Hoothoot line, Oddish and Bellsprout lines, and Politoad.
The only line I could see becoming devastating with the move is Jynx. Jynx is already a decent Pokemon, but Quiver Dance could tip it over to being unfair. On the bright side, you get the Jynx on boss Trainers to be more threatening. Tangrowth may become too bulky with it as well, but the speed boost is pretty much wasted on it so it may balance out. For Tangrowth it may cause it to function similar to Gen 2 Curselax. The others are just straight improvements for Pokemon that are not that great or not that great on the special side. For the stretches, Politoad could end up being too powerful with it too, but it works thematically. Politoad dances and frogs quiver when they croak.
Yanmega would need some testing to see if it becomes too powerful with it. It still has glaring common physical weaknesses in Rock, Flying, and physical Dragon-type moves and is frail enough that it might not have time to set up. It also lost its 4x weakness and shuffled some of its resistances to common types, so despite having the same amount of weaknesses overall and losing an immunity, it may still be better off defensively than it was. I'm not sure if Tinted Lens is in, but Quiver Dance could make Speed Boost unnecessary and allow it to fire off unresisted, powered-up, STAB Bug Buzzes from behind a Sp. Def boost. The only reason to switch to a coverage option would be to exploit an enemy weakness to Air Slash. Heck, you could run Quiver Dance/Bug Buzz/Air Slash/Substitute and run a bulky nature because Quiver Dance and unresisted STAB would make up for any power loss. The only thing you'd have to worry about after setting up would be a specially bulky mon that could hit you super effectively through the Substitute, and the only one I could think of that's in the game would be Sylveon, and even then Pixilate Hyper Voice needs to get through the Sp. Def boosts.
