Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire Move Tutors for Kalos Pokémon
On November 21st, 2014, Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire will be released. Though we won’t be using the games themselves for competitive play until January 1st of the new year, we will see the effects immediately at Premier Challenges across the world due to the move tutors that they will introduce. Your Kalos-born Pokémon can be transferred to the new game, taught the appropriate moves, then traded back and still stay within the rules and regulations we are using until December 31st. The move tutors making their return are those we’ve already seen in past games. This means that any of the attacks that Pokémon could learn via move tutors in HeartGold & SoulSilver can be used again. As for the new introductions in X & Y, we’ve listed them below so you can start thinking about ways they might work in the metagame.
Chesnaught: Super Fang, Dual Chop, Iron Head, Seed Bomb, Low Kick, Thunder Punch, Block, Iron Defense, Superpower, Zen Headbutt, Iron Tail, Snore, Synthesis, Pain Split, Giga Drain, Drain Punch, Focus Punch, Worry Seed, Helping Hand, Endeavor, Endure
Delphox: Covet, Signal Beam, Low Kick, Thunder Punch, Fire Punch, Magic Coat, Foul Play, Zen Headbutt, Iron Tail, Snore, Heat Wave, Role Play, Shock Wave, Trick, Magic Room, Wonder Room, Recycle, Snatch, Endure, Skill Swap
Greninja: Bounce, Low Kick, Gunk Shot, Ice Punch, Icy Wind, Dark Pulse, Snore, Role Play, Water Pulse, Spite, Snatch, Endure
Diggersby: Super Fang, Iron Head, Bounce, Low Kick, Gunk Shot, Uproar, Thunder Punch, Fire Punch, Ice Punch, Earth Power, Foul Play, Last Resort, Superpower, Iron Tail, Snore, Knock Off, Focus Punch, Gastro Acid, Endeavor, Recycle, Snatch, Endure
Talonflame: Snore, Heat Wave, Tailwind, Air Cutter, Snatch, Endure
Vivillon: Bug Bite, Signal Beam, Electroweb, Snore, Tailwind, Giga Drain, Air Cutter, Endeavor, Endure
Pyroar: Bounce, Hyper Voice, Iron Tail, Snore, Heat Wave, Helping Hand, Endeavor, Snatch, Endure
Florges: Covet, Seed Bomb, Magic Coat, Snore, Synthesis, Heal Bell, Giga Drain, Worry Seed, After You, Helping Hand, Endeavor, Endure
Gogoat: Seed Bomb, Bounce, Superpower, Zen Headbutt, Iron Tail, Snore, Synthesis, Giga Drain, Worry Seed, Endure
Pangoro: Covet, Dual Chop, Iron Head, Low Kick, Gunk Shot, Uproar, Thunder Punch, Fire Punch, Ice Punch, Block, Foul Play, Superpower, Dark Pulse, Zen Headbutt, Hyper Voice, Snore, Knock Off, Drain Punch, Focus Punch, Spite, Helping Hand, Endeavor, Outrage, Snatch, Endure
Furfrou: Uproar, Last Resort, Zen Headbutt, Hyper Voice, Iron Tail, Snore, Role Play, Helping Hand, Endeavor, Endure
Meowstic: Covet, Signal Beam, Magic Coat, Gravity, Zen Headbutt, Iron Tail, Snore, Role Play, Heal Bell, Shock Wave, Trick, Magic Room, Wonder Room, Recycle, Snatch, Endure
Aegislash: Iron Head, Block, Magnet Rise, Iron Defense, Snore, Shock Wave, Spite, After You, Endure
Aromatisse: Covet, Magic Coat, Snore, Heal Bell, Drain Punch, After You, Helping Hand, Endeavor, Endure, Skill Swap
Slurpuff: Covet, Magic Coat, Snore, Heal Bell, Drain Punch, Gastro Acid, After You, Helping Hand, Endeavor, Endure
Malamar: Signal Beam, Block, Foul Play, Superpower, Dark Pulse, Bind, Snore, Knock Off, Role Play, Spite, Snatch, Endure
Barbaracle: Dual Chop, Low Kick, Earth Power, Iron Defense, Superpower, Icy Wind, Snore, Water Pulse, Helping Hand, Endeavor, Stealth Rock, Endure
Dragalge: Bounce, Gunk Shot, Icy Wind, Aqua Tail, Dragon Pulse, Iron Tail, Snore, Shock Wave, Water Pulse, Outrage, Endure
Clawitzer: Bounce, Icy Wind, Aqua Tail, Dragon Pulse, Iron Tail, Snore, Water Pulse, Helping Hand, Endure
Heliolisk: Signal Beam, Low Kick, Thunder Punch, Fire Punch, Magnet Rise, Electroweb, Dragon Pulse, Hyper Voice, Iron Tail, Snore, Shock Wave, Endure
Tyrantrum: Iron Head, Block, Earth Power, Iron Defense, Superpower, Zen Headbutt, Dragon Pulse, Hyper Voice, Iron Tail, Snore, Outrage, Stealth Rock, Endure
Aurorus: Iron Head, Earth Power, Magnet Rise, Iron Defense, Icy Wind, Aqua Tail, Zen Headbutt, Hyper Voice, Iron Tail, Snore, Water Pulse, Outrage, Stealth Rock, Endure
Sylveon: Covet, Magic Coat, Last Resort, Hyper Voice, Iron Tail, Snore, Heal Bell, Helping Hand, Endure, Skill Swap
Hawlucha: Dual Chop, Iron Head, Bounce, Low Kick, Thunder Punch, Fire Punch, Last Resort, Superpower, Zen Headbutt, Snore, Tailwind, Sky Attack, Drain Punch, Air Cutter, Focus Punch, Helping Hand, Endeavor, Endure
Dedenne: Covet, Super Fang, Signal Beam, Thunder Punch, Magnet Rise, Last Resort, Electroweb, Iron Tail, Snore, Shock Wave, Helping Hand, Recycle, Endure
Carbink: Covet, Magic Coat, Earth Power, Gravity, Magnet Rise, Iron Defense, Snore, After You, Wonder Room, Stealth Rock, Endure, Skill Swap
Goodra: Thunder Punch, Fire Punch, Superpower, Aqua Tail, Dragon Pulse, Iron Tail, Snore, Focus Punch, Shock Wave, Water Pulse, Outrage, Endure
Klefki: Covet, Magic Coat, Foul Play, Magnet Rise, Iron Defense, Last Resort, Snore, Magic Room, Recycle, Endure
Trevenant: Seed Bomb, Magic Coat, Block, Foul Play, Dark Pulse, Snore, Role Play, Pain Split, Giga Drain, Drain Punch, Worry Seed, Spite, Trick, Endure, Skill Swap
Gourgeist: Seed Bomb, Magic Coat, Foul Play, Dark Pulse, Synthesis, Role Play, Pain Split, Giga Drain, Worry Seed, Spite, Trick, Endure, Skill Swap
Avalugg: Iron Head, Block, Iron Defense, Superpower, Icy Wind, Snore, Water Pulse, After You, Endure
Noivern: Super Fang, Uproar, Dark Pulse, Dragon Pulse, Hyper Voice, Iron Tail, Snore, Heat Wave, Tailwind, Sky Attack, Air Cutter, Water Pulse, Outrage, Snatch, Endure
Big thanks to Bond697, Slashmolder, Kaphotics, and SciresM for the data!
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Firestorm is one of the co-founders of Nugget Bridge and the Community Manager for eSports Tournament Platform Battlefy. He has been playing Pokémon since 1999, competitively since 2007, and attending tournaments since 2010. He lives in Vancouver, Canada with a degree in Interactive Art & Technology + Communications. You can follow him on Twitter at @rushanshekar.
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I sent an email to my Pokemon League, I will let you know any information.
PS: Hyper Voice Sylveon is very strong and MegaGardevoir too.
I love Chesnaught having Drain Punch, Superpower and Thunderpunch. I really want to tinker about with my dream of an Assault Vest Bulletproof one (sounds very…military…), but Talonflame and the apparent rise of Heat Wave and Pixilate Hyper Voice will absolutely floor it. Still, I can dream…
EDIT: Doesnt get Knock Off. I have no idea where I got that from…
I dont like the idea of tutor moves being allowed at PCs in Europe even before the game is released here. Without contacts to Asian or American players, you have no access to those mons and even then you need to find someone who play through the game fast enough…
No different than the short period that Dark Void Smeargle found its way into the game between the launch, shut down, and relaunch of Pokemon Bank.
Personally can’t wait to get access to Heat Wave Zapdos, Hyper Voice Mega Gardevoir/Sylveon, and Bug Bite Scizor again. Also widespread access to Tailwind and Icy Wind again.
if there is anyone who feels like he or she will be able to rush through the game in <1 day and could give my mons tutor moves for a PC on 22nd, that would be appreciated!
(It’s really detroited up that you can use tutor moves 6 days before the game is even released in europe…)
this is by far one of the most questionable moves tpci ever made lol, i mean where is the point in creating a whole new metagame 1 month before the real new vgc15 appears? i was really looking forward for the upcoming pcs in germany but i dont know if i still am with this rule addition lol…
You must have a very short memory.
With organizers already making basic mistakes (7 vs 8…) Im fine with simplifying things for a month to avoid additional problems
Not actually a rule change. It’s just not changing the rules. Otherwise I can guarantee you you’d still hit the third or fourth round in a tournament and play against someone with Heat Wave Zapdos or something else from a move tutor.
I think avoiding unnecessary complications for organizers is really what it comes down to.
The circuit can’t just take a month off while we wait to get going with VGC 15. There was a lot of expansion this year, which has led to a lot of new organizers. This is a good thing. However, looking at even my own personal experience with events this year, I’ve seen an awful lot of trouble even as is, which would only be made worse by forcing organizers to make a bunch of manual checks. In my last four tournaments I battled a Gastrodon in round 2 of a Premier Challenge that the judges had apparently told the player was OK once, a Regional that had the incorrect top cut size once, and a Premier Challenge that should have had a top cut but didn’t once.
If the built-in hack check isn’t going to catch something — which it wouldn’t with the tutor moves, since they aren’t illegal — it really isn’t a good idea to try to make TOs have to identify them themselves. Especially in a case like this one where they would literally have to check the Pokemon’s moveset against an external learnset of some kind. Many venues already have issues getting good enough Wi-Fi for hackchecks — are organizers going to be checking Bulbapedia on their phones as though the learnset there is an official rules document or something? Come on.
I wasn’t super excited to see this initially from a player end, either. Having a month-long metagame does seem sort of silly, but honestly having to play VGC 14 in the 2015 season is kind of a necessary evil to begin with because of the game release schedule not synergizing with the tournament season very well. I don’t think playing an extremely stale 2014 metagame is any more appealing than having a month with a fresher-but-more-volatile 2014+ORAS tutor hybrid format. Personally, I think I would enjoy playing in this format a lot more than playing yet another standard VGC 2014 tournament given how little room for development seems to be left in that format, and I’m hoping I get the chance to putz around in it once or twice. Regardless, it’s really the only viable way to have events in December, which is a lot better than not having events.
Legalizing Dark Void proves this wrong
You would be facing move tutors regardless of the rules. You would just be handicapped because you would actually know the rules.
PCs aren’t regionals where a machine could potentially take care of everything.
Predicting the high rise of OP Hyper Voice Sylveon.
Especially if its Life Orbed or Choiced Specd.
I have a shiny Gardevoir on my X version, and I wonder if I can transfer it to ORAS so I can teach it Hyper Voice. Shiny Mega Gardevoir is my fave shiny mega, and with Hyper Voice, its so going to be oh so good.
No reason you won’t be able to transfer it.
I’m excited to finally be able to use my favorite Mega legitimately!
Answer of a PC’s organizer
“ORAS can’t be used for VGC until 2015, so you can’t use ORAS for teaching tutor moves”
:S
That means the tourneys won’t be played on the ORAS carts. This was already confirmed though so no more need to speculate.
He wanted to say that you can’t use ORAS in anyway
As you probably noticed with the guy who makes the rules posting before you last time, your PC guy is definitely wrong, though.
Okay, I will link him this thread