ITT: Moves you always forget exist.
I'll start with Camouflage.
>>24788579
Powder
Flower shield
Conversion 2. Yes, there's a fucking Conversion (1), too.
If it weren't for the DESTROY BERRY showderp mememon, I'd forget Incinerate exists.
Also there's a move called Aromatic Mist that raises an ally's Sp. Def by 1
>>24788579
I just learned about Storm Throw yesterday.
There's a lot of now-useless Gen 1 moves I only remembered recently: Spike Cannon, Submission, Fissure to name a few.
> Snatch
Who even use this
>>24789222
I use your mothers snatch nightly
Eerie Impulse
Ion Deluge
Synchronoise
Synchronoise and Reflect Type
Razor Wind.
I've never seen anyone use it, even though it's been around since the very beginning.
I remember Synchronoise only because of how it does nothing when used by Umbreon.
Lots of signature moves are easy to forget about because only one line can use them, and they usually don't, so you never see them.
Quash gets a special mention for being the most forgettable TM.
Thief
Power swap
Rage powder
Follow me
Recycle
Blast burn
Smellingsalts
Acid armor
Telekinesis
Imprison
Petal Blizzard
>>24792390
I meant kinesis rather than telekinesis. Also twineedle
Tombstony
>>24792400
Twineedle kept beedril in my party till the second gym.
Those weird terrain moves in Gen VI.
>>24788579
I didn't know acid armor was a gen I move. I first saw it used by Cryogonal and Vanillish.
>>24792406
Same, twineedle always stuck out to me because beedrill has been one of my bros since gen 1. It seemed forgettable to most others though
>>24792401
>not Tombstoner
This man has never played Gen 1. Point and laugh.
Pledge moves.
>>24792406
>>24792430
I remember keeping Beedrill around in Generation I, for Sabrina, as Twineedle was basically the only damage-dealing Bug-type attack.
Too bad Beedrill is part Poison.
I had forgotten Skull Bash and Sky Attack. They're both pretty shitty, and few Pokemon learn them.
>Rototiller
>>24789185
>>24792288
>>24792392
I never even heard of any of these moves.
Spike Cannon
>>24789204
Definitely Spike Cannon. I saw a Corsola use it in Mystery Dungeon and thought it was a new move I didn't recognize.
>>24788579
Land's Wrath
>>24792718
Same here, excluding Petal Blizzard. Only remembered that one because Lilligant learns it.
Barrage.
Great signature move.
Looking through just signature moves, I forgot Rolling Kick was a move. Spider Web too.
I don't know how I forgot Searing Shot though. I think Victini is the only legendary I consistently forget about on lists due to weird placement, even though I regularly talk about V-Create and use it in the TCG.
>>24789204
How do you forget an OHKO?
Glare. Not Leer. Not Mean Look. Glare.
>>24792556
Man, I run a Simple Power Herb Bibarel with Skull Bash and Amnesia at times. Shit's fun.
Tail Glow
and if not for fucking Manaphy it would have been totally forgotten forever
I must be way too pedantic if I know almost every one of these near useless moves.
>>24789185 got me with Flower Shield though. Well played.
Brine
>>24792390
>>24792341
As a vgc fag, I disagree
>>24788579
Okay, maybe not the same but i had no clue Drain Punch was a gen 4 move. I was watching a 4th gen wifi battle on YouTube and a hitmonchan used it and i was like wtf and had to search it.
Synchronoise
Comet Punch
Barrage
Detect
Rototiller
SHARPEN
Attack Order
Defend Order
Electrify
Fairy Lock
Happy Hour
Pluck
Quash
Topsy-turvy
>>24794035
happy hour is one i've never heard of. thanks anon
Rock Climb, being an HM in gen IV, I had completely forgotten about ever since until I read about HMs on bulbapedia
What the fuck is quash? I've literally never seen it used ever in games or player battles and I've played all gens except V
Also most signature moves if you don't actually spend time with the pokemon that learn them (and/or if they're useless status moves you usually replace)
>>24794104
The pokemon you use it on moves last that turn. Only really useable in doubles/triples.
It was a TM that was introduced in Gen V.
The pledge moves. I don't think I've ever seen anybody try to use the combos of them.
>>24788579
Ice Ball
>>24792298
>Reflect Type
If not for your post, I could have gone my whole life and never known this move existed
>>24789191
>>24789191
>>24789196
>>24789222
>>24792315
>>24792389 >>24792389>>24792389
>>24792392
>>24792464
>>24792567
>>24793965
>>24793974
>>24794149
none of these are obscure, especially compared to things like powder, electrify, flower shield, etc
>>24792288
>eerie impulse
>tfw Heliolisk has won me innumerable battles with this move
Comet punch, along with a bunch of other wacky gen 1 moves.
>>24789185
>tfw just now learning of Powder
Fuck Vivillion, imagine Forretress getting that shit
>>24793946
How, every fucking snake pokemon carrys that bullshit
Tickle
>all these boring plebs who still only play singles and wonder why all these moves are forgettable
>>24795030
You'd ever use Flower Shield, even in doubles?
barrage
twineedle
clamp
sharpen
smellingsalt
crush claw
poison tail
topsy-turvy
forests curse
hyperspace fury
hyperspace hole
ally switch
head charge
belch
razor wind
spit up
egg bomb
entrainment
guard split
guard swap
hold hands
light of ruin
magnetic flux
misty terrain
noble roar
octazooka
parabolic charge
petal blizzard
quash
rage
rototiller
techno blast
triple kick
venom drench
venoshock
worry seed
mystery dungeon exclusives:
excavate
bloop slash
vertical cut
spin slash
vacuum cut
>>24789185
I'll always remember people saying that Focus Sash Powder Vivillon countered Blaziken, lol.
>>24795116
>Prankster
>Powder
Just imagine this family
>>24795130
>yfw Powder has +1 priority
Unless you want +2 for some reason
>>24795071
I was more referring to moves like Snatch, Quash, Imprison, pledge moves, and redirection. They're some pretty important moves in either doubles/triples or both, Quash was obscure before ORAS though since Sableye didn't have it
>>24795137
Fair enough, though I wouldn't even call those moves obscure even from a non-VGC player standpoint.
Maybe Quash and the redirection moves, but it is fairly easy to see how those could work in doubles/triples.
Snatch is still my favorite gen 3 move.
>>24789222
I use it all the time on my M-Sableye. Wasting their set-up sweeper's turn as well as stealing their boost is just hilarious
>>24792415
It's like they wanted to make new weather but didn't want to commit to actually making them weather.
Thousand Arrows.
>>24795206
I'm very upset that they made this move because now I'm certain bonemarang will never get the effect.
>>24789222
Everyone who played Colosseum. All three of us.
hold back
>>24789222
I seem to remember a really funny replay where he keeps snatching dragon dance over and over.
And then snatches a substitute, too.
>>24794755
No one gives a shit you massive cunt
>>24795475
Fuck you ugly dickshit
Splash.
RRRRROLLING KICKU
>>24796193
Fuck, that's supposed to be a gif
>>24795111
>mystery dungeon exclusives:
>vacuum cut
actually that is a move in regular games too
>>24796227
You sure you don't mean Vacuum Wave?
Do you guys even play Pokémon or use anything outside of fire blast and close combat...?
>>24796244
Heh, why would you?
>>24789222
People who want to see you to suffer as they crush your hopes of winning by denying you that Swords Dance or Dragon Dance boost and taking it for themselves.
I had a Banette Mega Evolve and use Snatch on my Mega Charizard-X... I never saw it coming. By the time I did, it was too late. Banette's sweep had already begun.
>>24796394
Snatch does more than just stealing stat boosters.
Aromatherapy, Recover, Light Screen,Lunar Dance...
Basically everything that could boost you can be stolen. It's uncommon as well, so you can really catch things off-guard with it.
Of course if the opponent has none of these moves it is a wasted slot, use with a bit of caution.
>>24796409
Oh, I had Lunar Dance happen to me once. I was like... "What?"
It's like using Me First and then
>[Pokémon] used Explosion.
>>24796341
W-What's going on here?
>>24796199
I want the gif man. Give it up.
>>24796484
My phones being a cunt so here's a link http://www.dramafever.com/st/news/images/Hitmonlee.gif
>>24793942
Kind of a dumb question but:
1- Because OHKOs never hit thus I don't use them and neither do NPCs.
2- Because Fissure in particular is learned by like 2 mons.
>>24794003
>>24794035
>SynchroNOISE
>BARRAGE LMAO
>Fairy Lock
>Happy Hour
Rapid Spin.
That or Bind, although I don't forget Constrict.
>>24796645
Rapid spin is a decent competitive move
>>24796193
And Mega Kick and Mega Punch. They were everywhere in RGBY but now they're sorta useless.
>>24796586
He's not even rolling though
>>24794003
>forgetting comet punch after kangaskhan fucked you up constantly in TCG for gameboy
nigga please
>>24793766
This.
Barrage
>>24796645
>forgetting about Rapid Spin
>>24797257
>>24796669
>forgetting Rapid Spin
holy shit what a noob
>>24797281
>A 20 power move is okay because it counters moves that aren't at all problematic (because there's a 20 power move to get rid of them!)
>However 60 power moves that don't miss are terrible because nobody fucking dare use evasion
Your picture is very accurate
>>24797358
have you ever played online, m8?
Triple Kick
>>24797711
>even with Technician Triple Kick is still shit
I mean, fucking Double Kick has the same maximum BP, but doesn't have to roll for 90% accuracy thrice and will trigger Iron Barbs or whatever one less time.
>>24789222
It won this year's final senior match at the Japanese VGC Nationals. A Rotom snatched an enemy's Trick Room and reverted it iirc
>>24794104
I'm currently using Quash Prankster Sableye and it's great.
>>24797761
Pretty sure you can't Snatch TR.
It wouldn't do anything it normally wouldn't do.
If that Rotom used TR it would've reverted the effect regardless.
Conversion and the sequel
Kinesis
Crush Grip
Rototiller
Inferno
Egg Bomb
Wonder Room and Magic Room
>>24797782
I got it wrong, it snatched Tailwind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mqLIeEfZ7I
>>24797813
Oh yeah, now that does work.
>>24797738
Fucking thank you. I wish Triple Kick got a buff. There's absolutely no fucking reason, whatsoever to use Triple Kick over Double Kick.
>>24797851
Well, Hitmontop sorta can't learn Double Kick.
So if you really, really want that multi-hitting Fighting move on Top, you're stuck with Triple Kick.
Probably still not worth it over HJK or CC. Or hell, Mach Punch is probably more useful.
>>24797794
>Crush Grip
Only because you've never been thoroughly violated by it.
http://nuggetbridge.com/reports/tricky-rain-29th-place-vgc-2013-philadelphia-masters-analysis/
>>24789185
I like how the first post pretty much got the two I have never heard of.
Minimise?
>>24800168
>Minimize + Calm Mind + Pain Split + Flamethrower on Chandelure
>kek your worries away
>>24795111
>I've never played a pokemon game before
>>24795267
>Colosseum was 12 years ago
Quach
>>24792390
>Power swap
Shuckle learns this and it turns it into maximum glass cannon
>recycle
>what is mastermite
Gen 6 had some weird ass moves
>rototiller
>ion deluge
>powder
etc
>>24795111
>rage
>totodile learns it very early on
>was featured in the anime
>>24792315
>play SMD
>Heliolisk 1shots you from across the room with Razor Wind
>>24793965
>ampharos will never get it because "it's called firefly light in japanese"
>>24804415
I bet Powder would be better known if it had a wider distribution than just Vivillon.
And at some point I still wanna try Electrode+Electivire with Ion Deluge. ID has priority and will turn Explosion into a STAB move that will boost Electivire's speed. Probably gimmicky as shit, but it might catch someone off guard.
I'll grant you that Rototiller is weird as hell.
>>24795116
In theory.
Heart Swap
Lunar Dance
Present
Wring Out
Soak
Terrain Moves
>>24806540
Soak is funny against people who don't know what it is.
Crafty Shield
>>24806553
It's harder to have fun with than than Electrify
Trying to Ash it up and use Soak to have a Pikachu defeat an Onix takes too long.
>>24806614
Poisoning Steels will never get old though.
Of course if someone knows what Soak is, you usually can't get that to work.
Amnesia
lol bublapedia doesn't even have pictures of these obscure moves
>>24796645
If you play Showdown, you'll see this move everywhere.
>>24807044
Isn't Defrog more popular nowadays?
>>24806642
What obscure moves?
Luster Purge.
>>24808260
Yes, removing frogposters is getting more and more popular these days
>>24808260
Ever since Greninja got kicked upstairs nobody's had any need for it.
>>24795111
>hyperspace fury
>hyperspace hole
>hold hands
>techno blast
>not having every event legend
the rest of these are just you being retarded. >>hurr its a signature so i cant possibly remember it exists
And rototiller is actually pretty nice.
>literally forgetting entrainment
>>literally being this retarded
You realize the Battle Chateau exists right?
This thread is not complete without the shittiest exclusive move ever conceived
Celebrate
>>24795206
desu thousand arrows is great though, it's meta changing.
The problem is Thousand Waves is fucking useless. Also i legitimately forgot Earth... something... Land's Wrath exists
>>24797358
Rapid Spin can be used even if youre effected by taunt.
Stealth Rocks isnt overpowering because generally, non-Sash users dont care about them
yes, Swift and Aerial Ace are terrible moves even with Technician and/or STAB.
>+4 236 SpA Arceus-Flying Swift vs. 0 HP / 252+ SpD Blissey: 160-190 (24.5 - 29.1%) -- 99.9% chance to 4HKO
>takes 4 turns and 2 Nasty Plots for something with 335 Sp. Attack and STAB to KO blissey, assuming shes not recovering in any way via leftovers, softboiled, etc.
Swift is great guys :^)
>>24808730
>Arceus-Flying
Ignore that i did change it to Normal-type
>>24795111
Venoshock's a fucking TM
Doom desire, I think Jirachi is the only one that can learn it
>>24806561
Again only in doubles but Crafty Shield turns klefki in an anti-prankster prankster. Seriously underrated move.
>>24794142
I have a team of just starters and I use pledges a lot. Sea of fire is awesome.
>>24809031
I just use quick guard smogonbird.
>Copycat
>Quash
>Fell Stinger
>Belch
>Telekinesis
>Magic Coat
>Miracle Eye
>>24808730
>Not using Specs Swift Sylveon against those pesky Minimize Chansey
:^)
>>24792741
What exactly is the point of this move?
>>24810177
Its 50% of its full power.
And its good in Doubles.
Hell, it's still better than Glaciate
