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What are all the Pokémon that could learn moves in previous gens and now can't?

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I'm pretty sure someone asked this, but I can't find that question and I really need it.
Lol thanks for understanding that I know I am gonna ask a question that is closed :P

That's trolly.
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I feel as though this question might count as one of those overly hard to answer questions that have nearly no use other than trivia.
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Why do you need this?
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vaporeon is one
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I don't think so, I'm REALLY SURE that someone asked this, and there was a Bulbapedia link for it
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Wouldn't "transfer only" moves answer this question?
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These are some transfer-only egg moves:

> Air Cutter: Charmander
Ally Switch: Archen, Krabby, Natu, Ralts, Yamask
Avalanche: Shellder
Captivate: Gothita, Sableye, Smoochum
Defense Curl: Bagon
Defog: Drifloon, Scyther
Drain Punch: Ledyba, Shroomish
Drill Run: Karrablast
Earth Power: Barboach, Deino
Endure: Skarmory
Extreme Speed: Dratini
Focus Punch: Geodude, Heracross, Ledyba
Foul Play: Spiritomb
Giga Drain: Zubat
Heat Wave: Litwick, Slugma
Iron Tail: Skorupi
Magnet Rise: Amaura
Mega Punch: Geodude
Natural Gift: Vanillite
Outrage: Noibat
Secret Power: Drowzee, Meditite, Oddish, Solosis, Venonat, Yanma
Self-Destruct: Munchlax
Shock Wave: Chinchou, Stunfisk
Skill Swap: Abra, Drowzee, Elgyem, Exeggcute, Natu, Sigilyph, Venonat
Snatch: Fletchling, Noibat
Stealth Rock: Lileep, Pawniard, Skarmory
Tailwind: Drifloon
Water Pulse: Vanillite
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@A.V. - Those Pokémon would have to breed to get those moves, meaning they can't "learn" those moves naturally. But I guess they could count?
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They count tbh.
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@SYL! - Okay.
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i Don’t Know all the Pokemon but here are a few:

Charmander could learn metal claw by level up in Gen1
Pikachu can no longer learn skull bash, mega punch/kick
Shedinja used to be able to learn swords dance in gen 4
Machamp used to be able to use fissure
Flareon could use rage in gen1
Articuno can no longer learn bubblebeam like ion gen1gen1

And i’m Sure there a many more but these are some that come to mind if you go to seribii.net there is a list called transfer only moves, you should find more answers there. These links contain all the info that you would need, hope this helped:)

https://www.serebii.net/games/eventmoves.shtml
https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/elusive-generation-exclusive-moves.3613177/
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Converted into a comment because this is very obviously an incomplete answer. Don't answer if you know that you can't fully answer the question.
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Dumb question, but considering the introduction of transferring from Gen 1 and Gen 2 Virtual Console, doesn't that mean that those exceptions are completely out of the question?
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What exceptions?
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An exception that comes to mind are the Gen 1 TMs, there's a lot of real weird moves like Rage and Bubblebeam that could only be learned in RBY.
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It's not clear exactly what you're looking for, because the answer is almost every Pokemon has moves they could learn in a previous generation but now can't. It would be impossible to list them all here - there are over 8800 moves. That's what the "transfer-only moves" shows in our Pokedex.

There are just a few exceptions, i.e. Pokemon who don't have transfer moves:

  • Caterpie
  • Metapod
  • Weedle
  • Kakuna
  • Magikarp
  • Ditto
  • Unown
  • Wobbuffet
  • Smeargle
  • Wurmple
  • Silcoon
  • Cascoon
  • Wynaut
  • Tynamo
  • Scatterbug
  • Spewpa

Their moves have stayed pretty much the same throughout the generations.

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