Do TMs respawn in Scarlet and Violet?

Question

i feel like they might not but I keep picking them up just in case but sometimes I feel like I picked up a tm in a spot I already have

Comments

I would assume not, since TMs can be made repeatedly in SV, erasing the need for another method of multiple TMs. Serebii also lists several locations for single TMs, which I would infer to mean that they can not be repeatedly found at the same spot.

Answer 1

TMs do not respawn in the overworld. Some may appear in multiple locations, but these are static spawns, and they don't reappear in the same locations after collected.

TMs have flags to mark if they have been collected when a location is spawning assets, but they don't run any check for respawning when an area is loaded, nor do they do so when the game checks for other static assets that do respawn.

I can't find a source that counters this, and all I have to go by is the game data itself not having the routine.

There is a source that shows that they have multiple spawn locations.