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The question above. I know that Regigigas didn't get Protect until Gen 8, and now I am wondering what other Pokemon haven't learned Protect/Substitute until now, or just never learned it.

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/nds !protect, all:
Applin, Beldum, Blipbug, Cascoon, Caterpie, Combee, Cosmoem, Cosmog, Ditto, Kakuna, Kricketot, Magikarp, Metapod, Scatterbug, Silcoon, Tynamo, Unown, Weedle, Wobbuffet, Wurmple, Wynaut

/nds !substitute, all:
Applin, Beldum, Blipbug, Burmy, Cascoon, Caterpie, Combee, Cosmoem, Cosmog, Ditto, Kakuna, Kricketot, Magikarp, Metapod, Scatterbug, Silcoon, Spewpa, Tynamo, Unown, Weedle, Wobbuffet, Wurmple, Wynaut

Beyond Regigigas gaining Protect in Gen 8, its availability has been the same since its introduction, beyond the addition of new Pokémon of course. For Substitute though, in Generation 2, it wasn't learnable from a Move Tutor or TM, so its list of Pokémon unable to learn it was quite large.

/ds2, !substitute, all (91 results)
Aipom, Ampharos, Ariados, Azumarill, Bayleef, Caterpie, Celebi, Chikorita, Chinchou, Cleffa, Corsola, Croconaw, Cyndaquil, Delibird, Ditto, Donphan, Dunsparce, Elekid, Entei, Feraligatr, Flaaffy, Furret, Girafarig, Gligar, Granbull, Heracross, Hitmontop, Ho-Oh, Hoothoot, Hoppip, Houndoom, Houndour, Igglybuff, Jumpluff, Kakuna, Lanturn, Larvitar, Ledian, Ledyba, Lugia, Magby, Magcargo, Magikarp, Mantine, Mareep, Marill, Meganium, Metapod, Miltank, Misdreavus, Murkrow, Natu, Noctowl, Octillery, Phanpy, Pichu, Piloswine, Pupitar, Quagsire, Quilava, Qwilfish, Raikou, Remoraid, Sentret, Shuckle, Skarmory, Skiploom, Slugma, Smoochum, Sneasel, Snubbull, Spinarak, Stantler, Suicune, Sunflora, Sunkern, Swinub, Teddiursa, Togepi, Togetic, Totodile, Typhlosion, Tyranitar, Tyrogue, Unown, Ursaring, Weedle, Wobbuffet, Wooper, Xatu, Yanma

Source: Pokémon Showdown Commands

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Pokemon that don't get Substitute in Scarlet Violet:

/ds !substitute:
Applin, Beldum, Combee, Cosmoem, Cosmog, Ditto, Kricketot, Magikarp, Scatterbug, Spewpa, Tynamo

Pokemon that don't get Protect in Scarlet Violet:

/ds !protect:
Applin, Beldum, Combee, Cosmoem, Cosmog, Ditto, Kricketot, Magikarp, Scatterbug, Tynamo

Pokemon that get neither Substitute or Protect in Scarlet Violet:

ds !protect, !substitute:
Applin, Beldum, Combee, Cosmoem, Cosmog, Ditto, Kricketot, Magikarp, Scatterbug, Tynamo

All Pokemon that never got Substitute:

/nds !substitute:
Applin, Beldum, Blipbug, Burmy, Cascoon, Caterpie, Combee, Cosmoem, Cosmog, Ditto, Kakuna, Kricketot, Magikarp, Metapod, Scatterbug, Silcoon, Spewpa, Tynamo, Unown, Weedle, Wobbuffet, Wurmple, Wynaut

All Pokemon that never got Protect:

/nds !protect:
Applin, Beldum, Blipbug, Cascoon, Caterpie, Combee, Cosmoem, Cosmog, Ditto, Kakuna, Kricketot, Magikarp, Metapod, Scatterbug, Silcoon, Tynamo, Unown, Weedle, Wobbuffet, Wurmple, Wynaut

All Pokemon that neither got Substitute nor Protect:

/nds !protect, !substitute:
Applin, Beldum, Blipbug, Cascoon, Caterpie, Combee, Cosmoem, Cosmog, Ditto, Kakuna, Kricketot, Magikarp, Metapod, Scatterbug, Silcoon, Tynamo, Unown, Weedle, Wobbuffet, Wurmple, Wynaut

Smeargle isn't included as it can technically learn them via Sketch.

Source: Showdown! commands

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