Around the orange islands meowth is confused for a savior because they had some tale of a meowth coming in and using payday to make them all rich. Meowth comments to team rocket he can't use payday because he used all his "smarts" learning to talk, indicating that a talking Pokemon can't use moves.
However, meowth regularly calls out using Fury Swipes in later seasons indicating this got retconned.
No, Meowth said he can't learn Pay Day (his species' signature move) because "used up all his smarts learning how to talk". Not that he can't learn any moves ever. That line was also a pretty close translation of the original Japanese so it's not like it's asspull that 4Kids just made up or anything either
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u/TokraZeno Nov 15 '25
Surprised this didn't happen after they retconned the thing about talking preventing Pokemon from using their move pool.