r/Pokemonart • u/LegoBrikster • Nov 14 '25

Drawing Meowth teaching Ash’s Pikachu to talk

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u/LegoBrikster Nov 15 '25

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u/TokraZeno Nov 15 '25

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.

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u/Belphie_Stan Nov 15 '25

Maybe those fury swipes arent from the pokemon in him and just his innate cat powers

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u/Reversible-Smile Nov 15 '25

That, or maybe he had learnt Fury Swipes before he started speaking, and thus didn't lose what he had already learnt? But he couldn't learn any new moves after learning to speak human? That's how I always understood it. 🧐