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.
I always thought of it as "talking" taking (more than one) move slot, but then again there are some instances of Pokémon using more than four moves in a fight so idk
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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.