Retain Leech Life as a special move for Pokemon that learned it before Gen 7

[EastonWest]

The update to Gen 7 learnsets dropped Leech Life from a few learnsets. This results in a situation where, for example, some old Spinaraks know Leech Life, but a Spinarak caught or bred now can never learn Leech Life.

 

True, this only affects Pokemon that are either special attackers or rarely used. But it could theoretically throw a PvP battle. Or disappoint all those hardcore Parasect fans out there.

 

Keeping Leech Life learnable would avoid unfair surprises or hard feelings. It would also increase parity with Gen 7 learnsets, since the affected Pokemon all learn Leech Life via Gen 7's TM28. The Battle Points Special Tutors fill the role of giving access to moves learned by unusual means, so that would be a good fit for this purpose.

[aftershocker]

Justice for Ninjask, was looking into this a couple days ago. Completely agree

[Darkshade]

5 hours ago, EastonWest said:

The Battle Points Special Tutors fill the role of giving access to moves learned by unusual means, so that would be a good fit for this purpose.

They don't exactly, it fills the role of things learnt through a particular method.

 

The intention is/was to add this TM, but failing this we could introduce a regular tutor.

[Malorne]

26 minutes ago, Darkshade said:

They don't exactly, it fills the role of things learnt through a particular method.

 

The intention is/was to add this TM, but failing this we could introduce a regular tutor.

Lots of egg moves are missing since the egg move pool is upto gen 7 while we're on gen 5 pokes. Leech Life is just one move. Think a wider tutor for those moves could benefit the competitive scene more.

[EastonWest]

The Dec. 11 patch changed Aura Sphere from an egg move to a special tutor move for Squirtle. You mean something like that?