In the Pokémon manga, a situation will sometimes occur where a Pokémon knows a move it cannot learn legally in any of the games. It is unknown whether these are actual mistakes, a writing policy of not having to stick to the games too closely, or merely the Pokémon using an attribute that shares the name of a move in the games.

Occasionally, in-game event Pokémon that can be transferred onto the main series games have a move that is not normally included in that Pokémon's moveset (a prime example being Pokémon Box Ruby & Sapphire, which gave away four separate Pokémon with moves that were not normally available to that specific Pokémon).

List of Pokémon Adventures Pokémon with moves they can't learn in the games

Sprite Name Move First use Picture
  Sabrina's Kadabra Hypnosis 1030Zap! Zap! Zapdos!
  Sabrina's Kadabra Slash 1032A Little Kadabra'll Do It
  Blue's Machamp Slam 1040A Charizard... and a Champion  
  Kitty Fly 1089The Might of... Metapod!? File:Kitty Fly.png
  Azalean Boy's Farfetch'd Wing Attack 1119You Ain't Nothin' But a Houndour
  Natee Fly 1119A Flaaffy Kerfuffle
  Eusine's Jumpluff Fly 1126Jumping Jumpluff
  Wilton's Butterfree Fly 1152Butterfly Butterfree
  Elizabeth Flash 1223VS. Luvdisc I
  Platinum's Piplup Water Gun 1342A Conk on Cranidos's Cranium
  Platinum's Empoleon Vacuum Wave 1366VS. Floatzel  
  Cynthia's Garchomp Fly 1367VS. Psyduck
  Mars's Yanmega Fly 1397VS. Octillery
  Riley's Lucario Bonemerang 1418VS. Porygon-Z File:Lucario Bonemerang Adventures.png

List of Pokémon Pocket Monsters Pokémon with moves they can't learn in the games

Sprite Name Move First use Picture
  Brock's Onix Constrict Take Out The Rival Onix!! File:Brock Onix Constrict PM.png

List of Pokémon Zensho Pokémon with moves they can't learn in the games

Sprite Name Move First use Picture
  Satoshi's Charizard Tackle Prologue: Pallet Town  

How I Became a Pokémon Card

Pokémon in How I Became a Pokémon Card will often use moves that they cannot learn in the games. These are generally not errors, though, because this series is based on the Pokémon TCG; the "illegal" moves Pokémon use in this series are moves from their TCG cards.

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  This article is part of Project Manga, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each series of Pokémon manga.