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pokedude900 posted...

Unless something happened in the second half of Journeys, Pikachu has never had more than 4 moves at any given time. When it learns a new one, it quietly forgets an old one. It hasn't used Volt Tackle since it learned Electroweb.

IIRC, the only time the anime ever blatantly broke the 4 move rule was Drake's Dragonite during Orange Islands, which had 10. And that was an intentional decision by the writers to make it seem unstoppable.

Though I do vaguely recall one weird instance where Ash's Snorlax used 5 or 6 moves in one battle.

I think the move Ashs pikachu used was a technique with thunderbolt and hydro pump he developed to fight against Fantina. His pokemon spins while using the move to make it whirl into a spread atk that's useful against mobile targets and or ones difficult to approach.