[Meta thread] Iron's PokeRole Adventure: The Skull Ruins

[Dragonstrike]

I also noticed that Noiverns Boomburst, normally a move it can relearn via move tutor, has a whopping 75 XP cost. Given that those base level/re-teachable moves are 0 XP in the book, I don't understand why they decided to amp up the cost for that one move. Especially considering Togekiss, which has the similar stats to Noivern, learns Sky Attack for 0XP, which has high damage, high Flitch rate, and is automatically Lethal to boot. Which can only stand to get higher with either an Ancient Power stat boost across the board, or a Nast Plot boost.

That would probably be for balance reasons.  Stone evos can get away with it because they don't learn any moves via level up anyways, and are known for that odd quirk.

Something like Noivern's Boomburst or Gallade's Close Combat though?  Well, they already learn the offending move via a large amount of leveling.  The 0 exp cost for those moves was just something added in the games starting in gen 6 to speed up the process of raising a competitive pokemon.  Getting moves that powerful so quickly on pokemon that aren't quite as difficult to evolve in Pokerole is likely overkill to some degree, as almost every pokemon would be slinging those moves around really, really quickly if they kept with the trend in the newer pokemon games.  I do wish they'd fully update the movepools, but I can understand why a lot of those powerful moves you can normally only learn with a load of exp or a move relearner in the games might be locked away at high exp costs when a pokemon learns it both at that high level and as a move relearner move.

Now, maybe if the GM decided to overrule that, or make it available for the low cost ONLY if you can fill the requirement of finding a move relearner and have the needed item to pay them with...