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

[Dragonstrike]

Rock Climb, Strength, or Surf. Can already dive with Ariel, so have more mobility options would be nice! I would not go with Fly, as both Shiva and Nathan have Pokémon that can Teleport all over the region. I actually want to see what Strength is like on Breloom, ho estly, but it's highly unlikely to ever get an HM unless we get REALLY fortunate...

Teleport is powerful, but it's still very limited in how you can move around.  There's limitations on how far and where you can travel based on how powerful the pokemon is and which locations you've visited recently, since you need to arrive there via the help of psychic energy.

While Teleporting across the region is possible, let's keep in mind that Teleport will only take you back to the last Pokemon Center you used in the games, so doing that in-game means traveling across the entire region without using a Pokemon Center even once, and then Teleporting back.

Probably the most valuable HMs are still Surf and Fly since they massively increase your mobility options.  Rock Climb, Dive, Whirlpool, and Waterfall still have their niche transport values as well.  Cut, Strength, and Rock Smash are just means to remove obstacles.  Flash could be a TM or an HM, and is mostly just a convenience if you don't have a pokemon with Illuminate.

And then there's Defog.  Niche value outside battle, but hazard cleaning and screens removal in it.  Fun fun fun.

Just imagining how much stronger these moves could get with a buff or two makes me wonder how they could be applied if we were to obtain one...