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title: "Pokémon With the Most Moves: Mew Leads by a Mile | pokee.si"
url: "https://pokee.si/articles/pokemon-with-the-most-moves"
description: "Which Pokémon can learn the most moves? Mew learns 234 different moves in Scarlet and Violet, and Smeargle shows only one. Top lists and caveats."
last_updated: "2026-10-23"
publisher: "pokee.si: a Pokédex for families (unofficial fan site)"
published: "2026-10-21"
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# Pokémon With the Most Moves: Mew Leads by a Mile

The short answer is Mew, and it is not close. This page counts how many different moves each Pokémon in the pokee.si Pokédex can learn, using the level-up, TM, egg and tutor lists on its page, plus reviewed reminder-only entries where available. Mew's list is nearly twice as long as the next one.

## How we counted

Each Pokémon page shows the moves from the most recent game that has the Pokémon. That is Scarlet and Violet for most of them, Sword and Shield for some, and Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon for a few. Of the 1,025 Pokémon, 733 show Scarlet and Violet, 244 show Sword and Shield and 48 show Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon. The middle Pokémon in Scarlet and Violet has 56 different moves.

A move that appears in two lists counts once. That is why a Pokémon's method columns can add up to more than the last number.

Three limits matter. First, tutor moves exist in Sword and Shield and Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon but hardly at all in Scarlet and Violet, so a Pokémon from an older game is not a fair match for one from a newer game. Second, reminder-only entries have been reviewed for Dipplin, Ogerpon and Hydrapple; this is not a complete review for every species. A dash in the Reminder column means it has not been reviewed here. Third, our egg-move lists are longer than Pokémon Database's for some evolved Pokémon: it shows none for Shiftry or Clefable in Scarlet and Violet, where our data shows 23 and 21. We checked Mew, Arceus, Gallade and Mr. Rime against Pokémon Database, and the level-up and TM numbers match, with one move different for Gallade and Mr. Rime each.

## The top of Scarlet and Violet

| # | Pokémon | Level-up | TM | Egg | Tutor | Reminder | Different moves |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | [Mew](https://pokee.si/pokemon/mew) | 12 | 229 | 0 | 0 | — | **234** |
| 2 | [Arceus](https://pokee.si/pokemon/arceus) | 12 | 114 | 0 | 0 | — | **121** |
| 3 | [Gallade](https://pokee.si/pokemon/gallade) | 33 | 88 | 8 | 0 | — | **113** |
| 4 | [Mewtwo](https://pokee.si/pokemon/mewtwo) | 16 | 91 | 0 | 0 | — | **102** |
| 5 | [Wigglytuff](https://pokee.si/pokemon/wigglytuff) | 21 | 81 | 8 | 0 | — | **100** |
| 6 | [Shiftry](https://pokee.si/pokemon/shiftry) | 5 | 73 | 23 | 0 | — | **97** |
| 7 | [Jigglypuff](https://pokee.si/pokemon/jigglypuff) | 20 | 77 | 8 | 0 | — | **96** |
| 8 | [Clefable](https://pokee.si/pokemon/clefable) | 4 | 76 | 21 | 0 | — | **95** |
| 9 | [Slaking](https://pokee.si/pokemon/slaking) | 14 | 79 | 9 | 0 | — | **95** |
| 10 | [Infernape](https://pokee.si/pokemon/infernape) | 14 | 79 | 12 | 0 | — | **94** |
| 11 | [Clefairy](https://pokee.si/pokemon/clefairy) | 21 | 72 | 4 | 0 | — | **91** |
| 12 | [Rhyperior](https://pokee.si/pokemon/rhyperior) | 16 | 78 | 6 | 0 | — | **91** |

[Mew](https://pokee.si/pokemon/mew) has 12 level-up moves and every TM, and no egg or tutor moves. [Arceus](https://pokee.si/pokemon/arceus), [Mewtwo](https://pokee.si/pokemon/mewtwo) and [Gallade](https://pokee.si/pokemon/gallade) follow, and after that the lists are close to each other. [Dudunsparce](https://pokee.si/pokemon/dudunsparce) also reaches 91 and just misses the table. Mew leads second place by 113 moves, and its total is about 4.2 times the middle Pokémon's.

Because the egg lists are the weak spot, here is the same ranking with egg moves removed.

| # | Pokémon | Level-up and TM moves |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | [Mew](https://pokee.si/pokemon/mew) | 234 |
| 2 | [Arceus](https://pokee.si/pokemon/arceus) | 121 |
| 3 | [Gallade](https://pokee.si/pokemon/gallade) | 107 |
| 4 | [Mewtwo](https://pokee.si/pokemon/mewtwo) | 102 |
| 5 | [Wigglytuff](https://pokee.si/pokemon/wigglytuff) | 94 |
| 6 | [Jigglypuff](https://pokee.si/pokemon/jigglypuff) | 90 |
| 7 | [Slaking](https://pokee.si/pokemon/slaking) | 89 |
| 8 | [Infernape](https://pokee.si/pokemon/infernape) | 88 |

## Other games

Pokémon whose latest game is Sword and Shield or Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon cannot be compared to the table above. Here are the leaders in each.

Sword and Shield:

| # | Pokémon | Level-up | TM | Egg | Tutor | Reminder | Different moves |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | [Mr. Rime](https://pokee.si/pokemon/mr-rime) | 30 | 69 | 5 | 2 | — | **93** |
| 2 | [Nidoking](https://pokee.si/pokemon/nidoking) | 15 | 72 | 10 | 1 | — | **91** |
| 3 | [Aggron](https://pokee.si/pokemon/aggron) | 17 | 70 | 6 | 3 | — | **89** |
| 4 | [Pangoro](https://pokee.si/pokemon/pangoro) | 17 | 67 | 5 | 2 | — | **85** |
| 5 | [Obstagoon](https://pokee.si/pokemon/obstagoon) | 22 | 64 | 3 | 1 | — | **84** |

Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon:

| # | Pokémon | Level-up | TM | Egg | Tutor | Reminder | Different moves |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | [Kecleon](https://pokee.si/pokemon/kecleon) | 19 | 37 | 12 | 25 | — | **83** |
| 2 | [Watchog](https://pokee.si/pokemon/watchog) | 23 | 31 | 9 | 22 | — | **77** |
| 3 | [Spinda](https://pokee.si/pokemon/spinda) | 13 | 30 | 17 | 22 | — | **76** |
| 4 | [Bibarel](https://pokee.si/pokemon/bibarel) | 18 | 36 | 13 | 14 | — | **73** |
| 5 | [Skitty](https://pokee.si/pokemon/skitty) | 19 | 33 | 14 | 12 | — | **69** |

In Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, the top three get 22 to 25 of their moves from tutors. In Scarlet and Violet our data holds only 4 tutor moves in total.

## Level-up, TM and egg leaders

| List | Scarlet and Violet leaders | Sword and Shield leaders |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Level-up | [Gallade](https://pokee.si/pokemon/gallade) 33, [Snorlax](https://pokee.si/pokemon/snorlax) 27, [Lucario](https://pokee.si/pokemon/lucario) 26 | [Mr. Rime](https://pokee.si/pokemon/mr-rime) 30, [Steelix](https://pokee.si/pokemon/steelix) 24, [Ninjask](https://pokee.si/pokemon/ninjask) 23 |
| TM (TR in Sword and Shield) | [Mew](https://pokee.si/pokemon/mew) 229, [Arceus](https://pokee.si/pokemon/arceus) 114, [Mewtwo](https://pokee.si/pokemon/mewtwo) 91 | [Nidoking](https://pokee.si/pokemon/nidoking) 72, [Nidoqueen](https://pokee.si/pokemon/nidoqueen) 71, [Aggron](https://pokee.si/pokemon/aggron) 70 |
| Egg, as listed in our data | [Shiftry](https://pokee.si/pokemon/shiftry) 23, [Clefable](https://pokee.si/pokemon/clefable) 21, [Ludicolo](https://pokee.si/pokemon/ludicolo) 18 | [Farfetch'd](https://pokee.si/pokemon/farfetchd) 13, [Sirfetch'd](https://pokee.si/pokemon/sirfetchd) 13, [Nidoran♂](https://pokee.si/pokemon/nidoran-m) 10 |

Every one of the 229 TMs in Scarlet and Violet is on Mew's list, which is why it leads the TM row by so much.

## The Pokémon with the fewest moves

| Pokémon | Different moves | What it learns |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [Ditto](https://pokee.si/pokemon/ditto) | 1 | Transform |
| [Unown](https://pokee.si/pokemon/unown) | 1 | Hidden Power |
| [Smeargle](https://pokee.si/pokemon/smeargle) | 1 | Sketch |
| [Cosmog](https://pokee.si/pokemon/cosmog) | 2 | Splash, Teleport |
| [Cosmoem](https://pokee.si/pokemon/cosmoem) | 2 | Cosmic Power, Teleport |
| [Metapod](https://pokee.si/pokemon/metapod) | 3 | Harden, Electroweb, Iron Defense |
| [Magikarp](https://pokee.si/pokemon/magikarp) | 3 | Splash, Tackle, Flail |

[Smeargle](https://pokee.si/pokemon/smeargle) is the odd one. Its list holds [Sketch](https://pokee.si/moves/sketch) and nothing else, but Pokémon Database says Sketch permanently copies the last move the target used, then disappears. Smeargle can end up with a very wide range of moves. [Ditto](https://pokee.si/pokemon/ditto) has [Transform](https://pokee.si/moves/transform), and [Magikarp](https://pokee.si/pokemon/magikarp) has [Splash](https://pokee.si/moves/splash), Tackle and Flail.

## Which moves almost everyone can learn

In Scarlet and Violet, these moves are learned by the most Pokémon, out of 733: [Tera Blast](https://pokee.si/moves/tera-blast) 726, [Protect](https://pokee.si/moves/protect) 722, [Substitute](https://pokee.si/moves/substitute) 719, [Endure](https://pokee.si/moves/endure) 718, [Sleep Talk](https://pokee.si/moves/sleep-talk) 718, [Rest](https://pokee.si/moves/rest) 717. Tera Blast tops the list, and Protect, Substitute and Rest are close behind.

## What a long list means

A long list gives choice, but it says nothing about how strong the moves are. For how attacks gain power from the user's type, read [what STAB means](https://pokee.si/articles/what-does-stab-mean).

## Questions people ask

### Which Pokémon can learn the most moves?

Mew. In Scarlet and Violet it learns 12 moves by level and all 229 TMs, which makes 234 different moves in our data. Arceus is next with 121.

### Can Smeargle learn every move?

Almost. Smeargle's own list holds only Sketch, but Sketch lets it permanently copy the last move its target used, and then Sketch is gone. Over time it can collect a very wide range.

### Which Pokémon learns the most moves by level?

Gallade, with 33 level-up moves in Scarlet and Violet. Mr. Rime has 30 in Sword and Shield, and Snorlax has 27 in Scarlet and Violet.

### Does Mew learn every TM?

In Scarlet and Violet, yes. Mew has all 229 TMs, and no other Pokémon comes close.

### Which Pokémon learn the fewest moves?

Ditto, Unown and Smeargle have one move each in our data, and Ditto's is Transform. Cosmog and Cosmoem have two, and Magikarp has three.

## Sources

- [Pokémon Database: Mew moves in Scarlet and Violet](https://pokemondb.net/pokedex/mew/moves/9)
- [Pokémon Database: Gallade moves in Scarlet and Violet](https://pokemondb.net/pokedex/gallade/moves/9)
- [Pokémon Database: Smeargle moves in Scarlet and Violet](https://pokemondb.net/pokedex/smeargle/moves/9)
- [Pokémon Database: Sketch](https://pokemondb.net/move/sketch)
- [Pokémon Database: Mr. Rime moves in Sword and Shield](https://pokemondb.net/pokedex/mr-rime/moves/8)

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