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I bought a clefable from trade chat and it is unable to relearn moves from clefairy. Is this intended, is there anyway to relearn clefairy moves?

Currently, the move-relearner only pools in moves that the Pokemon selectee satisfied the level-up threshold for; for some Pokemon—namely stone-evolved ones—that's exclusionary to their pre-evolutions moves by virtue of the fact that their level-up learnsets differ. Most stone-evolved Pokemon are confined to a smattering of instinctual moves, while it does not inherit most level-up moves from its previous stage.

 

We hope to augment the move-relearner in the future with a move-inheritor that affords these Pokemon all their pre-evolution's level-up moves. There's always a trade-off for evolving Pokemon prematurely—and in this case, you may see that represented with a steepened cost for inheriting those moves—but we don't feel that it should be a deadlocking one—not one that's preclusive of learning these moves altogether.

 

For now, however, you will just need to be more judicious in when you decide to evolve the stone-evolved bevy of Pokemon—that is, once you've culled all the level-up moves from its pre-evolution that you want—in addition to contextualizing this limitation to their movesets when trading for them. As a makeshift solution, I can only suggest that you glean your desired moves from TMs, move-tutors and egg-inheritable moves, as you'll find some effective substitutes for the now-unlearnable moves you're missing.

So if a clefable was traded without Moonblast it's completely impossible to get moonblast back?

112884 So if a clefable was traded without Moonblast it's completely impossible to get moonblast back?

yes, it's impossible.