It's the one in my signature!
Ever since gen 1, butterfly and moth Pokemon have been associated with Psychic moves. I don't really know why they have that association (I guess that's a broader movepool oddity), but most of them can learn uncommon Psychic moves like Confusion, Psybeam, and indeed Dream Eater.
Also, I forgot to answer to this.
butterflies, and moths, have a supernatural association (usually with death iirc) in some countries (this is also probably why every single moth available is in Area Zero...) . So maybe getting ESP is part of that
To be honest, to me it just looks like a generic TM learned by just... anything that can perform a basic jump.
Why do you have to ruin my childhood beliefs like that
Clearly Numel is based off of a Minecraft camel.
To some degree yes, however even all-purpose skills that "everyone learns" haven't *really* been a thing recently.
Adding another twist to this discussion, it's odd this is the description for a move called Trailblaze. The definition of trailblaze, at least the one which I think this Move is based on, is going through some wilderness and creating a path behind you (the exact word origin likely coming from the concept of burning through foilage to create a trail though a forest/jungle/are with heavy plant growth). The trailblazer doesn't even need to be fast by strict terms, as long as they're creating a trail behind them where there one wasn't, they are a "trailblazer".
While I overall agree with Worldie and think this move is just a throwaway Flame Charge clone (because locking a +1 speed weak attack behind being able to generate flames is limiting) I think this is the right definition for the move. It explains why the vast majority of learners are ones that are straight up animals, weighted toward mammals, as animals either create and enforce their own boundaries of their territories, or just kind of roam wherever without caring much about territory. Both of these are "trailblazing" in their own ways (but, edit after the post, roaming wherever is actually more common and I think a better use of the term).
Why no Perish Song? No Memento? Even if Game Freak didn't want to reference swan songs for some reason, they at least could have given Swanna anything to do with swans as opposed to giving it the most generic Water/Flying movepool possible. Even something inconsequential like giving it Attract through level-up would have been better than what Swanna has now. Seriously, this thing only learns Water and Flying moves through level-up.Wikipedia said:
Incidentally, Swanna is one of the very few pokemon that triggers the "oh yes this pokemon exists" feel on me any time i see it.
Why no Perish Song? No Memento? Even if Game Freak didn't want to reference swan songs for some reason, they at least could have given Swanna anything to do with swans as opposed to giving it the most generic Water/Flying movepool possible. Even something inconsequential like giving it Attract through level-up would have been better than what Swanna has now. Seriously, this thing only learns Water and Flying moves through level-up.
So, I just checked, and actually most Grass-types in the Paldea Dex do learn Trailblazer. There's only 3 exceptions: Shroomish family, Rotom-Mow, and Foongus family.
BTW, Arboliva does have legs. I know, it was a surprise to me too, I thought it's body was just a brown tree base until I think I watched a playthrough and noticed it have white thing legs. And I used an Arboliva on my main team in Violet, though the feet aren't really noticeable from the back (also it was a special attacker and whenever it uses a special Move it just spins around in place).
This is especially funny because while writing the post, before deciding to concede to Bulbapedia's definition of Chansey as an axolotl (press X to doubt), I had Chansey in its own "IDK" tier because I have no idea what it is. And one of the things I said was "if it is a kangaroo thanks to the pouch then Trailblaze would make sense, so it's probably fine".
for better or worse, this strikes me more as a balancing decision than any lore reason - Technician-boosted Trailblaze is tame on its own, but combined with Spore I can see some concern about that dynamic in particular.
That is just how GF does.
My theory for why so many gen 5 Pokemon are so forgettable: It was a "soft reboot" of the series, so many of the Pokemon were "modernized" versions of older (especially gen 1) Pokemon, like the Timburr line vs. the Machop line, and most of those Pokemon were more basic compared to Pokemon in later generations. However, the gen 1 Pokemon have the whole "being the OGs" and are also more memorable just by having been around for much longer.
