To approach this from a bit of a different angle from Deck, rather than just looking at percentages and type correlation, I've started by looking at new moves that any given Pokemon would be likely to get. What I mean by this are the moves that newly became TMs, HMs or Tutor moves since the Pokemon's release, or what I like to think of as "easily accessible" moves. Tomohawk was created at the beginning of gen 5. As such, thinking from a consistency standpoint, it could easily have gained gen 5 tutor moves that came out later in the generation, as well as new TMs and tutors from gen 6 and 7. I'm going to start by just dumping all of the info on those moves:
Note that this is not a list of moves I believe Tomohawk should get. All this is is simply moves that were not "easily accessible" at the time of Tomohawk's creation, but became "easily accessible" at some point between then and now. My comments on the moves are below.
Orange moves, such as Heat Wave and Hyper Voice are moves already learned by Tomohawk. As such, they are irrelevant to discussion here, but we should remember to add the appropriate TMs or tutors to Tomo's movepool data on PS.
Blue moves, or should I say move, is Earth Power, which we have voted to remove. As such, it has no place in discussion here.
Yellow moves, such as Confide, are universal, and all Pokemon who get TM or Tutor moves typically get these. As such, Tomohawk should probably get these moves, and I doubt anyone would have any issue with that.
Red moves are those that I personally thought might have some competitive use on Tomohawk. While we do not have to avoid any and every move that could be competitive, we want to avoid anything that Tomo might even slightly consider actually using outside a very rare gimmick. I may have been conservative here, and some people might disagree, and that is OK. But as with normal movepool flavor moves, anything that is more than a rare gimmick should not even be under consideration.
The remaining uncolored moves are those that don't fall under any of the above categories. If we want to make any other additions beyond the universal moves, there are the kind of moves that are ideal to draw from.
So, with all that in mind, some moves I think might be good to give Tomohawk are:
- Confide [Gen 6 & 7 TM] - A universal move.
- Helping Hand [Gen 5 & 6 Tutor] - Nearly universal among fighting types. Only Scraggy and Scrafty lacked it among fighting types who existed those gens.
- Iron Tail [Gen 5 & 6 Tutor] - Tomohawk has a tail, and this move is practically universal among tailed Pokemon.
- Power-Up Punch [Gen 6 TM] - The only fighting types available in Gen 6 not to get it were Heracross, Hitmontop, Tyrogue and ones without arms, so the correlation is very high.
- Sky Attack [Gen 5 & 6 Tutor] - it is a fully evolved flying type Pokemon based on a bird. All but one Pokemon that fits those criteria and existed in gen 6 get it.
- Sleep Talk [Gen 5 Tutor + Gen 6 & 7 TM] - a universal move.
- Snore [Gen 5 & 6 Tutor] - a universal move.
- Steel Wing [Gen 6 & 7 TM] - its a bird with wings, and this move is pretty much universal in that group.
On the other hand, some move that have been suggested that I am not sold on are the following:
- Low Sweep [Gen 5, 6 & 7 TM] - As this was a Gen 5 TM, and not a Tutor, that means we could have given it to Tomohawk when it was created, but it did not get it. As such, I don't see a good reason to change the initial decision on this move. It is very rare for a Pokemon to get access to a TM it didn't get in past generation.
- Low Kick [Gen 5 & 6 Tutor] - While there is high correlation between this move and fighting types, it is very similar to Low Sweep, and I prefer to keep the two of them together. In this case that means I don't see a reason for it.
- Payback [Gen 5, 6 & 7 TM] - Just like with Low Sweep, this is a move that was available at the time, and we didn't give it to Tomohawk, even though it had type correlation. I don't see a good reason to change that. Again, it is very rare for a Pokemon to get access to a TM it didn't get in past generation.
That's it from me for now. Though, I will add that I totally support adding Scratch for Scratchet purposes as well.