I see, I see. I'm glad I asked, in that case. This was the first one I had encountered, I sort of assumed they all worked in the same manner.

But you said these non-combat abilities are used to make travel easier? I'm guessing then that surf is some sort of ferrying ability and fly is...

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Okay, maybe I am missing something. Because it almost sounds as though the implication here is that one cannot fly on a suitably-sized Pokémon without the use of a disc to teach it how to do so? Or ride across water, for that matter.

[And that can't possibly be right.]