Can you use the move reminder to relearn hone claws (a transfer only move) in USUM?

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Let’s say for example, a Blaziken that knows hone claws from gen 6 is transferred to gen 7. After a while, I decide to remove hone claws in favor of another move and after another while, I want hone claws again. Since hone claws is no longer a TM in gen 7, can I use the move reminder to relearn hone claws on the same Blaziken?

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The move reminder can only reteach certain classes of moves:

If a move doesn’t fall into one of these categories, the reminder is no help. In particular, TMs used to be possible to pass down as part of an egg’s starting moveset, back when they were single-use items and many of them were only obtainable once per save file (so that you could plan carefully and get more mileage out of them), but this became unnecessary after TMs became reusable, and in particular it is not possible to do this in any game where the Relearn Moves field exists (although some species have egg moves that overlap with TMs they’re compatible with, and in those cases the moves can still pass down to the egg).

In short: It is not possible to have a Blaziken wind up with Hone Claws in its relearn moves in any game, so if you delete that move after it’s no longer a TM, you won’t be able to get it back.