What are all of the "Competitive Moves"?

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I want a list of all moves Smogon deems competitively viable. I don’t want moves that become more viable only with the help of an Item/Ability that would otherwise be unused (Like Technician+Bug Bite is Viable). I will mostly use this list for theoryMon-ing and similar applications. I am only asking because I searched for a source that listed all of them and couldn’t find one. If you could give a link to a site that does list them, that’d be appreciated as well. :P

Thanks!

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I realized that Hackmons existed too late….This totally didn’t took a major part of my day nor my sanity.Tw’ts ewllSwaeyahater8

That’s kind of a broad question. However, In Pokemon Showdown if you look up a Pokemon and start to build its moveset, it splits all “viable” and “unviable” moves into their respective categories. But just because a move is considered “unviable” doesn’t mean it useless. This game, after all, is about creating out of the box ways to become successful in the game, you don’t necessarily need to use viable Pokemon or moves to be competitively viable.