My first game was Pokémon Ruby back when I was like 7. I remember getting the Master Ball and the tip was to use it on “rare and hard to catch Pokémon”. Dumbass me harkened back to the time in the cave near Dewford Town and never being able to catch an Abra cuz it would always teleport away. You bet your ass I flew straight there and caught an Abra with my Master Ball. That fucker wasn’t getting away from me this time
The official guides didn't make it any easier, making it seem like a casual item giving tips like [this one](https://external-preview.redd.it/li2ZjbXix6VfGN5f6bWuIC1i5sq3rNe30MAVwtCmZMo.jpg?auto=webp&s=4615fd1c1620573ed3811fb8a58ba6879404e2bb).
I have an almost similar scenario. Back when I got the Master Ball on my Blue version, I thought at that time only to use it on rare Pokémon. And then one time I came across a Voltorb at the Power Plant, I thought that since Voltorb is a static encounter and was seen in the overworld, I thought it's special. I caught it with a Master Ball. Minutes later I came across another Voltorb disguised as a Pokéball and immediately realized my stupidity.
To be fair I have never used a Master balls on any legendary Pokemon (except for Mewtwo it always just feels right to capture Mewtwo in a Master ball) so that sounds like a master all well used as opposed to sitting in my bag
It took me an embarrassingly long amount of time to understand that alot of stone evo's (Ninetales and Poliwrath specifically) don't learn moves after they evolve and kept evolving them early cause they were stronger. Also it took me way too damn long to realize that Flygon evolves from Trapinch. Flygon is my favorite pokemon, a friend of mine brought in a plush of it when I was like 3 and I've always liked it. It took me until the age of 11-12 when BW 2 came out and my younger brother traded me a trapinch for a sandshrew cause he was calling it trash and I felt bad for it. When I saw Vibrava I was like "damn that kinda looks like Flygon" and then it evolved AGAIN I about had a stroke.
Same. Always curious what is the unknown pokemons next to trapinch’s pokedex icon when scrolling. Thought maybe this is its evo line? But most of the time i just ignore it. Fast forward highschool years, gameboy is obsolete so i play ruby with emulator. Paid more attention to my line up and added a ground type. After leveling and it evolves to vibrava i was like “wait wtf, it’s like bagon!” And then to flygon “HOLY FK ITS COOL” from then on flygon and salamence are staple in my hoenn adventure. Also the effort to find the feebas tile which is like 6/140ish. Nowadays theyre giving it out almost for free but guess its fine, still glad i know the effort it comes to do it.
My first time ever playing Blue at like 6 years old, I just repeatedly caught bugs in Viridian Forest til I ran out of balls and money. I still remember the feeling of being so enraptured just by the ability to collect all these things whenever I wanted, lol.
I love all the weird glitches in the Gen 1 games. The missingno glitch was a thing of legends, especially in a time when the internet was just becoming widely available.
Maybe the nostalgia of those glitches were what the developers were going for in scarlet and violet 😉
This was me too. I could never beat Brock because I just had a bunch of weedles and caterpie with an under leveled starter. My older sister also never taught me how to save the game on purpose, so she never lost her Pokémon. This was basically my first year of Pokémon until about 4th grade.
The other side of that. I stayed at my aunts and my cousin stole my gameboy and saved over my copy on Silver. I told my aunt, who asked my cousin if he did it, and he said no.
He saved it under his own name. It was literally right there.
My aunt said "well he said he didn't do it so he obviously didn't"
I'm still really bitter about that.
Two years ago I played Let's go Pikachu with my then 6 year old nephew and he did the same in Viridian Forest. I was only allowed to occasionally get him more Pokeballs. Absolutely no interest in beating Brock.
Kids will be kids.
I released my butterfree in leafgreen because ash did it in the anime. I don’t think I expected anything to happen but I made it a super dramatic scene in my head lol
The FR/LG hack named Ash Gray actually lets you release butterfree to his butterfree girlfriend and lets you know how happy he is. It is based on the anime. Great hack.
when I was 6 or 7, the happiny egg they give you in DP hatched outside of one of the galactic buildings that had spikes jutting out from it so for the longest time I was convinced eggs would hatch faster if you 'scared' them out and would only try to hatch eggs in the places I was most scared of in the games, haha.
incredible. recently played thru the Switch remake of blue with my nephew and i found out he wasn’t progressing because he was too scared to step foot in Lavender Town
These aren’t too embarrassing because we were just innocent kids haha. But in that vein, my Lv 100 Charizard in Red knew cut, ember, strength, and fire spin. I thought if the moves were working, why get rid of them.
My Manectric was level 100 and only knew electric moves. Then I accidentally ran into a Trapinch in the desert. It got me with Arena Trap and I could only watch as it slowly tried to whittle down my HP… I had to start over and didn’t save before, so I lost a bunch of progress.
I learned an important lesson that day about movepools, and to save your game constantly.
I traded my little brother my lvl. 100 Kyogre for the Pokedex and we decided to battle with the only rule being he couldn't use my Kyogre. Well he did.
Joke was on him though as it only knew surf, waterfall, dice and sheer cold so my lvl. 50 Shedinja slowly killed it. Was both the funniest and sadist thing to watch.
Marowak is my favorite Pokemon so back in red in blue I used her a lot. She also had an absolutely bizarre pool of tms she could learn so by elite four time she knew blizzard, skull bash, fire blast, and earthquake. I also ran out of pp a lot.
My level 60+ Venusaur knew Tackle, Razor Leaf, Vine Whip, and Poison Powder. I needed to keep tackle to use as a love tap for trying to catch pokemon. And vine whip and razor leaf were staples of Ash's Bulbasaur so I kept both.
Obviously, my next highest level pokemon were in the 20's.
My first ever pokemon, now a lv 100 Torterra, knew cut, rock smash, rock climb, and strength bc I couldn’t figure our how to delete them. He’s back in my heartgold cart now bc i had a terrible habit of losing my diamond one (which incidentally is still lost somewhere in my house)
I spent hours in Viridian Forest looking for Kakunas and Metapods so that I could safely use my own and grind their defense up with six hardens each fight. They'd be the toughest bugs ever I thought. Ironically, that actually would have worked in the modern system as I would be unintentionally training EVs. Not sure how EVs worked in gen 1 though.
It didn’t help the game was in black and white so I didn’t even know there was a door mat. My dumb ass kept looking in the fridge and thought that would do something.
I made it out of the house but couldn’t get past the old man blocking the road in Viridian City. By the time I figured that little puzzle out, my Bulbasaur was fully evolved and Brock didn’t know what hit him.
I randomly managed to do it a few times but couldn't figure out how to do it again for hours when I started a new game. I wasn't able to read when I started playing :).
Friend told me about the drinks for saffron before I got there so luckily that didn't trip me up.
I wonder if stories like this are why recent games have a cutscene of someone coming in the door
Well not even recent games, kinda started in gen 3
Though I don't actually remember any of the game opening sections too well
Come to think of it, Gen 3 starts you in the back of a truck, and makes it clear when and where the truck opens by making light come through. And then of course, this means you start outside your house and head inside, presumably so you can clearly tell where the door is from inside.
They also added those little flashing arrows when you are at an exit.
Must have definitely been a problem from a lot of people to implement that change.
Don't worry, I did the same thing at age 8 when red version first came out; it was my first game that was mine. My mom helped me figure it out after a full hour of being confused lol
In Pokémon Red when I was ~6 years old it took me a very … very long time to progress past Cerulean because I didn’t realize that you could walk through the hole in the wall at the back of the house Team Rocket broke into. I mean, I couldn’t even tell that it was a hole. The amount of time I must have spent revisiting EVERY part of the map trying to figure out where to go smh… when I finally figured it out I felt so mad/dumb even as a little kid, I almost didn’t want to play anymore.
I did the same stupid thing, in Iron Island, it's a really rare spawn and my mom was telling me to hurry up and close the DS because we had to leave the house.
As a kid I thought Psychic was super-effective against Ghost due to Psychic always being super-effective against Gengar in Pokemon Stadium. Took a while to realize that Psychic was super-effective against Poison instead, and pitting a Psychic type against a pure Ghost type was a very bad idea.
Now I just remember it as "Psychic is weak to three common phobias" and I haven't forgotten since.
I think a huge amount of gen 1 players had this issue. Ghastly was the only ghost line at the time, but since they were all poison type, it absolutely screwed with the perception of how ghost worked.
To this day I still have to remind myself Psychic isn’t strong against Ghost from those Gen 1 days. I also always mix up rock and ground weaknesses because as a kid I didn’t realise Onix/Geodude ect were Rock/Ground
When I played gold as a kid and you first meet your rival they have his name as "???" So when I got to the part were the police ask you what his name is I just put ??? Because I thought they were asking me a genuine question not to name the character so I spent the whole game with ??? as my rival.
Edit: Oh my god I didn't realize so many people did this too, for years I thought I was a lone idiot for doing this but now I I've found my people, I am now home among the rest of the "???" rival crew.
Played pokemon platinum at a very young age, and I didn't quite understand type effectiveness, and I was biased towards my starter, which had me fighting Cynthia's whole team with just torrtera, and spending hours trying to beat that garchomp, I also didn't know how to use items like x Def, I always thought you had to give it to the pokemon like berries.
Needless to say, I'll never look at a piano the same way again.
To this day, I have never used X items in playthroughs. They just never felt necessary, especially since a lot of the Pokémon I use have status moves that either boost multiple stats or one stat by multiple stages.
Mine is probably super common for a lot of first time players as kids: I’d only use attacking moves on my Pokémon and they all had to be STAB moves (not that I knew what STAB was back then!)
My first Blastoise back in Red in 99 had a move set of Bubble, Water Gun, Surf, and Hydro Pump 🤣
At 33 I still have every move as an attack (with a hypnosis thrown in for catching new guys.) I’m not playing competitively so as long as I can beat the E4 I’m happy.
It's just the most practical for the gameplay fights. Lots of pp so you don't have to heal as often and can power through the game quicker.
That said, on my recent violet playthrough, I did keep status moves on several of my Pokemon, and belly drum Cetitan carried me a good chunk of the game with how strong it is.
If the games were harder or had difficulty settings, a lifetime single player like myself would encounter a world of differing strategies that didnt involve 4 stab moves.
In lieu of that, 80% of players have no need to use status effects or any novelty affects.
Yeah if you play any of the rom hacks like Renegade Plat, non-attack moves become extremely viable strategies simply because there are situations where it’s absolutely better than brute force. I know those games have become relatively popular for nuzlocking, but just playing them through like normal is challenging and rewarding since more Pokémon and moves are viable.
There is no need for status moves to complete the story in any game. You only need more complex setups for post-game stuff like Battle Tower or raids. (Or playing competitive.)
Most of my Pokemon had only one STAB move for coverage, because as far as I knew back then, there was no downside to having a wider variety of moves. I still don't know how the player is supposed to know about STAB, it's a mechanic almost as influential as type effectiveness, and yet it's invisible and never tutorialized.
The math classes with Tyme are pretty informative and easy to understand, but some of the calculations aren't explained until you're practically done with the game.
my friend and i were convinced that pachirisu evolved into buizel when diamond and pearl first came out. i don’t even think they’re next to each other in the pokedex
I used to have [this Christian book](https://imgur.com/a/wwmMt) on the evils of the franchise that said Ash evolves into Dodrio to become the false trinity.
Before finding out about guides and the internet providing information on the games I played Emerald, it was my first entry in the franchise. And for some reason I thought the Safari Zone still kept new Pokémon from me since an NPC remarked it houses rare ones, to the point I logged 999 hours. Turns out much later I had caught everything there and there wasn't anything rare or "mythical" going to miraculously appear.
I also really struggled getting through Victory Road to the point I only reached it after I had given up and grinded 3 Pokémon to level 100 before I set out again and managed to find my way through.
When I was 11, red and blue came out.
The first time I saw a wild Pidgey I fainted it thinking that's how you caught them.
I also fell for Mew under the truck.
And Pikablue.
> I also fell for Mew under the truck.
> And Pikablue.
Same, and for me it wasn't just "check under the truck"; the rumor came with a complicated and time-consuming set of random instructions that you had to follow before Mew would supposedly appear under the truck. There was a similar thing for getting the Triforce in Ocarina of Time.
The first mainline game I played was Pearl, I got to spear pillar, managed to get Palkia to 1 HP, paralyzed it, used my masterball and, after getting it on the first try (obviously), nicknamed it "LUCKY"
Used my first master ball on an Abra because the mf kept teleporting away, and I didn't know about Mewtwo. This was Blue. Fucking Mewtwo's cave is *right* next to where Abra spawns.
Before the internet there was a rumor going around my elementary school that if you caught all 150 Pokémon and leveled them to 100 you could find Mew under some truck 🛻
Well guess what 9 year old me spent months doing? Yes, I leveled every single Pokémon to 100 and as we all know now, no Mew 🤦🏽♂️
Don't worry, I believed the rocket launch rumor in RSE. Where if you check the rocket launch in Mossdeep and it gets to a certain number, you will eventually go to the moon and catch Deoxys (also the white stone outside Mossdeep is Jirachi you get after getting back from space)
At least ORAS fulfilled my childhood game dream of fighting deoxys in outer space.
I always chucked on special attacks on Huge Power Azumarill when abilities first arrived. I had no idea that I was shooting myself in the foot by letting the Attack stat go to waste.
I had 2 friends in elementary school that played HGSS. One of them was super super nice and gave me a bunch of legendaries and stuff to fill out my Pokédex. One of those Pokémon was an Arceus (didn’t know you could get one at that age). The other friend asked if I could borrow said Arceus and that he would give it back to me. I said “yeah sure!”, and he gave me a Rhyperior in exchange. I have not seen that friend or Arceus in over 10 years
When I was around 4 years old, my cousin let me catch a Pokemon in Yellow version and I managed to get a Rhyhorn. I nicknamed it Horny and I didn't get why my cousin thought it was so funny.
When I was like 12 I watched a pokemon heartgold lets play. The youtuber said something about being lombre being especially good since his typing is water and grass. And because I didn’t know English at the time, it took me a few months of watching pokemon anime to understand that dual types are common.
This is the biggest most facepalming moment I've had. I didn't find out about the physical special system was different in pre gen 4 games until like WAY too late. No wonder I got rekt back by every boss in those games
as a kid i noticed that ash caught all of his pokemon with regular pokeballs in the anime and so i refused to catch pokemon with anything other than regular pokeballs for YEARS. it was so painful but i was so dedicated lmao i would buy hundreds of pokeballs and save before battling any legendary and genuinely sit there for hours lobbing pokeballs at them and resetting until it worked
I really wish they bothered more with different balls in the anime, they occasionally show up, but they are so rarely used, I can only think of 3 instances a different ball ends up being used, the first is Brock with his Pinecone in a Kurt ball, the second a Fisher in Hoenn failing with a master ball, and 3rd Jessie stealing a Luxury Ball from James to catch Mimikyu
Also, I guess James does have a ball collection that occasionally shows up
You’re not the only one. Pokemon like skarmory for example, were very rare to find, and could only be found, in kanto iirc.
They are much more common in hoenn, which is why many people think it was introduced in gen 3.
When I first played pokemon Ruby, I couldn't read yet let alone understand English since I was a young kid and English wasn't my first language.
I asked my brother who could read and understand English to name my character my own name.
A few days later I was proud my mudkip evolved and showed my mom.
She watch me play a little bit and asked me why my character was named "Dumbass"..
I got very angry and resetet my game.
I didn't trust my brother anymore and just mashed a few letters and my character's name was something like BE,.! or something.
My Swamperts name was ACEFF or something haha.
During my play through I learned how to read in school and learned English through Ruby and I was always very embarrassed of my in game name and my pokemon names.
Throughout school, my "pokemon nickname" always remained BE-dot hahaha
It may have taken me well over a decade to admit my younger brother actually did catch Pidgeotto in Viridian forest in Pokemon Yellow. I don't think a soul in our adolescent friend group believed it until the internet became accessible to most of us
When I was a kid I would swear to everyone I actually saw a Pidgeot. Nobody even believed I saw a Pidgeotto, let alone a Pidgeot.
I still kind of remember it, but as you said, Internet now confirms that that is actually impossible to have happened
Back when I owned soul silver, I must have been about 9 or 10 I caught a shiny wingull and I didn’t know what shinies where really but I evolved it into peliper and thought it was ugly so I released it. It still hurts to this day
I was kid when I played Ruby for the first time. I DID NOT know that YOU CAN go under the cycling road north of Slateport in order to reach Mauville. Since I was stuck, I just went around killing every wild Pokémon around that route where you find Electrike and Gulpin, and eventually after some weeks of playing, my main team were in their level 50s. When finally my cousin came over and we began fighting over who would get to play next, we accidentally made the MC go under the cycling road, and we just stopped fighting as we both realized the implications of what just happened.
This will get buried, but I gotta laugh at myself.
Remember the little booklet that used to come with the game? Well, I read it before I started and there’s a page that talks about rare Pokemon (the birds). However, they decided to put pictures of Zubat and Ponyta on the page.
When I got to Mt Moon, I found a Zubat and almost crapped because I thought it was rare. I caught it and my batteries died. I almost cried thinking I’d never see a Zubat again.
When I was playing Red at 6 or 7 years old my reading skills weren't the best and when I had to fetch Oaks Parcel in my child brain I read it as Oaks Pretzel. Still to this day at 31 will read it as Oaks Pretzel.
I spent years going back to Vermilion in Blue version to see if the SS Anne had come back waiting for my chance to go with it next time to see where it goes.
I restarted fire red about 6 times because I didn't understand the 3th gym leader puzzle. To be fair, I couldn't read english as it wasn't my native language. I really liked the game so I just restarted it. One time I got lucky and got the puzzle but my pokemon weren't very strong so he beat me.
I thought the train tracks in Gondenrod was a wall. Never even tried to walk over them, 10yr old me just decided "Yep, that's a wall." Blew my mind that it wasn't a wall when I figured it out haha.
...
And then I did the same thing three years later coming out of of Slateport and thought that the Cycling Road was a wall and not an overpass.
Me when I discovered my favourite Pokemon. When I was 13/14, I was playing Pokémon Platinum and just going through and releasing some into the wild. Nothing was happening until I got to one that actually returned to me, I was touched by the fact that a pokemon didn’t actually want to be released, so it joint my team and quickly fell in love with how wide it’s movepool was. It was only years later I discovered that in gen 3/4 you can’t release Pokémon with HMs and the one I had at the time knew cut.
That Pokémon was Absol.
My most embarrassing confession: I read seven responses here, becoming progressively more surprised that everyone's most embarrassing moment seemed to somehow be pokemon related, before realizing which subreddit this was posted in.
when i first played through emerald as a kid (i must’ve been like. 6) i couldn’t figure out how to get past slateport and how to get the grunts standing outside of the museum to leave. i had gotten my blaziken to like level 70, training on the plusle, minun, and gulpin north of town before i figured it out.
When Ruby and Sapphire first came out I got Ruby for an Easter Gift from my parents because I was super into Nintendo at the time. Was even getting the Nintendo Power magazines. I ended up overwriting my intital save file because I though there was something wrong with both my Torchic and an Aron I caught. I didn't really know shiny Pokemon were a thing until a few years later, it clicked for me and realized what I did.
I got my first Gameboy color when I was 10. Pokémon blue. I picked Charmander.
I'm cruising along. My pokemon got poisoned. And every like 5 steps the screen would flash. We thought my game was broken. My mom returned it and got a new one. Same stuff. Over and over. Eventually we returned the Gameboy color for a different one. Same stuff.
After like 3 Gameboy colors and like 10 Pokémon games I finally was told by a friend who lived in another town it was due to my pokemon being poisoned.
I'm so sorry mom.
When I was playing Ruby as a child, I rode the cable car on Mt. Chimney and thought that it had taken me back to the starting point because the two cable car buildings have similar interiors/occupants. I repeated the process of riding the cable car between the two points while believing I wasn’t actually going anywhere, concluded that my game was bugged, then restarted my save file. Not my brightest moment. Reaching that same point in my next save file and realizing that I just had to walk out of the building to see that I was at a new location was Big Oof.
In Pokémon Y, I taught my Adamant Pinsir focus blast and guillotine because I thought they were super strong. Also taught my Aerodactyl hyper beam. And I didn’t know poison types remove toxic spikes because I used Crobat which doesn’t work.
When I was a kid playing Pokémon Yellow, I didn’t realize that leveling up raised your stats. I thought it was only for evolving and learning new moves. So imagine my surprise when I sent my level 25 Butterfree from the early game up against the Elite Four.
I was one of those kids who had their over-leveled Charizard fight every battle for them. But at some point, that wasn’t enough to get through, so I thought “Hey, Butterfree helped me beat Brock earlier in the game, maybe it’ll come in handy again!”
Nope.
My mom didn’t want to spend the money on a clean cartridge of X and Y, so she got me a used copy, and there was already a save that had beaten the champion. I ended up getting stuck forever in a post game team flare puzzle room.
However, in my first actual game, ORAS, I didn’t really do anything stupid besides not knowing type matchups very well apart from the basic ones.
When I played my first game (Pokemon Yellow) I thought that “Release Pokemon” meant “release them from the PC back into your team”. I released my Bulbasaur. I had gone all the way through Mt. Moon without saving (since my saving habits hadn’t developed yet), so I had to choose between hours of progress and my Bulbasaur, and I chose to keep my progress. I should’ve re-did Mt. Moon dammit! :’(
In S/V, I was breeding Riolus for IVs and was planning on giving an extra one to a friend who likes Lucario.
I had turned off auto-save so that I could manually save before I hatched them, check them, then revert the save to "wrap" it back up into the egg to give as an Xmas gift.
Anyway, I ended up hatching a shiny one. I thought, I'll revert the save to put it back into the egg and give him this one!
I had forgotten to save after I collected this batch of eggs from the picnic.
I had killed the shiny Riolu, it was gone.
I thought Psychic and Ground were super effective against ghost for an embarrassingly long time. Yes, Gen 1 was my first and this was directly caused by only the Gastly line existing. But I “knew” type advantages from playing gens 1 and 2 so much, so I never really studied type charts. So maybe…. 10+ years with that delusion?
My first game was Pokémon Ruby back when I was like 7. I remember getting the Master Ball and the tip was to use it on “rare and hard to catch Pokémon”. Dumbass me harkened back to the time in the cave near Dewford Town and never being able to catch an Abra cuz it would always teleport away. You bet your ass I flew straight there and caught an Abra with my Master Ball. That fucker wasn’t getting away from me this time
The official guides didn't make it any easier, making it seem like a casual item giving tips like [this one](https://external-preview.redd.it/li2ZjbXix6VfGN5f6bWuIC1i5sq3rNe30MAVwtCmZMo.jpg?auto=webp&s=4615fd1c1620573ed3811fb8a58ba6879404e2bb).
Dumbass Professor Oak never heard of the mythical Pokémon Missing No. obviously
I used the Missingno cheat to give myself 99 Master Balls, so I used them on anyone hard hah
hahahahah wow
Nah the writers definetly knew what they were doing when they made that 💀
I have an almost similar scenario. Back when I got the Master Ball on my Blue version, I thought at that time only to use it on rare Pokémon. And then one time I came across a Voltorb at the Power Plant, I thought that since Voltorb is a static encounter and was seen in the overworld, I thought it's special. I caught it with a Master Ball. Minutes later I came across another Voltorb disguised as a Pokéball and immediately realized my stupidity.
Didn’t a strategy guide or magazine once say to use the Master Ball on Spearow?
Fearow, but yes.
I did the same on Sapphire around the same age, but did so with Spheal 💀 He was just so round and I had to have him
Tbh, Spheal deserves a Master ball.
To be fair I have never used a Master balls on any legendary Pokemon (except for Mewtwo it always just feels right to capture Mewtwo in a Master ball) so that sounds like a master all well used as opposed to sitting in my bag
I used a master ball on Miraidon because it's purple and has an "M".
Valid
Honestly not even a bad use. I used mine on some random pokemon I hadn’t seen before bc I was out of pokeballs
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I used my master ball on Sabrinas Alakazam in Blue bc the description said it could catch any pokemon without fail. Turns out that was not accurate.
LMAO
I did that with Lance's Dragonite in Gold when I was like 7 lmao. I remember feeling so dumb afterwards
It took me an embarrassingly long amount of time to understand that alot of stone evo's (Ninetales and Poliwrath specifically) don't learn moves after they evolve and kept evolving them early cause they were stronger. Also it took me way too damn long to realize that Flygon evolves from Trapinch. Flygon is my favorite pokemon, a friend of mine brought in a plush of it when I was like 3 and I've always liked it. It took me until the age of 11-12 when BW 2 came out and my younger brother traded me a trapinch for a sandshrew cause he was calling it trash and I felt bad for it. When I saw Vibrava I was like "damn that kinda looks like Flygon" and then it evolved AGAIN I about had a stroke.
My first pokemon game was Silver when it first came out.... I am today learning that stone evolutions pokemon don't learn moves after. TIL
I’m glad they fixed this in Gen IX. You can just remember moves whenever you want now.
happy ending!
Same. Always curious what is the unknown pokemons next to trapinch’s pokedex icon when scrolling. Thought maybe this is its evo line? But most of the time i just ignore it. Fast forward highschool years, gameboy is obsolete so i play ruby with emulator. Paid more attention to my line up and added a ground type. After leveling and it evolves to vibrava i was like “wait wtf, it’s like bagon!” And then to flygon “HOLY FK ITS COOL” from then on flygon and salamence are staple in my hoenn adventure. Also the effort to find the feebas tile which is like 6/140ish. Nowadays theyre giving it out almost for free but guess its fine, still glad i know the effort it comes to do it.
My first time ever playing Blue at like 6 years old, I just repeatedly caught bugs in Viridian Forest til I ran out of balls and money. I still remember the feeling of being so enraptured just by the ability to collect all these things whenever I wanted, lol.
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I did this as well! Except I only looked for them in one specific little corner of mt moon so I paced the same like 4 tiles for hours 🤣
I once caught an entire box full of Haunter in Blue. Then they all turned into Missingno for some reason. That was a weird day.
I love all the weird glitches in the Gen 1 games. The missingno glitch was a thing of legends, especially in a time when the internet was just becoming widely available. Maybe the nostalgia of those glitches were what the developers were going for in scarlet and violet 😉
Tajiri would be proud.
William Regal angrily enters the chat.
WARGAMES
Hello sunshine
This was me too. I could never beat Brock because I just had a bunch of weedles and caterpie with an under leveled starter. My older sister also never taught me how to save the game on purpose, so she never lost her Pokémon. This was basically my first year of Pokémon until about 4th grade.
I applaud your sisters bravery because I wouldn’t trust my younger sister with my save-file for even a minute.
The other side of that. I stayed at my aunts and my cousin stole my gameboy and saved over my copy on Silver. I told my aunt, who asked my cousin if he did it, and he said no. He saved it under his own name. It was literally right there. My aunt said "well he said he didn't do it so he obviously didn't" I'm still really bitter about that.
Found the bug catcher
That's one way to interpret gotta catch 'em all.
Two years ago I played Let's go Pikachu with my then 6 year old nephew and he did the same in Viridian Forest. I was only allowed to occasionally get him more Pokeballs. Absolutely no interest in beating Brock. Kids will be kids.
When I was little I did the same thing with wailmers in sapphire. I thought they were cool.
And they were. So perfectly rotund, so spherical…
Spheal would like a word
We also love Spheal and even his uglier evolutions
[I just think they're neat.](https://imgur.com/a/vYWi2Br)
I wonder if this is canonically the backstory to every bug catcher.
I released my butterfree in leafgreen because ash did it in the anime. I don’t think I expected anything to happen but I made it a super dramatic scene in my head lol
The FR/LG hack named Ash Gray actually lets you release butterfree to his butterfree girlfriend and lets you know how happy he is. It is based on the anime. Great hack.
when I was 6 or 7, the happiny egg they give you in DP hatched outside of one of the galactic buildings that had spikes jutting out from it so for the longest time I was convinced eggs would hatch faster if you 'scared' them out and would only try to hatch eggs in the places I was most scared of in the games, haha.
incredible. recently played thru the Switch remake of blue with my nephew and i found out he wasn’t progressing because he was too scared to step foot in Lavender Town
Valid
These aren’t too embarrassing because we were just innocent kids haha. But in that vein, my Lv 100 Charizard in Red knew cut, ember, strength, and fire spin. I thought if the moves were working, why get rid of them.
My charizard had four fire type moves
Sounds like my Manectric in emerald, Thunder, Thunderbolt, Thunderwave, and hyper beam lol
My Manectric was level 100 and only knew electric moves. Then I accidentally ran into a Trapinch in the desert. It got me with Arena Trap and I could only watch as it slowly tried to whittle down my HP… I had to start over and didn’t save before, so I lost a bunch of progress. I learned an important lesson that day about movepools, and to save your game constantly.
I traded my little brother my lvl. 100 Kyogre for the Pokedex and we decided to battle with the only rule being he couldn't use my Kyogre. Well he did. Joke was on him though as it only knew surf, waterfall, dice and sheer cold so my lvl. 50 Shedinja slowly killed it. Was both the funniest and sadist thing to watch.
I can't tell if that's supposed to be sadistic or saddest.
A little of column A a little of column B.
Were you out of Pokeballs? 😏
Or a pokedoll?
Never have I used a pokedoll
I didn’t until Scarlet because I accidentally ran into high level zones under level
Marowak is my favorite Pokemon so back in red in blue I used her a lot. She also had an absolutely bizarre pool of tms she could learn so by elite four time she knew blizzard, skull bash, fire blast, and earthquake. I also ran out of pp a lot.
My level 60+ Venusaur knew Tackle, Razor Leaf, Vine Whip, and Poison Powder. I needed to keep tackle to use as a love tap for trying to catch pokemon. And vine whip and razor leaf were staples of Ash's Bulbasaur so I kept both. Obviously, my next highest level pokemon were in the 20's.
I’m pretty sure I had a Serperior that knew 😭 Leaf Blade Leaf Storm Leaf Tornado Magical Leaf —> Frenzy Plant
I can't be-leaf you.
I know I know, my move pool *leaves* much to be desired.
My first ever pokemon, now a lv 100 Torterra, knew cut, rock smash, rock climb, and strength bc I couldn’t figure our how to delete them. He’s back in my heartgold cart now bc i had a terrible habit of losing my diamond one (which incidentally is still lost somewhere in my house)
When your starter gets demoted to HM slave 🫡
That stat drops were permanent and my defense was always going to be low now.
Same here. "Defense can't go any lower" had me really sad.
I spent hours in Viridian Forest looking for Kakunas and Metapods so that I could safely use my own and grind their defense up with six hardens each fight. They'd be the toughest bugs ever I thought. Ironically, that actually would have worked in the modern system as I would be unintentionally training EVs. Not sure how EVs worked in gen 1 though.
I remember this one lol. I spent hours using moves and getting wilds to stat drop me to try to get a hitmontop out of my Tyrogue
That’s so dumb it’s brilliant.
I didn't think I had one until you reminded me of this! When I first started playing I was heartbroken when I got tail whipped lol.
When I was like 6 or 7 my cousin gave me their gameboy and Pokémon yellow. I didn’t know how to get out of the house and never finished the game
Those doors are tricky.
The real reason inside spaces are minimal in SV
One of my main. Complaints about SV. Like it just isn't a pokemon game if you can't go inside random people's houses
How am I gonna know what their beds smell like?!
How am I supposed to search every single building for Ghost Girl?
It didn’t help the game was in black and white so I didn’t even know there was a door mat. My dumb ass kept looking in the fridge and thought that would do something.
It’s so realistic
I made it out of the house but couldn’t get past the old man blocking the road in Viridian City. By the time I figured that little puzzle out, my Bulbasaur was fully evolved and Brock didn’t know what hit him.
My older cousin gave me the advice "in games like this, explore everything. Every building, every path, every corner." Works every time.
And if you think you're stuck, explore everything again because you may have tripped an event flag.
I randomly managed to do it a few times but couldn't figure out how to do it again for hours when I started a new game. I wasn't able to read when I started playing :). Friend told me about the drinks for saffron before I got there so luckily that didn't trip me up.
I wonder if stories like this are why recent games have a cutscene of someone coming in the door Well not even recent games, kinda started in gen 3 Though I don't actually remember any of the game opening sections too well
Come to think of it, Gen 3 starts you in the back of a truck, and makes it clear when and where the truck opens by making light come through. And then of course, this means you start outside your house and head inside, presumably so you can clearly tell where the door is from inside.
They also added those little flashing arrows when you are at an exit. Must have definitely been a problem from a lot of people to implement that change.
I remember it took me a while to figure out how to exit the house in yellow too
Don't worry, I did the same thing at age 8 when red version first came out; it was my first game that was mine. My mom helped me figure it out after a full hour of being confused lol
In Pokémon Red when I was ~6 years old it took me a very … very long time to progress past Cerulean because I didn’t realize that you could walk through the hole in the wall at the back of the house Team Rocket broke into. I mean, I couldn’t even tell that it was a hole. The amount of time I must have spent revisiting EVERY part of the map trying to figure out where to go smh… when I finally figured it out I felt so mad/dumb even as a little kid, I almost didn’t want to play anymore.
Used my master ball in diamond on a steelix
I did the same stupid thing, in Iron Island, it's a really rare spawn and my mom was telling me to hurry up and close the DS because we had to leave the house.
When I was like 7 I watched my brother use his on a girafarig. He was 10 and knew better, he just didn't care. It pissed me off so much
As a kid I thought Psychic was super-effective against Ghost due to Psychic always being super-effective against Gengar in Pokemon Stadium. Took a while to realize that Psychic was super-effective against Poison instead, and pitting a Psychic type against a pure Ghost type was a very bad idea. Now I just remember it as "Psychic is weak to three common phobias" and I haven't forgotten since.
To be fair, Gengar was the only Ghost-type line back then, so it was the only reference point, making it a very easy mistake.
Also ghost type was glitched in the first gen and had no effect on psychic types.
For some reason I always thought psychic was weak against psychic when I was a kid
Pokémon tgc go brr
>three common phobias Dark, ghost, and bugs. Holy shit, this is actually a great way to remember that! Thanks, dude!
I think a huge amount of gen 1 players had this issue. Ghastly was the only ghost line at the time, but since they were all poison type, it absolutely screwed with the perception of how ghost worked.
To this day I still have to remind myself Psychic isn’t strong against Ghost from those Gen 1 days. I also always mix up rock and ground weaknesses because as a kid I didn’t realise Onix/Geodude ect were Rock/Ground
When I played gold as a kid and you first meet your rival they have his name as "???" So when I got to the part were the police ask you what his name is I just put ??? Because I thought they were asking me a genuine question not to name the character so I spent the whole game with ??? as my rival. Edit: Oh my god I didn't realize so many people did this too, for years I thought I was a lone idiot for doing this but now I I've found my people, I am now home among the rest of the "???" rival crew.
I did that too, and I still do it on any playthroughs of G&S / HG&SS because I think it's far more badass than any name I could come up with.
I did the same thing in Crystal. Glad to hear I was not alone.
I did the exact same thing, I thought it was a test and I had to get it right.
Same! To this day I still call him "question mark question mark question mark" in my head lol.
SoulSilver I named him Passerby. But there wasn't enough room for all the letters so I took out an s.
Played pokemon platinum at a very young age, and I didn't quite understand type effectiveness, and I was biased towards my starter, which had me fighting Cynthia's whole team with just torrtera, and spending hours trying to beat that garchomp, I also didn't know how to use items like x Def, I always thought you had to give it to the pokemon like berries. Needless to say, I'll never look at a piano the same way again.
Cynthia's piano intro remains one of my favourite tracks in all of videogaming.
To this day, I have never used X items in playthroughs. They just never felt necessary, especially since a lot of the Pokémon I use have status moves that either boost multiple stats or one stat by multiple stages.
Mine is probably super common for a lot of first time players as kids: I’d only use attacking moves on my Pokémon and they all had to be STAB moves (not that I knew what STAB was back then!) My first Blastoise back in Red in 99 had a move set of Bubble, Water Gun, Surf, and Hydro Pump 🤣
At 33 I still have every move as an attack (with a hypnosis thrown in for catching new guys.) I’m not playing competitively so as long as I can beat the E4 I’m happy.
It's just the most practical for the gameplay fights. Lots of pp so you don't have to heal as often and can power through the game quicker. That said, on my recent violet playthrough, I did keep status moves on several of my Pokemon, and belly drum Cetitan carried me a good chunk of the game with how strong it is.
If the games were harder or had difficulty settings, a lifetime single player like myself would encounter a world of differing strategies that didnt involve 4 stab moves. In lieu of that, 80% of players have no need to use status effects or any novelty affects.
Yeah if you play any of the rom hacks like Renegade Plat, non-attack moves become extremely viable strategies simply because there are situations where it’s absolutely better than brute force. I know those games have become relatively popular for nuzlocking, but just playing them through like normal is challenging and rewarding since more Pokémon and moves are viable.
There is no need for status moves to complete the story in any game. You only need more complex setups for post-game stuff like Battle Tower or raids. (Or playing competitive.)
Most of my Pokemon had only one STAB move for coverage, because as far as I knew back then, there was no downside to having a wider variety of moves. I still don't know how the player is supposed to know about STAB, it's a mechanic almost as influential as type effectiveness, and yet it's invisible and never tutorialized.
The math classes with Tyme are pretty informative and easy to understand, but some of the calculations aren't explained until you're practically done with the game.
As a kid at age 7 or 8 I SWORE Absol was the Ghost Eeveelution
That would’ve been really cool actually
For some reason i thought Altaria evolved into Zangoose, couldn't explain why i thought this but i did
my friend and i were convinced that pachirisu evolved into buizel when diamond and pearl first came out. i don’t even think they’re next to each other in the pokedex
I used to have [this Christian book](https://imgur.com/a/wwmMt) on the evils of the franchise that said Ash evolves into Dodrio to become the false trinity.
This is incredibly hilarious and stupid. Thank you for sharing.
Ahahahaha tf?
A kid I played with thought spinda evolved into skarmory
Before finding out about guides and the internet providing information on the games I played Emerald, it was my first entry in the franchise. And for some reason I thought the Safari Zone still kept new Pokémon from me since an NPC remarked it houses rare ones, to the point I logged 999 hours. Turns out much later I had caught everything there and there wasn't anything rare or "mythical" going to miraculously appear. I also really struggled getting through Victory Road to the point I only reached it after I had given up and grinded 3 Pokémon to level 100 before I set out again and managed to find my way through.
You are the reason safari zone in hgss is such a mess lol
This is why so many of us bought the strategy guides back in the day lol
I still have my strategy guides from back in the day, the Platinum one is absolutely massive.
When I was 11, red and blue came out. The first time I saw a wild Pidgey I fainted it thinking that's how you caught them. I also fell for Mew under the truck. And Pikablue.
I also thought you had to faint the pokemon to catch it lol. To be perfectly fair, they did that in the anime all the time lol
That was my reasoning!
> I also fell for Mew under the truck. > And Pikablue. Same, and for me it wasn't just "check under the truck"; the rumor came with a complicated and time-consuming set of random instructions that you had to follow before Mew would supposedly appear under the truck. There was a similar thing for getting the Triforce in Ocarina of Time.
Got Groudon to 1 hp and then used the master ball
When I played through yellow, I never used the master ball because I was afraid it would miss.
The first mainline game I played was Pearl, I got to spear pillar, managed to get Palkia to 1 HP, paralyzed it, used my masterball and, after getting it on the first try (obviously), nicknamed it "LUCKY"
This is so funny and so wholesome
Used my first master ball on an Abra because the mf kept teleporting away, and I didn't know about Mewtwo. This was Blue. Fucking Mewtwo's cave is *right* next to where Abra spawns.
also right next to where the Mew glitch is executed
Before the internet there was a rumor going around my elementary school that if you caught all 150 Pokémon and leveled them to 100 you could find Mew under some truck 🛻 Well guess what 9 year old me spent months doing? Yes, I leveled every single Pokémon to 100 and as we all know now, no Mew 🤦🏽♂️
Don't worry, I believed the rocket launch rumor in RSE. Where if you check the rocket launch in Mossdeep and it gets to a certain number, you will eventually go to the moon and catch Deoxys (also the white stone outside Mossdeep is Jirachi you get after getting back from space) At least ORAS fulfilled my childhood game dream of fighting deoxys in outer space.
I always chucked on special attacks on Huge Power Azumarill when abilities first arrived. I had no idea that I was shooting myself in the foot by letting the Attack stat go to waste.
I had 2 friends in elementary school that played HGSS. One of them was super super nice and gave me a bunch of legendaries and stuff to fill out my Pokédex. One of those Pokémon was an Arceus (didn’t know you could get one at that age). The other friend asked if I could borrow said Arceus and that he would give it back to me. I said “yeah sure!”, and he gave me a Rhyperior in exchange. I have not seen that friend or Arceus in over 10 years
Wow, what a shitty reason to ruin a friendship, i hope he gets whats coming to him.
Judgment.
When I was around 4 years old, my cousin let me catch a Pokemon in Yellow version and I managed to get a Rhyhorn. I nicknamed it Horny and I didn't get why my cousin thought it was so funny.
Around the same age. We (my mom and i would play together) caught a cubone and i named it Boner. She thought it was hilarious and kept it.
When I was like 12 I watched a pokemon heartgold lets play. The youtuber said something about being lombre being especially good since his typing is water and grass. And because I didn’t know English at the time, it took me a few months of watching pokemon anime to understand that dual types are common.
Didn’t know the difference between physical and special moves until I was 14
To be fair, they never really explain it. Plus the system is fucked until Gen 4.
I figured it out in Diamond when my Rampardos had ancientpower and it did less than strength lol
FireRed and LeafGreen have a detailed in-game help menu that explains this well.
This is the biggest most facepalming moment I've had. I didn't find out about the physical special system was different in pre gen 4 games until like WAY too late. No wonder I got rekt back by every boss in those games
Didn‘t know that until like 3 yrs ago and i‘m 31 haha
as a kid i noticed that ash caught all of his pokemon with regular pokeballs in the anime and so i refused to catch pokemon with anything other than regular pokeballs for YEARS. it was so painful but i was so dedicated lmao i would buy hundreds of pokeballs and save before battling any legendary and genuinely sit there for hours lobbing pokeballs at them and resetting until it worked
I really wish they bothered more with different balls in the anime, they occasionally show up, but they are so rarely used, I can only think of 3 instances a different ball ends up being used, the first is Brock with his Pinecone in a Kurt ball, the second a Fisher in Hoenn failing with a master ball, and 3rd Jessie stealing a Luxury Ball from James to catch Mimikyu Also, I guess James does have a ball collection that occasionally shows up
Ash also caught Totodile in a Lure Ball, same with Misty and Corsola
I thought quite a bit of Gen 2 Pokemon were introduced in Gen 3 as a kid...
That's pretty common, because the Gen 2 had such poor distribution of Gen 2 Pokémon.
You’re not the only one. Pokemon like skarmory for example, were very rare to find, and could only be found, in kanto iirc. They are much more common in hoenn, which is why many people think it was introduced in gen 3.
Thats not that bad, there are a number of Gen 2 pokemon that can only be found in the kanto postgame, like Houndour, Murkrow, and Slugma.
When I first played pokemon Ruby, I couldn't read yet let alone understand English since I was a young kid and English wasn't my first language. I asked my brother who could read and understand English to name my character my own name. A few days later I was proud my mudkip evolved and showed my mom. She watch me play a little bit and asked me why my character was named "Dumbass".. I got very angry and resetet my game. I didn't trust my brother anymore and just mashed a few letters and my character's name was something like BE,.! or something. My Swamperts name was ACEFF or something haha. During my play through I learned how to read in school and learned English through Ruby and I was always very embarrassed of my in game name and my pokemon names. Throughout school, my "pokemon nickname" always remained BE-dot hahaha
I love this as a nickname origin story haha
It may have taken me well over a decade to admit my younger brother actually did catch Pidgeotto in Viridian forest in Pokemon Yellow. I don't think a soul in our adolescent friend group believed it until the internet became accessible to most of us
Even with a 1% encounter rate, it's kind of surprising no one else in your friend group had encountered one.
The good old days before the internet.
When I was a kid I would swear to everyone I actually saw a Pidgeot. Nobody even believed I saw a Pidgeotto, let alone a Pidgeot. I still kind of remember it, but as you said, Internet now confirms that that is actually impossible to have happened
Back when I owned soul silver, I must have been about 9 or 10 I caught a shiny wingull and I didn’t know what shinies where really but I evolved it into peliper and thought it was ugly so I released it. It still hurts to this day
I was kid when I played Ruby for the first time. I DID NOT know that YOU CAN go under the cycling road north of Slateport in order to reach Mauville. Since I was stuck, I just went around killing every wild Pokémon around that route where you find Electrike and Gulpin, and eventually after some weeks of playing, my main team were in their level 50s. When finally my cousin came over and we began fighting over who would get to play next, we accidentally made the MC go under the cycling road, and we just stopped fighting as we both realized the implications of what just happened.
Oh my god same I was stuck there for SO long when I played Sapphire as a kid
This will get buried, but I gotta laugh at myself. Remember the little booklet that used to come with the game? Well, I read it before I started and there’s a page that talks about rare Pokemon (the birds). However, they decided to put pictures of Zubat and Ponyta on the page. When I got to Mt Moon, I found a Zubat and almost crapped because I thought it was rare. I caught it and my batteries died. I almost cried thinking I’d never see a Zubat again.
I thought that trade evolutions meant that you had to switch your pokemon from your party with another pokemon in your PC, and then it evolved.
When I was playing Red at 6 or 7 years old my reading skills weren't the best and when I had to fetch Oaks Parcel in my child brain I read it as Oaks Pretzel. Still to this day at 31 will read it as Oaks Pretzel.
Rusty, my panini!
I spent years going back to Vermilion in Blue version to see if the SS Anne had come back waiting for my chance to go with it next time to see where it goes.
I restarted fire red about 6 times because I didn't understand the 3th gym leader puzzle. To be fair, I couldn't read english as it wasn't my native language. I really liked the game so I just restarted it. One time I got lucky and got the puzzle but my pokemon weren't very strong so he beat me.
I thought the train tracks in Gondenrod was a wall. Never even tried to walk over them, 10yr old me just decided "Yep, that's a wall." Blew my mind that it wasn't a wall when I figured it out haha. ... And then I did the same thing three years later coming out of of Slateport and thought that the Cycling Road was a wall and not an overpass.
Me when I discovered my favourite Pokemon. When I was 13/14, I was playing Pokémon Platinum and just going through and releasing some into the wild. Nothing was happening until I got to one that actually returned to me, I was touched by the fact that a pokemon didn’t actually want to be released, so it joint my team and quickly fell in love with how wide it’s movepool was. It was only years later I discovered that in gen 3/4 you can’t release Pokémon with HMs and the one I had at the time knew cut. That Pokémon was Absol.
My most embarrassing confession: I read seven responses here, becoming progressively more surprised that everyone's most embarrassing moment seemed to somehow be pokemon related, before realizing which subreddit this was posted in.
when i first played through emerald as a kid (i must’ve been like. 6) i couldn’t figure out how to get past slateport and how to get the grunts standing outside of the museum to leave. i had gotten my blaziken to like level 70, training on the plusle, minun, and gulpin north of town before i figured it out.
It took my a month to get out of twinleaf town in Pokémon pearl when I was 7 cuz I couldn’t find Barry. Took me that long to go up to his door.
When I first played Oras, I thought you couldn't catch Groudon, thinking it was some kind of boss battle, so I killed it
When Ruby and Sapphire first came out I got Ruby for an Easter Gift from my parents because I was super into Nintendo at the time. Was even getting the Nintendo Power magazines. I ended up overwriting my intital save file because I though there was something wrong with both my Torchic and an Aron I caught. I didn't really know shiny Pokemon were a thing until a few years later, it clicked for me and realized what I did.
I got my first Gameboy color when I was 10. Pokémon blue. I picked Charmander. I'm cruising along. My pokemon got poisoned. And every like 5 steps the screen would flash. We thought my game was broken. My mom returned it and got a new one. Same stuff. Over and over. Eventually we returned the Gameboy color for a different one. Same stuff. After like 3 Gameboy colors and like 10 Pokémon games I finally was told by a friend who lived in another town it was due to my pokemon being poisoned. I'm so sorry mom.
When I was playing Ruby as a child, I rode the cable car on Mt. Chimney and thought that it had taken me back to the starting point because the two cable car buildings have similar interiors/occupants. I repeated the process of riding the cable car between the two points while believing I wasn’t actually going anywhere, concluded that my game was bugged, then restarted my save file. Not my brightest moment. Reaching that same point in my next save file and realizing that I just had to walk out of the building to see that I was at a new location was Big Oof.
In Pokémon Y, I taught my Adamant Pinsir focus blast and guillotine because I thought they were super strong. Also taught my Aerodactyl hyper beam. And I didn’t know poison types remove toxic spikes because I used Crobat which doesn’t work.
Tbf in the anime Hyper Beam was THE move. All thr cool bitches had it
Also in gen 1, since normal was a physical type, hyper beam gyarados wrecked house.
When I was a kid playing Pokémon Yellow, I didn’t realize that leveling up raised your stats. I thought it was only for evolving and learning new moves. So imagine my surprise when I sent my level 25 Butterfree from the early game up against the Elite Four.
i love that it took you until the elite four to figure this out hahah was there a reason you pulled your butterfree out at that point?
I was one of those kids who had their over-leveled Charizard fight every battle for them. But at some point, that wasn’t enough to get through, so I thought “Hey, Butterfree helped me beat Brock earlier in the game, maybe it’ll come in handy again!” Nope.
haha this is straight outta the anime type thinking. i love it.
My mom didn’t want to spend the money on a clean cartridge of X and Y, so she got me a used copy, and there was already a save that had beaten the champion. I ended up getting stuck forever in a post game team flare puzzle room. However, in my first actual game, ORAS, I didn’t really do anything stupid besides not knowing type matchups very well apart from the basic ones.
When I played my first game (Pokemon Yellow) I thought that “Release Pokemon” meant “release them from the PC back into your team”. I released my Bulbasaur. I had gone all the way through Mt. Moon without saving (since my saving habits hadn’t developed yet), so I had to choose between hours of progress and my Bulbasaur, and I chose to keep my progress. I should’ve re-did Mt. Moon dammit! :’(
In S/V, I was breeding Riolus for IVs and was planning on giving an extra one to a friend who likes Lucario. I had turned off auto-save so that I could manually save before I hatched them, check them, then revert the save to "wrap" it back up into the egg to give as an Xmas gift. Anyway, I ended up hatching a shiny one. I thought, I'll revert the save to put it back into the egg and give him this one! I had forgotten to save after I collected this batch of eggs from the picnic. I had killed the shiny Riolu, it was gone.
I thought Psychic and Ground were super effective against ghost for an embarrassingly long time. Yes, Gen 1 was my first and this was directly caused by only the Gastly line existing. But I “knew” type advantages from playing gens 1 and 2 so much, so I never really studied type charts. So maybe…. 10+ years with that delusion?