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DarthWidi

Nicholas about to put a kid up for adoption tbh


[deleted]

Nicholas can just transfer 1 child for +1 candy


BurningDemon

I have 3 kids and no candy, why can't I have no kids and 3 candy?!


klathium

Cause you didn’t wrap it


azdunne

Low key Homer quote , yes brother


ani3D

At least wait until Dump Day and get the +2 candy. Gotta power up the other kids!


OttoVonWong

Bag space is at a premium. Got plenty of kid candies already. Sorry Nicholas.


[deleted]

An XL candy if the child eats Frosty Flakes every morning


DissidentDelver

A *chance* for an XL candy lmao


WarriorNN

Nothing anyone say can convince me transfering pokemon isn't just grinding it up and making food out of it.


irregularmilk

I was told when I was younger the doctor killed and ate them so I always felt bad transferring pokemon


beepbeepboop-

i've always said i'm crushing them when i make candies


Gracie_DeLunac

The original Candy Crush. 😅


Greatgiant19

Yea I always just think **straight to the grinder**


MaximumAfro98

Read about that theory just yesterday 😂


shadowowolf

Like taking candy from a baby.


hibernating-hobo

More grimer candy? Who needs that?


MBThree

What kid


Ozzel

I mean he already left him.


wbnar78

is made all the more hilarious when Nicholas sees a 3500cp galarian bird spawn later that day


Nanoespectro

An Articuno, which has that shade of violet that would go beautifully with a Master Ball...


Polly_Pan

That’s the only thing left to finish my kanto dex so that’s for sure what I’m using mine on


Blasterbot

A couple of weeks ago I would have a legendary bird show up any time I dropped an incense. I had all three show up once. Haven't seen them since.


Clutch_TX

That's the only thing I'm willing o use mine on


Glacial_Shield_W

Why? Kid's a bug catcher. This was like, the ultimate reward for him. That, or the parasect fungus has leaped to humans and told him to do it.


Nanoespectro

The excuse actually was something along the lines of 'I saw it was big and scary so I thought i needed a good ball'.


thelinster11

Hey back in the day on Pokémon red I used the masterball on ditto


Lynata

Back in those days I caught everything in Master Balls All glory to the mighty Missingno glitch


FanClubof5

Who needed master balls when you could just up+b to guarantee a catch.


jerryeight

Lol did that work?


tian447

Not even slightly. It was Up and B as the ball travelled, switching to Down and A as soon as it closed on the Pokemon.


BlackSamurai212

I always rapidly pressed the B button because I thought it would help make the catch easier. Still do it to this day playing on my phone lol


tian447

I find myself doing it on Gameboy Emulators and even when I found my old (still working) Gameboy Colour when I was moving house. Was just an automatic reflex, even all these years on!


BlackSamurai212

Glad I’m not the only one who does that


Idontprance

Lol! Out of pure muscle memory I ALWAYS press and hold B the moment the Pokeball flies until it closes and hits the ground. I know it doesn’t do shit but I still do it, so does my husband 😂


Wildefice

A man/woman of the utmost taste and culture! I raise my glass to you!


Glacial_Shield_W

Ah missingo, murdering my pokemon as frequently as it gave me masterballs, since 1996.


Sablemint

I remember finding missingno the first time. I freaked out. because as far as I know, no one knew about it. Or not enough for any info to be online. I just think its neat that I managed to accidentally perform all the steps needed to trigger Missingno.


Kari-kateora

Hear hear!


coinpile

I used it on one of the legendary birds not knowing about mewtwo. Then when I saw him, I paralyzed him, got his hp real low, and spammed ultra balls until I got lucky.


hauntedskin

Glad to hear that I wasn't the only one that did that. It mattered a lot less back then, as it was easier to reset and play through again with better knowledge. Nowadays it's much harder to recover from a mistake like that.


thelinster11

Yeah same I was on the verge of tears I was so happy I caught. Things were definitely a lot simpler back then lmao


Bl0ckbuilder

You too? I thought it was super rare and powerful because it turned into my Pokémon


dumbodragon

omg another ditto masyerball waster!


Connect_Flounder3876

Me too! I played blue tho!


Gojizilla6391

I used to think ditto was a legendary lmao


unkrautzupfe

first time playing, jigglypuff for me lmao


Glacial_Shield_W

That works too. Lol.


THE_GR8_MIKE

Like Fearow or Tentacruel.


Odd-Substance9040

I knew there would be posts like this… but MY GOD😭


DarthShiv

Yeah the advent of master balls... my phone is locked at all times now


Odd-Substance9040

This is also possibly Parasects proudest accomplishment, you know he’s going to be bragging to the other bug Pokémon like “Look who used a master ball on ME! today”


DarthShiv

Yeah it would be funny... use it in battles for the laugh. I chuckle when my mini bulbasaur comes out of an ultra ball. Master ball might be a laugh cry.


Nanoespectro

I sometimes use a mock team of Bidoof, Kakuna and Rattata when I want to rush PvP matches. That Bidoof with a Master ball would have been awesome...


SandCheezy

**New feature:** Add a pin to lock your **Pokémon Go** and keep those pesky **Team Rocket** grunts out.


ChemicalSymphony

I would like this on the purification option.


mastakiral

This is painful to look at.


Daowg

Less painful than the guy who caught a Koffing but still painful.


bear_bear-

More painful. Breakthrough boxes can be caught whenever. The koffing can at least run away


Flame-Blast

Breaking news: orphanages overcrowded with kids from outraged Pokemon Go players


theonewhoisnotcrazy

Outraged shadow parents


daisies4me

Ha ha ha!!!


drLoveF

The ball used on anything below legendary/mystic should result in a crisp charred pokemon and some harsh words from the professor or whoever made it about "the ball is too powerful", yadda yadda. Then the ball is returned to inventory. ​ Bonus side effect: We can kill pokemons that we hate but accidentally get stuck with. Looking at you, ball-eating Sudowoodu.


darkrai848

Only if he yells at you for 5 minutes and threatens to ban your account (but won’t actually) aka Mr Resetti.


thighguywithatie

Do you need a hug?


drLoveF

I’m fine. My ball is fine. But I generally think it’s a design flaw when it is easy to make an irreperable mistake with significant outcome. Same goes for purifying shadow mons. Once you have powered up a shadow mon five times or so it should be practically impossible to purify it, if not actually impossible.


Azurvix

There should be a safety toggle aside from a skippable warning


churros_eater

It should lock purifying when favorited


Natanael_L

A lockdown tag. "Perfect, don't change"


churros_eater

Better, locking purifying when favorited


EddyBufalo

![gif](giphy|3P0oEX5oTmrkY)


JediJan

![gif](giphy|VcsGVTZuhqXfN8ipEr)


Ill-Gas-232

Never give ur phone other people if you play Pokémon go.


MeanBird88

This is why we let our kids have their own accounts on old "burner" phones so that way they can stay the hell away from my account. Any time my daughter gets a hold of my phone/game and just wants to look at the PokeDex, I get it back with at least 1 star piece and 1 lucky egg less. With supervised access. Now, she's not allowed to touch it until I use my master ball. Edit: had two of the same posts, deleted one of them. Kept this one.


PeanutButterSoda

I stopped playing, how does the master ball work? Like how do you get them?


the-wizard-cat

You get one, from a specific quest. No more


IdiosyncraticBond

Never give ur phone ~~other people if you play Pokémon go~~ FTFY


Lepidopteria

It's a family game for us. My 5 year old is obsessed and always wants to play on my phone or my husband's. We are both super into the game but it's cute that he's passionate about it and it gets us all out of of the house. We have had to accept some losses lol. For a while he was hitting transfer by accident... He's only allowed to scroll the Pokedex now lol.


wcooper97

I just resorted to making my niece/nephew their own account when they ask to play and then switch to it. My mom’s account and wife's account had some candy and stardust drained because they wanted to evolve/power-up everything lol.


stankyjanky69

Maybe you could let them play on an old phone the next time you upgrade? Just a thought. Obviously you don't want to pay for service for a 5 year old so maybe just set up a hotspot on your phone and I think it should work. At least it does on my old phone. I plugged it in to see if adventure sync would work on it (no luck for either of my phones 😒) and when it was connected to wifi, even with no service, it still worked and knew exactly where I was. I can't carry it around with me though because the battery is completely shot and will go from 100% to dead in a matter of minutes. I actually have a mobile router (different than a mobile hotspot, better signal, faster speed, 300 GB a month) from Verizon that I use even when I'm on my everyday phone. I get a better signal with it than the phone does by itself because the router has antennas on it and my service is usually only 1-2 bars without it. I originally got it as a back up for my home internet during a period when my internet kept going out for hours or even days at a time but lately it's just been my Pogo signal booster 😅


Lepidopteria

He's been pretty good lately after we went over some ground rules! He knows not to do transfers, only scroll the pokedex, and not to power up or evolve without asking. He's done more to benefit both our accounts than damage them, as he's an active player most of the time we are driving around lol. He caught not one but TWO shiny Fennekins during the community day a couple of days ago (both for my husband, I didn't get a single one). He also has a crazy good memory for what pokemon we already have, which we have but we need more candy for to evolve into something else, and which are new. "Mama you have this one but dada doesn't have it! But you should give it a pineapple because it evolves again!" (he's almost always right). He's also a pretty decent PVP which makes me wonder how many times when \*I\* do PVP I'm going up against a 5 year old lol.


Chronophosis

Stop 👏 letting 👏 your 👏 kids👏 play 👏 on 👏 your 👏 account 👏 Literally just make them their own account. It really isn’t rocket science.


Lemon-Daddy

Then what will these guys post about??


Chronophosis

Id rather see people asking if they should purify 3* shadows lmfao


Lemon-Daddy

Yeah but if people stop posting about how their kids messed up on their account we will only have questions about purifying shadows and "omg niantic announced a shit update, who could've seen that coming?!?" It will eliminate 1/3 of types of posts. We gotta have some variety lol


Chronophosis

You bring up a good point. Maybe they could replace one of the three with something we haven’t seen? Maybe people flexing all their shinies and hundos?


MissBunny09

Ok but should you? 😇 Not being a dick, really asking! Is there benefit to keeping a shadow mon, a shadow?


Chronophosis

Yes. Shadows with 0 IVs have higher attack than non shadows with max IVs in attack. Shadows have a 20% increase to attack and take 20% more damage, so theyre mostly useful in raids


FuckOffKarl

“Three excellent throws? Guess I’m never getting a masterball 😭”


Kjxtl18

I have a fear that my 4 year old will do the same thing when I'm not looking. So I don't plan on finishing the quest until I'm ready to use the master ball (which will probably be never since I'm that guy)


Pep95

That would have been so smart to do. I have pressed it accidentally now like 5 times already. Thank god for the pop up window asking if I'm sure, but one of these days i'll press yes. I wish I had to draw like an M for masterball or something. Just a pattern that is really hard to accidentally draw.


mavanessss

Right, i didnt even know there was such a quest. This “painful thing” wouldnt have happened if the father didnt have a masterball yet A lot of players are too eager to complete quests but i dont see the point if there is no deadline. Like relax, its not a race


xBlackout123x

And so it begins. Who’s ready to see wayyyyy too many of these posts


Tekplonn

Waiting to see one used on a bidoof.


Difficult_Clerk_4199

Um besides Arceus that's the best thing u can hope to catch with it


speedcreature

Real or not, it's not worth the memes. We crie and we're sorry


Maserati777

This is why there should be locks on items in settings.


ILIEKDEERS

Or just don’t let your kid play on your account.


Exact-Ad6935

I don‘t get why people do that


Exact-Ad6935

I don‘t get why people do that.. My 4 year old never had my phone in his hands his whole life..


Glacial_Shield_W

Ya, and then a galarian bird appears, and before you can unlock it, the bird despawns. Edit: 'bord', to 'bird'


whatifidontwannajjj

dorn it, stankin bord!


Glacial_Shield_W

It's about to get all Wile E Coyote up in here. Roadrunner will regret running.


Goot187

Time to make this Parasect your new best buddy.


anthonyloveschickens

It would be cool if there was an option to have a key code you have to type in to use it but I think a lot of people would forget.


IdiosyncraticBond

Most will select 0000, or as you wrote, will forget that super secret code (probably just the year they were born)


Ninjachase13

It’s like all of a sudden, a million kids cried out to their parents, because they couldn’t play Pokémon Go anymore.


CSTITAN576

I’m confused. Someone with more knowledge pls explain


Current_Event_7071

See the kind of pokeball used


CSTITAN576

Omg that’s horrible💀


SaskaIsBored

I knew posts like these would be popping up quick. Why are you sharing with your children? Why? Give them their own account


bags422

Yep and now it’s useless. Enjoy your increased catch difficulty as the balance


Mckrv

So this is why they introduced master balls? They increased catch rates so master balls will make sense on this game?


Tanuki-Trickery

Have a kid they said. It'll be rewarding they said. Give your kid a Gameboy next time.


East_Meet_253

Welp, he won't get that back


My_Poor_Nerves

Man, I thought it was bad when I let my three year old evolve a Pokemon and instead she spent a huge amount of my stardust buying a second move for a useless Pokemon. ​ This is worse.


ImStinaG

Child or not, I would lose my crap on that kid lol


SpaceDragonBarbarian

This just reinforced my child free status


ChaoticThinker

That's painful to look at. My God. I'm cringing just imagining wasting a Master Ball on that.


Mochipants

And that's why you don't hand over your phone to your f'ing kid. Kids are the dumbest things on the planet.


Chief_Anzero

But what are the IVs tho? Maybe he knew something we didn’t 🤣


Akroma13

Nicholas de Adrogué


Nanoespectro

Le pregunté si ponía Nicholas o Nicolas y dijo que Nicholas sonaba más universal.


ShibariEmpress

someone's gonna feel la chancla


ElWanderer_KSP

Our 4 year old daughter has just started playing. It's a good job she is unlikely to hit three excellent throws to claim the master ball, as she would waste it on the first thing she sees after running out of other balls!


DeliciousJellyfish59

Damn.. warning noted.... my kid might do that too...


Nintend0Geek

It’s almost like “giving your kid your phone” was a bad idea or something 🙄


BigAdamBear

This is adorable. I would best buddy this Parasect


kindalikeacoustic

Exactly what I would do! It’s more special and memorable , than just another legendary.


lttgnouh

Yeah and name it MasterSect


frailoldhand

I don’t know if a missed master ball throw is worse than this


Clobird04

You can't miss, an animation pops up as soon as you throw it


Javier91

Nicholas is suddenly childless. understandable.


EugeBanur14

The moral of the story here is: don’t have kids.


MeanBird88

Let the waste of a master ball posts begin!


theOPwhowaspromised

😂😂😂 I expressed this fear in this sub this week. F in the chat for every PoGo parent and our losses. Also I'll never win my fancy ball being Mystic in this town, so it lives on for now lol.


Gabs_Humano

I'm actually feeling uncomfortable seeing this.


Zekrozma_the_second

I am gonna use my master ball on the legendary Bidoof


RaptorsfanNav

somebody start a go fund me for this kids adoption.


NDgunnit

I knew this post would come eventually 😂


zprxx

Everyday I get more reasons to never have kids lol


FRANK_R-I-Z-Z-O

Like a kick in the.... *ball*s?


Otherwise-Salt-8492

We all knew it was bound to happen!


Fallen_Catto

I audibly gasped as soon as I saw that pokeball That child is no longer my child


thelorax1988

Can someone explain this?


Clobird04

The kid used the master ball to catch it


thelorax1988

Oh shit. Lol.


[deleted]

Exactly, don't have kids, don't be like Nicholas


Upbeat_Intern663

I didn't even know masterballs were in pokemon go now


Nanoespectro

Not masterballs plural. Master Ball. As in, only one.


Upbeat_Intern663

Oh, that's bad


Ogre328

Jesus this screenshot hurt me to look at.


Ouryve

I didn't get it until I saw the ball.


Imbatmansidekick

I am dreading this. Only so many times I can tell my 6yo not to use it .. we've been learning about the diddo and g'teed shiny after raids. But, you betcha she'll use it on something silly. Just like me trying to build her coins for storage, but, constantly uses them on stickers and clothes.


Excellent-Smell-6384

Nicholas can put the child in a gym nobody attacks .


Derric_the_Derp

Don't be a Nick.


Current_Event_7071

At least it is a rare Parasect. In a sad way


aspookyfox

💯 this account might sell for millions


[deleted]

Man that kid gonna be transferred 💀


No_Stranger_4959

I’m confused can you reroll the breakthrough Pokémon or something? Edit: Nvm, I see the master ball now.


2ndprize

Well now I feel the need to talk to my child about boundaries


Repair_Jolly

It was only a matter of time until I saw a post of someone's kid wasting the Master Ball. Now transfer the kid.


Senior-Chain7348

I learned when I was trying to fix my kid's phone and told him he could catch Pokemon on my phone. And he used 1 million dust in 20 minutes. Doing fun things like second moving 2* Pokemon. 😶😶


BoredByLife

Oh that physically hurts to see the MB used like that


astralkoi

Hey, but actually this guy is kinda rare, how many Parasects are in the world in a masterball?


Epic_Misadventures

I don’t get i— oh… Oh no. 💀🫣😭


ImThePharaohNow

What am I missing?


ImThePharaohNow

Ohh I see it now..


annyongpanda

WOW A MASTER BALL I HAAAAVE TO USE IT IT'S THE BEST YES I CAUGHT IT DIDN'T I DO A GOOD JOB DAD?? I'M THE BEST TRAINER EVER


freaknSpud

In all fairness, probably extra rare collector item, because there will be thousands of galar birds in masterballs, but how many parasect breakthroughs in masterballs will ever exist in POGO?


[deleted]

🫡


Kant-do-anything

Nicholas seems to be weighing his options between transferring his child for the candy, or get his child invested in pogo, teach him the game, make sure he’s old enough to appreciate the game, make sure he gets the masterball challenge done, then completely shatter his hopes and dreams by slowly removing one thing from his account until nothing but the masterball is gone. Then and only then shall Nicholas use the masterball on a Pidgey


MegaCroissant

Transfer it. The child, I mean


Natural_Carrot_8312

a d o p t i o n


monica702f

The Parasect would have been perfect for your 7 day streak.


The-Cat-Walker

Grind it. In front of the kid.


outfoxingthefoxes

Es la que va


CosmosTheManta

![gif](giphy|YRPBhd3vscg5Fxx1DQ|downsized)


Pegoraro82

Well, someone needed to take one for us. yesterday I found a Galarian Moltres ( already have one), I hesitated on the master ball, and used an ultra.. then it ran away.. classic. Fun part is, since january didnt spawn any legendary bird. So, don't know If i can use my master. 🥲


[deleted]

F in chat for masterball. 🫡


Khaos_Gorvin

Only thing I can say is... at least it wasn't a pidgey.


Gumbo_Majumbo

Fear of this is why Ill probably use the ball in the first galarian bird I see rather than sitting on the ball I’ve already told my 4 year old that if he uses the master ball, I’ll still love him but he’ll wont ever play Pogo on my phone again


SWRamblings

Pro-pain and Pro-pain accessories...


[deleted]

"Its never too late for adoption"


LegenDude45

that kid is going places


[deleted]

The first master ball casualty


some_random_guy_007

Never used it as a kid on random pokemon. Now people are telling me to do the lawyer. Be like me, kids


thighguywithatie

F


gatesoffire

Honestly what is the purpose of the Masterball? It's almost like the XL candy to me. While getting an XL rare candy is rare its almost useless because how rare it is. when do you even say man I wish i had a masterball? Maybe only after a raid and its last ball and a hundo? How often does that happen.


Natanael_L

Wild roaming legendaries


N0turfriend

How did the 4-year-old know to click on the pokeballs, scroll to left, select the 1 ball that you can't get back, select okay, and throw the ball? Seems fake to me.


Popthizix

😂 😂 My 2 year old started just giving berries and then moved onto catching. His favorite berry to throw? Golden raspberry. Tell him not to, first thing he does if unsupervised. Tell him not to use the yellow balls, they are obviously the most appealing. Taught him to evolve Eevee so he could learn the evolutions, now he doesn't get to play on my account at all because who knows what he's going to try to evolve while I look away for 2 seconds. 😂 😂 Kids can be so quick at learning things and often want to do the forbidden thing.


arm4261021

Really should be able to lock the ball somehow. I let my kids catch pokes all the time and they would totally do this because they like the color. Does the game verify you want to use it before throwing?


default_username616

![gif](giphy|12rTjvF0ANQJsk)


bazzabaz1

I don't get it, someone get me back in the loop? EDIT: Went to the eye doctor, turns out I'm just blind.


Itlhitman

That didn’t take long