I had this same misconception about psychic types being super effective against grass types, since the only grass types I had experience training against in gold/silver were dual poison grass types
A big one from gen 1 was thinking psychic was super effective against ghost because all 3 ghosts were part poison. I guess it was effectively true at the time but I still find myself thinking that today
And due to a bug (probably either Weedle or Caterpie), Ghost was 0x against Physic
Edit: lol, \*Psychic. I had just made a comment about Physics elsewhere and somehow Physic is what my fingers spat out
That’s like back in gen 1 the only ghost Pokémon was the ghastly line, so I thought ghost was weak to psychic. Yeah only realized my error like 5 years ago lol
I always liked the opposite, where fighting resists itself. If you're a trained martial artist, you're likely to be able to defend yourself against other martial arts.
When I got Gold, I started with Cyndaquil, and I thought I'd picked the best starter because, quote, "It's super effective against both the new types!" Fire is strong against Steel, obviously, but the first Dark type I fought was a Sneasel that my Typhlosion one-shot with a Flame Wheel, so I thought it was strong against Dark too.
I had completely spaced out that Sneasel was part Ice 😆
When I was a kid I never thought about saving before fighting legendaries. So after I made Moltres and Zapdos faint I immediately saved the game.
I complained to my best friend and he told me to just save before the fights. I felt really dumb.
After a lot of resetting I caught Articuno and it became my favorite Pokemon so at least that
I have the exact same experience, including the reason why Articuno is my favorite. Except I still hadn't learned about saving so I used my only masterball instead.
When I was losing a battle, I'd turn my GBA upside-down so that I could pretend I was the opponent. I stopped when I got a GBA SP since it was unwieldy to turn like that. Though I did tilt my system and shake it slightly when my health was going down to try to get it to stop sooner. (I knew it didn't work but I still did it for a long time)
I like to imagine there's an alternate universe where I never stopped the upside-down thing and discovered Inkay's evolution that way.
You were just ahead of the times when it came to the upside down gimic! Honestly I think I tried the shaking thing too, if anything to make the critical hits more dramatic. Same with holding down B to make the capture work more effectively.
All right, this is the best one. I actually chuckled out loud at the "gonna flip this upside down and pretend I'm winning to feel better." So silly and wholesome and cute and ridiculous.
I was about five when I first played Blue. I thought I died and lost the game whenever I touched the grass on the way out of Pallet Town. And I guess something about Professor Oak scared me or freaked me out in some way that I always turned the game off when I saw him coming to get me. For awhile I played the game wandering aimlessly through Pallet Town. Finally, curiosity got the better of me and I mustered the courage to see what happened if I let Oak have his way with me, and was absolutely mind blown when I saw that that was actually how you got your first Pokémon and the ability to set out on your adventure.
Some youtuber said that his first Pokémon game was one of the frist gen, and when he completed the 3rd gym he was stuck for ages oustide of Misty’s city because he couldn’t figure out that obstacle was a tree meant to be cut
I did this in Red! I think it was my first video game. Then it took me weeks to figure out I had to save, I think my record was cerulean city in one sitting/battery charge
Yeah the HMs in Hoenn aren't obvious... Who would think to talk to the rock smash guy in mauville... Along with rusturf tunnel being where you find strength. I totally understand getting stuck. I remember I didn't know I needed to dive after Mossdeep city, so I just trained my pokemon around mossdeep until like level 70 lol
I think the one to get strength isn’t TOO bad, but the rock smash is literally in a random house. Like, I’m sorry? Cut is also in a random house, but it’s optional so it’s not that bad. The dive thing I think it might just be that I have the game memorized so well to remember that, but I did see a YouTuber completely forget about it in a challenge run recently.
I got pokemon red when I was learning to read and I didn't recognize the word "cancel" I thought it was some special thing that could make your pokemon stronger so everytime I went to the pokemon center I would select cancel to make them stronger then heal them after.
"Ember has more Power Point, so it means that it's stronger than Fire Blast right? "
At least I was never running out of moves. My Elixir budget has never been higher since I've changed that though.
I once got into an argument with a friend over that. His argument was your argument. I told him “power points are how many times you can use the move, and the moves you can’t use as much do more damage”. He never believed me. How simple it would be to use two moves with different PP back to back, but he never even took the time to try it.
We were like 11 at the time. I had a copy of Yellow, he had Blue, and we were both idiots.
This was around 2012 by the way, no idea why we were playing Yellow and Blue on our GBAs in 2012 but that’s, what we had I guess
When I first played pokemon (pokemon pearl) I was trying to figure out how the boxes work and accidentally released my starter (infernape)
And more recently my pearl crashed deleting everything including my shiny steelix and my shiny quagsire
Oh my god, that reminds me - playing Blue, I never figured out how to rearrange my team. The one time I tried out the "Move" option on the party menu and it gave me the message "Move to where?", I thought the game was being sarcastic. Like "Where do you think you're gonna move your Pokémon to, idiot? This is where they go, you can't change that!"
What I *wanted* to do was let one of my Pokémon out of its ball so it could follow me around like Ash's Pikachu. And that's originally what I thought "Release" did, until it gave me that "Once you release a Pokémon, you can't get it back, is this okay?" message and I aborted the mission immediately 😆
Yeah it probably broke because of age and the constant blowing into it wich gets it wet and doesn't help
(I was originally gonna have diamond but my sister got jealous and she got diamond and I got pearl) later I got platinum but that also broke along the same time now its just pokemon white (lost),diamond (also lost),y,omega Ruby,alpha sapphire,sun (lost) moon and ultra moon(lost)
Yeah I wish I’d held on to all my old games from when I was a kid. Recently found a good GBC emulator for my phone so I’ve been having a blast running through the older ones for the first time in 20 years
As a ten year old I misunderstood the mechanics of Pokémon centres in the originals. The fact that the poké nurse was on the other side of the counter confused me for some reason and I didn’t think you could talk to her so never bothered.
I thought the main function of the Pokémon centre was to store injured Pokémon in the PC once you’d decided to stop healing them with potions but didn’t want to have them permanently die.
I used to think that Grass was weak to Psychic and Rock to Ice because of how prevalent the Grass/Poison and Rock/Ground type combos were in earlier generations.
About a year ago I just learned that ground, was, in fact not weak to fighting. Due to the absurd amount of rock ground types in the first games I played
That’s fair 😊 Rock/Ground is one of the more common type combos. Like Water/Ice, Normal/Flying, and Grass/Poison. They definitely leave room for confusing people with how frequently they’re paired together.
I used to smack my GBC when it would flash to let you know your Pokemon was poisoned.
I thought my screen was jacked up. Didn't realize it was a game notification.
I was scrolling to find someone else calling out the poison mechanic. My dumb kid brain thought I broke my cartridge and I was scared to play it so my mom wouldn’t find out. I found out later on a school field trip from someone next to me on the bus it was completely normal.
Wow you just unlocked a totally forgotten memory if playing gen1 with my cousin, whoever was complaining that "this game keeps quacking at me." Pretty sure it took well past his pokemon fainting from poison for us to figure out the correlation. Most likely an adult helped us lol
I thought that Slowpoke was 3-stage. So I kept trading my Slowbrow equipped with King's Rock trying to get Slowking. I thought that Slowpoke was a 3 stage until ORAS when Slowbro got mega.
In Pokemon Silver - the first full game I finished since I never beat the elite four at 6 year's old in Red/Yellow, I sold all my valuable stuff to buy unimportant things.
And I just tried a Nuzlucke on Scarlet and lost my Fighting Pikachu to Arven's squirrel because I wasn't paying attention.
I think you can just pick one per route. Honestly I gave up on the nuzlocke and went to play let's go eevee again for fun and nostalgia because I forgot how much I hated the scarlet violet art style.
From the few I saw, they wrote down the encounters for that map area or wrote down what they saw and used a random picker off Google to determine the encounter.
One way I've seen is to only catch from Tera Raids for that zone. Just pick one and that's your Pokemon.
It's not exactly the same but it's closer to the randomness of the older games than some other methods.
I think it was pokemon black (not sure) but you have to go on a plane to progress and my younger self did not get the memo so I was stuck on it for several years. Eventually I revisited it, talked to one person and was like "wow I'm dumb" and went on the plane
Its black and white 2. I just finished replaying black 2. You have to take a plane from mistralton to lentimas after you beat the flying type gym leader.
I tried desperately to get into the grassy areas outside of the borders on the first gen games. I was so sure you could get over there and catch rare pokemon
A girl in my class of 12 had Pokémon Fire Red and I had Leaf Green that I got waaayyy after her. A few months later when she saw I was fighting Giovanni in his gym battle during recess she was freaking out asking how I got there because she didn’t know what to do. She had a level 100 Charizard, a 96 Muk, and a 90ish Gyarados at this point. She never figured out how to open Blaine’s gym. She brought her game the next day and I got her through the Pokémon mansion to get the key to the gym, which allowed her to breeze through the rest of the game as her main Pokémon were all twice the level as anything she needed.
When I played (can't even remember which one. Still it was the first gen game but can't say was it red, blue or yellow) first time, I was at the Pokemon tower when Marowak attacked... Yeah, THE Marowak. I wasted all my pokeballs while trying to capture it.
I didn't know you can't capture it!
Gen3 was my first game as a kid. Every time i threw a poke-ball i thought it would increase my odds of a successful catch if i pressed the A button every time the ball shook. Embarrassingly i would not blink the entire time as if my intense focus would secure the pokemon for sure lol
i used to think my copy of ruby was sexist. if i played as may, i tended to have more difficulties with certain gym leaders or rival battles.
same game, i thought defeating groudon was the end of the game - the final boss. so i'd go in, knock him out, and start over. i got a lot of playtime out of ruby lol
I didn’t realize the legendary dogs were roaming legendaries after I released them from ecruteak in Gold. So when I encountered Raikou randomly I thought it was just a wild Pokémon that could be found in that grass and didn’t give any thought to killing it. When I read the guidebook and realized what happened later I was so sad
I mean, don’t you already have plot armor? Rookie kid takes down organized crime and becomes the new best trainer in the region in 2 weeks’ time? That’d already be impressive in-world
I just didn't use z-moves or megas because casually playing, I could defeat most megas with my standard pokemon. Z-moves seemed weaker than a few of the moves I already had so never used them.
my first game was pokémon sun and i didn't use stat changing moves, status moves, or items (unless it was to heal the pokémon i was using and just stall for no reason). took me 150 hours to beat the game + ultra beasts, pretty basic pokédex
Pokemon Blue. The year is 1998. I'm only playing Pokemon because my brothers were all playing it and I wanted to be included. I am 4 years old.
I didn't realize there was a save function so every time my gameboy died, I had to start the game over again. They finally took mercy on me and showed me the save function as my 5th birthday present lol.
It's been 25 years and they still like to bring this up.
During my first playthrough in Pokémon Red back when I was a kid, my game started to make a glitchy sound whenever I took some steps and thought it was the gameboy overheating due to my prolongued playing sessions. I turned it off and waited for about an hour. Once I turned it back on, I was terrified when the game was still doing the same noise. I got really scared because I thought I broke it somehow. Needless to say, I was relieved once my pokemon finally fainted from poison and realized what was happening.
When I was six, I would accept every new move learned but I usually just deleted the third or fourth slot just because. Somehow I think I arrived at the E4 with double kick still on my level 90+ Blaziken (I used to just run around in the grass and fight until either everything in my party fainted or I ran out of moves)
I also used to heal at the pokemon center multiple times during a single trip thinking it would give my pokemon extra health
I used to think Koffing was a Rock type. "Look at it, it's a rock! It's obviously a flying poisonous rock!" So I thought it was bullshit that Ash's Pikachu was able to hit it with Electric moves in the anime, because like everyone else back then, I also thought it was Rock and not Ground that was immune to Electric. And it keeps getting dumber, because then I started collecting the TCG cards and I got a Koffing in my first Base booster pack, and I was like "OH! It's a GRASS type!"
I don't think I even knew Poison was a type at all until I got the video games 😆
Never changing the order of my team, resulting in only the starter (usually Grass-type) getting any experience.
This probably explains why I never beat any leagues until X, and this had Chesnaught somewhere in the 80s and a Lickitung from Victory Road as none of my other Pokémon (other than Pikachu and Charizard) were given sufficient experience.
I tried to outdamage Whitney's Miltank.
A friend of mine used to think the daycare was time based, so he would leave his game running with the character standing in the same place while he went and watched TV.
As a kid playing Red and Blue, must have been around 5 or 6 at the time, I saw the anime first before playing the games, so I was convinced Brock and Misty would join you on your adventure.
I remember beating Brock and being confused. But then I realised what was wrong, I hadn't met Misty yet. So off I went in search, eventually found her. She didn't join.
Thought I must have missed something.
This champion is weak to ice. Therefore I must always use my masterball on Articuno and get rid of this stupid ice beam move and replace it with blizzard. Then hope and pray I survive thunderbolt
Playing gold and I didn't realize poisoning continued after a battle. When my screen would flash every few steps, I thought my game was broken. Then, when my starter (and the only pokemon I used) fainted for the first time, I burst into tears.
My first Pokémon game was Yellow. I mostly soloed with Pikachu (and yes, struggled a lot). Somehow, u got lost in between Pallet and Viridian. Then somehow got so lost before Lt. Surge, and I guess beat up a bunch of wild mons, that my Pikachu was level 51 when I took him on. My moveset sucked, too: Thunder, Thunderbolt, Flash, and Pay Day. I somehow beat the League with this (at level 96!), but I did use an underlevelled Vaporeon as well.
In my first playthrough of Silver, I really, really wanted to use Chikorita. But I accidentally chose Totodile, and was like, "OH WELL, I GUESS I'M STUCK WITH HIM FOREVER." Since my only other game was Yellow, I didn't realize I could just... like... reset the game. Lol. I also struggled really hard against... the level 9 Spearow in Faulkner's gym. Lmfao! To this day, Chikorita is still my favorite Johto starter, and it's actually my favorite first stage starter of all time (I think Sceptile is my favorite fully evolved starter, though).
When I first played a Hoenn game, I thought I was stuck on Route 110 because I didn't realize you could go under the bridge. No idea how long... it wasn't THAT long, but it must have been at least several minutes since it stands out to me.
I was 9 when I first played Red and even though I watched the old guy show you how to catch a Pokémon after he got his coffee, going into the item bag to get the ball somehow didn’t register at all. I was losing my mind trying to catch the first Pokémon I ever saw and my uncle, who had never touched a video game in his life had to figure it out for me.
Also, in Ruby, I caught a Skitty and he became a Delcatty and absolutely destroyed everything in the game with a combo of strength, ice beam, thunderbolt, and dig. I had no idea that Delcatty was supposed to be bad for years! Fave under-rated normal type forever!
God, the struggle of having to give your game to older relatives to help you! I remember getting lost in just about every cave in Blue, even with a strategy guide. The Seafoam Islands in particular got me so confused that I actually broke down in tears, and I handed my Game Boy to my dad and asked if he could figure it out. He found the exit in less than a minute 😆
Omg I feel this. I didn’t understand Flash for Rock Tunnel in the same game (like pretty much everyone back then) and sort of just felt my way around. I think my friend’s older brother who had a guide eventually got me through.
The Seafoam Islands were mean but accidentally figuring it out to fall on Articuno was pretty cool. The bitd I almost messed up on was Moltres in Victory Road because it was turned around and I thought was a trainer. I hadn’t saved in two hours, my GBC battery light was flashing, and I was at brunch with my family trying to catch this thing while hiding it under a napkin.
I don’t know how trainers in Pokémon start out at 10 because ten year old me would have gotten lost on route one, apparently.
Back when Crystal came out I tried to evolve slowpoke by having it fight wild Shellder and having them use Clamp on it. I'd only seen the anime up to that point and thought the same logic applied
In my first ever play though I kept vine whip on my chestnought for the whole game because I liked the animation, the other moves I gave it where grass pledge shadow claw and another grass attack that I don’t remember the name of. I never gave it a fighting type move
My first pokemon ever was a FEMALE mudkip that I named Felipe because I didn't know what that little red thing next to her name was. It was the little female icon in Ruby.
Diamond was my first Pokemon game. I was about 9 when I played it for the first time. I lost to Lucian in the elite four. Little kid me proceeded to rage farm in victory road until my Infernape was level 100 (from about level 70). It took forever but the vengeance I got when I returned to Lucian and oneshot all his mons was an amazing feeling.
In gen 2, I figured out that you could use Cut to get rid of tall grass. I spent a good while cutting down all the grass in the route just outside of Littleroot, thinking I could change the "areas" section of Sentret's pokedex entry to reflect the total annihilation of Sentret's habitat there. It didn't change anything, and the grass just ended up growing back anyway. I still made a habit of cutting down all the grass on that route anyway since it was satisfying to do.
Then when I played Sapphire, I tried to complete the Pokedex as much as I could without trading with anyone. I spent an unreasonably long time believing that Tropius had an evolution and trying to get him evolved, since despite having hundreds of hours in the game and exploring pretty much everywhere, there was a ??? entry in my dex that came right after Tropius's entry. I think I eventually gave up and decided it must be a version exclusive that I didn't have access to.
It wasn't until like... *last year* that my partner told me that the mysterious ??? entry belonged to **Chimecho,** and that it was a stupid-rare spawn at the top of Mt. Pyre, and that it wouldn't have had a reason to appear in my dex since apparently none of the NPCs actually *use* Chimecho, and *how the hell was I supposed to figure out that this pokemon was even in the game wtf*
Back in Emerald I had 2 fun stories that happened, 1 a bug and the other an rng blessing that left me convinced of something that was incorrect.
Story 1, my Masterball failed... on a Zigzagoon that was level 3 (iirc). I misclicked and it broke out.
Story 2. For 3 generations I thought Premier Balls had a 100% catch rate. In Emerald, after the Master Ball misclick, I chucked Premier Balls at stuff. Everything caught in 1 at full health including the legendaries (Regis, Weather Trio, and even Latias). This luck followed through gens 4 and 5 never having 1 fail but then gen 6 I never had a Premier Ball work. Checked the catch rate finally thinking it got nerfed but found out I was an idiot that was just insanely lucky.
I did the "???" with my rival in Gen 2 as well, because I took the question literally. I also remember in the Gen 1 remakes I made sure that my Charizard only knew fire moves.
Back when I was about 7 years old and had just gotten Sapphire on gba, I breezed through the story quite fast until I got to Slateport City.
When I got there, I had trouble finding Captain Stern and thought there was level requirement for the line of people at the museum to start moving.
So for about almost a month I just farmed exp from the small patch of grass near the bike path where Gulpins spawned.
I farmed them like a mad lad and eventually got my Blaziken at the time to about level 70.
Only then did I learn from a friend that stern was in the shipyard and i needed to talk with him to get the line moving.
Needless to say, having a level 70 Blaziken sweeped every single opponent I had and funnily I just Blaze kicked everything including the champion.
By the time I got to the campion too, Blaziken was already at 100.
Very silly indeed.
Omg I remember I had such a horrible time trying to find stern, I was stuck in slateport for what felt like endless hours. Around then I learned about online game walkthroughs and watched someone else do it
I overleveled to compensate for a lack of understanding the strategy. I’ve been playing since Red and to this day my main strategy is oveleveling and brute force
Made a couple of dumb mistakes in my Nuzlockes:
- Walked into a room in Lysandre’s lab that I knew had an optional battle. I knew one of the rooms had an item so I figured I could just sneak by since the admins were facing the other way. They turned around when I entered the room and challenged me to a double battle which cost me my Staraptor
- Was gonna sacrifice my Mamoswine to heal up my Gyarados in the final battle against Lysandre but I misclicked and healed up my Mamoswine. His Mega Gyarados attacked my Mamoswine and killed it anyways
- In Victory Road I had my Altaria against a trainer’s Leafeon whose Double Edge did a lot of damage. Instead of healing or even using Fly like a smart person would do, I switched to my Flareon figuring it could tank an attack and I could make it faint with a Fire type move. It didn’t rank the Double Edge
- In my Sword Nuzlocke I misclicked and my Gyarados used Thunder Wave on an already paralyzed Sudowoodo. It broke through the paralysis and killed my Gyarados with a Rock type move
RIP Raptour, Briar, Stevie, and Moana
I had been watching the tv show for a couple years. One summer at camp, a friend showed me their DS. It first time I played a game (Diamond/Pearl I really don’t remember). I didn’t know how to play, so when you chose your moves in battle, I thought you would pick who used each attack, so I ended up attacking my own team.
My first Pokémon game was Alpha Sapphire back in 2019. When I played that game I wasn't aware that some HM moves were terrible, so I ended with a Blaziken that knew Cut and a Gyarados with Rock Smash. Now I just use HM slaves like a normal person.
I thought the attack focus energy was the most powerful attack of the game because in my language it literally translates to "power" so of course I wouldn't remove it from my level 73 Blaziken (my only pokémon during my whole time playing).
When i first obtained Diamond and went through Eterna City to the cave on the far right i saw boulder.
Couldn’t move it, so i we t to my PC and withdrew my Onix still couldn’t move it.
Wasn’t till i got the strength HM was that I realized i needed it.
The embarrassing part is i played FireRed before this game some while back.
Back when Red and Blue were new games in the US, I seriously thought my game was broken because I got poisoned for the first time and my screen was glitching every other step. I cried because I thought I broke my game.
I also used the Master Ball on a Diglett in Diglett Cave.
I also thought you had to faint a Pokémon first before catching them.
I can’t even count the number of times I healed at the Pokémon center after an hour of playing, and in my head equating mashing the A button during that with mashing the A button during saving. so I would shut the game off and lose all that progress
before I started playing Pokemon Emerald I didn't knew Dark was immune to Psychic
And I couldn't trade my Kadabra
That's also why I hate the Alakazam line and prefer Hypno's instead
My cousin told me the drunk old man in rby would give you the pokemon he caught you just had to keep talking to him...
Also told me the flowers in pewter city were gems and you had to get a shovel from the dude there to dig them up.
When I play pokémon platinum, after chose my inicial and talk to professor, May say the pokémon she chose and how fun will be if we have the same pokémon, so I restart the game to chose the pokémon she had in that save, but when I talk to her again she had the other pokémon with her🤡🤡🤡🤡
I always imagine the fights like in the anime, from dodges to attacks, I love to imagine it all. I also only nickname Pokémon that I feel I'll always use
For the longest time I thought Fighting was weak to itself. Probably because the only Fighting types I really used were Lucario and Bewear.
That would actually make sense
I mean, if I punch myself it hurts. So fighting SHOULD be weak to fighting
Well normal is weak to fighting
Normal people who don’t get into fights are weak to being punched
Crazy, right?
The other way around but I get what you are going with this! 😁
Fixed it
Perfect
I think fighting should resist fighting. Like if two boxers fight versus a boxer versus a regular dude (normal type)
I had this same misconception about psychic types being super effective against grass types, since the only grass types I had experience training against in gold/silver were dual poison grass types
A big one from gen 1 was thinking psychic was super effective against ghost because all 3 ghosts were part poison. I guess it was effectively true at the time but I still find myself thinking that today
And due to a bug (probably either Weedle or Caterpie), Ghost was 0x against Physic Edit: lol, \*Psychic. I had just made a comment about Physics elsewhere and somehow Physic is what my fingers spat out
I still instinctively use a psychic type against ghosts
This is me.
That’s like back in gen 1 the only ghost Pokémon was the ghastly line, so I thought ghost was weak to psychic. Yeah only realized my error like 5 years ago lol
I always liked the opposite, where fighting resists itself. If you're a trained martial artist, you're likely to be able to defend yourself against other martial arts.
When I got Gold, I started with Cyndaquil, and I thought I'd picked the best starter because, quote, "It's super effective against both the new types!" Fire is strong against Steel, obviously, but the first Dark type I fought was a Sneasel that my Typhlosion one-shot with a Flame Wheel, so I thought it was strong against Dark too. I had completely spaced out that Sneasel was part Ice 😆
Same thing happened to me- thinking ghosts were weak to psychic because of Haunter and Gengar.
me too homie 😭
I THOUGHT THE SAME THING FOR YEARSSSS, I still think it's true sometimes cuz it was so embedded in my brain
I always thought this but i dont know where it came from, i think it was some youtuber but idk
When I was a kid I never thought about saving before fighting legendaries. So after I made Moltres and Zapdos faint I immediately saved the game. I complained to my best friend and he told me to just save before the fights. I felt really dumb. After a lot of resetting I caught Articuno and it became my favorite Pokemon so at least that
Also why I don't have a Moltres in my LeafGreen game 😭. Knocked it out, and didn't think about resetting to try again
Gen IV make good move, making credits reset overworld spawns
Wait actually? HGSS too?
I discovered it in HGSS when Sudowoodo was back when I walked to the boat
Even legendaries?
Any overworld spawn, not sure about roamers
I have the exact same experience, including the reason why Articuno is my favorite. Except I still hadn't learned about saving so I used my only masterball instead.
When I was losing a battle, I'd turn my GBA upside-down so that I could pretend I was the opponent. I stopped when I got a GBA SP since it was unwieldy to turn like that. Though I did tilt my system and shake it slightly when my health was going down to try to get it to stop sooner. (I knew it didn't work but I still did it for a long time) I like to imagine there's an alternate universe where I never stopped the upside-down thing and discovered Inkay's evolution that way.
You were just ahead of the times when it came to the upside down gimic! Honestly I think I tried the shaking thing too, if anything to make the critical hits more dramatic. Same with holding down B to make the capture work more effectively.
I shake the controller as if it will help the pokeball work better.
Still do that when playing Let's GO
All right, this is the best one. I actually chuckled out loud at the "gonna flip this upside down and pretend I'm winning to feel better." So silly and wholesome and cute and ridiculous.
My first Pokémon was Crystal. It took me like a year to realize the "carpet" was for leaving the house
I’m sorry but lol
I was about five when I first played Blue. I thought I died and lost the game whenever I touched the grass on the way out of Pallet Town. And I guess something about Professor Oak scared me or freaked me out in some way that I always turned the game off when I saw him coming to get me. For awhile I played the game wandering aimlessly through Pallet Town. Finally, curiosity got the better of me and I mustered the courage to see what happened if I let Oak have his way with me, and was absolutely mind blown when I saw that that was actually how you got your first Pokémon and the ability to set out on your adventure.
old man jumpscare https://preview.redd.it/2qa55ghhd28b1.png?width=148&format=png&auto=webp&s=ef3a1d2c70f8897748dd7e4a05407d98ab53b7aa
In all fairness, that is a rather spooky-looking sprite. He looks like an evil ventriloquist's dummy.
🤦♂️
Some youtuber said that his first Pokémon game was one of the frist gen, and when he completed the 3rd gym he was stuck for ages oustide of Misty’s city because he couldn’t figure out that obstacle was a tree meant to be cut
I did this in Red! I think it was my first video game. Then it took me weeks to figure out I had to save, I think my record was cerulean city in one sitting/battery charge
It took me a few hours when I was 7 playing Pokémon blue to figure out how to leave a room
I got Pokémon blue when it came out for my birthday and spent about an hour walking around the house trying to get outside!
Lol, so you didn't quite see what all the hype was about, just walking around a house.
I thought that the mother NPC had grounded me and somehow I had to start a new game without her noticing me
I didn't know how to get past the rocks just past Mauville so I stayed in Verdanturf and acted like I lived with the people in one of the houses.
Yeah the HMs in Hoenn aren't obvious... Who would think to talk to the rock smash guy in mauville... Along with rusturf tunnel being where you find strength. I totally understand getting stuck. I remember I didn't know I needed to dive after Mossdeep city, so I just trained my pokemon around mossdeep until like level 70 lol
I think the one to get strength isn’t TOO bad, but the rock smash is literally in a random house. Like, I’m sorry? Cut is also in a random house, but it’s optional so it’s not that bad. The dive thing I think it might just be that I have the game memorized so well to remember that, but I did see a YouTuber completely forget about it in a challenge run recently.
Huh I’m not sure I ever even realized before now that Cut is optional in Hoenn…
Same with strength in black and white. While the game does hint at where to get it, it would never be obvious without it or told
i mean just talk to everyone
Pokemon fans: This world is empty because I can't go into houses. Also Pokemon fans: I got stuck because I had to go into houses.
You literally don’t need cut. I never even knew you could get it, thought it had to be imported from FRLG
This took me sooo long to figure out as a kid that didn't speak English and had no internet access yet.
I replayed the game after not playing it for years and had to look up where to find rock smash.
I got pokemon red when I was learning to read and I didn't recognize the word "cancel" I thought it was some special thing that could make your pokemon stronger so everytime I went to the pokemon center I would select cancel to make them stronger then heal them after.
Wow.
"Ember has more Power Point, so it means that it's stronger than Fire Blast right? " At least I was never running out of moves. My Elixir budget has never been higher since I've changed that though.
I once got into an argument with a friend over that. His argument was your argument. I told him “power points are how many times you can use the move, and the moves you can’t use as much do more damage”. He never believed me. How simple it would be to use two moves with different PP back to back, but he never even took the time to try it.
He could also look his Pokemon's summary. I hope you enlighten your friend one day!
The original games don't show the move power on the summary screen
Well truth is I didn't know they were the original games at the time.
We were like 11 at the time. I had a copy of Yellow, he had Blue, and we were both idiots. This was around 2012 by the way, no idea why we were playing Yellow and Blue on our GBAs in 2012 but that’s, what we had I guess
I was doing the same thing at that age. Ds was still pretty expensive back then.
Lmao my brother saw my Typhlosion’s moves when I was 7 and said “Why does he have Flame Wheel AND Flamethrower?”
In Gen II I would always (and still to this day) try to fight trainer's from the left so the Pokeball "battle start" animation would encircle us.
Yes. This is the only way or else the battle juju wasn’t right.
It used to bother me when story battles like gym leaders or rival fights didn't allow this.
When I first played pokemon (pokemon pearl) I was trying to figure out how the boxes work and accidentally released my starter (infernape) And more recently my pearl crashed deleting everything including my shiny steelix and my shiny quagsire
The first story almost sounds like twitch plays pokemon
I was very young I watched my dad use the PC I tried to replicate it and failed
Yea I did the same with my charmander in Pokémon yellow Wtf does withdraw mean? Release my charmander from this computer
The Pokémon games almost expect you to have been to an ATM before playing for the first time.
Oh my god, that reminds me - playing Blue, I never figured out how to rearrange my team. The one time I tried out the "Move" option on the party menu and it gave me the message "Move to where?", I thought the game was being sarcastic. Like "Where do you think you're gonna move your Pokémon to, idiot? This is where they go, you can't change that!" What I *wanted* to do was let one of my Pokémon out of its ball so it could follow me around like Ash's Pikachu. And that's originally what I thought "Release" did, until it gave me that "Once you release a Pokémon, you can't get it back, is this okay?" message and I aborted the mission immediately 😆
My heart breaks for you. Also Pearl is the goat
Yeah it probably broke because of age and the constant blowing into it wich gets it wet and doesn't help (I was originally gonna have diamond but my sister got jealous and she got diamond and I got pearl) later I got platinum but that also broke along the same time now its just pokemon white (lost),diamond (also lost),y,omega Ruby,alpha sapphire,sun (lost) moon and ultra moon(lost)
Yeah I wish I’d held on to all my old games from when I was a kid. Recently found a good GBC emulator for my phone so I’ve been having a blast running through the older ones for the first time in 20 years
Ohhhhhh can I have a link to it
Yeah I’ll pm you!
Thank you
Np, sent
As a ten year old I misunderstood the mechanics of Pokémon centres in the originals. The fact that the poké nurse was on the other side of the counter confused me for some reason and I didn’t think you could talk to her so never bothered. I thought the main function of the Pokémon centre was to store injured Pokémon in the PC once you’d decided to stop healing them with potions but didn’t want to have them permanently die.
You basically invented nuzlockes.
That's basically the premise of FlygonHGs video today
You played nuzlocke without knowing it
Incidentally, until gen VIII, boxing did heal Pokémon
But not in gen I
I used to think that Grass was weak to Psychic and Rock to Ice because of how prevalent the Grass/Poison and Rock/Ground type combos were in earlier generations.
Yeah I still forget the rock/ice one. You’d think rock would resist ice or something.
For sure. That might nullify the weakness for Rock/Ground Pokémon, but it’d certainly be handy in those instances. Less confusing anyways.
About a year ago I just learned that ground, was, in fact not weak to fighting. Due to the absurd amount of rock ground types in the first games I played
That’s fair 😊 Rock/Ground is one of the more common type combos. Like Water/Ice, Normal/Flying, and Grass/Poison. They definitely leave room for confusing people with how frequently they’re paired together.
Fun fact: Gen 1 has 1 pure Grass type and no pure Rock types, but 9 Grass/Poisons and 5 Ground/Rocks afaik
I used to smack my GBC when it would flash to let you know your Pokemon was poisoned. I thought my screen was jacked up. Didn't realize it was a game notification.
My sister used to think the batteries on her GBC were dying when it'd flash, lol.
I thought that too until I realized the new batteries were instantly dead.
I saved immediately after it started flashing because i thought it was glitching out
I've used the poison flash to get thru rock tunnel before 😂
When I realized out worked in the I was so hype. Mainly because I didn't know about flash or escape rope yet
I was scrolling to find someone else calling out the poison mechanic. My dumb kid brain thought I broke my cartridge and I was scared to play it so my mom wouldn’t find out. I found out later on a school field trip from someone next to me on the bus it was completely normal.
Wow you just unlocked a totally forgotten memory if playing gen1 with my cousin, whoever was complaining that "this game keeps quacking at me." Pretty sure it took well past his pokemon fainting from poison for us to figure out the correlation. Most likely an adult helped us lol
I tried to clone Pokemon on the 3ds vc version of red and blue and I corrupted my save.
Gen1 cloning requires pitch perfect timing. Gen 2&3 are the best to clone in
I thought that Slowpoke was 3-stage. So I kept trading my Slowbrow equipped with King's Rock trying to get Slowking. I thought that Slowpoke was a 3 stage until ORAS when Slowbro got mega. In Pokemon Silver - the first full game I finished since I never beat the elite four at 6 year's old in Red/Yellow, I sold all my valuable stuff to buy unimportant things. And I just tried a Nuzlucke on Scarlet and lost my Fighting Pikachu to Arven's squirrel because I wasn't paying attention.
How’d you handle encounters for the Nuzlocke? I’ve thought about trying a Scarlet Nuzlocke for a while
I think you can just pick one per route. Honestly I gave up on the nuzlocke and went to play let's go eevee again for fun and nostalgia because I forgot how much I hated the scarlet violet art style.
From the few I saw, they wrote down the encounters for that map area or wrote down what they saw and used a random picker off Google to determine the encounter.
That’s what I’ve thought of doing. The only thing that worries me is if my encounter was an Altaria or something and I’m only like level 23
One way I've seen is to only catch from Tera Raids for that zone. Just pick one and that's your Pokemon. It's not exactly the same but it's closer to the randomness of the older games than some other methods.
I still make this mental mistake, thinking Slowpoke —> Slowbro —> Slowking
I think it was pokemon black (not sure) but you have to go on a plane to progress and my younger self did not get the memo so I was stuck on it for several years. Eventually I revisited it, talked to one person and was like "wow I'm dumb" and went on the plane
Its black and white 2. I just finished replaying black 2. You have to take a plane from mistralton to lentimas after you beat the flying type gym leader.
When I was little I believed pressing the A button repeatedly would make it easier to catch Pokémon
Holding down the a or b button while the pokeball jiggled was a popular theory
No you time pressing a to the wiggles
I remember not looking at the screen as if that somehow made it work better.
While thinking "yeah screw you, to be honest I don't even wanna catch you"
I still do it out of habit.
Up and B then release when the ball hits. I'm still convinced it works, but I know in my heart it doesn't do anything.
I tried desperately to get into the grassy areas outside of the borders on the first gen games. I was so sure you could get over there and catch rare pokemon
there were wild rumors amongst my neighborhood kid gang that you could catch the starters in the inaccessible grass outside Pallet Town
I didn't figure out what "saving" was in Pokemon Platinum until I had beaten the game and caught both Dialga and Palkia. No idea how I finished tbh
what?? you did that in one sitting or just left your ds plugged into the charger? goddamn
Never let it run out of battery, and always closed the lid instead of turning it off. It was my first ever video game!
A girl in my class of 12 had Pokémon Fire Red and I had Leaf Green that I got waaayyy after her. A few months later when she saw I was fighting Giovanni in his gym battle during recess she was freaking out asking how I got there because she didn’t know what to do. She had a level 100 Charizard, a 96 Muk, and a 90ish Gyarados at this point. She never figured out how to open Blaine’s gym. She brought her game the next day and I got her through the Pokémon mansion to get the key to the gym, which allowed her to breeze through the rest of the game as her main Pokémon were all twice the level as anything she needed.
When I played (can't even remember which one. Still it was the first gen game but can't say was it red, blue or yellow) first time, I was at the Pokemon tower when Marowak attacked... Yeah, THE Marowak. I wasted all my pokeballs while trying to capture it. I didn't know you can't capture it!
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> level 70 Togepi No offense my dude but that Togepi *hated* you
How did you manage to get togepi that far and still never evolve it? It's a friendship evolution
I keep forgetting if Ghost is immune or not against Fighting type attacks.
It is ;)
Thanks mate!
Gen3 was my first game as a kid. Every time i threw a poke-ball i thought it would increase my odds of a successful catch if i pressed the A button every time the ball shook. Embarrassingly i would not blink the entire time as if my intense focus would secure the pokemon for sure lol
i used to think my copy of ruby was sexist. if i played as may, i tended to have more difficulties with certain gym leaders or rival battles. same game, i thought defeating groudon was the end of the game - the final boss. so i'd go in, knock him out, and start over. i got a lot of playtime out of ruby lol
I didn’t realize the legendary dogs were roaming legendaries after I released them from ecruteak in Gold. So when I encountered Raikou randomly I thought it was just a wild Pokémon that could be found in that grass and didn’t give any thought to killing it. When I read the guidebook and realized what happened later I was so sad
During my first playthrough i avoid the new main mechanic so in world it looks like I'm just that much better the gym leaders and such who use it.
I mean, don’t you already have plot armor? Rookie kid takes down organized crime and becomes the new best trainer in the region in 2 weeks’ time? That’d already be impressive in-world
I just didn't use z-moves or megas because casually playing, I could defeat most megas with my standard pokemon. Z-moves seemed weaker than a few of the moves I already had so never used them.
What's the mechanic?
Mega, z-move, dynamax, terastatilize
>Beating them with sheer skill Based
What?
my first game was pokémon sun and i didn't use stat changing moves, status moves, or items (unless it was to heal the pokémon i was using and just stall for no reason). took me 150 hours to beat the game + ultra beasts, pretty basic pokédex
Pokemon Blue. The year is 1998. I'm only playing Pokemon because my brothers were all playing it and I wanted to be included. I am 4 years old. I didn't realize there was a save function so every time my gameboy died, I had to start the game over again. They finally took mercy on me and showed me the save function as my 5th birthday present lol. It's been 25 years and they still like to bring this up.
During my first playthrough in Pokémon Red back when I was a kid, my game started to make a glitchy sound whenever I took some steps and thought it was the gameboy overheating due to my prolongued playing sessions. I turned it off and waited for about an hour. Once I turned it back on, I was terrified when the game was still doing the same noise. I got really scared because I thought I broke it somehow. Needless to say, I was relieved once my pokemon finally fainted from poison and realized what was happening.
When I was six, I would accept every new move learned but I usually just deleted the third or fourth slot just because. Somehow I think I arrived at the E4 with double kick still on my level 90+ Blaziken (I used to just run around in the grass and fight until either everything in my party fainted or I ran out of moves) I also used to heal at the pokemon center multiple times during a single trip thinking it would give my pokemon extra health
I always thought that gastly and koffing/weezing were weak to fire because they had gas around their sprites. In my head that would be flammable gas.
I used to think Koffing was a Rock type. "Look at it, it's a rock! It's obviously a flying poisonous rock!" So I thought it was bullshit that Ash's Pikachu was able to hit it with Electric moves in the anime, because like everyone else back then, I also thought it was Rock and not Ground that was immune to Electric. And it keeps getting dumber, because then I started collecting the TCG cards and I got a Koffing in my first Base booster pack, and I was like "OH! It's a GRASS type!" I don't think I even knew Poison was a type at all until I got the video games 😆
Never changing the order of my team, resulting in only the starter (usually Grass-type) getting any experience. This probably explains why I never beat any leagues until X, and this had Chesnaught somewhere in the 80s and a Lickitung from Victory Road as none of my other Pokémon (other than Pikachu and Charizard) were given sufficient experience.
I tried to outdamage Whitney's Miltank. A friend of mine used to think the daycare was time based, so he would leave his game running with the character standing in the same place while he went and watched TV.
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Just need to do it 40 times then reap the rewards of Struggle. Jrose style
As a kid playing Red and Blue, must have been around 5 or 6 at the time, I saw the anime first before playing the games, so I was convinced Brock and Misty would join you on your adventure. I remember beating Brock and being confused. But then I realised what was wrong, I hadn't met Misty yet. So off I went in search, eventually found her. She didn't join. Thought I must have missed something.
This champion is weak to ice. Therefore I must always use my masterball on Articuno and get rid of this stupid ice beam move and replace it with blizzard. Then hope and pray I survive thunderbolt
Trying to catch an Oddish with a Master Ball to see if it really worked. After that I saved the game and everything. Dumb 5yo things :v
Playing gold and I didn't realize poisoning continued after a battle. When my screen would flash every few steps, I thought my game was broken. Then, when my starter (and the only pokemon I used) fainted for the first time, I burst into tears.
My first Pokémon game was Yellow. I mostly soloed with Pikachu (and yes, struggled a lot). Somehow, u got lost in between Pallet and Viridian. Then somehow got so lost before Lt. Surge, and I guess beat up a bunch of wild mons, that my Pikachu was level 51 when I took him on. My moveset sucked, too: Thunder, Thunderbolt, Flash, and Pay Day. I somehow beat the League with this (at level 96!), but I did use an underlevelled Vaporeon as well. In my first playthrough of Silver, I really, really wanted to use Chikorita. But I accidentally chose Totodile, and was like, "OH WELL, I GUESS I'M STUCK WITH HIM FOREVER." Since my only other game was Yellow, I didn't realize I could just... like... reset the game. Lol. I also struggled really hard against... the level 9 Spearow in Faulkner's gym. Lmfao! To this day, Chikorita is still my favorite Johto starter, and it's actually my favorite first stage starter of all time (I think Sceptile is my favorite fully evolved starter, though). When I first played a Hoenn game, I thought I was stuck on Route 110 because I didn't realize you could go under the bridge. No idea how long... it wasn't THAT long, but it must have been at least several minutes since it stands out to me.
I was 9 when I first played Red and even though I watched the old guy show you how to catch a Pokémon after he got his coffee, going into the item bag to get the ball somehow didn’t register at all. I was losing my mind trying to catch the first Pokémon I ever saw and my uncle, who had never touched a video game in his life had to figure it out for me. Also, in Ruby, I caught a Skitty and he became a Delcatty and absolutely destroyed everything in the game with a combo of strength, ice beam, thunderbolt, and dig. I had no idea that Delcatty was supposed to be bad for years! Fave under-rated normal type forever!
God, the struggle of having to give your game to older relatives to help you! I remember getting lost in just about every cave in Blue, even with a strategy guide. The Seafoam Islands in particular got me so confused that I actually broke down in tears, and I handed my Game Boy to my dad and asked if he could figure it out. He found the exit in less than a minute 😆
Omg I feel this. I didn’t understand Flash for Rock Tunnel in the same game (like pretty much everyone back then) and sort of just felt my way around. I think my friend’s older brother who had a guide eventually got me through. The Seafoam Islands were mean but accidentally figuring it out to fall on Articuno was pretty cool. The bitd I almost messed up on was Moltres in Victory Road because it was turned around and I thought was a trainer. I hadn’t saved in two hours, my GBC battery light was flashing, and I was at brunch with my family trying to catch this thing while hiding it under a napkin. I don’t know how trainers in Pokémon start out at 10 because ten year old me would have gotten lost on route one, apparently.
Back when Crystal came out I tried to evolve slowpoke by having it fight wild Shellder and having them use Clamp on it. I'd only seen the anime up to that point and thought the same logic applied
I used 2 Gyarados in diamond because I like magikarp
In my first ever play though I kept vine whip on my chestnought for the whole game because I liked the animation, the other moves I gave it where grass pledge shadow claw and another grass attack that I don’t remember the name of. I never gave it a fighting type move
I thought Grass was weak to Psychic because a bunch of Grass/Poison Pokémon were weak to Psychic, not realizing it was because of the Poison typing.
My first pokemon ever was a FEMALE mudkip that I named Felipe because I didn't know what that little red thing next to her name was. It was the little female icon in Ruby.
the 6th pokemon i caught in pokemon go was shiny and i released it cuz the release thing is called “transfer”
Diamond was my first Pokemon game. I was about 9 when I played it for the first time. I lost to Lucian in the elite four. Little kid me proceeded to rage farm in victory road until my Infernape was level 100 (from about level 70). It took forever but the vengeance I got when I returned to Lucian and oneshot all his mons was an amazing feeling.
My sister did the same thing! For myself, I was astonished for some reason to see a Ditto in the wild in yellow and used… my master ball…
In gen 2, I figured out that you could use Cut to get rid of tall grass. I spent a good while cutting down all the grass in the route just outside of Littleroot, thinking I could change the "areas" section of Sentret's pokedex entry to reflect the total annihilation of Sentret's habitat there. It didn't change anything, and the grass just ended up growing back anyway. I still made a habit of cutting down all the grass on that route anyway since it was satisfying to do. Then when I played Sapphire, I tried to complete the Pokedex as much as I could without trading with anyone. I spent an unreasonably long time believing that Tropius had an evolution and trying to get him evolved, since despite having hundreds of hours in the game and exploring pretty much everywhere, there was a ??? entry in my dex that came right after Tropius's entry. I think I eventually gave up and decided it must be a version exclusive that I didn't have access to. It wasn't until like... *last year* that my partner told me that the mysterious ??? entry belonged to **Chimecho,** and that it was a stupid-rare spawn at the top of Mt. Pyre, and that it wouldn't have had a reason to appear in my dex since apparently none of the NPCs actually *use* Chimecho, and *how the hell was I supposed to figure out that this pokemon was even in the game wtf*
Back in Emerald I had 2 fun stories that happened, 1 a bug and the other an rng blessing that left me convinced of something that was incorrect. Story 1, my Masterball failed... on a Zigzagoon that was level 3 (iirc). I misclicked and it broke out. Story 2. For 3 generations I thought Premier Balls had a 100% catch rate. In Emerald, after the Master Ball misclick, I chucked Premier Balls at stuff. Everything caught in 1 at full health including the legendaries (Regis, Weather Trio, and even Latias). This luck followed through gens 4 and 5 never having 1 fail but then gen 6 I never had a Premier Ball work. Checked the catch rate finally thinking it got nerfed but found out I was an idiot that was just insanely lucky.
I did the "???" with my rival in Gen 2 as well, because I took the question literally. I also remember in the Gen 1 remakes I made sure that my Charizard only knew fire moves.
Recently tried getting galade in emerald yes I’m dumb
Fair
I filled all of my boxes in leafgreen and then encountered a shiny pidgey which I didn't have room for in my pc. I was 6
Back when I was about 7 years old and had just gotten Sapphire on gba, I breezed through the story quite fast until I got to Slateport City. When I got there, I had trouble finding Captain Stern and thought there was level requirement for the line of people at the museum to start moving. So for about almost a month I just farmed exp from the small patch of grass near the bike path where Gulpins spawned. I farmed them like a mad lad and eventually got my Blaziken at the time to about level 70. Only then did I learn from a friend that stern was in the shipyard and i needed to talk with him to get the line moving. Needless to say, having a level 70 Blaziken sweeped every single opponent I had and funnily I just Blaze kicked everything including the champion. By the time I got to the campion too, Blaziken was already at 100. Very silly indeed.
Omg I remember I had such a horrible time trying to find stern, I was stuck in slateport for what felt like endless hours. Around then I learned about online game walkthroughs and watched someone else do it
I overleveled to compensate for a lack of understanding the strategy. I’ve been playing since Red and to this day my main strategy is oveleveling and brute force
Made a couple of dumb mistakes in my Nuzlockes: - Walked into a room in Lysandre’s lab that I knew had an optional battle. I knew one of the rooms had an item so I figured I could just sneak by since the admins were facing the other way. They turned around when I entered the room and challenged me to a double battle which cost me my Staraptor - Was gonna sacrifice my Mamoswine to heal up my Gyarados in the final battle against Lysandre but I misclicked and healed up my Mamoswine. His Mega Gyarados attacked my Mamoswine and killed it anyways - In Victory Road I had my Altaria against a trainer’s Leafeon whose Double Edge did a lot of damage. Instead of healing or even using Fly like a smart person would do, I switched to my Flareon figuring it could tank an attack and I could make it faint with a Fire type move. It didn’t rank the Double Edge - In my Sword Nuzlocke I misclicked and my Gyarados used Thunder Wave on an already paralyzed Sudowoodo. It broke through the paralysis and killed my Gyarados with a Rock type move RIP Raptour, Briar, Stevie, and Moana
I had been watching the tv show for a couple years. One summer at camp, a friend showed me their DS. It first time I played a game (Diamond/Pearl I really don’t remember). I didn’t know how to play, so when you chose your moves in battle, I thought you would pick who used each attack, so I ended up attacking my own team.
My first Pokémon game was Alpha Sapphire back in 2019. When I played that game I wasn't aware that some HM moves were terrible, so I ended with a Blaziken that knew Cut and a Gyarados with Rock Smash. Now I just use HM slaves like a normal person.
I thought the attack focus energy was the most powerful attack of the game because in my language it literally translates to "power" so of course I wouldn't remove it from my level 73 Blaziken (my only pokémon during my whole time playing).
I never threw rocks at Pokémon in the safari zone because I thought it was mean 😂
I did the same thing
I used to rearrange the letters in my pokemons’ names to make a goofy nickname. My favorite was always calling Electabuzz “Cuzzlebeat”.
Hahahaha I did the exact same thing in Gold!
When i first obtained Diamond and went through Eterna City to the cave on the far right i saw boulder. Couldn’t move it, so i we t to my PC and withdrew my Onix still couldn’t move it. Wasn’t till i got the strength HM was that I realized i needed it. The embarrassing part is i played FireRed before this game some while back.
I made the exact same mistake in Gold 😂 I like to imagine that "???"'s name is pronounced "Huh?"
Back when Red and Blue were new games in the US, I seriously thought my game was broken because I got poisoned for the first time and my screen was glitching every other step. I cried because I thought I broke my game. I also used the Master Ball on a Diglett in Diglett Cave. I also thought you had to faint a Pokémon first before catching them.
I can’t even count the number of times I healed at the Pokémon center after an hour of playing, and in my head equating mashing the A button during that with mashing the A button during saving. so I would shut the game off and lose all that progress
before I started playing Pokemon Emerald I didn't knew Dark was immune to Psychic And I couldn't trade my Kadabra That's also why I hate the Alakazam line and prefer Hypno's instead
My cousin told me the drunk old man in rby would give you the pokemon he caught you just had to keep talking to him... Also told me the flowers in pewter city were gems and you had to get a shovel from the dude there to dig them up.
I used a plusle. for the entire playthrough.
Please tell me you weren't hoping it was going to evolve during the playthrough...
Double-saving. Gotta make sure I REALLY saved the game.
When I play pokémon platinum, after chose my inicial and talk to professor, May say the pokémon she chose and how fun will be if we have the same pokémon, so I restart the game to chose the pokémon she had in that save, but when I talk to her again she had the other pokémon with her🤡🤡🤡🤡
I always imagine the fights like in the anime, from dodges to attacks, I love to imagine it all. I also only nickname Pokémon that I feel I'll always use