>tfw You thought Slowking evolves from Slowbro ITT: Misconceptions

>>27108188
>When a pokemon gets to level 101 they die

Not sure how you mixed that one up, but maybe I'm just a Slowbro fag.

I didn't realize Lugia had fingers until like three years ago.

>>27108188
>Stat drops are permanent

Mothim evolves from Burmy, apparently.

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>thought pokémon couldn't get any sexier

>>27108188
>Pokemon clover
no thanks

>>27108188
>tfw though this too for some reason
Slowking was made to show off the Special stat split just like Umbreon and Espeon.

>>27108188
>>27108188
When I was a kid, I thought it was
>Numel-Camerupt-Torkoal
Cause that was the way they appeared in the pokedex. And my little head saw one hole in numel's back, two on camerupt's and a bunch on torkoal's.

Used to think bug was weak to ice then i got into a situation like this
https://youtube.com/watch?v=UwZWGRCBbsE

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>>27108188
I used to think that geodude evolved into onix,because of the anime.
Also thought that fire was super-effective against flying types because... obvious reasons.

>>27108188
Ditto evolves into a mon called Didette

Dunsparce is a legendary

>>27108596
That actually makes sense. I think it would be a logical progression, IF the poor guy looked less liek a tortoise and more a camel.

The one I wished they had done a similar evolution to was pachirisu to emolga. they are both rodents in the squirrel family, so it would perfectly fit.

I used to think that unknown were dead Pokémon

I thought Sentret and Furret were both single-stage pokemon that didn't evolve into or out of anything.

I thought Watchog wasn't a real pokemon because I'd only ever seen it in a romhack.

until I was 14, i thought skarmory was a gen 3 pokemon since i had never seen it playing silver/crystal and only in ruby or emerald. I also thought shuckle was ground type for the longest time and I thought rock was immune to electric since so many ground/rock types in gen 1.

>>27108698
>obvious reasons
?????

>>27108188
I thought Dunsparce evolved into Yanma

My friend thought Plusle and Minun evolved into Latias and Latios

>>27108188
Someone convinced me when I was younger that you can get to South America to catch Mew since his pokedex said it's found there

I thought bugs were weak to ice.
I thought bugs resisted rock.

>>27110210
Biggest travesty of Johto's pokemon distribution here

When I first played red and blue, it was after Ash beat Brock in the anime. I was 100% positive that Pikachu could use thundershock to beat an Onix.

>>27108188
I thought Ice was super-effective against Water for probably a decade. How is it not?

>>27108305
This freaked me out as a kid

>>27108698
>obvious reasons.
What?

>>27110476
Get an ice cube out of your freezer then hold it under a tap, with cold water, it dissolves crazily fast.

>>27110476
Freeze dry is

>>27110490
Fried chicken

When I was like 6 pretty much my whole class concluded that, after seeing a card with Spoink on it for the first time, Spoink and Pikachu must have been the first two pokemon ever made.

>>27110519
Yeah I know ice melts. But Ice-type Pokemon are kinda synonymous with supernatural levels of cold, implied by like every Ice move's ability to freeze Pokemon solid.

>>27110519
Just filled a glass with water and ice, ice already melted. Though that might have something to do with summer.

>>27108778
Same, I thought dunsparce was legendary

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>>27110521
>Fried chicken

>>27110210
I won't lie, this is definitely me when I play Pokemon

>I thought that rock was immune to eletric
>I thought that rock was resistant to bug
>I thought that dark was weaker to psychic and stronger to fight

>>27110717
>I thought that rock was resistant to bug
This.
How is it not?

>>27108188
I didn't think this. Stop spreading misinformation about me dude.

>>27110533
>6
>Spoink
Spotted the underage

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I thought Jynx was an escaped slave.

>>27110717
>I thought that rock was immune to electric
This one is a common one, don't feel bad. All common Rock-types in Kanto were part Ground-type. The only exceptions were the fossils that you could never fight in battle aside from Aerodactyl

>>27110410
A surprising number of people think that Slugma, Magcargo, and Skarmory are gen 3 Pokemon, since they come so late in Johto but are mid game in Hoenn.

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>>27108337
It's beautiful.

>>27110825
>underage

nah

>>27110476
Ice is less dense than water.

The same amount of Ice and Water interacting doesn't end well for Ice, it becomes more Water. It's not very effective at doing anything to it's liquid counter part, basically.

It took me ages to realise Steel wasn;t super effective against Psychic types.
It resists it, but doesn't do double damage. I know it makes sense logically that it wouldn't but it was the hype of the two types being brought in to 'balance the broken over powered psychic type moves and pokemon' that made me believe it.

Since Pokemon GO I've also had to explain that Gyarados isn't a Dragon type. Also had people telling me there's more than 3 dragon types in the original 151. And that there are lots of Fire types too.
I want to kill these people.

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I thought this was yruet

>>27110740
Rock make bug go squish.

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>>27110825
>2003 was 13 years ago

>>27111108
So does fist, yet bug resists fist. What's up with that?

>>27111203
What kind of deranged mad man dares to touch a gross insect with its bare hands?

I thought that a Pokémon could learn EVERY move of its type/s and nothing else.

I thought Pokémon only knew 4 moves at once but could freely remember and forget them outside of battle at will, essentially you customized your Pokémon's moveset outside of battle and anticipated what moves you would need.

I thought Pokémon gyms were actually gyms, not dungeons with bosses at the end. You would go to the Pokémon gym to literally train your Pokémon.

>eviolite slowbro
no

>>27108845

Who says they aren't?

When I saw the first few gen2 Pokémon back in '99, I thought Hoppip was a Bulbasaur pre-evo and Lugia a Dewgong evo.

Venusaur evolved into Ivysaur

For a while was convinced Ho-oh had to be Moltres' evolution while Lugia was Articuno's evolution.

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>>27111062
This...actually works really well

>>27110260
rofl about minum and pulse

I used to think that fire was weak to flying because gusts of wind and such would put fire out

>>27108778
Lol! I actually did to.

If I remember correctly, he was one of the mons you had to get at a specific time, and when I told my friends about him at school, they didn't believe me.

I also trained him up to like lv50 because I thought he would evolve. Boy, was I disappointed. Though, I really like Dunsparce, now.

I thought Psyduck was Water/Psychic until like last week. Also I once had a friend who thought Psyduck evolved into "Goldenduck" and Pikachu evolved into "Rikachu."

>>27108188
Water was SE on steel
Electric was SE on Fighting

>>27108188
I don't know why but I always think Poison is weak to Ice, and I still act surprised when it isn't even when it has happened countless times...

>always keep forgetting what resists Fairy
>cannot, for the life of me, retain the fact that bug and fighting resist each other

I had no idea Gligar and Gliscor existed until XY

>>27111062
This.

>>27112647
he isnt???

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>>27110696
Dam i have the same picture

>>27112647
what the fuck its true
why does he know confusion then

I used to think Farfetch'd evolved into Doduo

>>27113121
>>27113406
Nope, just Water.

>>27113191
Not funny

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>>27113920

>>27108778
I thought Unown were legendary because of the movie.

I also thought Farfetch'd evolved into a Pokemon named Farfromcrazy because my older sister told me so.

>>27108188
I thought suicune was an ice type until recently.

>>27108188
If I took off those cookies will that Oreon die?

>>27113978
Literally everyone has heard that joke before though. It's like you can't even be creative

I thought Glaceon and Leafeon could be obtained through use of a dawn stone or leaf stone

>>27114150
Wait then how the fuck does Leafeon evolve?

>>27114195
Level up near mossy rock

>>27114195
leveling up by the mossy rock

i thought ghost types are weak against psychic because of gengar.

>>27114130
It would be extremely painful

>>27114866
You are a tasty pokemon

>>27110901
I don't understand how that's possible. Anyone who played gen 1 was so hyped for more pokemon they had memorized a list of all gen 2 mons before the games even came out. Every game magazine was showing them off.

>>27114017
My cousin told me about Didette

Personally I never thought the Unown were legendary, but I did find them confusing as all hell

Rock bein unaffected by electric because almost every rock type was ground and I think the anime even made the same mistake.

>>27108305

Fucking got me.

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>>27108188
I thought Gyarados was spelled "Garados" for the longest time.

>>27110717

Dark is all about underhandedness and unpredictability, hence immune to Psychics, but Fighting is considered the "honor/light" category, hence being able to beat Dark and their evil schemes.

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>>27110901
>and Skarmory
Dirty Pokemon Gold players who had their useless Ursarings and even worse Mantines.

>>27108589
>tfw I just found my misconception
Up to right now, I thought the special split happened in gen 3. And I've played silver when it came out and didn't notice.

>>27115050
For OU

I consistently thought that Glalie was dark/ice until I started playing competitively.
I thought that Octillary could learn Zap Cannon until yesterday.

When I fired played blue version, I thought when it said "Pikachu's attack rose"
I thought it was using an item called "The Attack Rose"

I thought using a rare candy gave you less stat increase than leveling up normally.
I think it was something an NPC says in Red/Blue, alluding to the fact that a Pokemon doesn't gain stat experience from rare candy since they aren't battling through that level. Of course I hardly understood that portion of the game, and those hidden numbers, so I just assumed rare candies were the easy way out, with less return.

I thought Rotom was a legendary, because of the musical theme and the fact that D/P was already so legendary happy.

If you are wondering, the badge stat bonus only applies to in-game battles, it doesn't affect growth, it merely gives an extra hidden modifier (I believe 10% increase, but seeing as how I've never noticed a difference in battles from it, it could be even less than that)

>>27115477
I think it's one of those pokemon that people use as a distinction between legendary and mythical. Like Heatran and Shaymin you only have one in the entire game but lore wise there are multiple just very rare.

>>27115496
>Didn't copy the rest of my comment

I thought that stat bonuses from gym badges affected stat growth. I'd try to defeat the gyms at as low a level as possible to have the most levels to gain increased stat growth.

>>27110901
Marcargo and slugma are from gen 3 doofus

>>27115805
They are gen 2 go check somewhere

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I thought normies would stay out of my hobby but I was wrong

>>27115822
Shit man I'm such a dumbass

>>27115826
Pokemon is a normie hobby ya goof. Its always been.

>>27110878
also when fucking ash fought Roxanne in the anime they go on about how using pikachu is a bad idea.

Not really a misconception, but I keep confusing ground and rock way too often.

>>27115312
in germany it actually is

>>27111062
Fuck, now I want this to be a thing.

I thought Dunsparce evolved into Gligar

For a while I also thought Shellos and Gastrodon were Lapras pre-evos (fuck Joe)

>>27111324
This genuinely pissed me off

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>>27108188
not a misconception but i didn't know lickytung was a pokemon until gen 4. I'm serious, i played every gb game as a kid, and watched the anime and everything.
But didnt even see lickytung once before i saw it in the first season of the anime when i rewatched the series. this was like 2009-2010

While playing gen1:
>Shellder evolved to Cloyster that evolved to Ghastly.

While playing gen3
>Shuppet evolved to Banette that evolved to Duskull

When I started playing showdown
>Rock resists Electric
>Ghost type is trappable

>>27115210
How fucking old are you

I spent ages looking for Togepi in gen 1 as a kid, I didn't watch the anime religiously and assumed it was just a regular gen 1 pokemon, didn't realise until I got the egg in GS

>>27115530
Rotom isnt a legendary

>>27108337
>being attracted to animals

>>27115326
Explain dark pulse then. Is it meant to be a naughty laser beam ??

Tropius is flying type.

>>27115458
>I thought using a rare candy gave you less stat increase than leveling up normally.
it does though

>>27108778
>>27110647
>>27112024
Same shit here. I think it's one of the reasons why it's my favorite pokémon to this day.

>>27118414
It is.

>>27111062
This actually makes a lot of sense

>>27111250
>I thought Pokémon only knew 4 moves at once but could freely remember and forget them outside of battle at will, essentially you customized your Pokémon's moveset outside of battle and anticipated what moves you would need.
Man, that would be fucking amazing for getting past the HM slave problem. Luvdisc farming would be kill however.

>>27115446
I can't believe I never thought that until now.
Attack Rose sounds like a pretty good Fire Emblem item.

>>27111062
>yruet
?

>>27108315
They have the same face.

>>27108596
In the same way, I though Pinsir evolves into Tauros during G1. B--b-because of the order, and horns.

>>27118216
>no pokemon stadium

Poor kid.

>>27111062
Fuck you, I want it now.

>>27113920
Sry, but I laughed to it.

>I forgot Lickitung was a Gen 1 Pokemon. I only cared about getting Scyther and Electabuzz out of those few iconic standalones from Gen 1.
>Despite actually living through the pre-Gen 2 hype and Marill being called Pikablu by fans and being first shown to me as "a new Pokemon named Pikablu" by my bitch of a cousin, for some reason I thought Marill was a Gen 1 Pokemon for years.
>I also thought Azumarill was a Gen 3 evolution of Marill. I think there was a house in Gen 3 where you could fight a family and one of the members had one. I had no fucking idea what an Azumarill was.

I was in Kindergarten by the time Gen 2 started being teased so maybe I just didn't give a shit about Marill. Though the first time I saw Steelix and Scizor I fell in love with them.

>>27110519
>hold a flame to a tree and the tree will suck it up

>>27110254
>>27110490
Fire rises so flying has nowhere to go?

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>>27118388
>having to explain this over and over

>>27115210
not everyone played gen 1 you retard

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>>27110210
>play Pokemon Gold religiously as a kid
>never encountered a Skamory ever
>check on Bulbapedia
>only appears in Silver / Crystal
Fuck my life

>got a Skarmory card and somehow convinced myself that it was a new fourth legendary bird and believed this to be a fact until I played SoulSilver.

>thought ground was super effective against flying types but only when a move like roost grounded them.

>thought Latios and Latias were gen 2 pokemon. Until I actually began looking up pokemon things, I thought any pokemon that was advertised in a movie gen early was actually from that gen.

>thought that the main-series pokemon games didn't exist until I got battle revolution and saw the thing about connectivity with diamond and pearl and then I thought those were the first main-series games

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I thought Unown was a legendary pokemon when G/S was first released.
When I caught the first one I saw with a regular poke ball (also thinking it was the only one) I boasted about it to my friends

I still think the Grass type is called Plant type and you will never convince me otherwise.

>>27120253
you just called it grass type, faggot

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>>27120397
FUUUUUUUUUUU

>>27111238
Literal lol, anon.

>>27120520
Was it rape?

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>>27120150
i thought skarm was legendary for a bit too. first off it was very hard to find in gsc. but also there was a set of cards i saw online that was a large panorama of ho-oh, lugia, and skarmory split up into three different cards.

u can see it here.

>playing pokemon stadium 2
>dad wants to play
>picked out his team
>had xatu against his steelix
>xatu is just standing on the ground
>steelix used earthquake
>but xatu was immune!
>dad says this game is bullshit and leaves

was he right?

>>27108188
>Dragonite being the leader of the legendary birds because it's the only one that evolved
>Aerodactyl being a legendary 'bird' as well
>Mew evolves into Celebi
>Hitmonlee evolves into Hitmonchan
>Ho-Oh was a "Rainbow" type
>"Pikablu" evolved from Pikachu with a Water Stone

>>27120646
And people say the floating models were a mistake...

First pokemon game for me was Yellow, and I thought that you could only catch the legendary birds with the masterball, and thus had to choose only one. And then that Mewtwo was only available if you didn't catch any of the birds for that reason.

I thought Latios and Latias evolves into lugia for years

>>27111062
I truly believe this was the original plan (based on the pattern on carnivine's body) and it remains head-canon for me to this day... Carnivine is an evolution of weepinbel whose method of evolution has yet to be discovered

>>27120667
>Hitmonlee evolves into Hitmonchan
I thought it was the other way around. My logic was that boxers wanted long arms to hit people from far away, so Hitmonchan evolved to be able to stretch its arms and legs.

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>>27108188
>2000
>discover GSC because an anime magazine had an article about the new 100 pokemon with no info beyond their japanese names
>Gligar comes after Dunsparce, so the naive 10 year old me thinks it's some sort of weird larvae that evolves into a flying scorpion
>get the game
>find Dunsparce and start leveling it up because i want Gligar
>Dunsparce it's level 50 by the time i reach E4
>Dunsparce steamrolls Lance's team via Rollout
>Eventually find out they're unrelated, but Dunsparce is still my nigga to this day.

My friend wasted my masterball in red edition on a Missingno and then saved the game.
I cut off his finger

>>27108188
>>27108305
>whoever said about rock types being immune to electric
This.
To be honest, I realized that I was wrong about the third one this year while playing X.
I've played throught FIVE GENERATIONS not knowing about rock being able to take damage from electricity.
I guess it's because after playing Red and learning about Geodude's immunity, I never even tried using an electric attack on any rock mon.

>>27119324
>"explain how I am a sickfuck"

Kek.

>>27108188
I used to think Pinsir evolved into Heracross for so many years until gen 4.

>>27120602
Fuck. I though these things in the Skarmory card were leafes.

>>27108188
I've played Pokemon since release but I was convinced Skarmory was a Gen 4 Pokemon.

I didn't believe that Froslass evolved from Snorunt, either. There's no way that thing wasn't slapped onto the line at the last second because they didn't want it to be a standalone.

>>27123018
I consistently though that Fighting and Rock were super effective on Electric types

I thought Rhydon was the four legged one and Rhyhorn was the one that's standing up.
Rhydon come on it's on four legs and thus you can ride on.
Rhyhorn, that horn is huge, why wouldn't it be named after its horn?

>>27122675
I once did a Dunsparce through FireRed.
>Dunsparce somehow clutched it out against Brock
>Steam rolled the rest of the game
love mah Dunsparce bro.

>>27118237
I'm only 23 and I remember this shit. Come on. Pokemon helped me learn to read.

>>27115326
That was the original idea, yes. It's evolved since then.

>>27115346
I really, REALLY wish ursaring was worthwhile. It's a great concept. Why did they make cool ass bears so fucking useless?

>>27119308
Aside from up.
Your logic is awful

>>27123249
>Snorunt is based off a snow youkai
>Froslass is based off a snow youkai
Honestly, Froslass makes more thematic sense than the other one.

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>>27115326
>Dark is all about underhandedness and unpredictability, hence immune to Psychics, but Fighting is considered the "honor/light" category, hence being able to beat Dark and their evil schemes.
this shit again. people like you need to be whipped in public

>>27119491
>:/ ????

>>27108188
Pokemon stadium mightve been my first pokemon game before or after firered. Anyways I couldn't read. Always played with sister when I was 3 and all the info I knew about pokemon came from her reading the names from pokemon stadium to me. I always thought tentacool was acooltent etc

>>27110210
Was replaying crystal and thought weavile was gen 2 because I had a space after him in the pokedex and just evolved at like 80 so grinded a sneasel, then I looked it up, gained a bro with it though

I'm still convinced that psyduck and golduck are psychic types.

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I always though attack and special attack attacks worked with physical/special split like they have since gen IV.

I mean, why the hell else would hitmonchan learn elemental punches, gengar be special attacker or dark type moves be physical moves that trigger rough skin.

>>27121889
I thought you could only catch legendaries with the masterball too, never encountered the birds in blue or yellow i guess. That was only encouraged by when I encountered ho-oh without a masterball and without saving beforehand, and it escaped from like 70 balls in a row so I just killed it.

Starting from Gen 1, it took me until Gen 3 to realize Rock was not immune to Electric type. Probably because all common Rock types were part Ground in Gen 1

>>27126201
Seriously, nobody remembers what Dark, Ghost, and ragon were because their moves didn't make sense. SO many people think Dark is physical because Bite.

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>Pinsir was Fighting type
>Ice was added in gen II
>gen II babymons were from gen I
>any of the honey tree mons exist in gen 4

Mothim's my bro, but I honestly forget burmy and wormadam exist.

>>27126452
It didn't even matter in gen 1 because the only dragon type move always did 40 damage no matter what. I remember having that pokedex toy that quizzed you on type advantage and stuff, it asked what types dragon was super effective against and I had no clue how you were supposed to know that

>>27126599
Yeah and then comes gen III with salamence, flygon, dragon dance and dragon claw, surely dragon claw was based on attack stat. Right? Right?

>>27115446
>>27118732
It sounds like something from Sailor Moon.

>>27126689
I knew Shadow Ball was physical until Gen 4 but don't tell me Dragon Claw was special until Gen 4

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>>27126750
Dragon was special type with mostly physical pokemon, same as dark.

Also don't get me started on Shadow Ball and ghosts, physical move that reduces sp. def on type that had purely special pokemon until gen III.

I'd be really curious to hear their reasoning for all of this. Was it oversight, balance reasons?

>>27126954
It almost made sense in gen 1 where you just had Special as a stat, and a high Special stat raised both sp. def and sp. atk. Also hyper beam was sort of ridiculous so completely ignoring that sounds pretty strong in itself.
By gen 2 there was no fucking reason though.

>>27114866
For you.

I used the think that the Bug type was Grass type when I was a kid. I thought Metapod was a grass type too.