Legit silly/dumb/stupid things you used to believe were true

I thought Skarmory was from gen 3

>>31496539
Honestly me too? Even in HGSS I never encountered that pokemon.

>>31496534
>That Poison was weak to Fire because flammable gas

Gastly is cloyster after shell Smash

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I thought that electric type was weak to fire. I didn't start playing the games until gen 3, after steel had been introduced. But i had watched the anime when i was a kid so i knew magnemite was an electric type but i thought he couldn't be steel since steel types weren't a gen 1 thing. Since magnemite was weak to fire i thought that meant electric was weak to fire. Not sure why i never noticed that no other electric types didn't show the "it's super effective" text when i hit them with fire attacks.

>>31496534
I do not blame you, OP. I remember thinking the same thing once upon a time.
That black orb with a face is a very suspicious design element to have between two consecutive Pokemon.

I genuinely never knew that steel resisted psychic until SM's Type Effectiveness quiz. I understand why, and gen2 was my main generation as a kid, but I guess I never HAD to know until now.
Also, it's not exactly intuitive. For balance yes, Psychics were a bit too much in gen1 and both Dark and Steel types introduced new advantages against Psychic type...
But psychics bending spoons was such a big image in the first two gens, so you might assume that Psychics could "bend" Steel types.

>>31496539
h-he's not?

>>31496593
5% encounter near Blackthorn and that's about it. If you're playing Gold/HeartGold you're out of luck.

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>>31496569
Glad to see I wasn't the only one to make that mistake with Gastly/Cloyster. I always an easier time remembering Steel resisted Psychic because I grew up watching 90s X-Men so I just thought "Oh, like Magneto's helmet resisting Xavier's telepathy."

>>31496534
>mfw my original savefile for Ruby had a Lv. 100 Machoke because I lived in middle of nowhere

Trade evolution used to be shit.

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>>31496559
Don't feel bad. I didn't even know Ghost types were immune to Normal attacks in Gen 1. Cue me wasting turns against Agatha in Pokemon Stadium using Hyper Beam/Explosion.

I used to think electric was weak to fighting for some reason, but NOT because of the TCG. I have no clue where the idea came from.

>>31496615
>mfw I have no face

>>31496534
Thought Ninjask evolves into Shedninja

>>31496627
maybe for the same reason >>31496559 thought they were weak to fire?

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>>31496628

>>31496559
I thought this exact same thing. I could have sworn I used Ember on a Magnemite in Blue version and it was super effective. But I was a kid so maybe I was mistaken.

>>31496638
nah, this was pre-steel

>Thought False Swipe left the opponent with at most 1 HP

>Thought the move 'Extrasensory' was 'Extrasenory'

>Thought Electric was weak to Grass

>>31496715
the last one is fair since grass resists electric and many things that are strong against a type also resist that type.

>Farfetch'd evolves into Doduo
Stupid dex order.

>>31496724
This

That gen 1 was the best gen. Now I know that title belongs to gen 4 and anyone who says otherwise is a sniveling retard fag-baby who has nothing better to do than shitpost online.

>>31496539
This along with slugma, corsola and chincou.

Also thought Magmar and Electabuzz were gen 2

Mothim was the last non-event pokemon I got in gen 4 because I never realised it was an alternate evolution of burmy

>>31496844
That reminds me. I actually thought Mothim evolved from Wormadam like other 3-stage regional bugs.

I once thought that 'trade' was a type of evolution stone, no joke.

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>>31496539
>>31496550
>>31496593
>>31496838
you'd think, given the fact that everyone repeats this in every thread, that all these casualshites would've realized this by now

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>>31496534
when I was a child with blue version, I thought attack influenced your normal type attacks and special influenced any attack that wasn't normal.

>>31496724
Yeah, plus the guide I had as a kid said so.
Fuck that guide.

>>31496994
Guides were shit back then. I saw at least one that said Hitmonchan evolved into Hitmonlee.

I knew Cascoon evolved from Wurmple, but for some reason assumed that Silcoon didn't until sometime in this past year.

Makes me realize how famous Silcoon could get in a forgettable pokemon thread

>>31497002
>>31496994
Guides, much like the games themselves back then, didn't have the quality control they have now.

>>31497002
>Go use your masterball on a rare pokemon like tentacruel

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>>31497090

For the longest fucking time I thought Golem evolved into Onix.

>Ghost is weak to ground.

I'm still from Gwn 1 to this day convinced that Water types are more likely to become poisoned from moves like poison sting. It just seems to happen

>try to catch Koko
>can't sleep it
>try to catch Fini
>can't sleep it
>guess terrains grants status immunity!

>>31496819
Eh, I'm none of those things, but gen 5 was the best. Gen 3/4 just happen to be part of that holy trinity.

>>31496534
In gen 1, I knew that Ground was immune to electric, but I used to think Rock was as well since a lot of gen 1 Rock types are also Ground type. Like seriously, why are the geodude line, rhyhorn line and Onix part Ground as well anyway? Actually the Rhyhorn line's primary type is Ground but whatever.

It was only until gen 3 that I accidentally misclicked and used tbolt on regirock that I realised electric is actually neutral on rock.

>>31496534
i didnt know rock took neutral damage from bug until this generation, playing around with pheromosa in the battle tree. seriously, if it wasnt for the new icons that tell you when things are supper effective or not, i would have just kept on not using bug on rock pokemon, or like, in this situation, probably would have used u-turn and thought nothing of it when the rock mon took neutral... or i'd blame the neutral damage on the poke being weak to bug with its second type, idk

>>31497002
>>31497144
>>31497090
im convinced they gave the job of writing the guides to a third party, possibly a team doing work for the anime (only bc they have pictures of oak from the anime)

the people writing this guide probably just built the same logical misconceptions you guys had, only they published them

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>>31497144
Fuck this guide. Do you know how hard I tried to find all these things

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>>31497310

When I first played through emerald and diamond, I thought ground was super effective against fighting.

>>31496838
>slugma, corsola and chincou
same here

Also thought Scyther and Lickitung were gen 2 until i finished the original 151

>>31496539
You know why, because they were a lot easier to come by in gen 3 than they were in gen 2

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>>31497191
>be yesterday
>playing silver
>Kanto postgame
>trade in Aerodactyl
>Time to sweep Surge
>get OHKO by his Raichu's thunder
>oh

>>31497321
This feature would have been pretty awesome

>>31496534
>Water is weak to Flying or vise-versa
My logic was, birds can't fly with wet wings and fish are eaten by birds.

>>31497384
what's the joke here ?

>>31497413
He thought Aerodactyl was immune to electric because it's rock type

>>31497413
he thought rock was resistant to electric so he thought thunder should have been neutral to Aerodactyl

i made a similar mistake switching in a tyranitar to a signal beam

I thought flying was super effective against ground because of their immunity

>>31497437
>types being only resistant or super effective against
story of my life

>>31497420
Not resistant, immune, because he referenced my post about thinking rock types were immune to electric because a lot of rock types were part ground.

>What?! [pokemon] is from Gen X!?
>B-but I saw more of them in Gen X+1 so they MUST be from Gen X+1!
Literally how is anyone this retarded.
>What is a pokedex????

>>31497548
Ah, you're right. My bad

>>31496724
>>31496994
In some glitched copies, it apparently did.

>>31497340
>Scyther
I forgot. This as well

>>31497552
>>What?! [pokemon] is from Gen X!?
>>B-but I saw none of them in Gen X and several in Gen X+1 so i guessed they were from Gen X+1
>Literally how is anyone this retarded.
Grow up grandpa

>I thought Seviper was dark-type
>I keep forgot that Probopass was Rock/Steel, not Rock/Electric

I still made these mistake today.

>>31496534
I thought Charizard evolved into Dragonite at level 90. or some shit. I also thought that Fearow as a normal type legendary bird with Articuno and the rest. My first game was the Stadium or whatever it was called on the N64 if that provides any context.

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>>31497656
>dark type Seviper
>Rock/Electric Probopass

I wish

I belived that there is a XeoXeo in Gen 3

>Entertainment
>Entrainment

>>31496901
Can't you read the topic? It's things you used to think, repeating it now doesn't retrospectively change what you used to think.

I always thought psychic was strong vs ghost, I didn't really take pokemon seriously for a long time and barely touched the type anyway. I then found out like 3 years ago that I only thought it was SE against ghost because all gen 1 ghosts were also poison.

It was interesting for me to play Gen 1 after having been first introduced to Gen 3 and subsequent generations, cause going back to Gen 1, I had to remind myself of various things; such as that Magnemite was only pure Electric, and Bite wasn't Dark-typed.

Also fuck Alakazam from Gen 1. Stupid piece of shit kept killing my Pokemon in my Blue nuzlocke.

>>31497917
Yeah same here. It gets confusing when I get a message like "It's super effective!" or "It's not very effective." when I use a move that is neutral because Gen 1 only checked 1 typing for effectiveness.

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>>31497144

Because of Gen 1's only Ghosts types being poison, I thought ground was super effective to ghost type, EQ all day baby fuck Agatha (and Golbat) think it didn't hit me till like gen 3.....

>>31496534
I thought rock resisted itself until like 5 months ago

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>thought for some reason that legendaries would come back later if you defeat/ran from them in Gen 2
>fight Ho-oh and run from it
>save afterwards
>returned to Tin Tower periodically to fight Ho-oh again but got nothing
Wasn't really mad back then now that I think about it, just disappointed.

>>31498063
>see that truck? You can move it

>>31498298
Wait, they don't reappear? I've never run from them so I kinda just assumed they has that mechanic.

>>31496643
Also, in many rpgs electric is weak to fire, for example in Etrian Oddyssey.
>>31497656
Doesn't help that probopass learns a lot of Electric moves.
>>31498298
That is also common on rpgs. I don't know if it respawns because I just caught it back then, tho

>>31498433
In newer Gens, they do reappear if you accidentally faint them (I think it applies to running as well), but in the old Gens it was one and done

Started late (2001) levelled a scyther to level 100, took forever, didn't evolve, i remember being confused and upset, because I thought that it didn't love me enough (my friend had silver and had seen scizor) (I was only 5)

>>31496534
I thought that Fire is weak against Psychic because the only Fire-types I use are the starters.

>>31498533
>being a unovabortion

>>31498578
>only fire types I use are the starters
He's obviously a Sinnohfetus

>briefly thought fire was SE vs fairy

I don't see why it isn't to be honest. Fire is a shit type and would benefit.

>>31497552
anon gen 10 isn't out yet

>>31497090
Shitposting before shitposting was a thing

>>31496627
I used to think this too. I probably got it from the anime's boxing episode.

>I used to think Geodude evolved into Onix
>I used to think that Zubat was single stage, and golbat was seperate
>Slugma and Skarmory were from gen 3
>Sneasel was gen 4
>Rock's immune to Electric
>Poison beats bug

>>31499866
>implying not a Hoennfant

>>31496819
I thought gen 5 felt faster and smoother than gen 4, but they're both good.

>>31498063
>you could potentially find the SS Anne, but the likelihood of that happening is tiny

>>31500934
Tbf poison did beat bug in gen 1 and visa verca

I've thought my entire life until a few weeks ago that rock resisted bug

I always thought ground was super effective against ice and normal against fire

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I used to think Darmanitan was Fire/Fighting so I thought "What's the point of getting Emboar when I can just catch a much better Fire/Fighting type?"

>>31496534
I thought togepi and golbat evolved by trading.

..... I did't know ditto was gender less until gen 6.

>>31497648
Instead of greentexting almost every line of their post you could have just quoted them and been done with it, newfag.

>>31502834
anon...

>>31496534
Heeeerrree we goo
>Thought Bug was weak to Ice
>Thought Ghost was weak to Psychic
>Thought Rock resisted Ice and Bug

>>31504419
I also thought Flying resisted Steel

>>31496534
I use to think fire was super effective against flying because birds cook. And I thought water was super effective against steel because it would rust

>>31504419
In your defense ghost was actually weak to psychic in gen 1

>>31502818
Technically not a wrong train of thought even though Darminatan isn't fighting type

>>31496556
I had the same thought until, like, mid-gen III.
Honestly, I blame the times in the anime when James's Koffing's fumes would get ignited. That and the number of poison types in gen I that were also part-grass.
Even still, to this very day; I still default to fire-type attacks when fighting poison-types in-game.

>>31497191
>>31497384
My mind is blown. Electric attacks are effective against Rock types? What?

>>31498010
Really? Which type did it check? The first type?

>>31506636
No, but all Ghost Pokémon were weak to Psychic because they were all part Poison type, and Psychic was immune to Ghost.

>>31496557
Underrated

>>31496534

I have always believed Cloyster was a Ghastly evolution, and even tho i now know it isnt, i still make the mistake from time to time.