ITT: Stupid shit you believed when first playing Pokemon

>>32710325
that the PC was just for looks and you were stuck with whatever pokemon you caught for the whole game

>Machop is Steel/Fighting
>Pinsir is Steel/Bug
>I thought I could have STEELix in Pokémon Blue

What the fuck was wrong with me and steel on my first years of life?

>>32710325
Articuno evolves into Lugia.

>>32710325
Pokémon games are good games

>>32710325
I thought Fearow was a legendary and wasted my Masterball on it. I don't know what the fuck was wrong with me.

>>32710325
>Fire is resistant to electric
I thought since lighting starts fires that it wouldn't make since for lightning to hurt fire.

>>32710325
i thought brock didn't have eyes. like he was just born without eyeballs and could sense his surroundings like a bat or something

Pokémon Garden behind Bill's house.

>>32710325
When I first watched the Lucario movie as a kid, I thought Lucario was Ice/Psychic.

Mew evolves into Mewtwo. I have a cousin who believed it's the other way round.

>>32710325
The mew glitch and that lugia would also follow u around like pikachu on yellow

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>>32710325
I thought
>Ground was weak to itself
>Water was weak to ice
>Steel and posion were SE on Water (pollution)
>Darkrai and Heatran were counterpart legends and that Heatran was pronounced "Heatrai"
>Rotom, Lucario, and Spiritomb were legendaries
>If you beat the Elite 4 three times, you could reface ALL the gym leaders (this idea applied to all Pokemon games)

i thought ben actually drowned

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>>32710389
>moltres will evolve into Ho-oh
right there with ya.

>>32711380
Also thought u could get celebi by using cut on the ilex forest shrine

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>>32710605
You did good

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I played since Blue but I didn't know until gen 6 that rock resists poison.

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>>32711595
That shrine drove me nuts as a kid. It was obviously something, but no part of the game ever brought me back to it. Internet wasnt a thing anyone i knew had, and the anime was no help either because they fucked off with the GS ball story.

>>32710325
That Pokemon that were a different color were glitches that would break my game...

>>32711966
some of them are. you played it safe.

If you talk to professor oak exactly 1000 times then leave he will follow you outside and give you a pikablue

I could never get anyone to trade me surf and strength early and thus could never move the truck in Vermillion city.

My friend said he did and it took him to Johto and I believed him, even when I asked to see his Red version and he said he lost it I believed him

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>>32710325
Because Charizard and Venusaur were the cover mascots, I always thought it meant Blastoise was weak as shit. I kept thinking Charizard was the "strongest ever" mostly because of the anime. Even though he obviously wasn't. Well..right up until that scene in the 3rd film where Entei crushes Charizard's neck and preps a Hyper Beam to kill him. That's when I realized Charizard was weak as shit and wasn't even a "real" dragon.

I thought Noespass's foot was his mouth
I thought slugma and Marill were Hoenn pokemon

>>32710325
My friend at school told me if you beat the league 100 times in Ruby/Sapphire and go to the space station in Mossdeep you could take a rocket to the moon and catch Jirachi. I believed him at the time but never tried it

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>>32712870
I think just about everybody that had RS fell the space station hoax

>>32711195
>first watched lucario movie as a kid
Am I finally old?

I thought you could fight Harrison and Blaziken in Crystal

>>32712810
Your /vp/ memes are showing.

I rather vividly remember the very first time playing blue version 18 years ago. I was 9. I can close my eyes and feel like I am there again, it's crazy how my most vivid memories of that time period are almost all videogame related and especially pokemon. I remember laying out on my stomach on the floor by my bed in our shitty apartment. I can remember clearly how for the first several hours at the least and possibly much longer, I believed that simply fainting a wild pokemon was how it was added to your team. I had no idea what pokeballs were at the time or how the capturing mechanic worked. I figured that fainting a pokemon just caused some small, random chance of it joining you afterwards.

>>32713019
I actually thought that though memes or not
It still happened

I thought Croagunk/Toxicroak were water/poison

>>32711646
Wasted potential imo man

I thought Snorlax was a psychic type because it learned Amnesia, I was genuinely shocked when it got oneshot by a Machoke.

> Bug is weak against Bug
> Bug resists Electric
> White Rock = Jirachi
> The lower the level you catch a Pokémon, the stronger it gets (while technically somewhat correct, considering EVs).
> Getting Mime Jr. and Munchlax in Gen 3 (bc Mystery Dungeon and Anime)

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>>32710325
>C'mon Beedrill, your Poison Sting's gotta hit Onix eventually!

>Grass is weak to physic
>Rock is immune to electric attacks
>tauros was a gen 2 pokemon
>Chikorita could learn fly

>>32712632
>I could never get anyone to trade me surf and strength early and thus could never move the truck in Vermillion city.
You can also just intentionally lose a battle on the ship after getting Cut.

>>32713146
Why couldn't it?

I didn't learn until a few years ago that Flying isn't SE against Ground.

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>>32713210
>Grass is weak to physic
>Rock is immune to electric attacks
Understandable. in gen 1 most grass types were part poison, and most rock types were part ground
>tauros was a gen 2 pokemon
It was pretty rare and it was paired up with miltank so thats also reasonable
>Chikorita could learn fly
lolwut

>>32712995
I watched the movie when I was 9, silly anon.

That the Alakazam line was weak to the move fly.
I lost once to Sabrina then for the rematch I used fly and one shotted all of her pokemon.

I believed this up until gen 4.

>>32710325
A Youtube video of FireRed that showed the guy catching Mewthree somehow.

>>32711617
I didn't know Poison had any weaknesses up until these past games. I've never had that problem before sinced I only used Fire and Ice Pokemons.

I thought Pokemon could only evolve after beating a Gym Leader. I also at one point thought you could transfer Pokemon backwards from Gen 2 or 3. I didn't know Eevee couldn't evolve into Umbreon and Espeon in FRLG and spent hours trying to get them.

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>>32711195
Well when I first watched the Lucario Movie, I thought he was a legendary straight up. Imagine my face when the Sinnoh region came around.

>>32714041
most people thought he was a legendary (basically a gen IV Mewtwo) until DP was released and we found out he had a prevo

>>32712870
lol your friend was a troll. 100 times? lmao

>>32710325
there were three legendary cats to accompany the 3 dogs: espeon, umbreon and sneasal

>>32710325
>Blue, the rival, was part of team rocket
>Ash is Red

>>32711530
>>Rotom, Lucario, and Spiritomb were legendaries
That actually makes sense because you only get 1 per game

>>32710325
Rapidly hit A to increase the chance of a catch.

Thinking that Pokemon is a good video game franchise.

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I thought camerupt evolved into torkoal. Because a fire pokemon with a single hole on its back evolved into a fire pokemon with 2 holes in its back, which would then evolve into a fire pokemon with what 6, 7, hole? Idk point is lots. And I wouldn't have thought this if torkoal didn't immediately follow camerupt in the pokedex

>>32714091
Same thing happened with Zoroark, but I thought it was a legendary all the way until Gen 6 since they were only available from events before then.

>>32714041
AG was weird because DP got delayed. As a result you got a bunch of Sinnoh pokemon years before gen 4 started. Muchlax was in the anime as early as 2004

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Remember when the only way to get Jirachi was through some promotional thing through Pokemon Colosseum or something? Well, my friend had the game, and I didn't have a GameCube at the time so I asked if he would do it for me. He said he could, but said he also had the power to change all the Jirachis he gave out into Lv. 1 Wurmples and Zigzagoons. Why I believed him on this, I don't know. He also never gave me the Jirachi.

I thought rock resists bug

>>32710325
Phione evolves into Manaphy at level 100

Thought grass was weak to psychic from gens 1 until 5
Thought ice was weak to ground until like last week in the battle tree
Thought rock was weak to bug til gen 3

>>32714140
Your overused 'joke' was already made >>32710577

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I didn't know that ground didn't resist fire until today

As a child I constantly made the dipshit mistake that starter pokemon were different and to be treated differently because they were labled as starters.
Same goes for legendaries. But they're all just simply pokemon.

>>32714303
That's one I used to think too
Also rock doesn't resist rock

>>32710325
Thought skarmory and magcargo were gen 3

>>32710325
I thought fire was super effective to poison
The starters had third evolutions. I can't remember Venusaur's evolution but the other two were Charcoal and Rainer.
Mewtwo can de-evolve your pokemon.

>>32714321
what's funny to me is that Rock actually has more resistances than ground does. Ground only resists poison and rock and is immune to electric. Rock resists normal, flying, poison and fire.

there were baby legendaries like the Lugia in the anime

I thought using fire attacks on a Koffing or Weezing would make them blow up so I always tried to use those attacks against them. I still have a tendency to do that

In ORAS, I leveled up my Linoone to about 70 trying to evolve it into Zangoose.

>>32710325
pressing A a lot after throwing a pokeball made you more likely to catch a pokemon

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>>32714447
>In ORAS

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>>32710325

Mew is under this truck. For some reason.

>>32712870
I was told "Once the Mossdeep Rocket has had 100 successful launches, you get to go to the moon to catch Jirachi."

But the miracle never happen...

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leveled up my Lunatone to level 100 trying to get it to evolve into a Solrock

I thought torkoal was a fire/rock, and groudon a pure fire type.
I also, dont know why, thought golbat evolved into crobat by trading with a metal coat.

>Gave all my Pokemon HM moves in Red and Blue
>Never used Repels until HeartGold
>Attempted to save when my GBA was flashing, Lost a shiny Tentacool named 'CCCCGGGAATTGS' and a level 100 Umbreon from Colosseum
>Never got to Agate Village until I bought the Pokemon Colosseum guide to tell me to visit one place before it was available. I owned the game for 3 years before I could progress

I thought Absol was a legendary
luckily no Master Balls were wasted

Everything has an evolution and they all look really cool

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Not exactly on topic, but I constantly forget that Bug types aren't weak to Ice types
It's like some kind of shock that's stuck with me for well over 10 years

>>32710325
I thought you needed three digletts to evolve a dugtrio. Same for Magneton. Fuck you Professor Oak, and your fucking game guide.

>>32710376
You were just stupid

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>Thought Absol was a Legendary
>Thought Spiritomb was a legendary
>Thought Rotom was a legendary
>Thought Lucario was a Legendary
>Thought Zoroark was a Legendary
>Thought Giving my Level 10 Mew in Ruby, which I got from some Toys R Us Event, All Hm moves was a good idea
>Thought the old man (Eagun) in Agate Village with the Pikachu was adult Ash, even though his name obviously wasn't Ash
>Thought you needed a Shellder and A slowpoke in a party to evolve Slowpoke into Slowbro
>Thought the camoflauged Porygons in Pokémon Snap were absolutely terrifying as a kid
>Thought Flying types were weak to Fire
>Thought Psychic Types were Strong against Ghost types
>Thought Nidoqueen and King evolved via level up

>>32711530
I thought Rotom was a legendary to back then.

And I found out only a year ago that I could actually breed it

>>32710389
I thought through some sort of method that Togetic could evolve into Lugia.

They seemed simular to me.

>>32711165
>since

>>32714137
I still to this day instinctively rapidly click A on muscle memory after 17 years of doing this.

>>32714226
>Thought grass was weak to psychic from gens 1 until 5
I thought this to. It was probably because in gen 1 and 2 most grass types were also poison types as well.

>Thought ice was weak to ground until like last week in the battle tree
It took me until gen 5 Ice Gym for that one.

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>>32710325
>Bugsy is a girl

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>>32714315
M-my starters were special...to me.
I still feel a connection with Cyndaquil to this day.

I thought that Farfetch'd evolved into Doduo
Their pokedex numbers are 83 and 84, so I thought that one-headed brown bird evolved into two-headed brown bird and then into three-headed brown bird

Also
>ctrl+f "slowking"
>nobody mentioned Slowbro evolving into Slowking
I believed that too until Gen 5 when I first decided to collect all pokemon

>>32714972
>>32715094
where does this absol is legendary come from ?
Is it that one anime intro ?

At first I didn't believe the Pikablue rumors, but after that "The Raichu you traded me evolved" line in the originals that was put in by mistake, I started to believe them.

Furthermore, when news started trickling out about Gold/Silver, one of the first images I ever saw from that was Marill, so I started to believe THAT was Pikablue.

>>32710325
You could only catch one legendary per game. Articuno was so fucking hard to catch that I figured that only the master ball could catch legends and well, you only get one.

>>32710325
Scyther would eventually evolve in the Scizor given enough levels... I quit at lvl 98

>>32710325
100 space launches would unlock deoxys

>>32710325
The pokemon on the cartridge was the strongest pokemon in the game. Blastoise was the powerful pokemon in Blue, Charizard in Red, etc.

>>32715352
I used to watch the anime movies when I was younger, and it had a huge role in the Jirachi movie, so for some reason I thought it was a legendary.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQHTKF7q98M
i even tried doing it myself, funny thing is that the part where these rows of letters appear does happen in the game so when it did i was conviced it was true so i just kept trying till i got it to work.

>>32715702
Shit that Never happened for 500

>>32712976
i mean why else have that goddamn countdown?

>>32712870
Wait the rocket launches ?
I never knew it did.

>>32710325
I thought the desk in the Pokémon Centre was a solid wall and that I could only speak to NPCs if I was RIGHT next to them so I had to bruteforce my way through Viridian Forest without ever healing. I recall my trainer passing out quite a few times until my cousin showed me how to heal in Pewter City.

>>32711530
>Ground was weak to itself
Well, only the Digglet family was pure Ground in gen 1, all other Ground types were part Rock, so that's believable. Because of this for the longest time I thought Rock types were immune to Electric attacks.

a guy traded me a darkrai and then decided he didn't want me to have it so he told me he put a virus on it and it would erase the rest of my pokemon unless i released it and showed him that it was gone

i put in the daycare and showed him but was still scared for a few weeks after

I thought dialga could evolve into arceus

>>32715094
i used to tought zoroark was a gen 4 pokemon.

>>32711184
He doesn't.

>>32712785
Charizard is only good for vore and porn.

>>32714315
Starters are different. They accompany me all the way throughout my journey to become the Pokemon Champion.

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>>32711605
Every time I see one of these I wonder if it was just incompetence or if some guy really wanted to screw with some kids. Normally I would think it's just some guy that doesn't care about his job but they even went out of their way to create a fake image.

>>32715039
Your mother is a whore lol

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that pokémon was good LMAO

I thought Ghost was supereffective against Psychic.

>>32715831
Marowak
Sandslash

Fuck you

>>32716672
Is the image real, but they changed what Pokémon you trade to the guy in the English version from a Kadabra or something that would evolve.

>>32715094
>thought flying types were weak to fire
Not gonna lie, I thought that too as a kid solely because I misheard the announcer in Pokémon Stadium when he shouts "FIREWORKS ARE FLYING IN THIS BATTLE!". I thought he was giving me a tip.

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>>32714137
>not timing the A button press to the ball shakes
You're doing it wrong.

>>32717146
>Not holding A in either the throw or the time its inside
>not becoming silent and maybe hold your breath, clearing all thoughts in your head

Pleb.

>Water beats Poison (soloed Ecruteak Gym with Feraligatr's Surf)
>Ice beats Water
>HM moves are inherently superior (Feraligatr always ended up with Cut, Strength, Surf, Whirlpool; I overwrote Sacred Fire with Flash once; I gave Mewtwo Strength)
>Leveling anything besides my starter is a waste of time since they'll get strong enough to solo Red by the end of the game if you only use them

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>>32717180
I do hold my breath sometimes. Like trying to put a legend or shiny into a specific ball. It's too damn easy now though, with the catch rates on some of them.

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>>32717204
>Solgaleo
>Moon Ball

>>32717204
I hate to be "that guy" but im just gonna say it.

Holy shit why everything is so fucking easy in the newer games now?! i mean for example shiny mons, they are so easy to find on newer games its not even funny, then there's catching pokemon, im not against special pokeballs that help but i think its easier to catch things now. I've only played up intil Gen 4 but it seems to me that everything is just so damn easier now, catching, battling, progression you name it. I know asking for a challenge from a children's game is sorta dumb but come on, the first 3 gens could have been brutal sometimes, but now? uhhhh

>>32714578
This one. My cousin said I needed a level 100 machamp that never used rare candies.

I spent weeks grinding to level 100 and fucking nothing.

>>32717227
hey the image works as intended!

>>32717259
>only played until gen 4
>things are too easy now
>now being 3 entire gens since you've played
How would you know?

>>32717454
I've looked up a thing or two, i know for a fact that shiny hunting is piss easy for example and how SuMo wasnt really challenging.

>>32717454
>Catching the mascot of Pokemon Sun
>In a Moon Ball
What did you catch Lunala in?

>>32717483
So, you're just shitposting.

>>32715094
>Thought Psychic Types were Strong against Ghost types
That's pretty common since the Gengar line is the only Ghost line in the first games and they're also poison, most people thought that if they started with Gen 1

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>>32710325
More like a few years after I played, but
>can get Deoxys in RSE by talking to the right person at the right time at the Mossdeep station and they'll send you to the moon

>>32717497
i caught my lunala in a moon ball, i didnt take the pic it was posted here during launch week for SM.

>>32717483
the vast majority of my shiny mons were caught in diamond version, i have yet to see one in Moon and only saw one in Y. I got around 15 from diamond and 10 from white.

>>32710325
That Slugma, Marill and Skarmory was 3rd gen pokemon. I mean actually finding Skarmory in gold and silver is like finding a hay in a needle stack

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>>32714868
>leveled my Ninjask until level 92 before giving up trying to evolve it into the mysterious owl Pokemon I saw on the Battle Tower and found out he was next to Ninjask while checking some pokedex website at the school library with a friend
>same shit with Clampearl, but actually put it level 100

>>32715785
It actually counts how many weeks have gone by since you started playing the game.
If you try to check it now it'll most likely be stuck on a certain number of launches since the internal clock batteries have run dry.

>>32713338
I think what he's trying to say is that it did so little damage that he couldn't notice it hit.

>>32713503
Did you just draw that? Cause it's adorable.

>>32715094
wait.. you don't need a shellder to evolve slowpoke?
my life is a fucking lie.

>>32715176
seems like a girl to me.

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>>32710325
>rock was weak to ice

>>32713503
CUTE

>>32710340
are you just the creator of the nuzlocke challenges?

I thought if I used the healer at the pkmn center a bunch of times in a row then they would be more powered up for the next battle.

>>32710577
>>32714140
>Being on vp

Leave then

I thought that you could capture NPCs if you used an item in front of them

I can't be the only one that thought Togepi was a baby lugia. It just seemed so important and when the egg hatched I was like no way! Does this evolve into the box legend?? (i was playing silver) I mean the red and blue markings combined would make the color purple ffs

>>32717731
did you try to evolve ninjask into noctowl?

>>32710325
If you bred two third stage pokemon of the same species the egg would hatch the second stage evo instead of the first
I.e: Raichu + Raichu = Pikachu not Pichu

>>32716945
This

>>32717483
>SuMo wasnt really challenging.
It's objectively harder than any prior game. I realize you probably only played gen 4 but that was not a hard generation, you were just 6 years old and stupid. SM is certainly not particularly hard but it might as well be Contra compared to the games you played.

>>32711530
To be fair Rotom plays the Legend music for some reason

>Skarmory was a legendary bird
>Suicune was ice type
>You were SUPPOSED to be like 15 levels below the elite 4 when you finally reach them. This was persistent for gen 2, 3, and 4
>Fighting is weak to fighting, but only sometimes
>Nobody believes me when I say this because it sounds too stupid but I didn't know that the mainline games existed until gen 4. I thought the Stadiums, Coliseum, Gale of Darkness, and Battle Revolution were the main games in the series. That's why my first games were diamond and pearl

Thanks to the anime, I used to think Togepi was some super powerful, special, mysterious Pokemon, possibly a legendary. Later down the line, I thought it was somehow connected to Lati@s.

i never found a vibrava in RS so I had no idea trapinch evolved into flygon. there was always that empty slot until I played Colosseum.

>>32725677
both gen 4 and 5 are harder than gen 6 and 7

>>32725839
>You were SUPPOSED to be like 15 levels below the elite 4 when you finally reach them
You are unless you're some sort of casual and grind.

>Playing Soul Silver
>Elite 4
>Never had to revive before, just went to Pokemon Centre
>Didn't know you had to use Revives
>Waste 15 Super Potions on my fainted Typhlosion alone

Looking back, I want to punch myself in the face so fucking hard.

>You HAD to keep your Pikachu in your party in Yellow to win the game.
>Pikablue and Togepi were in Yellows Safari Zone and spent dozens of hours searching for them.
>Pikachu, Venasaur, Charizard, Blastoise, Pidgeot, Snorlax was the #1 best possible team
>Rare Candy grown pkmn were superior to anything else
>If you spoke to every npc in Red/Blue, then used Strength on in the truck, New would be underneath. It didn't work because I didn't talk to everyone, obviously.

At least I'm not as dumb and alone as I thought. This thread makes me want to fire up my Gameboy Color, Pokemon Edition and see if Red still works.

>>32711195
>AS A KID
>THE LUCARIO MOVIE
>A KID

End me.

>>32727683
I was like 13 when it came out

>>32714137
It's Right+B you dingus

>>32727747
what are you talking about

It's A everytime the ball shakes and hold UP+A on the last shake

>>32715702
I actually got to battle him once using the Missingno glitch, shit freaked me out. Blane as well.

I thought the screen flashing in BRY meant my batteries were dying, so I would save after every four steps and turn my Game Boy off and on again.

>>32712496
kek

>>32710325
i remember thinking ho-oh was an adult fearow

>>32711595
I thought you could catch deoxys in the berry forest in FRLG and that if you bred Deoxys and Jirachi you would get a hybrid called Jiroxys

>>32710325
I thought Raichu was Pikachu's cousin...

>>32710325
>Water types are super effective against electric because they short circuit them.

>>32710605
I lent X to a friend and he returned a save file with a random Skarmory in a Master Ball

>>32713667
I remember that video

>>32714137
>>32715154
>>32717146
>>32717180
>>32727747
>>32727851
You're all wrong. It's down+B

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>>32710325
That shinies were a glitch that would fuck up your game like Missingno. I spent the entirety of Gen 2 thinking that there were only a couple special colored pokemon like Pink Butterfree, Crystal Onix, and Red Gyarados.
I ran from a fucking shiny Ditto AND a shiny Tauros back then. Seven year old me was retarded.

>>32710325
My best friend claimed that you could fight and catch a "Wild Gary Oak" if you did some specific esoteric crap, I didn't really believe him but just went with it.

>>32712632
>and I believed him, even when I asked to see his Red version and he said he lost it I believed him

Every kid growing up with video games knew a shit eater like this.

I had an older friend who showed me how his Pokemon in Gold where over lv 100. To this day I can't tell if it was somehow real or he tricked me somehow.

>>32710325
OP your pic seems like clickbait.

this is still a good thread though.

>>32714334
was it Sapusaur?

>>32712810
Slugma and Marill fall into a bizarre phenomenon refer to as "Gen 2.5", where certain Pokemon make a more active appearance in Gen 3 than they do in Gen 2. Thus, because it is entirely possible that the player might've missed finding it or just forgot about it altogether, they are left to assume it belongs to whatever Gen it was found in. Other examples I've noted are Skarmory, Girafarig, and surprisingly Xatu.

>>32713033
What was the point of that fucking memoir in the beginning?

>>32730129
Has anyone ever used girafarig on a playthrough? Are there any fans of it?

>>32730129
there's also gen 3.5 which has things like munchlax and bonsly, both made an appearance in Gale of Darkness. you could even use bonsly in this one battle tower-esque thing.

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>>32730250
>tfw you tried so hard to breed a munchlax in gen 3.

>>32713503
>Chikorita could learn fly

When I was 7 my favourite Pokémon was Raichu and I used to write weird fanfiction where my Raichu could fly using its tail like that.

Probably Sonic's fault.

>>32710389
I thought latios and latias were logia pre-evos

>>32730039
up+b*

When first playing Red, I didn't know what Pokemon stats did and I didn't really care, but for some reason, I believed that Special was related to the chance to hit with an status move and trigger a secondary effect. Maybe the Guard Spec item is at fault here.

Not that retarded, but I just remembered it.

>>32730346
nah he was right the first time

>>32729840
>>Water types are super effective against electric because they short circuit them
that
that isn't too dumb, actually

>>32713329
...shit.

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>>32730150
I used it in a SS playthrough.
It did alright, I guess.

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>>32730519

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>>32730519
>that image

>>32730519
>the face on the back
stop trying to make have a new fetish

I thought I could release my Pokemon, then catch them in the same area, like letting them out for a walk...
RIP pidgeot, you served me well...

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>>32730519

>>32712810
I thought Darkrais mouth was like a cape or collar, or something. If you disregard the over the top mouth, and just consider it as decorative, I think it looks better.

>>32711530
back when i was a wee lad i though fighting and psychic where super effective against grass mainly cause Treeko kept getting the tar beaten out of him by Brawly's Meditite and Makuhita and i did know about tis other 5 weaknesses so i though grass type was an awful type.... i was right

>>32730808
It is a collar like thing.
Where the fuck did you get the idea it was a mouth?

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>>32730827
Its sharp and jagged teeth, like a jaw.

>>32730874
It's just meant to look edgy.
His whole head is inside it. You can even check him eat in Amie to see those aren't teeth.

>>32730892
Why the fuck would they put that there then?!

>>32711617
today i learned

>>32710389
My cousin and I saw Japanese copies of gold and silver at a store months before the English release.

He believed they were the Japanese Moltres and Articuno

>>32716434
your grammar is fucked, bro

>>32725677
the hardest thing about sumo is making it through all the cutscenes

>Be 6 when I got Blue
>Older kid tells me to get into Blane's gym is to get a Charizard and teach to flame thrower to burn down the door
>I picked Bulbasaur
>Restart my game
>Flamethrower isn't a field move
Don't know if that older kid was a lier or retard to this day

Pokemon die when they get to level 100.

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All of the Generation III games made the Johto starters virtually impossible to get. The only Generation III game you can get them in is Emerald, and that's only after you get ALL Silver Symbols in Hoenn's Battle Frontier, which to this day, is still the most difficult BF to complete. Me being a dumb kid, could only get the Symbols from the easy Facilities like the Pike, Dome, Arena, and Pyramid - mind you i DIDN'T EVEN KNOW you got the starters from the Battle Frontier, so that would've been a pleasant surprise had I not given up.
Anyways, I really wanted the Johto starters - ESPECIALLY after seeing how trainers on Seven Island's Trainer Tower had Level 100 Feraligatrs and shit - so for some reason I convinced myself that because the Sevii Islands are basically Johto 2.0 in FireRed/LeafGreen that I could find wild Chikorita in Pattern Bush if I looked long enough. In addition, I thought Cyndaquil was somewhere on One Island/Mt. Ember, and Totodile was somewhere in Six Island's Water Labyrinth. Needless to say I spent DAYS in Pattern Bush and I never found a Chikorita....

>>32730052
Seven year old everybody is retarded.

>>32731371
you can find them in the gamecube games, you can get one early on and the other two you have to wait until postgame.

but also you are wrong because you get one of them after completing the hoenn pokedex in emerald. or, you could even get one in Gale of Darkness after going through 100 floors on Mt. Battle.

>>32710325
I thought Rattata was pronounced Ratatat

That Eevee evolve into espion if you gave him a sun stone at exactly 12:00pm

>>32730052
Holy shit are you me? I did something similar

>didn't know what shiny Pokemon really were
>just figured that Red Gyarados thing was a special one-time Pokemon, not part of a larger phenomenon
>years later, playing Emerald
>shiny Smeargle
>huh bet that's a glitch
>kill it and move on

>>32731402
agree :P

I was't aware of type advantages at all (I was 4 when I first played and couldn't read yet if barely), so I ended up beating brock with a level 17 pidgey.

I for a long-ass time thought electric and water were Super effective on steel.
Because conductive and rust.

I thought the route 1 encounters were always grass types, which is partially why I always picked the fire starter.

My logic was that grass types always occupied grassy patches, as water types occupy water areas and fire types in hot areas.

It's not entirely wrong, but I never thought that the pokemon in the grass could be anything other than grass types.

>>32730519

The best ones are when the tail gives itself a rimjob.

>>32730039
I physically shake my system on each shake and then press a on the click

>>32731371
was I the only retard who used Cut to clear all of Pattern Bush in the hope of finding something? It was a pretty big letdown after about a half hour of work.

I used to think that the comment
"Aww, it appeared to be caught!"
Meant that it was already caught by someone else and I would never be able to catch it so I would run.

I can't remember what mons, but it was quite a few before I realized this and some of them were hard to find. I think there were a few chanseys like that

>>32732042
I thought this until I saw an episode of the Black and White 2 anime where they called it by its real name.

>>32731673
only core series games count, kiddo
ain't nobody playing Pogeymonz Ecks Dee

>>32732394
The NPCs near Pattern Bush all make an effort to state how "it's mysterious" and "holds some secret". That's the reason I thought it had wild Chikorita. The only thing it's really good for being the place where wild Heracross are

>>32710325
That SS Anne would come back. I was a spastic little git.

>>32730905
to add to his edginess

duh

>>32717004

IIRC

>Script taken from Jap Blue
>Trades were from green.
>Thus the issue.

>>32710325
I used to believe that super effective types also resisted what they were effective on.
i.e. Water is SE on Ground, I thought that Water resisted Ground too.

>>32710325
Asshole cousin convinced me of a lot of stupid stuff when I was little, even took my first shiny (tentacool) in exachange for his Kyogre since I didnt know what shinys were and how rare they were (especially in gen 3 before shiny rates were raised)

I get quite a lot of pokemon mixed up with what gen they originate from, mostly because in Gen 2 half the dex is after you beat a majority of the game
>older cousin told me that if i kept kyogre and groudon in the daycare long enough I would get a Rayquaza egg

>same cousin told me that bringing the pokemons health into red was actually bad because it got the pokemon angry and less likely to catch

>the "mashing b button helps you catch a pokemon easier" method

>thought Skarmory and Slugma were gen 3, and Misdreavus was Gen 4

>>32727396
>Super Potions
>on a fainted Pokemon

you're still stupid

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>in yellow i would grind pikachu super hard because i thought quick attack was the only way to beat him for some reason

>my cousin traded me a level 20 pidgeotto for my level 5 starter in red because i thought it was so much better

>always thought electric was super effective against steel bc lightning strikes metal

>in yellow the bitch to the left who asks where you caught your pikachu would take yours if you lost to her

>>32727694
Still underage

>>32710325
Used to think that since Ninetails is white that it had a mayonnaise attack. Very confused why a fire type pokemon evolved into a mayonnaise type.

>>32733967
You may have autism, anon

>>32733967
WTF most retarded one yet

>>32715124
You only got one in D/P/Pt and its theme was the legendary theme. Rotom was fucking legendary in Gen 4 no matter what people say. I didn't even know you could breed it gg

used to think that you could have multiple save files by doing L R L R A B X Y with 6 lvl 100 arceuses in team

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>>32733967
>mayonnaise attack

>>32734185
You now realize that Rotom was given the legendary battle theme because it was the "scary" one.

told my class mates in 3rd grade that I found a wild chikorita near the daycare I dunno why tho and I also ran from a shiny seel because I thought it was a glitch, would've been my first shiny if you don't count red gyarados.

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>>32730086

I got a story kind of like this.

>Be Me
>7 years old or so
>Dad was a big fan of Pokémon, so we frequented Serebii
>Talking about Pokémon during lunch with some other kids
>Retarted Grapefruit sitting at our table smugly brags that his uncle works at Nintendo and he already has a Gen 5 game
>Gen 4 hadn't even came out yet, was set to come out later that year
>He kept spewing more and more bs about "Pokémon Purple and Pokémon Orange" while all the other kids ate it up
>Mfw I knew he was lying

I though many gen IV pokemon were gen III because my first game was a hack called ruby destiny, which had sinnoh pokemon

I thought that Kadabra evolves into Alakazam by leveling up. I eventually gave up on grinding when it was about level 90.

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>used to think "rarer the Pokemon, the stronger they are!"

Why did I spend so many hours waiting for a Snubball swarm in Silver..

I thought releasing a Pokemon would let it follow me around like in Yellow.

> Ground was weak to itself
> Thought that you could encounter your Pokémon again after you released them.
> Marill had some relation to Pikachu.
> Evolving my Pokemon would hurt them.
> You could try catching Legendary Pokemon later after fainting them.
> Injecting and modifying Pokémon was bad.

>>32731371
pretty sure you needed the hoenn dex filled to get those in emerald

>>32735305
>> Injecting and modifying Pokémon was bad.
It is. Just go play redditdown if you don't feel like actually playing the game right.

>>32713019
People mistook mon like Skarmory and Slugma for gen 3 mons long before 4chan itself was a thing

>thought the daycare man permanently stole my Pokémon and was working for team rocket
>refused to talk to him ever again out of fear of him stealing another

>>32735326
> WAAAAAAAAAAAAH! MOMMY, HE'S NOT PLAYING THE GAME LIKE I DO. MAKE HIM STOP!

>>32735326
>Riding the bike for 100 hours, Softressetting 9001 times, to not be at a competitive disadvantage
>Playing the game right

Pick one

>>32711186
I always thought there would be wild Snorlax back there

>>32712632
There's a glitch you can do to get back on the ship after it leaves

>>32717697
1.) it's impossible in gold
2.) it should be just as unlikely as catching a gligar and no one goes on about how they thought gligar wasn't a gen 2 mon

>>32716962
But it is

if you waited 5 days at the door of the s.s Anne it would leave and take you to johto (FireRed)

>>32735797
Maybe they were all goldfags.

I assumed that if a type resisted another type, that that type would be super effective against the other type

>>32730052
>>32732133
I'll never get this one. Shiny mons get their own special animation that doesn't look glitchy at all, how do you miss that?

>>32735889
For the Smeargle one, I wasn't paying attention. I was grinding in Smeargle Cave to get stronger for the Battle Frontier, so I wasn't looking at my screen all too often. I had looked away, looked back, and saw a red Smeargle. I never saw the animation.

>>32710325
I always thought Flying types were good against Water types because birds ate fish...

>>32730039
>Not mashing A while the pokeball is flying, holding B when it closes until it's caught, while pressing A on every shake
Smfhfam it's a wonder you've made it this far

>>32736084
>not rocking the d-pad or shoulder buttons with each shake

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>>32733967
>Is mayonnaise an attack?

>>32732956
Tbh a Shiny Tentacool for a Kyogre isn't TOO bad of a deal, especially if you had Ruby

In game mechanics:
>Farfetch'd evolves into Doduo
>Hitmonlee evolves into Hitmonchan
>Saving and turning off after each Elite 4 battle gives free experience points to your entire team (I misinterpreted a line in a strategy guide)
>Staryu and Psyduck are Water/Psychic
>Seel is Water/Ice

Gen I Rumors:
>You can get Togepi by placing a Chansey in the daycare and waiting until it gets to level 100, then get it back and place a Magikarp instead
>The Rocket grunt in Celadon will give you the keys for the Mew truck in exchange for a level 100 Nidoking
>Kangaskhan evolves into Mew at level 100, but only if you nicknamed it "Mew"

Gen II Rumors:
>Yanma haves high chances to give you Pokérus
>If you breed a Jynx with an Alakazam, the resulting Smoochum will evolve into Mew at level 100 (but only if you nicknamed her "Mew" and try to change the name after getting to level 100)
>In Crystal you can buy Pokérhum in certain nights at the Olivine City pub. It gives Pokérus at a given Pokémon
>If you headbutt every single tree in Ilex Forest Celebi will come out
>A Shiny Raticate comes out every Sunday at 10:35 AM in Route 38
>There are two secret shades of Shiny Golbat which can be found only in Mount Silver

Gen III Rumors
>Celebi is a roaming legendary in Ruby and Sapphire, it's just very rare
>In Colosseum you can ditch the girl at the beginning. Without her you can't recognize Shadow Pokémon, so you will be able to snag every Pokémon and also Latios and Latias will appear for some reason

>>32736127
I fucking choked anon

>>32710340
I thought that "___ was sent to SOMEBODY'S PC" meant that it literally just got sent off to some random NPC's inbox and you'd never see it again.

That name's a weird default to have anyway, like the player's just logging on to some random dude's server and storing all their 'mon there.

>>32714390
Man, my cousin had XD and thought that Koffing was weak to Bite because it would make it pop. He thought I was nuts for using Confusion instead.

>>32730150

It has a surprisingly good TM distribution, but definitely needs to deal SE damage to get anything done. It's a pretty standard Psychic type. I've used worse 'mon.

>>32731371
>>32735311

Silver symbols give you one of those pinch berries. Liechi? Also some furniture maybe?

Starters are definitely a full Hoenn dex, which requires all three games (or you miss Zangoose/Lunatone). Total pain in the ass, and none of the Johto starters are even any good.

>>32732823
Sevii Islands were pretty dope as-is but there's so much potential for them to be even better. Those weird-ass tombs where you could find the Unown, the Pattern Bush, those ruins you found the Ruby in...I want a game about their lore.

>>32733947
Nigga it was 2005 it's been 13 years, he's like 26 how is that underage?

>>32713142
White Rock = Jirachi
I love how obscure this is but I know exactly what you're talking about. I thought it was Deoxys. But really why the fuck would they dick tease us by putting it there?

I also thought for sure that I saw an action replay code that made Pokemon say their name like in the anime instead of their battle cry. When I tried to find it again I couldn't find the guide I found it on. Then my friend said the same thing out of the blue like a week later and I was convinced the code was out there somewhere.

The White rock in mosdeep city allowed you to fight Jirachi
100% success in the mosdeep space center would allow you to go into space and fight deoxys
Diamond was a good game
Beating the battle frontier in emerald would allow you to fight your rival again with a team of lvl100 pokemon
Beating the elite 4 in diamond 1000 times would change the champion for mewtwo

When they first announced the changes in special vs physical attack mechanics in gen 4, I for some reason thought I saw on serebii that physical moves of ANY type wouldn't affect ghost type Pokemon rather than normal type moves not affecting them. Pretty sure I went through the whole game with this mind set, and I was a teenager. To this day I still think it makes sense in theory.

When I first played Silver, I couldn't leave the house because I didn't realize you had to press down rather than just step on the carpet.

For the first two days I just flat out always restarted my game because I didn't know you could save.

I thought Lugia was in Gold because I religiously avoided caves as much as I could but at some point went up the Tin Tower and found Ho-Oh.

Politoed was basically a cryptid to me.

With Sapphire, I was completely convinced that Sableye had an evolution.

Some kind of ticket will let you access Johto and Kanto, though fuck if I can remember how you were supposed to get it. I think it was supposed to be found on Mirage Island.

Also some crap about beating the league exactly 999 times and Oak would come and summon Jirachi.

Also some shit about Moomoo milk being key to go past lvl100.

>>32710325
Psychic is super efective against ghost.
I totally blame the anime for that.

I thought Kabuto was an electric psychic type without an evolution
I'm pretty dumb

>>32730039
hold B when it's being thrown, mash A when it hits.

BUT if you in the safari zone, it's the opposite obviously

>>32714447
>2. You will immediately cease and not continue to access the site if you are under the age of 18.

>>32710325
I still believe that mashing a, pressing A + Down when the ball closes, pressing A/B then right left in with the ball will highly increase your chances to catch the mon.

I don´t know why, but I threw in XY and Oras like that and nearly almost catched everything on the first try.

>>32736504
same. i don't get it either, they could just say "Bill's PC" and player would just be "who's that?" anyway

Holy shit. I first started in DP, and the insanity was way too much.

>Thought the entire lake trio was Water types since they were on a lake, one-shotted Uxie and Azelf with Flame Wheel since my Infernape was the only one in my party that got any training
>culminated with me catching Mesprit in a Net Ball

>took me two weeks to defeat the E4 because I didn't understand the concept of saving before battles, also because Infernape was the only thing that got trained at all

>I had to buy the strategy guide for Diamond because I missed getting Strength in lost tower and couldn't move through Mt. Coronet

>I thought Arceus would randomly appear somewhere every 100 hours and that I could find it by literally doing nothing at all
>I also bought an Action Replay because I saw a video of some guy using the Walk through Walls Cheat to catch Arceus in the elevated tall grass in Pal Park, and was convinced it was there (link related https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2W-LV-5DMc)
>thought catching a bunch of Wooper and naming them "POOPER" was the apex of comedy

>>32737064
I'm 26. I just took a decade long break after RSE and my memory on evolutions was hazy when I got ORAS.

>>32735565
>>32735585
>pure redditcancer

neck urselves

That Scyther would learn fly on its own if I leveled it up.

>Trained it to level 67 by the time I had figured out that fly was an HM that I got after defeating Cianwood Gym.

>>32730312
And then A-Raichu happened and the zapmouse learned to fly in a completely different way

>>32710325
I thought to complete the pokedex in red/blue you needed to actually have all the pokemon. So when one pokemon evolved I would go back and get the prior evolution for my dex.

>>32733967
...what?

>>32712496
holy fuck pikablue
>turns out to be marrill
well fuck me, ok

>>32738654
a living dex is something to be proud of my man

>>32732164
>:P
Don't pretend you're not still retarded.

>>32714173
I'm pretty sure he didn't have that bonus disc either, anon boy.

>>32738786
Ha, I might be one of the first people in the world with a completed living dex. I hear that term often but didn't know what it meant until now.

I thought that flying was weak to water.

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>saw Lucario in some anime opening
>no one knew who it was
>I made up some bullshit that if you beat the Elite 4 100 times he would replace Steven and you would be able to catch him
>friends fell for it
>I somehow started to believe my own fucking lie and do it myself too

For some reason, I didn't know Illumise existed, so I thought it was a shiny Volbeat for a split second when I first encountered it.

I started playing in May 2016, first game was Y I used to think Hidden Power unlocked your Hidden Ability.

>>32737023
In your defense, this was true in gen 1, because the gastly line is ghost/poison

>>32737023

I thought the anime made it out that Ash's only hope against the Psychic-using Gym Leader Sabrina was to find a Ghost?

>>32710605
I've heard this exact same story on a speedgamers marathon and talked about in a slowflake video. Are you that guy?

>>32736945
>Diamond was a good game
I believed this one too. I wanted it to be good for so long, I even capped the playtime. Looking back, I didn't enjoy it nearly as much as I thought I did.

>>32739434
Next time some one says you have autism, remember this

>>32710325
I thought Pikachu could of evolved into Zangoose/I thought Zangoose was somewhat related between Pikachu and Raichu...

>>32742535
No. Interesting though, got a link?

>>32714121
>sneasel
>a dog

>>32735305
>You could try catching Legendary Pokemon later after fainting them.
Well, this is true since Platinum

>>32735797
This is because Gligar is actually more common (20% vs 5%) and in Crystal, which has both, Skarmory doesn't appear during night at all.

>>32710325
>By finishing the game,you can regain your save file that you accidentally deleted

Things change but I still regret deleting that save file with my first starter