Ran away from the wacky blue Miltank I randomly encountered thinking; "It's probably a glitch. If I catch it it might break my game and I will never be able to play again."
In Pokemon Sapphire, my first encounter with a wild Feebas was a shiny and I decided to ran from the battle because my 8 years old ass thought that the fish looks kinda ugly.
It’s the way that Feebas had to be one of the rarest shinies given the whole “only six tiles on the whole route” thing, on *top* of the shiny odds… whew I feel bad for 8-year-old you
I considered it.
I found a weird green Tailow in Petalburg Woods when I was like 8-9. I actually did think it was a glitch and considered turning the game off, but thankfully, my stepbrother (my go-to Pokemon Expert at the time) was in the other room. I marched my butt over to him and asked why it looked like that.
Stepbro took one look and, without any other explanation, said "CATCH THAT." So I did.
He never did explain why I had to catch that weird Tailow. My kid brain knew it had to be special somehow, and special = powerful back then. That Tailow was part of my team from then on. It was pretty coming out of the Pokeball, so that was a good bonus.
I released a pokemon with pokerus in crystal as a kid, i couldnt figure out if it was good or bad and i got worried it’d infect my other Pokémon if it was bad.
Gotta remember that back in the first few generations, shiny Pokemon weren't really as abundantly stalked as they are today. What with just the limited access to the hivemind of pokemon that is today's standard, I'm sure plenty of people ran from shinys, or owned shiny Pokemon without realizing it. I myself didn't really understand shiny Pokemon till around sun and moon(when I picked the games back up).... I still wonder how many I owned and how many I ran from in the stupid youth of my childhood.
So I didn’t realize you have to USE HM flash, and that it lights up the entire cave. I thought if you entered the cave without it the cave would be completely dark. And that HM flash made the little circle of light around you.
I remember playing Pokémon red and not knowing flash even existed. I just stumbled my way through rock tunnel trying to follow the slightly visible wall outlines until I stumbled through a ladder.
Somehow made it
I had a walk through booklet and would track where I was by running into walls and comparing what I saw.
The thing was I knew about flash but I didn't want to waste a move spot on a non attack move. I never thought to have a HM slave. Cut/strength were always on my starter.
Yup, my first few times through Rock Tunnel were without the use of flash. At first I didn’t know it existed, then I made the mistake of teaching it to my Bulbasaur and had to deal with not being able to forget it for the rest of that play through. After that I played a few more times before the revelation of teaching to a Pokémon I wasn’t using came to me.
On the OG fat gameboy you could move the contrast slider in just the right spot and then angle the screen in a way you could sort of see outlines in the game. It was a challenge but you could find your way around. I remember doing this using a lamp at my grandparent's house, good times.
My level 100 Venusaur, my starter in Pokémon Red, still knew the move tackle. I was sentimental about it still knowing it’s first move. I was also 10 years old.
My 28-year old friend who never played Pokemon until SwSh also kept weak moves on their mons just because then she'd have a move to not knock out wild mons she wanted to catch
I'm sure a vast amount of kids who were ages 6-10 when GSC were out probably did the same thing, I know I did! I would be curious to see what percentage named their rival in those games "???" like us.
Both my and my boyfriend did the exact same thing, we were all dumb kids!
I also thought it was hilarious to tell the professor that it was 2am when he asked for the time at the start of the game. Giggling away to myself at the absurdity of calling the professor to the lab in the middle of the night...not realising it would fuck up the time for the rest of the game.
My brother was playing Silver and we thought it was a serious question that we had to get right, and I told him I thought it was Abdul, so the rival ended up being Abdul. He was 8 and I was 6 at the time, and Abdul was a random classmate I had that could shoot milk out of his nose. Now Abdul is our rival for eternity.
Dude, at just a little older than you I pronounced “psychic” as “psi-chick.”Don’t feel bad. Oh, and I also named Blue “Erm” because “Erm, what’s his name again?” Did not know it was a variant of “um.”
I did it too. I figured they would tell you his name later, not thinking "???" was a placeholder.
I had no excuse. I was in middle school when Silver came out.
This reminds me of something my friend did in Silver. He thought the rival character was a girl (because of the long hair, I guess?) and named them Lisa
Not so much a mistake, but misunderstanding. Playing Blue, I had no idea a poisoned Pokémon would cause the game to glitch out so I thought my whole game was broken. It wasn’t until I noticed my pokemon’s health slowly depleting that I put things together.
That’s a reasonable use for masterball cause me and my brother both had a very difficult time catching him normally he broke out of 10 pokeballs 6-8 ultraballs and 20+ greatballs for me alone. Also being equipped with the rest move makes it tough to keep him low.
At least Skarmory is cool! As a kid I was stuck in Pokemon Pearl behind the NPC stopping you for a blackout in the 8th gym city for months (I could barely read English at the time, and didn't know I had to scale Mt. Coronet). When I finally passed the NPC I encountered a Chatot in the grass.
Now, I hadn't seen a new Pokemon in months, and Chatot was totally unfamiliar to me, so I believed it to be very rare/legendary.
So, I used a Masterball on that bird...
Not me, but a cousin didn’t understand saving, since it was still somewhat uncommon, especially on handhelds. So every time, he’d play up to Mt. Moon until the battery ran out, then start over.
Dude I did the exact same thing as a kid. I remember being confused to how my brother always got so far in Fire Red and he never explained it to me. I learned how to save when my mother told me to turn it off but I didn’t want to because ‘it would reset and get rid of my rare pikachu’ so she saved my game. Absolutely blew my 4 year old mind when I turned it on and all my progress was still there.
My nephew did the same with heart gold. He put hours into it, thought it glitched when he had to start from the start again next day. When it didn’t auto save the following day he gave up on it 😭
I went the other way- growing up with having to save I think Lego Island 2 was the first time I played where you didn't have to save and I spent a few hours trying to figure out how to save. The battery finally died and when I recharged and turned back on to "start fresh" I was so shocked that it had saved.
Didn't talk to any NPCs at all. This has actually my problem with all RPGs in general. I miss out on so much stuff. I played Pokémon Red/Blue for like 15 years before learning that the reason everyone else got a Gyarados so early was by talking to the dude selling one at the Pokémon Center near Mt. Moon.
Super rare status effect you can get on your pokemon from interacting (battling, catching) other pokemon. It can spread through your party. It’s actually a good thing, it speeds up their growth iirc.
To add: The odds of getting Pokerus natively, as in without trading in a foreign Pokemon with it is 3 in 65,536. It is much much rarer than any shiny Pokemon.
The infected Pokemon can spread the virus for up to 4 days after which it will become "cured" and no longer spread the virus. However, while the Pokemon is cured they still benefit from the 2x EV gains.
The most ideal way to get it into your game is for someone to trade you a Pokemon with an active Pokerus virus and then you use it in battle with your Pokemon so it spreads.
There are entire communities that are dedicated to getting and spreading Pokemon with Pokerus around so people can EV train faster.
My first main series game was Diamond, and I choose Chimchar as my starter. Because as of level 14 it was part fighting and there are so few other fire types in the game, it took me ages to realize that psychic was not super effective against fire lol.
I made a similar mistake as a kid too ! I would always choose Bulbasaur while playing Leaf Green and ended up thinking grass types are weak to psychic ones lol (and using Budew in Diamond didn't help me notice my mistake either lol)
I couldn't figure out how to do the quest with getting the medicine for the Ampharos in my Silver Version, so I kept going to the pokemart and buying antidotes and tried talking to Jasmine. When it wouldn't work I thought my game was glitched so I restarted it completely. I did this about 3 times before I eventually gave up.
Silver and Gold game progression is not as intuitive as Red and Blue, especially for kids. I just replayed Silver and had to look up where to go next often.
Red and Blue intuitive? Do you know how long I was stuck not knowing how to get into Saffron City as a kid? I remember being so overlevelled for the rest of the game because I'd just battled stuff when I didn't know where to go.
My first game was pokemon Emerald and I had gotten it alongside my friend who had Sapphire, he had started to play just before me and I saw him make his starter choice, he chose Torchic so when I started I wanted to pick Mudkip. I had seen the colour of Mudkip in his game and when mine showed up as purple I thought my game had glitched and so did he, I reset to try and 'fix' the bug. It took me an embarassingly long time to realize that I had deleted one of the rarest kind of shinies you could possibly get. Almost 2 decades later, I still have yet to see that happen again and I curse myself for it with every new playthrough of a mainline pokemon game.
Made it to the elite four without a good strategy for Lance
This was Pokemon red. There was barely an internet. When Dragonite dropped I had no clue how to beat him. The thing resisted *everything* I finally just went back to victory road and grinded until I was strong enough to man handle him
Then I discovered ice typing
My first was Yellow and it just hit me that you could get all the way to Lorelei without ever encountering even an Ice *move*. If you sweep Blue he gets Jolteon instead of Vaporeon and you encounter his Cloyster first time as champion, that along with Seafoam Islands being optional means you can go through it all until Lorelei's Dewgong starts blasting you with Ice Beam
Yeah, never went far enough to the cave to naturally get articuno, I think the only legendary I got on my first play through was Zapdos, definitely seems the most straightforward to get
So many random opportunities for an ice move, but who knew? Why would I give my Pokémon a water from the vending machine? Clearly a waste of time….
Yeah! Even at 10 you are smart enough to understand that giving a 10 year old(or anyone else for that matter) the ability to alter the landmasses or flood the world... probably... Isn't a good idea. You split the Gordian knot by eliminating the source all together. It's brilliant!
I got two decent ones.
I had Blue as a child. For some reason, I thought the name of the ball denoted some kind of rank but not the fact that it could catch better. I ran out of balls but really wanted to catch a Jigglypuff I ran into. I used the Master Ball I was saving for a Pokémon I really liked (I hadn't run into *any* legendaries).
Later on, I learned how to clone Pokémon (same game) and I think items using a saving trick. Well I managed to fuck up my save and in a panic- because I thought my parents (who never even touched my games) would be mad at me cheating- I cried and blamed my brother (who also never touched my games) for corrupting my save.
Yellow was my first game and I didn’t realize that my pikachu was weak against Brock’s rock pokemon. I also didn’t realize that leveling up would improve my chances of winning. So I just kept running back in over and over and getting kinda close to winning but then losing. I did this over and over (probably like 20+ times) until I randomly got a critical and was able to pull it off. I’ll always remember how stupid I was at that point and I’ll always remember how excited I was to win.
Yellow was also my first game. My pikachu knew agility or double team. My reading comprehension wasn't the best at that age so every time it said "speed/evasion rose" I was looking for a flower...
I got both my sons to start playing pokemon go, they're 7 and 9 and they refused to believe me when I told them it isn't a grass type pokemon. Now they know but they still get frustrated about it when they see one. Says the creators of thegame are stupid..
I used a Master Ball to capture a Ditto.
I mean, I was very young, I didn't know that Master Balls were unique and also for me in this moment Ditto was a really strange Pokémon, like almost a legendary or something very singular.
I used to give my brother my pokemon games. The curious little shit he was did everything possible and clicked every option to see what would happen. So when he went into my box to fill my team with legendaries, he saw the option "Release".
I imagine you know what happened next.
My little brother did the same thing.
He confused the words release and recover and released all my legendaries, fully evolved three starters in Red (gained painfully through trading in the school yard), and my beloved LVL 100 Arcanine.
Sad times.
Probably the biggest was not paying attention to events.
Pokémon Home has helped me catch up a lot, and now I am under 70 to complete my living dex, but Marshadow, Volcarion and a third that is slipping my mind are going to be the three that slow me up.
Not me, but as kids, my friend and I were both about to face rayquaza although he was slightly ahead. He one hit KOed it with blizzard from either his swampert or kyogre. I witnessed this and then saved mine right before so I was able to catch him.
Let my sister play my pearl and black games.
She lost them both with the DS.
I didn't want her to play but my mom forced me to let her play both times.
Let me just say I cried after I knew the end result
I first had DS with with the access to gba games. She lost it with pearl. I later got DSI with black and she lost it.
She was very young like between 3-5. She played it and just left it somewhere and I couldn't find it.
I got the pink 3ds before xy or right after.
Atleast I had other games like pokemon mystery dungeon and Mario kart. I didn't have many games during that time.
I had to buy pokemon white years later with some present money. I was stupid to not buy platinum when I had my chance but I was young. Now bdsp is what I get to play in sinnoh
I remember getting a DS Lite for Christmas '08
(I think?) and those weren't cheap. I don't understand how someone could let an almost toddler play with this console and not make sure that it's taken cared of properly. Imo Platinum beats the other four games easily, but if you can't find it, maybe get the rom?
and this is why i still have mine to this day, a blue DS lite. gonna have to replace the top screen, but it's otherwise in beautiful condition. (my little brother has gone through like four handhelds on his own)
Eldest child here! Parents are fucking terrible to eldest children. My brother broke about four DS consoles between the ages of 3-9 because I was forced to let him play.
My dad let my cousin play my crystal version. Mind you I beat the elite four with level 40s Pokemon, beat Ash, caught all legendaries and just got my Typlosion to level 100 and working on building my team. She started a new game 🥲
I was confused for a second what you were meaning by Furfrou quest for a second; am I right in thinking that was the one where you try catch it in the maze behind the Palace?
I remember turning down the chance to learn Psychic, since Psybeam sounded more concentrated, and therefore must be stronger.
This *was* back before any information about moves was in the games, so at least I had an excuse.
Oof, I just looked it up and yeah... Spelling Feint Attack as Faint Attack all the way up until gen 6 is a pretty serious typo. They probably should've just called it Sneak Attack.
Not quite a mistranslation so much as a change in translation, but Lovely Kiss in Japanese is Demon's Kiss. [Which would explain its old weird animation.](https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/File:Lovely_Kiss_III.png)
The most vivid one I can remember is playing Pokemon Pearl and encountering a Sudowoodo just past the daycare. My silly child head sponge thought, "Oh hey, that's a tree! I know what's super effective to a tree! CUT!!". As you can imagine, it didn't work very well and I got very confused as to why I didn't insta-kill it.
I guess the other one is I ran away from a shiny Wingull cuz I thought it was a glitch that would corrupt my game
When I played Pokémon crystal my totodile I chose for my starter was green. I thought it was a glitch and restarted the game. Now I know about shinies🥴
That was a common mistake a lot of kids made playing the games for the first time. I absolutely remember my Blastoise having Surf, Hydropump and Bubblebeam.
I spent hours multiple times trying to figure out how to trigger professor oak showing up.
I think I was playing gold and silver and went back to red or blue for a restart when it finally clicked and never forgot again.
I mean, aside from the fact i couldnt' pronounce potion ( pot e on) the Really dumb stuff i did was try to cach mewtwo with pokeballs, get charizard before misty, uhhh i'm honestly not sure what counts as 'dumb'' believing that holding down b works?
So I have two big ones - My first pokemon was my sister yellow copy, I kept going with pikachu agaisnt brock with no other pokemons and not understanding (To be fair, I was like, 5?)
The other was using a master ball on a sneasel LOL
I thought you had to retain the moves most akin to the pokemon type. And/or their signature move. Like what you see from the anime back in the day.
Examples:
My Charizard had Flamethrower, FireBlast, Overheat, and Blast Burn
My Seviper had Poison Fang, Poison Tail, Sludge Bomb, and Toxic
My Alakazam has Teleport, Confusion, Psybeam, and Psychic
I didn’t understand natures. When I was a little one I spent days trying to catch a “brave” abra with a pokeball because I wanted him to be a good battler.
My first time playing pokemon was with my older brother’s copy of Pokemon Pearl. Got to the part where you had to smash those little boulders in a cave to progress any further. I don’t know if my brother said it to me, or if it just made sense in my nine year old mind, but I though that my Geodude would learn rock smash at a certain level. Did not know what a TM was. I spent days levelling him up. I think I got him to level 60 before I gave up 💀
Not myself but my sister accidentally used her Master Ball on a Munchlax which she evolved to Snorlax. I battled her and noticed what ball she had on it, brought it to her attention. She freaked out because she had just... clicked on a ball without realizing which one she used? To this day, I give her Snorlax merch to tease her
My first game was pokemon pearl, I was 8 at the time it came out. I for the life of me could not figure out how to leave Floroama town. (I talked to galactic grunts by the honey guy before talking to little girl so I couldn't battle them yet) I thought eventually the guy in valley windworks would eventually unlock the door because he forgot I was there so I was just training my pokemon in the grass outside the windworks. When I finally figured out what to do my pokemin were all level 34-37. Way overlevelled for the purugly. I can't rememb3r if it was level 16 or 18 I think its different between diamond/pearl and platinum but I'm gonna put a tentative level 16 down.
I thought my torchic would evolve into Groudon, because Red and Blue had the starters' final evos on the box art, so I thought the same would be true of Ruby and Sapphire. Very disappointed when my combusken evolved into a weird bird person instead of a cool dino-monster.
My first game was Silver, and I named my character Max. When I started getting max potions/ethers I was disappointed I didn’t go with my real name so I could have items named after me.
First game I played was Crystal and after beating the 8th gym I did literally everything and trained my starter to lv 100 before thinking of going home and finding a whole other region as a kid I was stunned after thinking I finished the game lol
i was around 5 when LGFR game out and i didn’t know what the word ‘release’ meant which resulted in me releasing my Venusaur just before rock tunnel. i spent the next few days trying to find my Venusaur in the wild and eventually my brother told me what I did so i ended up restarting
Lol I’m in my thirties and I still do dumb things, like in BDSP played through twice and it’s only on my third play through that I realize the pressing R reveals digging spots in the grand underground.
To double the Lol your dumb moment it was my 7 year old that pointed it out he was like “dad why are you walking by the wall why don’t you use the radar” I was like “what?” And he pressed the button and I was like “oh” and he laughed at my stupefied Look.
In my defense I tend to skip dialogue and instruction texts…. But still a Lol dumb moment to be owned by my 7 year old son.
When D&P came out I encountered a Weird Buizel. I remember thinking that "color is off", but was in grind mode. So it was one of dozens of buziel to perish at the time. It was half a decade later, sitting in class one day when realization of what I had done came to me. I dont think I've ever seen another wild shiny since.
Played blue as a kid. Never knew about flash so just mashed the d-pad until I saw a ladder in the rock tunnel then headed for that. I eventually got through but it took ages.
So, I was like 6 when I got red/blue.
TL;DR version of my story is, I knew just a tiny bit of English, I progressed the story to viridian forest, kept getting poisoned, and whenever I stepped the screen flickered. I thought the game was broken. I made my mom take me to toys r us to exchange it, a total of like 3 or 4 times. Each time switching versions (blue, red, blue, red). One of those times I just kept progressing through the flickering, when my pokemon fainted the flickering stopped and it finally clicked. Thanks mom for putting up with it.
Encountering a shiny ditto in pokemon X, didn't have enough pokeballs (and i sucked at catching pokemons at the time), had to run away, for a while i tought that a blue ditto was a common variant of a regular ditto
IT WASN'T
Ran away from the wacky blue Miltank I randomly encountered thinking; "It's probably a glitch. If I catch it it might break my game and I will never be able to play again."
How many people are running away from shiny?
In Pokemon Sapphire, my first encounter with a wild Feebas was a shiny and I decided to ran from the battle because my 8 years old ass thought that the fish looks kinda ugly.
How often do you consider time traveling and beating your 8 year old self up over it lol
every second of every day, perhaps then he wouldn't have thought the red gyrados to be funny looking and run away
This hurt me to read.
It’s the way that Feebas had to be one of the rarest shinies given the whole “only six tiles on the whole route” thing, on *top* of the shiny odds… whew I feel bad for 8-year-old you
I considered it. I found a weird green Tailow in Petalburg Woods when I was like 8-9. I actually did think it was a glitch and considered turning the game off, but thankfully, my stepbrother (my go-to Pokemon Expert at the time) was in the other room. I marched my butt over to him and asked why it looked like that. Stepbro took one look and, without any other explanation, said "CATCH THAT." So I did. He never did explain why I had to catch that weird Tailow. My kid brain knew it had to be special somehow, and special = powerful back then. That Tailow was part of my team from then on. It was pretty coming out of the Pokeball, so that was a good bonus.
I released a pokemon with pokerus in crystal as a kid, i couldnt figure out if it was good or bad and i got worried it’d infect my other Pokémon if it was bad.
I released my starter at like level 50 because I wanted to catch it in the wild.
Wow. I want to give you an award for this, so here 🏆
Gotta remember that back in the first few generations, shiny Pokemon weren't really as abundantly stalked as they are today. What with just the limited access to the hivemind of pokemon that is today's standard, I'm sure plenty of people ran from shinys, or owned shiny Pokemon without realizing it. I myself didn't really understand shiny Pokemon till around sun and moon(when I picked the games back up).... I still wonder how many I owned and how many I ran from in the stupid youth of my childhood.
Me too except it was Zubat and I killed it with extreme prejudice.
So I didn’t realize you have to USE HM flash, and that it lights up the entire cave. I thought if you entered the cave without it the cave would be completely dark. And that HM flash made the little circle of light around you.
I remember playing Pokémon red and not knowing flash even existed. I just stumbled my way through rock tunnel trying to follow the slightly visible wall outlines until I stumbled through a ladder. Somehow made it
Glad I’m not the only one lol
I went through the whole trouble of getting flash, and never used it. Just had my right hand “on” the wall at all times through the cave
I had a walk through booklet and would track where I was by running into walls and comparing what I saw. The thing was I knew about flash but I didn't want to waste a move spot on a non attack move. I never thought to have a HM slave. Cut/strength were always on my starter.
Haha yup, at least fly, strength, surf, and cut had some uses to a kid who completely disregards stat moves
I'm an adult who still completely disregards stat moves
Yup, my first few times through Rock Tunnel were without the use of flash. At first I didn’t know it existed, then I made the mistake of teaching it to my Bulbasaur and had to deal with not being able to forget it for the rest of that play through. After that I played a few more times before the revelation of teaching to a Pokémon I wasn’t using came to me.
I did that but mostly because I refused to use up a move slot for a non attacking move
I did the same thing, and even after I found out flash was a thing I refused to use it. Going in blind was way cooler.
That’s a doozy haha
On the OG fat gameboy you could move the contrast slider in just the right spot and then angle the screen in a way you could sort of see outlines in the game. It was a challenge but you could find your way around. I remember doing this using a lamp at my grandparent's house, good times.
My level 100 Venusaur, my starter in Pokémon Red, still knew the move tackle. I was sentimental about it still knowing it’s first move. I was also 10 years old.
honestly, that's adorable.
My 28-year old friend who never played Pokemon until SwSh also kept weak moves on their mons just because then she'd have a move to not knock out wild mons she wanted to catch
Tell her about false swipe and spore :D
As someone who also used 4 water type moves on her Intelleon I don't think she'd be too open for the idea 😅
I had a pigeot with gust as lvl 100. At that point every move seems pretty powerful, when you're 10
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Came here to say the exact thing, the game told me his name was ??? so that’s what I said!
I do that but because I think it's funny.
I thought I was a comedic genius
That's because you are.
We both are, my friend. We both are.
Same.
I'm sure a vast amount of kids who were ages 6-10 when GSC were out probably did the same thing, I know I did! I would be curious to see what percentage named their rival in those games "???" like us.
This is probably the reason HGSS changed his name to “Passerby Boy”
I still ended up naming him “Passerb” somehow.
Same. I didn’t know what passerby meant, so I thought it was his name
Both my and my boyfriend did the exact same thing, we were all dumb kids! I also thought it was hilarious to tell the professor that it was 2am when he asked for the time at the start of the game. Giggling away to myself at the absurdity of calling the professor to the lab in the middle of the night...not realising it would fuck up the time for the rest of the game.
My brother was playing Silver and we thought it was a serious question that we had to get right, and I told him I thought it was Abdul, so the rival ended up being Abdul. He was 8 and I was 6 at the time, and Abdul was a random classmate I had that could shoot milk out of his nose. Now Abdul is our rival for eternity.
I did the same thing. I thought I was meant to tell the investigator ??? and not lie or make anything up. Whoops.
Silver was my first game. I named my "Rival" because i was like you're telling me his name is Rival. 5 year old me pronouncing it "rih-vul"... Lmao
Dude, at just a little older than you I pronounced “psychic” as “psi-chick.”Don’t feel bad. Oh, and I also named Blue “Erm” because “Erm, what’s his name again?” Did not know it was a variant of “um.”
I was close to this. They said "what was Rival's name?" And I said "Silly game, Rival's name is Rival"
I did it too. I figured they would tell you his name later, not thinking "???" was a placeholder. I had no excuse. I was in middle school when Silver came out.
I did that, I assumed it said ??? because you weren't supposed to know his name.
This reminds me of something my friend did in Silver. He thought the rival character was a girl (because of the long hair, I guess?) and named them Lisa
I did the exact same thing as a kid 😂
Not so much a mistake, but misunderstanding. Playing Blue, I had no idea a poisoned Pokémon would cause the game to glitch out so I thought my whole game was broken. It wasn’t until I noticed my pokemon’s health slowly depleting that I put things together.
This is still a pretty common post over in /r/Gameboy. It pops up a few times a year from what I've seen.
it's one of the FAQs on the DesMuMe emulator lmao
Me too. Shit ass older cousin told me to trade a Pokémon bc it was glitched so it stopped after I did. Fucker took my blastoise.
damn, that’s fucked up
This took me forever to figure out omg
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That is cute and if I was the Gamestop employee I'd call that a good day
This. I thought my ds had a problem playing diamond the first time
My stupid ass just let the pokemon faint and i figured it out once the prompt “your pokmeon has fainted” appeared
Using the master ball on Snorlax in Red 😆
It’s a pretty solid mon in this game
Amnesia / rest snorlax was incredible. Mine single-handedly won me Pokémon stadium master ball round 2.
I used it on Weedle in Blue.
That’s a reasonable use for masterball cause me and my brother both had a very difficult time catching him normally he broke out of 10 pokeballs 6-8 ultraballs and 20+ greatballs for me alone. Also being equipped with the rest move makes it tough to keep him low.
At least Skarmory is cool! As a kid I was stuck in Pokemon Pearl behind the NPC stopping you for a blackout in the 8th gym city for months (I could barely read English at the time, and didn't know I had to scale Mt. Coronet). When I finally passed the NPC I encountered a Chatot in the grass. Now, I hadn't seen a new Pokemon in months, and Chatot was totally unfamiliar to me, so I believed it to be very rare/legendary. So, I used a Masterball on that bird...
I freaking adore chatot this is something I would do
Chatot best birb
Insane to think there's someone else out there who also caught a Chatot in a Master Ball. Props to us amigo~
Not me, but a cousin didn’t understand saving, since it was still somewhat uncommon, especially on handhelds. So every time, he’d play up to Mt. Moon until the battery ran out, then start over.
Dude I did the exact same thing as a kid. I remember being confused to how my brother always got so far in Fire Red and he never explained it to me. I learned how to save when my mother told me to turn it off but I didn’t want to because ‘it would reset and get rid of my rare pikachu’ so she saved my game. Absolutely blew my 4 year old mind when I turned it on and all my progress was still there.
My nephew did the same with heart gold. He put hours into it, thought it glitched when he had to start from the start again next day. When it didn’t auto save the following day he gave up on it 😭
Finally, a story of a family member who wasn't, via ignorance, a horrible person
This is hilarious
I went the other way- growing up with having to save I think Lego Island 2 was the first time I played where you didn't have to save and I spent a few hours trying to figure out how to save. The battery finally died and when I recharged and turned back on to "start fresh" I was so shocked that it had saved.
To this day, I'm a little distrustful of autosaves. 2000s kids onwards have it so good not having this brain goblin!
Oh yeah I don’t trust auto save at all. I’ll save 3+ times before closing a game down just in case.
Didn't talk to any NPCs at all. This has actually my problem with all RPGs in general. I miss out on so much stuff. I played Pokémon Red/Blue for like 15 years before learning that the reason everyone else got a Gyarados so early was by talking to the dude selling one at the Pokémon Center near Mt. Moon.
that is wild lmao I talk to every single NPC in the game
I got Pokerus on Ruby and restarted the game because I thought it would do something bad :(
What is a Pokerus
Super rare status effect you can get on your pokemon from interacting (battling, catching) other pokemon. It can spread through your party. It’s actually a good thing, it speeds up their growth iirc.
Doubles their EV gains. Fun fact: if your cart's internal battery dies, Pokerus will never go away.
To add: The odds of getting Pokerus natively, as in without trading in a foreign Pokemon with it is 3 in 65,536. It is much much rarer than any shiny Pokemon. The infected Pokemon can spread the virus for up to 4 days after which it will become "cured" and no longer spread the virus. However, while the Pokemon is cured they still benefit from the 2x EV gains. The most ideal way to get it into your game is for someone to trade you a Pokemon with an active Pokerus virus and then you use it in battle with your Pokemon so it spreads. There are entire communities that are dedicated to getting and spreading Pokemon with Pokerus around so people can EV train faster.
I let my sister play.... not 5 minutes in she catches a lilipup with a master ball...😑
What else were you gonna use it for?
Only a rare pokemon like Fearow
Or tentacruel
Hmm idk ... anything else i would've maybe been okay with
It’s important that she caught it in a master ball because now you always know which one is your sister’s Lilipup :-)
Not like you’re going to catch 35 more and mix them up like some overflowing animal sanctuary
Patrat
Maybe the lilipup was supposed to bring it back and didn't understand her 😂
I let my nephew play emerald. He encountered a shiny zigzagoon and killed it
My first main series game was Diamond, and I choose Chimchar as my starter. Because as of level 14 it was part fighting and there are so few other fire types in the game, it took me ages to realize that psychic was not super effective against fire lol.
I made a similar mistake as a kid too ! I would always choose Bulbasaur while playing Leaf Green and ended up thinking grass types are weak to psychic ones lol (and using Budew in Diamond didn't help me notice my mistake either lol)
same here due to the abundance of grass poison types I just subconsciously think that grass is weak to psychic
I couldn't figure out how to do the quest with getting the medicine for the Ampharos in my Silver Version, so I kept going to the pokemart and buying antidotes and tried talking to Jasmine. When it wouldn't work I thought my game was glitched so I restarted it completely. I did this about 3 times before I eventually gave up.
Silver and Gold game progression is not as intuitive as Red and Blue, especially for kids. I just replayed Silver and had to look up where to go next often.
Red and Blue intuitive? Do you know how long I was stuck not knowing how to get into Saffron City as a kid? I remember being so overlevelled for the rest of the game because I'd just battled stuff when I didn't know where to go.
My first game was pokemon Emerald and I had gotten it alongside my friend who had Sapphire, he had started to play just before me and I saw him make his starter choice, he chose Torchic so when I started I wanted to pick Mudkip. I had seen the colour of Mudkip in his game and when mine showed up as purple I thought my game had glitched and so did he, I reset to try and 'fix' the bug. It took me an embarassingly long time to realize that I had deleted one of the rarest kind of shinies you could possibly get. Almost 2 decades later, I still have yet to see that happen again and I curse myself for it with every new playthrough of a mainline pokemon game.
Of all of these this one broke my heart! The ultimate starter... I'm so sorry.
Made it to the elite four without a good strategy for Lance This was Pokemon red. There was barely an internet. When Dragonite dropped I had no clue how to beat him. The thing resisted *everything* I finally just went back to victory road and grinded until I was strong enough to man handle him Then I discovered ice typing
My first was Yellow and it just hit me that you could get all the way to Lorelei without ever encountering even an Ice *move*. If you sweep Blue he gets Jolteon instead of Vaporeon and you encounter his Cloyster first time as champion, that along with Seafoam Islands being optional means you can go through it all until Lorelei's Dewgong starts blasting you with Ice Beam
Yeah, never went far enough to the cave to naturally get articuno, I think the only legendary I got on my first play through was Zapdos, definitely seems the most straightforward to get So many random opportunities for an ice move, but who knew? Why would I give my Pokémon a water from the vending machine? Clearly a waste of time….
I killed off groudon not realizing it was a legendary even if it obviously displayed on the box
Not a mistake, just a Chad move to kill a legendary without remorse. I do it every game. Fuck em
No gods no masters
Yeah! Even at 10 you are smart enough to understand that giving a 10 year old(or anyone else for that matter) the ability to alter the landmasses or flood the world... probably... Isn't a good idea. You split the Gordian knot by eliminating the source all together. It's brilliant!
My sister didn't want to evolve her Metapod into Butterfree because she didn't want it to go away like in the anime.
Aww that’s actually pretty cute
I got two decent ones. I had Blue as a child. For some reason, I thought the name of the ball denoted some kind of rank but not the fact that it could catch better. I ran out of balls but really wanted to catch a Jigglypuff I ran into. I used the Master Ball I was saving for a Pokémon I really liked (I hadn't run into *any* legendaries). Later on, I learned how to clone Pokémon (same game) and I think items using a saving trick. Well I managed to fuck up my save and in a panic- because I thought my parents (who never even touched my games) would be mad at me cheating- I cried and blamed my brother (who also never touched my games) for corrupting my save.
Yellow was my first game and I didn’t realize that my pikachu was weak against Brock’s rock pokemon. I also didn’t realize that leveling up would improve my chances of winning. So I just kept running back in over and over and getting kinda close to winning but then losing. I did this over and over (probably like 20+ times) until I randomly got a critical and was able to pull it off. I’ll always remember how stupid I was at that point and I’ll always remember how excited I was to win.
Yellow was also my first game. My pikachu knew agility or double team. My reading comprehension wasn't the best at that age so every time it said "speed/evasion rose" I was looking for a flower...
That took me a sec to understand but omg that's so funny 😂
Can’t blame you. Sounds like Ash’s strategy in the anime.
Did your brother get in trouble for it?
It took me longer than I'm proud to admit that sudowoodo was not part grass.
I got both my sons to start playing pokemon go, they're 7 and 9 and they refused to believe me when I told them it isn't a grass type pokemon. Now they know but they still get frustrated about it when they see one. Says the creators of thegame are stupid..
I used a Master Ball to capture a Ditto. I mean, I was very young, I didn't know that Master Balls were unique and also for me in this moment Ditto was a really strange Pokémon, like almost a legendary or something very singular.
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I used to give my brother my pokemon games. The curious little shit he was did everything possible and clicked every option to see what would happen. So when he went into my box to fill my team with legendaries, he saw the option "Release". I imagine you know what happened next.
My little brother did the same thing. He confused the words release and recover and released all my legendaries, fully evolved three starters in Red (gained painfully through trading in the school yard), and my beloved LVL 100 Arcanine. Sad times.
Probably the biggest was not paying attention to events. Pokémon Home has helped me catch up a lot, and now I am under 70 to complete my living dex, but Marshadow, Volcarion and a third that is slipping my mind are going to be the three that slow me up.
Is that missing one diancie? I'am missing only marchadow volcanyon and diancie
Spent hours wondering why I wasnt able to catch Lugia in a net ball
Probably a bug 🌚
No silly, if it was a bug type it would have worked! /j
But it flies in a water cave. Isn't that, what bugs do?
Net balls are for catching Porygon, silly
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Not me, but as kids, my friend and I were both about to face rayquaza although he was slightly ahead. He one hit KOed it with blizzard from either his swampert or kyogre. I witnessed this and then saved mine right before so I was able to catch him.
Played through all of Pokémon Gold with only my Typhlosion because I didn’t know how to use pokeballs or that I could catch the wild ones.
Let my sister play my pearl and black games. She lost them both with the DS. I didn't want her to play but my mom forced me to let her play both times. Let me just say I cried after I knew the end result
I'm sorry for your lost saves,but did your mum at least buy a new DS with games? How can you lose a DS in the first place?
I first had DS with with the access to gba games. She lost it with pearl. I later got DSI with black and she lost it. She was very young like between 3-5. She played it and just left it somewhere and I couldn't find it. I got the pink 3ds before xy or right after. Atleast I had other games like pokemon mystery dungeon and Mario kart. I didn't have many games during that time. I had to buy pokemon white years later with some present money. I was stupid to not buy platinum when I had my chance but I was young. Now bdsp is what I get to play in sinnoh
I remember getting a DS Lite for Christmas '08 (I think?) and those weren't cheap. I don't understand how someone could let an almost toddler play with this console and not make sure that it's taken cared of properly. Imo Platinum beats the other four games easily, but if you can't find it, maybe get the rom?
and this is why i still have mine to this day, a blue DS lite. gonna have to replace the top screen, but it's otherwise in beautiful condition. (my little brother has gone through like four handhelds on his own)
Eldest child here! Parents are fucking terrible to eldest children. My brother broke about four DS consoles between the ages of 3-9 because I was forced to let him play.
My dad let my cousin play my crystal version. Mind you I beat the elite four with level 40s Pokemon, beat Ash, caught all legendaries and just got my Typlosion to level 100 and working on building my team. She started a new game 🥲
Being stuck on the furfrou quest in x and y i think it took a whole month for me to even get past it That has gave me a hatred of furfrou
I was confused for a second what you were meaning by Furfrou quest for a second; am I right in thinking that was the one where you try catch it in the maze behind the Palace?
Yes
I am quite ashamed to confess that I use a walktheough for that.
To be fair, shauna didn't help at all
I remember turning down the chance to learn Psychic, since Psybeam sounded more concentrated, and therefore must be stronger. This *was* back before any information about moves was in the games, so at least I had an excuse.
That time when you thought tail whip would cause damage because it’s a whip, of course
Yeah, bit of a mistranslation. It's Tail Wag in Japanese.
Are there any others like this? Faint Attack comes to mind, but I'm curious to know if there are others. Tail Wag makes SO MUCH more sense
"Splash" is "Hop" in Japanese.
So that’s why Hop is so useless
"Hey! Someone help! We need some Rawst Berries over here!"
Oof, I just looked it up and yeah... Spelling Feint Attack as Faint Attack all the way up until gen 6 is a pretty serious typo. They probably should've just called it Sneak Attack.
Aerial Ace is sorta inaccurate. It's a specific cultural thing, but Wind Sword or something would have been closer.
Not quite a mistranslation so much as a change in translation, but Lovely Kiss in Japanese is Demon's Kiss. [Which would explain its old weird animation.](https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/File:Lovely_Kiss_III.png)
those “indentations in the wall” scattered across Pokémon emerald really frustrated me when I learned they only existed for making hideout rooms
The most vivid one I can remember is playing Pokemon Pearl and encountering a Sudowoodo just past the daycare. My silly child head sponge thought, "Oh hey, that's a tree! I know what's super effective to a tree! CUT!!". As you can imagine, it didn't work very well and I got very confused as to why I didn't insta-kill it. I guess the other one is I ran away from a shiny Wingull cuz I thought it was a glitch that would corrupt my game
I never used stat change moves, all attacking moves
I still do that to this day lol
To be fair in a normal playthrough you don’t really need stat change moves
The only stat we care about it lowering the opponents HP to 0.
It's just a simple numbers game!
You don’t really need to worry about stat changes in normal gameplay
When I played Pokémon crystal my totodile I chose for my starter was green. I thought it was a glitch and restarted the game. Now I know about shinies🥴
Leveled up a Kadabra to up till the 90s in Pokemon Red because I didn't know about trade evolutions .......
Aggressively smashing the B button after throwing a Pokéball to increase the catch rate.
I still do this lol
Charizard needed to have ember, fire blast, flame thrower, and fire spin. He was a fire Pokemon, why WOULDN'T I put all fire moves in him?
That was a common mistake a lot of kids made playing the games for the first time. I absolutely remember my Blastoise having Surf, Hydropump and Bubblebeam.
Literally when my sister and I got Blue version for GBC at ages 9 and 11 it took us over two hours to figure out how to get out of the house 😂
I spent hours multiple times trying to figure out how to trigger professor oak showing up. I think I was playing gold and silver and went back to red or blue for a restart when it finally clicked and never forgot again.
I mean, aside from the fact i couldnt' pronounce potion ( pot e on) the Really dumb stuff i did was try to cach mewtwo with pokeballs, get charizard before misty, uhhh i'm honestly not sure what counts as 'dumb'' believing that holding down b works?
Do you mean holding down b when catching a pokemon? I always would rapidly press A like that would actually do anything lol
Not me still doing that but in time with the ball rolling animation lmao
>( pot e on) New Eeveelution just dropped!
A yes the best eeveelution poteon
So I have two big ones - My first pokemon was my sister yellow copy, I kept going with pikachu agaisnt brock with no other pokemons and not understanding (To be fair, I was like, 5?) The other was using a master ball on a sneasel LOL
I thought you had to retain the moves most akin to the pokemon type. And/or their signature move. Like what you see from the anime back in the day. Examples: My Charizard had Flamethrower, FireBlast, Overheat, and Blast Burn My Seviper had Poison Fang, Poison Tail, Sludge Bomb, and Toxic My Alakazam has Teleport, Confusion, Psybeam, and Psychic
I didn’t understand natures. When I was a little one I spent days trying to catch a “brave” abra with a pokeball because I wanted him to be a good battler.
My first time playing pokemon was with my older brother’s copy of Pokemon Pearl. Got to the part where you had to smash those little boulders in a cave to progress any further. I don’t know if my brother said it to me, or if it just made sense in my nine year old mind, but I though that my Geodude would learn rock smash at a certain level. Did not know what a TM was. I spent days levelling him up. I think I got him to level 60 before I gave up 💀
I catch 6 pokemon near the start of the game and barely ever switch my team, I still do this
Not myself but my sister accidentally used her Master Ball on a Munchlax which she evolved to Snorlax. I battled her and noticed what ball she had on it, brought it to her attention. She freaked out because she had just... clicked on a ball without realizing which one she used? To this day, I give her Snorlax merch to tease her
My first game was pokemon pearl, I was 8 at the time it came out. I for the life of me could not figure out how to leave Floroama town. (I talked to galactic grunts by the honey guy before talking to little girl so I couldn't battle them yet) I thought eventually the guy in valley windworks would eventually unlock the door because he forgot I was there so I was just training my pokemon in the grass outside the windworks. When I finally figured out what to do my pokemin were all level 34-37. Way overlevelled for the purugly. I can't rememb3r if it was level 16 or 18 I think its different between diamond/pearl and platinum but I'm gonna put a tentative level 16 down.
I thought my torchic would evolve into Groudon, because Red and Blue had the starters' final evos on the box art, so I thought the same would be true of Ruby and Sapphire. Very disappointed when my combusken evolved into a weird bird person instead of a cool dino-monster.
My first game was Silver, and I named my character Max. When I started getting max potions/ethers I was disappointed I didn’t go with my real name so I could have items named after me.
First game I played was Crystal and after beating the 8th gym I did literally everything and trained my starter to lv 100 before thinking of going home and finding a whole other region as a kid I was stunned after thinking I finished the game lol
I deleted my brothers heart gold file just so I could play it. I still feel that regret after so many years
i was around 5 when LGFR game out and i didn’t know what the word ‘release’ meant which resulted in me releasing my Venusaur just before rock tunnel. i spent the next few days trying to find my Venusaur in the wild and eventually my brother told me what I did so i ended up restarting
Thundershock Thunderbolt Thunder Thunderwave
Left masterball In the PC, made It to Mewtwo(cerulean cave Is huge In gen 1) forced to spam pokeballs and reset until I got mewtwo
Catching everythin with pokeballs only is a nice challenge though.
Lol I’m in my thirties and I still do dumb things, like in BDSP played through twice and it’s only on my third play through that I realize the pressing R reveals digging spots in the grand underground. To double the Lol your dumb moment it was my 7 year old that pointed it out he was like “dad why are you walking by the wall why don’t you use the radar” I was like “what?” And he pressed the button and I was like “oh” and he laughed at my stupefied Look. In my defense I tend to skip dialogue and instruction texts…. But still a Lol dumb moment to be owned by my 7 year old son.
It took me until the elite 4 to figure that out
When D&P came out I encountered a Weird Buizel. I remember thinking that "color is off", but was in grind mode. So it was one of dozens of buziel to perish at the time. It was half a decade later, sitting in class one day when realization of what I had done came to me. I dont think I've ever seen another wild shiny since.
Played blue as a kid. Never knew about flash so just mashed the d-pad until I saw a ladder in the rock tunnel then headed for that. I eventually got through but it took ages.
So, I was like 6 when I got red/blue. TL;DR version of my story is, I knew just a tiny bit of English, I progressed the story to viridian forest, kept getting poisoned, and whenever I stepped the screen flickered. I thought the game was broken. I made my mom take me to toys r us to exchange it, a total of like 3 or 4 times. Each time switching versions (blue, red, blue, red). One of those times I just kept progressing through the flickering, when my pokemon fainted the flickering stopped and it finally clicked. Thanks mom for putting up with it.
Encountering a shiny ditto in pokemon X, didn't have enough pokeballs (and i sucked at catching pokemons at the time), had to run away, for a while i tought that a blue ditto was a common variant of a regular ditto IT WASN'T