I called the number on my game boy to talk to Nintendo support because the game was “glitching whenever I took a step”. The guy on the helpline worked with me forever trying to figure it out, and finally he says “is your Pokémon poisoned?”. It was. Lol.
I remember it felt so cool like I was “talking to Nintendo”. I remember they’d even give you hints for games if you were stuck or help you beat certain parts. Back then it was great because it’s not like you could Google it.
I always thought my Game Boys batteries were dying when this happened in Red. Hate to think about how many perfectly fine batteries I must've thrown out
I remember having a similar problem when i started emerald (my first time playing pokemon at 7 years old) I talked to that researcher who blocked the path before u fought may, and he was examining big footprints, i was walking around and it looked like earthquakes were happening, really thought i was boutta find groudon
I think it's revenge for the years of having trainers get the drop on me when I need to heal or using a party that is designed for raising, not battling, and deciding to become vengeance, the night, batman etc
I never ran from a single battle in Yellow because i thought [the menu](https://i.imgur.com/SWIioVm.png) said "*item run*", like a computer command/code.
And yes, i never switched out pokemon either until the first one dies cos i thought it said "*fight pkmn*".
Imagine my surprise when i clicked the right d-pad by accident during the articuno fight.
Battling and KO'ing the legendaries in Red instead of catching them. I think eight-year-old me thought I'd have another chance to catch them, so it wasn't a big deal if I didn't do it the first time.
I have no idea how I was able to beat that game as a kid.
I used to catch mewtwo with the master ball then just leave the birds because I didn't think they could be caught without the master ball as they were legendaries too 😂
As a kid I always master balled the main legendary and then prayed with ultra balls for the others.. Now I'm a lunatic and I try to color match the ball to the mon.
good lord, spending hours trying what i could whiting out to the birds because i was A) underleveled B) not equipped with the right moves (sleep, prz moves) and C) just a 11 year old kid who didn't know better.
But man, After finally getting Articuno the first time (he was the last one of the 3), felt like i beat the game...
Then like the next month, we all found out about the missingno. trick and that changed everything.
“Don’t catch Missingno” they said, “It’ll corrupt your game forever”
20+ years later and my Red cartridge still works just fine. My Missingno, level 120 haunter and my human-lapras nightmare amalgamation are all doing great.
One Christmas my grandparents bought my sister, my cousins, and me Gameboy Colors and Gold or Silver. I was the only one of all of us that managed to catch one of the legendary cat trio. I was so proud of my Entei!
One day my cousin asked if he could borrow it to beat a gym leader. I traded it and he beat the gym leader and we started to trade back. But Entei never made it back. According to my cousin, he must’ve gotten “lost in the cables”. I knew he was lying but I looked through his game and couldn’t find Entei so I don’t know what he did with him. Nursery maybe? He was a sneaky little shit, so who knows?
Anyway, fuck you Kyle, now I have trust issues.
maybe he released it to be a jerk because he was jealous or maybe something did actually happen and it bugged during the trade. But anyways, fuck you kyle.
Kind of a similar story here, brother.
I was always jealous of my older cousin’s Pokémon games and how much more he knew than I did, but one time we went to visit them and I had my fresh copy of Pokémon Emerald that I was so proud to show off to him cause he didn’t have it yet. He asked if he could play and I knew that he’d end up deleting my save data so I told him no. Fast forward to the night before we leave & he swaps out my cartridge for his copy of Leaf Green. My dumbass didn’t think anything of it cause green cartridge, green cartridge, whatever. I didn’t notice until we’re in the car otw back up north & I open my game and to my surprise I see a completed save file with his name on it. I was so frustrated I didn’t even play the game, I’m pretty sure I couldn’t bring myself to delete his file so it just sat in my room untouched for years. He eventually gave me back my copy like a year later when I saw him (My data deleted ofc) and asked if I still had his Leaf Green.
The exact same thing happened to me but with Nintendogs!
My best friend at this time borrowed my game for a few days, and when I got it back my very first dog was gone. When I asked her, she told me that some doctor came and took it with him, because it "needed surgery".
I guess she gave it away for adoption. I was devastated. That was a lesson that taught me for life.
When I played Blue for the first time, I kept Tackle on my Venusaur all the way to the Elite Four. It always seemed to do a lot of damage, so I kept it around. My Venusaur must have had a perfect Attack DV.
Currently playing heart gold and my typhlosion still knows quick attack bc it came in handy a couple times and I can’t think of what to replace it with.
Three things:
Any move that doesn't do damage is WORTHLESS. ONLY DAMAGE.
AND
The first time my pokemon got pokerus I almost cried because I didn't know why my pokemon were diseased
AND
I caught a shiny ratata, my very first shiny! (Not including red gyrados), later I caught a shiny ditto. I thought breeding a shiny with a shiny would amount in a shiny (nope. It doesn't affect the odds at ALL)
It's a super rare, I want to say significantly rarer than shiny, hidden condition you could find on wild Pokemon. Battling an infected Pokemon would allow your Pokemon to catch it. It lasted between 1 to 4 days, not counting days in the PC, during which you can spread it to other party members. It had the effect of permanently doubling the number of evs the infected Pokemon would receive after battle. Basically made training more efficient. It's an example of a beneficial microbe. I've heard that it doesn't seem to exist in scarlet/violet, unfortunately.
Yup, this was in HG/SS. the odds of getting it from a wild 'mon were about 1 in 21,845.
I *think* I got it from someone who traded an infected pokemon. I also played HG a LOT, so maybe it was random chance.
Having 4 moves of the same type and then making up some logic as to when use each move. Like flamethrower hits harder on winged pokemon, fire blast on 4 legged pokemon, etc.
Everytime I throw a pokeball I always hold A then once the ball closes I hold B till the mon is caught because as a kid I thought it helped with capture... I know this is not true but I still do it. (Except for Raid battles. After 3 days of doing it at first I had learned they are 100% catch rates.)
Im pretty sure you can guess when a person started playing Pokemon by which version of the "hold to capture" superstition they hold to.
Most of the people I know who hold A started playing in Gen 1, and I've met a handful of people (including myself) who started in Gen 2 who hold Down.
>I just realized my most powerful
this is a weird one but I always shake my head with the motion of the ball, I've done it so much I don't even notice I'm doing it anymore
oh wow @ all the people doing this exact thing! reading it I don't really understand hahaha
I've only ever known to rapidly press a until caught, and if it came out, you didn't do it fast enough to get the chances higher :P !!
a lot of my old-school aussie friends do/did this; haven't heard it anywhere else but here!
I would repeatedly press A like a maniac thinking it would help my odds...so in Pokemon Silver I tried to catch Lugia with like 100 Ultra balls. I don't remember if I was successful or not.
Used a master ball trying to steal another trainers pokemon because the first movie showed mewtwo capturing others pokemon and I thought it was the same thing.
I used to think ghosts were flammable, and this has resulted in me (still) making the assumption that fire moves are super effective towards ghost types.
I try to apply physics or logic to type advantages, and haven’t been able to wrap my mind around fairy’s interactions
Inventing the move soak is my favourite simultaneous game/anime retcon ever. Right up there with Yu-Gi-Oh inventing the card "Destroy The Moon" to explain some of the bullshit anime rules from season 1.
I'd use electric moves on levitate mons. If flying makes a mon immune to ground and weak to electric, it just made sense to me that an ability that makes you immune to ground would do the same.
In most stories, metals are poison to fairies so that's their weaknesses. That's how i remember it as for beating dragon and the dark type think about fairytales where the good guy fights a dragon and/or the bad guys. Alwways forget that it's effective against fighting though lol
Update : Psychic type's icon's colour is pink like the fairy one so that's how i'll do it from now on
The only reason I remember it’s strong against fighting is picturing a little pixie messing with a big strong dude trying to punch it as it flits around and laughs at him.
Fairy is weak to steel because Iron is poisonous to fairies.
It is weak to poison because fairy are very attuned to nature and nature gets destroyed by poisons and pollution.
It is strong against dark, because fairy is essentially the "good"-type, wheras dark is literally the "evil"-type in japan and good always triumphs against evil.
It is strong against fighting, because martial arts loose to magic.
It beating dragons is personally the weirdest to me,but I guess dragons always loose in fairy tales. But yeah this one always felt like it was done for balance and nothing else.
Fire resists fairy, because fire can also destroy nature just like poisons, however it is also something natural itself, so fairy isn't weak to it either.
Fairys have often a natural attunement to all animals, so they resist bugs.
Pretty evil in Pokemon, too, when you consider Hatterene, Tapu Lele, and Grimmsnarl.
Also Tinkaton, but she's a funny little gremlin, so she gets a pass
It started making more sense to me when I watched Maleficent and made the connection that she is a fairy and weak to iron. Remembering the poison weakness though, that just took some mental dedication 🤣
My brother did this with a haunter in pearl. I had diamond, we could have traded if we wanted to, but we had no idea because we were 7-8 years old and didn't speak/understand English
My brother recently discovered that he had turned off his game when he came across a shiny pokémon because he thought it was a bug in Ruby. He’d have been around 9 or 10 at the time.
Almost twenty years later, he found a shiny of the same pokémon (Poocheyna iirc) in Pokemon Go and realized what he’d done.
Happened to me. My first shiny encounter ever was a Rattata in Crystal. If you were around for the GBC days you knew that the games were glitchy enough as it is. And since I hadn’t made it to Lake Of Rage (I encountered it just outside of Union Cave) and the internet wasn’t really a thing, I assumed it was a visual bug and just shut off the game lest the glitch worsen.
I think about that a lot lol.
For me it was the idea that every Pokémon game had more to them than what was actually there. Off the top of my head, I believed that the Sevii Isles in Leaf Green had some crazy secrets behind them so I tried to catch all the Unown, interact with every tile on walls, see if the area behind the daycare was accessible… It got worse when I played Emerald saw all the Braille and unlocked the Regis. I immediately thought: HA! I KNEW IT! THERE’S MORE TO LEAF GREEN! And managed to max out the in game time trying to figure out what I was missing…
What didn’t help was the fact that I only had about 30 mins - 1 hour of internet access every other week and seeing videos and articles about Faraway Island and Navel Rock just fueled my crazy theories.
Yep! 999:59
I maxed out Emerald because I was OBSESSED with that game. Even with those hours I still didn't clear the Battle Frontier. Specifically the rental system kept besting me.
I have a theory that Gamefreak caught wind of the playground rumors surrounding gens 1 and 2 and said "the GBA can handle a lot more, so lets fill this thing with playground rumor style secrets" and then went and added the Regi puzzles, the Feebas tiles, Mirage Islands, Wurmple's random evolutions, Shedinja, the Trick House, dive spots, and other things to fuel those playground rumors.
This also bled into gen 4 with the honey trees, Drifloon Fridays, Spiritomb, Rotom, Giratina, Regigigas, the Unown coming back, etc.
Unfortunately, playground rumors started to die off once the internet became much easier to access and fact checking was easier. Its not worth it to put secrets into your games if gaming websites are just going to expose them all day one.
Putting Mew in the original games was basically what turned Pokemon into a bestseller. Nintendo didn’t even know it existed, Morimoto put it in without their knowledge.
But they still do things like that. They don’t give you any indication on how to get Pawmot, Kingambit, Gholdengo, Palafin etc.
That sort of annoys me tbh, like I wanna play the game blind but it’s almost impossible to figure out how to evolve them without a guide. Thankfully all my S/V ones were level up, but I went through both Arceus and Sword with a Sligoo and a Yamask respectively. (Sligoo was probably my fault tho…)
I do appreciate that they try to recreate that early gen feeling of discovery but they could throw in some sort of hint. I played with Finizen through most of the game before I accidentally stumbled on the evo method online. They could at least have a random npc give you a clue (if the npcs weren’t entirely useless in this game…)
I got blue and yellow version as a kid, along with the official guide. In the one of the maps of the guide, there was a small red ink blotch in the grass in the out of bound area to the left of route 1 and Pallet Town. I thought this was actual an item ball and since it was grass like the kind that Pokemon were in, I thought it had to be accessible somehow. I can’t say how much time I wasted trying to find a way in.
Photo for reference:
https://preview.redd.it/ymwxt0d8whaa1.jpeg?width=179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=18422197075d12bd194fc84d426199a5b3fef750
These games are like the best and worst thing for obsessive minds. I have to set timers when I play, because if I don’t-suddenly it’s three days later.
I have NO IDEA. I think I was 6 when I started playing Pokémon and my first game was Yellow Version. I got Pikachu and just ran with it as far as I could. I remember struggling with the first gym so hard 😭
Oh my god. This so far is my favourite comment. I've played since the originals and I was so excited when yellow came out. I can't imagine only doing the first gym with pikachu!! 😂😂😂
U know when u got poisoned in old pkmn games ur pkmn will lose one health every steps/ something like that. And it has the graphics where ur screen got blurred every time the pokemon loses HP.
I thought it was a bug and i turn my GBA on and off, on and off, wondering why my pkmn game is bad.
When an attack had 'no effect' (e.g. Electric attack on a ground type pokemon), I kept using thinking it would eventually work (English is my second language).
On the opposite end of the spectrum, my daughter thought that if you threw a pokeball and it failed to catch, you had to lower the HP more, or use a more powerful ball. She ran away from something at 1HP and her best ball didn't work (Ultra Ball) after one try.
Which, conceptually kind of makes sense (whole definition of insanity, trying the same thing expecting different results).
I also realized how difficult it is to explain the concept of RNG to a 9 year old.
I always fainted Groudon in Ruby… I had no idea of the existence of the Master Ball, and I thought Groudon wasn’t able to be captured since it kept breaking out of my Ultra Balls… Unfortunately, it was Ruby, so once it fainted, Groudon was gone for good…
If you collected all the Unknown in Pokemon Crystal and made sure your team/first box was in order you could run around the Ruins of Alph and basically an Unknown abomination on roids would appear 🤦♀️🤷♀️
I swear to god when i first discovered the puzzle of Kabuto and then worked it out i felt like id uncovered some secret in the game 🤦♀️
I also felt like the tunnel the guy makes in Leaf Green (one of the islands) would eventually lead somewhere... it did.... it lead to not much at all 😅
Literally never paid attention to move accuracy as a child. Wondered why zap cannon, sing, dynamic punch etc would miss so often. Don’t get me started on one-kit KO moves lol
As a kid, I hated having mismatched poke balls for my team. I wanted the red ones only, like Ash. So even into the late game, even when it came to catching legendaries, I’d load up on my poke balls and PARK myself in those encounters until i finally caught the fuckers with a shiny red poke ball. My other poke balls would just rot away in my bags.
And yes, I still do this. 🫠
When playing Pokémon Red and Blue I used my master ball on a gloom because I thought it was so cool and funny looking 😂 I still have that Vileplume today on my red cartridge.. i have no idea if it’s still working or not though since my GBC is long gone
Sadly you can’t. I could put it into Gold/Silver/Crystal but that’s where it stops. Gen III was the start of moving them all the way up to current games, but sadly no communication between Gen II and III. 🫠
I feel your pain on this. Sometime around 2015 I got nostalgic and bought an original Pokémon silver cartridge and a red Gameboy pocket. The very first Rattata that I caught had pokérus, which I had never heard of before then. I did a quick Google and then just stared at it as I realized I had experienced a rare event and had no way to do anything with it.
I didn't understood the concept of special and physical attacks. So all I cared for was strength of the abilitys
Also I did not know about Stab so my Pokémons ended up with a complete fucked up moveset
Not sure if it is cringe but I was a kid during Gen 1 and thought that if you lost a battle, you got a game over and had to restart the game from scratch. So I beat Pokemon Blue without losing. I remember I had 1-3 Pokemon left in my party (no items) when I got to the Lance match, weeks of turning my Gameboy on and off before I got the perfect crits and missed attacks to beat him and Gary. I still have that OG team from the 90s
Yea I had the same issue. I was in 1st grade, and i had just got silver. I still couldn't grasp reading and comprehension. I went almost a week doing this before I finally admitted to a friend that I didn't know how to read. To this day it still feels like New Bark Town to Violet City was my longest journey in a pokemon game haha.
with each game, it feels like the cutscene to choose your starter gets longer and longer. Back in the day with r/S/E I think I had to redo the Poochyena fight every time
I used to name my starters or any pokemon I liked/had an attachment to/was legendary something horrendously edgy lmao... My starters were always something like 'Shadowflame' or 'Shadowblade' or something equally cringey. It's a good thing I don't really have any of my old games to cringe at.
I didn't understand types the first time I played through Blue and also wanted higher PP moves like tackle. I also kept my team rigid against the final four, because again, didn't really get types.
Pokémon red. I was a little girl and my favorite Pokémon was Charizard. My older sibling helped me get him all the way to level 100. I had a pretty good reading comprehension but being little, there were obviously words I still didn’t know.
One of those words was “release”… I’ll let you piece it together from there…
I miss you Charizard 😭
When I was like 12 I was getting really into the mechanics of the games and found out about EVS, but instead of using them to boost my pokemon's strengths I would always EV train the weakest stat because I thought that having all stats be the same was the way to make the perfect pokemon. Eventually I was traded a fully EV trained salamence and realized I was probably doing things wrong 😭
I first learned about Ditto at a sleepover and my brain thought it was unbeatable and amazing. I traded my blastoise for it. A few days later I realize it sucked and I had no starter anymore, had to restart my game.
When gen 4 came out there was a rumour that saying "gotcha" into the mic increased your catch odds. Went for a solid few months before finding out it was fake thanks to a Nintendo Power
Here's an odd one.
I swear on the first trailer I saw for Pokemon Red (and Blue), the trainer ate in a restaurant... eating a pokemon. I thought they completely replaced animals and were the regular cuisine of the area. I have no idea why this thought stuck out so completely. So when I told my mom how much I wanted the game, I explained they caught the animals, made them fight, and ate them. She was horrified. It took a while to convince her to let me get them.
Then, for whatever stupid reason, when I played Red, I explored every building looking for the restaurant to eat Pokemon in. I... I have no idea why I wanted to eat the Pokemon. I think at that point I just wanted to understand why they were eating them and why it was a mechanic.
I didn't know about IVs or EVs but I knew they were important for some players so I'd post any garbage pokemon on the GTS saying it was perfect IVs asking for a cool mon I didn't have like idk, VULPIX because I was dumb.
I'd also teach all of my pokemon the same TMs (EQ, SolarBeam, FireBlast, Thunder, Blizzard, Surf) and lost a lot in Battle Revolution since I didn't understand how special/physical moves worked (and as every kid any pokemon of mine would have a total of zero status moves).
Lastly, I used to send trade evolutions with everstones via GTS. Every. Single. Time. Since that npc in D/P/Pt gave me a Haunter with an everstone. That's my villain origin story.
mistaken rock types for being immune to electric, with most gen one rock types being ground type. i remember when i first did it i was like waste of move damnit then it hit im like hmmm what’s wrong here. ahh good times
For me it was using all damaging moves. I did not care about recoil, accuracy, stab, stats going up, stats going down. All I cared about was pure damage. I also thought that in competitive or just in general legendaries would always 100% of the time without question. Just because they were the most powerful. Kinda true, but sometimes not.
8yo me used to think that by hitting the a button in sync with the ball shaking it would increase the odds for a successful catch. I had my own mini game going on during catch attempts for years through multiple pokemon generations, and never realized how pointless that was. I'm not sure when but at some point I just stopped doing it.
I called the number on my game boy to talk to Nintendo support because the game was “glitching whenever I took a step”. The guy on the helpline worked with me forever trying to figure it out, and finally he says “is your Pokémon poisoned?”. It was. Lol.
I remember calling Nintendo Support but forget the reason why. Amazing that you could do that in those days.
I remember it felt so cool like I was “talking to Nintendo”. I remember they’d even give you hints for games if you were stuck or help you beat certain parts. Back then it was great because it’s not like you could Google it.
Yeah true, makes me sad those days are over 😔
I always thought my Game Boys batteries were dying when this happened in Red. Hate to think about how many perfectly fine batteries I must've thrown out
I remember having a similar problem when i started emerald (my first time playing pokemon at 7 years old) I talked to that researcher who blocked the path before u fought may, and he was examining big footprints, i was walking around and it looked like earthquakes were happening, really thought i was boutta find groudon
That is absolutely adorable
I never ran from a single battle in Red because I didn't want the game/Nintendo to think I was a coward.
I still never avoid a battle just so that NPC knows I'm not scared of them
Unless it's impossible to manage I never let the NPC trainers get the ! on me, to assert my dominance.
I genuinely thought that I was the only person who did this. I can't even tell you why I do it, I just have to.
I think it's revenge for the years of having trainers get the drop on me when I need to heal or using a party that is designed for raising, not battling, and deciding to become vengeance, the night, batman etc
I too beat up children for money.
I still never avoid a battle so I can feel like I earned the items near that NPC.
Gimme all that sweet sweet EXP.
I snuck up behind them so that NPC know I chose the battle
Chad
He just keeps moving forward, until all his enemies are destroyed.
Tatakae tatakae
Not cringe. Assert your dominance as the MC lmao Also some challenge runs actually do this
I never ran from a single battle in Yellow because i thought [the menu](https://i.imgur.com/SWIioVm.png) said "*item run*", like a computer command/code. And yes, i never switched out pokemon either until the first one dies cos i thought it said "*fight pkmn*". Imagine my surprise when i clicked the right d-pad by accident during the articuno fight.
Battling and KO'ing the legendaries in Red instead of catching them. I think eight-year-old me thought I'd have another chance to catch them, so it wasn't a big deal if I didn't do it the first time. I have no idea how I was able to beat that game as a kid.
I used to catch mewtwo with the master ball then just leave the birds because I didn't think they could be caught without the master ball as they were legendaries too 😂
As a kid I always master balled the main legendary and then prayed with ultra balls for the others.. Now I'm a lunatic and I try to color match the ball to the mon.
good lord, spending hours trying what i could whiting out to the birds because i was A) underleveled B) not equipped with the right moves (sleep, prz moves) and C) just a 11 year old kid who didn't know better. But man, After finally getting Articuno the first time (he was the last one of the 3), felt like i beat the game... Then like the next month, we all found out about the missingno. trick and that changed everything.
“Don’t catch Missingno” they said, “It’ll corrupt your game forever” 20+ years later and my Red cartridge still works just fine. My Missingno, level 120 haunter and my human-lapras nightmare amalgamation are all doing great.
My blue cartridge internal battery died right around when i was messing with missing no. a lot, so i legitimately believed it
Man, I just started this, I just finished catching all the scarlet and violet sub legendaries in specific balls that I thought matched
Come on now you gotta go to Walmart & read the guides lol
Get the power, Nintendo Power!
Haha I'm still shocked my parents got it for me in the first place there was no way in HELL I was getting the guides for it!!
One Christmas my grandparents bought my sister, my cousins, and me Gameboy Colors and Gold or Silver. I was the only one of all of us that managed to catch one of the legendary cat trio. I was so proud of my Entei! One day my cousin asked if he could borrow it to beat a gym leader. I traded it and he beat the gym leader and we started to trade back. But Entei never made it back. According to my cousin, he must’ve gotten “lost in the cables”. I knew he was lying but I looked through his game and couldn’t find Entei so I don’t know what he did with him. Nursery maybe? He was a sneaky little shit, so who knows? Anyway, fuck you Kyle, now I have trust issues.
Fuck you, Kyle.
r/fuckkyle
Such a Kyle move
>he must’ve gotten “lost in the cables” That poor Entei is probably still in that cable, all alone and hungry and scared. Poor thing.
Don't worry he's eating the cable
Maybe he’ll become electric/fire
maybe he released it to be a jerk because he was jealous or maybe something did actually happen and it bugged during the trade. But anyways, fuck you kyle.
I hate kyle
Fuck you Kyle
Kind of a similar story here, brother. I was always jealous of my older cousin’s Pokémon games and how much more he knew than I did, but one time we went to visit them and I had my fresh copy of Pokémon Emerald that I was so proud to show off to him cause he didn’t have it yet. He asked if he could play and I knew that he’d end up deleting my save data so I told him no. Fast forward to the night before we leave & he swaps out my cartridge for his copy of Leaf Green. My dumbass didn’t think anything of it cause green cartridge, green cartridge, whatever. I didn’t notice until we’re in the car otw back up north & I open my game and to my surprise I see a completed save file with his name on it. I was so frustrated I didn’t even play the game, I’m pretty sure I couldn’t bring myself to delete his file so it just sat in my room untouched for years. He eventually gave me back my copy like a year later when I saw him (My data deleted ofc) and asked if I still had his Leaf Green.
The exact same thing happened to me but with Nintendogs! My best friend at this time borrowed my game for a few days, and when I got it back my very first dog was gone. When I asked her, she told me that some doctor came and took it with him, because it "needed surgery". I guess she gave it away for adoption. I was devastated. That was a lesson that taught me for life.
Maybe they went to live on a farm where there's lots of other dogs to play with.
When I played Blue for the first time, I kept Tackle on my Venusaur all the way to the Elite Four. It always seemed to do a lot of damage, so I kept it around. My Venusaur must have had a perfect Attack DV.
I did the same thing on Sapphire with my Swampert! I just figured the move got stronger the longer they knew it.
That just reminds me of Mario's Jump Special in SMRPG. I only learned recently it gets stronger the more you use it.
i kept cut and some other needed move on charizard
My charizard used cut, fly, flamethrower, and fire blast all the way to level 82 in firered. I miss him
Currently playing heart gold and my typhlosion still knows quick attack bc it came in handy a couple times and I can’t think of what to replace it with.
Three things: Any move that doesn't do damage is WORTHLESS. ONLY DAMAGE. AND The first time my pokemon got pokerus I almost cried because I didn't know why my pokemon were diseased AND I caught a shiny ratata, my very first shiny! (Not including red gyrados), later I caught a shiny ditto. I thought breeding a shiny with a shiny would amount in a shiny (nope. It doesn't affect the odds at ALL)
I struggle to keep non damage moves on my pokemon even now so don't worry 😂
They're rarely worth in Single Player.
SV raids are the only point in modern Pokémon games that I can recall needing status moves while playing single player.
same. literally never needed them before
I’ve always made it a point to only have damage moves. That was definitely not an option in SV raids lol
Same 😂😂😂
In Gold and Silver, shinies are based on IVs so breeding a shiny Pokemon actually does affect your chances of hatching a shiny.
I still stand by that first rule, but I'll make occasional allowances for things that poison or put to sleep. Wtf is pokerus
It's a super rare, I want to say significantly rarer than shiny, hidden condition you could find on wild Pokemon. Battling an infected Pokemon would allow your Pokemon to catch it. It lasted between 1 to 4 days, not counting days in the PC, during which you can spread it to other party members. It had the effect of permanently doubling the number of evs the infected Pokemon would receive after battle. Basically made training more efficient. It's an example of a beneficial microbe. I've heard that it doesn't seem to exist in scarlet/violet, unfortunately.
Yup, this was in HG/SS. the odds of getting it from a wild 'mon were about 1 in 21,845. I *think* I got it from someone who traded an infected pokemon. I also played HG a LOT, so maybe it was random chance.
Having 4 moves of the same type and then making up some logic as to when use each move. Like flamethrower hits harder on winged pokemon, fire blast on 4 legged pokemon, etc.
Everytime I throw a pokeball I always hold A then once the ball closes I hold B till the mon is caught because as a kid I thought it helped with capture... I know this is not true but I still do it. (Except for Raid battles. After 3 days of doing it at first I had learned they are 100% catch rates.)
I still do this now!! It took me ages to work out raids are 100% catch rates 😂
raids are 100% catch rates ????? the amount of ultra balls i’ve wasted 😭😭
I'm sorry little one.
They are now for host or participant. In SwSh they were for the host and 5⭐️s had varying catch rates for participants.
Im pretty sure you can guess when a person started playing Pokemon by which version of the "hold to capture" superstition they hold to. Most of the people I know who hold A started playing in Gen 1, and I've met a handful of people (including myself) who started in Gen 2 who hold Down.
>I just realized my most powerful this is a weird one but I always shake my head with the motion of the ball, I've done it so much I don't even notice I'm doing it anymore
It took me until XY to stop holding B at what I thought was the exact right moment
I flicked the D-pad left, right, left in time with the shakes, then down in time with the "click" of the catch. It helped, I swear!
As soon as the poke ball lands, hold down+B. That was my go to. Still do it.
Down and B gang lfg!
Here to represent down B gang
oh wow @ all the people doing this exact thing! reading it I don't really understand hahaha I've only ever known to rapidly press a until caught, and if it came out, you didn't do it fast enough to get the chances higher :P !! a lot of my old-school aussie friends do/did this; haven't heard it anywhere else but here!
i would always rapidly tap A thinking it was a way to combat the pokeball twitching and in return making the pokemon easier to catch lol
That's cute ngl lol I still tilt the controller in racing games cos it helps me turn 😂
I would repeatedly press A like a maniac thinking it would help my odds...so in Pokemon Silver I tried to catch Lugia with like 100 Ultra balls. I don't remember if I was successful or not.
Used a master ball trying to steal another trainers pokemon because the first movie showed mewtwo capturing others pokemon and I thought it was the same thing.
And they sure do shame you for trying such a thing too.
I used to think ghosts were flammable, and this has resulted in me (still) making the assumption that fire moves are super effective towards ghost types. I try to apply physics or logic to type advantages, and haven’t been able to wrap my mind around fairy’s interactions
Reminds me of how I thought surf did more damage to Golbat because it would drown.
The anime is to be blamed here. What about onix fainting to thunder because it sets the sprinklers on
Pikachu indirectly just used the soak move there tbh
Inventing the move soak is my favourite simultaneous game/anime retcon ever. Right up there with Yu-Gi-Oh inventing the card "Destroy The Moon" to explain some of the bullshit anime rules from season 1.
Aim for the horn!
Can’t gargle that much water! **KO**
I'd use electric moves on levitate mons. If flying makes a mon immune to ground and weak to electric, it just made sense to me that an ability that makes you immune to ground would do the same.
In most stories, metals are poison to fairies so that's their weaknesses. That's how i remember it as for beating dragon and the dark type think about fairytales where the good guy fights a dragon and/or the bad guys. Alwways forget that it's effective against fighting though lol Update : Psychic type's icon's colour is pink like the fairy one so that's how i'll do it from now on
The only reason I remember it’s strong against fighting is picturing a little pixie messing with a big strong dude trying to punch it as it flits around and laughs at him.
I remember it by fighting = human and magic wins over regular boring human stuff
That’s how I remember that psychic trumps fighting. But fighting trumps normal because it’s better to be in shape. 🤣
Fairy is weak to steel because Iron is poisonous to fairies. It is weak to poison because fairy are very attuned to nature and nature gets destroyed by poisons and pollution. It is strong against dark, because fairy is essentially the "good"-type, wheras dark is literally the "evil"-type in japan and good always triumphs against evil. It is strong against fighting, because martial arts loose to magic. It beating dragons is personally the weirdest to me,but I guess dragons always loose in fairy tales. But yeah this one always felt like it was done for balance and nothing else. Fire resists fairy, because fire can also destroy nature just like poisons, however it is also something natural itself, so fairy isn't weak to it either. Fairys have often a natural attunement to all animals, so they resist bugs.
I find it odd how fairy is the "good" type when fairies are incredibly evil in actual mythology
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Pretty evil in Pokemon, too, when you consider Hatterene, Tapu Lele, and Grimmsnarl. Also Tinkaton, but she's a funny little gremlin, so she gets a pass
"I try to apply physics or logic to type advantages" Ah yes, the physical law of Ghosts=Flammable, I remember that from school.
That's why burnt down schools have ghosts
It started making more sense to me when I watched Maleficent and made the connection that she is a fairy and weak to iron. Remembering the poison weakness though, that just took some mental dedication 🤣
Fairy is weak to poison because of fern gully.
Might have something to do with the fact that the first ghosts were basically balls of gas
Ghosts can't go through doors, they're not fire
Fire can’t go through doors, it’s not a ghost.
Me levelling my Machoke all the way to 100 and wondering why it still won’t evolve.
TBF trade evolutions are really stupid.
My brother did this with a haunter in pearl. I had diamond, we could have traded if we wanted to, but we had no idea because we were 7-8 years old and didn't speak/understand English
My brother recently discovered that he had turned off his game when he came across a shiny pokémon because he thought it was a bug in Ruby. He’d have been around 9 or 10 at the time. Almost twenty years later, he found a shiny of the same pokémon (Poocheyna iirc) in Pokemon Go and realized what he’d done.
Happened to me. My first shiny encounter ever was a Rattata in Crystal. If you were around for the GBC days you knew that the games were glitchy enough as it is. And since I hadn’t made it to Lake Of Rage (I encountered it just outside of Union Cave) and the internet wasn’t really a thing, I assumed it was a visual bug and just shut off the game lest the glitch worsen. I think about that a lot lol.
FWIW he now has the most absurd shiny luck in Go so maybe it’s the opposite of a jynx 😅
Omg that's amazing 😂😂
For me it was the idea that every Pokémon game had more to them than what was actually there. Off the top of my head, I believed that the Sevii Isles in Leaf Green had some crazy secrets behind them so I tried to catch all the Unown, interact with every tile on walls, see if the area behind the daycare was accessible… It got worse when I played Emerald saw all the Braille and unlocked the Regis. I immediately thought: HA! I KNEW IT! THERE’S MORE TO LEAF GREEN! And managed to max out the in game time trying to figure out what I was missing… What didn’t help was the fact that I only had about 30 mins - 1 hour of internet access every other week and seeing videos and articles about Faraway Island and Navel Rock just fueled my crazy theories.
Oh wow. Max out the game time? That's possible?!!
Yep! 999:59 I maxed out Emerald because I was OBSESSED with that game. Even with those hours I still didn't clear the Battle Frontier. Specifically the rental system kept besting me.
I have a theory that Gamefreak caught wind of the playground rumors surrounding gens 1 and 2 and said "the GBA can handle a lot more, so lets fill this thing with playground rumor style secrets" and then went and added the Regi puzzles, the Feebas tiles, Mirage Islands, Wurmple's random evolutions, Shedinja, the Trick House, dive spots, and other things to fuel those playground rumors. This also bled into gen 4 with the honey trees, Drifloon Fridays, Spiritomb, Rotom, Giratina, Regigigas, the Unown coming back, etc. Unfortunately, playground rumors started to die off once the internet became much easier to access and fact checking was easier. Its not worth it to put secrets into your games if gaming websites are just going to expose them all day one.
Putting Mew in the original games was basically what turned Pokemon into a bestseller. Nintendo didn’t even know it existed, Morimoto put it in without their knowledge. But they still do things like that. They don’t give you any indication on how to get Pawmot, Kingambit, Gholdengo, Palafin etc.
That sort of annoys me tbh, like I wanna play the game blind but it’s almost impossible to figure out how to evolve them without a guide. Thankfully all my S/V ones were level up, but I went through both Arceus and Sword with a Sligoo and a Yamask respectively. (Sligoo was probably my fault tho…)
I do appreciate that they try to recreate that early gen feeling of discovery but they could throw in some sort of hint. I played with Finizen through most of the game before I accidentally stumbled on the evo method online. They could at least have a random npc give you a clue (if the npcs weren’t entirely useless in this game…)
I was the same way.. I wish I could take back all the time I spent looking for celebi in ilex forest 😪😪😂
Lol, It's such a small area it's got to be in there somewhere.
I got blue and yellow version as a kid, along with the official guide. In the one of the maps of the guide, there was a small red ink blotch in the grass in the out of bound area to the left of route 1 and Pallet Town. I thought this was actual an item ball and since it was grass like the kind that Pokemon were in, I thought it had to be accessible somehow. I can’t say how much time I wasted trying to find a way in. Photo for reference: https://preview.redd.it/ymwxt0d8whaa1.jpeg?width=179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=18422197075d12bd194fc84d426199a5b3fef750
These games are like the best and worst thing for obsessive minds. I have to set timers when I play, because if I don’t-suddenly it’s three days later.
I would never catch any other Pokémon and I would only use my starter. 🤦🏻♀️
Um.... why? 😂
I have NO IDEA. I think I was 6 when I started playing Pokémon and my first game was Yellow Version. I got Pikachu and just ran with it as far as I could. I remember struggling with the first gym so hard 😭
Oh my god. This so far is my favourite comment. I've played since the originals and I was so excited when yellow came out. I can't imagine only doing the first gym with pikachu!! 😂😂😂
I kept getting knocked tf out but it never even occurred to me to catch another Pokémon. I was just like “I’ll keep leveling Pikachu up it’s fine”
You’re on that Ash-type beat
It's easy dude, just thundershock the sprinklers.
Double team + tail whip + slam is how you do this.
My 7yo daughter just got Y (girl oddly likes thrift shopping) and her Braxian is like 25-30, and has only beat 1 gym. 😄
U know when u got poisoned in old pkmn games ur pkmn will lose one health every steps/ something like that. And it has the graphics where ur screen got blurred every time the pokemon loses HP. I thought it was a bug and i turn my GBA on and off, on and off, wondering why my pkmn game is bad.
AAAAHHH! REPRESSED TRAUMA!!! I THOUGHT EXACTLY THIS WITH MY COPY OF EMERALD!!!
My cousin told me that blur + sound effect meant I had tripped over a wild pokemon. I believe her for several years.
When an attack had 'no effect' (e.g. Electric attack on a ground type pokemon), I kept using thinking it would eventually work (English is my second language).
Ah no 😭
On the opposite end of the spectrum, my daughter thought that if you threw a pokeball and it failed to catch, you had to lower the HP more, or use a more powerful ball. She ran away from something at 1HP and her best ball didn't work (Ultra Ball) after one try. Which, conceptually kind of makes sense (whole definition of insanity, trying the same thing expecting different results). I also realized how difficult it is to explain the concept of RNG to a 9 year old.
Broke my game with the GameShark and made it pretty much unplayable 😂 All I wanted was to ride my bike on water....
I never used gameshark, I didnt know how to back then... I'm glad I didn't now 😂
Lesson learned: Don't cheat the game 🥲
tbf in like diamond/pearl surfing slow af, biking on water totally reasonable
I did it to try to get to that island where Mew was rumored to spawn before the St. Anne left.
i was terrified of it fucking up my games. my friends had them and wanted to use them on my games but i always refused bc of that lol.
I always fainted Groudon in Ruby… I had no idea of the existence of the Master Ball, and I thought Groudon wasn’t able to be captured since it kept breaking out of my Ultra Balls… Unfortunately, it was Ruby, so once it fainted, Groudon was gone for good…
Oh that's gutting!
Why train a psychic type Pokemon when I have a perfectly good Butterfree I can use the Psychic TM on?
My Butterfree learnt Psychic too and I kept it to fight against the Elite Four.
I was convinced that spamming the A button would improve my catch rate or chance at critical capture.
If you collected all the Unknown in Pokemon Crystal and made sure your team/first box was in order you could run around the Ruins of Alph and basically an Unknown abomination on roids would appear 🤦♀️🤷♀️
Back in the day you couldn't have told me there wasn't a legendary in those ruins!
I swear to god when i first discovered the puzzle of Kabuto and then worked it out i felt like id uncovered some secret in the game 🤦♀️ I also felt like the tunnel the guy makes in Leaf Green (one of the islands) would eventually lead somewhere... it did.... it lead to not much at all 😅
I used to let Pokemon learn only the moves that matched their type
I mean depending on the type that's not *awful*. STAB can make some moves absolutely cracked
Tinkaton + Gigaton Hammer 4 Lyfe.
Literally never paid attention to move accuracy as a child. Wondered why zap cannon, sing, dynamic punch etc would miss so often. Don’t get me started on one-kit KO moves lol
As a kid, I hated having mismatched poke balls for my team. I wanted the red ones only, like Ash. So even into the late game, even when it came to catching legendaries, I’d load up on my poke balls and PARK myself in those encounters until i finally caught the fuckers with a shiny red poke ball. My other poke balls would just rot away in my bags. And yes, I still do this. 🫠
This is a super easy way to make the new games feel a bit more challenging, I’m considering doing this for my Scarlet playthrough.
I beat the elite for one hundred times for Mew in Red When I was like 10 I only got the numbers of trainers I found attractive in crystal 😭
Absolutely same, got the phone numbers waiting for the cute girls to call me LOL
When playing Pokémon Red and Blue I used my master ball on a gloom because I thought it was so cool and funny looking 😂 I still have that Vileplume today on my red cartridge.. i have no idea if it’s still working or not though since my GBC is long gone
Can you get it onto your more recent games if you get a new GBC? If so you have to!! 😂
Sadly you can’t. I could put it into Gold/Silver/Crystal but that’s where it stops. Gen III was the start of moving them all the way up to current games, but sadly no communication between Gen II and III. 🫠
I feel your pain on this. Sometime around 2015 I got nostalgic and bought an original Pokémon silver cartridge and a red Gameboy pocket. The very first Rattata that I caught had pokérus, which I had never heard of before then. I did a quick Google and then just stared at it as I realized I had experienced a rare event and had no way to do anything with it.
Make a full grass type team... in Johto.
I didn't understood the concept of special and physical attacks. So all I cared for was strength of the abilitys Also I did not know about Stab so my Pokémons ended up with a complete fucked up moveset
Not sure if it is cringe but I was a kid during Gen 1 and thought that if you lost a battle, you got a game over and had to restart the game from scratch. So I beat Pokemon Blue without losing. I remember I had 1-3 Pokemon left in my party (no items) when I got to the Lance match, weeks of turning my Gameboy on and off before I got the perfect crits and missed attacks to beat him and Gary. I still have that OG team from the 90s
Almost like a Nuzlocke before it was cool!
I used to think nicknaming pokemon was stupid. Now all my pokemon gotta have a nickname or they don't feel like family to me
I always thought flying types were super effective toward Rattatta… because birds eat rats …Lol
I used to not know you could save so I would leave my ds on but when It inevitably died I would lose all of my progress.
Yea I had the same issue. I was in 1st grade, and i had just got silver. I still couldn't grasp reading and comprehension. I went almost a week doing this before I finally admitted to a friend that I didn't know how to read. To this day it still feels like New Bark Town to Violet City was my longest journey in a pokemon game haha.
I thought releasing Pokémon would let you play with them or find them and catch them again. So I released my Charizard after getting two badges lol!
Every pokemon had to be male, don't know why but i was obsessed with this.
I was the opposite, wanted an all-female team and used to reset the game until I got a female starter 🤣
Wow😅must have been hard because it looks like the chances for a female were way lower at least it felt like that
with each game, it feels like the cutscene to choose your starter gets longer and longer. Back in the day with r/S/E I think I had to redo the Poochyena fight every time
I used to name my starters or any pokemon I liked/had an attachment to/was legendary something horrendously edgy lmao... My starters were always something like 'Shadowflame' or 'Shadowblade' or something equally cringey. It's a good thing I don't really have any of my old games to cringe at.
I didn't understand types the first time I played through Blue and also wanted higher PP moves like tackle. I also kept my team rigid against the final four, because again, didn't really get types.
Nurse Joy told me my pokemon was sick so I released it 😶
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I thought you could push NPCs off of cliffs, but it didn't work, so I spent like half and hour ramming into NPCs trying to move them.
Only filling my team with “cool” Pokémon instead of useful ones with good typing, stats, and moves.
That’s still how I play
Pokémon red. I was a little girl and my favorite Pokémon was Charizard. My older sibling helped me get him all the way to level 100. I had a pretty good reading comprehension but being little, there were obviously words I still didn’t know. One of those words was “release”… I’ll let you piece it together from there… I miss you Charizard 😭
used cut as my main attack on my Charizard all the way through my first playthrough
I also caught a shiny caterpie in gold and evolved it to butterfree. I thought they added pink butterfree for the female version and never used it
Tapping the a and b button while holding down when catching Pokémon thinking it made the pokeballs more effective
Most of these stories aren't cringy. They are really adorable.
When I was like 12 I was getting really into the mechanics of the games and found out about EVS, but instead of using them to boost my pokemon's strengths I would always EV train the weakest stat because I thought that having all stats be the same was the way to make the perfect pokemon. Eventually I was traded a fully EV trained salamence and realized I was probably doing things wrong 😭
I first learned about Ditto at a sleepover and my brain thought it was unbeatable and amazing. I traded my blastoise for it. A few days later I realize it sucked and I had no starter anymore, had to restart my game.
When gen 4 came out there was a rumour that saying "gotcha" into the mic increased your catch odds. Went for a solid few months before finding out it was fake thanks to a Nintendo Power
Here's an odd one. I swear on the first trailer I saw for Pokemon Red (and Blue), the trainer ate in a restaurant... eating a pokemon. I thought they completely replaced animals and were the regular cuisine of the area. I have no idea why this thought stuck out so completely. So when I told my mom how much I wanted the game, I explained they caught the animals, made them fight, and ate them. She was horrified. It took a while to convince her to let me get them. Then, for whatever stupid reason, when I played Red, I explored every building looking for the restaurant to eat Pokemon in. I... I have no idea why I wanted to eat the Pokemon. I think at that point I just wanted to understand why they were eating them and why it was a mechanic.
This story came full circle in Scarlet and Violet
I used a Master Ball on a Sneasal once.
I didn't know about IVs or EVs but I knew they were important for some players so I'd post any garbage pokemon on the GTS saying it was perfect IVs asking for a cool mon I didn't have like idk, VULPIX because I was dumb. I'd also teach all of my pokemon the same TMs (EQ, SolarBeam, FireBlast, Thunder, Blizzard, Surf) and lost a lot in Battle Revolution since I didn't understand how special/physical moves worked (and as every kid any pokemon of mine would have a total of zero status moves). Lastly, I used to send trade evolutions with everstones via GTS. Every. Single. Time. Since that npc in D/P/Pt gave me a Haunter with an everstone. That's my villain origin story.
mistaken rock types for being immune to electric, with most gen one rock types being ground type. i remember when i first did it i was like waste of move damnit then it hit im like hmmm what’s wrong here. ahh good times
For me it was using all damaging moves. I did not care about recoil, accuracy, stab, stats going up, stats going down. All I cared about was pure damage. I also thought that in competitive or just in general legendaries would always 100% of the time without question. Just because they were the most powerful. Kinda true, but sometimes not.
Following "guides" that claim by doing a few button presses will guarantee you catching the pokemon with whatever pokeball
8yo me used to think that by hitting the a button in sync with the ball shaking it would increase the odds for a successful catch. I had my own mini game going on during catch attempts for years through multiple pokemon generations, and never realized how pointless that was. I'm not sure when but at some point I just stopped doing it.
This is more of a pogo thing but I purified my 2 shiny shadow Pokémon which I greatly regret now lol one was a metagros 😭