Things you thought about Poke'mon, that now you realize were wrong

For the longest time I thought status moves like Hypnosis and Supersonic had 100 accuracy, because whenever the AI used them, they never missed. I recently found out that these moves are actually some of the most inaccurate moves in Pokemon (not that that's ever stopped the AI).
Also, for whatever reason, in Black and White I initially thought Darmanitan was a Fire/Fighting type. I mean, he learns a lot of fighting and punching moves, so it just seemed natural to me. Turns out he's pure Fire type. If only I had bothered to look at its summary screen...

When I was younger, I always thought moves that could freeze you just had a lower chance of happening than those that can burn, paralyze, etc. I think it was because you don't see a lot of ice moves until later in most of the games, and even then I just did not see it happen a lot.

PMG said:

When I was younger, I always thought moves that could freeze you just had a lower chance of happening than those that can burn, paralyze, etc. I think it was because you don't see a lot of ice moves until later in most of the games, and even then I just did not see it happen a lot.

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That's a good point. Burns, paralysis and poison were so much more common. And when you did see an ice Pokemon, they didn't usually get the freeze off.

I was pronouncing 'Flamethrower' wrong for like 9 years {XD}

Also, I just discovered that Sharpedo is the evolved form of Carvanha. I always thought they were not related :3c

I actually used to think Golem was a pokémon without a family, and that Geodude and Graveler were standalone. I was surprised after a few years of having watched the pokémon anime and realizing that Golem evolved from Graveler.

Another one is that until Gen 5, I used to think that Poison (the status condition) cut Attack by 25%. Don't know why, but that's what I used to think.

I thought the Magcargo line was first introduced in Hoenn when I was really young.

I always thought Dunsparce evolved into Gligar.

And- when Gold/Silver first came out- I though Pinsir evolved into Heracross. Scyther got Scizor- so I didn't understand why its counterpart wouldn't get an evo as well.

I never used stat changing moves because I thought they just boosted the stat by one point. When I learned that two stat boosts actually double the stat, everything changed...

I used to think kingdra was one of the first gen pokemon. I think because seadra and kingdra look similar.

I used to call rattata rat-a-tat.

And I used to think if my pokemon was asleep or confused that mashing the A button would help them wake or not be confused anymore. Even though I know it doesn't help, I still mash the A button out of habit XD

Throughout literally all of Sinnoh (my first playthrough ever) I thought my Luxray was a dark type, and was disappointed when it wasn't. I also called rattata rattattata. Still do half the time, whoops. Other than that I can't really remember. I'm sure I mixed up what types were strong against what though. (and now am doing that with fairy types haha)

When I played the first Generation, I thought that Farfetch'd evolves into Doduo. In my defense I had a sticker album which actually claims that. I ended up training my Farfetch'd over level 60 waiting for it to finally evolve in Red. When playing Red I also thought that any moves which don't only upper/lower stats are completely useless so I always replaced them with moves that deal damage.

I thought that Trapinch didn't evolve and Vibrava was the base form of Flygon. I remember trying to find a Vibrava in my first game (Sapphire).

And then there was they way I pronounced Psyduck: Pissyduck.

Yeah.

I also thought that Slugma and Magcargo were Hoenn Pokemon.

When I played Crystal I thought putting my starter pokemon in the box would make it dislike me since it did in Yellow.

Well, I keep mixing up between some 4th and 5th gen Pokemon, but that's mainly because both of those came out in a time-frame in which I wasn't really that actively into Pokemon :p

It took me years to realize that Ash's last name, Ketchum, was referring to the slogan of "Gotta catch 'em all, haha.

The biggest one is probably having gone all the way up till 2012 thinking Lugia was Water/Flying, only to realize it was Psychic instead of Water. I mean seriously, the guardian of the sea isn't even a Water type? C'mon >:[