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Poke-FAIL!
Hello everyone its Oshawottlover here with a brand new hilarious thread! its called Poke-FAIL because people can post their fails in their lifetime of pokemon. like killing a shiny, being killed by magikarps, you know, FAILS!
to start this thread off with a fail, here is mine. i used my net ball on my dialga and caught it. yeah i know this isnt a fail just wait a minute. after all of the stuff in diamond, i found a floatzle. i freaked out cuz i havent caught one yet. and you know what i used on it to catch it? A MASTER BALL!! i was like 8 when this happened! how big of a fail is that?! theres my story. now let me here everyone elses! im sure this will be a great thread so dont be scared to let everyone know how you failed in the pokemon lifetime. |
Well in FireRed at the very beginning I found a shiny Ratatta (the first shiny I saw in my life btw), the thing was, I had just started the game and didn't have any pokeballs yet, so there's one.
I knew Blue's Blastoise was gonna kick my ass, so I trained a Pikachu up to level 60 so I could beat him easily; later in the moment of truth, his Blastoise attack first and did a critical Hidro Cannon on my Pikachu, that's the other fail, although I did make a critical Fly with my Charizard so at the end I did beat him. Those are two that really make me throw (almost) my GBA. |
It sounds like you're looking for fails from the games, so I'll move this over to Pokemon Gaming Central instead!
As for myself, it's kind of a two-parter for FireRed. First, I had to sit and watch as the old man who teaches you to catch Pokemon caught a shiny Weedle. The only other time I managed to find a shiny in that game was in the Safari Zone, and it was a Paras. Unfortunately, I only had one Safari Ball left, and rather than take the chance of scaring it away, I threw my ball on the first turn. Since this is a fail thread, I'm sure you can guess what happened. MOVED. |
I first got to Wally at Victory Road in Emerald with a bunch of low-level poke'mon with me (I was trying to level them up). I figured since Wally was easy exp. before, it would be the same then... I bet you can guess the result.
My team as a whole on my first runthrough was also a little underleveled, and long story short, I lost all my money to the Elite Four. I had to fight them over and over again! |
There's two I remember from when I was a kid -
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Killing a shiny Weedle because i hate weedles.
2007-me trying to catch Palkia with 89 pokeballs. |
I played yellow version when I was a kid, not knowing that you could get all 3 starter pokemon until literally a month ago XD.
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When first played pokemon Yellow I could not get out of the house in pallet town.
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The first shiny I find in the friend safari...It died... Stupid flame body...
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Charmander at the end of the Nugget Trail, from a trainer whom says he's a bad trainer. Squirtle from Officer Jenny, after beating the third gym. She will be in the middle of Vermilion City roughly. Has anyone mentioned failing against Whitney enough to Rage quit Gold version? Yep I've had to put that one down for a little while... rethink my strategy. |
When I first played Ruby back in 2004, I just couldn't get through Route 101. I had no idea what do to, since there were only trees and ledges. Turned out the 'trees' were patches of grass.
I also killed a shiny Spinda in Emerald. Wasn't really paying attention xD. |
Anyone mentioned killing both Azelf and Mesprit because they thought they have no pokeballs but they actually had 13 greatballs, 1 ultraball, 2 quick balls and a net ball? YEAH.
DP memories...let the stupidity flow. |
In diamond I made a new game and I beat 3 gym leaders and then got off. I then figured out that you had to press these buttons to actually save in the game. I was ragging cause my new save file was gone.
Also, in X and Y I was fighting Moltres and I got its hp so low and used like 20 ultra balls and I then I was ragging so I just threw a pokeball at it and caught it. I just said, I wasted all that money on ultra balls. |
I found a shiny Farfetch'd in the Soul Silver Safari Zone and it fled after getting out of my Safari Ball...
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In Emerald I used my Master Ball on a Chinchou I didn't even use... meh.
In Pearl I defeated the Lake Trio with know knowledge they were considered legendary. I didn't understand the plot of any Pokemon games when I was 8. I still caught Palkia though. Even though I had a level 80-something Empoleon, I could never defeat the Elite Four, thus never catching the post-game legendaries. :( Also in Pearl I restarted my save file with the only shiny I've random encountered so far: Kriketune. I miss that mustached bug. |
Wile playing soul-silver i caught a shiny blue electrode in that rocket hideout that you and lance were defeating (the one with the fake tree) long story short, i didnt know that it was a shiny until AFTER i deleted the save :(
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In Pokémon Y, I sometimes forget that Dragon-type attacks don't work on Fairy-type Pokémon. So I'll select Dragon Pulse and when I see "It doesn't affect...", I really messed up.
Also, in Black or White, (or was it Black 2, White 2)? I can't remember which version, but I ran into a shiny Graveler, and it used Explosion. |
i chose in Pearl turtwig and i didnt know it was shiny until after i deleted that save and was so annoyed my mom said i actually cried for a little bit.
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I've run away from 3 shinies so far because i wasn't paying attention just bashing the run button.
I mean I got them back later but at the time I've hated myself so much. |
I chained Skiddo and found myself a shiny. Accidentally hit the run button. No biggie, I said to myself. I decided to chain for it again and was successful.
...I hit the run button AGAIN. |
Well my first shiny I ever encountered was a skorupi in the safari zone. I threw bait to keep it there, but it ran anyway.
Also a friend of mine killed a shiny nosepass that was in a horde because he didn't realize bubble attacked all the enemies |
So many people mentioning missed shinies. :P To this day, I don't think I've ever even seen a shiny.
Or I might have encountered one where the differences were so subtle I missed it without even knowing. |
Killing a shiny Geodude on my FireRed back in 2005 because I thought my game was glitched and I didn't know what to do.
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I KO'd a shiny Steelix which I found in Victory Road in my Platinum Version.
My Garchomp scored a critical hit with a Dragon Claw, I can't believe it just wiped it out with over 75% of it's HP left! |
Killed Palkia in DP without saving when I was like...7? Yeah 7 or 8.
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Not my fail, but a friend's. The most recent Pokemon game she had played was Platinum, and she really knew nothing about Generations V and VI. But after hearing about how awesome X and Y are, she decided to borrow another friend's copy of X last week. She was having a blast, especially since like, a third of the Pokemon she was encountering were completely new to her.
She was playing and Skyping with me at the same time, so she was a little distracted when she found a wild Swirlix. She told me how cute she thought it was, and I replied that I was planning to shiny hunt one. She asked what the shiny looked like, and by this time the wild Swirlix was long gone. I sent her a picture. She responded with profanity and tears, upon realizing that the one she just killed had been shiny. |
I kept looking for a pokemon (forgot which exactly) in my Diamond game. I had been doing this for a while so i just mainly looked at whatever pokemon before fleeing.
Then suddenly, a shiny budew appeared. I clicked run and that's when I fully processed that it was a shiny! |
I remembered having to knockout the three lake guardians back in Platinum cause I need their seen Pokedex to go to the rest of the Battle areas. I knocked out both Uxie and Azelf but Mesprit was roaming so I could get it's seen without knocking it. After soem time I realized that I could have caught them w/o a Master Ball by using Dusk Balls. I felt very upset, and you know what I did, upon encountering Mesprit again, I decided to knock it out to put it out of it's misery (and also mine DX) I never managed to get my hands on any of the Lake Guardians up until B2W2.
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Another fail wasn't really my fail, well I guess kind of, but I had let my little sister play on my pokemon game for a few minutes, I told her specifically "do not use my master ball, and do not save my game". That was on emerald. Guess what happens? She used my master ball on a freaking rattata, and then proceeds to save the game. So later on in the game, I'm not even exaggerating, I spent 2-3 weeks trying to catch Rayquaza. He would just break out of every ball I threw at him, I'd have to restart, try again, he would not stay in there. Finally caught him on vacation and screamed really loud. (I was around 11-12 at that time) Those are the only ones I can really think of at the time, my memory does not serve me well. |
My biggest fail is in Y wherein I was walking in Terminus Cave coz I thought you had to go through there to reach Couriway Town and I got lost twice that I had to walk back to the entrance coz I dont have Escape Ropes and when I walk south of the cave in that Route, BAM, Couriway was there.
I literally facepalmed after that. |
I left an Abra at the Day Care in Yellow so I wouldn't have to level it up. I completely forgot about it and ended up leaving it there until I went to put a Ponyta in. It grew sixty-eight levels while in the Day Care and I didn't have the money to take it back, so I just left it there and went to train Ponyta somewhere else.
More recently, I was playing X and was hatching Tyrunts so I could chain breed the Fang moves onto it. After almost thirty males, I finally got a female. I Wonder Traded away all thirty of my males, including an Adamant natured male that I really wanted to keep. To make matters worse, I got a crudely nicknamed Scatterbug in exchange for it that I released because of its nickname. It's against the rules to say the Scatterbug's nickname on this forum. I want my Tyrunt back... |
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