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Charaxes October 7th, 2005 6:43 PM

I'm so stupid, I'm brilliant!
 
This is a companion to the Unluckiest/Stupidest thread. Who here has tried to do a task (finding a Pokemon, item, person for example) and ended doing/finding/catching/battling something so good instead, you couldn't believe your luck as just plain stupidity got factored into the stroke of good luck?

Perhaps an example is needed.

I was playing Ruby, looking for a female Gloom and wondering around Route 123, as I read some were there and I found the Latios. I wasn't even considering looking for him and there he was. I used the Master Ball immediately but I couldn't believe my...stupid luck.

Yes, Latios on Route 123.

Now, who has had similar, quite stupid good luck? Regale us with your bouts of fortuitous stupidity.

jc_rcw October 7th, 2005 6:47 PM

I think there is a thread like this somewhere.

Charaxes October 7th, 2005 7:07 PM

I looked as back as I could (pretty far back, but not far enough apparently), but since the current rotation doesn't have anything on this, so I thought I could breech the subject. Or revive as it seems to be the trend with others.

My apologies for repeating.

jc_rcw October 7th, 2005 7:11 PM

I don't remember where, maybe it was in the general pokemon section or something.

Dragon-Chan October 7th, 2005 7:24 PM

In my Ruby, after trying for months to catch Rayquaza with master balls, status problems and level 100 pokemon, I decided to use Rayquaza as my idol. So one day I went up to the sky pillar just to see Its Mightiness. So I thought, that as long as I was there, I might as well try to catch it. I got it down to barely red, thought, 'what the heck', threw a Great Ball at it without any extra help and caught it. The downside is that in my months of rayquaza-catching attempts, I fainted a shiny one. o_O;;

Charaxes October 7th, 2005 7:25 PM

Well, jc_rcw, then we'll see what the mods do.

Edit: Seeing as the ball is rolling, another stupid but lucky thing I did was a Pokemon Contest, it was Breloom (I think) and I was glancing the moves, thinking what move but I sped up the choice selection and pushed the wrong move in and I ended getting an ovation. I lost it next turn but that was something.

I didn't win that Contest but I still enjoyed the fact that I got that applause. Oh well, life goes on.

Shiny Meganium October 8th, 2005 12:02 AM

I was looking for a Magmar in the burned building in Cinnibar on my Fire red, (I didn't know where to catch it then. I know now.), and found a shiny Rattata! I was so amazed because I thought shinies were just rumours!

kohei October 8th, 2005 4:31 AM

- I was fighting some Magicarps while fishing on route 119 (the route with Feebas, correct me if I'm wrong). Then, I ran into a Feebas fishing spot!
I filled up a whole box with Feebas, out of happiness

- I too, also ran into Latios unintentionally.

NiNGi's Worst Nightmare October 8th, 2005 2:29 PM

I found 2 shinies in a row on my way up to battle Rayquaza in Sapphire: Claydol and Altaria. Caught both of 'em and traded them for a Feebas and Eevee. :)

Squeegee Beckenheim October 10th, 2005 2:18 AM

I am going to leave this here for right now. There does not appear to be anything like this.

Here is one from me:
I had tried for one hour to manuever the floors in the Sky Pillar. I was frustrated when I realized I wasn't getting anywhere with it so I left. Within a minute of leaving the tower up popped Latios.

Bashaamo October 15th, 2005 6:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dark Weezing
This is a companion to the Unluckiest/Stupidest thread. Who here has tried to do a task (finding a Pokemon, item, person for example) and ended doing/finding/catching/battling something so good instead, you couldn't believe your luck as just plain stupidity got factored into the stroke of good luck?

Perhaps an example is needed.

I was playing Ruby, looking for a female Gloom and wondering around Route 123, as I read some were there and I found the Latios. I wasn't even considering looking for him and there he was. I used the Master Ball immediately but I couldn't believe my...stupid luck.

Yes, Latios on Route 123.

Now, who has had similar, quite stupid good luck? Regale us with your bouts of fortuitous stupidity.

:surprised Mine's very similar to yours.
I was playing Sapphire, looking for items at Route 132. I was going around a bunch of rocks. I wasn't even expecting a Pokémon, when... A Latias appeared! I used Master Ball. That time I was so stupid I didn't know Latias was hard to find. O_O
Another one-
I was in this new place I found where you can catch Jigglypuff and Swablu. I was looking for a Male Jigglypuff for a LONG time. What did I find? A shiny Swablu! And I caught it.

PokeWiFi October 15th, 2005 11:37 AM

Quote:

I was in this new place I found where you can catch Jigglypuff and Swablu. I was looking for a Male Jigglypuff for a LONG time. What did I find? A shiny Swablu! And I caught it.
Wow thats lucky! You were trying to breed a Igglybuff weren't you? I traded a torchic that I breeded from my other torchics for a shiney Ledian!

mew_rocks October 15th, 2005 11:57 PM

I had just got my action replay and my friend was over and we were putting in encounter codes. Any way he wanted to play a trick on me so he handed me my action replay claiming he had put a latios code on so i started my game up and I found a Latios. I said wow this thing actually works! (It was the first encounter code we had tried.)And he goes "what but i didn't put the code on i was just joking. It turns out I had actually caught the real one!

Bashaamo October 16th, 2005 8:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MewDon
Wow thats lucky! You were trying to breed a Igglybuff weren't you? I traded a torchic that I breeded from my other torchics for a shiney Ledian!

Yes, as a matter of fact I was! :D
And you're very lucky there. I always thought getting a shiny by breeding is VERY hard. O_O

Kuidon Ladonsoll October 17th, 2005 11:54 PM

this wasnt really good luck but i was looking for a trapinch when i found a latios i was about to catch it when my gba's batteries ran out nand it turned of

O October 18th, 2005 1:08 AM

When I was being stupid and decided to throw all 99 of my Pokéballs at Mewtwo a while back when I was playing Pokémon Red. Hey guess what? I caught it on the 39th Pokéball, which in the end became my lucky number. :]

Hinoshi-chan October 18th, 2005 1:36 AM

mine is a little stupid,

when I went to the Birth island ( after getting mai ticket through event )
I went to get Latias ( i was playing on game boy player, so everyone could see ) i wasted about 78 ultra balls on the thing, then my bro said ...go on throw a pokeball
so i did, and i caught it ....then when i left, Latois appeared, so my bro said " go on, through a pokeball at it "...i think you know what happend...I caught the thing,

-_- now one of the things people say to me is " go on, through a pokeball at it "

Charaxes October 25th, 2005 12:24 PM

My turn again.

I was in the tunnel right before the League building in Evergrande and hoping not to reach any more wild Pokemon as all my team were right on the edge of fainting. I was fine as I almost reached the exit and I encountered a wild Lairon and I couldn't run away and it did Roar and scared me off and I bolted out of the cave and helped up.

God, that was stupid or lucky or...I'm not sure which. That's what I get for not getting Max Repel.

Crystal Clair October 25th, 2005 2:03 PM

Well, I was simply playing my game one day, hanging around the berry farm and the surrounding routes. When all of a sudden, a Latios appeared. I thought it was a glitch in my game so I ran. Two battles, yes like TWO battles later, I run into Latios again, without trying and catch him.
I can be so lucky, yet I have no shiny!

MegaFlare October 25th, 2005 2:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dragon-Chan
In my Ruby, after trying for months to catch Rayquaza with master balls, status problems and level 100 pokemon, I decided to use Rayquaza as my idol. So one day I went up to the sky pillar just to see Its Mightiness. So I thought, that as long as I was there, I might as well try to catch it. I got it down to barely red, thought, 'what the heck', threw a Great Ball at it without any extra help and caught it. The downside is that in my months of rayquaza-catching attempts, I fainted a shiny one. o_O;;

you mean without master balls right? oh and mine was that i was looking for like Entie in Silver an i end up finding a Chansey with a lucky egg

deoxys161 October 30th, 2005 9:09 AM

well on firered i kept on trying to catch a suicune and after hours i gave up and just went through a grass acidently (i wasn't looking) and i looked at the gameboy and on my screen was a suicune and i cought it with a M ball.

and on pokemon sapphire i was just being stoopid and wondering around the top on mt.pyre and i was trying to catch a vulpix and i found a chimicho, SHINY!!! i caught it and then i was happy, a happy ending.

Smarties-chan October 30th, 2005 10:24 AM

I don't remember anything like that happening in ruby or emerald, but when I was playing my pokemon blue for the third time I was training my kadabra outside fuschia city, hoping ti would evolve I also kept blastoise on the same level because I wanted my starter to be the strongest pokemon and before I knew it I had a level 80 blastoise and a level 79 kadabra before I even beat koga o_O

Dragon-Chan October 30th, 2005 4:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MegaFlare
you mean without master balls right? oh and mine was that i was looking for like Entie in Silver an i end up finding a Chansey with a lucky egg

I meant Ultra balls, excuse me. o.O

Chibi-chan October 30th, 2005 4:38 PM

The first time I ever fished....I caught a Feebas. o.o the chances of that STILL amaze me....go figure XD

Fizz October 30th, 2005 4:40 PM

One day, I was gonna show my dad the music of Mt. Pyre (he's a musician, and I also just liked the music), so I ws playing my Sapphire on my GB Player. A few steps out of Lilycove I run into a shiny Linoone. Yay me!

Also, in Emerald, I was at Southern Island tryin' to get a shiny Latios. A few soft resets later, I decided that every time I see a non-shiny I should check its DV/IV/Whatevers. Another few soft resets and checking stats later, I found a Modest Latios with a DV/IV/Whatever of 31 in Special Attack and 29 in Speed. It's much better than a shiny, in my opinion.


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