2nd Gen WTF moment thread

Started by redsaber5859 July 2nd, 2010 7:13 PM
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Ever Grande City, Hoenn
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Posted November 8th, 2010
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13 Years
Sorry if there already is one, couldn't find one

What's your WTF moment in RBGYGSC??? Shiny ran away, save data reset after you caught 151 pokemon. Discuss

My WTF moment was in crystal, I had 3 boxes ful, of pokemon, a shiny lugia, gyrados, and suicune. Then the battery reset....

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ORegan

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Boston
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Posted January 3rd, 2020
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12.9 Years
I once lost to a trainer whose only pokemon was a magikarp in Red. I was on my way to a pokecenter with my enter team fainted, and the last one poisoned and on his death bed with no helpful supplies. I had just enough steps to get there too, except I forgot I passed over a fisherman on my travels and was caught in a battle. Both hyper fang attacks from my raticate missed, the magikarp used tackle twice and I lost....seriously, fml
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Posted May 7th, 2011
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That happened to me. Only the Magikarp used Splash. And I used a level 100 Charizard. I was trying to see how long it would take to KO him through poisoned walking , and my Hyper Beam missed.
When a Heracross resisted 12 Ultra Balls with 1 hit point, and was asleep, when I caught it in a Poke Ball.
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Fighting Whitney's Miltank. It kept making my Machop flinch with Rollout, and if I didn't flinch the Low Kick I was trying to use would miss. When it finally hits, it doesn't KO Miltank. Miltank uses Milk Drink, and this goes on and on and on.

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When I battled a person named ''Bugsy''. Seriously, wtf?

hey theres nothing form with bugsy
its a great name for a BUG Gym leader

Like
misty for water gym leader and BROCK for the rock leader

anyway mine is the Old man
"wtf you collalspe because you ahvent ahd ur coffee ¬_¬ (Makes a hot cup of coffee) Here (thorws on old man and watches him burn) :3
Steps over dead body and continues ... :3
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Posted August 25th, 2010
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Talking to this little random dude at what I figured was maybe halfway through Mt. Silver, only to have it turn out to be Red with a bunch of lv. 70s. Oopsie.
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Fighting Whitney's Miltank. It kept making my Machop flinch with Rollout, and if I didn't flinch the Low Kick I was trying to use would miss. When it finally hits, it doesn't KO Miltank. Miltank uses Milk Drink, and this goes on and on and on.
GOD DAMN MILKTANK. Almost everytime I play Crystal (except recently I started again and used ghastly on her ass) I lose to her.

Any way.

Realizing I have grinded my pokemon to levels so high that I need a new gym badge :S

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13.3 Years
I was headbutting trees to catch all the tree Pokemon one night and SHINY PINECO APPEARS!!! OH BOY! PUT IT TO SLEEP GENGAR!!! misses. Pineco uses selfdestruct on my Gengar! WTF?

Also, I was doing a Mewtwo only run in the Elite Four, and I was running low on attacks (I needed to save my Ice Beams for Lance, etc.) so I used Metronome on Agatha's last Gengar. It was Explosion... sigh.
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I was headbutting trees to catch all the tree Pokemon one night and SHINY PINECO APPEARS!!! OH BOY! PUT IT TO SLEEP GENGAR!!! misses. Pineco uses selfdestruct on my Gengar! WTF?

Also, I was doing a Mewtwo only run in the Elite Four, and I was running low on attacks (I needed to save my Ice Beams for Lance, etc.) so I used Metronome on Agatha's last Gengar. It was Explosion... sigh.
hahahahaha!

This happens so often when trying to train a togepi!
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Posted July 7th, 2010
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Also, I was doing a Mewtwo only run in the Elite Four, and I was running low on attacks (I needed to save my Ice Beams for Lance, etc.) so I used Metronome on Agatha's last Gengar. It was Explosion... sigh.
LOL

mine was trying to get through Ice Path between Mahogany & Blackthorn. I seriously spent hours trying to get through the huge plot of ice to figure out how to get to the other side. I had no revives or potions & my team fainted before I got out. I had to maneuver that ice again.
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My WTF moments:

Catching Mew
- I was always intimidated by the process, but after doing it for the first time (just about an hour ago, w00t!), I found that it was extremely easy to follow and execute. Even the catch was easy, I caught him in one Great Ball.

Manual PC Boxes
- I was so used to automatic PC box switching from the newer generations, that I was surprised and frustrated when I couldn't use a Pokeball with a full box (do you have any idea how rare an Onix is in Rock Tunnel?!). At least it happened before I encountered a legendary.

The Unknown Ghost
- As a child, this thing always scared me, but today I encountered it and... alright, it frightened me a bit. I was caught off guard and expected a Gastly or something!
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Age 33
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Chicago, Illinois
Seen May 18th, 2015
Posted March 10th, 2015
43 posts
13 Years
Oh dear GOD the unknown ghost! As a kid I was so dead scared of those things... :(

Also, finding out that the Missingno trick actually worked. I remember being in 3rd grade and having a friend tell me about this crazy-sounding ridiculous way to get infinite master balls or rare candies and totally not believing him. Then I finally tried it, not expecting anything to happen...HOLY **** IT WORKED!

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ORegan

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Boston
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Posted January 3rd, 2020
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12.9 Years
My WTF moments:

Catching Mew
- I was always intimidated by the process, but after doing it for the first time (just about an hour ago, w00t!), I found that it was extremely easy to follow and execute. Even the catch was easy, I caught him in one Great Ball.

I just did the same on Red about two weeks ago. I'm twenty years old, and I was still creeped out by my start button turning on by itself, even though I knew it was going to happen (although, it might've been fear of having my game crash, which some people claim to have happened to them.)

But I used a combination of Bulbasaur's leechseed with Butterfree's sleep powder and slowlydrained it's health before catching it with a pokeball....I wasn't far enough to get a great ball.
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Posted August 11th, 2010
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13 Years
A wild Zubat appeared!

Go, Cyndaquil!

The wild Zubat used Supersonic!

Cyndaquil is confused!

It hurt itself in confusion!

*happens over and over*


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ORegan

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Boston
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Posted January 3rd, 2020
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12.9 Years
Wild Jigglypuff appears.

sent out out bulbasaur. Jigglypuff used sing. Switched to Spearow. Jigglypuff used sing. went down my line-up and the damn thing put every single one to sleep. I'm guessing it didn't know pound, because it would only use sing. Even when my pokemon woke up, it was put right back to sleep. Ten minutes went by before it missed and I had a chance to make an attack.
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Age 33
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Cincinnati
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Posted September 15th, 2010
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12.9 Years
Hmm...so many wtf moments...

I mean, the first real one was the first time I ever played Pokemon Red as a kid, showing up to the first gym and noticing it was Brock.

My thoughts -
"Alright! Its Brock from the show! He's the Rock trainer...wait..."
*checks his Pokemon Party*
"Charmander...Pidgey...Rattata...Caterpie...Nidoran Male...WTF!? These guys can't beat rock types!"

And that's when I learned what grinding was all about...
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Charmander can *so* beat Brock. :P
But Charmeleon does beat him better. And there's a whole forest of bugs to level him up on. :D
Speaking of, I remember when I first realized, after getting it to like lv 40, that Beedrill was a terrible Pokemon. -_-;
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ORegan

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Charmander can *so* beat Brock. :P
But Charmeleon does beat him better. And there's a whole forest of bugs to level him up on. :D
Speaking of, I remember when I first realized, after getting it to like lv 40, that Beedrill was a terrible Pokemon. -_-;
Butterfree can fair better against Brock after you teach it confusion. :P

But yes, Beedrill is pretty useless when facing 2nd or 3rd evolutions.

I didn't know this when I was eight and lost to brock about six times because ember wasn't working too well. :(
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Charmander can *so* beat Brock. :P
But Charmeleon does beat him better. And there's a whole forest of bugs to level him up on. :D
Speaking of, I remember when I first realized, after getting it to like lv 40, that Beedrill was a terrible Pokemon. -_-;
Beedrill is a terrible Pokemon in Pokemon Red. It got better though what with new moves and TMs.



I evolved my Growlithe after I caught it and I was leveling it up in Diglett's Cave (great place to level, btw). I was up to level 35 or something and I was wondering why it wasn't learning anything. I checked it up online and saw the Arcanine didn't learn any moves, I was mad. I wasted my Dig TM on it too...

I then began to train another Growlithe, it learns Flamethrower at level 50.
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Having Pokemon Yellow with a lv. 17 Pikachu (early on) and facing off Brock. With Pikachu. The anime lies, no electric attack can hurt Brock! So, I spammed Quick Attack and won.

Later on, I caught Mew. Saved and tried again by battling a Gambler this time. I got a Missingno. Took me 5 tries to get the battle to actually execute without freezing.

WAAAY later on, by using my Hitmonchan with Metronome, I go against Gary. He has his last Pokemon and so do I. (Hitmonchan, poor wording) Anyway, I use Metronome. Splash. He has Ninetales, so it sucks. Does near nothing to me. I use Metronome again. Splash. He used Tail Whip (told you) and I use Metronome a third time! It was Bubble. And it missed. He used Quick Attack with a critical hit. Half of my Max HP gone. I won in the end.
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Posted September 15th, 2010
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Catching 248 pokemon on my crystal version and the save file corrupts and the game doesn't work anymore. Yet my silver has 249 pokemon on it and it still works.
Caught 143 on Red.

Cousin plays it, starts a new game, saves...
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Yesterday, I finally got my long awaited Pokemon Gold version. I was excited beyond believe. When I received it, I popped it in my Gameboy SP, and started it up, went through all the Oak stuff, blah, blah, blah. So when I was in my room, I saved. I turned the game back on right after I shut it off.

Save file is Corrupt.

...





:disappoin Now I have to fix it..
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The moment that made me almost cry as a kid:

My Pokemon Red, with my completed game and my tournament winning Pokemon on it, started to glitch. I figured it was dust... Now mind you, I'm only 10, so I had no idea that this was a REALLY stupid idea... So I attempted to clean it with a ear swab and some ALCOHOL... Ruined my game forever. I still have that dead cartridge.

Oh my beautiful homegrown non-hacked level 100's, how I miss you.

RIP Snorlax, Kabutops, Jolteon, Haunter, Charizard, and Gyarados... ;_;
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