Nolafus

Aspiring something

Age 27
Male
Lost in thought... again
Seen March 3rd, 2018
Posted March 11th, 2017
5,722 posts
10.9 Years
I put Ice Beam on Gyarados because I thought it was a powerful move. I also put Power Gem on Gigalith. Yeah, I thought they were good fits and that there wasn't such a thing as attack and special attack. I was wrong, terribly wrong.
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AKPorcupine

Yes, Follow the Light...

Male
Washington
Seen April 12th, 2014
Posted February 22nd, 2014
35 posts
9.5 Years
I can't count the number of times i've said pokemon names wrong. And then I looked dumb when I watched the show and heard the real name -____-
Well, to be fair, a lot of the names have stupid pronunciations. Haha, I hate so many of them.
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How hard is it to find a female Pikachu with Lightning Rod in the wild? Geesh...

Nah

Age 30
she/her, they/them
Seen 7 Hours Ago
Posted 15 Hours Ago
15,640 posts
9.5 Years
Well, to be fair, a lot of the names have stupid pronunciations. Haha, I hate so many of them.
I'm not certain that the anime pronounces all the names correctly either. I really don't think that the first 2 a's in Rayquaza are long a sounds, I think its just the first one.
Nah ンン
“No, I... I have to be strong. Everyone expects me to."
Male
Seen January 3rd, 2014
Posted January 3rd, 2014
9 posts
9.4 Years
Pronounced "Meganium" as "Meganeem". Don't do it anymore but I did for years.

For the longest time I thought Geodude evolved into Onix.

Didn't know Golem and Poliwrath were in gen 1 until about a month ago.

Thought damage was simply your attack, plus the move damage, minus the enemy's defense. Yea, it's way more complicated than that XD.
Yes, I know it's "Miror B" and not "Mirror B".

Lost Lore

From the Shadows

Age 29
Female
Mt. Coronet
Seen January 17th, 2017
Posted October 15th, 2014
155 posts
14.5 Years
That Slowbro evolved into Slowking.

...Yeah, I think how I discovered that wasn't right was via Mystery Dungeon? Went to Slowbro's page and got the "Evolution: No further" thing. I was very confused and went to look it up, and... Lesson learned~
Current mono-type: TFL, Round 4
Game: Black 2 (6/8)

Regions cleared: Johto | Hoenn | Sinnoh | Unova | (More? Let's finish these first~)
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Male
Seen July 21st, 2017
Posted June 14th, 2017
1,333 posts
11 Years
Aside from the mispronunciations, I always thought that the in-game trainers were actually real trainers. Like, as in real life people. So when I encounter a trainer, I used to think that I was actually battling someone, at the exact moment, with the exact name and the exact team. Would have been a bit interesting though, I guess.

there is no fire like passion

Bangladeshi

I sell cookies

Age 26
Male
Bangladesh
Seen July 3rd, 2021
Posted November 6th, 2017
39 posts
9.9 Years
When I was young i used to call Ho-oH as hoohoo! lol and charizard as charger,(mobile charger? Oh c'mon i was kid back then!
and i used to thought Shinies as a glitch like things and tried my best to avoid them and when i came into one i used to softreset when ever i found one,and that's the way i losed shiny geodude,tentacool,lapras!!
Damn!?
so foolish of me !
Never forget what you are,
Rest of the world will not,
Wear it like an Armour and it can never be used to hurt you.
Age 30
Male
Belgium
Seen March 29th, 2014
Posted February 17th, 2014
110 posts
9.4 Years
When I was very young playing Blue and Red, I didn't care for Special Attack, Attack or Defense, but just chose cool pokémons with cool moves. Thankfully the game wasn't hard untill I met the Elite Four..
Shinies Pokémon X: Dugtrio (Random Encounter), Clawitzer (Chainfishing 24 Streak), Gible (Acidently MM After 14 Eggs), Shroomish (MM After 210 Eggs), Treecko (MM After 42 Eggs)

Looking for: Non-Us Tentacool

Alfabusa

Male
Sweden
Seen April 3rd, 2014
Posted February 13th, 2014
66 posts
13.7 Years
When I was young, me and my entire school always pronounced Suicune 'Soo-ken'.
I still think Swee-coon sounds pretty weird though, and when I first heard it pronounced by swedish Prof. Oak in the 4th movie, I was like 'wat'.
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Friend Safari: Lampent, Phantump, Spiritomb.

My YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/alfabusa
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Shiny Bragging:
Breeding - Metagross, Cacturne, Stoutland, Gible
Fishing - Politoed, Octillery
Pokéradar - Zoroark
Friend Safari - Froslass, Hoothoot, Skarmory, Sneasel, Pancham, Noibat, Pawniard
Wonder Trade - Smeargle, Garchomp

KostK2Boss

Europe Confirmed!!!

Age 31
Male
The distant Greece Region
Seen February 17th, 2017
Posted April 11th, 2015
349 posts
14.1 Years
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...
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Pokemon OmegaRuby IGN: Athens , Secret Base: Route 119
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AKPorcupine

Yes, Follow the Light...

Male
Washington
Seen April 12th, 2014
Posted February 22nd, 2014
35 posts
9.5 Years
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.
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.
FC= 3754-7673-2725 Bug-Type Combee/Volbeat/Vivillon
How hard is it to find a female Pikachu with Lightning Rod in the wild? Geesh...

DynamicD

Metagross Fan

Male
Seen January 22nd, 2015
Posted June 23rd, 2014
187 posts
9.6 Years
  • When I was growing up with Gen 3, I thought that Hoenn was "Ho-ey-enn".
  • I used to think Elektross and his evolution line was Water/Electric.
  • I miss pronounce a lot of Pokemon, like Kyogre or Suicune.
  • I used to think that Skarmory was from Gen 3.
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moon

they/them
Seen 11 Hours Ago
Posted 22 Hours Ago
37,443 posts
15.5 Years
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.
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Nah

Age 30
she/her, they/them
Seen 7 Hours Ago
Posted 15 Hours Ago
15,640 posts
9.5 Years
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.
Nah ンン
“No, I... I have to be strong. Everyone expects me to."

εcho.

The silver ninetales

Age 31
Female
Somewhere in Canada
Seen November 24th, 2019
Posted March 26th, 2017
389 posts
9.4 Years
When I was younger and I first started watching my older brother playing his Blue version, I thought the attack "Sonic Boom" was pronounced "Soy-nic Bomb".

I had no idea what a sonic boom was.

I also used to think Suicune was pronounced Swee-soon.

Swee-coon just sounded weird to me. Too harsh. xD

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Female
England.
Seen July 25th, 2015
Posted February 8th, 2014
19 posts
9.3 Years
I used to say Suicune as "Soo-ih-sine", then "Soo-ih-soon" after my friend pronounced it like that. I only found out watching Pokemon 4Ever it is "Swee-coon".

"Pokemon are only as strong as their trainer."~ Shayan.

Bashou and Buson = <3
Maxie and Archie = <3
And Tabitha <3

And Giovanni <3

Age 27
Male
Seen April 2nd, 2014
Posted April 2nd, 2014
14 posts
9.4 Years
I didn't read all of them so this might be a repeat. I always thought that stat altering moves (such as leer and growl) were just wasted turns. I was so confused as to why my opponents would use them. I also thought that gastly/haunter/gengar were psychic types. Battling Morty was always so frustrating... oh yeah and that geodude evolved into graveler, then onix. Lol just remembered another. I thought that Wooper evolved into wobbuffet
All you need to do is live your life naturally and comfortably - Shikamaru
Age 31
Female
Seen February 6th, 2015
Posted January 16th, 2015
15 posts
9.3 Years
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
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Golurks Were Meant to Fly

NERF THIS!

Male
America, East Coast
Seen October 4th, 2021
Posted August 5th, 2020
1,273 posts
11.3 Years
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)
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