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Somewhere in Europe
Seen August 21st, 2020
Posted January 6th, 2016
2,316 posts
19.6 Years
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.

Atomic Pirate

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Male
Somewhere.
Seen September 22nd, 2014
Posted July 10th, 2014
930 posts
12 Years
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.
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Age 32
Male
Seen 2 Days Ago
Posted March 24th, 2023
8,579 posts
16 Years
I dislike the English-version pronunciation of Giratina.
I prefer the Japanese version where it's Jee-ra-tee-na instead of the English Gee-ra-tee-na.

Arceus as well. I prefer Ar-see-yus instead of Ar-kee-us. >.>

Aside from those, I've read a few here and list a few things I always thought were correct...
Slowbro evolving into Slowking when holding King's Rock and traded. >.>
Alomomola was the evolution of Luvdisc when her SS and art was first revealed. =/
Boffulant was Tauros' evolution. =\
Wurmple to Silcoon during the day, and to Cascoon during the night. Com'on, I was a bug-geek during high school, and I've learned that butterflies are active on daytime while moths during the night! >.<
Rock is weak to Ice. >.>
Bug is weak to Ice. <.<
Bug is neutral to Fighting... o.0
Dunsparce was based on a fluffy slipper. That's why I liked it so much on my Gold version 'cause I liked fluffy slippers that time. >.>
Luxio and Luxray were part-dark type. =/

Olli

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Male
Skyloft
Seen 5 Days Ago
Posted July 24th, 2021
2,583 posts
12.8 Years
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 >:[
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Nah

Age 30
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9.5 Years

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 >:[
I never understood while Lugia wasn't part Water either.


Also, I used to think Torkoal was a Fire/Rock type. But its really only Fire type.
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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 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.
That's actually a great point Scyther - Scizor Pinsir - Heracross I mean, they're both based on beetles with large horns/mandables on their heads.
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AKPorcupine

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Male
Washington
Seen April 12th, 2014
Posted February 22nd, 2014
35 posts
9.5 Years
I always used to think that Poison was weak to Ice because I'd always imagine Grimer and Muk getting frozen really easily. And sometimes I forget that Electric is weak against Grass and that causes me to slip up more times than I care to admit.
Wtf, electric is weak to grass?! That makes no sense at all O.o
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How hard is it to find a female Pikachu with Lightning Rod in the wild? Geesh...

Timbjerr

T-o-X-i-C

Age 36
Female
Texas
Seen May 30th, 2022
Posted January 28th, 2016
7,415 posts
19.7 Years
Wtf, electric is weak to grass?! That makes no sense at all O.o
To be fair, grass resists electric...and at least for me, when I was a kid, I assumed defensive strengths equate to offensive strength as well. XD

AKPorcupine

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Male
Washington
Seen April 12th, 2014
Posted February 22nd, 2014
35 posts
9.5 Years
To be fair, grass resists electric...and at least for me, when I was a kid, I assumed defensive strengths equate to offensive strength as well. XD
Oh, ok. That makes sense. I was like, whoa, I didn't know that, that's crazy.
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Nah

Age 30
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9.5 Years
I used to think Parasect was cool. Then I realised it's the dead corpse of your cute little Paras, taken over by a parasitic fungus that now controls its every move. Gg childhood memories.
I didn't believe you at first, so I looked Parasect up on Bulbapedia.

...Holy ♥♥♥♥, you were right. Parasect is now a creepy little bastard in my book. Gotta love how Pokemon occasionally pulls creepy stuff like that.
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PumpJack

Gentleman Thug

Male
Discworld
Seen January 19th, 2016
Posted January 1st, 2016
327 posts
9.6 Years
I didn't believe you at first, so I looked Parasect up on Bulbapedia.

...Holy ♥♥♥♥, you were right. Parasect is now a creepy little bastard in my book. Gotta love how Pokemon occasionally pulls creepy stuff like that.

The more you know.


Nature is full of delightfully creepy phenomena.

Zorogami

WUB WUB

Age 30
Male
Madrid/Spain
Seen April 23rd, 2014
Posted April 22nd, 2014
2,164 posts
10.2 Years
Besides the obvious mispronounciation problems, as a kid i had a really "unique" way to determine type weaknesses and strengths. For example, i thought that using a fire attack on lets say a Pidgey had to be super-effective, because its feathers would catch fire...oh yeah, how wrong i was.

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Mana

Age 31
Male
UK
Seen March 25th, 2023
Posted August 18th, 2021
10,075 posts
14.3 Years
I used to think that Mewtwo could only be caught using the Masterball.

AoTora

Age 28
Female
In Pallet town ~
Seen November 29th, 2020
Posted November 29th, 2020
839 posts
10.4 Years
I always misspelled certain pokemon and I still do so - I cannot really help it. Also when I started playing I thought that you have to pick fire starter otherwise you cannot beat the game xD (Yeah, I know I was silly)
I don't care about EV's or IV's - I play for fun not competitive.
I don't own consoles - I play on emulators on my computer.

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I am a fan of Criminal Minds, Crossing Jordan and some other series. I am also Harry Potter fan and Disney fan (I love Frozen!) - I also like other animes beside Pokemon.
Male
Seen December 25th, 2016
Posted December 25th, 2016
753 posts
10.5 Years
I used to think the type effectiveness was different than it is. I thought if one type was super effective against another type that automatically meant it resisted the type it was super effective against. I also couldn't wrap my mind around some types being super effective against themselves, I thought all types resisted themselves.
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Scotland
Seen November 11th, 2014
Posted November 10th, 2014
55 posts
9.4 Years
When I first ever played Pokemon Red, a few of my Pokemon became over-leveled and wouldn't obey me. For the life of me, I could not figure out why and tried everything like using potions on them, healing them, evolving them, fighting more wild Pokemon - pretty much everything except from getting the next gym badge... I must have been quite a slow child, seeing as a few NPCs even explained that Pokemon wont obey you if you don't have the correct badge xD

I also mispronounced Gyarados, including "Y" as a normal Y sound o.o I used to call Ho-oh "Ho-ho" :P ... I was only 7 though. There was a kid at my school who called Fuchsia City "Fu-ch-is-a City". It made even me cringe when he said it >.<
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Boured

The Guildmaster

Age 23
Male
My Laptop
Seen March 12th, 2021
Posted April 19th, 2016
171 posts
9.6 Years
It is impossible to trade gen 1 and 2 pokemon to gen 3...............We'll person YOU ARE DEAD WRONG

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Age 27
Male
Indiana
Seen 6 Hours Ago
Posted March 25th, 2023
13,619 posts
10.2 Years
I thought rock types were immune to electric type attacks up until about a month ago. I always had a grass type in my party just in case there were the rock/water or ground/water type pokemon.
Age 28
Male
Distortion World
Seen December 13th, 2020
Posted February 26th, 2018
2,473 posts
12.9 Years
1. Case
Ugh, alright. Just few months ago I actually was shocked by a particular discovery. Dunsparce. For 10+ years, I always thought "Such a cute little guy, laying on his back with no visible mouth and cute winged arms."
And then, few months ago I was going through some Pokemon Cards artwork, and I stumbled upon one of his cards....



BAM, wait, that thing on it's head, that's his mouth?
BAM, those are not little head horns?!
BAM, Wait, so he wasn't laying on his back all this time, and those strips are not his belly?!!
BAM, Wait, those are not his arms?!?!
WHAT?

Long story short, I cant see unseen, and in the same time, I cant imagine him not being on his back. So I still see him the way I did before and basically I cant register him the way everyone else does xD

2. Case
Also, just like the Zorogami, I had unique ways of determining weaknesses. I always applied some logic into battles. "How the hell is this small Shellder beating my huge Ground Pokemon with some water drops?!" etc. :D

3. Case
Another one.
"I wish Carvanha had an evolution, it'd be so cool. Also, I wonder how come they never made a preevolution for Sharpedo. And isn't it funny how they both have stars on their body. So funny."

200+ hours of gameplay later, and about 5 years after finishing the game.

"I'm stupid."

4. Case

I never know how to lighten up dark caves.
I restarted the game several times as a kid because of this.


5. Case

I never realized how awesome Poochyena looked like cos of weird R/S/E artwork :L, until I started Pokemon Mystery Dungeon games.

6. Case

Trapinch. I never knew what it evoles into. And I never knew what Flygon evolved from. hah


7. Case

Pretty much the whole Hoenn story. It was my first game and I was like 12-13 and had no idea how to play it so it took me some time to connect dots. I loved it nevertheless.

I won't even talk about name pronunciation. I called most Pokemon wrong, but mostly cos of my language. Everyone else I knew did as well :D

"The future you see is the future you get."