Meksal

What do you mean this thing is priceless? *Nom nom nom*

Male
Somewhere between Hoenn and Kalos
Seen December 13th, 2016
Posted September 17th, 2015
340 posts
9.1 Years
When I first read the name 'Bianca', I read Bee-ans-ah, do not ask why.

I also had some confusion with Yveltal, calling it 'Why-vel-tal' before realizing it was probably 'ee-vel-tal'.

I pronounce Lugia Lu-GEE-uh, and apparently thats wrong.

I pronounced Xatu Ex-Ah-Too for the longest time.

Katunei999

Katunei

Age 25
Female
Nottingham
Seen August 15th, 2015
Posted August 14th, 2015
30 posts
9 Years
I remember when I was a kid and playing Silver, I had a Mareep, but I always called it 'Marpy'. I was talking about it with a kid at school and he corrected me. I was pretty embarrassed.

Also, when I was playing Emerald, I was lying on my bed when the screen glitched out. It kept happening and I freaked out, but it stopped after my Magikarp fainted from poising. It was only a year later that I realised the glitching was supposed to happen. Whoops.
Male
United States
Seen July 21st, 2020
Posted July 3rd, 2018
26 posts
14.9 Years
...

Also, when I was playing Emerald, I was lying on my bed when the screen glitched out. It kept happening and I freaked out, but it stopped after my Magikarp fainted from poising. It was only a year later that I realised the glitching was supposed to happen. Whoops.
When I first saw that in Gold, I thought my player character was being photographed or something. o_O

Nurse Joy

Would you like to rest your Pokémon?

Male
Sootopolis Pokémon Center
Seen July 15th, 2019
Posted August 1st, 2015
239 posts
9.5 Years
I still read Phanpy as Phanphy.

I also still mash the 'A' button when trying to catch a Pokemon. Sigh.

Khoshi

とてもかわいい!

Age 24
Male
Sydney, Australia
Seen January 3rd, 2020
Posted October 16th, 2019
2,646 posts
10.1 Years
I used to always spell Qwilfish with a u instead of the w. Quilfish just seemed so much better than Qwilfish, and I spelled things how I heard them. I also spelled Quilava "Qwilava" at some points due to this error. :x

Yato

Age 29
Female
Selphia
Seen December 19th, 2017
Posted February 5th, 2015
These occurred when I was young, so let's get to it!

1. I thought that legendaries would stay where they were if you ran from them. When I was fighting Mewtwo in my Yellow, I tried catching it only for Bill to inform me that I had no room left in my box. I ran from it, changed boxes, then came back only to find it wasn't there.

2. I thought Pinsir evolved into Heracross. They were right next to each other in the Johto Dex with Heracross coming right after Pinsir, so I believed I'd be able to get a Heracross from evolving Pinsir. I ended up getting my Pinsir to level 50 in my Gold before finally realizing that it didn't evolve into Heracross.

3. It took me the longest time to remember that Azurill was Normal, not Water. I remember always being confused as heck when I'd use a Grass or Electric type move against it only to deal neutral damage. Thank Arceus it gained the Fairy type rather than drop the Normal typing, else I would've been even more confused XD
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Origin Green

Smell ya later!

Age 28
Male
England
Seen September 28th, 2015
Posted December 2nd, 2014
64 posts
13.5 Years
Pokemon Blue NPC: if you lose to the elite 4 you'll have to start all over again!
I was around 6, and I read this and thought it meant if they beat me I'd have to start the game all over again.
I lost, I sobbed like a baby, then realised I was back in the pokemon centre! Phew!

DarkPoke001

Newfound Love For Togekiss

Age 24
Male
Hunting Shinies
Seen December 25th, 2016
Posted December 11th, 2016
177 posts
9.5 Years
i used to pronounce Girafarig Gir-a-fig (no ar) cause i never saw the others letters until recently >_<

pronounce Illumise Eye-loo-mise (still do :3 )

pronounced Archeops Arch-E-ops (not Ar-ke-ops)

and briefly (before its anime introduction) pronounced Dedenne Dee-den (but that ones hard right?!)
User Of The Dark Type...

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Friend safari - Ground : Sandshrew, Camerupt and Gastrodon

Y Shinies : Luvdisc, Skrelp, Gyarados, Alomamola, Politoed, Seaking, Dragalge, Chandelure, Maractus, Garchomp, Eelektross, Sceptile, Rayquaza, Blastoise and Umbreon :3

OR Shinies : Metang, Tentacool, Magikarp and Sharpedo :)

stelstravsky

Female
California
Seen August 5th, 2014
Posted August 5th, 2014
36 posts
9 Years
I still spell Carvanha wrong, and I used to pronounce it Carvana (or something like that.) I will continue to spell it wrong for the rest of my life :'(
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2DS FC: 3239-3617-2384 [Grace] | Ground Safari | Phanpy, Camerupt, Diggersby
3DS FC: 4356-1700-2361 [Gress] | Electric Safari | Electrode, Helioptile, Luxio

Pepperton

Male
Texas
Seen February 1st, 2023
Posted February 3rd, 2021
3,397 posts
9.5 Years
I used to think Charizard was super cool and i could ride it every where but then i learned it cant learn fly and according to the Poxedex entry it is smaller than me!
If you mean in-game, it certainly can learn Fly. According to Bulbapedia, Charizard is 5 feet tall, so you may very well be right, haha. n__n;

I've always spelled Hoppip with one 'p', but only recently learned I was misspelling it. I would name some Pokemon that I haven't been pronouncing correctly, but that list would be incredibly long and probably astound everyone at my overall stupidity, so I'm going to just say that I've been saying a lot of their names wrong.