Things you didn't notice for years

Started by Mackened April 27th, 2014 2:26 PM
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alisaie

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14.8 Years
This is actually something that can fit over in Pokemon General for a discussion! So I'll be tossing this over there. :)

moon

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Are there any seemingly obvious Pokemon things that you didn't notice for years? For me it's ArticUNO, ZapDOS and MolTRES, that completely slipped my mind for years.
This! Only realized a year ago or so.

And the same for suicUNE, raikOU and entEI which is kind of french "une", english "two" and german "drei". At least I think that was what they were aiming for, but in a less obvious way to the gen I trio.
paired with Ivysaur

Hiatus

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10.8 Years
I didn't know that EV-training existed until about generation four or so, haha. If I did, I would've maximized all my Pokémon's stats as soon as I were able. Another thing I never understood is how we're able to fly and surf on small Pokémon like Pidgey and Squirtle, and… still don't. XD"

Blueredemption

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Seen October 5th, 2022
Posted January 4th, 2021
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9.7 Years
Are there any seemingly obvious Pokemon things that you didn't notice for years? For me it's ArticUNO, ZapDOS and MolTRES, that completely slipped my mind for years.
:0 i never caught that. Learn something new every day i guess. As for me, i didn't realize that the light blue and red coloring of a pokemon's stats had to do with their nature until the release of x-y. Before then i was just looking for the right colors to be on the right stats.

acatfrommars

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Took me a while. I'm sure there's more, but after 15 years or so, I think I got them all down.
Yeah, that's one that I hadn't noticed until about a year ago. I didn't know about EV or IV training until a couple of years ago when I started breeding in Gen V. Also:

Hitmonlee was modeled after Bruce Lee
Hitmonchan was modeled after Jackie Chan.

Until I explored Pokemon websites I had never even thought of many of the Pokemon theories. A few of my favorite being the ditto-mew theory, the Pokemon war theory and the Gengar-Clefable theory.

TwilightBlade

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I've known about the above except for the legendary beast trio. Here are some I didn't notice until somewhat recently:

Fire Blast uses the kanji meaning fire.
Nidorina and Nidoqueen can't breed. Nidoran Female can.
Azurill isn't a Water type. It also can switch genders upon evolving into Marill because of the different gender ratios.
I can hardly spell ferret, lantern, volcano, and elixir thanks to Pokemon. Hint hint, RBY erroneously spelled the item as elixer.

εcho.

The silver ninetales

Age 31
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Seen November 24th, 2019
Posted March 26th, 2017
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9.4 Years
Are there any seemingly obvious Pokemon things that you didn't notice for years? For me it's ArticUNO, ZapDOS and MolTRES, that completely slipped my mind for years.
Oh my gosh. I never. wait. what. wow.
O_O

I didn't know about the Regis existence in RSE until a few years ago.

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Brendino

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13.4 Years
I think I'm more surprised that people didn't know about the numbering in the legendary birds' names than I was when I first figured it out, haha.

As for myself, it took me years to figure out that Fire type moves weren't super effective against Poison type Pokemon. I honestly couldn't tell you why I thought this was the case, though it might have something to do with the abundance of Grass/Poison types in the 1st gen games.
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Posted February 8th, 2015
1,908 posts
10.3 Years
I never actually realised that HMs cannot be forgotten normally until two years ago. I think it's because I never bothered to remove them, seeing as they were necessary to travel around. I think it was when I wanted Feraligatr to temporarily forget Cut (seeing as the HMs are everlasting) to learn an Ice-type move to beat Lance. Only then I realised the importance of the Move Deleter.

It took me four years to realise that Ethers or the superior versions can't be bought in shops, because I never saw the need to restore PP. Three years it took me to find out that wild Pokémon can sometimes hold items.
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Juno

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9.5 Years
This is kind of stupid, but one thing I always thought about Poliwag was that the large swirl thing was its mouth, and the little pink part above it (which I now know is its mouth) was the nose. Then I realized the swirl was its intestines, like how tadpoles have visible intestines, and that made so much more sense.

But yeah, until recently, I always thought Poliwag (and by extension Poliwhirl and Poliwrath) just had a really big mouth.

DraconianWing

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Posted November 14th, 2021
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10.7 Years
I didn't realize until a few weeks ago that Diglett and Wailord can actually breed of you put them in the Daycare. In addition, Wailord can also breed with Skitty, which is pretty weird as well.
"All dreams are but another reality. Never forget..."
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Posted February 8th, 2015
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10.3 Years
I didn't realize until a few weeks ago that Diglett and Wailord can actually breed of you put them in the Daycare. In addition, Wailord can also breed with Skitty, which is pretty weird as well.
What. Whaaat?!! WHAAATTTT-

... This is news to me. Imagine a Skitty saying to a Wailord "That's my boy!".
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Majestic Electric

Raining on your parade!

Age 26
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Seen November 19th, 2019
Posted November 19th, 2019
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9.1 Years
I didn't know that EV-training existed until about generation four or so, haha. If I did, I would've maximized all my Pokémon's stats as soon as I were able.
This, though for me I didn't know about EV training was a thing until about 5th gen. I also didn't know about IVs or IV breeding until 5th gen, too. Now, I do both of these things all the time. XD
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Dter ic

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10.7 Years
Finding out that you couldn't use TM's multiple times until I found out on the internet. (Granted, I started playing pokemon since Gen V) Also found out why people bothered to breed Pokemon aside from giving eggs to friends. :V IV's and EV's also get a mention since it was only after I started getting into competitive battling did I really cared about them.
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Posted July 12th, 2014
483 posts
10.4 Years
Well... it wasn't years, but it did take me months to discover that you could rearrange the list of a pokemon's attacks. It'd really bother me if a pokemon's main attack wasn't the first thing on the list when it came up, but somehow I didn't discover that I could change the order until I'd been playing, and being irritated, for months.
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Posted July 24th, 2016
516 posts
10.4 Years
I thought that the Hall of Origin was an actual event. (The one with Arceus in DPPt). Turned out to be an unused event, with location, item and dialogue. I was a bit of a cheater back then.

I still don't know what the 'Free Space' bag thingy does in B2W2. I mean, my bag is already an endless hole, where do I need extra space for? When I decide to carry humans?
Z not far...