Your Pokemon Confessions..

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The ???

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We all started with Pokemon at some point and that's why we are here. Most of us, started in childhood when we were NOT SO smart and innocent! :P

Post below your confessions / things you believed that were extremely stupid when you first started with Pokemon games :P

I'll go ahead :
When I first played Sapphire LONG ago, I thought Spinda evolves in Skarmory.
I believed 100 accuracy meant NO CHANCE of missing
I made my 9 lvl Zubat eat Rare Candy
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the first couple of playthroughs I had a level 80 blastiose and a lv 5 ratata as a team(plus one of the birds(articuno and zapdos) for flying.
once i made a speedrun. my battery died on a exchange trip to france erasing my not saved file and i played through blue in ten h using the whole night.
It took me 101 h in my first run to get out of silph co as i didnt know how to get past the guy next to the porter field.

missingno was fun and it gave me a mew entry in my hall of fame.

first time i played(so elses game) i got badly lost in mt moon.

I thought my game was broken the first time I was poisoned outside of battle in Pokemon Red. I'd always cured it in-battle or the Pokemon had fainted, and I was wandering around Silph Co., my screen beeping and jerking about periodically - despite saving it, turning it off and blowing into the cartridge multiple times - practically in tears because I thought I'd done something to it. Then my Pokemon fainted and it stopped. I've never been more relieved. xD

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One thing I've always believed in is, similarly to Airhead, permanent stats decrease and increase.

When Pokémon would use stats-lowering moves such as Tail Whip and Growl, I used to imagine them to be permanent, which would sort of make me feel frustrated. To get your stats fixed, I used to think Swords Dance, Rock Polish, and other things of the like were mandatory. However, while I was browsing GameSpot forums one day, someone told me that all of it were temporary, and I didn't find myself worrying about these things afterward ever since. I know I would have figured out about this eventually, but I'm glad it happened sooner rather than later.

As for Pokémon themselves, when I was around eight or so, I thought shiny Charizard was a different evolution to Charmeleon entirely; in order to get a hold of it, I believed (as this is what my friend told me) that we were required to train Charmeleon to level one-hundred and use Fire Stone afterward. I've attempted to try this on various occasion, but unfortunately, I've never got around to leveling the Pokémon up to hundred.

The ???

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I can relate a lot! XD
That reminds me,my friend once told me he has a 137 level Psyduck (jn FireRed) and I believed him right away and he was the coolest one in the group because of that! XD
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9.8 Years
I have two confessions :P

1) i never knew that a moves type determined what kind of attack (special or physical) it was back in gen 3. I only realized this way after the last game with that quality was released.

2) for the longest time i thought that catching a pokemon at the lowest level possible would make it stronger at level 100 than if i cought it lets say level 50. If only i knew about EVs back then xD

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I confess that the first time I ever played Blue, at first I could not figure out how to leave the starting house.
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The first time i played emerald when I was a kid I chose Mudkip it was a shiny! I restarted because I thought my game was broken
Years later when I was playing alpha sapphire I saw a guy offering a shiny mudkip.....then i remembered. My face was just like

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Even reading about Killing Feebas made me cringe.

I remember some more :
- I couldn't solve the strength boulder puzzle in Team aqua's cave hideout for a week.
- I was unable to go to Saffron city in FR for about 2 weeks, I kept trying to give her soda pop or lemonade but she just won't drink that.
- I was very very afraid of Lavender Town music.
- I only used my blaziken in league, and only used sky uppercut on everyone.
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I'm sure many folks from the good 'ol days have felt the same way: I got fooled into buying a Magikarp. Not more than 3 hours later, i get an old rod reeling hundreds of them.

Oh, and back when Sapphire first came out, I was playing the Japanese version. Almost gave up within the first hour or so trying to figure out how to get out of the house, only to discover that the clock must be set ._.'a

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When I first played Yellow way back when, it took me about 10 tries to get past Brock. All I had was a Pikachu, Pidgey, Spearow, and Rattata, and all they knew were Electric/Flying/Normal attacks that did almost nothing to Brock's Pokémon. It wasn't until I got Stadium and glanced through my Stadium user guide that I realized I could raise up a Butterfree and beat Brock with Confusion. (Which is why Yellow is a harder game than Red/Blue, IMO.)
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From least shameful to most shameful:

1) The first Pokemon game I owned (In fact the first game I owned at all) was Pokemon Silver. Even after downloading a ROM I've never completed gen 1 because I just didn't like it.

2) I had a level 100 Typhlosion that still had Ember because it was the first fire move it learned, got me through the first 2 gyms, and I thought that made it one of the most powerful fire moves in the game.

3) This is a long one, buckle down.
When the games first game out I got Ruby and my childhood friend got Sapphire, we were both 11 at the time. I caught Seedot and she caught Lotad. She ended up getting a Water Stone (and therefore a Ludicolo) later on, and I didn't know how to evolve my Nuzleaf. She kept bragging about it and I started to feel really jealous. One night we had a sleepover and when she fell asleep I went on her game and released her Ludicolo then saved. When she went on it the next day she was really upset and didn't know what happened. I told her some story about how 'I heard about this glitch on Sapphire where it sometimes deletes a Pokemon you got with a stone'. She still believes that it was a glitch 11 years on, as far as I'm aware.

Bonus edit confession:
I didn't know what Pokerus was when I first saw it. The same friend as above told me that it could kill your Pokemon and I got really upset because I didn't want my Pokemon to die.
I think that makes us even? Kinda?
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I murdered a shiny Diglett before. I thought my Pidgeot being at the same level as the Pokemon in Cinnabar Mansion was a good thing. I violently killed Articuno and thought it was in Cerulean Cave someplace, and I tried to perform the Mew Glitch in Pokemon Leafgreen.

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I wasn't TOO bad... my first game was Yellow Version and I used my Master Ball on Zapdos instead of saving it for Mewtwo, that was about it.

A big lesson I learned from Crystal version was to ALWAYS have a huge stock of Poké Balls, I learned this when I ran into a shiny Nidorina but I had no Poké Balls whatsoever... :(

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So first game was either leafgreen or sapphire but im forgetful
Wait with a 100% chance of accuaracy moves can miss? Jk :p
I thought SPIDNA evolved into loudred
I thought a magneton was just a swarm of magnetite
I thought dragon rage was the most powerful move.
And thats it except....
I used my masterball on a gyarados the first time smarts! XD
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I thought tapping the 'A' button loads in Sapphire would increase the chances of catching a pokemon when the pokeball rolled, and that any moves which didn't cause damage were useless, so yeah pretty embarassing!
I had believed in the same, exact thing for a very, very long time.

This wasn't something that others told me about; it was something I made up myself, and my belief in the method continued expanding when I was trying to capture Lugia in Silver version. When I'd encountered this Pokémon, I was having much of a tough time trying to capture, but eventually, I kept hitting A button continuously while throwing a Poké Ball at one point, and luckily, I successfully wound up catching.

Same happened in my second run of Pokémon Ruby, if I remember correctly, while going up against Groudon; I managed to capture the Pokémon while pressing A non-stop. I stopped counting on this eventually, especially thanks to an article I had read on some site, but I wish I hadn't; although it doesn't help in any way in actuality, it's still fun to believe and whatnot, at least from my point-of-view.

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Posted October 1st, 2017
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Ok, here are some of my confessions:

1) I started playing in Pokémon Yellow. I was 4. I couldn't speak English. My mum used to play together with me and helped me out by translating. This is a story my mum told me a few years back: We didn't know what boxes were. We were both baffled that the party had changed after visiting the PC. We had no idea what happened and restarted the entire game.

2) Up until generation 4 I have firmly believed stat changing moves were useless because they didn't deal damage.

3) Up until generation 5 I have firmly believed pressing A the moment the Pokéball balances to the side increases your odds of catching a Pokémon. Similarly, mistiming it would result in decreased odds of catching a pokémon. I also believed holding my breath and not moving my gameboy AT ALL would increase the odds too.

4) I never actually played in the Battle Tower or any similar post-game facilities until Gen 4, because they didn't allow Legendaries, and my teams always had at least 3 - 4 Legendaries in them.

5) Playing Pokémon Leafgreen I first used the Day Care Breeding Service. I thought eggs hatched a randomly generated Pokémon, so I caught a male Pidgey and a female Pidgey, put them in and got myself at least two boxes full of eggs. When I kept hatching Pidgeys, it struck me that two Pokémon could only breed the same Pokémon.

6) I didn't know the difference between Atk and Sp. Atk until Gen 4 (or 5?) when they had different icons. That's when I searched the internet what it meant.
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I thought that attack and defense were about offense and defense, while special attack increases the chance scoring a critical hit and special defense lowered the chance of being hit by one.
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When I first played Yellow, I didn't know about Nidoran, so I had to beat Brock using Pikachu's Quick Attack.
Also, when I got the Master Ball, I used it on a Jigglypuff because I thought it was a super-rare Pokemon.

When I first played Ruby, I saw Mawile for the first time and didn't know what I was looking at. Caught it, gave it a bunch of Special moves and used it throughout my journey until it became Lv100.
I didn't know you could get a Master Ball in the Magma Hideout, so I missed it. Needless to say, I didn't have a fun time capturing Rayquaza.
I also didn't know about Wailmer's evolution so when I translated "last comes Wailord" in the Braille chamber, at first I thought it was some kind of slang that describes a fat person.
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