What mistakes have you made?

Started by Razgrey August 19th, 2016 9:29 PM
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Razgrey

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Posted August 16th, 2019
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6.8 Years
Sometimes, we've screwed up. Everyone makes mistakes and nobody is perfect.
And now we're gonna talk about mistakes, whether it was unintentional or with regret.

In a playthrough of FireRed I inadvertently made my Charizard an HM Slave without even knowing what that actually was.
Cut, Fly, Dig, and Fire Blast.
And yes I did unlearn Charizard's ultimate attack, Blast Burn.
And that Charizard became a Level 100 from the result of using Cut on random Smeargles.

Banz

Age 30
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Posted June 25th, 2021
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10.6 Years
Well Blast Burn is a rubbish move so it's good that you forgot it.

I don't remember much from my first playthrough, but my strategy then was to pick a team of my favourite Pokémons, teaching them random moves without any regard to STAB, BP or whether they were physical or special. I had to overlevel a lot and use things like Potions to get through the game. I also had no idea what any of those stats (except HP) meant.

Kabocha❤

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Posted May 13th, 2019
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I was very young and I had a hard time understanding this amount of English at the time and I didn't have a manual or anything, so it took a lot of trial and error. I couldn't get past Slateport for soooooooo long and I didn't even know what Save does, but it was a fun experience and I think it really helped improve my English vocabulary.

kingdenas

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Seen January 9th, 2021
Posted October 24th, 2019
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Hmm, this happened because it was my very first Pokémon game. In Pokémon Platinum, when I was little, I loved playing with my Empoleon. I could defeat all gyms easily, but when I got to the Elite Four, I struggled so much .... All because my Empoleon was overleveled, but my other Pokémon were like , at level 18. Worse than that, my Empoleon was LITERALLY an HM Slave. I actually CRIED because I couldn't defeat the Campion, so I asked my cousin for help and he defeated it... After that incident, my cousin said " Your Pokémon should all be around the same level. Let's say you can't have any Pokémon more than 3 levels below your strongest one." Now, I never desobey this rule XD
-WORK IN PROGRESS-
Btw, the artwork on my avatar is from an artist called OMOCAT, you should check her out ;)

Lunar

Age 24
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Seen September 16th, 2020
Posted September 15th, 2020
First time I ever played Emerald I used my Master Ball on an Oddish, when I realised my error I was horrified. I then had to use countless Ultra Balls to try and get Rayquaza.

Hikarin

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Posted September 11th, 2016
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Another thing was just rare candying my Pokemon to level 100 because I really, really lacked the patience to train. That was also a bad idea, considering that they were awfully weak.

idk I was an awful trainer when I was a kid ok.
I still do this on my hacked Black Version sometimes... Except that then I spam vitamins on them and actually do the EVs right.
Seen April 18th, 2019
Posted November 3rd, 2016
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My first Pokemon game was Black Version, and I only paid attention to my Serperior. I didn't care about my other Pokemon because Serperior swept through all the gyms with Leaf Blade in a pinch. Then when the Elite 4 came around, ooh boy did I fail a thousand times. I had the worst time fighting the Ghost one's Chandelure because it was part fire. And also, Serperior had hardly any advantages over any of the E4..

So I went out and threw my Master Ball at Cobalion because, gee, a legendary, it's bound to get me through! Then I learned it was weak the Chandelure I was trying to beat. Sigh.

But I got through it eventually, caught Reshiram, had a real hard time with the Final Bosses, and only post game did I get the Volcarona egg and Virizion.

Frozocrone

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Age 29
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Seen September 8th, 2019
Posted August 16th, 2018
I once reset my Pearl game because I thought the green Onix meant that the game glitched.

Don't worry, the glares I got from my friends when I told them instantly said to me I had a monumental mistake.
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Duhemsounds

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Posted August 27th, 2016
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6.7 Years
One day I made a fail,

It was on Silver / Gold so Gen 2 Pokémons. I was on the cave where we catch Lugia, I got spamed by wild Gravelers, each time i chose 'run' and I didn't notice at a moment, a shiny Gravaler poped, I quit the battle too quickly and just after I realized it was a shiny.

Oooh you have a so looong... neck ?!?

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Posted November 7th, 2016
32 posts
9 Years
When I was still new to Pokemon. I did not know that there were Pokemon that evlved with stones. So I finished my Pokemon Ruby with a Level 70 Vulpix and everytime it leveled, I'd be like it's gonna evolve it now (I grinded that Vulpix a lot fyi). It was until I bought the guidebook that I realized I needed a Fire Stone.

TheLegendaryGuy

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Posted December 28th, 2016
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I got a mewtwo and I thought I could ev train it at lvl 100. I trained it to lvl 100, then found out lvl 100 pokes cannot be EV'd! ;-(

"There's no sense in going out of your way to get somebody to like you" - Ash Ketchum

LilyGardy

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Even though I have played Pokemon for many years I admit I at times forget what things typing are. Until recently I was adamant Chimecho was a steel type (It's Psychic) and that I occasionally forget Magnezone has the Levitate ability.

Also in a shiny filled X run (I found a Shiny Golett, Two Shiny Gibles and a Shiny Magikarp pre Elite 4) I ran into a Shiny Electrode in the Lost Hotel. I had a Master Ball but asked Gardevoir to use Hypnosis. It missed and Electrode duly exploded...Should have used the Master Ball. It's my only failed Shiny encounter.
Currently playing - Omega Ruby Grass Monotype

TheLegendaryGuy

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Posted December 28th, 2016
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When I first played pokemon Yellow I had no idea how to use pokeballs until I used one on Brock's Geodude
Hey! That old, drunk guy in Viridian didn't teach you?

when i played crystal when i was like 10 or younger idek how old i was but i was so dumb and thought miltank evolved into magby bcos magby came after it in the pokedex and i levelled my miltank up to level 100 and i was so dumb
Seriously! I had a hearty laugh for half-an-hour after I read about you guys' mistakes, and I still can't stop!

"There's no sense in going out of your way to get somebody to like you" - Ash Ketchum

Pukeamon

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Posted September 12th, 2016
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I got a mewtwo and I thought I could ev train it at lvl 100. I trained it to lvl 100, then found out lvl 100 pokes cannot be EV'd! ;-(
u can ev train lvl 100s... i do it all the time lol

Imperator161

Seen February 5th, 2023
Posted July 31st, 2020
1,415 posts
14.7 Years
When I first played Red, I had a hard time going through Mt. Moon, and thought I might have missed something to the west (in the direction that led to the Elite Four). Rather than simply backtracking, I decided to restart my file to check out the alternate route. I wasn't thrilled to discover that I couldn't make it too far along that route, even once I got a gym badge, but it wasn't a major loss. As it turned out, the ladder that I had planned on trying next in Mt. Moon was the right one (I had missed it somehow on my first playthrough), and I could have made my life several hours easier had I known, but no real harm done.

Another inconsequential, early mistake, this time in Gold: I was trying to up my link battle win record (for no particular reason) by battling against a throwaway file in Silver. I accidentally hit run on both games, though, and ended up with a tie. The worst part is that I think I might have done it twice before I noticed.

The one I regret, though it wasn't entirely my fault (I guess I was a little too gullible), was falling for a Pokemon scam in Diamond and losing a shiny Rattata without getting my desired shiny in return. I did finally find another shiny Rattata on the GTS a year or so ago, so I guess I've partially reclaimed it, but I'm still bitter, and I still loath scammers.
Diamond FC: 1504 2172 1147
White FC: 1721 2860 5156
3DS XL FC (X): 2466-2669-5197
Needless to say, when I first started playing the main series Pokémon games, with Yellow, I made many crucial mistakes on my earliest save files with that version. Among them are:
  • Frequently trying to catch other trainers' Pokémon, particularly those that couldn't be found in the wild in that version such as Bug Catcher's Weedles and Jessie and James' Pokémon.
  • Spoiling the starter Pikachu to the point where it got to Level 65 by the time I was to face the final Gym. By extension, also ignorantly trying to use Thundershock on Ground-type Pokémon such as those used in the Pewter Gym and by Hikers.
  • Running from battles from each of the Legendary Birds, as well as both Snorlax.
  • Wasting my Master Ball on a Farfetch'd after getting frustrated over it breaking out of my Great Balls.
That save where I made all those mistakes got destroyed in the evening on Labor Day 2000. Since then, I've played each of my Pokémon games in accordance to what is generally recommended for players.

Hikarin

SOS Chain Overflow

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Seen February 7th, 2017
Posted September 11th, 2016
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6.8 Years
In silver and gold I didn't try and catch the red Gyarados. I just let it faint
I did this in HGSS, but I didn't do it intentionally... I threw a bunch of normal Pokeballs at it, all while spamming Hyper Beam on it... that was a bad idea. A year later, though, I restarted that file and got it.
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On my black and white 2 file i had genesect victini keldeo and meloetta along with celebi manaphy and other legendaries i imported from older games, except mew since i never was able to get a mew event, i deleted my entire save file thinking all my legendaries where still on pokemon white, a few days later i looked to trade them to black and white 2 and was crushed to remember that i already did and erased that save file.
So do i just sign here or?