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Things you didn't notice for years

The fact that I discovered the Deino line's names were based on the German words for "one, two, three" and I often mispronounced Zweilous' name until discovering that.

I even couldn't say the names of the legendary beasts (Raikou, Entei, Suicune) for years. Now I actually know how their names are pronounced, in fact watching the anime made me learn how to say some Pokemon's names.
 
For quite a long time, I was convinced Farfetch'd evolved into Doduo. Of course, it never really mattered, because, after all, nobody uses Farfetch'd anyway.

Back in 2008, I decided to replay my Pearl version. In need of a Water-type, I picked up Psyduck because it's a decent Pokemon and available very early on. I had it in my party throughout all but the very beginning of the game, and I still never realized it wasn't part Psychic type until I threw it out against Aaron and his Bug-moves weren't super-effective.

Not sure if this counts, but it took me quite a long time to realize that there were items that could only be found on Wild Pokemon. I remember, on my Crystal version, the only Pokemon I never caught for completing the Pokedex (excluding Mew, Celebi) was Kingdra, because I could never find the Dragon Scale, which can only be found this way.
 
Doctor said:
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.
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I dunno about this one. I think the names are mostly based off SUI (水, water), RAI (雷, thunder), and EN (炎, fire) in Japanese than an amalgamation of Western langauges, since the names are mostly unchanged from the original Japanese names. (The latter half of the name seems to be various ways to say king/emperor for all three.)

Anyway for my answer to the thread, it's embarrassing to admit but Probopass was one of my favourite Pokémon for like a year or two before I realized that its moustache was indeed a moustache and not a nose hair 'fro. :( I'm still disappointed from the realization.
 
The theory about Venonat originally being meant to evolve into Butterfree blew my mind when I first saw it lol :)


In terms of what's been mentioned: Brendan and his hat/hair lol as well as being majorly confused about Attack/Special Attack and Defence/Special Defence :)
 
I used to think Fighting type moves were super effective against psychics. I learned my lesson when I used a Breloom to try and beat Tate and Liza.
 
1)Shroomish could evolve (I always ditch it after the first gym)
2)Flying is super effective against Grass
3)Natures actually means something!


and Evs and Ivs and all the weird stuff I guess.
 
For me it was the "Palette Town" and all the names in the first generation based on colors! (I did unterstand the colors, but not the "palette" thing). And Articuno is Blue, Moltres is Red and Zapdos is Yellow, all the primaries colors!
 
Doctor said:
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.
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Nice Speculation, but the actual idea I believe is the number of point's on the Beast's crest.

Raikou has 4 points on it's crest/snout. *image removed*

Entei has 5 points on it's crest/eyebrows(?). *smogon.com link removed*

Suicine has 6 points on it's crest. *image removed* (the BW sprite was bad)
 
These patterns continues even for Registeel and others!

Mawa said:
For me it was the "Palette Town" and all the names in the first generation based on colors! (I did unterstand the colors, but not the "palette" thing). And Articuno is Blue, Moltres is Red and Zapdos is Yellow, all the primaries colors!
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I didn't see that coming, votre aide est très aimé.

The initial trio is RGB!
 
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I was thought that in R/B/Y, that the guy outside Cerulean Cave had one of those furry British guard hats and it turns out to be the cave entrance is just behind him.

I also found a shiny Golbat in Victory road in Gold and thought it was a special roaming boss Pokemon like the red Gyrados. I knocked it out, restarted from a previous save, and searched for it. Found it a second time in about five minutes and knocked it out by accident again. Restarted a third time and proceeded to search in the same area for a half hour, this time catching it. I had no idea how lucky I was until about four years ago.
 
Illusione-Tempus said:
Oh goodness, I was guilty for this lol.

It took me a close inspection on a shiny Poliwag I caught to actually notice that. xDD
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Super late reply but yeah, it actually wasn't until I played X and saw Poliwag in 3D that I realized where its mouth was, since it was opening and closing it in the animation. :P Blew my mind.
 
Oh my goodness, I learned quite a few things from this thread... ಠ_ಠ

Well for a while I used to see Metapod with angry-looking eyes.

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LAWSICK said:
Oh my goodness, I learned quite a few things from this thread... ಠ_ಠ

Well for a while I used to see Metapod with angry-looking eyes.

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Oh, me too. I thought it was facing the other way, like the pointy part on the right side was its nose or something. :P
 
It took me to X and Y to realize that Sharpedo was a cut in half shark. BeforeI I thought, his tail was simply hidden behind his body (the sprites looked that way and since I never used one by myself...).

To be honest: I wish I'd never realized, because it makes him from being kinda cool to not so much anymore.
 
Juno said:
Oh, me too. I thought it was facing the other way, like the pointy part on the right side was its nose or something. :P
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Oh no... Childhood ruined. Wait, I think I realized before that it actually has 2 "noses" and thus they are more like limbs than noses haha. But I still have a hard time seeing that side of it as the front. Really didn't look like it in the anime.

R.F. said:
It took me to X and Y to realize that Sharpedo was a cut in half shark. BeforeI I thought, his tail was simply hidden behind his body (the sprites looked that way and since I never used one by myself...).

To be honest: I wish I'd never realized, because it makes him from being kinda cool to not so much anymore.
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Yeah, why did they even do that xD It's not like it makes it look better or more imposing or give it an easier time moving around on land or anything. If anything, they should have done that instead, kind of like Dewgong actually could crawl around on land if it wanted to.
 
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