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*Wastes the Master Ball*

Palamon

Palamon

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    What are some dumb things you did in Pokemon back when you were a beginner at it? What about dumb things you thought/misunderstood?

    I wasted my Master Ball on an Unown in Pokemon Diamond.

    I also had both Crunch and Bite on my Torterra. :') I feel like that was really stupid of me and a waste of a moveslot.

    I remember losing my Rayquaza because I cloned incorrectly in Emerald at one point.

    I also defeated Dialga in my first Pokemon Diamond run and honestly, I still feel kind of bad about this one 11 years later.

    Using legenday Pokemon in the Elite Four. This was a REALLY dumb idea.

    Removing the game card from my DS, too, I know you're not supposed to do that nowadays, though, but back then, I'd do it when I was mad. I think I ruined my Pokemon Diamond by doing this, honestly. I probably also did this when I play LeafGreen and Emerald, too.

    ...As for dumb things I thought:

    -I wasn't aware by "one-use only" on TMs meant the item was one-use only. So, I thought by one-use, it meant the MOVE was one-use only, so I was confused as to why the moves I taught from TMs were still there.

    -I thought that my game was glitched when it was shaking from Poison. No one explained to me that the game was supposed to do that in the older games. <_<

    -I also thought my game was glitched when I went down the slope on the Cycling Road?? Yeah, uh I don't know. Doesn't really help that in the D/P games there's no trainer tips explaining the bicycle road is a downward slope, and there's no b-button trick like in FR/LG. I eventually grew out of this thought, obviously,
     
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    When I played Diamond at age 7, I was having trouble beating Mars' Purugly; so I thought it'd be easier if I used a Buizel with Water Gun. Because cats hate water.
    I find that oddly wholesome.
     
    i passed up blaze kick for my blaziken the first time i played sapphire bc i thought the ember animation was cool and didn't want to risk an animation that was ugly

    i was very wrong
     
    I used to think stat changes remained until the battle ended/you healed at a Pokemon Center (one of the two, I don't remember), so I would sometimes try to set up like a random howl or defense curl or something so my Pokemon would have better stats next time I sent it out.

    I was always upset when my Pokemon wasn't doing the damage/taking the hits I expected it to. :x
     
    I thought that when you caught 6 pokemon, the other pokemon you received were DONATED to other players. I didn't understand what the PC system was and how it worked until a year after I started playing pokemon. When it said "Zubat was sent to someone's PC" I assumed it was a random person who was unable to catch any pokemon, LMAO. (To be fair I was 7 and my first game was Pokemon Pearl.) I guess I was never curious enough to actually go up to the blue machine beside the pokemon center counter. This meant that the first pokemon I saw would end up on my team. (Although for almost 2 years my strategy was to ONLY train my starter. So I'd go into the elite 4 with a level 80 Empoleon and my other mons would be level 12.)

    ALSO, I was initially unfamiliar with gender symbols as a child so I had a male Empoleon named Isabella. Ridiculous.
     
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    fainted a shiny linoone w/my Blaziken bc I was somehow under the impression that shiny Pokemon were stronger than non-shinies

    .... oh how wrong I was.
     
    you know when you white out or w/e in pokemon like. i was like 7 and whited out in yellow and i was like excuse me. i'm sorry. i thought this was YELLOW version? why did i WHITE out??? shouldn't i yellow out?
     
    The very first Pokemon game I played I used the Master Ball on a Kingler. In my defense. I was out of balls and I really wanted that Kingler.
    I also still remember how I spent probably a good 10 or 20 minutes just wandering around Pallet Town trying to figure out where Professor Oak was, until I eventually decided to try leaving town.
     
    Playing Silver as a kid, I only used my Typhlosion for the entire game. I defeated all static/legendary encounters because I didn't think you could catch them.

    I also used my master ball on a Nidoran because I didn't believe it would catch without fail. I was wrong.
     
    Trained a Carnivine to level 100 because I was so sure it had an evolution. :')
     
    • Named the GSC rival "???"

    • Used my first Master Ball on a Stantler. (Other Poké Balls kept failing, so I guess I thought it was really strong or rare, maybe even Legendary.)

    • Raised a Dunsparce to evolve into Gligar. I think I had Internet at this point, but never thought to make sure they were related before investing so much time into it. If it wasn't for this incident, however, I probably wouldn't like Dunsparce so much today.

    • Believed that nicknaming Pokémon made them stronger, especially naming them after positive emotions like "LOVE" (my original Ho-Oh's name).

    • Tried to get Mew from under the truck. It didn't work in Red, so I was convinced that it only worked in Yellow. I got Yellow and it still didn't work. At that point I figured it must've been exclusive to the Japanese versions, which I would never own "because I lived in America."

    • I was scared of saving the game in Lavender Town because I felt that doing so would make spirits come out of the game while it was turned off...

    • "Your Raichu went and evolved!" Even in middle school, this in-game quote made me believe the Pikablu rumors (despite having played Silver and knowing that Pikablu was Marill). I remember replicating the Electrode-for-Raichu trade with one of my friends in attempt to get it.

    • Believed that the Gorgeous Box could be found inside a toolbox in Goldenrod's Bike Shop after completing certain requirements, and that it contained Celebi. (In reality, the Gorgeous Box is obtained from an N64 event and contains trophy decoration for your room.)

    • Believed that catching all the Unown and/or arranging them in a certain order could trigger special events.

    • Believed that holding Up and tapping A when throwing a Poké Ball and switching to holding Down + B when the Poké Ball opened would sometimes increase the catch rate to that of the next-strongest Poké Ball (for example, Great Ball into Ultra Ball). Or some variation of that, anyway. I still have a habit of doing it despite knowing that it doesn't work (one of the many, I'm sure).

    • Believed that holding A + Left while a foe's HP was dropping would make it take more damage and holding B + Right while my Pokémon's HP was dropping would make it take less damage.

    • Believed that MissingNo. was secretly Lugia and convinced myself that I could see it in MissingNo.'s scrambled mess of a back sprite.

    • Thought the animated flowers in GSC's overworld were cards of some kind. I couldn't figure out the point of them since you couldn't pick them up.

    • I misinterpreted a few of the Ruby & Sapphire sprites, especially Barboach. I can't remember when I finally realized that its mouth wasn't an eye... Others include Gulpin/Swalot (seeing the upper lip as a round nose and lower lip as a goofy smile) and Seedot (mistaking the light shading for part of its "mask," giving it the appearance that it had a cat-like mouth). I hated Gulpin/Swalot for a long time because their faces looked too humanoid.

    • Until just recently, I didn't see how the "serpentine" menu icon from Gen. I-II was supposed to be a snake. As it would turn out, it doesn't have a diamond-shaped head; that's the end of its tail sticking out from behind its head!
     
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    Letting my cousin sister play my Pokemon Yellow was my worse nightmare.
    Killed my Zapdos, threw my Masterball on a Magikarp.
     
    I just thought of another one!!

    Okay so, Ruby was the first Pokemon game that I've owned (not played), so that being said, I was super excited to basically just blow past the story and go straight to the end of the game.

    So I get to the part where I would battle Groudon, right? So I'm like okay, I just have to defeat it and all is well. Except there's a problem... I fainted Groudon, not knowing that entire time that it was catchable. So the next day in class I told someone (another Pokemon fan) that I defeated Groudon and beat the game and they were like "you know you can catch it, right"?

    ... I have never felt so dumbfounded at that point.
     
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