2nd Gen WTF moment thread

[Weavile05]

Why in the world was it ever normal anyway?

 

[TheNewRocketMovement]

I have no idea why it was a normal type move, I'm pretty sure Gust was as well, some of the move types back then made no sense.

 

[Lynx93]

My WTF moment was when I tried to pass sudowoodo in Crystal. I didn't planned to catch it, but when I entered the battle... It was SHINY, I didn't had any pokeball with me -_-' And since then I always buy Pokeballs in case if I meet rare or shiny one (not that I like to use them, just to have it).

Edit: Not only Karate Chop and Gust were Normal back then, but also Sand Attack and Bite.

 

[xxChazxx]

My WTF moment was when I tried to pass sudowoodo in Crystal. I didn't planned to catch it, but when I entered the battle... It was SHINY, I didn't had any pokeball with me -_-' And since then I always buy Pokeballs in case if I meet rare or shiny one (not that I like to use them, just to have it).

Edit: Not only Karate Chop and Gust were Normal back then, but also Sand Attack and Bite.

lol, that sucks. Things like that happened to me so often back then. Now I always carry an abundance of PokeBalls with me on my journey.

omg, I went back to Red and remembered that GUST was normal, training Pidgey got a tad more difficult and I was no longer looking forward to Viridian Forrest. But then I caught a Pikachu and I was all better :D

 

[Emlam]

I felt Bite made more sense being Normal, actually, though it's nice to have it as a Dark attack. Sand Attack ... didn't really matter to me 'cuz it does no damage. :P
Gust was annoying, yeah.

*wants a shiny Sudowoodo now*

*thinks about how inappropriate Sudowoodo looked before it attacked and you saw the sprite*

 

[TheNewRocketMovement]

It was SHINY, I didn't had any pokeball with me -_-.

This could have happened to me, I was in The Lost Tower a few weeks ago, the screen flashed as it does when a wild Pokemon appears (Which annoyed me at the time) and then, a green Zubat appeared, luckily I had a nice number of Poke balls on me =D

Thats only the second time (Excluding the red Gyarados) I've encountered a shiny in the wild, the other one was a shiny Machop on Fire Red, stupidly I forgot I had it and restarted my game without trading it over =[

Anyhoo, lesson learned, always carry Pokeballs, I can only imagine how much I would kick myself if I bumped into a wild shiny and didn't have any Pokeballs on me.

 

[Weavile05]

WTF how good wrap was in RBY, when you couldn't attack, I hated the grass gym all because of wrap... WTF Wrap!

 

[iNinja]

Going back to moves o_o, I remeber the move Low kick instead of doing damage according to weight, It had a flinch rate.

 

[Weavile05]

really? I didn't know that! I'm gonna have to take another look at all my poke's moves on the emulator...

 

[xxChazxx]

WTF how good wrap was in RBY, when you couldn't attack, I hated the grass gym all because of wrap... WTF Wrap!

lol, yeah!
You could take out anything, given it's speed stat was low enough.

 

[redsaber5859]

Guys, please get back on topic, this is for your WTF moments, not Gen 1 move nostalgia

 

[Weavile05]

Gen 1 move nostalgia IS WTF moment for me!

 

[redsaber5859]

Gen 1 move nostalgia IS WTF moment for me!

OMG DEJA VU

I swear this exact line happened to me before

Anyways, when I bought pokemon stadium 2, this pokemon gold player had TONS OF POKEMON IMPORTED TO IT

...

Another WTF moment

 

[shininglatios217]

Buying a bootleg Pokémon Silver that has the worst translation in history!

Example: The MONEYPOT is in Room 32.

Seriously, WHAT WAS THAT?

 

[mal'akh]

Well, I had a weird Quilava. Not design, but move. After training it for a while it learned Flame Wheel. I was excited to use the new move, so I battled the next wild Pokemon I saw with it, which was a Geodude. I used the move, and was amazed. After a few months and me restarting a couple of new games, I decided to get another Quilava. I taught it Flame Wheel went the opportunity came, and found something different about it. The first time I ever learned Flame Wheel, it was exactly that. I wheel of fire rolled from my Quilava's sprite, and hit the other Pokemon. When I got it the second time, my Quilava twirled around and tackled the Pokemon. Turns out, the tackle was what was supposed to happen. Really made me say "wtf".

 

[Weavile05]

wow, perhaps you activated some sort of hidden data in the game?

 

[Sydian]

Beating Red with a team of Pokemon in their mid-40's. Come on, Red. wtf.

 

[shininglatios217]

Beating Red with a team of Pokemon in their mid-40's. Come on, Red. wtf.

I didn't know Red could fail so easily XD.

 

[mal'akh]

wow, perhaps you activated some sort of hidden data in the game?

idk, all I know is that I was mind-fugged when I found out.
Another was on my Sapphire. I can barely remember (for all I know it could have beena dream), but when I first got it, I was real young, and I was so excited to get it. I remember catching a Ralts, shiny, Level.5, and it knew Growl and Confusion right off the back.

 

[redsaber5859]

A fews years back, I booted up my Gold version (with about 230 Pokémon) only to find "New Game and Options", the file died, so I turned on my Silver version (which I got on the same day from the same guy) only to find the same! WTF!!!, both games died at the same time? So I bought Crystal 2 days after and pulled an all-nighter to beat it (Its PokéDex is done! Except no Celebi.)

MasterSceptile

Go to radioshack, buy new internal batteries and sodder them on