Jirachi100
Kirby Fan
No, I thought this when I played the original. I can't remember what made me find out the truth, but it was around the time I played the remake.
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Stupid things that you thought/did with pokemon as a kid
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NovaBrunswick
Canada Connoisseur
Speaking of the originals, when Gen 3 was about to start, I saw a magazine article on the new games and starters, and it only showed the first four Hoenn Gym Leaders. Because of that, I thought there were only going to be four Gyms in Hoenn. I probably would've never accepted such a big diversion from tradition, at least until Gen 7 came out anyway.
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JAKnighton
Cartoonist
When I first played Sapphire version, I didn't know that the day/night feature had been removed so when I entered Petalburg Woods and the environment got darker, I assumed it was just the game switching over to night time.
NovaBrunswick
Canada Connoisseur
They did bring it back in Diamond/Pearl, though.
Just thought of another one, although it's not really something I did as a kid, but as a teenager. In Black 2, I beat Black Kyurem in one go, but I restarted because I wanted to see what happens if you try to use a Poké Ball on it. I know that Ghetsis says you can't catch it because of the power coming from his cane, but it was pretty embarrassing starting again just to do something I couldn't do.
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NovaBrunswick
Canada Connoisseur
- When I was in 2nd grade or so and watched the Advanced Generation anime episodes with May in it I kept thinking Misty would come back and May was only temporary... sadly this wasn't true.
At least Misty returned a few times in the Advanced series, and again in Sun & Moon.
Orphalesion
Well-Known Member
Wasn't there some thing with the D/P translation being written (or overseen) by some passionate internet user who (for some, unfathomable reason) was given free reign to stuff the whole game with blatant (and by now pretty dated) internet memes and references to SA?
NovaBrunswick
Canada Connoisseur
I'm pretty sure some people still say "noob" (as a shortening of "newbie"), but "A winner is you"? That's VERY 2007.
I once thought Bug was weak to Poison, because you use insecticides to kill unwanted bugs in your garden and on your crops. This was true in Gen 1, though with a rather bizarre twist - Poison was also weak to Bug! It was found to be a glitch and was fixed in Gen 2, but I think it would make more sense for Bug to still be weak to Poison for the aforementioned reason. My cousin also thought Fire was weak to Flying, since some birds have very large wingspans (like the condor), and flapping them hard enough can put out a fire.
I think me and my sister did a similar thing when we were younger. We would pretend to be Pokémon - I think I would play as a Torchic and she would play as a Treecko - and we ‘battled’ by throwing the sofa cushions at each other. XD
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Ok here is a recent one I made a slight error with. I couldn't come up with a name for the rival in Let's go Eevee. I reverted back to calling him Blue.....forgetting that Blue was in the game. On the plus side, both Blues sound like narcissists when they are talking about how good Blue is.
NovaBrunswick
Canada Connoisseur
Shouldm’t this thread be renamed “Stupid things you thought/did in Pokémon games” rather than “Stupid things you thought/did in Pokémon games as a kid”, because many of us still play Pokémon as adults and we can still do stupid things?
I thought of another silly thing: in Black, I caught a Dwebble in the desert north of Castelia. Because I thought the Dwebble was male, I gave it a male-sounding name. When I went to my PC at the Pokémon Centre, I realised it was actually a girl, and proceeded to release it. Of course, I could’ve just taken it out and went to the Name Rater, but now there’s a female Dwebble out there… with a male name.
I thought of another silly thing: in Black, I caught a Dwebble in the desert north of Castelia. Because I thought the Dwebble was male, I gave it a male-sounding name. When I went to my PC at the Pokémon Centre, I realised it was actually a girl, and proceeded to release it. Of course, I could’ve just taken it out and went to the Name Rater, but now there’s a female Dwebble out there… with a male name.
NovaBrunswick
Canada Connoisseur
We pretty much all thought that, so it's not really stupid. I used to think Clair was a boy, for... some strange reason. Maybe because she looks a bit masculine in her appearance?
Much more recently, I thought Ilima (the first Trial Captain in Alola) was a girl as well, especially when I first saw him in a trailer for Sun/Moon. Anime and manga has quite a lot of gender-ambiguous characters, which I think is a good thing, as it makes you think.
Vixzey
Member
- So many failed attempts at the Mew glitch in R/B
- thought there was a glitch to get gen2 babies in R/B
- after obtaining a lvl 999 Raticate from the MissingNo glitch, I would use a rare candy to get it to lvl 0, but it would retain it's stats and win the elite four on its own
- used to think that any moves that didn't deal damage was pointless and stupid
- didn't realise importance of IV, stats and natures until Gen4...
- believed you could travel to space and catch Deoxys in R/S
- thought Hyper Beam and OHKO moves were the ultimate moves to have
- was convinced Bruno would be revealed as Ash's father in the Anime
- thought Pink Rhyhorn and Crystal Onix were super rare spawns in G/S/C
Now, 19 years later, having played through every generation, I managed to tell people in relations to Pokemon Go raids, that when Regigigas comes, Water and Grass pokemon would be effective due to him being part Rock type...
- thought there was a glitch to get gen2 babies in R/B
- after obtaining a lvl 999 Raticate from the MissingNo glitch, I would use a rare candy to get it to lvl 0, but it would retain it's stats and win the elite four on its own
- used to think that any moves that didn't deal damage was pointless and stupid
- didn't realise importance of IV, stats and natures until Gen4...
- believed you could travel to space and catch Deoxys in R/S
- thought Hyper Beam and OHKO moves were the ultimate moves to have
- was convinced Bruno would be revealed as Ash's father in the Anime
- thought Pink Rhyhorn and Crystal Onix were super rare spawns in G/S/C
Now, 19 years later, having played through every generation, I managed to tell people in relations to Pokemon Go raids, that when Regigigas comes, Water and Grass pokemon would be effective due to him being part Rock type...
NovaBrunswick
Canada Connoisseur
Am I the only one who never got the “Pressing A and/or B repeatedly to increase the catch rate of a Pokemon” thing? It seems almost everyone here has done that at some point, but I never really believed in it. It just puts unnecessary pressure on your buttons and can even damage them if you do it too much.
You're not alone. I still do that sometimes. Not too hard though. I'd hate to break/damage them.
NovaBrunswick
Canada Connoisseur
Is this a stupid thing to think? I thought you could go to the Saffron Gym immediately after you beat the Celadon Gym in Yellow. Turns out you have to go to Lavender Town first and deal with all the Silph Co. stuff.
I also thought that when I defeated Flannery, that was the end of the game, as she was the last Gym Leader in Hoenn (this was because of a magazine, where an article on Ruby and Sapphire only showed four Gym Leaders).
I also thought that when I defeated Flannery, that was the end of the game, as she was the last Gym Leader in Hoenn (this was because of a magazine, where an article on Ruby and Sapphire only showed four Gym Leaders).
RedJirachi
Veteran member
I did, but a variation where I pressed B and up or down
Captain Jigglypuff
Leader of Jigglypuff Army
I was told holding Up +B would catch the Pokémon easily. It seemed to work about 85% of the time even up to BW/BW2 for me. Even in the Gen 1 Safari Zone this seemed to be reliable.
NovaBrunswick
Canada Connoisseur
I thought a similar thing, but I thought May was Misty’s sister or something of the kind. I didn’t see the episode where Misty left to go back to the Cerulean Gym.
My cousin thought the Johto starters looked weird when they first came out. I thought the same when the Hoenn starters first came out as well, as I was used to the Kanto and Johto starters.
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Rainbowdashtheawesome
20% Cooler
When Mew was first revealed there was a rumor going around at my school saying that it was unique because it had the power to devolve Pokemon.
Honestly I wouldn't mind if such a thing were possible. You catch an evolved Pokemon, then instead of breeding it to get its pre-evolved form in the dex you reverse the evolution. Heck, they could even use it in the anime to show just how powerful Pikachu really would be as a Raichu for a couple of episodes before returning to being a Pikachu.
Honestly I wouldn't mind if such a thing were possible. You catch an evolved Pokemon, then instead of breeding it to get its pre-evolved form in the dex you reverse the evolution. Heck, they could even use it in the anime to show just how powerful Pikachu really would be as a Raichu for a couple of episodes before returning to being a Pikachu.