Stupid things that you thought/did with pokemon as a kid

[keybug55]

Using an over leveled pokemon even though it didn't listen to you.

Also killing Groudon and not saving...still kinda annoyed with that after like 11 years lol

 

[Bguy7]

Pearl was my first Pokemon game and I never understood what Special Attack and Special Defense was. It's pretty obvious what all the other stats do, but I had no clue that some attacks dealt physical damage, while others dealt special. I always though Special Attack was some sort of backup stat, like if your attack was lowered a certain amount, you'd start using special attack instead. Anyways, I had a Giratina (my favorite Pokemon), and I really wanted to teach it Draco Meteor, but I had just caught it. I didn't want to wait to make it friendly with me, so I gave it a whole bunch of those berries that lowered special attack and special defense, but raise friendship, thinking that it wouldn't make that big of a difference. The worst part is, in addition to Draco Meteor, it also knew two other special attack moves.

 

[PrinceOfFacade]

Pearl was my first Pokemon game and I never understood what Special Attack and Special Defense was. It's pretty obvious what all the other stats do, but I had no clue that some attacks dealt physical damage, while others dealt special. I always though Special Attack was some sort of backup stat, like if your attack was lowered a certain amount, you'd start using special attack instead. Anyways, I had a Giratina (my favorite Pokemon), and I really wanted to teach it Draco Meteor, but I had just caught it. I didn't want to wait to make it friendly with me, so I gave it a whole bunch of those berries that lowered special attack and special defense, but raise friendship, thinking that it wouldn't make that big of a difference. The worst part is, in addition to Draco Meteor, it also knew two other special attack moves.

I used to think that same way back when I first started playing.

My first game was Silver. I couldn't stand dealing with Special Attack and Defense because I didn't know what they were. I would just ignore them and anything related to them. I look back on it like, "What on Earth was I thinking?"

 

[fubufubu]

I thought that "saving" meant I completed the game....yyyyyeeeeeah.

 

[Wolverines05]

played pokemon silver for 4 hours. one of best times in my life. saved game. found out internal clock had broken.

 

[Robot Smeargle]

teaching it random moves that do a good amount good damage (I would teach gengar shadow claw)

 

[Privilege]

I used to start a new game every time I lost a battle in G/S/C >.<

 

[Miss Ordinary]

Well I used to only catch pokemon that I found cute.
SO MANY YEARS WASTED.
I also thought that if my game boy/ds ran out of power while playing it would delete my save file. >.>

 

[ryanthehuman]

• When I found my first shiny (a Wurmple) in Emerald, I thought it was ill and talked to the nurse about 70 times thinking she could heal it.
• Later when I found a shiny Cacnea in the same game, I assumed it was just a new colour pallet for Emerald since this was the first one I had seen
• I didn't know how Clamperl evolved, so I levelled one up to level 100 thinking it would evolve into some sort of super powerful Kraken
• I didn't know that Yanma was a thing until Pokemon Platinum... and I've been playing since Yellow!
• Speaking of Yellow, I thought that Double Team actually dealt damage and had my Pikachu use it all the time.
• I also didn't know how to get to Lavender Town. It took me months to figure out that I could go east from Cerulean City.
• I thought that Latias/Latios were gender-based evolutions of Togetic.
• I thought that 'New Game' meant an entirely different game... as in a Mario game or a Kirby game or something!

 

[BmanP1]

I had no idea what the difference between special/physical attack was. I put fire blast on everything in emerald in the name of what I thought was "type coverage." I also thought hyper beam and solar beam were the best things since sliced bread.

 

[Maserati777]

A couple things.

1. I always thought Fighting type energy was Ground energy

2. I traded a base set Pokemon Breeder for a Squirtle on the playground. It was right around the time base set came out so I wasn't at all familiar with the cards, to be honest I didn't care about the trainers all that much.

3. I never put my starter in the box after Yellow version because I thought it would hate me, like Pikachu.

 

[bidoofdude]

The TCG, due to types being grouped, made me think that electric was weak to fighting and similar things. This annoyed me so much. I also, for no reason in particular, got it inside my head that fire was weak to flying. Weird i know.

This, so much. I didn't get the whole psychic, ghost and poison weakness system for a while until I really got into the games.

 

[TheDragonKing]

When I played my first Pokemon game (which was Emerald) I saw the Flygon in the intro and thought "I want that one!" So I picked Treecko thinking it would evolve into Flygon. Needless to say I was shocked when I saw Sceptile appear when my Grovyle evolved. Then I caught a Trapinch and when it evolved I freaked out. XD

Also two words: Giga Impact.

 

[SiLeNtDeViL609]

I remember when I played Pokemon Coliseum that I would always choose Vulpix to be on my team. I knew I would lose but back in the day, Vulpix was my favorite pokemon, like FAVORITE, Vulpix and Ninetales

 

[SerenaForTheWin]

When I first obtained my very own pkmn game which is Ruby/Sapphire, I actually had no idea on how to play the game in which I ended up attacking the target with physical attacks, at that time I didn't use any lowering stats attack since I was still a newbie to the game. Until one of my friend advice that game is not all about doing physical attacks with a target that is the time I felt stupid to myself

 

[SlowPokeBroKing]

I sometimes still forget that Lucario isn't a legendary.

 

[NotABeginningTrainer]

My first game was Emerald and the first time chasing after team aqua in the submarine I got lost in the cave. Well not really, but I couldn't get through the strength rock maze. I guess I kept trying but eventually gave up. I left and carried on with the game however I could. At some point I completely forgot about that place and wasn't sure how to get into the gym in sootopolis, among other things. I never beat that game until after I beat Diamond. My pokemon were around lvl 70 the first time I beat the league.

 

[lavanda]

I thought Torkoal was a horrendous monster.

RS sprite

I saw the holes in the shell as its eyes, and the neck + head as a closed hand coming out of the shell, somehow grabbing the smoke.

 

[Disaster_Lord]

I thought Torkoal was a horrendous monster.

RS sprite

I saw the holes in the shell as its eyes, and the neck + head as a closed hand coming out of the shell, somehow grabbing the smoke.

Cannot unsee...

 

[lavanda]

Cannot unsee...

The worst part about it was Flannery's Torkoal having Attract.