10 Things in Pokémon You Believe That ARE NOT TRUE!

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Pokemon is a huge franchise with a lot to keep track of, so much so that even the most experienced fans can sometimes get things mixed up, and believe stuff about Pokemon that's actually not true! In this video, I'm gonna be going over 10 things in Pokemon you believe or may have believed that ARE NOT TRUE!
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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - 10 Things in Pokemon You Believe That ARE NOT TRUE!
0:28 - Grab a Folkachi Plush and Card!
2:21 - Blissey, Fighting and Ghost Types
4:46 - Professor Oak, Hoothoot, Catching Pokemon
8:47 - Tips, Inkay and Malamar
10:24 - Pokemon Evolution, Pokemon Moves
14:20 - Outro
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[@XanXinGames]

@HoopsandHipHop does the shop ship to the UK?

[@HoopsandHipHop]

@@XanXinGames yes, it ships worldwide!

[@TheShadow1347]

Inkay and Malamar not having the water type is just as weird as Fezandipiti not having the flying type

[@keturahwilson3366]

I will be ordering the card ASAP. My Folkachi plush came last Friday, and I absolutely adore it!

[@KLGB76]

I think a video about the opposite concept could be fun: A video about facts people believe aren’t true but are actually real.

[@ApexDadBod]

I support this idea

[@affinityforanime]

For me it was "hold down on the D-pad and B" to increase the chances of catching a Pokemon.

[@djriolu234]

For me it was the iconic “Spamming the A-button” to increase the chances to catch a Pokémon. I still do this to this day even though it’s not true. Not sure why, but somehow pressing the a-button multiple times feels very satisfying to me.

[@bigjalapeno7061]

I never heard that until well after I started playing Pokemon and I never believed it lol

[@Corrine13]

same here and to be completely honest: i do it to this day(useless as it may be xD)

[@GethKnight]

I still do that out of habit.

[@wwerules000]

I thought it was the a+b button, with down and 👉

[@Haakkon]

Birds lose most of their heat from their feet because the rest of them is covered in feathers. So when they sleep they pull one leg up into their floof and stand on one leg to lose less heat. That's why hoothoot's other leg disappears.

[@nicholasschlinger3386]

I had thought Torkoal was part rock type, but then realized while playing Sword that its just pure fire

[@EpicRandomness555]

Yes! It always looks like a Rock type!

[@aquisui]

@@EpicRandomness555 morty?

[@EpicRandomness555]

@@aquisui Auto correct

[@Beanzops]

I used to believe Unown was a Legendary because of the Third Pokémon Movie

[@garg4531]

Same (I also believed they were powerful because of that movie)

[@brandonslone8937]

​​@@garg4531They are extremely powerful when bunched together. Individually they are worse than a bidoof. Hopefully pokemon gives us a form that is actually good. Imagine having to find every unown letter and being able to fuse them to a singular powerful form

[@garg4531]

@@brandonslone8937 As a kid I actually imagined a trainer sending out a single pokeball that unleashed a “ball” of Unown, like how they were in the movie, because at the time I thought they could only exist in a group like that, not as separate entities

[@ligghead]

Actual video starts at 2:35

[@Crush_The_Cranium]

thanks

[@CarlosSaulRodriguezA]

4:47 cause EVERYONE knows the first one.... and the ghost/normal/fighting interactions are literally an in-game mechanic, so i don't get what the "lies you think are true" is he smoking of... Edit: maybe it doesn't even start there cause starts talking about literally the first sentence of any pkmn game.... so... yeah, d*mb AF video... lol

[@ericwest3912]

That first sentence is attributed to Oak though. A lot

[@FTChomp9980]

One of the biggest lies is believing that Rotom,Lucario,and Zoroark r Legendary Pokemon! Anyone else thought they were when they were younger?

[@keirengallagher900]

I did about Rotom and Zoroark when I first found out about them not so much Lucario …

[@shynihunterpt]

​@@keirengallagher900 same here

[@djriolu234]

I have. I know that Zoroark and Lucario have their own Pokémon movies which then makes others think they’re legendary Pokémon and with Rotom having the legendary battle music making others think that it’s a legendary too. But unfortunately they’re not legendary Pokémon as we would think they are when we were kids.

[@BrodyMK64]

I thought Delibird was because of a Pokémon guide error

[@felipepestana]

Rotom yeah, you even get a static encounter and theme... It is pretty weird at first lol He is almost a Victini on that sense

[@thepencil448]

The Gen One pink blobs formed a nice venn diagram when Gen 6 came out. Clefairy became pure fairy, Wigglytuff became half-fairy and half-normal, and Blissey became pure normal.

[@silverice3166]

I used to think mashing the "A" button helped catching odds, and "B" had the opposite effect

[@brandonslone8937]

Too this day I still mash the A/X button knowing it doesn't do anything.

[@ApexDadBod]

Instead of B, I always thought it was the A button since that’s the one you used to select and use your pokeballs. 😅 Also, instead of holding down the button, I repeatedly pressed it to get better effect.

[@Evanescence1031]

Same! And I still do it to this day at 33 years old. It works I swear to god haha. I can’t not smash that button when I’m catching ugh

[@kiawegamer]

I never used the B button but the A button, I believed that B would decrease its catch rate 😅

[@bigjalapeno7061]

It would be funny either way

[@gavinbar1988]

yes, A+down. B cancels EVO so would cancel capture. Pressing B, no wonder it didn't work!

[@SpiderRiderKya]

Same! B is usually the 'cancel' button, the one you hit to negate things, so why would I press /that/ when I want to catch something? I've always rapid pressed A and never understood the logic for B.

[@jackmilburn3819]

I use it instead of A as the A would take it to the question of a nickname, not nicknaming them myself, it's B to go through the catch and registration to the Dex, B speeds up the words as well as the A during the catch and registration so doing the same, but staying away from A so no mistaken nicknames. I don't know if when getting onto the nickname screen, can you return/leave it without having to give a nickname?

[@djriolu234]

For the move Splash when I was a kid, my friend told me that splash actually does damage the bigger and heavier the Pokémon is. I’ve believed this and when I tested it for myself I ended up getting the same message as if I used splash with a magikarp “But nothing happened.”

[@garg4531]

I remember as a kid thinking that splash didn’t work because it was being used on land, and that if you were like surfing out on the water it would do something Nope

[@tripplec6798]

I still swear to it that in one of the older games, Heartgold/Soulsilver maybe, there was a fisherman trainer with a ton of magicarp you could fight and one of them either used splash and it one-hit ko'd my high level pokemon OR it was a magikarp on the team that knew tackle and was a crazy high level. I have looked it up numerous times and while splash does not do damage apparently it can learn tackle. Now I really think about it I think after the fight the fisherman trainer even makes a comment about how nobody ever expects magikarp to do that and it gets people every time. In short either the game somehow glitched and called tackle splash OR it was a surprise tackle from a makicarp. Possibly the later.

[@Larka661]

Honestly, I never understood why that's a move at all?

[@garg4531]

@@Larka661 To emphasis how useless magikarp is?

[@Larka661]

@@garg4531 idk Garadose was always useful

[@bloodblues85]

I know that holding down the button doesn't do anything, but I still do it anyway. It FEELS like it helps. :)

[@garg4531]

Same, and better than just watching and waiting for it to succeed or fail (I actually once saw a video explaining how things like the “close door” button on elevators actually work the same way. It doesn’t actually close the doors but it makes you feel like you did something)

[@zachroz9588]

This is so nerdy, and I love it. I’m in my 30s, and I’m like, “yeah, still Pokémon.”

[@buttonsfan]

Psyduck not being a Psychic type was always crazy to me

[@ambermaxwell7633]

it confused itself and everyone lol

[@macwelch8599]

Similar to Malamar, Overqwil is not a Water type at all

[@bigjalapeno7061]

I think it's kinda cool that they did that. Like, you already know it's a fish so why not replace the Water Type

[@macwelch8599]

@@bigjalapeno7061 agreed. Besides, Dark/Poison type is already a superior type combination

[@garg4531]

Same with stunfisk

[@bigjalapeno7061]

@@macwelch8599 Yea and it's also a pretty cool combo

[@garg4531]

@@bigjalapeno7061 I also like the idea that “just because it’s a sea creature doesn’t mean it *has* to be a water type”, and for me it’s neat to see non-water type pokemon like stunfisk and the Hoenn fossils living in water

[@purplexed9music]

I just realised hoothoot has two legs- I had literally no idea lol

[@jamminsilver]

for the blissey thing i have the opposite problem: i have to remind myself that clefairy is fairy type, after years of knowing it to be a normal type

[@jhonny6toes]

When red and blue came out the rumor at my school was holding the down button and B helped catch the Pokemon

[@TBG497]

The original Gold version pokedex description for Hoothoot mentions it has two legs, but the Silver one doesn't, so if you played Silver, you would have only been told about its sense of rhythm.

[@lemguins7031]

I just had to tell myself repeatedly that chansey is a nurse themed pouched axolatl. When you stack the thought of a pouched axalotl to lines that are singing balloons and alien fairies, it makes it easier to differentiate its line from the others in typing. Audino is also normal typed, so I'm guessing nurse theming is normal typed and will stay that way (yes, audino's mega doesnt help). Nurses tend to refute superstitions (immune to ghost type) neutral to witnessing and reacting to various types of damage seen on the job (no resistances but few weaknesses) and one of the most dangerous aspects of their job is the patients themselves and the security risk they pose (weakness to fighting) it helps to think of nursing as a science that isnt magical, but audinos is a bit of pseudoscience vs eating nutritiously to heal easier. Idk, but remembering their theming in both animal and behavioral motifs like that helps me remember.

[@garg4531]

Honestly even knowing that pushing the button doesn’t work, I still do it because at least then it feels like I can do something instead of just watching and waiting xD Also to anyone who thinks/thought inkay and malamar were water types, I have one question: what’s their secondary type? ;) Dark or psychic?

[@bigjalapeno7061]

It would be cool if the battles and catching were more involved and engaging

[@outstandingdogmarron2051]

Isn't inkay water psy until it evolves?

[@bigjalapeno7061]

@@outstandingdogmarron2051 No. Inkay and Malamar are both Dark/Psychic Type

[@fangchick93]

Speaking of hoothoot, I believed for the longest time that it's evolution, noctowl, was a psychic/flying type

[@jjavz3432]

Actually thought that too… Likely confusing it with Xatu, both being released in Gen 2 and Noctowl learning Psychic moves: Confusion + Hypnosis.

[@justasimplenobody2666]

For me I always thought rapidly clicking the A button would help my catch rate. Idk why I thought this, no one ever suggested it to me, but if I didn't do it I felt like I wasn't catching things as consistently. I pressed A instead of B cuz I knew B would cancel a pokemon evolution, so I was paranoid if I pressed B at all while the pokeball was trying to catch a pokemon that I'd cancel the animation and lose the mon. Again no idea why I thought this but I went with this method for Platinum and B/W2 and it never failed me 😂😂😂

[@DreamLionViolet]

I know it’s rubbish, but I’ll be damned if I don’t press b and up when catching a Pokémon lmao 🤣

[@neffyboy]

I did the down B thing. I also thought Mew was under that truck in Kanto.

[@Gemis_Heresy]

I spam the B button during attacks to speed up dialogue, but if my pokemon is confused i don't. i felt like inputting during attacking caused my pokemon to hurt itself more often then not

[@keturahwilson3366]

When you mentioned Inkay and Malamar, I remember that when I first played Pokemon Black, I initially thought Solosis was a Water-type because of the bubble surrounding it. But while I playing Pokemon White and looking Solosis up, I realized I was mistaken 😂😂😂😂 And until today, I didn't know Blissey was a Normal-type 😂

[@ambermaxwell7633]

I found out bout blissy because of @Marriland

[@riviera2979]

I still forget skarmory is gen 2

[@garg4531]

I thought skarmory and magcargo were gen 3 mons as a kid. They’re featured more prominently in Hoenn than Johto in both the games *and* the anime! (Similarly I thought kecleon and latios and latias were gen 2 because they debuted in the gen 2 anime. Was so confused seeing them listed as gen 3^^;)

[@sethbrooks7174]

The Hoot-hoot one got me. I figured the holding buttons down to improve your chances at a catch would be on here, but I always believed it as superstition. Still did it, but I didn' think it helped.

[@amy_TPN]

You will never convince me that "holding B and tapping the down button on the D-pad in time with each pokeball shake" doesn't increase capture chance

[@bessieburnet9816]

Love the Folkachi card! I hope to see an update to Histrobea Chronicles soon!

[@taylorchesser8990]

Even the developers aren't immune to this, Pokémon Go lists Splash as a Water-type attack

[@bigjalapeno7061]

Damn

[@garg4531]

While browsing through comments here I remembered a good one As a kid I thought margcargo and skarmory were gen 3 pokemon because they were featured more prominently in Hoenn than in Johto in both the games *and* the anime! Similarly I thought kecleon and the eon duo, latios and latias, were gen 2 because they made their debut in the Johto anime, and was so confused seeing them listed as gen 3 pokemon Edit: on a related note we have munchlax and bonsly debuting in the Hoenn anime, both two different movies and in the anime (getting caught by main characters no less, or at least munchlax and mime jr) and people instantly recognize them like they’re not new pokemon)

[@mikaruyami]

The first game that Bonsly and Munchlax appeared in was Pokémon XD in the Colosseum's mini game room. You could use them in the battle mini game but could not transfer them out of XD.

[@massiah1314]

Lol the ghost type and fighting type immunity thing also got me a couple times 😅

[@emerfirek]

The Birch and Tipping ones were definitely things I misremembered, so that was much appreciated. The types-related stuff (and type updates) seems to apply more to ppl who just refuse to read or look it up at all. If they prefer to live in confusion like that, might as well just let them remain that way. That said, type charts (and game info in general) prob don't make enough of a difference in their lives, so they're not actually worse off by not knowing.

[@ambermaxwell7633]

lol I have most type matchups memorized after playing since red blue and yellow didn't take long to get even when they added dark steel and fairy when they added reverse battles where everything is perma opposite day though I got hit with confusion 🥶😵‍💫😵

[@SesshouFan22]

I know there's nothing in the code that makes holding down the B or A buttons that increases the chances, *but* it still increases the chances because it makes you feel like you've got better chances!! 🤣🤣

[@lordcheesus1013]

Moves like Gust not matching their suggestive typing in Gen 1 was what drove me nuts when those games came out. Every time I used Pidgey and its evolution family as my flying main, the poor thing wouldn't be able to get any actual flying type moves until later in the game due to its leveling system. I never understood Nintendo's logic when it comes to Pokemon typing or move typing sometimes, but I give them credit where credit is due. At least they did fix that particular problem with gust and sand attack in Gen 2 so the problem was solved pretty quickly. But I'm still baffled to this day as to why Charizard was never given the Fire/DRAGON combo typing instead of Fire/Flying like he was in Gen 1. I mean, the guy is literally a dragon. Instead they make him Fire/Flying? Ok then.

[@sonicchic1]

The move Karate Chop also had the same issue in Generation 1 as Gust and Sand Attack. It was also a Normal-Type move until Generation 2 fixed it. Currently playing through Pokemon Yellow as of the time of this comment written, trained a Mankey for awhile, and while I was training it, it learned Karate Chop. When I did type matchups with Mankey, I kept forgetting that the move wasn't a Fighting-Type, so I had to say to myself that for now it's a Normal-Type move until the next generation and use the Fighting-Type move it does have as of this comment being written, which is Low Kick. 😅 Anyway, yeah, surprised that Chansey isn't a Fairy-Type! It would make so much sense for that Pokemon to have that typing instead of the Snubbull line, for example in my opinion. I thought it would at least it would stay as a Normal-Type until it became a Granbull and gain a Dark-Type or something. Oh well, Pokemon type balancing, I guess! 🤷

[@madnessarcade7447]

Probably done for balancing blissey is op enough already

[@FTChomp9980]

Taking down Blissy in Pokemon Diamond and Pearl well man it was so slow.

[@dangerousptah1894]

I respect that you start with a self ad!

[@sarahsander785]

I never believed holding down B would increase your catch chance. In fact, I never heard of this method up until recently. I grew up with pressing Up and A when the throw curve hits its middle point. And I do it still. I even remember reading this trick in several magazines back in Red/Blue days.

[@cynthiasitri]

For me, it was "Hold down B until the pokeball initally opens." I still do it to this day despite knowing nothing will change.

[@SinCityYetiArt]

Yo! Hoops! Your card is freaking cool! What a great announcement! 🤩

[@HoopsandHipHop]

Thank you!! 😄

[@bonelessfae4041]

instead of holding down the b button, what i did was press a at every animation/sound cue. when the ball is thrown, when it hits the pokemon, at every bounce, and at every wiggle. honestly i still do it, it feels like good luck

[@jedimasterpest]

for me it was "hold down left on the D-pad and B button at the same time" since Blue, now these days I just do it out of habit.

[@glitchhunter09]

One of hoothoot’s Pokédex entries actually mentions it switches between legs quicker than the eye can see. Also if you look at its model in Pokémon stadium 2 you can actually see it switching legs in real time. Just pan the camera under it and watch!

[@eljordinio7647]

Sometimes I forget the flabebe line is not part grass type despite literally having and being associated with flowers and learning quite a few grass type moves

[@nathanmcclung3564]

Bite being normal in one gen then dark in another and then switching from Physcial to special and then back to physical again was hard to take.

[@mikaruyami]

Gen1 Normal, all Normals are Physical. Gen2 Dark, all Dark are Special Gen4 Introduces the Physical /Special split for moves. Back to Physical again.

[@davidfitzpatrick6535]

7:29 I mean im 29 today and i STILL HOLD BY THIS THEORY!

[@conorferguson6073]

I remember in my first years of playing Pokemon, I thought Ghost was weak to Ground, probably because of Gengar being Poison type. What's funny about this is that I thought Gengar was 4x weak to ground because of that reasoning.

[@battlefield3112011]

When I was a kid and playing Yellow, somebody told me that mashing both A+B or holding it together will increase the catch chance LOL, and I believed it for a while.

[@hannahrenner7295]

My pokemon catching myth I believed was actually that if you took your fingers entirely off the buttons, you were more likely to catch the pokemon 😂

[@lightninglily644]

On the hoothoot thing, I thought hoothoot did only have one leg until I saw the Pika Prompt regarding Hoothoot switching from standing on one foot to standing on its other foot in while at GNN in Pokémon Detective Pikachu 3DS game

[@hdnightowl4664]

I also believed in the button combo for catching pokemon. Instead of holding B, I kept pressing A+B over and over to catch. I remember using this to catch Ho-Oh in a Pokeball in HG on my 2nd try

[@NaughtWalter]

I don't remember ever thinking that Fighting was immune to Ghost but I did mistakenly believe that Ground resisted Fire (like Rock does) until a few years ago. In a similar vein to Hoothoot I thought Electrike only had 3 legs for a while as a kid. None of the official artwork or sprites canonically show its fourth leg until the Gen 5 backsprites, and it has "trike" in its name... I remember getting into an argument with my friend over this lol

[@affinityforanime]

Splash is actually a slight mistranslation of the Japanese name for the move. If it had been more literally translated, it should be something more like "hop" or "flop" with no water connotations. I'm guessing this came out of gen 1 where the most "iconic" Pokemon to have this move was Magikarp. The translator likely wasn't aware of the intent of the original Japanese "this Pokemon just flails around helplessly and does nothing" which matches Magikarp perfectly. Instead they took some creative liberties to make it sound more fishy to associate it with Magikarp being a water type, which is entirely understandable.

[@RoyArkon]

I fell to a lot of these mistakes, the Gust and Sand Attack one, the Professor Oak one, the Hoothoot one and the B button one. So many mistakes along the way LOL

[@terrysyvertson9205]

gust and sand-attack were actually miscoded as normal type moves

[@Commander_Appo]

7:20 when I would do it, I would spam the A button right after the ball started to shake. A is the confirmation (and therefore “good”) button and B was the deny (and therefore “bad”) button, so ‘OBVIOUSLY’ the B button would increase your catch rate.

[@ColbyHurricane]

I never held "B", but I would Tap "A" every time the ball shook. Knew it didn't do anything but still did it anyway.

[@whimsicalVanilla]

I think when I was a kid I crossed my fingers behind my DS / gameboy, for good luck, while trying to catch a pokemon, lol. I also recall cheering on my pokemon to survive hits or land criticals while battling the Hoen Elite Four when I was 10, and felt like I actually had a bond with my pokemon, as if maybe they could hear me.

[@patthecat5536]

I've only ever pressed down the B button to catch pokemon. Always thought it was true. It even worked a few times. Maybe it was just me really believing in it or just a coincidence

[@BzumzumakaBuzbuzBen]

I never heard of holding down the B button to catch Pokemon more easily. I used to mash the A button in a certain way that made me feel like my poke ball has a higher chance of working and I still do this now cuz I like pressing buttons...

[@ShadyRK9]

I actually found out that Hoothoot has 2 legs because I had this plushie of Hoothoot that'd also change into a Pokéball that had its 2 legs out! 🦉

[@user-nm1eu1xu1j]

I read the sachet's description and thought it worked like the soothe bell, but was based on natures like the berries that confuse the pokemon if they don't like the flavor.

[@user-nm1eu1xu1j]

also, I saw what you did with showing the move confusion during the section on gust and sand attack

[@Morgil27]

Blissy and its whole line are easy for me to remember just from how many normal summoning sandwiches I made to summon swarms of them in Scarlet.

[@sammysamlovescats]

I have no idea where this came from but I've run into a weird amount of people that think pokemon could only have one type in gen 1

[@zachpro5475]

I thought that alolan vulpix was ice fairy just like it’s evo and also I thought Galarian Ponyta is psychic fairy like the evo but no it’s just psychic. And I always forget that Smoliv is normal grass instead of just grass

[@No__direction__]

Following the direction of the Pokéball with the D-Pad increases catch rate. That’s my head cannon.

[@cindyh2671]

I still doing it, and I genuinely believe mine works 😂! I press B when the ball closes, each time the ball moves, and in the last shake I let the B pressed a little longer, it has to be perfectly synchronized with the frames! I don’t know, 26 years playing and this method hasn’t fail me. Every time I have my timing wrong, the Pokémon get out of the ball

[@To-New-Beginnings.]

Sorry, odd question, buf where was Growlith clip from at the beginning?

[@Canxxxxxc]

Me: I don't buy the sponsored products Hoops: "Here is my product" Also me: "...man, fuck"

[@costby1105]

In Nintendo Power Vol 134. when being interviewed for the build up to the western release of Ken Sugimori stated that Hoothoot was his favorite Pokemon at the time. Ken Sugimori partially based it off of a pet bird he had that had penchant for standing on one leg. Splash is a water type move in Pokemon GO. Also during the localization of Gen 1 Nob Osagawara was aware of this and had suggested the name flop instead of splash but was overrulled. He also wary about the name Mr. Mime in case pokemon genders were added later.

[@Daniel_Coffman]

My go-to habit for catching Pokemon was mashing the A button. I didn't even learn about holding down and A or holding B or anything else like that until after I learned that there is no player input that helps with catching Pokemon. XD

[@amberwelch393]

I once believed in A, B, Down. In the pokemon Super Effective comic, they actually make fun of this when Red tries (and succeeds) in catching a pidgey. "Red threw pokeball, Red pressed A,B, Down, pidgey was caught." Implying that this method actually does work 😂

[@jerryjibbss837]

The fighting and ghost type thing. I never heard of. It is too me that it is like saying people were confused that flying types were super effective against normal types for the same reason why they are against fighting types.

[@Grey_Warden_Invasion]

Until I had the Bulbasaur line on my team again in the 6th gen I was convinced they were pure grass types. I must have played Red and Yellow over 50 times back then and I had Bulbasaur on my team a third of the time. I have no freaking idea how I missed that...

[@jedstanaland2897]

The pokeball was originally supposed to have a minor rhythm game that the player could play while catching Pokemon according to an interview given by one of the original creators of the Pokemon games. This was scrapped early on because they were encountering major problems with control delays and display delays. Basically even though the system could handle the processing the way that they were having to program the system and actions caused excessive issues with the ability to accurately program the data and the rest of the game at the same time. The next thing is that they had ideas for a feeding system and many other things that would either not serve a direct benefit or be nothing but flavor for the game in the form of making it more like real life and having to care for a real animal. They eventually scrapped this too because they felt it was far too similar to tamagachi and other similar pet simulation pocket/ Keychain games. There were so many different things that were scrapped in development according to the original creators that they couldn't remember them all according to their interview but we would have a vastly different type of series if they had been able to implement even a quarter of the originally planned content. I don't know if they still have something similar to Pokemon amonomi because I don't have any experience past ORAS but if they do it would be great to see. I also found certain interesting concepts that involve the various games wonderful but sometimes better implemented than others. For example the friendship mechanic allows the player to cheese it by simply doing one of the following things. Getting into a battle an Getting a Pokemon very hurt then feeding it the lowest healing value item until completely healed. Keeping the Pokemon in the party without doing anything else to benefit it ( including even using it ever ). Giving the Pokemon an item to hold even if it can't use it or the item hurts the user.

[@garg4531]

(Sorry for the third comment but) One thing I thought as a kid was that if you breed a shiny pokemon - like the magenta Quagsire I caught in Diamond - the offspring had increased odds of coming out shiny Because that made logical sense Even spent hours searching for a shiny ditto in Unova’s Giant Chasm so I could try using it for that!

[@bewearstar9462]

That was actually the case but only in gold,silver and crystal and it has to be the same egg group

[@demonstone677]

😂 so many of these make me feel better. I always forget the Chansey line isn't fairy. Always, for some reason, forget fighting IS NOT immune to ghosts. And I will always mash B when catching, and that's not gonna change

[@lowesgameing2003]

I thought you were supposed to hold the A button and say "I'll give you milk and cookies like you're Santa Claus"

[@FullNGagement]

I havent even looked at the Blissy line since OR/AS. I just assumed that theyd gotten retyped

[@amziedragon6619]

I originally thought (because diamond and pearl were my first games) that the physical special split, alongside the dark and steel typing, existed in all games. Also types in the original games confuse me since I started in D/P

[@XVYQ_EY]

Who the hell thought that holding B (or as I heard smashing A) would increase chances of catching a pokémon? 💀 Also, that Folk catching plushee for 29,99$s? Bro, it costs over 100 in my local currency and it's not just exchange, it's like asking usaians to pay you over 100$s. 💀

[@williamlee3890]

For me it was rapidly pressing a for catching rapped B to not catch believe it or not it worked far as I remember 😂 I still do the a out of habit 😂

[@bigjalapeno7061]

It didn't take me very long to realize that Fighting wasn't immune to Ghost. I believed it at one point but I haven't for a long time

[@kelleyjohnson7949]

Something else I believed about splash when I was younger was that if you got it down to the last pp, it would be a 1 hit ko move. I never had the patience to try that one out! For me, I smashed the A button to catch pokemon. Sometimes, I still do if I'm having trouble catching it. I know it doesn't work but it feels like it helps 😅

[@bewearstar9462]

I mean if it your only move you can do stuggle

[@singsongsign]

For a little while, I believed that Gmax Pikachu/Meowth/Eevee could use Eviolite. They apparently can't.

[@zae_thunder4541]

for the one where you would hold B to guarantee a capture. the varient i heard i you use the D pad and you start from left and keep swirling the D pad in a circular motion. i believe that varient so much i did it till i was around 20 to 25 years old. and it seemed to of worked to. even on legendary pokemon it felt like it worked and when i failed a capture after about 3 bouncess ( yep i called each segment of a pokeball capture a bounce and still do ) i figured i may of messed up the motion or rhythm of the D pad so i kept trying. but yep thats the varient i learned

[@kuramayoko23]

This would be a little strange, but I originally thought Entei was a Fire/Psychic type. The reason I thought this was the case was the Pokemon the Movie 3 and Entei spoke in the movie and I wasn't that far into Gold yet. When I did catch Entei eventually, I was shocked when it was pure Fire type. Keep in mind that the previous two movies featured Mewtwo and Lugia and they spoke and were part Psychic. Also, unlike Meowth and Gastly in the Maiden's Peak episode, Entei didn't move its mouth when it spoke, like Telepathy. Psychic types use Telepathy=Entei is part Psychic. It didn't occur to me immediately that the Unknown allowed it to speak.

[@bauaserkun]

Well I get your reason but honestly I would rather believe it was part psychic for the same reason lugia is psychic type - it was introduced in gen 2 when psychic was considered the strongest type due too, gen 1 stats (special attack & defense where the same stat) and few bugs + the strongest legendary (and mythical) in gen 1 being psychic type. in gen 2 people simply expected legendaries to be psychic. Anyone who played gen 1 remembers how broken could alakazam be or how powerfull snorlax became if it only stacked up some amnesia's - it could survive anything except few crits in a row and oneshot most oponents with surf regardless of their typing.

[@kuramayoko23]

@@bauaserkun I've been playing Pokemon since Gen I and honestly, that never occurred to me. While I knew about Psychic was the strongest type, Mewtwo, Mew, and Lugia being Psychic, etc. it just didn't occur to me at that time.

[@sagehale744]

Azurill is one of my favorite pokemon, but I constantly forget that it is normal type and not water like Marill and Azumarill.

[@ericwest3912]

Was normal type. Fairy type since Gen 6

[@mikaruyami]

For me, with most Pokémon games, it was holding both down and b at the same when the ball animation makes contact with the Pokémon. However with Colosseum/XD for the gamecube i would hold down both the L and R buttons at the same time. I also used to believe Poison was super effective against Water as water Pokémon would always seem to get the poison status when hit with poison sting in gen1

[@melbell700]

Lol till this day playing Scarlet and Violet. When catching a pokemon i hold down A+B+Down on depad. That once the pokeball hits i let go of the down button. I learned this from playing platinum and its been stuck since. I know it doesnt work but it still makes me feel safe to do it.

[@salemstowaway7927]

With the Hoothoot I finally learned it has two legs when I played New Pokemon Snap and I punted it out of its tree.

[@KINGWALT-sp6ox]

I hold down the down part of the directional pad and b every time I try catching pokemon. It something I've done since red and blue.

[@hooptyhoop7862]

I believed the two Creepypastas about Lavender Town and Buriedalive but it is not true. It was convincing since I have been overcome with sadness or creeped out by the Lavender Town and with Buriedalive, I just didn’t know about game hacks.

[@Chaos0f7ife]

I constantly have to remind myself the Fairy is NOT weak to Fire. Fire just resists it. IDK if I'm the only one with this issue, but I keep thinking it.

[@Mike_Ka-Chowski]

I still press B. Usually because I wanna be out of the catch and pokedex screens as soon as possible and I found that pressing A could lead to a box full of mons named AAAAAAAAAA if you're not paying attention