10 Things in Pokémon You Believe That ARE NOT TRUE!

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[@TheShadow1347]

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

[@keturahwilson3366]

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[@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 👉

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@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?

[@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

[@fangchick93]

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

[@Pure_Vodka]

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

[@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.

[@jhonny6toes]

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

[@zachroz9588]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@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 😂😂😂

[@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.

[@purplexed9music]

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

[@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

[@neffyboy]

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

[@limegrass6194]

I basically never forget what types Pokémon are. Like, when I first saw inkay and Malamar, I took thought they might be water types, but when I learned they weren't, I can't imagine them as such.

[@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!! 🤣🤣

[@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.

[@DreamLionViolet]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@theR1ch]

The reason the button for catching thing was gospel was because we thought you had to tap Down and B when the ball reached the arrow. I think it persisted because holding a button takes no skill and can easily be tested, but timing the ball arc with the on screen arrow was something you had to "get the timing of".

[@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

[@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! 🤷

[@DilanQuill]

As well as the hold B to help catch a pokemon, I also remember another where you press and hold left as the opponent is getting hit to increase the odds of a crit. I also was very disappointed when I found out that they made gust a normal move in red/blue. My friend at the time said that it would make the forest too easy if gust was flying. I understood his point, but replied with 'why didn't they just give it tackle instead?'

[@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

[@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 🥶😵‍💫😵

[@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.

[@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 😂

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@terrysyvertson9205]

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

[@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!

[@davidfitzpatrick6535]

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

[@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.

[@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 😂

[@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.

[@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.

[@SinCityYetiArt]

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

[@HoopsandHipHop]

Thank you!! 😄

[@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...

[@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

[@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

[@Troubled-Kidd]

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

[@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

[@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. 💀

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@massiah1314]

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

[@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! 🦉

[@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

[@singsongsign]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@petrnovak7235]

The confusion with Splash is even worse for Pokémon Go players, where Splash, indeed, is Water type move. And AFAIK, it's the only move in Pokémon Go that changed type there from the mainline games. On top of that, Splash is not total mistranslation, since in Japanese, the word Haneru (original name of Splash) can mean splash, but this meaning is used rarely. Nob Ogasawara, who translated Red and Blue, was aware of this and suggested Flop. Sadly, he was overruled. And therefore, we have to live with this confusing name. As for Birch asking if you are a boy or girl... well I found it weird, because, canonically, Birch and Norman are friends and for Birch not knowing if his friend has son or daughter... well, maybe it's not as bad as Oak asking his grandson's name, but still pretty bad, since it suggests they weren't in contact for a very long time (in ORAS, the main character is suggested to be 12 years old). And that's quite sad, you know.

[@Courage-In-All]

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

[@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.

[@jessicabottoms841]

I've been holding down the A button for a good 12+ years while catching pokemon. And in all that time, I've noticed that statistically, if I don't hold it, the pokemon breaks out every time. I know it's my superstitious self, but im not taking chances.

[@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.

[@kagari1426]

Its strange how the game will tell you what type a move is when you select it. So you shouldn't be getting confused on what the typing of a move is

[@DevotedOgrim05]

I believed that if you actually press the A when a pokemon evolves it's stats would be slightly higher.

[@NuncleG]

I could receive a signed letter from every single programmer ever to have worked on Pokemon. I'm still pressing B when capturing.

[@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

[@andrewfreeland4858]

You don't hold down B, you tap B after each shake of the pokeball. It really does work a certain percentage of the time! That percentage may or may not be the same as doing nothing, but imma do it anyway.

[@Yoshigamingchannel]

Chansey and blissey are just pink which doesn’t mean fairy type they aren’t based in any kind of fairy or anything specifically it’s inspired by axolotls and eggs not any kind of mythical fairy that’s why they are normal type because it isn’t heavily inspired and plain so normal type

[@dangerousptah1894]

I respect that you start with a self ad!

[@BrandonSwinney-j2v]

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.

[@BrandonSwinney-j2v]

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

[@daniellelondon439]

For some reason I always think that Haxorus is dragon/steel type, even though it’s just dragon type. Also, similar to the Hoothoot one, I didn’t think that Wingull had feet until I zoomed the camera in on one in Violet and you can clearly see them.

[@FullNGagement]

I didnt even have friends in elementary, and i believed that holding the B button increased my catch rate. I just started doing it on my own, and i fell into it 😂

[@tronzero]

Two things that I went a very long time thinking were true in Pokemon: That Ice is super effective against Water, and that Drowzee and Hypno can naturally learn the move Dream Eater. The Dream Eater one is my reigning pick for the most egregious flavor oversight in all of Pokemon. Drowzee is based on a baku, how does it not learn the move called Dream Eater??

[@Sacolaman5]

I don't know if anyone else, but for years I believed Steel type was weak against Ice and Electric types

[@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

[@Stinkoman87]

Of course holding down the B button doesn't increase the catch rate. You have to tap it in time with the rolling; it's a quicktime event.

[@bjm0120]

I remember thinking that Golett and Golurk were electric not ground, not sure why

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@ryanbaker7434]

I used to think the escape rope could escape you from gym battles. You permanently couldn't get past the thirsty guard and saffron city was what you saw if you surfed past the ss Anne (instead of the mew truck) and oh yeah until I was 9 I thought pokemon were REAL

[@NightFuryLover31]

Oh man, I remember the B button! It's been so long, I actually forgot about it.

[@bessieburnet9816]

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

[@shironeko1843]

Also, Blissey using Dazzling Gleam in combat does not help! I really thought she was normal/fairy until a Brick Break KO it saying it was super effective.

[@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

[@Somarinoa]

I believed spinning the D-Pad helped catch Pokèmon. I still rotate my thumb over the Pokè Balls in GO to this day, if I’m being honest.

[@SpiderRiderKya]

I will admit to constantly forgetting that Chansey/Blissey are not Fairy type or part Fairy. CAUSE THEY SHOULD BE.

[@JaxonBellve]

That if you did the Z-Move pose IRL when you used a Z-Move in the game, the Z-Move would get stronger. I tried it a couple times, seemed like it worked. later found out it was a "high roll". also, it is confirmed FACT in my brain that mashing B increases catch rate. this myth actually helped me catch a wild Basculin once.

[@bigjalapeno7061]

Lol that's pretty funny