12 Dumb Mistakes You Made in Pokémon

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[@yazenabduljawad693]

one time i found a shiny magnemite in lets go pikachu... i used my master ball😔

[@theWwhiteKing07]

​@@yazenabduljawad693 why tho.

[@CharCharNether]

My first shiny was in fire red and was a shiny spirow before I got pokeballs I knew instantly what it was because I heard stories but I didn’t know the odds soooo sad I’ve never found one in that game again

[@kel2thac]

hello mickey i hope ur treating drowzee well ^^

[@ESteele5055]

@@MandJTV hi Mikey

[@Sephifhy]

16:09 "ITS A FLASH OF LIGHT! HOW DO YOU MISS!?" the enemy pokemon just so happens to blink at that point

[@Carinail]

Just for the record guys, Flash is GREAT. Last year I started from scratch at making a living dex with every game, and therefore beating every game, and catching every mon in every game. And flash is ESSENTIAL. Why? Well, do yyou have any idea how many resets it takes to catch your average legendary due to crits? Do you have any idea how many LESS it takes when they can't hit a thing? Flash catches legendaries, boys and girls. Put it on your catching mon, That's why so many grass type can learn it, to pair it with sleep powder.

[@LabXperiment_]

@@Carinail u can use sand attack, minimise, double team and more for the same purpose and some of them are much much better at the same purpose. The main caveat with flash is that you cant erase it when finished it's purpose without the move deleter when it was a HM and the 70 accuracy is horrendous... which was the point mikey was making

[@Nobody134]

I like the implication that pokemon spend 30% of the battle with their eyes closed

[@Marker12-l7e]

lol

[@Carinail]

@@LabXperiment_ Yes but which of those other moves help you navigate elsewhere in the game? Cause last I checked it was none

[@Lucas-to2jc]

I named my rival "???" in Crystal and spent the entire game looking for a sidequest to find out his name

[@jpancakes3167]

Same but with Gold because that was my first Pokémon game. Granted I was 7 at the time 😅

[@iain891]

As a kid I wanted to help the police find the thief, so I told them everything I knew, which was that their name was '???'

[@jesushernandez777]

Same in crystal but because I thought that was his name

[@PToons-12]

My first game was lets go, where I called him some guy that I hated, but Tracey is acctually pretty nice in lets go LOL.

[@littleevsamoyed7130]

I do that cause I think it's funny

[@froggi3432]

not even one second into the video - “you used to be stupid!” wow thanks mikey 😭

[@fernoagent8581]

Jeez thank you mikey

[@weirdguy1495]

That is a V-Sauce Michael intro right there.

[@DigiRangerScott]

AND you still might be!

[@MagiRemmie]

What do you mean "used to be"? I still am.

[@NathanForsgren]

Me and a friend just agreed with that statement. We are dumb boys.

[@saltystick_99]

"ARE YOU KIDDING ME!? ITS A FLASH OF LIGHT! HOW DO YOU MISS!?" Goku, after grabbing sunglasses in the World Tournament: "One more time?"

[@cheyners2773]

I always thought that Fearow was a pre-evolution to Ho-Oh, simply just because there was a decent amount of similarities between the two

[@DragonTheOneDZA]

Pfft. There's no way a pokemon could ever evolve into a legendary... 🦁☀️🦇🌙 Wait a moment

[@Vince_GameZZ]

Once got a machoke to level 90 trying to get machamp.... don't judge me, I was young and he looked cool😅

[@Robin280497]

Now I'm gonna nickname every Ho-Oh I get in HG/SS Kenya and make sure I don't have the actual Kenya. :)

[@pikablu1]

Fearow evolves into Ho-Oh with a Legend Stone (you can get it in gen 10) and so does Heatmor into Heatran

[@ThePokéWild]

Omg, I actually had a dream where I was playing Pokémon Go, and I could evolve my Fearow into a Ho-Oh for 200 candies. I'm not kidding, I still think about that dream on a regular basis

[@Quadrenaro]

When I was a kid I was with two friends, Eli and John. Eli had never played pokemon so we let him play gold. He goes into a wild battle and encounters spearow. He turns to us and asks, "What did the stars means?" John and I were like, "What?" We look and are like, "HOLY CRAP!!" So we took the game from him, and caught that shiny spearow. Eli was bewildered.

[@Cool78250]

Wow

[@Ash-GreninjaExpert]

At least Eli didn't ran away from the Shiny Spearow, thank god 😅

[@Mari-Schimmer]

Good thing Eli asked!!!

[@ErofuSophia]

Very harasho moment of Eli

[@Allantitan]

@@Ash-GreninjaExpertor immediately attack and one shot it 😂

[@n-gamer64]

“You used to be STUPID.” Assuming I got any smarter lmao

[@orbracha25]

He then immediately said "some of you still might be"

[@Nakuweed-samurai]

@@orbracha25 mikey use counter It super effective!

[@Nerdtwentytwo]

And then you watched another second of the video

[@galixypawerpack]

Real. *(I never did.)*

[@Brettovski]

how is this commentor proven right imediately lmaoo

[@plaguedoct0r]

In the red/blue booklet that came with the game, it briefly mentioned that some pokemon can only be found once, and it had a picture of growlithe on that page. When I finally found a growlithe and failed to catch it, I cried because I thought I couldn't get it any more.

[@bennydave4160]

I had this exact experience. You are forgiven, because you were misled

[@bluevern904]

I also thought stat changes were permanent, because my Empoleon's physical damage was so awful it only made sense to me that it was because it was constantly intimidated by wild Staravia. That made more sense to me than the fact it was so low because the physical attack was Cut

[@adrianoribeiro6110]

yeah me too, but kinda different, i knew that stats changes works in the field, but i though that if i used Agility to cap for battle, my "pokemon" would get more Speed buff when leveled up, and this was after my first playthrough, it was in a rom hack called Dragonl Ball Z Team Training

[@Auragod08unofficial]

I once played pokemon X and thought huh these stat things seem cool, if my attack gets higher my dmage will be bigger right? So I buy tons of X Attack and when it said your attack wont go higher i was astonished, were my pokemon the strongest they could be? then i wiped to lysander 5 more times, and i was raising physical attack, on specially offensive pokemon.

[@jeffreygao3956]

Weird mistake; How would the stat changes be permanent just because of one battle?

[@Auragod08unofficial]

@@jeffreygao3956 because i thought it would stay there when i use my x attack to raise my attack

[@jeffreygao3956]

@@Auragod08unofficial That is...very odd reasoning.

[@kyleh3227]

"It's a flash of light, how do you miss?!" They blinked.

[@bradenduvall6630]

Lol

[@MagusAgrippa8]

Sunglasses.

[@vgmaster02]

Sorry, turned away for a second.

[@matthewsimpson5529]

Yeah that'd do it...

[@aaronfraire9073]

Insert Team Four Star reference here.

[@davimp]

When I was a kid, i didn't knew the box existed, so I tought you could only catch 6 pokemon. In Fire Red, I once found a Shiny Ratata. I knew shiny's were rare, but I hated Ratata, so I didn't caught him because I didn't wanted him in my team.

[@ShenaniganBros1]

I mean that’s true in Pokerogue

[@slayer1227]

This looks like it was writen by a kid.

[@ezrat4248]

​@@slayer1227 probably a recent memory lol

[@TheZestyJester09]

​@@slayer1227Some people just have really bad spelling or just don't care. It annoys me to no end, but I have to just deal with it

[@EmojiBirdYT]

NOOOOOO

[@emeraldrangersWhite]

I believe the Heartgold story for 2 reasons. 1, yes, people do close a DS and charge it 2, Heartgold was the first gen you had to manually delete a save before making a new one. I've done this, you pick new game with an existing save, play for a while then try to save only to be told that you cannot overwrite a different save. So you're choices are either start over or play on as stated before

[@NovumDoesObservation]

Can attest, my poor DS was working overtime for me.

[@gbaspc]

I remember hearing about a kid not knowing you could run from wild encounters. When he finally left Mt Moon, he had a lv 34 charmeleon

[@psychie8625]

...How...? Was he lost for a while? Did he have to grind intensely to beat Brock? I've done solo runs before, and while I didn't KO every wild Pokémon in sight, my Ivysaur would end up between... 25-30 if I remember correctly.

[@lorenzoantonio3630]

What game was from gen 1 or gen 3 cause if it gen 3 then charmeleon will have metal claw

[@theflailips1013]

I didn’t know how to escape Mt. Moon but when I did I had a fully evolved Blastoise, because of course I used only my starter(yes I caught every Pokemon I saw) and by the time I got out he was level 45. Shout outs to TJ the Blastoise!!!

[@hacky5004]

​@@psychie8625he probably kept wiping out

[@kimberlyramin]

That child was me (not really). I was just stubborn and didn't run from battles until SUPER late game unless my entire party was in red

[@fadhilmulyono9230]

The worst mistake of Gen 4/5 is beating an entire Pokemon game in one sitting when an old save file already exists. These games prevent you from saving at any point when starting a new game without deleting the old save file, especially when the games force to save after defeating the champion and entering the hall of fame

[@ulrikruby]

I bought my first Pokémon game (Pearl) on a flee market, and for a long time I didn’t want to erase their data. And for some reason the game kept freezing in or before Jubelife city (at least I think that’s what the city is called), so I just replayed that little part of the game hundreds of times before eventually deleting the old save data and starting my own adventure. But since I didn’t understand English, it took me a long time to figure out you had to talk with the clowns to progress, so I think my Monferno was in the late twenties when I finally got my first gym badge.

[@SuperChristopher-ll8bd]

This was me because I got a used copy of black and didn't know how to delete an old save. Lucky this only happened like 2 and I was only like 1 or 2 gyms in but still.

[@AzaanNatuskar]

Bro at least you know you could save the game , I don't even know how to save the game and played entire fire red till game corner without saving and then restart from being every time untill I discovered save option

[@commanderredjonkks5268]

wait so what happens? The game forces a save but it can't save, so what does it do?

[@PensiveAnalysis]

@@commanderredjonkks5268it doesn’t save. Although, In B2W2 you actually can’t even get passed Pokestar Studios as you’re required to save before leaving it, therefor softlocking you.

[@Lycan4]

As a child, I was playing one of the Hoenn games (can't remember which one, either Ruby, Sapphire, or Emerald), and grinding in the grass near the Daycare. I was starting to grow bored with grinding, so I was on my way back to town to heal, when I had a random encounter while leaving the grass, which was a Shiny Oddish (my first Shiny). I didn't know about Shinies at the time, but I was smart enough to recognize that this thing was special in some way, so I caught it and named it Oddie. I liked seeing the sparkles when it entered battle, so I added it to my team and evolved it into Vileplume. Oddie the Vileplume stayed with me all the way through the League, and it was in the Hall of Fame. Some time passes, and I get the urge to play through that particular game again, so I deleted my save file with Oddie on it, because I thought I could just easily find another 'weird Oddish', since Oddie appeared so easily for me. It was only after I had done that that I learned about Shinies and how hard it is to get them, and I've felt pain about this ever since. RIP Oddie.

[@DabCraftGaming]

May they rest in sparkly peace 🫡🫡

[@jakko_]

RIP to a real one 🫡

[@guts1579]

Oddie 😭😭

[@DarkRedX_X-gang]

I feel like I seen a simillar comment like this on PM7's old post

[@Lycan4]

@@DarkRedX_X-gang I've probably told this story before, but it felt fitting to tell it here, too.

[@JMoney47]

My uncle would let me play his ds as long as we never saved the game. I caught a Durant and he told me to save it because he had been trying to get a Durant for awhile. Little did he know that I used a master ball to catch that Durant. He wasn’t mad at me, but more himself, since he told me to save it.

[@ruthvanessagerez3552]

in gen3 i was fighting a shroomish and it poisoned my combusken and when the battle ended the screen started shaking because my pokemon was poisoned i panicked and stopped playing the game thinking that it was broken.

[@thesunflowergirl731]

Yeah when I played platinum that happened to me and I thought I broke my game

[@Allantitan]

@@thesunflowergirl731thinking this way goes all the way back to gen 1 and yes I thought I broke my Pokémon blue but in my defense the internet was young

[@treycorte2203]

You have to farm enough to get the blazekin too op w the blaze kick

[@endless_havoc123]

I thought that too when I played emerald for the first time in 2015 and I was much younger, I used an antidote and it went away and I put 2 and 2 together , im 17 now and laugh at it

[@ESteele5055]

“Some of you might still be” is hilarious Thank you for all the likes and comments 🙏

[@Flyingdurito]

Bold of him to assume I am not

[@smartalecl4]

And applicable, based on some "results"

[@XenophliX]

😂also I’m replying to this to get it top comment war on the bots

[@AnthonyHologounis96]

Yes it is

[@Ken-cn1vk]

can't even be mad at him, cuz I'm too dumb to can

[@netherzero2097]

Fun fact i almost completed sapphire without saving because i kept the advanced sp plugged in, and i thought that the backlight button was the save button and it turned off when i closed it, i found out it was not any of those when i took it on a trip with my family and it died and reset everything. my mother said i cried for a couple hours cuz i lost Skarmory named Blade.

[@merukikogara1515]

You're not alone. I did the exact same thing, I wanted every startert in a new playthrough, so my very first playthrough is gone forever, without a trace. I feel you Brother

[@Hatsjekideee]

13:51 Based mom giving actually helpful advice despite probably not knowing anything about the game

[@theoaremevano3227]

Yeah, that's very good advice in older games. For example, several things you do in Ocarina of Time are extremely well-known, but would be quite odd to a totally blind player. However, there are NPCs that will give you the directions you need if you check around.

[@Unovakid24]

I am sadly a victim of killing a shiny because I didn't know what shinies were. In my defense, I did try to catch it because I figured it was special somehow, but I was a kid and didn't take into consideration how much damage an attack from my Typhlosion would do to a low leveled Rattata 😅

[@vonwaxy9941]

20:12 Forgetting to save is bad. Not knowing how to save is worse. I had to constantly replay the beginning of Pokemon ruby because I didn’t know you could save the game and I cried every time my mom made me stop playing because I knew I’d have to restart. Figured it out eventually but still.

[@williambrown1246]

I had the same problem when I first started playing fire red as a kid. The I only made it to cerulean city and beat Misty once after playing for 3 hrs straight

[@pokekaz9076]

I made the exact same mistake 😂

[@loganbartley936]

I did the same thing in pokemon yellow when I was about 4 or 5 years old. Lol For some reason I also didn't grasp the fact you had to push down on the door mat when inside your house to get outside. I spent several hours just pacing back and forth at the door trying to get out of the house and would get excited when I accidentally hit down and made it outside. Then later I'd have to do it all again because I didn't know saving was a thing. Lol

[@vonwaxy9941]

@@BusinessSkrub easier than you think to miss something you don’t the meaning of. Not saying I knew I was supposed to save the game and couldn’t find the option. I didn’t know you could save the game. I had only played old hand me down NES games that you can’t save. So it was a foreign concept to me. Also I was a small child so like…ability to reason wasn’t fully developed yet.

[@vonwaxy9941]

@BusinessSkrub Again, the only video game experience I had at that point was games like Super Mario Bros on the NES. Games that, guess what, can’t be saved. The very concept of saving progress on a game was foreign to me. Also those uses of “save” you described are very different. Saving as in rescuing someone is not quite the same as saving something to be used later. For a young ADHD/Autistic kid like me, all of these things were enough for me to have to reset a few times before finally going “oh so thaaaats what that does”

[@Christophernbh]

10:55 hey I got in the video. I've been a big fan of your channel since I was about 11 years old, and even if I don't catch these videos when they come out anymore, it's still really cool to see something that would've FREAKED ME OUT when I was a kid. Love from Alberta 💜💜💜

[@Zepharon8923]

In my first playthrough of Omega Ruby, I thought Cosplay Pikachu evolved into a cosplay version of Raichu and spent months grinding it to level 100 only for nothing to happen

[@Jawz-ate-cereal]

Did you try to evolve it and were disapointed once you learned it evolved with a thunderstone? Or did you already know Cosplay Raichu didn't exist by that point?

[@CaptainActually1]

It should have. Although, I guess you didn't know how Pikachu normally evolves.

[@DragonTheOneDZA]

We need cosplay Raichu

[@mysticfox9718]

I actually thought Minun evolved into something? I didn’t want to look at the Pokédex when I first played Sapphire. But when it got to level 40 or 45. It didn’t evolve. So I decided to look through the Ruby and Sapphire book. To look at the Pokédex and I found out it doesn’t evolve 😅.

[@Jawz-ate-cereal]

@@mysticfox9718 I genuinely thought it evolved into Pikachu LMAOO But I wasn't intressted in getting one thankfuly, saved time 🔥

[@boomfanfic-a-latta8996]

“ROCKET Money?!” Oh chaos we’ve created a monster

[@Pokemaniak180]

Tell. Me. Everything!

[@ricochet0928]

Ngl I _still_ mostly ignore non-damaging moves 😭😂 I'm not at all into the competitive scene so my main strategy has always been "low hp = win so do that 👍"

[@killdozer7792]

TBF, you're not alone. I only really started using non-damaging moves when I started doing monotype runs - most notably, my Y Bug run. Toxic Spikes REALLY saved me against Grant, who would have crushed my entire team otherwise.

[@morrigankasa570]

I don't think it's dum to pretty much only use Damaging Moves. In my current playthrough of Fire Red (on cartridge) my lvl 74 Charizard is using: Flamethrower, Dragon Claw, Strength, Fly.

[@Scorpionspear77]

Depends on the mon and the generation for me. I prefer inflicting status conditions over buffs and debuffs in Pokemon. But it’s not uncommon for a stronger Pokemon on one of my playthrough teams like a pseudo-legendary to just have four powerful damaging moves for coverage

[@shadowrose8907]

I use buffing moves, but I still don't care about DEbuffing moves, except maybe early-game

[@theoaremevano3227]

Yeah, if you're on a main game playthrough, the enemy trainers tend to lack the proficiency to make battles tough enough to need much strategy outside of supereffective moves, so having as many as possible tends to win battles efficiently.

[@Poofymon]

I feel ur pain man. I just wiped my first ever save file on Pokemon Sun where I had my full team maxed out, the dex was almost completed, and my Decidueye still knew Leafage. I thought I was wiping my Ultra Sun file so I could start a nuzlocke... then I realized what happened when I saw the title screen.

[@Top_Memer21]

When I played Pokémon Diamond for the first time when I was about 8 years old, there were so few fire types that I thought any and all fire types were LEGENDARIES.

[@payrysdoscs4903]

Lol the memes exist for a reason

[@DabCraftGaming]

Something funny about my brother's first playthrough is that he was stuck in Pallet Town for a lot longer than you should because he didn't go up. He eventually did but still

[@איתןשי]

Happened to me in Aspertia (B2W2) - when I was 17!

[@SchmidKids-o6r]

This happened to me in Let's Go!

[@DabCraftGaming]

@@SchmidKids-o6r That's literally the game that I'm talking about

[@samwich9498]

​@@DabCraftGaming I mean, people probably didn't know which game: red/blue/yellow, firered/leafgreen, and let's go all have you start in pallet town

[@Geekazoid349]

I have deleted several save files, multiple of them containing shiny pokemon, so Mikey isn't alone there. I also read in a handbook that there was only one of each legendary pokemon, so when a kid in my class showed me the completed pokedex on his (very obviously action replayed) diamond version, I seriously thought this kid was the only person in the entire world to own all the legendaries.

[@marcel.was.unavailable]

I let my little sister run around on my Pokémon Y game, she somehow managed to wipe my whole save… I’ve honestly never quite forgave her

[@anandu_5041]

4:34 I always thought Bouffalant evolved from Tauros, Cacturne evolved into Carnevine and Slowking evolved from Slowbro instead of Slowpoke. Even the anime confuses many times once it said Seviper evolved from Arbok

[@MaxWeb2599]

Yeah at least the slowpoke one I can relate to. My first game was fire red, a game that had both evolutions, while having no one to trade with, so I knew it's existence and I knew how to evolve it, I just thought it was 3 stage. And I know that many people had that assumption to that time.

[@ThatPersonTopp]

Same with both of 'em for me

[@joanloja53]

I also thought that too

[@박병준-v1p]

I thought Bellossom was not in the same evolution line with Vileplume.

[@elenatrout362-k3g]

I can never stop myself from the belief that Bouffalant should have been an evolution for Tauros. Tauros is my favorite gen 1 mon as well as one of my tops. Seeing it get a regional felt like a stab in the back.

[@sodakuwun0707]

i had a friend watching the video with me and it sorta went like this mikey: "you used to be stupid" me: "i still am" my friend at the exact same time: "you still are" mikey: "some of you still are" me: "ok man"

[@scotttaylor8236]

28:31 blame Grunty Boi Mikey - he was striking causing chaos long before you even knew he was there 😂

[@mr.mystere4999]

I still remember that Shiny Magnemite from Silver. I got its HP down to where I could reliably catch it, and then... "The wild MAGNEMITE fled!"

[@WesleySnedden-wg1gd]

I used to think that only female Kirlia could evolve into gardevoir, so when my male kirlia evolved into gardevoir, i was astounded, i was also only 5 years old.

[@st4rri_ari]

femboy gardevoir 😍

[@fernoagent8581]

Trans rights !

[@rs2_0_225]

Was it on gen 4? Because gallade definitely didn't exist on gen 3

[@justinterry2926]

Creepy ​@@st4rri_ari

[@goldlemur8]

My first game was alpha sapphire, and I thought ralts and its evolutions were grass types when I first saw them. I can’t be the only one though, right?

[@ivanbluecool]

I remember having three fire moves to use ember on weak foes. Flame wheel on medium ones a d flamethrower on the strong ones. Swift for coverage on dragon mons. Good times

[@Cuculutu]

It makes sense if you're only using a single Pokémon.

[@ivanbluecool]

@Cuculutu not really. Could have gotten roll out or any other set of moves for better coverage. If any ghost fire or water ghost were in early game I'd have been wrecked

[@theamazingspooderman2697]

Swift for coverage? it's a normal type move

[@adrianoribeiro6110]

i used to use only STAB moves, 2 from the same type and one from the other one and also only capture dual types or will become dual types, and the last move was status move. kinda lost this habit later on.

[@ivanbluecool]

@@theamazingspooderman2697 for dragons and water types

[@baophucthieu9441]

His uploads aren’t predictable but when they hit they are a banger

[@evanlauzier2086]

OMG yes. I absolutely loved hearing all the mistakes people have made over the years. Awesome to hear I'm not alone. Great video. Keep up the great job.

[@drtrinkets859]

Ok... you are not alone, my original Silver game (witch I had a legit shiny mew from a Toys'R Us pokemon event), I erased MYSELF; I wanted to play around with a new game for fun without saving. Due to this I had left my Gameboy plugged in and left on overnight so I could keep messing around in the morning. When I woke up, I forgot I was doing this and just saw my game on, so, I saved and turned it off before going to school... I was devastated wen I got home and went back to my game. I was so upset my parents thought I had broken a bone cus I was crying and unable to talk. R.I.P Megaman, my first cherished pokemon (Shiny Mew is blue, and megaman was my other favorite game)

[@Auragod08unofficial]

i once got a copy of sun from my local games store, and it had a shiny rayquaza from emerald, i was contemplating deleting it for a while, but then i finally did, i look back and think, why did I do this? not just to this save but to so many others? I was a fool to destroy those save files.

[@alittlebitofeverythingyt7394]

I thought Tauros evolved into Miltank. They’re on the same Pokédex page in SM, which were my first games, so I spent ages training a Tauros thinking it would evolve into Miltank

[@SEGASister]

You thought you were giving your bull enough estrogen to become a cow lol

[@anchorsaway9500]

You do know cows and bulls are in the same animal family. A mix up like that isn’t that big of a misconception as one would think

[@vindingmachine]

ACTUALLY SAME THO- I legitimately believed that but I didn’t try to “evolve Tauros” because I didn’t like Miltank

[@TheGatrGamr]

21:07 Yes, I did that all the time. I don't know why I did but I did it constantly with my version of Pokémon Pearl. My brother had to teach me to save after he saw me do it multiple times.

[@AlexandrosNikitaidis]

My only non-damaging moves in my sword playthrough were protect in drednaw and sleep powder on vileplume

[@Zer0AsWell]

28:19 ur not! I accidently deleted my X playthrough without transferring any of my mons

[@ThePeeon12]

I did the same thing in platinum

[@Metetto]

I did it too, on Sword no less! I didn't know you could have multiple accounts for multiple save files, and I wanted another Zacian to trade for a Zamazenta.

[@ultimateeggman4109]

@@Metettoi did the exact same thing but just to play again \

[@Xsor.]

I know as a Kid I'd often restart games to play through the Story again. Usually I would trade over a couple pokemon, but the Earliest first Savefile I still have is from Pokemon Shield. I have a Game from each Generation from Gen 4 onwards.

[@jaketron9472]

@@Metettosame

[@kitkat9610]

24:33 My younger brother found a shiny Snover in his Pokemon Platinum and handed me the game so I could try to catch it for him. I accidentally knocked it out and felt horrible. I recounted this story to my brother recently, as I've gotten him back INTO Pokemon after so many years of not playing, and he literally did not remember me doing that to him 😅 RIP Shiny Snover from like 2010

[@calebmoore1719]

11:26 When I first played pokemon, I noticed that an NPC stated that if your pokemon uses a move that is the same type, it gets a boost. So I only used stab moves, and normal moves.

[@richardstone530]

These mistakes are like Nuzlock rules before Nuzlocks were a thing. They also give “Pokémon is to easy” vibes “How can I make it harder”.

[@nishi-kun1133]

21:03 I did that quite often back when I had my DS. Caused me a lot of trouble because I would often forget to save. Never had an experience as bad as losing an entire game's worth of progress though lol

[@X2Brute]

my problem was a combination of forgetfulness, saving taking a long time in gen 4, and some idiot deciding to spring load the cartridge slot! my fingers naturally rested over the cartridge slot and there were SO MANY times I felt the click and had to ASAP save before it got ejected and at least 4 times I failed and lost a lot of progress

[@stitchb12]

I love that Mikey decided that to make his og content again 😭😭 I missed these kind of videos

[@GneissGuy1989]

You're not alone. I wiped away the SHINY BOX ART LEGENDARY that I got on my first ever playthrough of a pokemon game!. It was Crystal. I'd watched my brother play loads of Red, and loved my new Crystal on a GameBoy Color. I remember being really impressed that they made legendary pokemon have sparkles around them, as every time I used my Suicune it had those cool sparkles. But I wasn't happy with my choice of starter (Chikorita), and started again to use Cyndaquil. I was really confused that when I got back to capture Suicune it didn't have sparkles any more. For many years I assumed it was a special thing that only happened on the first playthrough on any given cartridge. I wiped that save file. I did that to myself.

[@NightmareZerogbs]

You poor child

[@outcastwayne]

@@NightmareZerogbs lol thats a lie

[@bennydave4160]

What a curse. What were you supposed to do if you wanted to replay the game? That's cool but it still sucks

[@demontamerbf18]

That last part was so dramatic and so damn FUNNY, I laughed so much at how serious Mike was while talking about him deleting his own original savefile, it looked as if he was talking about messing an important relationship or something.

[@collin57206]

I remember in a kanto only book i saw chansey's evolution line and it siad "does not evolve". but i knew that happiny and blissey existed. So i drew over it and put evolves into blissey and evolves from happiny. I also did this with Scyther, Jynx, Mr Mime and Magmar to name a few

[@Jlaps941]

The author should’ve just been able to see the future smh

[@StateBlaze1989]

0:01 How dare you! I am always stupid!

[@weedragonauts4729]

he then said "some of you might still be"

[@ViccVieiraLustosa]

"You used to be stupid" Jokes on you, buddy. I still am lol

[@THEGASTLYAPPEARSInsertspookymu]

So here's the thing. I, like many others have made the Master ball mistake, but I have a bit of back story (it's nothing ground breaking). You see, I was going to treasure it, but since I'm Swedish and didn't know a lot of English, when the president said "It won't be in shops" I only understood the word "Shop", so I just though they unlocked in shops and wasted it on a Golbat

[@JackSpike16]

I have a few stories. 1. The very first pokemon game I ever got was Gold. I distinctly remember getting it alongside a purple Gameboy Color (both of which I still have) from a yard sale or something. When I got it, the previous owner showed me a bit of how to play. During this time, they showed me the Boxes and how they worked... I may or may not have accidentally released a few pokemon before their very eyes. Thankfully, I was getting the game and was gonna start a new game anyways, so I hope I didn't traumatize them. 2. With that game, I had gotten all the way to Claire's Gym in Blackthorn. Fun Fact: Gameboy cartridges have batteries in them meant for holding saves. Mine ran out. 3. Later on, I started playing Emerald. At some point, I found a golden pupper. Confused as to why it was yellow, I simply ran away, not sure what else to do. 4. A long time later, I was playing through Moon, and I accidentally threw my master ball at a Salandit. Thankfully, this has a happy ending, as I did close the game and turn it back on so I would have it. 5. There was a point where I got extremely lucky and hatched a Shiny Eevee in like 3 or 4 eggs, which I was hatching just to get the rest of the Eeveelutions. After that, I went on an Eevee hatching spree, and got I want to say 3-4 boxes full. I decided that I'd evolve all of them, learned the two heighest stats of each eeveelution, and would decide which eeveelution an eevee would evolve into by looking at their IV's through the Judge thing, putting eventual Espeons, Umbreons, and Sylveons in the springs as well as my shiny. One day, I saw my sister playing on my game, and looking at the boxes, I saw a bunch of Eevees missing, and thought she had released them. Thankfully, I eventually realized that they were just in the Hot Springs.

[@Matty80822]

Yuck the cartridge battery in my crystal hurt. Put it in maybe a year or two after first playing, no file, whatever cause im down to start again. Get up to like gym 2 or forest and save. Come back the next day, that saves gone too 😢

[@Justus4Libertea]

Gold & Silver were made with an inferior battery, or something. Cause their save issues were infamous. For whatever reason my dad got me a memory card cartridge. Didn't see the use cause tge cartridge saved. Talked my friend into just giving me his useless Silver version and bam, the MC cartridge helped. Only time I ever used it

[@Lupinemancer87]

My earliest childhood mistake, which to be fair, I was told this by someone else and I knew nothing of Pokemon at the time, was thinking the little green caterpillar (Caterpie) was able to shapeshift into any other creature. At the time, Pokemon was still revatively new, it had only been released a couple of months prior, and I had no concept of Pokemon Evolution. I remember being so frustrated when I couldn't get the damn thing to change into anything, which led to a mix of excitement when it finally turned into a Metapod, and disappointment when that wasn't what I wanted it to turn into. I spend countless hours trying to figure out how to make it change into something else, eventually concluding that it was random and boxed it. I don't remember who told me this, or whether he himself actually believed this or was just lying to me, but this has cemented itself into my brain even after all these years.

[@rrroctokush7942]

Woaw what a good laugh your video was. Thank you and thank all of the ppl that have inspired you. I've started playing pokemon on yellow at 7yo, and boy I didn't recall making any of those last 4 mistakes you've mentioned, you guys were insane 🤣🤣. But I did got stuck tho, Gen 1, the first cave that required flash to clear it. I didn't know where to find the HM (no that it was required, for that matter) so I spend a great amout of time trying to get through in the dark. Couple days it took, but I did make it!

[@KrishivRathi]

How one can miss flash: the opponent closes its eyes

[@sanchitkundu1702]

A common mistake that I did and still do is never using my masterball .I have played through pokemon games tons of times but can't remember the last time I used a masterball .I was like trying to save it for a better pokemon but just endup catching all the legandaries without it

[@PT5-Shorts]

I never catch legendaries with the MB. I like the fun of catching it in my 60th Timer Ball

[@RylixBlizzai]

honestly i get some weird sense of pride when i end up "but what if i need it later"ing my masterball until there is no later to need it for feels like a trophy to have gotten all available legendaries and still having it in my inventory

[@thorgidogofthunder]

using your master ball on something stupid is better than not using it at all as i usually do

[@Ryder72121]

I have a funny story with the evolution mistake. I first played pokemon back in 2016 on an emulator. I played silver first and i had a togepi in my team. After googling i learned that togepi is a three stage evolution, didnt check if that evolution was available in that generation or how it evolves. I used a togetic for the whole play through. Yes i have a level 100 togetic that i used even for the red battle.

[@efrenreveles8163]

Mines was completing Pokemon black in a whole day with the new game option not knowing it wasn’t actually new game and losing everything😪

[@heyitsphoenix9153]

20:46 no that’s a real thing, I have done this before when I played heartgold because I didn’t know saving was a thing, I did know I could just close the DS top and bring it back up to continue, but I made the mistake of letting my DS die losing ALL of my progress

[@RajaniIsa]

That was my thought. That kind of thing is not such a stretched on a DS type system.

[@benpiano800]

24:50 I'll never forget running from that green Golbat.

[@fablethanscorner]

This video made me nostalgic for a time as a kid I used to think plusle and minun evolved into latias and latios because both were from hoenn, and bother were red and blue twins in a duo.

[@ciavalen.rie.143]

3:45 The most famous one is mistakenly thinking Farfetch'd evolves into Doduo

[@jacobwalters]

Bold of you to assume I only have made 12 mistakes

[@owencoles2798]

26:09 That’s adorable.

[@Steevy60]

My first game was FireRed. When my pokemon got poisoned and the game started doing its thing as i walked i panicked thinking my game was broken 😂

[@AlexandrosNikitaidis]

Releasing the MANDATORY eternatus because it was not in my specific Pokémon list 22:15

[@kuriseon]

20:55 - I didn't realise saving was a thing at first. Pokemon Blue was my first vide game ever (and also taught me most of my early English language fundamentals) I replayed the whole pallet town/viridian city segment like 5 times before learning saving was a thing, how it worked and what it did.

[@Kalaphant]

At least it was early on XD

[@kuriseon]

@@Kalaphant Fortunately, yeah xD

[@PikaSmasha]

There are many times I have thought a pokemon was a certain type, only to be proven wrong. Some examples I remember are thinking Glalie is Ice/Dark, Suicune is Water/Ice (I'm sure that one is understandable) and thinking Wailord is Water/Flying. Probably the most egregious example though is thinking Empoleon is Ice/Steel rather than Water/Steel.

[@Agvarst0517]

To be fair, those are valid typings they could be. Warlord is based off a blimp, what do you mean it's not flying type.

[@robertlupa8273]

Glalie should totally be Ice/Dark or maybe Ice/Rock since its dex entries state that its body is made of rock covered by a protective layer of ice.

[@awesomelink2347]

I used to constantly make the mistake sometimes that Pokémon having typings that only their evos have, like I thought Staryu was Water/Psychic and Seel was Water/Ice. And yes I always keep thinking the Psyduck line is part Psychic (IT SHOULD BE) and that Wobbuffet is part Water.

[@DJBawnkers]

One of my bigger mistakes were 1: not being warned about only 1 save file in pokemon black 2, I had attempted to make a new save file because I couldn't beat the champion, can't remember why 2: resetting save files, I wish I could go and see my level 100 vileplume again D:

[@SaberofRed_0]

Something my bf did was in Crystal I believe, he didn't understand that you had to name your rival and when the police officer NPC asked what the rivals name was he would name them "???" every time he played through the game lmao and something i did in Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Darkness was for some reason it didn't click that I could delete the preset name for my partner and I just added what I wanted to name it at the end of its name...what was I on cause I was definitely old enough to know better

[@AleMazza100]

I used to think that Farfetchd evolved into Doduo and then in Dodrio. Not only they were close in the pokedex, it made sense since, they were flying, with one two and three heads, but there was an Album with sticker cards in Italy that actually showed them as an evolutionary line. But I never bother to catch a Farfetch'd

[@GoldGuard]

4:13 Evolving Electabuzz into Mandibuzz makes more sense than Remoraid evolving into Octillery

[@charizardfan1017]

Remoraid evolves into Octillery because Remoraid is a glock while Octillery is a tank

[@GoldGuard]

@@charizardfan1017 I know about the weapon theming, still weird for a fish to evolve into an octopus though

[@commanderredjonkks5268]

well I wouldn't say it makes *more* sense, since at least Remoraid and Octillery still both live in the sea (and are both water types etc.) while Mandibuzz is a bird and lives in totally different areas than Electabuzz.

[@GoldGuard]

@@commanderredjonkks5268 True but tbf in the same series where a fish can evolve into an octopus and a shrew (Shroodle) can evolve into a lemur (Grafaiai) believing that Electabuzz can evolve into Mandibuzz isn't too far of a logical reach, especially for a kid, with the similar names that might be interpreted as a relation between them. And there might be other weird evolutions like that I may be forgetting at the moment

[@commanderredjonkks5268]

@@GoldGuard oh for sure it wouldn't be too much weirder, I just don't think it makes *more* sense than Remoraid/Octillery

[@brentwhittington7350]

24:00 wait, didn't you have to kill a shiny sigylith in your Pokemon Sun/Moon no catching challenge? Wouldn't that count as "intentionally failing a shiny pokemon?"

[@NightmareZerogbs]

But that would be under special circumstances, not a childhood mistake

[@brentwhittington7350]

@@NightmareZerogbs Fair enough.

[@changheartkey]

Haha yeah he really wanted to catch it. Too bad he wanted to keep up the challenge of not catching a single mon.

[@matthewrobinson1699]

​@@changheartkey he could've caught it and just moved it out of that copy to bank to be put into home?

[@changheartkey]

@ True, but I think Mike was trying to stay true to the challenge.

[@criswilderness361]

Yeah I did something I’m not proud of recently I was playing Pokémon Legends Arceus and you know those missions that you give Pokémon like the berry farm and they stay there and then you can take them back well I went to the Ice place and there was a mission where there are some people that are cold or something and they ask you for a fire type so from my knowledge of this stuff from the farm so I thought it would be funny to give my Heatran and then the screen went black and they were just gone and I realised that it was a permanent give away and I was very annoyed I had auto saves anyway soo yeah I don’t know it reminds me of scams like they get the stuff and run that’s what I imagine they got a legendary and made a run for it… AND THEN FELL INTO THE THE OPEN CAVE AT THE BEGINNING AND COT COVERED BY SNOW WHEN THEY FELL AND DIED A COLD DEATH OR CARRIED ON IN THE CAVE AND GOT TORN APART BY ZORUARK AND DIE A GRUESOME DEATH AND GET WHAT THEY DESERVE FOR STEALING MY HEATRAN!!!!!

[@raymondwatt9773]

My mistake was that I thought pressing B would help you catch pokemon.

[@TheRagingBlizzard]

when I was like seven my friend told me the only way to catch mewtwo in pokemon go was to go outside during a thunderstorm on a specific bridge, pull my pants down, and then scream, “I summon thee, mewtwo!” I fell for it 😂

[@Pokemaniak180]

I'm sorry, WHAT? I've been lauging for the last 10 minutes

[@reviewer945]

I made almost every mistake (except the last one, the starter deleting one and the ones not listed) on top of some others but my first few playthroughs were the worst. Mistakes included were Thinking Normal was Super Effective against Ghost because Ghost did nothing to Normal, Backtracking like crazy due to not knowing what Fly did, Having a Level 91 Samurott with Cut because I didn't know how to delete it, Thinking Evolution was luck based and could stop randomly when really I pressed B without knowing what it did, Thinking Throh evolved into Sawk, Thinking Gurdurr evolved by Level Up until it got past Level 60 and didn't, Thinking Pikachu was powerful and obtainable in Gen 5 then using it in Gen 6 because of the Anime, Thinking tons of Pokemon were stronger or weaker then they were because of Pokemon Conquest and worst of all Losing to Diantha and to this day I have no idea how that happened.

[@Naito115]

Her team is meh, but it can be deceptively strong

[@ItsBluBun]

The dumbest mistake I've ever made in Pokemon was leaving my brother in charge of my shiny hunt to go to the bathroom because as soon as I came back he told me he lost a shiny Machoke (in let's go btw) 😭 Oh and getting a random Machoke to level 95 thinking I could evolve it only to be shattered by my brother saying I needed friends to do that yeah that was pretty dumb too

[@nogazuroff7340]

8:01 Michael: "Rocket Money." Grunty Boi: Team RR flashbacks...

[@JosiahNolt]

20:40 Reminds me of the time I played through omega ruby until the point of Groudon, ko’d Groudon, got so scared that I missed it forever, and reset. It put me back to when May/Brendan teaches you about the tails in the grass. TURNS OUT I ONLY SAVED THEN AND NEVER AGAIN. I just relied on turning my 2ds into sleep mode and plugging it in instead of saving. I got so mad I hid the cartridge and forgot where I put it. I only found it a couple months ago.

[@Cricket-mo4vr]

Hiding the cartridge in your rage is iconic

[@SaddieMoon]

My mistake was sending my first Bibarical on the Wonder Trade in Ultra Sun. I know it’s a hated Mon, but I loved it and feel nostalgic for it. I miss it a lot even though I probably wouldn’t look at it much nowadays because of transitioning, and you not being able to change the trainer names.

[@patricklawler173]

Imagine equating your sponsor to an evil organization. 😂

[@AzakielRuns]

A friend of mine told me he met a shiny Sentret when he was a kid, but he killed it because he thought it was a glitch. It wasn't until several years later he realised it wasn't a glitch.

[@SuperShark-fb1dp]

"It's a flash of light. How do you miss?" You set the brightness to low, LoL

[@Calerhand]

Or they blink

[@michaelrobinson2687]

Low battery?

[@SuperShark-fb1dp]

All good ways to dodge

[@solaris9426]

"In case you don't know, physical moves involve physical strikes, usually with the Pokemon's body and special moves tend to be ranged energy-related attacks" And then you have those fringe cases where an attack is physical, but doesn't make contact with the opponent, similar to a special attack. One example of this third case is Earthquake. Edit: I choose to believe accuracy on moves is how obvious the move's "tell" is. The lower the move's accuracy, the more obvious the "tell" and thus the easier it is to dodge. Tackle? Not very obvious, so it has 95% accuracy. Zap Cannon? Very obvious, so it has only 50% accuracy. Horn Drill? So obvious you'd practically need to be blind to miss it, so 30% accuracy.

[@ulrikruby]

You never suspect the enemy to pull out Swift.

[@amberknight7301]

Yes, Flamethrower is so not obvious despite being a massive fire stream being shot at you.

[@solaris9426]

@@amberknight7301 Caveat: some moves are so fast that they are incredibly hard, if not impossible, to dodge.

[@orbracha25]

It's because you're still causing the earthquake with your actual muscles

[@nomad6169]

Tackle is 100% accurate as of gen 5

[@williamfrieden1]

Great video, luckily, I didn't make many mistakes from what I remember. I might have made the mistake of not switching boxes, but eventually, I figured it out in gen 1. Anyways, keep up the good work!

[@austinclayton883]

I just remembered when I was younger I thought that the only pokeballs you got were the ones you were given to you. I also did know that you could save for weeks.

[@lynxiberian7828]

You're not alone. I let my little sister play Pokémon Silver, making a new game telling her not to save the game since that would erase my game where I put lots of hours into to catch the roaming dogs. And yeah, she didn't save. I did. I was having so much fun watching her play (and kill a shiny before I could notice it was a shiny) that when my mom called us for lunch, I instinctively saved the game so we could keep playing later. I felt terrible when I went back into the console and realised my game was gone

[@Coffee_Vegeta]

The scary part is that this is super relatable

[@GrandCaptainSpeedyDashGames]

I think the stat effect move mistake is more a playstyle difference rather than a mistake. It is more effective for running quickly through a game but it's more of a different playstyle. Honestly, talking about the competitive scene is a bit miss leading as in most games it greatly limits the viable options.

[@macewindu5195]

I did not used to be stupid, that is simply untrue

[@braetekburns8125]

I know! I've ALWAYS been stupid. Thank you very much

[@kbeatzgonecrazy]

I am actually glad I am completely over with these mistakes. But I slightly still have that 'non-damaging moves syndrome' in my blood. Edit: Also I get it about the moves having secondary effects but I do still use Leech seed, Coil for my Serperior, Calm mind for my Psychic types and also used Hone claws & Power trip Corviknight in my Shield playthrough. There are more I am misremembering.

[@ryudragonuv]

Im kinda there, but mostly cuz I have attacks that have effects. Crunch, ShadowBall, ect. Deals damage and can lower stats. My Y-playthrough I have a Pancham/Pangoro with Power-Up Punch. Decent move

[@youtube-kit9450]

Honestly, I still barely use status moves simply because in playthroughs, the battles aren't difficult enough to warrant it.

[@sarahquinn6849]

There’s enough damaging moves with useful secondary effects nowadays that they aren’t always necessary in playthroughs… like, why would I put a move on my Skeledirge that buffs its special attack when Torch Song already does that while also doing damage 😅

[@mirzasharamova-if7qq]

You deserve so many more subs!

[@SeyrenSamin]

Who loves bots? No one.

[@Kippetje11]

​@@SeyrenSamini dont think this is a bot

[@SeyrenSamin]

@@Kippetje11 click on their profile and then their link bro…

[@Extinct-Lizard]

@@Kippetje11 1st comment on this channel and it’s a woman in a bikini

[@pdgn9063]

Talking about bad master ball usage made me chuckle. I did it twice, 5+ years apart, on the SAME EVOLUTION LINE. In my first game, Pokemon Pearl, I was climbing Mt. Coronet (I think it was at least, It's been a long time) on my way to catch Palkia, and once I got high enough, I found an Abomasnow, and caught it with my Master Ball. Then, 5+ years later, by the time i was a pre-teen, when Pokemon X and Y came out, I was riding through the snowy area of the game, and ran into a wild Snover. I wanted to catch it, so I threw a Pokeball at it. Little did I know, I forgot to re-stock balls, so my lone pokeball left was my MASTER BALL. Boom. Both a Snover and an Abomasnow in Master Balls. Makes sense as to why that's now one of my least favourite species of pokemon among all of them.