OVER 50 Errors and Mistakes in Pokémon Games!

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[@dillan.8204]

I think the presence of a literal mouse cursor in one of the cinematic from Sword and Shield also counts as a mistake.

[@Mystmon]

No idea why they screen-recorded an already-rendered cutscene. It was absolutely redundant.

[@enoyna1001]

​@@MystmonRedundance is Game Freak's favourite programming method

[@Lokear]

THERE IS??

[@ChicagoMel23]

⁠yeah in the end credits

[@nodokaxnegi4ever]

@@ChicagoMel23weird, it wasn’t in mine, and I beat it on the same day it came out

[@calamelli209]

My favorite error to laugh at in this franchise is the one with the Suction Cups ability in the Sinnoh games. In Emerald, Suction Cups gained the out-of-battle effect to cause you to get more bites when fishing, but due to a programming error, that effect didn't work in D/P. It was fixed in Platinum and for every game going forward... except for BD/SP, the "faithful remakes" of D/P that were so faithful that they just lazily copied the entire code from D/P, bugs and all.

[@MidnightLugia24]

2:48 I feel like this is less an error and just a different perspective, perhaps?

[@yuvi3000]

Yeah, the Weezing "error" seems like it's just not being seen from the usual position. I'm not entirely sure that the Slowbro shell is an error either, for the same reason.

[@Sebastian-bu7oj]

I agree. This isn’t an error. It’s just Weezing tilted down making it seem like the third segment is on top

[@Bloomkyaaa]

Literally anyone with a single thought process would realize it's at a different perspective...

[@MidnightLugia24]

@@Bloomkyaaa So, regarding Hoops... ? lol

[@DoroNijimaru]

came to the comments to say this

[@lordofninjas1]

I don't think the Weezing having its third segment "above" it is necessarily an error. From what I understand that segment is actually supposed to be behind the others and its just the way Weezing is tilted as to whether it appears above or below (usually we see Weezing as tilted up a bit, so the Gen 5 sprite is just it tilted down instead of up), so not necessarily an error, more of an angle we don't tend to see the Pokemon in. I don't think the Slowbro one is necessarily an error either, its more of a design thing. Basically, the way the sprite is oriented you'll pretty much never see that other eye so most designers feel that there's not really a point to putting it on the sprite when it's not gonna get seen.

[@Calruxio]

The last one about the Prerelease Raichu card is one of those facts that floats into my head whenever im hunting for cards at a sale or card shop. I know ill never happen upon one but the idea of something like that happening is what makes it exciting.

[@velocityraptor6051]

i work at a card shop, if my store got that card i'd advise the customer to get it graded and sell it on ebay instead!

[@chompythebeast]

Pretty sure the Wheezing "error" is just a different angle? lol

[@BJGvideos]

That was always how I saw it too, like it's bending over

[@MidnightLugia24]

That's exactly how I've seen it, too

[@inshaneguy]

The Brock has conflicted feelings about fighting a little blind girl. Sounds like you're scared the pebble. The Brock is over his conflicted feelings.

[@SquishyOfCinder]

The Slowbro error is not an error, it’s just a matter of perspective as one of its eyes are just not visible due to the angle of the Shellder.

[@MidnightLugia24]

Exactly 👍 Why animate something you're not going to see anyway? I'd also argue the Weezing "error" is just the artist trying a new perspective on the Pokémon, not necessarily doing it incorrectly.

[@SquishyOfCinder]

@@MidnightLugia24 indeed

[@Sebastian-bu7oj]

The same for Weezing. It’s just tilted making it seem like the tail is on top

[@Morgil27]

"The Brock" also appeared in a lot of early magazine and players guide screenshots as well. I'm guessing it was a last minute change.

[@yuvi3000]

I thought maybe it was a reference to "The Rock" that they decided to go back on but it seems like Dwayne Johnson only used that name after the games would have been created anyway.

[@DynamixWarePro]

On the subject of TGC, in HeartGold & Soul Silver Triumphant set, Weepinbell and Psyduck cards both say to "filp" a coin instead of flip.

[@dklk734]

i just thought the sprite was at an angle with wheezing

[@MidnightLugia24]

Same here

[@Sebastian-bu7oj]

I think that was the intention. But people think it is an error. They don’t understand how perspective works

[@dklk734]

@@Sebastian-bu7oj yeah. i am an artist so i get what you mean.

[@EricM-112]

I thought they have some variation like in I.R.L.

[@Mystmon]

I have two more: [51]: In the very first Japanese release of D/P, the back door of Aaron's room was programmed to be a Surfable tile, allowing you to go out of bounds. [52]: In HG/SS, if you speak to Professor Oak after registering at least 484 Pokémon in your Pokédex, he will say, _'Meeting you is something _*_l_*_ will cherish all my life long',_ with a lowercase 'L' instead of an uppercase 'I'.

[@KatonRyu]

I've always liked the Moon Ball one. When they programmed the ball, they used the item ID for Moon Stones from Gen 1, because they assumed it was the same ID in Gen 2. It wasn't, though, and because of this they ended up with a ball that works extremely well...at catching Pokémon that evolve with a Burn Heal.

[@HappyJacKitty]

I have no idea why but this really made me laugh.

[@Espeo]

They're so smart lmao

[@theclassywailord]

9:10 actually it is fully intentional for kadabra to evolve whilst holding an everstone. Something that still happens in gen 9. The rest though are a mistake

[@alphabetsoup6837]

MINDY CAN CRY HE HEART OUT!!!

[@MrMiraculon]

2:40 Is this an error for Wheezing? or is this a case of over head perspective? Although the 3rd segment is indeed below the other two as seen in the official 3D models, it is also behind them, which means if viewed from above, like in the Sprite works for the example games shown, it can look like it would be "above" them when it's just showing it's behind them. My guess is that it was exaggerated to be even more behind them to balance out the sprite a bit more for this new angle of wheezing they wanted.

[@ChampionBlaze]

The beginning of this video is making me realize we need more easter egg type of videos for Pokemon Colosseum and Pokemon XD Gale of Darkness.

[@AfterTheFirstNever]

That ghost reveal with the stat screen is one I’ve never heard of before, good stuff!

[@zach6395]

They had to change The Brock to just Brock cause The Brock was too OP

[@SuperKamehameha2]

I have those early versions of FRLG and always wondered why the species name was cut off as a kid

[@JohannaA.5013]

Mr Hoops is not only a flawless Pokétuber, but also a Flawless product manager.

[@MidnightLugia24]

Seriously???

[@MezmerKaiser725]

Okay but why does "The Brock wants to fight" with him in that pose sound so badass?

[@jnzooger]

The koffing in red and green has the correct position of the pattern. Red and blue got japan’s later blue sprites. So the official art was already finalized before the messed up sprite.

[@rainbowdragon168]

I found it odd that the NPC in Pokemon Yellow game was standing on top of the grass but it’s funny nonetheless

[@Iris_VGC]

Small note, the burn does not lower attack but halfs the power of physical moves, this is why moves like body press and foul play are weakened by burns as well

[@enoyna1001]

☝️🤓

[@Iris_VGC]

@@enoyna1001 I’m sorryyy ;-; my inner vgc nerd came out with

[@Bebeincaca]

​@@Iris_VGC dont feel bad, this is cool info

[@phrooooooog]

14:13 kinda reminds me of the rock 🪨

[@RoyArkon]

Hey, maybe it was foreshadowing for The Rock vs. Brock Lesnar at SummerSlam 2002 LOL

[@michaelpulsifer7222]

Do you smell what The Brock is cookin?

[@Winston-dj6xw]

The Brock says know your damn role.

[@Mystmon]

[9:08] Man, if only this were in Gen IV as well...

[@GiordanDiodato]

Mindy...

[@GoofyCharizard]

Honestly it would be so funny if Brock was refered to as "The Brock"

[@imperfectsinger590]

When you started talking about the NPC near the grass outside Pallet Town, I thought you were going to mention the hilarious softlock where Oak incorrectly leads you to his lab so you splat into the wall and are stuck there forever

[@fantomtuba]

I always thought Koffing was upside down. Never realized its mouth was under the eyes.

[@RoyArkon]

10:24 - Wait a second. If the Psychic-Type immunity to Ghost-Type moves was a bug in Gen 1, why they had to create the Dark-Type in Gen 2 just to balance things out? As we all know, from Gen 2 onward, Ghost-Type moves are super effective against Psychic, meaning that if it was a bug in Gen 1, it was indeed fixed, so there's no need to balance things out just because of the bug, which means the Dark-Type wasn't introduce because of the bug in Gen 1.

[@chasesayshi9194]

He also suggested that this made the psychic type overpowered, which... No. Even if it hit for 4x damage, Lick would not be enough to hold them back in the slightest

[@RoyArkon]

@@chasesayshi9194 Yeah and there were not that many Ghost-Type moves in Gen 1 anyway.

[@GiordanDiodato]

@@RoyArkon speaking of ghost type moves, Night Shade, despite being Ghost-type, can affect Normal types Pokemon in Gen 1. I confirmed it in my latest playthrough of Yellow.

[@RoyArkon]

@@GiordanDiodato That js very well known already

[@stardmg]

"The BROCK" came about because originally starting battle text would be formatted as "The (trainer class) wants to fight!" which would work with most trainers such as "The Lass" or "The Youngster" but obviously the translator realized this wouldn't work for named trainers like the Gym Leaders so he changed it. Those guides are typically made a short time before the official release though so they probably had an early localization build to take screenshots of.

[@tronvandiesis8547]

THE CHAZZ from yugioh GX felt great xD In italian red and blue versions there's a mispelled Marowak in "Marowax" when you defeat the ghost

[@JamieOBrien-y6d]

1:17 i don't get it sorry.

[@COOL1nate]

I once had a Lairon Pokémon Traiding Card that's description was messed up. It was almost like there was an old description that they were updating but the two different descriptions got morphed together causing some words to get misspelled or merge together. I don't have the card anymore but I remember it read something like "It stel bady against others to fight over therritory."

[@GiordanDiodato]

the Moon Ball oversight also affects the Fast Ball, Lure Ball, and Heavy Ball.

[@plains7000]

the gen 3 glitches I didn't know about until hoops told me.

[@TheDarkEnigma]

Chikorita being invalidated in any way hurts my soul. Its like the Pluto of pokemon. So many people spit on it. There's something amusing about the love ball bug. It's technically the Pride Ball (couldn't come up with a better name) purely by accident. I never knew the invisible pc was a thing either. That's actually pretty cool. Kinda like a playground rumour you wouldn't believe til you verify it. Nice vid. Didnt know a fair few of these.

[@oscah_whisky]

9:43 Someone at Gamefreak must've said, "Gay RIGHTS!"

[@NovaSaber]

Koffing's Japanese Red/Green sprite had the skull make correctly placed. So the Blue/international sprite having it wrong is indeed an error.

[@thejamman6437]

its fine that the love ball is effective on same gender pokemon i dont see why its an error

[@ArtzyZero]

Well it's an error because it's informing a player of incorrect function. Most players would try to use it on opposite gendered Pokémon because the item description literally tells them to.

[@danielstokes2127]

It must be cool knowing the glitch and just showing the folks around you how it looks!

[@Dremag_Gaming]

If I remember right, I might have to check on it later, in the official Pokemon guide book from Nintendo. They misnamed "Air Cutter" to "Air Center"

[@kirbyofthestarsfan]

2:29 Nope, that's the *revised* sprite for Koffing, in Japan's Pokemon Green/Red, Koffing was upright and perfect, just like in the artwork.This blunder is from Pokémon Blue's sprites

[@almondthefurret6818]

The wonders of proofreading

[@628curtis]

That poke doll glitch had me feeling like the man back then

[@LavenderSky499]

A Gen 2 flub is that only sleep and frozen status conditions effect catch chance while others, like paralysis, don't.

[@TheLucarioMaster-uw4fb]

Yeah Dobbs actually confirmed that Everstone thing in one of his videoes, and I think they should've kept that same gender thing for the love ball. I think that'll be a nice detail

[@ChicagoMel23]

Im happier without the love ball thing

[@DetectiveBarricade]

But that's not what the Love Ball was supposed to do. It's always been described as being more effective on Pokemon that are the opposite gender to yours. Though it would've been better if it wasn't specifically the same species as yours - not that it matters too much outside of gen 4 since it and the other Apricorn balls (plus Safari, Sport, Dream, and most recently Beast Ball) tend to be extremely rare.

[@raikar7878]

8:28 That's crazy, even the game disrespects Chikorita just like that 😭

[@stardmg]

Koffing is still an error of some sort, because the original Japanese Red and Green had different sprites from the international Red and Blue (whose sprites were taken from the Japanese Pokemon Blue) and in those games Koffing's skull and crossbones were correctly placed. They also obviously fixed the sprite in Yellow where all of them are based on their anime depictions.

[@keturahwilson3366]

I actually knew about the elevator error, having experienced it myself. It's still amusing 😂😂

[@crimsonstormsurge]

Ok this is awesome we need more parts if there’s enough to make more

[@eliasgarciazarazua5022]

There's a mistranslation in the spanish version of the 1st gen games, when you're fishing and a pokemon appears, the text says "El malvado Magikarp atacó" which translates to "The evil Magikarp attacked"

[@ElPikminMaster]

9:08 For Kadabra, this is FULLY INTENTIONAL and still persists to this day, as it may have something to do with the Yuri Geller lawsuit and Kadabra supposedly using his likeness. It has recently been resolved, but the last time both Kadabra and the Everstone were together, it was before this resolution happened.

[@atomdecay]

I'm starting to really enjoy your videos man

[@jeremykops]

Ain't been this excited since the Wyatt Sicks debuted on Monday night Raw

[@stardmg]

The Moon Ball doesn't work because the internal item IDs of Moon Stone and Burn Heal were switched between Gen I and II and whoever coded the Moon Ball forgot to update its code to accommodate that. Obviously, no Pokemon evolves via Burn Heal, which is why it acts just like a normal Ball.

[@qthesorrow7899]

So the Kadabra evolving with a everstone is not a glitch. It is programmed to evolve no matter what due to the lawsuit over Kadabra and the magician Uri Geller. Gamefreak made it to where he would evolve no matter what due to this whole mess. It's still like that in most if not all modern games I believe.

[@qthesorrow7899]

I learned about this from Dobbs's I tested fake pokemon facts video he posted last week.

[@BJGvideos]

Doesn't that only apply to the TCG?

[@qthesorrow7899]

@BJGvideos no he was suing over the characters' likeness being similar to his act of bending spoons and stance. So Gamefreak /Nintendo cut back on printing cards with him on it and did not make him appear in new episodes of the anime on top of making the change to have it evolve no matter what if traded in the games.

[@BJGvideos]

@@qthesorrow7899 I'm aware why he was suing but if Kadabra still appeared in the games how would that apply?

[@qthesorrow7899]

@BJGvideos you'd have to ask Gamefreak sorry. All I know is at some point, after he tried to sue, they programmed Kadabra to evolve no matter that when traded and it's still this way in Sword and Shield. I'm guessing as a failsafe "hey we tried to limit how often people see it online " since if you Global trade or wonder trade one it will only stay a Kadabra for a little bit then evolve.

[@stardmg]

There's a lot of generalizations of the Gen I glitches here, some do and don't work depending on what Version/language the game is like for example the invisible PCs and surfing/fishing on/in statues were both fixed in Pokemon Yellow

[@PuppyLuver256]

Wait. Hang on. The Lavender Tower Pokedoll glitch is real? That wasn't just something made up for Midnight Krick's Buried Alive analysis video?? ... Neat!

[@pageclayton6850]

You didnt mention the best part of the gen 2 moon ball: Due to that oversight, it works on all pokemon that evolve via burn heal

[@kagarisa1426]

I feel some of these have already been talked about before

[@mc11213]

Yeah, he has a tendency to sometimes reuse information for videos. There's only so much that can utilized for a topic.

[@timbenzel1751]

Nope no one has ever.

[@jonathanalfano3941]

In B2W2 there's a tree you can surf on in Pokestar Studios and a tree you can walk through in Giant Chasm.

[@OmniPoe2]

2:22 Koffing sprite was only change in the localization of Red and Blue. In Red(J) and Green(J) it is correct

[@saintzeroinfinity]

2:45 Regional variant Wheezing.

[@pimpusmane]

Bruh I see so many cards with special details that I’m pretty sure I’ve unknowingly acquired a lot of as a kid or at least have the reprint of

[@GamingKingdom91]

Trainer: wanna see a neat trick? NPC: uh..ok? Trainer: *takes a pokemon out of a invisible PC* NCP: bruuh..how'd you do that!?

[@shanemiller1182]

That Clefable at the end looks like it's doing CaramellDansen

[@DragonTyer]

lanturn wiht a Move that it not learn huh i guess she saw Lance in Gen 1

[@SpiderRiderKya]

Kadabra keeps the 'will evolve if holding an Everstone' even after gen 3.

[@BJGvideos]

A Tyranitar card says something about it being able to knock over a mountain with "hust" one arm. I swear I saw someone with the prerelease Raichu at league once and didn't think anything of it because this was very early in the TCG and nobody knew what anything was worth. There's a design mistake on Chatot that's never been corrected. The feet are all wrong. Parrots have two toes in front and two in back, while Chatot has three in front and one in back. One of these has to be a mistake because Hisuian Snow and Pokémon Masters directly contradict each other. Hisuian Snow shows that the space-time distortions have been going on for years before the rift was opened, while Masters says that the distortions happened *because* of the rift.

[@redhoodprince5455]

Wait I thought it was just the Alakazam that could evolve even if holding the everstone? I saw another video that experimented with Machoke and Kadabra but only the Kadabra evolved.

[@chuckyfan6696]

It is only kadabra. I was trading with myself on xy a few years back trying to complete the dex on one of my games and i got a haunter, machoke, etc. All to not evolve while holding the everstone when i traded them over but when i did the same with kadabra it evolved even while holding an everstone

[@calamelli209]

@@chuckyfan6696 According to Bulbapedia, the Everstone fails to prevent ALL of the trade evolutions in gen 3 due to a glitch, just like Hoops says in the video. From gen 4 onwards, they fixed that glitch, but programmed in the specific exception for Kadabra only.

[@chuckyfan6696]

@@calamelli209 ohhh ok

[@Samorutt1324]

It's crazy that in pokemon tcg it's an error when it says pre release but in digimon tcg it's normal that pre-released cards has a stamp that says pre-releas (all cards don't have the stamp in digimon but some)

[@levistokes3960]

I guess whoever misspelled deceive didn't get the memo of I before E except after C.

[@silver.gambit9107]

“The Brock wants to fight! You can’t handle the Brock!! The Brock will DESTROY YOU!!!” 14:06

[@TBG1]

"The brock" was a reference to the rock, trust

[@mase-b]

The Gen 3 Trade glitch is not a glitch for Kadabra. Since GF/Pokemon got sued by this one guy claiming Kadabra is based off of his likeness, all Kadabras from Gen 3 onwards always evolve when traded regardless of if they have an everstone

[@qwertyrhoads9295]

The moon ball is effective against Pokemon that evolve via the Burn Heal.

[@pentagonyx]

I do not like how they changed the Pokeball on the back of the cards. I wish they just edited the original. The camera angle is just not the same.

[@carlakaiser-s4b]

8:26 See. Even Gamefreak doesn’t like Chikorita. It wants us to forget about its existence entirely. but not its evolution because those are better than it.

[@ChonkersCentral]

9:17 In SwSh Alakasam would still evolve while holding an everstone

[@timwoods2852]

I believe Whismur's name is also misspelled in R&S.

[@duyanhpham9227]

I couldn’t smell what „The BROCK“ was cooking

[@hisaceinthehole3426]

For some reason in fire red and lead green, there are quite a few misspellings and grammatical errors. Which is weird because in the original games which were the most broken, there was at least no spelling or grammar errors to speak of. Weird, huh?

[@jeffreybyrd2081]

The Brock sounds like the Chazz from GX

[@henkiestudios5117]

1:55 Id argue this isn’t a mistake because it’s not really a boss battle

[@Boltofbrilliance122]

Also in hgss prof oak says "I" but use a uprcase L

[@pkmnlover3812]

DwayneTheBrockJohnson xD

[@kamek145]

If you SMELLLL what The Brock is cooking!

[@Swampert_Tube]

Good video but I feel like 90% of the gen 1 stuff you mentioned is common knowledge

[@MoramothHauntz]

I forgot about the tree exploit 😂

[@jermainespeid4934]

When I was watching a walkthrough of Pokémon red that person used the poke doll on the ghost 👻 of Marowak

[@DarthPooh]

One big mistake in Pokémon is legends arceus and i have a feeling z-a will also be a mistake

[@phantomking3054]

its not the game creators mistake for the misspell errors its whoever did the localizations unless im wrong

[@XerouEffect13]

uhm.. why was AI used in alot of the clips? i mean what was the purpose?

[@MidnightLugia24]

What do you mean?

[@XerouEffect13]

@@MidnightLugia24 if you watch the video. you can see that sone clips were ran through an AI video converter. like what was the point?

[@JamesonsStuff]

Fun fact in lgpe u can bug in a chickorite and shiny hunt it

[@GeordoStuartClaes]

can you please do more of this?

[@johnszymanski247]

The Love Ball is a Symbol for Pride in Pokémon because it works on the same gender of Pokémon as your own.

[@TheScrootch]

I'm pretty sure the enitrety of gen 1 is an error. Not that I dislike gen 1

[@moffeltje4967]

9:42 where’s the error with the love ball?