Dumb Things I did in Pokémon as a kid

Really dumb things I thought about Pokémon as a kid
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[@markoproto8467]

Me as a child: Mashing the A button increases your chances of catching a Pokémon

[@ootfan7882]

I actually tried the same concept but with the B button, and I actually caught a Pokèmon, but it was probably just conveniently timed. XD

[@Dusty9680]

It's only with the B button and still works

[@cappyishere]

Me when child: Mashes A for bigger catch chance Me now: Mashes A for bigger catch chance

[@lilyb2497]

@@ootfan7882 same! I still do it out of habit lol

[@ootfan7882]

@@lilyb2497 same XD

[@RajeshKK72]

Ditto Into Eevee is the most unique I have ever heard

[@avalencia9628]

As a kid I thought Farfetch'd evolved into Doduo

[@therealriddlemaster]

I thought I could evolve charmander with a fire stone

[@noyatori]

@@avalencia9628 i think its dobbs?

[@LitKing3k]

@@noyatori lmao us

[@daphenomenalz4100]

@@therealriddlemaster i used to try that with every starter, but it never worked and i used to think that it wasn't high level that's why, so sometimes i even gave them the stones as an item 😂

[@turntsnaco824]

When I was a kid, I heard about the trade glitch you could do in Gen 1 where you turn off one of the Game Boys mid-trade and it sends a duplicate copy of a Pokemon to another game without losing it in the original game. I had gotten a Mew from a Toys R Us event, and one day I realized I could just use the duplicate glitch to give a copy to a friend. I told him to just trade a Pokemon he didn't care about so he grabbed a Gloom from his box and we started the trade. I turned off one of the Gameboys, and we checked to see if it worked. When I went and looked in my game, I now had a Gloom, but no Mew, and he still had his Gloom. I had done it backwards. My Mew was gone forever.

[@wubbers662]

At least you didn't trade away 4 shiny level 100 Sinnoh Pokemon and a Greninja because they are Level 100

[@serenitywingss]

oh my god that's so tragic, i will mourn him for you (also happy to see a fellow gg fan)

[@cursedstarflight]

@@wubbers662 so ur telling me that you did that

[@user-tr8cq6dm4n]

I once thought Cloyster evolved into Gastly

[@Cherubim666999]

Thats what gameshark was for

[@jacobhill3251]

My Step brother traded me a Haunter. It evolved of course. I was so excited to use it. What I didn't realize is it was level 80. I had two badges. Therefore it refused to obey me in battle (the first time I experienced this). I was convinced that Gengar had corrupted my game and was haunting my Gameboy color then.

[@kj_usa2987]

Lol

[@johnm.castillo3163]

:( sorry. Similar thing happened to me in silver. I in fame trades my Drowzee for a Machop, wiped out Whitney and eventually my female machoke HATED me and I'd actually feel guilt feelings and dread. Not the coolest experience as a 9 year old lol

[@lechonkthelegod4945]

@@johnm.castillo3163let’s just be glad nuzlockes weren’t a thing

[@TheBigRedskull]

The best thing about an Aura Guardian Video is determining if it’s a serious video or a hilarious joke one.

[@bananacat3109]

And both will be amazing

[@mr.eldritch1589]

Yeah...he doesn’t bother confining to April 1st does he?

[@geometryemperor]

It is a serious video on a hilarious topic.

[@krimorant]

I can never tell

[@johnathan9830]

It's always a nice surprise either way.

[@nixuniverse5240]

"Do you remember your first ever shiny hunt ?" Yes, and I remember running out of patience each time about 10 minutes in as well.

[@gamerhead473]

My very first shiny was a mankey in leaf green

[@regulusroll-beyblade6126]

My first hunt was a Hawlucha in X and Y

[@archiegenesect7996]

My first successful shiny hunt was with platinum’s Giratina, and I will probably never do another shiny hunt again

[@Daniel-tf5ow]

I ran out of patients soft resetting for a shiny starter in about a month or two

[@shubhamagrawal1802]

My First shiny ever was the ultra rare shiny gyarados in soul silver🙂......................................🥺(and my last one as well)

[@TheGloriousLobsterEmperor]

Ahhh, everyone had their own "way to increase catch odds" thing. None were as humiliating as mine, I was *convinced* that shouting "Gotcha!" into the mic made it easier to catch Pokemon.

[@richardjared960]

I did that too.

[@AceMercado10]

Mine was holding B lol

[@orirune3079]

Mine was worse, I had a little song I would sing that I knew rationally didn't do anything but it seemed to so I would sing in my head "it's gonna pop out today, it's gonna pop out hooray". Like some weird reverse psychology on the game.

[@TheGloriousLobsterEmperor]

@@orirune3079 The cringe is eternal. May whoever spread these rumours receive a mild inconvenience.

[@shadowandluigifan989]

One time during one of my Diamond playthroughs as a kid, I used the master ball on an Abomasnow thinking that other balls wouldn't work because Abomasnow was too big lmao

[@Elentrium]

lmfao

[@ConnorDrawss]

LMAOO

[@ashensage7968]

I used to use Great Balls on Onix in Silver because I thought it was too big to catch in normal Pokeballs xD

[@aaronvarela89]

When I was a kid I used to sometimes play on my sisters Pokemon save on Fire Red. She was pretty far into the game and I was surfing around looking for water Pokemon and decided to use the master ball on a Tentacool. Needless to say she was pissed and restarted the Game bc she wanted to catch Zapdos

[@MirageUchiha]

Rofl

[@cool3dd]

The Ditto evolution to Eevee And dobbs thinking Farfetched evolved at lvl 100 are both the most unique I've ever heard

[@BlindJedi]

Dobbs is a freaking idiot, so that checks out.

[@cdoggo3352]

@@BlindJedi yet you didn’t a catch a shiny buizel

[@BlindJedi]

@@cdoggo3352 no, I went blind. Horrifically and traumatically. Thanks for bringing it up.

[@mizusenshi8172]

There was some video where Dobbs thought Togepi was a Gen 1 Pokémon. I think it was a collab with AuraGuardian too.

[@lisiastar8441]

@@mizusenshi8172 and it wouldn't be too farfetch'd as togepi appeared in gen 1 anime and as such that was the impression that many people had at that time and for many years afterwards aswell

[@PkmnMasterNeb]

When I was really little, I referred to Farfetch’d as “Farfetch Dee”.

[@dawnsbuneary]

Me. too! Wow. Small world, huh?

[@tylermannor4290]

OH MY GOD ME TOO!

[@staringcorgi6475]

We though this because many of us didn't know grammar yet

[@MHFelem]

More worse, I was thinking it is: Farfetch’ Duck

[@auditorbutabigshot1675]

SAME BRUH RELATABLE

[@spursnofficial]

I didnt know about type weaknesses until gen 6 at age 17. In gen 3, I would just attack everything with Sceptile's leaf blade.

[@kewlman5417]

fire gym 💀

[@dumbmonkey1313]

Jeez were you playing in a different language or something i don’t see how someone can be that dimwitted

[@MirageUchiha]

Lol

[@spursnofficial]

@Kewl Man had to revive Sceptile x amounts of times vs Winnona, Flannery and Drake fr

[@derpizzaman1050]

​@@spursnofficialwhat did you think it meant when it said "not effective" and until 17??? 💀💀

[@TigerW0lf]

When Pokemon Yellow came out, I tried to play the game by only capturing only the Pokemon that Ash caught cuz I thought being Ash was cool 😳

[@Tahanok2]

To be fair, it's easier to beat Brock with a Pidgeotto than a Pikachu that early in the game. I remember basically abandoning Pikachu the first time I played through.

[@KodasToyReviews]

Haha yah

[@eeveefennecfox]

that's not stupud,you made your own challenge when you were a kid,I think I did the same thing actually XD

[@tomfrost6049]

I agree that it wasn't dumb whatsoever. Its how you yhlight you should but also how you wanted to play...personally I think it's pretty cool

[@thouzend16]

3:50 omg that finally explains how he got there in his revisiting save files video

[@blowyourmindscientist6497]

Wait... I thought that video was just a joke. He really did trap himself in? Still, the rest of that video is a joke... right?

[@thouzend16]

Blow your mind Scientist well we don't know yet if the rest of that video was a joke he's never explained if it was we just now know he did really trap himself lol

[@Winnie589]

I was like what the heckity heck did you do

[@kaibadlover]

@Mamta Pathak Isn't it Diamond & not heart gold nor soul silver

[@hen0botx472]

thats what i was thinking (replying to the first comment)

[@isc8900]

I thought there was a evolution line: Shellder>Cloyster>Gastly>Haunter>Gengar

[@LadyLeomon]

Vile Runner given how much a Cloyster’s “face” resembles a Gastly I don’t blame you 😂😂😂

[@mochi9672]

i thought that for the longest time too wtf man

[@everythingpizzaandknuckles6268]

Shellder evolves into Cloyster after learning Withdraw, then into Gastly after learning Shell Smash, then into Haunter at level 33, and into Gengar after trading

[@willyp1347]

I didn’t know dragonite evolved from dragonair and just thought it was was a goofy other version of charizard

[@snakeattacker2857]

I thought it always went geodude, graveler, golem, onyx, and steelix because they were all together in the sinnoh pokedex

[@IntoTheFire777]

One of my dumbest things is I never knew that in Gold/Silver you can go to Kanto after beating the Elite Four, I literally missed out on HALF the game lol I found out 8 years later.

[@Sam20309]

I remember playing FireRed for the first time and catching a nidoran female thinking it was a male because my friend told me nidoking was really good. That nidoqueen ended up carrying the final rival fight.

[@stewsucks5403]

To be fair nidoking and nidoqueen are basically the same Pokémon anyway lmao

[@dhans9662]

@@stewsucks5403 nidoking is better for sweeping, nidoqueen is a wall lol

[@michaelbell1289]

The shiny Floatzel fail is even more embarrassing when you remember there are berries that lower EVs when fed to a Pokémon. You could have easily undone the speed EVs by just feeding them Tamato berries, so that way you could have kept the Floatzel and wouldn't have had to reset.

[@stacyfearlicia]

and in super training i’m pretty sure you can reset individual stats

[@spiggly_digg]

Super training was far easier and more fun, why did he use hordes

[@LinkNinjaMaster]

@@stacyfearlicia Actually I think that the white bag reset all EVs and is the only EV lowering item in Super Training, so that's probably why he believed that the only way to remove the Speed EVs was to reset all of them.

[@alexreid7386]

@@LinkNinjaMaster Ahh that explains it, I totally forgot super training was a thing. The berries would indeed have been the best solution here!

[@nikolino93]

When I was younger I went to the hospital for a surgery, and I was there for a few days, and most of the time I was playing pokemon ruby. There was a kid who looked very sad and so I decided to let him use my game, and that little bastard deleted all my data 😢

[@nikolino93]

@@aisaka7375 its all good I forgive you 😜

[@nikolino93]

@@aisaka7375 I know I know I was being sarcastic, that happened in Italy that kid doesn't even know English lol

[@ItzLynx189]

@@aisaka7375 wait a minute

[@ItzLynx189]

@@aisaka7375 no i meant as in the meme

[@merdone8121]

@@nikolino93 scusa fra, non volevo

[@twixieshores]

Ah yes, the left-right mash. I did it so much as a kid, when I started playing again as an adult I found out I had it committed to muscle memory. Good news is it's a harmless stupid thing

[@metalwiz6868]

When I was a very small kid playing my first ever Pokémon game (which was Pokémon sapphire) my first try was a shiny Treecko. I didn’t know what a shiny Pokémon was at the time, so I thought that was supposed to be what he looked like. I remember this since I drew so many pictures of him because he was my favorite (mostly because I was too dumb to catch any others) and in all the drawings he was the blue green, and red tail. I started a new game because I hadn’t played for a long time, and got very confused why the color was different than what I remembered. Few years later I realized my mistake, and that’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever done in Pokémon

[@verylostdoommarauder]

That wasn't stupid because you actually kept the shiny. So many other people wouldn't.

[@localretard3779]

@@verylostdoommarauder ye

[@rockettbennett]

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[@joshs3775]

​@@rockettbennettok

[@shwoompy2702]

The first time I played Pokémon I was scared shitless that Caterpie would poison me

[@guthzammysara]

DUDE, ME TOO. AND WEEDLE

[@justcallmedaddy6977]

I laughed way too hard at this

[@matthewkuscienko4616]

@@guthzammysara Weedle CAN poison you, though

[@Winnie589]

Your character or your Pokémon? I was way more paranoid because I thought that the ghosts in Pokémon tower would make me faint like my character faint

[@-t_.]

@@guthzammysara weedle can poison you

[@Patterrz]

I thought the pokeball in viridian forest was the only one you could get, so if it failed i'd reset the whole game and try again

[@LimeDizzy]

EPIC 1 min ago

[@najlahalsayed5392]

hey pat there is this person called morepat that steals ur content

[@poke3209]

@@najlahalsayed5392 Thats his second account

[@najlahalsayed5392]

@@poke3209 ik it was a joke

[@rufusgoatman143]

Hi pat!

[@brandonschreiber6403]

Back when I played Pokémon Gold, I didn't automatically find HM Waterfall in that one ice cave towards the end, so when I arrived at the waterfall that would eventually lead to the Kanto region, I just assumed that's where the game ended. About a year later, after having explored every nook and cranny in the Johto region, I finally found the MacGuffin to my story, and connected the dots. Imagine my utter amazement when I realised there was a whole chapter left to be explored. Felt like I had hacked into the mainframe.

[@rjd-kh8et]

I wonder if that's why the remake won't let you proceed without the HM.

[@LizzieNya]

Okay hear me out: My first Pokémon game was Sapphire. I got engaged with the story real fast and took everything the NPCs told me very seriously. I even gave my Pokémon letters to hold with love words written on them (didn't know held items were actually useful) But what still haunts me to this day was when I had to "calm down" Kyogre so that he wouldn't destroy the world. I fought him with my entire team (dear Swampert clutching the team) and defeated him because "I can't catch him, he's the god of the sea, you're not allowed to own him as your Pokémon". I had grabbed the Masterball but never used it, mostly because I thought you were unable to catch a legendary Pokémon. And then my cousin caught him a week later in her own playthrough and I felt like an idiot 🙂

[@lucasjaramillovargas9422]

"He's the god of the sea, you can't use him as your Pokemon" LMAO that's the best comment I've seen

[@Sezenian]

As a kid I didn't know how to spell Ash, so I named my first character "Es"

[@solarium-z8230]

The name sounds like a character from 'ALTER EGO'.

[@bewearstar9462]

Lol

[@laeva495]

@@solarium-z8230 Ah, I see, you're...

[@solarium-z8230]

@@laeva495 ???

[@laeva495]

@@solarium-z8230 ...sorry I was referencing the game after the tests you take

[@VaporYTVideo]

When I was 7 years old, I was given 2 Pokemon cards from a teacher who would use them as prizes for doing really good in the classes. I got a Venonat and a Gastly and would constantly tell my mom how rare they were.... In 2 years I had at least 20-30 each of the exact same ones

[@romeorodriguez7588]

They are rare. You can only get them from a teacher

[@nikolaksan7771]

Its rare the teacher card very little have them...

[@lil_wildboar]

Aww soo cute Venonat looks like Kurubo in Yugioh

[@OfficialAshArcher]

Still a cool teacher!

[@Noah-xq9no]

Man, I had like 3 binders of cards including my favorite Pokémon, Yveltal and Charizard. I came home one day and my brothers destroyed and ripped up all my cards.

[@Locket.L]

I always thought that Pokémon would fit in a Pokeball with the same main colour as theirs, so I would get upset running into an Abra and not having any yellow Pokeballs

[@piratelady8771]

One time I caught an Onix and was super impressed with its high defense stat. Back then, I didn't really know how stats worked so I just saw a big number and added it my team, expecting it to be a really good tank. You can imagine how well that went.

[@tinyexpectiduck718]

quitting the scouts to watch pokemon is swag af lol

[@tahirahd1]

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[@tinyexpectiduck718]

Nice, My first comment to get 100 likes, ty for choccy Milk

[@icymiles]

fax i'd do that

[@brendanreilly4675]

I would’ve done the same, Boy Scouts is boring as hell lmao

[@futurized_]

Yeah, who wouldn’t do that? It’s dumb if you stay in the scouts.

[@tord4336]

At my school there were a a rumor that Ledyba could evolve into Entei.

[@ethnictendo]

If it could, then Ledyba would no longer be called useless.

[@rafy.h.3108]

@@ethnictendo on its own it still was

[@ethnictendo]

@@rafy.h.3108 Eh, true.

[@badoongy6362]

yeah that happens when kids have nothing to off of then their own thoughts and not really any evidence proving it and there is no internet to prove them wrong also "the L is real" was a big thing that lasted for a long time and that was said by elementary aged kids same with mario punching yoshi in super mario world exept that was actually true

[@ethnictendo]

@@badoongy6362 Mario didn't punch Yoshi. He was pointing at where Yoshi needs to eat the enemies.

[@zetafish7347]

I was one of those kids who thought speed was based on how fast you could click the button. Child me couldn't possibly comprehend why Burgh's Leavanny would always go before my Patrat.

[@STEELZ2000]

One time when I was hunting Pokémon as a kid, really at night. I saw a Kadabra that looked really weird, color wise. So I figured there it was a glitch, and promptly restarted the game. Only then did I remember that shinies are a thing.

[@luketurner6449]

Mine was thinking that if I caught every zubat in the cave I could walk through uninterrupted. 😅

[@johngancarcik5682]

If only that were true but the kanto safari zone has no more tauros thanks to ash and brock

[@waylamowo3597]

Hah I did that 2

[@gavinjudy9687]

How many did you catch b4 just going through

[@broadts]

If you catch 69 shiny zubat then you walk through unharmed xd

[@AdentuAlt]

Yooooo so me

[@mockingmicah5045]

the dumbest thing I did as a kid was putting nidoking and nidoqueen in the daycare expecting an egg

[@akshaykarthik928]

Honestly this isnt even dumb, this makes total sense

[@thorwhoisacat]

Thats not dumb, its dumb that it didnt work

[@ethnictendo]

Out of all the "dumbest thing I did as a kid" stories I've ever heard/read, this one's the most understandable.

[@deadmonsterhead4507]

No that is the dumbest thing GameFreak did not having them be able to breed

[@peptobismolveins]

@@deadmonsterhead4507 yeah exactly.

[@hotwing38]

In the original diamond and pearl, my friend and I were stuck at the same point in the story for a good month. We didnt realize you needed to talk to the galactic grunt by the safari zone 🤣

[@emblemblade9245]

I tried weakening Ho-oh before using the master ball because I thought the guaranteed catch factor only applied if its HP was in the red. Of course I OHKO’d it and had to save scum a retry

[@blameitondanny]

As a kid, I thought if I attack a zigzagoon with water gun, it's fur would be wet and would weaken it 😅

[@psuedonym9999]

That's actually sounds like a good idea, like a Breath of the Wild type interaction. Speaking of BotW, there actually *is* an interaction sort of like that. In the Gerudo Desert, it's quite hot, and if you don't wear proper clothing or eat/drink chilly food/sliders, you'll take damage over time. Standing in the shade also helps. But you could also carry ice weapons like you can carry flame weapons in cold climates. But I didn't know this one until recently: if you're wet, say, after just getting out of the water, *or* after striking chuchu jelly, you'll stay cool for a bit. That chuchu jelly part I had no idea about until recently. It's kinda like getting Zigzagoon wet to make it's fur stick together instead of being puffed out and spiky. But sorry for the wall of tangentially related text.

[@itzjustme6431]

I don’t blame you wasn’t that Pokémon like a cat Pokémon or something

[@psuedonym9999]

@@itzjustme6431 No, Zigzagoon is a raccoon.

[@cmoore1369]

@@psuedonym9999 Monster Hunter has been punishing hunters in the desert for YEARS. Cold drinks, and Hot drinks are a thing lol.

[@peggyswigert3708]

That’s reasonable

[@pixelpudding3914]

“I quit the scouts just so I could watch Pokémon” That’s iconic

[@loganrogers1071]

I used to ALWAYS play with just my starter and over level him. It wasn’t until my 2nd attempt at Pokémon Diamond that it might be a good idea to catch different Pokémon 😂. I would get so mad when I’d get to the 5th gym and be 15 levels above the leader and still get one shot because of typing (which I had no idea existed 💀) and never advancing so I’d just start over with a nee starter.

[@bast4rdlyreaper]

The dumbest thing I did was believe in Minusle. It was a theory that you could breed plusle and minun together to get a Minusle. It was a gray color with one cheek being a plus and the other cheek being a Minus. The breeding pair needed to have held items, and know helping hands, low chance to breed of 1/50 eggs could be Minusle, etc. There were rumors that it was a a hidden unintentional pokemon like the Mew spawn teleport glitch and Missingno in generation one. That's why it wasn't in the Pokedex. The sprites were very convincing, and this was in ruby sapphire, before the sprites moved like in emerald. I bought it hook line an sinker, and attempted to breed them for weeks before id attempted all possibilities, and finished that section of the Pokedex. This was in the early 2000s, before KZbin existed, and internet hoaxes were much harder to disprove, plus I was a dumb kid. I just tried looking it up, and it seems that the hoax has been washed from the surface web of Google, cants even find the hoax fanart sprites on image search.

[@silverslayer6262]

Guardian: I used a poke doll on the ghost. Me: You too, huh?

[@laurenchinsphealsupremacis9978]

I didn't even know that you could do that until this video.

[@silverslayer6262]

@@laurenchinsphealsupremacis9978 I didn’t know you needed the silphscope till a month later

[@nicocchi]

chiming in as one of the dumbasses (or perhaps actual genius) who got past with the Pokédoll because I had no idea there was a whole dungeon under the casino

[@cdoggo3352]

Isn’t this also used in the speedrun?

[@silverslayer6262]

@@cdoggo3352 That’s where everyone got the idea from, some speed runners that basically cheated by using this glitch?!

[@poggersman5497]

Whenever I was hunting for a rare Pokemon in wild grass, I thought killing/fainting the more common ones would increase my chances of encountering the rarer ones as the common ones would die.

[@clintonbuxton5471]

Hahahah I did the same thing

[@cloverra3243]

Logic

[@npc4416]

they should implement this tbh

[@spartacus1329]

I did the same

[@Astralreaper7955]

Pokemon Sword And Shield Implemented That

[@FlopsoTheClown]

my first pokemon game was X, and i mostly understood everything that was going on so i dont think i ever did anything particularly stupid, all i remember is getting stuck at the power plant section because i didnt read what the flare grunt said about the keycard and spending like, a month stuck in that area, somehow getting to the elite four without knowing how levels worked so i got really frustrated when my mostly underleveled team couldnt properly face off against any of the four, and i think when i was a bit younger id only known about the black and white anime so when i watched an episode of indigo league my brain automatically thought "why did they change cilan and iris' designs" even though it was clearly an older piece of media

[@swagmessiah37]

i used to do the pokeball rocking motion with my fist whenever i was trying to catch a pokemon cause i thought it might have some psychic connection and make the pokemon stay in the ball. not stupid, just really, really weird

[@badoongy6362]

"I quit the scouts just so I could watch an episode on pokemon" This is true love for a franchise

[@misticornart]

Amazing

[@kobayashinisalahs7673]

Yeah

[@pixelpudding3914]

That’s an absolute power move

[@thealmightyone6461]

I did it for dragonballz😅

[@lattemeowcchiato3767]

I quit choir to watch pokemon aswell. Never thought I'd hear of someone.. like-minded.. My excuse is that I'm a terrible singer anyway and 15 years ago streaming wasn't really a thing so I had to set priorities I guess.

[@TheFawly84]

I once tried my masterball on a trainers pokemon. As it never missed I just assumed that it would catch the trainers pokemon. I still remember the trainer swatting the ball away. I was so devestated.

[@shamz._1]

LOL I DID THIS

[@BLZRDD]

@@shamz._1 I’m assuming you lose the Masterball too??

[@gizmodahamster3389]

@@BLZRDD that would suck

[@BLZRDD]

@@gizmodahamster3389 I’ve never threw a Masterball at a trainers Pokémon and since it’s a special ball with one in game only to obtain, I’d figure that they would code in where you keep the ball until you catch something. Tho I’ve never tried so not completely sure lol

[@kahyogama8639]

I used it on a klefki

[@robynhoodie]

So I also caught a Ditto with a master ball. The reason was I heard a rumor that because ditto is basically a liquid it could seep though the edges of any other ball and escape. It’s interesting to hear that false rumor was more wide spread.

[@fluffin3922]

I thought special attack and defense were the backup stats in case your opponents lowered your regular attack and defense to the point where it said "----'s Defense can't go any lower!" but I was confident in my starter so I fed him special attack and defense-lowering berries to be best friends

[@LitKing3k]

My first ever shiny was a Gyarados … … Yeah, Lake of Rage, that's correct…

[@vanshgarg5514]

My first was a random Lairon in Emerald, and that was before I knew what a shiny is😂😂 Edit: I forgot to mention I stopped using my lvl 86 Aggron, booted an exp share to the shiny Lairon, put it at the end of my party, and beat the elite 4 17 timws to evolve it to Aggron😅🤦🏻

[@vegetalover9297]

Same I named it Redrage

[@sweethheart]

Mine was a Trapinch, I only learned what a shiny was at that point.

[@tylermannor4290]

my first shiny that wasn't gyrados was a weedle. I thought both it and the shiny gyarados were one of a kind

[@xBloodxFangx]

I thought this was a boss or something as a kid so I always KOed it thinking it would give me something special or more exp... noooope... its a shiny.

[@gentai1046]

Pikachu: the mouse Pokémon Alex: Ayo thats a cool rabbit

[@beavers123Gaming]

It's a pika not a mouse tho, pikas closest relatives are rabbits. He was closer than mouse so 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@GoncaloDCa]

@@beavers123Gaming the pokedex still says that he is a mouse pokemon

[@beavers123Gaming]

@@GoncaloDCa it's probably a translation issue

[@GoncaloDCa]

@@beavers123Gaming sorry but it's not, pikachu might be inspired by the pika but he definitely is the mouse pokemon, you can check by yourself in japanese he is the nezumi pokemon and from what I found it can be used for mouse or rat

[@beavers123Gaming]

@@GoncaloDCa what if they use the same word for pikas

[@mystc7081]

6:06 This is part of the reason I used super training in gen6, on top of not being rng reliant, so it would usually be faster anyways. Too bad you forgot about the friendship berries lowering EVs.

[@g3gad352]

5:04 This isn't stupid, this is a big brain

[@velvetbutterfly]

It was actually quite common for people to think Kanto was called Indigo, due to the english version never mentioning it in game

[@Pokemazda]

In the Netherlands they also never mentioned it!

[@velvetbutterfly]

Rowin Hofstede that's not too surprising. The way a lot of media translation worked is English people would translate it because of course, and then the english versions would then be retranslated into all other languages

[@updfdrakkell143]

it mentioned it in the og ones when you get the map from garys sister after you get the mon from oak

[@velvetbutterfly]

UPDF Drakkell not in english, I know it does in Japanese copies.

[@jamie36]

@@Pokemazda is there a dutch version?????? WTF I need it

[@RicoHarding]

I always thought the weaker attacks i used, causing the battles to be longer, gave me more XP.

[@rossvistamail]

That would be a great mechanic

[@shikabaneconga]

that kinda feels true judging by how longer gamed in gen 1 seemed to give you more exp

[@wisecicero8199]

I still believe this. More turns = more exp

[@Zyuk07]

Same Lol

[@jaydengames8532]

I thought the exact opposite lmao

[@nikomgames2888]

Dumb thing I thought as a kid: because I wasn't aware that the box existed, I thought that only the first 5 pokemons you catched + your starter would stay with you, and the pokemons you catched after these would just vanish. That's also why my HG team was Cyndaquil, Sentret, Rattata, Zubat, Caterpie and Metapod.

[@faefly9383]

lmao i thought the same thing. in my ss file, I couldn't get past the "take this egg" because I had quilava (who I couldn't figure out how to evolve) and some others that I forget. I remember quilava though. And getting lost in ruins of alps or whatever it;s called.

[@itzl2124]

HAHAHA im sorry i laughed a lot when i read your team😹😹😹😹😹

[@Toe-collector]

Bro i just bursted out laughin in school ☠️

[@ShintaroShadow]

@@Toe-collector 💀

[@spiritbaki108]

SAME

[@rosenrot234]

I still remember my first shiny ever. A rattata in Johto near where you start in silver / gold. I can't recall my first ever dedicated "hunt" for a shiny though.They're more fun when they're random and just something you wouldn't expect

[@askmeaboutsugma]

When I was a kid a buddy of mine told me that mashing the “A” button would increase the odds of catching a Pokémon. I believed this. So much so that, to this day, I still instinctually mash the “A” button knowing it does nothing.

[@cooper9099]

It may not work but goddammit does it feel like it does work.

[@askmeaboutsugma]

@@cooper9099 ikr 😂 every time I catch a Pokémon I’m like “definitely because I was mashing”

[@jrking3812]

Same and I cannot help it. Its almost as if I’m fighting whats second nature. Deep down in my heart I feel like its working.

[@Darlomon]

B for me

[@reptileguy5607]

When your down to you last pokeball trying to catch a legendary from second gen best believe your mashing for dear life

[@capitalistpropaganda9165]

“I thought ditto evolved into eevee” It’s fine I thought cryogonal evolved into absol

[@Mickelraven]

You think that's bad. I thought Noctowl evolved into Spiritomb! I'm not joking!

[@user-hj5lr7yf6z]

@@Mickelraven the what

[@Mickelraven]

@@user-hj5lr7yf6z You heard me!

[@EVELYNEV13]

I always thought that the baby bell evolved into hariyama pre-evolution

[@idifeisnormal]

I never look in the Pokédex

[@kolby125]

I remember doing a stupid thing in my copy of Ultra Sun when I was little. When I was trying to catch Mespirit, I used regular pokeballs. You can imagine the rest. And whenever I tried to catch a pokemon that I have failed at many times, I would put my 2DS on the ground, Bend forward at it, and stare right into its soul. I was stupid.

[@gooberbunchofrandomnumbers]

I used to think the poison effect on gba games outside of battle that made your screen kinda glitch and stuff meant there's mewtwo somewhere nearby

[@JasonDS64]

When I was a kid playing Blue for the first time I got my feelings hurt by the bird trio because the Pokeball kept missing so I just fainted them saying something along the lines of "if they don't want to be caught, then I don't want them." I then used my Master Ball on a Level 3 Weedle.

[@Sen-dh9mk]

the last part came so random i started laughing

[@fist-of-doom487]

Back when I played Pokémon Crystal I didn’t know what the Pokéball symbol next to Pokémon names meant. I knew they appeared next to Pokémon I already had but it somehow didn’t occur to me that these are wild Pokémon of the same species of Pokémon I had. So I assumed it was a combination of the Wobbufet and Charizard problem in the anime and that my Pokémon kept coming out of their Pokéball’s and wanted to fight me.

[@autograph415]

@@fist-of-doom487 what

[@sweedra7899]

@@fist-of-doom487 Wow, even my 6-year old self had more logic than that. The worst thing I did when I was 6 was accidentally trap myself on an island. It had some hiker or something, but I'm glad I was able to get out of there by fishing.

[@Han_Niche]

"I don't need the legendary birds, i have self respect"

[@reedwada6257]

In Pokemon Diamond, I thought that you needed String Shot to climb the Rock Climb paths.

[@ethnictendo]

I can see your logic. It'd be like a grappling hook.

[@Keb1c]

Spiderman!

[@nashfesik7062]

I see how you can get confused from that

[@t-rexngatokorua8733]

I did the one where you press the d pad to increase the capture rate. Also I kinda miss the rumor/fake pokemon vids...it added an extra bit of magic and mystery to the games like "just MAYBE I will find new under the truck.." etc etc. That was part of the experience as a child I think.

[@MikeyTheCartoon]

There’s two that come to mind for me: 1. Using a Master Ball on a Rhydon in Crystal when I was like 8. Of course I didn’t know any better but whatever 2. Not knowing until I was I was like 21 that fighting types aren’t super effective against ground types. I guess I just always assumed it was because of Pokémon like Geodude and Onix.

[@jberdo66]

“I quit the scouts to watch Pokémon.” Sounds like 10 year old me quitting football to watch yugioh

[@trickywickbow5536]

I really don’t like the scouts of football cos I’m to lazy but at least I can watch Pokémon

[@EvilSnowVO]

For me it was quitting judo to watch the Simpsons. I think it was around the time that the episode about Homer cutting off his thumb was out because I missed it and thought it would be a permanent change to the show going forward

[@Nekrosoa]

Lol

[@bewearstar9462]

@@EvilSnowVO lol

[@huss1054]

@@EvilSnowVO I remember that ep

[@octojova]

I used to think that the only way you could evolve Slowpoke into Slowbro was by having a Shellder bite a Slowpoke’s tail during battle. I proceeded to spend hours killing Shellders in the Slowpoke Well wondering why it wasn’t working.

[@lil_wildboar]

Lol a lot of Shellders lost their lives because of the pokemon series.

[@thesnorlaxagenda]

That would be an awesome mechanic though

[@oleboybanks]

I did the Same thing lmao

[@dailybugle2147]

I love how instead of just not going that night, you went the extra mile of quitting the scouts.

[@rusz8182]

I used to think Corphish was a split evolution, like the Slowpoke line. Anyway, I used to think Corphish evolves to Scizor by level up, and Corphish evolves to Crawdaunt when traded holding a King's Rock...

[@Archadianite]

Gotta admit, that Poke Doll Strat was genius

[@psuedonym9999]

Ultimate cheese

[@emielcaudron6470]

The dumbest thing I did as a kid was when a friend told me that if you talk to Spiritomb's stone enough times in D/P/P then it'd appear, so I spent like 2 full days just constantly spamming the A button... yeahhh

[@daphenomenalz4100]

😂😂😂

[@annameow8494]

Lol

[@yodawithasoda2272]

Aww that's so cute

[@Astrealiaa]

My first Pokemon game I owned was Black, I didn’t know you could run from wild pokemon battles until I reached the 4th gym lol

[@marcogypaetus9607]

I thought Farfetch'd was the first stage of the Dodrio line for pretty much the same reason. I once threw a masterball at a Rattata. In my defense it was a shiny one and I thought that made it harder to catch. To this day I forget that Lickitung is a gen 1 pokémon. I thought only dittos could be left in the daycare to get an egg. There is probably more, but these are some things off the top of my head.

[@crestonm2174]

I accidentally ran away from a shiny Farfetch'd in Heart Gold a long ways back. It still haunts me to this day.

[@quaxolotl6509]

That hurts man

[@gizmodahamster3389]

Oof

[@eliseonunez3805]

You, WHAT!?!?

[@ricardobr1493]

Farfetch Is Rare Normally

[@dylanwormuth1089]

3:44 it’s really funny that Game Freak added an interaction and a text box behind the counter, seeing as you’re never supposed to be able to get back there. Also, Nurse Joy turning to talk to you is so weird.

[@hahant-expertatunfunnycont9713]

It's the same dialogue as the counters in the pokemart, so it's probably a glitch

[@Buhllistic]

@@hahant-expertatunfunnycont9713 or just the same assets

[@5050ChanceImSerious]

Nurse joy thing isn't weird. Characters were programmed to turn an talk to you. They just copy and past it to all every other character, including nurse joy

[@LuisGonzalez-lf5dc]

My first shiny encounter was Zapdos in Firered. I didn’t know what it was at the time but I remember seeing the sparkles and I was like what was that. Zapdos shiny almost looks identical to its non shiny variant so I didn’t even noticed it. I only had like 10 Pokeballs so I obviously didn’t catch it. Years later I realized my first encounter with a shiny Pokémon was a shiny Zapdos which I failed to catch. Still haunts my dreams.

[@ashearera]

I walked into the tall grass in Red and went into the item menu and just tossed all my poke balls from my bag thinking that’s how you used them lol. I also thought a fire stone could evolve ANY fire pokemon and tried to use it to evolve charmeleon early lol

[@Zoggosh]

I remember using one of those tiny keychain flashlights and holding it an inch from my gameboy when I got to Rock Tunnel. Didn't know where flash was so I just assumed that they wanted you to flash a light on your gameboy screen in order to be able to see. I spent a few days inside there before I managed to make it to Lavender town, and subsequently outleveled the rest of the game by 10+ levels because of how long I spent mindlessly walking around in there.

[@aplainbagel6619]

That’s hilarious

[@wisecicero8199]

The amount of times iv reset my game due to getting lost without flash xD

[@ce7624]

Task failed successfully I guess 🤣

[@Tahanok2]

I learned to navigate that tunnel by sound as a kid because I refused to teach Flash to a pokemon. By "sound", I mean walking until I heard the sound for hitting a wall or trainer. And I say "learned" because I did it 3-4 times, rather than lucking my way through once.

[@aura6886]

I used to argue with my friend over whats pikachu's evolution, and ofc little me thought it was electabuzz

[@shrek9968]

What did your friend think it was? Jolteon? lol

[@aura6886]

@@shrek9968 basically i thought it was electabuzz and my friend said raichu

[@shrek9968]

@@aura6886 oh ok lol

[@hahaIol]

Ultramegalul

[@dannyosmon4463]

i thought it was ampharos

[@TheGloriousLobsterEmperor]

I remember my first shiny. It was a Snover in Pokemon Platinum, first time I ever played. I think I was pretty smart kid, I hadn't seen Snover super often, so I knew when I saw it blue and sparkled, this Snover was special. Obviously, I caught it. What I didn't do, was transfer it over when I reset my Pokemon game. That wasn't even the last time I did that. RIP shiny Snover from Platinum and shiny Klingklang from Pokemon Black. Gone, but never forgotten.

[@racapoopoo]

me: waits for arbok to evolve arbok: what are you doing? me: you do evolve into a serperior.. right? *stares*

[@ericmoon2974]

That shiny Floatzel thing isn’t a stupid moment, that’s just heartbreaking. We all been there.

[@obi-wankenobi8927]

Were the ev reducing berries a thing then? Because if so i would say that was pretty stupid idk tho since i started doing competitive in gen 7

[@TheStarsTwilight]

@@obi-wankenobi8927 They were; I was thinking that very same thing when he said he HAD to do a full reset

[@peacethrufire1674]

I’ve played three games never happened (but I’ve also sadly never gotten a legit shiny random :/)

[@HanakkoLove]

We all been EV training and found a shiny and gave up the shiny because you were too dumb to use the berries? Cannot relate

[@bashfulwolfo6499]

I’ve never EV trained once since I still don’t fully understand it and don’t really bother to. I’ve also never found a shiny in the wild.

[@apersonuknow9240]

The dumb thing I thought as a kid is I thought Charmander evolves into dragonite and Charmeleon evolves into Charizard before I knew he was a starter

[@sangitakakde465]

Actually charmander face is similar to dragonite so it's not that dum I gess

[@thorwhoisacat]

I think charizard looks a lot like a dragonite (i meant vice versa but im too lazy to change it)

[@Samuel-qi7in]

I thought charmander evolved into charmelon then then charmelon into dragonite then charizard so you’re not alone

[@jaxc.]

charmeleon does evolve into charizard

[@Samuel-qi7in]

@@jaxc. we know

[@spongebabe27]

Oh also when I was younger I messed about with WTW (walk through walls) and in Gen IV there's a glitch that sometimes happens when you do this where you lose the walking animation and the screen suddenly gets a bright white filter and honestly you 100% feel like a ghost and I got incredibly scared and had to stop using Action Replay for ages lmao

[@JmDGamez]

I remember the 1st time I played yellow my brother had just said for me to use his save file, well some old man in viridian city said if you don’t care for your Pokémon they’ll grow to dislike you. 4 year old me decided that the level 67 Pidgeot in my team probably didn’t like being in a pokeball too much and I released it 😂

[@joelandworld]

someone has a good heart. 😌

[@ravenhorn3148]

When Pokemon Red and Blue came out I got completely swept up in the hype, even convincing my dad to drive me to the local mall to get the games where there was a giant release event for it. Now when I did get the game I was TERRIFIED on the way home I was going to be arrested. Why? Because I was under 10, and the show clearly explained that you needed to be 10 to start your Pokemon journey so I was so scared that I was going to be arrested for playing this game I refused to play it outside of my house for weeks.

[@cringee21]

same, but i got omega ruby at 9 guess i’m a criminal now

[@ania6118]

As a kid, I thought that Zigzagoon evolved into Eevee. Well, I ended up with a bunch of evolved zigzagons, and even managed to catch a "shiny" zigzagoon, not being aware what shinies are.

[@pyramidofmoos2]

I used to think the Machop line was part rock type when I played red and always used surf against them because I thought they were weak to it even though there was no message to that effect. I didn't understand nature's for a long time even after I learned about the masuda method so my first hatched shiny was a shiny charmander with a brave nature because I wanted my charizard to be brave XD

[@getfreerobuxcheckmychannel7104]

TheAuraGardian:Ditto becomes even. Me:How is that even possible.

[@luigiopaf9994]

Probably the dumbest thing I've ever done as a kid is think that lowering a Pokémon's stats would increase its catch rate.

[@Awesome-cy2oq]

I don’t blame you though

[@domehammerman]

same 😂 lower defense=better catch rate 😅😂

[@sweedra7899]

At least that was smarter than yelling into the mic every single day. I used to hold the belief that ushering a pokemon into the pokeball and being nice to it will make it go in. And if it doesn't go in after 20-30 tries, it should be murdered immediately.

[@itsmereem6748]

OMG SAME I DID THAT SO MUCH

[@boysdewar2003]

i tought that too your not alone

[@ditto5041]

If you’re gonna catch one of us, why wouldn’t you use a Master Ball?

[@ujjwalindia5855]

Cuz ur epic

[@nashfesik7062]

First of all that ’ll be waste of a master ball unless it’s a shiny

[@boysdewar2003]

indeed why not

[@basimcool9278]

you evolve in to eevee

[@boysdewar2003]

@@basimcool9278 yes

[@awesomedragon5614]

My first Pokémon game was Alpha Sapphire, and when I checked the Pokédex to find out where you can catch a Nosepass, it said, “Habitat Unknown”, and I thought that meant it was unobtainable in ORAS, not thinking that it was a Rock Smash encounter. I also thought Trapinch was a one off, and Vibrava and Flygon were also unobtainable

[@SerathDarklands]

I think the dumbest thing I've done in Pokemon was not evolving my Charmeleon in Red because I didn't like the way the original Gen 1 Charizard sprite looked. I went up against the Elite Four with a level 86 Charmeleon, stomped Lorelei, Bruno, and Agatha, and got wrecked by Lance, so I had to go grab Articuno from Seafoam Islands to take on his dragons.

[@braindead9916]

you get a pass, i believed farfetch’d evolved into doduo

[@Gingy_2006]

Same here

[@giantmelon9025]

I thought hitmonlee evolved into pinsir

[@thegarcias1136]

@@giantmelon9025 how

[@AMTfilmclips]

@@thegarcias1136 pokedex numbers

[@fallenicexofficial]

You all get passes I thought marowak evolved to hitmonlee and hitmontop (also this was when gen 1 was the only one)

[@nestoruribe1904]

For some reason as a little kid I thought you could only catch legendary with masterballs back in leaf green

[@ShadowKnight5204]

Well, you technically weren't wrong.

[@macaryl95]

Not in WaterBlue

[@thereza3]

@@macaryl95 This may be a joke but there's no Waterblue

[@Winnie589]

@@macaryl95 a-are you serious

[@ricardobr1493]

@@thereza3 Pokemon Mega-Emerald

[@balls_gaming]

I have always known this doesn't work, but for me it's like tilting the controller in Mario Kart when playing in non-motion controls. When I throw I pokeball with the joystick I go "down, left, right up" while the ball tilts

[@AzakielRuns]

As a kid I didn't know I had to choose "save" to save the game, so I would start a new save file over and over again for weeks.

[@dragicmagic9870]

My cousin told me that there was a Pokémon in Pokémon white that would steal your levels, we both believed it.

[@seiikei]

Did he ever say what the name is?

[@dragicmagic9870]

@@seiikei no but I remember thinking that it could be Kyurem

[@kylethekid9712]

@@dragicmagic9870 probably the best guess lol

[@rhysofsneezingdragon1758]

Sounds more like demon souls, lol

[@revine9243]

I thought Geodude evolved into Onyx and that Graveler didn't exist and Golem was an entirely different pokemon.

[@raptorboy5692]

Same. When watching my sister playing pearl I thought that onix was geodudes evolved form and later I found out about graveler was a thing

[@revine9243]

@@raptorboy5692 i never grew up with the games, i only watched the anime, and mainly kanto, orange islands, and johto so i never saw graveler, and when i saw blue's golem, i thought it was a random pokemon

[@pixelreaper7953]

SAME

[@commandixnostalgia2321]

RevineYT Blue is'nt even in the anime.

[@revine9243]

@@commandixnostalgia2321 gary, whatever

[@Breeze926]

Since in the anime everyone stayed silent while catching a Pokémon I used to cover the mic of my DS thinking any audio would make the Pokémon break out of the ball.

[@nefariosgliscor]

I've got some even dumber ones. My first Masterball was a level 5 Pikachu in Viridian Forest in the original. After I excitedly told my friends about it, they told me how dumb it was and I restarted my game. Speaking of restarting my game, that has to be my biggest blunder. Pokémon Blue was my first videogame ever and I was about 8 years old with no friends. For probably close to a year, I'd essentially play the game over and over from the beginning, not knowing any better. But this isn't even the worst part. I'd played it the same way and didn't try anything different, always chose Squirtle, and if I was getting close to fainting or didn't want to lose a battle, I'd straight up shut off the game. One day in Viridian City, I discovered a button I hadn't seen before: Save. "Craig saves the game!" gave innocent little me this sense that I saved the world in the game or beat it. So I turn on my game and start in Viridian City, over and over and over again, powering off at certain wild encounters because I was such a pacifist wuss that got jumpscared. I would get as far as Brock and the cave after, but kept shutting off the game. Eventually, I gained friends in real life who explained to me what happens when you save the game and why you don't hit the power switch before doing that. It was that day that I realized how much time I'd wasted.