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Vye Brante · Administrator Joined: 26 Mar 2007 Posts: 1223

I saw this topic or a topic like it on the Serebii forums once a long time ago and thought it'd be fun to talk about here. Everyone makes mistakes in Pokémon at one point. What mistakes have you made?

This may not seem major, but when I first started playing, I had no idea what some of the items were for. Like Ethers, Elixirs, and stat raising stuff like Protiens and PP Up's. Since I didn't know what they were for, what did I do with them? Sold them of course! Embarassed

Heh, yeah. Wasted items. I don't know at what point I figured out what they were for, but I sure didn't sell them after that!

I've made other newbie mistakes, but I'll let you guys add to the discussion a little. I've been dominating the forum!! Laughing

Amjam · Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 2:51 pm Post subject:

Okay, I have a very silly couple of mistakes on my first ever version, Gold. (In fact, they're still on my cartridge so I could show you a screen of the really sad one.)

Well, first of all, I made the typical mistake of not knowing to save before a legendary battle. Ho-oh = Pwned.

But my really funny one is... well, you know how your rival (Not yet your rival) comes up to you in the beginning, and says "I'm ???. I'm going to be the super strongest pwnsome Pokemon master and I'm going to beat you up!" cue battle... Well, that's basically how it went. Anyway, when the police officer asked me what his name was.... I wrote ???. XDDD Because I assumed that /was/ his name, and he was telling me. And I was through Ecruteak before my friend started talking about naming her rival ridiculous things, and I was like... "oh."

Vye Brante · Administrator Joined: 26 Mar 2007 Posts: 1223

That's a good one!

I almost made one mistake. Before I was able to buy Blue version, I got a book about all the Pokémon to read up on them. I didn't realize that it was leaning more on the anime part than the game part. It was talking about how Bulbasaur, due to its shape, was hard to capture. I was thinking that maybe I should start with Bulbasaur because it would be hard to catch one later . . . Then one of my more experienced friends explained that you don't get to catch the starters. I then went with Charmander 'cause it was the one I wanted.

Near miss there.

But there was an actual mistake made later. After I beat Blaine, I taught Spyro Fire Blast. The first battle I got into, I used it to see what it could do. It missed. Then when it did hit, it didn't do much because I was fighting a Water Pokémon. I was like, "This move sucks!" So the first oppurtunity I had, I taught him something else, wasting a perfectly good TM.

I learned my lesson later when Fire Blast was used against me . . .

iWish · Supreme user Joined: 28 Mar 2007 Posts: 147

my mistake is mainly not saving before a big important battle or important part.
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Vye Brante · Administrator Joined: 26 Mar 2007 Posts: 1223

That's always a problem. That's why I swear by strategy guides. Then I know when something big is coming up and to save my game.

One mistake I made wasn't a huge deal, but looking back on it now I just wonder how I was so stupid. You know how when you go to Lavender Town and go into Pokémon Tower and fight all those Gastly? And you know how Gastly aren't affected by Normal Type attacks? Well, I didn't know that it was the types that caused that. I saw how Spyro's Ember attack worked and assumed it was the only one that would. So the whole tower I only used Spyro, never attempting to try other attacks from the rest of my team. So Spyro got way ahead of everyone else. I'm pretty sure my other Pokémon had attacks that would have worked . . . I just didn't know that they would because I didn't try.

Again, not a huge deal, but pretty stupid . . .

Georgia · Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 3:31 am Post subject:

Hehe I used to play Blue version all day then I'd waste the battery because I didn't know how to save and turn it off so I'd wait for my brother. xD
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Vye Brante · Administrator Joined: 26 Mar 2007 Posts: 1223

That's another good one!

This isn't game oriented, but it was another mistake I made early on. I was collecting Pokémon cards and one of the first ones I got was a rare Pidgeot. I didn't have a Pidgey or a Pidgeotto so I thought I couldn't use it. I mean, that's true in a battle sense but not just with collecting them. Since I didn't think I could use it, I gave it away. For nothing in return. A rare card. Ugh . . . Did I ever really know so little about Pokémon?

iWish · Supreme user Joined: 28 Mar 2007 Posts: 147

well. I started playing pokemon 1st gen. but the first video game was like Silver version for me. My cousin was great at the game. He gave me like 10 super strong pokemon. Then like a month later, some other cousin's who have pokemon wanted to battle and i was training weak pokemon at the time and didn't know how to switch pokemon, i accidently released a Raikou. didn't realize it until the next day.

I rented a Crystal game when it released and wanted a totodile. I traded a lugia for the totadile and released the lugia in the crystal game.

I made super bogus mistakes. It really stinks.
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Amjam · Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 1:04 am Post subject:

I also bought the Magikarp from the salesperson.

And I was convinced that the Clefairy dance would give you a free Celebi if you watched it every week for a year (don't know how my cousin talked me into that one.)
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Vye Brante · Administrator Joined: 26 Mar 2007 Posts: 1223

Hee hee, these are fun. I know I've made other mistakes, but can't think of any right now.

I made a shiny Poochenya faint. That sucked.
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Vye Brante · Administrator Joined: 26 Mar 2007 Posts: 1223

Oh, oh! I thought of another mistake!

On my first game and my first time through Cinnabar Island, I went to the mansion and encountered a Growlithe. I used Spyro against it. It used Roar. This was the first time I had seen Roar used outside of a trainer battle. Back then, it didn't switch the Pokemon, it made them run away. So it said that Spyro was scared away. I was like, "What? Where did he go?!" I ran around looking for him thinking that he had actually ran off and I had to find him. But then I was attacked again and used Spyro. I figured out he was just put back in his ball . . .

So yeah. There's that.
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Georgia · Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 10:23 pm Post subject:

That's not major, but that's pretty funny!
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Vye Brante · Administrator Joined: 26 Mar 2007 Posts: 1223

Heh, yeah. Nothing bad happened but it gives me a good chuckle when I think about it. I was seriously saying, "No! Spyro! Come back!" Little did I know he didn't actually go anywhere . . .
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kirbyboy102 · Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 11:36 pm Post subject:

Oh yeah! I once made Ho-oh die. and then saved. XD At least my blissey got a few levels higher. She was lvl 43 or something after I killed Ho-oh.
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Raven · Newbie Joined: 12 Oct 2007 Posts: 12

Well, Pokémon Yellow was my first video game ever. So when I started it and didn't know English that well (meh, I was like, five-six years old and I'm Dutch, sooooo....) so I didn't even know what the A button was for. When I got the hang of it, I wondered what the release option did. I lost my dear Pikachu that day Sad

Vye Brante · Administrator Joined: 26 Mar 2007 Posts: 1223

Heh, oh no!

Well, at least you had an excuse.
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Oranges_and_Pears · Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 4:29 pm Post subject:

Vye Brante · Administrator Joined: 26 Mar 2007 Posts: 1223

Heh, neat.
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Spekkal_X · User Joined: 13 Feb 2008 Posts: 42

My WORST mistake EVER was using my Masterball on a wild pokemon.
The wild pokemon was a DIGLETT. yes, a DIGLETT!!!! A MASTERBALL ON A DIGLETT! It was my first game, Blue.
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Oranges_and_Pears · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 12:29 am Post subject:

I used my master ball on Zapdos in Leafgreen because I was stupid and didn't save before battling it.

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