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ITT: post confessions about dumb things you used to believe about Pokemon as a kid

Anonymous Sun 18 Aug 2019 06:15:45 No.39742712 View View Reply Original Report

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My cousin and I didn't know what Kirby was, so we thought Kirby was a Ditto evolution. We spent fucking hours leveling, using items on and trading among other things to try and evolve a Ditto into Kirby.

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Anonymous Sun 18 Aug 2019 06:17:47 No.39742720 Report

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>>39742712
Not as a kid, but I did skip Pokemon from gen 3 to 6 (participated during BW era but didn't play till XY) and when using the GTS I was SURE Spiritomb was a legendary for some reason and got incredibly excited when I got one.

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Anonymous Sun 18 Aug 2019 06:19:19 No.39742727 Report

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>>39742712
I noticed that when I complimented my pokemon I did better in battles so I just shouted compliments at the screen through most battles

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Aug 2019 06:28:26 No.39742760 Report

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>>39742712
That my brother chose the girl because she had a better design instead of him being a tranny

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Aug 2019 06:29:39 No.39742769 Report

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>>39742720
this might be because ORAS had Spiritomb as an interactable

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Aug 2019 06:32:20 No.39742776 Report

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>>39742769
No, I mean, I played X pretty much on release date and once I finished the main story I decided to use gts/wt to get all those years worth of Pokemon I missed, and when I saw Spiritomb I don't know, I just thought "holy shit, this legendary looks really cool, I need it!". It was all before ORAS.

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Anonymous Sun 18 Aug 2019 06:32:30 No.39742778 Report

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I used to browse Pokemon fansites a lot before GSC was released, and I believed some stupid things as a result of poorly written English on those sites.

I thought putting two incompatible Pokemon in the daycare would neuter them. Not just that they wouldn't make eggs with each other, but that they wouldn't ever make eggs again if you do it at all.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Aug 2019 06:35:01 No.39742791 Report

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Gen 1: I thought pressing Up + B would increase the catch rate
Gen 2: I thought mashing A would increase the catch rate
Gen 4: I thought yelling "Gotcha!" into the DS's mic would increase the catch rate

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Aug 2019 06:36:16 No.39742799 Report

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I thought Marill was an Electric/Water type evolution of Raichu named "Pikablu."

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Aug 2019 06:36:27 No.39742803 Report

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>>39742791
I do the Up + B thing to this day

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Aug 2019 07:27:53 No.39742980 Report

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I thought Squirtle was supposed to be based off a squirrel and not a turtle
>>39742799
That was everyone back in those days

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Aug 2019 07:29:05 No.39742989 Report

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Also I thought Magneton was a rock type Pokemon when I first battled it

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Aug 2019 08:30:22 No.39743193 Report

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>>39742712
Putting magikarp in your box at lvl 100 turns it into a mew in Gs
Felt pretty shitty after 3 weeks of grinding that i was stuck with a magikarp

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Aug 2019 08:43:48 No.39743248 Report

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The first time i ever caught an exeggcute, I didn't know it evolved with a leaf stone. I leveled that shit up to like 50 before I figured it out.

truteal !hlnuDLeBD2

truteal !hlnuDLeBD2 Sun 18 Aug 2019 09:40:32 No.39743495 Report

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>I thought the higher the dex number, the more powerful the Pokémon (due to misinterpreting Mewtwo)
>When I first saw their designs on Serebii, I thought Happiny and Glameow were fake

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Aug 2019 09:54:54 No.39743555 Report

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>>39742712
I still fucking cringe every time I think about it, but I used to think fainted Pokemon just needed to get their health back. I wasted a solid 7 Hyper Potions trying to bring back my Pokemon in my first game, Black under the presumption it only worked like 1/5 times.

truteal !hlnuDLeBD2

truteal !hlnuDLeBD2 Sun 18 Aug 2019 10:26:18 No.39743704 Report

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>>39743248

Speaking of Stones

>Evolution stones worked on other pokemon too (Ex: I thought you could use a leaf stone to evolve a Bulbasaur at any level)
>Electric is weak against Fire
>Ghost being resistant towards Psychic

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Aug 2019 11:09:47 No.39743904 Report

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I honestly never internalized until about 2 years ago that type 1 could be super effective against type 2, but that didn’t mean that type 2’s attacks were not very effective against type 1’s

I believed every typing had the same relationship fire/water/grass did when it came to being super effective and not very effective towards each other

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Aug 2019 11:12:01 No.39743913 Report

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I used to think you could use a moonstone on mewtwo and it would evolve into mew. I had no idea where I got that from.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Aug 2019 11:13:33 No.39743915 Report

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>>39742727
Cringe. I did that too but only internally. Also when chucking balls and the fucker didn't want to stay in.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Aug 2019 11:14:31 No.39743921 Report

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hold B and turn the volume off in gen 1 - 3
shout GOTCHA in the mic in gen 4

catching master

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Aug 2019 11:32:39 No.39743992 Report

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>>39742712
When I was a little kid and G&S had just came out I read on a monthly Pokemon magazine that Celebi could only be found in "the land of the rising Sun" and I didn't understand it was Japan and they meant you could only get it in exclusive events. The same magazine also often talked about the Number Island, which was a glitch in RBY where upon exiting the Safari Zone in a certain way the game would load incorrectly and you could walk around the overworld with fucked up tileset and you could sometimes find different pokemon in the grass and so it was used to get Mew. So I thought the land of the rising Sun was a secret parallel dimension where you could catch Celebi and maybe find other secrets and I spread this fake rumor in my entire school.

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Anonymous Sun 18 Aug 2019 11:59:47 No.39744118 Report

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I thought stat decreses were active untill you visited a pokemon center
Had no idea what the special attack and defense stats were

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Aug 2019 15:48:44 No.39745269 Report

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>>39742760
Has he actually transitioned or has /vp/ convinced you that "YOUR VIDEO GAME CHARACTER IS YOU"?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Aug 2019 18:20:32 No.39746744 Report

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My friend showed me a fake recoloured tileset of meteor falls in rse, with a shopped pokemart, pokecenter, and mosdeep buildings telling me that it was the secret moon level, and that I had one shot to ride the rocket at mosdeep space center to get to it.
He showed me his Pokémon and he had shit like jirachi, celebi, mew, deoxys, etc. And told me you can get lunatone, solrock, and legends/event pokemon there.
This was long before I could even know about things like gameshark because I had restricted internet at the time and I was dumb.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Aug 2019 21:16:18 No.39748692 Report

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>>39742712

I used a Rare Candy on a Charmeleon at Lv35
I thougt this item evolved any Pokemon to the next evolution.

I thought Starmie was a legendary Pokemon

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 18 Aug 2019 21:23:31 No.39748750 Report

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When I was about 7 and first getting into playing Pokemon, my older brother once told me that if I over level my Pokemon too much, they'll attack me and run away and I won't have them anymore. I was so afraid of losing my bros, but then when I was 11 I got my Blaziken to level 100 and realized he was full of shit when nothing happened.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Aug 2019 00:26:45 No.39750238 Report

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>>39742712
I used to think bug was weak to ice because it worked on the tons of bug/flying types and once on Nincada was enough to make me sure of it. It doesn't help that bugs generally become less active when it gets colder out.

Speaking of Nincada, I leveled up a Ninjask I got with a full party up to level 70 expecting a Shedinja before figuring it wasn't happening.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Aug 2019 00:31:30 No.39750276 Report

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>>39742712
RBY were good games

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Anonymous Mon 19 Aug 2019 00:32:28 No.39750293 Report

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>>39742712
I though special attack meant for Super Effective moves

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Aug 2019 01:10:10 No.39750492 Report

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When I was little I thought that pikachu was Pokémon. Like that was his name. So when I autistically pretended that Pokémon were real I called my cat Pokémon when I should've been calling her pikachu.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Aug 2019 01:20:51 No.39750572 Report

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>>39742760
this hits too fucking close anon

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Aug 2019 01:23:06 No.39750582 Report

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>>39742712
A kid at school once told me that there was a secret battle against Mario in Pokemon Red and that it could only be unlocked by beating the Elite Four 100 times without losing a single Pokemon.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Aug 2019 01:40:55 No.39750705 Report

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When I first played FRLG my friend told me that the bike shop selling bikes for 1 million dollars was a bug and I had to restart the game if it happened.

I think I spent like a month just replaying everything up to checking the bike shop until I just decided I didnt want the bike because of him.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Aug 2019 01:44:46 No.39750723 Report

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>>39742791
>>39742803
you idiots its down+b

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Aug 2019 01:51:02 No.39750765 Report

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>>39742712
I used to think that Delibird was a legendary Pokemon.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Aug 2019 01:57:00 No.39750814 Report

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>>39742712
I thought Illumise was an evolution of Volbeat

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Aug 2019 02:06:00 No.39750899 Report

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>>39750765
My friend thought Delibird was an evolution of Octillery. He figured that since it's already pretty damn ridiculous that a fish would evolve into an octopus, the penguin that's right after them in the national dex must be its final evolved form.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Aug 2019 02:09:02 No.39750921 Report

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Button mashing in the catching minigame

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Aug 2019 02:09:12 No.39750923 Report

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I believed until the end of gen 3 that the Ground type was resistant to Fire.

The first time I ever noticed I was wrong was when I was playing Pokemon Colosseum, and I was fighting against Lovrina's Steelix (Steel/Ground type). I ran out of super-effective moves to use, so as a last-ditch effort, I used Fire Blast against it, hoping to get at least 1x damage, only to be told that it was super-effective.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Aug 2019 02:15:49 No.39750977 Report

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>>39750492
My grandma had the reverse of your problem. She thought the Pokemon franchise was literally called "Pikachu." The funniest shit ever is, she's actually Japanese, and I visited her in Tokyo one time. Me being a little kid at the time, I was at the very source for all things Pokemon. Every time she would ask the shop assistants for the whereabouts of their Pokemon merch, she would just ask them where the "Pikachu stuff" is.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Aug 2019 02:19:58 No.39751010 Report

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I used to think Rock type was inmune to Electric type, only to learn in Gen 5 (thanks to the Gigalith line) that they actually get normal effectiveness against it.

Blew my mind. I blame it on most Rock types holding the Ground/Rock typing in early gens (Geodude, Onix, Rhyhorn).

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Aug 2019 02:27:23 No.39751067 Report

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>>39751010
What didn't help was that the English dub of the anime got certain details wrong. I can think of a couple instances where a trainer mentioned Rock-types being immune to Electric. And I believe most North American fans started with the anime.

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Anonymous Mon 19 Aug 2019 02:29:55 No.39751086 Report

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May's bag in her overworld sprite made it look like she had a fat ass so I just assumed she was thick

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Aug 2019 02:36:06 No.39751137 Report

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I used to think that Caterpie had a split evolution called Letapod. This was because when watching the OG anime, I misheard one of the characters speaking in the episode with the bug catcher. Also because there was two Metapods in the episode and I assumed the Bug Catcher one was Letapod. I even drew fanart of him (which is now long gone). He was a slight off-color version of Metapod (this was before Gen 2 came out, so shinies weren't a thing yet).

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Anonymous Mon 19 Aug 2019 02:45:52 No.39751188 Report

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That this is what jelly donuts looked like in Japan.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Aug 2019 03:04:51 No.39751338 Report

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>Tilting the D-pad the opposite direction when the pokeball sways to ensure the catch
I still do it out of habit

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Aug 2019 03:38:52 No.39751570 Report

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I believed that the badge level restrictions actually applied to my own Pokemon.

>Pokemon over level 30 will obey you
>etc.
I thought that meant if any of them were level 31 or higher, I would lose control over them. Little did I know that only applied to traded Pokemon.

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Anonymous Mon 19 Aug 2019 03:47:15 No.39751636 Report

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>>39742712
i thought you could just level up machoke and get machamp. Then I learned about trade evolutions and I wanted to die

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Aug 2019 03:50:11 No.39751657 Report

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>>39742760
Is he cute?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Aug 2019 03:50:54 No.39751663 Report

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>>39742712
A rumor passed through my class that if you completed the Pokedex and then beat the Elite 4 in Emerald, after the credits rolled you'd wake up in your rival's bed, implying makeouts and/or sex had happened. I didn't doubt it for a second.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Aug 2019 07:57:18 No.39752826 Report

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>>39751663
In ORAS they even fucking have a stargazing date so I guess they did bang at some point

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 19 Aug 2019 08:41:43 No.39753049 Report

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I used to think Rock was immune to Electric and Grass resisted Fighting.

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