If there were first world problems in Pokemon this would definitely be one of them.
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Mesprit was so painstaking to find because it seemed impossible to track then catch, as the marker had disappeared from my map somehow. In the end I cloned Master Balls from Emerald and caught Mesprit then later Cresselia.
Metang and Metagross were also incredibly hard to catch in BW. Luckily it wasn't a swarm and I caught one in the end.
Metang and Metagross were also incredibly hard to catch in BW. Luckily it wasn't a swarm and I caught one in the end.
Only in crystal in my opinion. In the remakes they were easy enough, but in crystal... that screwed up my speed-run.
Along with ice cave (in crystal). Anyone who was at that hangout knows what I'm talking about here, although they were probably too busy laughing...
And those switches in crystal. I have literally hit a wall.
Surge's trash cans.
When Pokémon simply refuse to breed.
I can now share in the pain of finding a Shiny in the wild, only to have it suicide... RIP Green Piloswine.
SRing a good legendary with a specific HP type. At least you can RNG manipulate regular breeding easily in comparison.
On a more casual note, the fight with Barry in Pt if you pick Chimchar or Piplup. The hyperactive kid who is possibly mainling mountain dew and red bull with a side order of skittles and pop rocks uncharacteristically turns the first battle into a stall match while most first rival fights take far less time.
On a more casual note, the fight with Barry in Pt if you pick Chimchar or Piplup. The hyperactive kid who is possibly mainling mountain dew and red bull with a side order of skittles and pop rocks uncharacteristically turns the first battle into a stall match while most first rival fights take far less time.
Killing shinies or finding shinies and not having pokeballs for them..
I'll find you again one day you pink Quagsire..
I'll find you again one day you pink Quagsire..
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I may just be able to trump you all. I have recently been catching up on Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Rescue Team, and have been playing on emulator (go on, arrest me). For some reason, manual saves don't work on the emulated version, so I've been using savestates... and have just accidentally overwritten my entire progress by accidentally creating a savestate instead of loading one.
I was playing Emerald, had beaten the game, working toward the Johto starters, and the game corrupted.
Level 79 Swampert, Level 95 Rayquaza, and a shiny Vileplume all down the drain.
I once found a shiny Tauros in the Safari Zone in FireRed. My heart pumped faster than it ever could. You know what happens next...
I'm currently stuck in my scramble in Viola's gym, my Goomy isn't strong enough to defeat her, and I can't afford to lose more money to her.
Your save type needs to be 128 KB.
I've got one for you: I was in Sky Tower and accidentally let the Shuppet I'd recruited there wander off and engage a Flygon it had no business fighting. I was doing a No-Reviver-Seeds run, and so if Shuppet went down he'd stay down. So of course I save right before Shuppet takes on this Flygon and loses.
Good news: I was on the summit, so Shuppet got to go home and I got to pursue the Flygon to avenge my fallen comrade.
Bad news: "Something is stirring!". While I'm on the opposite end of the floor from the stairs. I made it, but that was a close one. I never did find that Flygon.
1. Killing a shiny Aipom in Gold (didn't know you could catch shiny Pokémon that are not named Gyarados)
2. Battle Factory in Emerald: 1 more win and I would be able to battle for my last Gold Symbol...got destroyed by a Sheer Cold Dewgong that hit all its Sheer Colds. I have never made it to the top of the Battle Factory since then.
3. Breeding before gen 6
4. That cave you needed Flash to get through in Red/Blue/Yellow but I didn't know back in the day and tried to get through it blindly (I made it off course and I can make thought without it even today)
5. playing Diamond and Pearl
6. Catching roming Raikou, Entei and Suicune and of course catching Ho-oh in Crystal
7. Catching Kangashan and especially Tauros in Red/Blue/Yellow...good thing I found out unintentionally how to get them with the Missingno. trick but it took forever to even meet a freaking Tauros
8. Whitney's Miltank
2. Battle Factory in Emerald: 1 more win and I would be able to battle for my last Gold Symbol...got destroyed by a Sheer Cold Dewgong that hit all its Sheer Colds. I have never made it to the top of the Battle Factory since then.
3. Breeding before gen 6
4. That cave you needed Flash to get through in Red/Blue/Yellow but I didn't know back in the day and tried to get through it blindly (I made it off course and I can make thought without it even today)
5. playing Diamond and Pearl
6. Catching roming Raikou, Entei and Suicune and of course catching Ho-oh in Crystal
7. Catching Kangashan and especially Tauros in Red/Blue/Yellow...good thing I found out unintentionally how to get them with the Missingno. trick but it took forever to even meet a freaking Tauros
8. Whitney's Miltank
Trying to get through Rock Tunnel without Flash.
I've actually printed out a map so I wouldn't have to use Flash.
When encountering a Legendary in RBY, and you are about to throw your Ultra Balls
"The Pokemon Box is full. Unable to use that item!"
"You missed the Pokemon!"
Oh, also, catching Pokemon in the Safari Zone (any generation). Especially if it is shiny.
"The Pokemon Box is full. Unable to use that item!"
"You missed the Pokemon!"
Oh, also, catching Pokemon in the Safari Zone (any generation). Especially if it is shiny.
Minus ORAS.