IIRC the games do tell you you are not supposed to throw Pokeballs at opposing trainers' Pokemon.
Thing is, they tell that on signs many ignore at first.
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The Most Facepalm Worthy Thing You Have Done in All of Pokémon
- Thread starter AHickey1995
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Thing is, they tell that on signs many ignore at first.
Listening to the soundtrack from Dear Evan Hansen at the same time as doing my X Nuzlocke.
I almost lost my Venusaur by absentmindedly switching it into Serena's Meowstic by accident. Multitasking in a Nuzlocke is a bad idea.
I almost lost my Venusaur by absentmindedly switching it into Serena's Meowstic by accident. Multitasking in a Nuzlocke is a bad idea.
Assuming it was RBY, aside from sprites glitching and Hall of Fame corruption, MissingNo. (theoretically) does not cause problems...
The funny thing is that, if you used the old man glitch to find MissingNo., you could've had different results, as the weird stuff that appears after performing the glitch depends on your IGN. For example, in my case: Lvl 40 Golbat, Lvl 128 Electrode and Lvl 0 M'.
By the way, while M' and MissingNo. are similar and both cause the Bag item multiplier error, M' does cause problems in the game especially if it's at Lvl 0 (my game froze when I stored it on the PC and tried to withdraw it, but I did it on purpose, I knew that would happen but I wanted to try). Maybe it was M' and not MissingNo.? Or did you use a cheating device?
It took me years to complete Platinum, because I couldn't figure out what party I wanted to finish with, and wasted a lot of TMs/levels on Pokemon that would never see the light of day again. I only buckled down and finished it earlier this year, and that was just so I could transfer Pokemon from my friend's Sapphire cartridge.
Gen 4 was when I started to play competitively. I made a few teams to test out in Battle Revolution, and there was of course many lulz to be had, like me using Garchomp all the time because “there’s no way it can be uber!”, as well as a Sceptile with Frenzy Plant. But the worst one of all was when I tried to make a competitively viable Drifblim holding SOUL DEW.
I figured “Hey, this thing raises special stats, it’s perfect for Drifblim!”. It took me a while to figure out Soul Dew doesn’t work on Drifblim. And that Drifblim sucks.
(Side note: I replaced that Driflim with a Spiritomb and that thing was practically my ace of the team- It won me so many battles back in gen 4 due to how awesome it was. I called it Legend Killer because in Battle Revolution, you’d often encounter ubers like Lugia and Kyogre. Guess what my Spiritomb did to them?)
One more thing: In generation two, I actually trained a team of Unown to be competitively viable. I thought that if you were able to spell a message with them, thier Hidden Power attacks would be boosted, as well as thier stats. So I made them spell YOUBAD. It didn’t work so the idea was scrapped.
I figured “Hey, this thing raises special stats, it’s perfect for Drifblim!”. It took me a while to figure out Soul Dew doesn’t work on Drifblim. And that Drifblim sucks.
(Side note: I replaced that Driflim with a Spiritomb and that thing was practically my ace of the team- It won me so many battles back in gen 4 due to how awesome it was. I called it Legend Killer because in Battle Revolution, you’d often encounter ubers like Lugia and Kyogre. Guess what my Spiritomb did to them?)
One more thing: In generation two, I actually trained a team of Unown to be competitively viable. I thought that if you were able to spell a message with them, thier Hidden Power attacks would be boosted, as well as thier stats. So I made them spell YOUBAD. It didn’t work so the idea was scrapped.
Actually waiting for my eggs to hatch ...
Longggg time ago
Longggg time ago
I restarted a Pokemon Soul Silver game where I had completed the Pokedex... It's the only game in which I've done so to this date
Spent 5 months breeding a flawless Chimchar in Gen 4. No, not learning how to RNG abuse, actually naturally breeding it. It's still there, beacuse I'm absolute shizz at the Battle Tower/RNG hates my guts and I want to make her a ribbon project. Sigh.... ;-;
After reading through all these Master Ball stories, here's mine: In Pokemon Emerald, in one of my first playthroughs, I threw my Master Ball at a Level 30 Wingull because it knew Quick Attack. Seriously. Also, I just found a very old Fire Red cartridge that I thought didn't even work, and I found my team to be: A level 64 Charizard with Blast Burn, Metal Claw, Flamethower and some other Fire-type move; level 50 Articuno caught in a Master Ball (JESUS), with three of its original moves and Fly, level 28 Hitmonchan with only the elemental punches, and a level 38-ish Nidoking with HM slave moves. I remember this savefile and on it I've yet to beat the Pokemon League. I don't even know how I'll do it but ok lmao
Ok I remembered another one: In my Pearl savefile, a Bad Egg showed up once. I had absolutely zero idea what that was and before looking it up on the Internet (cut me some slack people this was 2010 ok lol) I decided to try and hatch it (failed) and ask my cousin (who I thought was this sort of Pokeguru because 9-year-old me lmao). Turns out he was a jerk and told me it was because I had three shinies from different games, which caused a 'Bad Virus' to show up in my game in the form of that Bad Egg, and that if I didn't do something my console would blow up (I WAS REALLY GULLIBLE OK?). So scared little me asked him what did I have to do, and of course the answer was that I had to 1) give him all my shinies (a collection of my shinies from various games too ;-;) 2) delete my savefile (with hours of time on it and even event Pokemon) and 3) release all Pokemon that came from that file and were in other games (hint: a lot)... I still cry internally when I remember that. I'll always remember you Member's Card Darkrai from Pokemon Platinum... At least I can do the tweaking glitch and catch one or inject a Wondercard on my savefile...
Ok I remembered another one: In my Pearl savefile, a Bad Egg showed up once. I had absolutely zero idea what that was and before looking it up on the Internet (cut me some slack people this was 2010 ok lol) I decided to try and hatch it (failed) and ask my cousin (who I thought was this sort of Pokeguru because 9-year-old me lmao). Turns out he was a jerk and told me it was because I had three shinies from different games, which caused a 'Bad Virus' to show up in my game in the form of that Bad Egg, and that if I didn't do something my console would blow up (I WAS REALLY GULLIBLE OK?). So scared little me asked him what did I have to do, and of course the answer was that I had to 1) give him all my shinies (a collection of my shinies from various games too ;-;) 2) delete my savefile (with hours of time on it and even event Pokemon) and 3) release all Pokemon that came from that file and were in other games (hint: a lot)... I still cry internally when I remember that. I'll always remember you Member's Card Darkrai from Pokemon Platinum... At least I can do the tweaking glitch and catch one or inject a Wondercard on my savefile...
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Was doing a randomiser and a togepi had wonder guard. It was firered and a trainer battle and I had no fighting type moves. I literally had to stall it out and I was sitting there for ages until it struggled to death....until I found out my raichu had rough skin....
I had my Solgaleo use flare blitz in the final champion battle with kukui in sun. I thought I had won the battle, as i was 30 levels higher than his last pokemon and fire was super effective (i forget what pokemon it was though). I forgot about the recoil, amd Solgaleo fainted first...DAMMIT
Not sure if this is more cringe-worthy or facepalm-worthy but before I got into Pokémon, I fought bosses in Super Smash Brothers Brawl. Bosses like Rayquaza; one of my favorite Pokémo n....
I had no idea what Rayquaza was or how to even pronounce it, so I just called it "Giant Green Worm" because it was giant, green, and it kept digging underground like some kind of worm.
I also thought LucarioAND META KNIGHT sucked in that game because they didn't have high launch rates nor did much damage in fewer attacks than other characters.
I had no idea what Rayquaza was or how to even pronounce it, so I just called it "Giant Green Worm" because it was giant, green, and it kept digging underground like some kind of worm.
I also thought Lucario
Back in the FireRed/LeafGreen day I participated in an event that gave access to Deoxys by giving players an Aurora Ticket. I had both FireRed and LeafGreen, so I got two tickets.
I caught the Deoxys in LG immediately. (I knew nothing about competitiveness and it ended up being complete thrash, but that's beyond the purpose of this post)
At the time I had not finished the main story of FR, so I couldn't use the ticket yet. I left it in the bag, waiting until I completed the game.
Time had passed and I completely forgot about it, until one day I decided to restart my FR game. But I had NOT claimed my Deoxys yet...
At least this way the Deoxys I got is more important to me, because it's unique, but still...
I caught the Deoxys in LG immediately. (I knew nothing about competitiveness and it ended up being complete thrash, but that's beyond the purpose of this post)
At the time I had not finished the main story of FR, so I couldn't use the ticket yet. I left it in the bag, waiting until I completed the game.
Time had passed and I completely forgot about it, until one day I decided to restart my FR game. But I had NOT claimed my Deoxys yet...
At least this way the Deoxys I got is more important to me, because it's unique, but still...
So I was playing pokemon battle revolution. I was doing Gateway Colosseum to try to unlock the rest of the rental passes. I had a Vespiquen with Confuse ray, Heal Order, Attack Order and Aerial Ace. I thought Attack Order was a move that boosted Vespiquen's attacking stats by one stage. On the semifinals I had a faint recollection of Attack Order being an attacking move. I check what the move does and of course it turns out it was my strongest attacking move.
There's also before that where I thought it was a 6v6 battle so I was prepared to bring the entire rental team with me. I was selecting so fast that by the time I realized it was 3v3 I already selected the first 3 pokemon I had to use in battle. I led with Seadra against Lumineon. I switched to Pikachu while Lumineon rain danced and Pikachu was out sped and OHKOed by a water pulse. After seeing Togetic do practically nothing I knew it was a loss and gave up on the battle.
There's also before that where I thought it was a 6v6 battle so I was prepared to bring the entire rental team with me. I was selecting so fast that by the time I realized it was 3v3 I already selected the first 3 pokemon I had to use in battle. I led with Seadra against Lumineon. I switched to Pikachu while Lumineon rain danced and Pikachu was out sped and OHKOed by a water pulse. After seeing Togetic do practically nothing I knew it was a loss and gave up on the battle.
In the GSC days I would get my mom to periodically take me to the Pokemon Center in Rockefeller Center and download event Pokemon from the cartridge station. For my Gold I got a Shiny Moltres and I was only halfway through the game (Mahogany Town). I registered it on a team in Pokemon Stadium 2 to see it in 3D but I didn't think much of it. A couple weeks later I wanted to start a new game on that same Gold cartridge for whatever reason. I didn't have a link cable or second Gameboy color or friends so I just deleted the save anyway. I could have deposited the Moltres in Stadium 2 and then picked it up in another cartridge after catching 150 mons in the Pokedex but I didn't regard that stipulation as a kid. It wasn't soul-crushing but all I had to do was think it through for a few minutes (which I obviously didn't >_>). It wouldn't have mattered anyway due to the save batteries dying in the end but I at least have a record of it stored in my Stadium 2 cartidge to this day.
Not that facepalm-worthy but I just found out Synchronize doesn't work on Mystery Gift Pokemon. This explains why it always took me so long to get an event poke with the right nature. All this time I'd attributed my frustration to just bad RNG...
This, but for SOS chains.
I tried to synch for shiny Jolly Beldum and shiny Adamant Graveler, only to find out your synch has to be the ACTIVE mon to get it to count.
I caught a smeargle in a master ball on accident after I had just bred a few competitive pokemon (I hadn't saved for a long time). I took the only option that I had.
I saved the game.
I saved the game.
Another reason why Let's Go mechanics are garbage.