My first shiny was in fire red and was a shiny spirow before I got pokeballs I knew instantly what it was because I heard stories but I didn’t know the odds soooo sad I’ve never found one in that game again
Just for the record guys, Flash is GREAT. Last year I started from scratch at making a living dex with every game, and therefore beating every game, and catching every mon in every game. And flash is ESSENTIAL. Why? Well, do yyou have any idea how many resets it takes to catch your average legendary due to crits? Do you have any idea how many LESS it takes when they can't hit a thing? Flash catches legendaries, boys and girls. Put it on your catching mon, That's why so many grass type can learn it, to pair it with sleep powder.
@@Carinail u can use sand attack, minimise, double team and more for the same purpose and some of them are much much better at the same purpose. The main caveat with flash is that you cant erase it when finished it's purpose without the move deleter when it was a HM and the 70 accuracy is horrendous... which was the point mikey was making
in gen3 i was fighting a shroomish and it poisoned my combusken and when the battle ended the screen started shaking because my pokemon was poisoned i panicked and stopped playing the game thinking that it was broken.
@@thesunflowergirl731thinking this way goes all the way back to gen 1 and yes I thought I broke my Pokémon blue but in my defense the internet was young
I also thought stat changes were permanent, because my Empoleon's physical damage was so awful it only made sense to me that it was because it was constantly intimidated by wild Staravia. That made more sense to me than the fact it was so low because the physical attack was Cut
yeah me too, but kinda different, i knew that stats changes works in the field, but i though that if i used Agility to cap for battle, my "pokemon" would get more Speed buff when leveled up, and this was after my first playthrough, it was in a rom hack called Dragonl Ball Z Team Training
I once played pokemon X and thought huh these stat things seem cool, if my attack gets higher my dmage will be bigger right? So I buy tons of X Attack and when it said your attack wont go higher i was astonished, were my pokemon the strongest they could be? then i wiped to lysander 5 more times, and i was raising physical attack, on specially offensive pokemon.
Omg, I actually had a dream where I was playing Pokémon Go, and I could evolve my Fearow into a Ho-Oh for 200 candies. I'm not kidding, I still think about that dream on a regular basis
When I was a kid I was with two friends, Eli and John. Eli had never played pokemon so we let him play gold. He goes into a wild battle and encounters spearow. He turns to us and asks, "What did the stars means?" John and I were like, "What?" We look and are like, "HOLY CRAP!!" So we took the game from him, and caught that shiny spearow. Eli was bewildered.
I have deleted several save files, multiple of them containing shiny pokemon, so Mikey isn't alone there. I also read in a handbook that there was only one of each legendary pokemon, so when a kid in my class showed me the completed pokedex on his (very obviously action replayed) diamond version, I seriously thought this kid was the only person in the entire world to own all the legendaries.
The worst mistake of Gen 4/5 is beating an entire Pokemon game in one sitting when an old save file already exists. These games prevent you from saving at any point when starting a new game without deleting the old save file, especially when the games force to save after defeating the champion and entering the hall of fame
I bought my first Pokémon game (Pearl) on a flee market, and for a long time I didn’t want to erase their data. And for some reason the game kept freezing in or before Jubelife city (at least I think that’s what the city is called), so I just replayed that little part of the game hundreds of times before eventually deleting the old save data and starting my own adventure. But since I didn’t understand English, it took me a long time to figure out you had to talk with the clowns to progress, so I think my Monferno was in the late twenties when I finally got my first gym badge.
This was me because I got a used copy of black and didn't know how to delete an old save. Lucky this only happened like 2 and I was only like 1 or 2 gyms in but still.
Bro at least you know you could save the game , I don't even know how to save the game and played entire fire red till game corner without saving and then restart from being every time untill I discovered save option
@@commanderredjonkks5268it doesn’t save. Although, In B2W2 you actually can’t even get passed Pokestar Studios as you’re required to save before leaving it, therefor softlocking you.
When I was a kid, i didn't knew the box existed, so I tought you could only catch 6 pokemon. In Fire Red, I once found a Shiny Ratata. I knew shiny's were rare, but I hated Ratata, so I didn't caught him because I didn't wanted him in my team.
As a child, I was playing one of the Hoenn games (can't remember which one, either Ruby, Sapphire, or Emerald), and grinding in the grass near the Daycare. I was starting to grow bored with grinding, so I was on my way back to town to heal, when I had a random encounter while leaving the grass, which was a Shiny Oddish (my first Shiny). I didn't know about Shinies at the time, but I was smart enough to recognize that this thing was special in some way, so I caught it and named it Oddie. I liked seeing the sparkles when it entered battle, so I added it to my team and evolved it into Vileplume. Oddie the Vileplume stayed with me all the way through the League, and it was in the Hall of Fame. Some time passes, and I get the urge to play through that particular game again, so I deleted my save file with Oddie on it, because I thought I could just easily find another 'weird Oddish', since Oddie appeared so easily for me. It was only after I had done that that I learned about Shinies and how hard it is to get them, and I've felt pain about this ever since. RIP Oddie.
...How...? Was he lost for a while? Did he have to grind intensely to beat Brock? I've done solo runs before, and while I didn't KO every wild Pokémon in sight, my Ivysaur would end up between... 25-30 if I remember correctly.
I didn’t know how to escape Mt. Moon but when I did I had a fully evolved Blastoise, because of course I used only my starter(yes I caught every Pokemon I saw) and by the time I got out he was level 45. Shout outs to TJ the Blastoise!!!
I did a few of these mistakes myself. - I only put STAB moves on my Pokemon a few times before. - I once released my Togepi on Crystal version thinking that if I released it, that would suddenly make it available again in the wild. - I forgot to save after catching a shiny, and with a very unfortunate stroke of bad luck, my game crashed. - I don't remember what I used it on, but I'm pretty sure I wasted a masterball before. - Completely without my knowledge, not my friend, or even my sibling, but my GRANDPA started a new save file on a game and erased all my progress.
Yeah, that's very good advice in older games. For example, several things you do in Ocarina of Time are extremely well-known, but would be quite odd to a totally blind player. However, there are NPCs that will give you the directions you need if you check around.
Ngl I _still_ mostly ignore non-damaging moves 😭😂 I'm not at all into the competitive scene so my main strategy has always been "low hp = win so do that 👍"
TBF, you're not alone. I only really started using non-damaging moves when I started doing monotype runs - most notably, my Y Bug run. Toxic Spikes REALLY saved me against Grant, who would have crushed my entire team otherwise.
I don't think it's dum to pretty much only use Damaging Moves. In my current playthrough of Fire Red (on cartridge) my lvl 74 Charizard is using: Flamethrower, Dragon Claw, Strength, Fly.
Depends on the mon and the generation for me. I prefer inflicting status conditions over buffs and debuffs in Pokemon. But it’s not uncommon for a stronger Pokemon on one of my playthrough teams like a pseudo-legendary to just have four powerful damaging moves for coverage
Yeah, if you're on a main game playthrough, the enemy trainers tend to lack the proficiency to make battles tough enough to need much strategy outside of supereffective moves, so having as many as possible tends to win battles efficiently.
I am sadly a victim of killing a shiny because I didn't know what shinies were. In my defense, I did try to catch it because I figured it was special somehow, but I was a kid and didn't take into consideration how much damage an attack from my Typhlosion would do to a low leveled Rattata 😅
4:34 I always thought Bouffalant evolved from Tauros, Cacturne evolved into Carnevine and Slowking evolved from Slowbro instead of Slowpoke. Even the anime confuses many times once it said Seviper evolved from Arbok
Yeah at least the slowpoke one I can relate to. My first game was fire red, a game that had both evolutions, while having no one to trade with, so I knew it's existence and I knew how to evolve it, I just thought it was 3 stage. And I know that many people had that assumption to that time.
I can never stop myself from the belief that Bouffalant should have been an evolution for Tauros. Tauros is my favorite gen 1 mon as well as one of my tops. Seeing it get a regional felt like a stab in the back.
i had a friend watching the video with me and it sorta went like this mikey: "you used to be stupid" me: "i still am" my friend at the exact same time: "you still are" mikey: "some of you still are" me: "ok man"
Fun fact i almost completed sapphire without saving because i kept the advanced sp plugged in, and i thought that the backlight button was the save button and it turned off when i closed it, i found out it was not any of those when i took it on a trip with my family and it died and reset everything. my mother said i cried for a couple hours cuz i lost Skarmory named Blade.
20:12 Forgetting to save is bad. Not knowing how to save is worse. I had to constantly replay the beginning of Pokemon ruby because I didn’t know you could save the game and I cried every time my mom made me stop playing because I knew I’d have to restart. Figured it out eventually but still.
I had the same problem when I first started playing fire red as a kid. The I only made it to cerulean city and beat Misty once after playing for 3 hrs straight
I did the same thing in pokemon yellow when I was about 4 or 5 years old. Lol For some reason I also didn't grasp the fact you had to push down on the door mat when inside your house to get outside. I spent several hours just pacing back and forth at the door trying to get out of the house and would get excited when I accidentally hit down and made it outside. Then later I'd have to do it all again because I didn't know saving was a thing. Lol
@@BusinessSkrub easier than you think to miss something you don’t the meaning of. Not saying I knew I was supposed to save the game and couldn’t find the option. I didn’t know you could save the game. I had only played old hand me down NES games that you can’t save. So it was a foreign concept to me. Also I was a small child so like…ability to reason wasn’t fully developed yet.
@BusinessSkrub Again, the only video game experience I had at that point was games like Super Mario Bros on the NES. Games that, guess what, can’t be saved. The very concept of saving progress on a game was foreign to me. Also those uses of “save” you described are very different. Saving as in rescuing someone is not quite the same as saving something to be used later. For a young ADHD/Autistic kid like me, all of these things were enough for me to have to reset a few times before finally going “oh so thaaaats what that does”
You're not alone. I wiped away the SHINY BOX ART LEGENDARY that I got on my first ever playthrough of a pokemon game!. It was Crystal. I'd watched my brother play loads of Red, and loved my new Crystal on a GameBoy Color. I remember being really impressed that they made legendary pokemon have sparkles around them, as every time I used my Suicune it had those cool sparkles. But I wasn't happy with my choice of starter (Chikorita), and started again to use Cyndaquil. I was really confused that when I got back to capture Suicune it didn't have sparkles any more. For many years I assumed it was a special thing that only happened on the first playthrough on any given cartridge. I wiped that save file. I did that to myself.
Something funny about my brother's first playthrough is that he was stuck in Pallet Town for a lot longer than you should because he didn't go up. He eventually did but still
When I played Pokémon Diamond for the first time when I was about 8 years old, there were so few fire types that I thought any and all fire types were LEGENDARIES.
In my first playthrough of Omega Ruby, I thought Cosplay Pikachu evolved into a cosplay version of Raichu and spent months grinding it to level 100 only for nothing to happen
Did you try to evolve it and were disapointed once you learned it evolved with a thunderstone? Or did you already know Cosplay Raichu didn't exist by that point?
I actually thought Minun evolved into something? I didn’t want to look at the Pokédex when I first played Sapphire. But when it got to level 40 or 45. It didn’t evolve. So I decided to look through the Ruby and Sapphire book. To look at the Pokédex and I found out it doesn’t evolve 😅.
You're not alone. I let my little sister play Pokémon Silver, making a new game telling her not to save the game since that would erase my game where I put lots of hours into to catch the roaming dogs. And yeah, she didn't save. I did. I was having so much fun watching her play (and kill a shiny before I could notice it was a shiny) that when my mom called us for lunch, I instinctively saved the game so we could keep playing later. I felt terrible when I went back into the console and realised my game was gone
Ok... you are not alone, my original Silver game (witch I had a legit shiny mew from a Toys'R Us pokemon event), I erased MYSELF; I wanted to play around with a new game for fun without saving. Due to this I had left my Gameboy plugged in and left on overnight so I could keep messing around in the morning. When I woke up, I forgot I was doing this and just saw my game on, so, I saved and turned it off before going to school... I was devastated wen I got home and went back to my game. I was so upset my parents thought I had broken a bone cus I was crying and unable to talk. R.I.P Megaman, my first cherished pokemon (Shiny Mew is blue, and megaman was my other favorite game)
i once got a copy of sun from my local games store, and it had a shiny rayquaza from emerald, i was contemplating deleting it for a while, but then i finally did, i look back and think, why did I do this? not just to this save but to so many others? I was a fool to destroy those save files.
I remember having three fire moves to use ember on weak foes. Flame wheel on medium ones a d flamethrower on the strong ones. Swift for coverage on dragon mons. Good times
@Cuculutu not really. Could have gotten roll out or any other set of moves for better coverage. If any ghost fire or water ghost were in early game I'd have been wrecked
i used to use only STAB moves, 2 from the same type and one from the other one and also only capture dual types or will become dual types, and the last move was status move. kinda lost this habit later on.
I didn’t know how to exit pallet town in Pokémon fire red. I was stuck there for WEEKS I tell you, I even tried searching the internet about it, but no one had the same problem as me. I spent a lot of time just going to professor oak’s lab and talking to everyone in town. Then I finally watched a video of someone playing fire red… all you had to do was step into the tall grass. I had avoided the tall grass since they told me not to step on it, and as a kid I abided but the rules… a lot. As you can tell.
I used to think that only female Kirlia could evolve into gardevoir, so when my male kirlia evolved into gardevoir, i was astounded, i was also only 5 years old.
My first game was alpha sapphire, and I thought ralts and its evolutions were grass types when I first saw them. I can’t be the only one though, right?
The funniest part is when you realize you actually hadn't saved and he could just load the save, losing almost nothing, but back then you thought it was the end of the world.
I thought Tauros evolved into Miltank. They’re on the same Pokédex page in SM, which were my first games, so I spent ages training a Tauros thinking it would evolve into Miltank
24:33 My younger brother found a shiny Snover in his Pokemon Platinum and handed me the game so I could try to catch it for him. I accidentally knocked it out and felt horrible. I recounted this story to my brother recently, as I've gotten him back INTO Pokemon after so many years of not playing, and he literally did not remember me doing that to him 😅 RIP Shiny Snover from like 2010
I did it too, on Sword no less! I didn't know you could have multiple accounts for multiple save files, and I wanted another Zacian to trade for a Zamazenta.
I know as a Kid I'd often restart games to play through the Story again. Usually I would trade over a couple pokemon, but the Earliest first Savefile I still have is from Pokemon Shield. I have a Game from each Generation from Gen 4 onwards.
Don't worry Michael, you're not alone in that last one. Before playing pokemon, I had various Zelda games. None of them were on gameboy but they all had multiple save file slots. So when I saw the "Continue" and then "New Game" directly below it I thought, like the Zelda games, the New Game slot was a separate game slot all it's own. So I have saved over old game progress while having beaten through up til the last gym. Genius me decided I wanted to try doing a separate run using a different starter than my first game, because I was almost at the end of my first game and wanted to see if making different choices changed anything. So imagine my surprise when I went back to try and play my other save to discover that it wasn't there. I booted up my game and saw "Continue" and "New Game" and thought to myself, "Why didn't my second play through save? I swear I saved my progress." And then, slight disappointment turned to horror when I logged on to my "old" save to discover that, no... it did save. And all my progress of the first play through was gone. I learned a very important lesson that day lol.
21:03 I did that quite often back when I had my DS. Caused me a lot of trouble because I would often forget to save. Never had an experience as bad as losing an entire game's worth of progress though lol
my problem was a combination of forgetfulness, saving taking a long time in gen 4, and some idiot deciding to spring load the cartridge slot! my fingers naturally rested over the cartridge slot and there were SO MANY times I felt the click and had to ASAP save before it got ejected and at least 4 times I failed and lost a lot of progress
11:26 When I first played pokemon, I noticed that an NPC stated that if your pokemon uses a move that is the same type, it gets a boost. So I only used stab moves, and normal moves.
I remember in a kanto only book i saw chansey's evolution line and it siad "does not evolve". but i knew that happiny and blissey existed. So i drew over it and put evolves into blissey and evolves from happiny. I also did this with Scyther, Jynx, Mr Mime and Magmar to name a few
21:07 Yes, I did that all the time. I don't know why I did but I did it constantly with my version of Pokémon Pearl. My brother had to teach me to save after he saw me do it multiple times.
I have a few stories. 1. The very first pokemon game I ever got was Gold. I distinctly remember getting it alongside a purple Gameboy Color (both of which I still have) from a yard sale or something. When I got it, the previous owner showed me a bit of how to play. During this time, they showed me the Boxes and how they worked... I may or may not have accidentally released a few pokemon before their very eyes. Thankfully, I was getting the game and was gonna start a new game anyways, so I hope I didn't traumatize them. 2. With that game, I had gotten all the way to Claire's Gym in Blackthorn. Fun Fact: Gameboy cartridges have batteries in them meant for holding saves. Mine ran out. 3. Later on, I started playing Emerald. At some point, I found a golden pupper. Confused as to why it was yellow, I simply ran away, not sure what else to do. 4. A long time later, I was playing through Moon, and I accidentally threw my master ball at a Salandit. Thankfully, this has a happy ending, as I did close the game and turn it back on so I would have it. 5. There was a point where I got extremely lucky and hatched a Shiny Eevee in like 3 or 4 eggs, which I was hatching just to get the rest of the Eeveelutions. After that, I went on an Eevee hatching spree, and got I want to say 3-4 boxes full. I decided that I'd evolve all of them, learned the two heighest stats of each eeveelution, and would decide which eeveelution an eevee would evolve into by looking at their IV's through the Judge thing, putting eventual Espeons, Umbreons, and Sylveons in the springs as well as my shiny. One day, I saw my sister playing on my game, and looking at the boxes, I saw a bunch of Eevees missing, and thought she had released them. Thankfully, I eventually realized that they were just in the Hot Springs.
Yuck the cartridge battery in my crystal hurt. Put it in maybe a year or two after first playing, no file, whatever cause im down to start again. Get up to like gym 2 or forest and save. Come back the next day, that saves gone too 😢
Gold & Silver were made with an inferior battery, or something. Cause their save issues were infamous. For whatever reason my dad got me a memory card cartridge. Didn't see the use cause tge cartridge saved. Talked my friend into just giving me his useless Silver version and bam, the MC cartridge helped. Only time I ever used it
So here's the thing. I, like many others have made the Master ball mistake, but I have a bit of back story (it's nothing ground breaking). You see, I was going to treasure it, but since I'm Swedish and didn't know a lot of English, when the president said "It won't be in shops" I only understood the word "Shop", so I just though they unlocked in shops and wasted it on a Golbat
Great video as always, Mikey! Let me tell you about something I did in Pokémon that can’t be considered a mistake, but something that I still feel like was dumb. I never fully played through a Pokémon game until Pokémon Shield when I was around fourteen or so. I didn’t really care much for the game and just wanted to catch a bunch of Pokémon for camping and stuff like that. So I just cheesed through the game with a bunch of Max Lair legendaries and an Urshifu. Thankfully, I’ve learned from this, and in later games, like Legends Arceus and Violet, I actually made balanced teams. Also, I kind of did a variation of the whole physical vs special thing, but not in a game. I used to use Pokédex 3D Pro a lot, and as for stats, I mainly focused on Attack, and not Sp. Attack, which I didn’t know that well at the time.
A common mistake that I did and still do is never using my masterball .I have played through pokemon games tons of times but can't remember the last time I used a masterball .I was like trying to save it for a better pokemon but just endup catching all the legandaries without it
honestly i get some weird sense of pride when i end up "but what if i need it later"ing my masterball until there is no later to need it for feels like a trophy to have gotten all available legendaries and still having it in my inventory
I have a funny story with the evolution mistake. I first played pokemon back in 2016 on an emulator. I played silver first and i had a togepi in my team. After googling i learned that togepi is a three stage evolution, didnt check if that evolution was available in that generation or how it evolves. I used a togetic for the whole play through. Yes i have a level 100 togetic that i used even for the red battle.
The starter being stronger is quite a fun thing, I also tought that, until my Dormanitan started destroying my oponnents, while the rest was just doing "Ok". The soft lock also happened, I dont remenber which version of pokemon (I think it was gold & silver), but at that time, I did not undertood english at all (I mean, I'm not even close to be fluent now days, but I can communicate), so eventually, to progress you needed to do something that was not very straight fowards, and I never undertood what do to. At the time I tought it was a bug or glitch, and restart the game and my save profile multiple times, but I always got stuck at the same place everytime. Eventually, I gave up and accepeted that It was just broken. In fact, yet to this day I dont know how to progress any further, some time ago I tried to play it again, but the game itself was not working, I tried to resolve it, but I think time just coroded my games. All my games... Even black and white ;-; Oh, and the "If status, then useless. So omega true" There were just 3 status moves I used at the time. One that put's the enemy on fire, toxic, and toxic spikes (but the last one much later, just when I found a way to teach my Garbodor that) I even tried to use Sword Dance on my Samurot, but I felt like "bro, I'm wasting a intire turn to boost my attack, at this rate I'll be dead before I even attack" and then gave up Oh, and similar to stats moves, I also did not undertood what the status of a pokemon meant. In fact, for a long time I tought that "sp attack was how much fast I would attack, so If I had high sp attack, the I would attack first, and speed was just for evasion chances... and dont ask me what sp defence would mean, I dont remember but I think my 7 years old brain was not even capable of processing such a thing. BUT!!! I was not one of the ones who ruined their pokemons because of "cut" or anything like that. The first time I used that was on a "whatever pokemon" nothing that I cared, just there cus I had nothing else. So when I could not remove, whatever, who cares? But then I realised, if I cant remove, I dont want to teach this moves to my main cast. But I got to an extreme that no one would have moves like that, so every time I needed to cut a single bush, or rock or anything. I needed to go all the way to a pokemon center, take my level 10 pokemon with that move, go all way back, cut the thing, see if there is another thing around, go all way back again to the pokemon center, get my True pokemon back, then go all way back to where I wanted to go, just to see that 2 scenes forwards there was another bush... And do it all again. But hey, my pokemon where just fine :D (that smile hides a imense amount of time loss and suffering... Sometimes I think how did I had so much time as a kid) Oh, and one thing that I dont remember you saying, but that I tought was true back in the day. "If strong in anime, then must be good in game. If bad in anime, then must be trash". I did not affected wich pokemon I would get, since I never cared about their strenght, I just wanted to play with those that I liked... But it remained in my head for a good while. Shine was also never a problen to me. Because I never found one. I never searched for one, because I did not care, and because Shines are, in my opinion, worst version of the normal pokemon. At least 90% of time. But any ways, I never got one :v And well, the deleted save files was not really a mistake, I guess. Time just fucked me up, so I can not play again with my old save files or even my old games. :/ But hey, I never got problens with evolutions. I always could check how and who evolved into what, and even if I needed to trade, I had a friend that played the same game with me, so we could trade, no problens at all. We even would battle sometimes, I usually won the battles, but I must say that he had better pokemons then me. I just had counter element to his, so I could win. Well, what can I say? get outplayed nerd Well, I guess that's all funny things I can remember now. But hey, even after all this, it defenitly was good times... (And dont mind english mistakes, I know you can understand it)
My earliest childhood mistake, which to be fair, I was told this by someone else and I knew nothing of Pokemon at the time, was thinking the little green caterpillar (Caterpie) was able to shapeshift into any other creature. At the time, Pokemon was still revatively new, it had only been released a couple of months prior, and I had no concept of Pokemon Evolution. I remember being so frustrated when I couldn't get the damn thing to change into anything, which led to a mix of excitement when it finally turned into a Metapod, and disappointment when that wasn't what I wanted it to turn into. I spend countless hours trying to figure out how to make it change into something else, eventually concluding that it was random and boxed it. I don't remember who told me this, or whether he himself actually believed this or was just lying to me, but this has cemented itself into my brain even after all these years.
24:00 wait, didn't you have to kill a shiny sigylith in your Pokemon Sun/Moon no catching challenge? Wouldn't that count as "intentionally failing a shiny pokemon?"
About two weeks ago I wanted to get a shiny Munchlax in Violet by breeding because it would be faster than trying to find it. I don't know HOW LONG TIME it took to try and breed Munchlax and Ditto (With sandwiches) before I found out why. You can't use baby Pokémon for breeding😭 That was a waste of time, money and sandwiches! But after it became a Snorlax, I got a lot of eggs and egg number 180 was a shiny so that's cool💯
20:55 - I didn't realise saving was a thing at first. Pokemon Blue was my first vide game ever (and also taught me most of my early English language fundamentals) I replayed the whole pallet town/viridian city segment like 5 times before learning saving was a thing, how it worked and what it did.
20:40 Reminds me of the time I played through omega ruby until the point of Groudon, ko’d Groudon, got so scared that I missed it forever, and reset. It put me back to when May/Brendan teaches you about the tails in the grass. TURNS OUT I ONLY SAVED THEN AND NEVER AGAIN. I just relied on turning my 2ds into sleep mode and plugging it in instead of saving. I got so mad I hid the cartridge and forgot where I put it. I only found it a couple months ago.
I used to think that Farfetchd evolved into Doduo and then in Dodrio. Not only they were close in the pokedex, it made sense since, they were flying, with one two and three heads, but there was an Album with sticker cards in Italy that actually showed them as an evolutionary line. But I never bother to catch a Farfetch'd
I made almost every mistake (except the last one, the starter deleting one and the ones not listed) on top of some others but my first few playthroughs were the worst. Mistakes included were Thinking Normal was Super Effective against Ghost because Ghost did nothing to Normal, Backtracking like crazy due to not knowing what Fly did, Having a Level 91 Samurott with Cut because I didn't know how to delete it, Thinking Evolution was luck based and could stop randomly when really I pressed B without knowing what it did, Thinking Throh evolved into Sawk, Thinking Gurdurr evolved by Level Up until it got past Level 60 and didn't, Thinking Pikachu was powerful and obtainable in Gen 5 then using it in Gen 6 because of the Anime, Thinking tons of Pokemon were stronger or weaker then they were because of Pokemon Conquest and worst of all Losing to Diantha and to this day I have no idea how that happened.
20:46 no that’s a real thing, I have done this before when I played heartgold because I didn’t know saving was a thing, I did know I could just close the DS top and bring it back up to continue, but I made the mistake of letting my DS die losing ALL of my progress
One of my bigger mistakes were 1: not being warned about only 1 save file in pokemon black 2, I had attempted to make a new save file because I couldn't beat the champion, can't remember why 2: resetting save files, I wish I could go and see my level 100 vileplume again D:
On the topic of 'not saving...' This isn't a pokemon game, but: Back in the day, my best friend and I were in love with Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles. We played that game for literally hundreds of hours. So, one day, we were playing a semi-new game, having just started 2 new characters to try out different races. We played for over 5 and a half hours straight without saving, because we were... like, 13, and weren't the smartest. And saving was a very obvious, out-of-the-way choice you had to make, no automatic saving or "do you want to save?" screens between things. We got all the way through a brutally rough dungeon, we were celebrating about it... when the power went out because a bunch of teenagers down the street hit the power lines with some fireworks on the 4th of July and put the entire neighborhood into a blackout. We were -devastated.-
This video made me nostalgic for a time as a kid I used to think plusle and minun evolved into latias and latios because both were from hoenn, and bother were red and blue twins in a duo.
I am actually glad I am completely over with these mistakes. But I slightly still have that 'non-damaging moves syndrome' in my blood. Edit: Also I get it about the moves having secondary effects but I do still use Leech seed, Coil for my Serperior, Calm mind for my Psychic types and also used Hone claws & Power trip Corviknight in my Shield playthrough. There are more I am misremembering.
Im kinda there, but mostly cuz I have attacks that have effects. Crunch, ShadowBall, ect. Deals damage and can lower stats. My Y-playthrough I have a Pancham/Pangoro with Power-Up Punch. Decent move
There’s enough damaging moves with useful secondary effects nowadays that they aren’t always necessary in playthroughs… like, why would I put a move on my Skeledirge that buffs its special attack when Torch Song already does that while also doing damage 😅
There are many times I have thought a pokemon was a certain type, only to be proven wrong. Some examples I remember are thinking Glalie is Ice/Dark, Suicune is Water/Ice (I'm sure that one is understandable) and thinking Wailord is Water/Flying. Probably the most egregious example though is thinking Empoleon is Ice/Steel rather than Water/Steel.
I used to constantly make the mistake sometimes that Pokémon having typings that only their evos have, like I thought Staryu was Water/Psychic and Seel was Water/Ice. And yes I always keep thinking the Psyduck line is part Psychic (IT SHOULD BE) and that Wobbuffet is part Water.
When I was 9 I was playing fire red and I had only 2 pkmn on my team venusaur and nidoking. They both pretty much swept the entire game because of being extremely overlevelled
"In case you don't know, physical moves involve physical strikes, usually with the Pokemon's body and special moves tend to be ranged energy-related attacks" And then you have those fringe cases where an attack is physical, but doesn't make contact with the opponent, similar to a special attack. One example of this third case is Earthquake. Edit: I choose to believe accuracy on moves is how obvious the move's "tell" is. The lower the move's accuracy, the more obvious the "tell" and thus the easier it is to dodge. Tackle? Not very obvious, so it has 95% accuracy. Zap Cannon? Very obvious, so it has only 50% accuracy. Horn Drill? So obvious you'd practically need to be blind to miss it, so 30% accuracy.
I actually doesn't understand much about pokerus but for some reason almost all my pokemon has pokerus, it was like 2 to 3 that doesn't has pokerus. I thought it was just harmless glitch so I just let it without do anything
when I was like seven my friend told me the only way to catch mewtwo in pokemon go was to go outside during a thunderstorm on a specific bridge, pull my pants down, and then scream, “I summon thee, mewtwo!” I fell for it 😂
My mistake was sending my first Bibarical on the Wonder Trade in Ultra Sun. I know it’s a hated Mon, but I loved it and feel nostalgic for it. I miss it a lot even though I probably wouldn’t look at it much nowadays because of transitioning, and you not being able to change the trainer names.
I don’t know if I would consider this dumb because I’ve seen it happen to people much older than I was. But I was playing through pokemon black on a computer emulator and accidentally loaded a save state by pressing F5 thinking it would mute the game. I mean it has the volume symbol crossed out. But it loaded a save state from all the way back at the dreamyard. I was about to go to the elite four. I couldn’t live with the fact that 90% of my save data had been lost and half my team essentially dead. So I deleted the save file. To this day I still haven’t finished a playthrough of Pokemon black although this was only like a year ago. Yes, a year ago.
A friend of mine told me he met a shiny Sentret when he was a kid, but he killed it because he thought it was a glitch. It wasn't until several years later he realised it wasn't a glitch.
People who said they get stuck at a place that clearly already being said in the story, is the literally dumb😂😂😂😂😂. That's why you should never skip the damn script because sometimes they have literally key for you to solve any problem without asking your mother
I just remembered when I was younger I thought that the only pokeballs you got were the ones you were given to you. I also did know that you could save for weeks.
The first video game I ever played was Pokémon Sapphire. When I ended up seeing a red eyed Aron, I thought "ah, that one must be female". I, uh.. I ran away from it.😅💀
In the situation of non-damaging moves being useless, this fact typically only applies to when you're fighting in-game trainers as opposed to actual human players because in the former, you don't even need a highly complicated battle strategy when you already know what your opponent will do beforehand and can just over-level your team whenever you want if necessary and at high enough levels, even type matchups won't matter if you can one-shot almost any opponent without even using super-effective moves. However in VGC, it's drastically different, as you know, it's like a combination of chess and poker, but obviously even more complex. Considering you're playing against another actual human player, you never know who your opponent will be and even if you do, you still don't know what pokemon they'll bring and the strategy they'll implement. But I digress, anyway because of the stat and level adjustments as per the format rules, non-damaging status moves usually tend to be the win condition if strategies centered around these play out correctly, though of course they can still backfire at any moment.
Yeah at most I keep all-damaging moves still, BUT of a move deals damage and has a secondary effect I'll keep it. I'm even engaging in regular battles with a friend and am trying to teach him how to be better...but hed so STUPID about it. Case in point; he has a lvl98 Swampert with Surf and WATER GUN.... let that sink in. I even explained it as; "I'm a beefy Swampert able to cause tsunamis and shake the ground with my bare hands....but I'm just gonna spit/pee on you." My previous explanation of using a dollar-store squirt-gun vs a firehose didnt sink in enough. Weve gotten to the point where hes redone his entire team FIVE TIMES and I'm still using my playthrough team... I've become a Gym Leader to him!
@@ryudragonuv Well if he's refusing to swap out Water Gun for Hydro Pump because of it frequently missing then I can understand. However, if he needs a much stronger STAB move then I would recommend Earthquake, which is STAB ground and never misses, and Liquidation (TM), assuming you're playing SV, as not only is it's damage output DOUBLE that of Water Gun, it also makes full use of Swampert's base 110 attack stat, which is far greater than its special attack by a decent margin.
In Let's go(my first game) my Snorlax had Outrage, Ice Beam, Flamethrower, and Thunderbolt and I couldn't figure out why Outrage always did so much more damage. Also almost all my Pokémon knew Toxic
27:48 I wiped my original Sword File because I just wanted to replay it. I spent 4 hours hunting a Shiny Politoed when it had boosted shiny odds. I got that Politoed first try after spending 4 Hours trying to find the den. I didn't transfer it to Home then reset. This decision still haunts me to this day 😭
*ahem* I once randomly found a Shiny Male Unfezent and I ADORED it I was playing shield and found it I'm a den.I named him Airforce and he helped alot with roost and feather dance stalling Leon's Haxorus and to a lesser extent Dragapult.I then reset that save file forgetting to add it to home.But never fear! I then met a Shiny female pikachu,evolved,put it in home and never touched her again.Her name is Sparky btw.
Yes, some of us did just close the ds and leave it plugged in, and proceed to get mad if your parents ruin that because then you have to start from the beginning
My dumb mistake... using my Master Ball on Kyogre in Alpha Sapphire because i thought it was the only Legendary in the game.... despite having Latias in my party (I didn't know it was a Legendary at the time), needless to say... i regretted it once i found Mesprit in the Nameless Cavern.
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one time i found a shiny magnemite in lets go pikachu... i used my master ball😔
@@yazenabduljawad693 why tho.
My first shiny was in fire red and was a shiny spirow before I got pokeballs I knew instantly what it was because I heard stories but I didn’t know the odds soooo sad I’ve never found one in that game again
hello mickey i hope ur treating drowzee well ^^
@@MandJTV hi Mikey
16:09 "ITS A FLASH OF LIGHT! HOW DO YOU MISS!?"
the enemy pokemon just so happens to blink at that point
Just for the record guys, Flash is GREAT. Last year I started from scratch at making a living dex with every game, and therefore beating every game, and catching every mon in every game. And flash is ESSENTIAL. Why? Well, do yyou have any idea how many resets it takes to catch your average legendary due to crits? Do you have any idea how many LESS it takes when they can't hit a thing? Flash catches legendaries, boys and girls. Put it on your catching mon, That's why so many grass type can learn it, to pair it with sleep powder.
@@Carinail u can use sand attack, minimise, double team and more for the same purpose and some of them are much much better at the same purpose. The main caveat with flash is that you cant erase it when finished it's purpose without the move deleter when it was a HM and the 70 accuracy is horrendous... which was the point mikey was making
I like the implication that pokemon spend 30% of the battle with their eyes closed
lol
@@LabXperiment_ Yes but which of those other moves help you navigate elsewhere in the game? Cause last I checked it was none
I named my rival "???" in Crystal and spent the entire game looking for a sidequest to find out his name
Same but with Gold because that was my first Pokémon game. Granted I was 7 at the time 😅
As a kid I wanted to help the police find the thief, so I told them everything I knew, which was that their name was '???'
Same in crystal but because I thought that was his name
My first game was lets go, where I called him some guy that I hated, but Tracey is acctually pretty nice in lets go LOL.
I do that cause I think it's funny
not even one second into the video - “you used to be stupid!”
wow thanks mikey 😭
Jeez thank you mikey
That is a V-Sauce Michael intro right there.
AND you still might be!
What do you mean "used to be"? I still am.
Me and a friend just agreed with that statement. We are dumb boys.
in gen3 i was fighting a shroomish and it poisoned my combusken and when the battle ended the screen started shaking because my pokemon was poisoned i panicked and stopped playing the game thinking that it was broken.
Yeah when I played platinum that happened to me and I thought I broke my game
@@thesunflowergirl731thinking this way goes all the way back to gen 1 and yes I thought I broke my Pokémon blue but in my defense the internet was young
You have to farm enough to get the blazekin too op w the blaze kick
I also thought stat changes were permanent, because my Empoleon's physical damage was so awful it only made sense to me that it was because it was constantly intimidated by wild Staravia. That made more sense to me than the fact it was so low because the physical attack was Cut
yeah me too, but kinda different, i knew that stats changes works in the field, but i though that if i used Agility to cap for battle, my "pokemon" would get more Speed buff when leveled up, and this was after my first playthrough, it was in a rom hack called Dragonl Ball Z Team Training
I once played pokemon X and thought huh these stat things seem cool, if my attack gets higher my dmage will be bigger right? So I buy tons of X Attack and when it said your attack wont go higher i was astonished, were my pokemon the strongest they could be? then i wiped to lysander 5 more times, and i was raising physical attack, on specially offensive pokemon.
Weird mistake; How would the stat changes be permanent just because of one battle?
@@jeffreygao3956 because i thought it would stay there when i use my x attack to raise my attack
@@Auragod08unofficial That is...very odd reasoning.
I always thought that Fearow was a pre-evolution to Ho-Oh, simply just because there was a decent amount of similarities between the two
Pfft. There's no way a pokemon could ever evolve into a legendary... 🦁☀️🦇🌙 Wait a moment
Once got a machoke to level 90 trying to get machamp.... don't judge me, I was young and he looked cool😅
Now I'm gonna nickname every Ho-Oh I get in HG/SS Kenya and make sure I don't have the actual Kenya. :)
Fearow evolves into Ho-Oh with a Legend Stone (you can get it in gen 10) and so does Heatmor into Heatran
Omg, I actually had a dream where I was playing Pokémon Go, and I could evolve my Fearow into a Ho-Oh for 200 candies. I'm not kidding, I still think about that dream on a regular basis
When I was a kid I was with two friends, Eli and John. Eli had never played pokemon so we let him play gold. He goes into a wild battle and encounters spearow. He turns to us and asks, "What did the stars means?" John and I were like, "What?" We look and are like, "HOLY CRAP!!"
So we took the game from him, and caught that shiny spearow. Eli was bewildered.
Wow
At least Eli didn't ran away from the Shiny Spearow, thank god 😅
Good thing Eli asked!!!
Very harasho moment of Eli
@@Ash-GreninjaExpertor immediately attack and one shot it 😂
I have deleted several save files, multiple of them containing shiny pokemon, so Mikey isn't alone there.
I also read in a handbook that there was only one of each legendary pokemon, so when a kid in my class showed me the completed pokedex on his (very obviously action replayed) diamond version, I seriously thought this kid was the only person in the entire world to own all the legendaries.
"It's a flash of light, how do you miss?!" They blinked.
Lol
Sunglasses.
Sorry, turned away for a second.
Yeah that'd do it...
Insert Team Four Star reference here.
“You used to be STUPID.”
Assuming I got any smarter lmao
He then immediately said "some of you still might be"
@@orbracha25
mikey use counter
It super effective!
And then you watched another second of the video
Real.
*(I never did.)*
how is this commentor proven right imediately lmaoo
The worst mistake of Gen 4/5 is beating an entire Pokemon game in one sitting when an old save file already exists. These games prevent you from saving at any point when starting a new game without deleting the old save file, especially when the games force to save after defeating the champion and entering the hall of fame
I bought my first Pokémon game (Pearl) on a flee market, and for a long time I didn’t want to erase their data. And for some reason the game kept freezing in or before Jubelife city (at least I think that’s what the city is called), so I just replayed that little part of the game hundreds of times before eventually deleting the old save data and starting my own adventure.
But since I didn’t understand English, it took me a long time to figure out you had to talk with the clowns to progress, so I think my Monferno was in the late twenties when I finally got my first gym badge.
This was me because I got a used copy of black and didn't know how to delete an old save. Lucky this only happened like 2 and I was only like 1 or 2 gyms in but still.
Bro at least you know you could save the game , I don't even know how to save the game and played entire fire red till game corner without saving and then restart from being every time untill I discovered save option
wait so what happens? The game forces a save but it can't save, so what does it do?
@@commanderredjonkks5268it doesn’t save.
Although, In B2W2 you actually can’t even get passed Pokestar Studios as you’re required to save before leaving it, therefor softlocking you.
My first game was FireRed. When my pokemon got poisoned and the game started doing its thing as i walked i panicked thinking my game was broken 😂
When I was a kid, i didn't knew the box existed, so I tought you could only catch 6 pokemon.
In Fire Red, I once found a Shiny Ratata. I knew shiny's were rare, but I hated Ratata, so I didn't caught him because I didn't wanted him in my team.
I mean that’s true in Pokerogue
This looks like it was writen by a kid.
@@slayer1227 probably a recent memory lol
@@slayer1227Some people just have really bad spelling or just don't care. It annoys me to no end, but I have to just deal with it
NOOOOOO
As a child, I was playing one of the Hoenn games (can't remember which one, either Ruby, Sapphire, or Emerald), and grinding in the grass near the Daycare. I was starting to grow bored with grinding, so I was on my way back to town to heal, when I had a random encounter while leaving the grass, which was a Shiny Oddish (my first Shiny). I didn't know about Shinies at the time, but I was smart enough to recognize that this thing was special in some way, so I caught it and named it Oddie. I liked seeing the sparkles when it entered battle, so I added it to my team and evolved it into Vileplume. Oddie the Vileplume stayed with me all the way through the League, and it was in the Hall of Fame. Some time passes, and I get the urge to play through that particular game again, so I deleted my save file with Oddie on it, because I thought I could just easily find another 'weird Oddish', since Oddie appeared so easily for me. It was only after I had done that that I learned about Shinies and how hard it is to get them, and I've felt pain about this ever since.
RIP Oddie.
May they rest in sparkly peace 🫡🫡
RIP to a real one 🫡
Oddie 😭😭
I feel like I seen a simillar comment like this on PM7's old post
@@DarkRedX_X-gang I've probably told this story before, but it felt fitting to tell it here, too.
I remember hearing about a kid not knowing you could run from wild encounters. When he finally left Mt Moon, he had a lv 34 charmeleon
...How...? Was he lost for a while? Did he have to grind intensely to beat Brock? I've done solo runs before, and while I didn't KO every wild Pokémon in sight, my Ivysaur would end up between... 25-30 if I remember correctly.
What game was from gen 1 or gen 3 cause if it gen 3 then charmeleon will have metal claw
I didn’t know how to escape Mt. Moon but when I did I had a fully evolved Blastoise, because of course I used only my starter(yes I caught every Pokemon I saw) and by the time I got out he was level 45.
Shout outs to TJ the Blastoise!!!
@@psychie8625he probably kept wiping out
That child was me (not really). I was just stubborn and didn't run from battles until SUPER late game unless my entire party was in red
I did a few of these mistakes myself.
- I only put STAB moves on my Pokemon a few times before.
- I once released my Togepi on Crystal version thinking that if I released it, that would suddenly make it available again in the wild.
- I forgot to save after catching a shiny, and with a very unfortunate stroke of bad luck, my game crashed.
- I don't remember what I used it on, but I'm pretty sure I wasted a masterball before.
- Completely without my knowledge, not my friend, or even my sibling, but my GRANDPA started a new save file on a game and erased all my progress.
“Some of you might still be” is hilarious
Thank you for all the likes and comments 🙏
Bold of him to assume I am not
And applicable, based on some "results"
😂also I’m replying to this to get it top comment war on the bots
Yes it is
can't even be mad at him, cuz I'm too dumb to can
13:51 Based mom giving actually helpful advice despite probably not knowing anything about the game
Yeah, that's very good advice in older games. For example, several things you do in Ocarina of Time are extremely well-known, but would be quite odd to a totally blind player. However, there are NPCs that will give you the directions you need if you check around.
Ngl I _still_ mostly ignore non-damaging moves 😭😂
I'm not at all into the competitive scene so my main strategy has always been "low hp = win so do that 👍"
TBF, you're not alone. I only really started using non-damaging moves when I started doing monotype runs - most notably, my Y Bug run. Toxic Spikes REALLY saved me against Grant, who would have crushed my entire team otherwise.
I don't think it's dum to pretty much only use Damaging Moves. In my current playthrough of Fire Red (on cartridge) my lvl 74 Charizard is using: Flamethrower, Dragon Claw, Strength, Fly.
Depends on the mon and the generation for me. I prefer inflicting status conditions over buffs and debuffs in Pokemon. But it’s not uncommon for a stronger Pokemon on one of my playthrough teams like a pseudo-legendary to just have four powerful damaging moves for coverage
I use buffing moves, but I still don't care about DEbuffing moves, except maybe early-game
Yeah, if you're on a main game playthrough, the enemy trainers tend to lack the proficiency to make battles tough enough to need much strategy outside of supereffective moves, so having as many as possible tends to win battles efficiently.
Micheal Ive been wathching your videos for a few years now and I really love them, dont stop
I am sadly a victim of killing a shiny because I didn't know what shinies were. In my defense, I did try to catch it because I figured it was special somehow, but I was a kid and didn't take into consideration how much damage an attack from my Typhlosion would do to a low leveled Rattata 😅
4:34 I always thought Bouffalant evolved from Tauros, Cacturne evolved into Carnevine and Slowking evolved from Slowbro instead of Slowpoke.
Even the anime confuses many times once it said Seviper evolved from Arbok
Yeah at least the slowpoke one I can relate to. My first game was fire red, a game that had both evolutions, while having no one to trade with, so I knew it's existence and I knew how to evolve it, I just thought it was 3 stage.
And I know that many people had that assumption to that time.
Same with both of 'em for me
I also thought that too
I thought Bellossom was not in the same evolution line with Vileplume.
I can never stop myself from the belief that Bouffalant should have been an evolution for Tauros.
Tauros is my favorite gen 1 mon as well as one of my tops.
Seeing it get a regional felt like a stab in the back.
i had a friend watching the video with me and it sorta went like this
mikey: "you used to be stupid"
me: "i still am"
my friend at the exact same time: "you still are"
mikey: "some of you still are"
me: "ok man"
Fun fact i almost completed sapphire without saving because i kept the advanced sp plugged in, and i thought that the backlight button was the save button and it turned off when i closed it, i found out it was not any of those when i took it on a trip with my family and it died and reset everything. my mother said i cried for a couple hours cuz i lost Skarmory named Blade.
20:12 Forgetting to save is bad. Not knowing how to save is worse. I had to constantly replay the beginning of Pokemon ruby because I didn’t know you could save the game and I cried every time my mom made me stop playing because I knew I’d have to restart. Figured it out eventually but still.
I had the same problem when I first started playing fire red as a kid. The I only made it to cerulean city and beat Misty once after playing for 3 hrs straight
I made the exact same mistake 😂
I did the same thing in pokemon yellow when I was about 4 or 5 years old. Lol
For some reason I also didn't grasp the fact you had to push down on the door mat when inside your house to get outside. I spent several hours just pacing back and forth at the door trying to get out of the house and would get excited when I accidentally hit down and made it outside. Then later I'd have to do it all again because I didn't know saving was a thing. Lol
@@BusinessSkrub easier than you think to miss something you don’t the meaning of. Not saying I knew I was supposed to save the game and couldn’t find the option. I didn’t know you could save the game. I had only played old hand me down NES games that you can’t save. So it was a foreign concept to me. Also I was a small child so like…ability to reason wasn’t fully developed yet.
@BusinessSkrub Again, the only video game experience I had at that point was games like Super Mario Bros on the NES. Games that, guess what, can’t be saved. The very concept of saving progress on a game was foreign to me. Also those uses of “save” you described are very different. Saving as in rescuing someone is not quite the same as saving something to be used later. For a young ADHD/Autistic kid like me, all of these things were enough for me to have to reset a few times before finally going “oh so thaaaats what that does”
You're not alone. I wiped away the SHINY BOX ART LEGENDARY that I got on my first ever playthrough of a pokemon game!. It was Crystal. I'd watched my brother play loads of Red, and loved my new Crystal on a GameBoy Color. I remember being really impressed that they made legendary pokemon have sparkles around them, as every time I used my Suicune it had those cool sparkles. But I wasn't happy with my choice of starter (Chikorita), and started again to use Cyndaquil. I was really confused that when I got back to capture Suicune it didn't have sparkles any more. For many years I assumed it was a special thing that only happened on the first playthrough on any given cartridge.
I wiped that save file. I did that to myself.
You poor child
Something funny about my brother's first playthrough is that he was stuck in Pallet Town for a lot longer than you should because he didn't go up.
He eventually did but still
Happened to me in Aspertia (B2W2) - when I was 17!
This happened to me in Let's Go!
@@SchmidKids-o6r That's literally the game that I'm talking about
I love that Mikey decided that to make his og content again 😭😭 I missed these kind of videos
When I played Pokémon Diamond for the first time when I was about 8 years old, there were so few fire types that I thought any and all fire types were LEGENDARIES.
Lol the memes exist for a reason
In my first playthrough of Omega Ruby, I thought Cosplay Pikachu evolved into a cosplay version of Raichu and spent months grinding it to level 100 only for nothing to happen
Did you try to evolve it and were disapointed once you learned it evolved with a thunderstone?
Or did you already know Cosplay Raichu didn't exist by that point?
It should have. Although, I guess you didn't know how Pikachu normally evolves.
We need cosplay Raichu
I actually thought Minun evolved into something? I didn’t want to look at the Pokédex when I first played Sapphire. But when it got to level 40 or 45. It didn’t evolve. So I decided to look through the Ruby and Sapphire book. To look at the Pokédex and I found out it doesn’t evolve 😅.
@@mysticfox9718 I genuinely thought it evolved into Pikachu LMAOO
But I wasn't intressted in getting one thankfuly, saved time 🔥
You're not alone. I let my little sister play Pokémon Silver, making a new game telling her not to save the game since that would erase my game where I put lots of hours into to catch the roaming dogs. And yeah, she didn't save. I did. I was having so much fun watching her play (and kill a shiny before I could notice it was a shiny) that when my mom called us for lunch, I instinctively saved the game so we could keep playing later. I felt terrible when I went back into the console and realised my game was gone
Ok... you are not alone, my original Silver game (witch I had a legit shiny mew from a Toys'R Us pokemon event), I erased MYSELF;
I wanted to play around with a new game for fun without saving.
Due to this I had left my Gameboy plugged in and left on overnight so I could keep messing around in the morning. When I woke up, I forgot I was doing this and just saw my game on, so, I saved and turned it off before going to school...
I was devastated wen I got home and went back to my game. I was so upset my parents thought I had broken a bone cus I was crying and unable to talk. R.I.P Megaman, my first cherished pokemon (Shiny Mew is blue, and megaman was my other favorite game)
i once got a copy of sun from my local games store, and it had a shiny rayquaza from emerald, i was contemplating deleting it for a while, but then i finally did, i look back and think, why did I do this? not just to this save but to so many others? I was a fool to destroy those save files.
I remember having three fire moves to use ember on weak foes. Flame wheel on medium ones a d flamethrower on the strong ones. Swift for coverage on dragon mons. Good times
It makes sense if you're only using a single Pokémon.
@Cuculutu not really. Could have gotten roll out or any other set of moves for better coverage. If any ghost fire or water ghost were in early game I'd have been wrecked
Swift for coverage? it's a normal type move
i used to use only STAB moves, 2 from the same type and one from the other one and also only capture dual types or will become dual types, and the last move was status move. kinda lost this habit later on.
@@theamazingspooderman2697 for dragons and water types
28:31 blame Grunty Boi Mikey - he was striking causing chaos long before you even knew he was there 😂
I didn’t know how to exit pallet town in Pokémon fire red.
I was stuck there for WEEKS I tell you, I even tried searching the internet about it, but no one had the same problem as me.
I spent a lot of time just going to professor oak’s lab and talking to everyone in town.
Then I finally watched a video of someone playing fire red… all you had to do was step into the tall grass.
I had avoided the tall grass since they told me not to step on it, and as a kid I abided but the rules… a lot. As you can tell.
I used to think that only female Kirlia could evolve into gardevoir, so when my male kirlia evolved into gardevoir, i was astounded, i was also only 5 years old.
femboy gardevoir 😍
Trans rights !
Was it on gen 4? Because gallade definitely didn't exist on gen 3
Creepy @@st4rri_ari
My first game was alpha sapphire, and I thought ralts and its evolutions were grass types when I first saw them. I can’t be the only one though, right?
His uploads aren’t predictable but when they hit they are a banger
“ROCKET Money?!” Oh chaos we’ve created a monster
Tell. Me. Everything!
One time I accidentally released a level 65 I think it was my friend’s starter, he went crazy.
The funniest part is when you realize you actually hadn't saved and he could just load the save, losing almost nothing, but back then you thought it was the end of the world.
I thought Tauros evolved into Miltank. They’re on the same Pokédex page in SM, which were my first games, so I spent ages training a Tauros thinking it would evolve into Miltank
You thought you were giving your bull enough estrogen to become a cow lol
You do know cows and bulls are in the same animal family. A mix up like that isn’t that big of a misconception as one would think
24:33 My younger brother found a shiny Snover in his Pokemon Platinum and handed me the game so I could try to catch it for him. I accidentally knocked it out and felt horrible. I recounted this story to my brother recently, as I've gotten him back INTO Pokemon after so many years of not playing, and he literally did not remember me doing that to him 😅 RIP Shiny Snover from like 2010
28:19 ur not! I accidently deleted my X playthrough without transferring any of my mons
I did the same thing in platinum
I did it too, on Sword no less! I didn't know you could have multiple accounts for multiple save files, and I wanted another Zacian to trade for a Zamazenta.
@@Metettoi did the exact same thing but just to play again
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I know as a Kid I'd often restart games to play through the Story again. Usually I would trade over a couple pokemon, but the Earliest first Savefile I still have is from Pokemon Shield. I have a Game from each Generation from Gen 4 onwards.
@@Metettosame
Don't worry Michael, you're not alone in that last one. Before playing pokemon, I had various Zelda games. None of them were on gameboy but they all had multiple save file slots. So when I saw the "Continue" and then "New Game" directly below it I thought, like the Zelda games, the New Game slot was a separate game slot all it's own.
So I have saved over old game progress while having beaten through up til the last gym. Genius me decided I wanted to try doing a separate run using a different starter than my first game, because I was almost at the end of my first game and wanted to see if making different choices changed anything. So imagine my surprise when I went back to try and play my other save to discover that it wasn't there.
I booted up my game and saw "Continue" and "New Game" and thought to myself, "Why didn't my second play through save? I swear I saved my progress." And then, slight disappointment turned to horror when I logged on to my "old" save to discover that, no... it did save. And all my progress of the first play through was gone.
I learned a very important lesson that day lol.
21:03
I did that quite often back when I had my DS. Caused me a lot of trouble because I would often forget to save. Never had an experience as bad as losing an entire game's worth of progress though lol
my problem was a combination of forgetfulness, saving taking a long time in gen 4, and some idiot deciding to spring load the cartridge slot! my fingers naturally rested over the cartridge slot and there were SO MANY times I felt the click and had to ASAP save before it got ejected and at least 4 times I failed and lost a lot of progress
11:26 When I first played pokemon, I noticed that an NPC stated that if your pokemon uses a move that is the same type, it gets a boost. So I only used stab moves, and normal moves.
I remember in a kanto only book i saw chansey's evolution line and it siad "does not evolve". but i knew that happiny and blissey existed. So i drew over it and put evolves into blissey and evolves from happiny. I also did this with Scyther, Jynx, Mr Mime and Magmar to name a few
The author should’ve just been able to see the future smh
3:13 ayy I had that poster too! And the kanto one!
21:07 Yes, I did that all the time. I don't know why I did but I did it constantly with my version of Pokémon Pearl. My brother had to teach me to save after he saw me do it multiple times.
I have a few stories.
1. The very first pokemon game I ever got was Gold. I distinctly remember getting it alongside a purple Gameboy Color (both of which I still have) from a yard sale or something. When I got it, the previous owner showed me a bit of how to play. During this time, they showed me the Boxes and how they worked... I may or may not have accidentally released a few pokemon before their very eyes. Thankfully, I was getting the game and was gonna start a new game anyways, so I hope I didn't traumatize them.
2. With that game, I had gotten all the way to Claire's Gym in Blackthorn. Fun Fact: Gameboy cartridges have batteries in them meant for holding saves. Mine ran out.
3. Later on, I started playing Emerald. At some point, I found a golden pupper. Confused as to why it was yellow, I simply ran away, not sure what else to do.
4. A long time later, I was playing through Moon, and I accidentally threw my master ball at a Salandit. Thankfully, this has a happy ending, as I did close the game and turn it back on so I would have it.
5. There was a point where I got extremely lucky and hatched a Shiny Eevee in like 3 or 4 eggs, which I was hatching just to get the rest of the Eeveelutions. After that, I went on an Eevee hatching spree, and got I want to say 3-4 boxes full. I decided that I'd evolve all of them, learned the two heighest stats of each eeveelution, and would decide which eeveelution an eevee would evolve into by looking at their IV's through the Judge thing, putting eventual Espeons, Umbreons, and Sylveons in the springs as well as my shiny. One day, I saw my sister playing on my game, and looking at the boxes, I saw a bunch of Eevees missing, and thought she had released them. Thankfully, I eventually realized that they were just in the Hot Springs.
Yuck the cartridge battery in my crystal hurt. Put it in maybe a year or two after first playing, no file, whatever cause im down to start again. Get up to like gym 2 or forest and save. Come back the next day, that saves gone too 😢
Gold & Silver were made with an inferior battery, or something. Cause their save issues were infamous.
For whatever reason my dad got me a memory card cartridge. Didn't see the use cause tge cartridge saved. Talked my friend into just giving me his useless Silver version and bam, the MC cartridge helped. Only time I ever used it
So here's the thing. I, like many others have made the Master ball mistake, but I have a bit of back story (it's nothing ground breaking). You see, I was going to treasure it, but since I'm Swedish and didn't know a lot of English, when the president said "It won't be in shops" I only understood the word "Shop", so I just though they unlocked in shops and wasted it on a Golbat
Great video as always, Mikey!
Let me tell you about something I did in Pokémon that can’t be considered a mistake, but something that I still feel like was dumb.
I never fully played through a Pokémon game until Pokémon Shield when I was around fourteen or so. I didn’t really care much for the game and just wanted to catch a bunch of Pokémon for camping and stuff like that. So I just cheesed through the game with a bunch of Max Lair legendaries and an Urshifu.
Thankfully, I’ve learned from this, and in later games, like Legends Arceus and Violet, I actually made balanced teams.
Also, I kind of did a variation of the whole physical vs special thing, but not in a game. I used to use Pokédex 3D Pro a lot, and as for stats, I mainly focused on Attack, and not Sp. Attack, which I didn’t know that well at the time.
A common mistake that I did and still do is never using my masterball .I have played through pokemon games tons of times but can't remember the last time I used a masterball .I was like trying to save it for a better pokemon but just endup catching all the legandaries without it
I never catch legendaries with the MB. I like the fun of catching it in my 60th Timer Ball
honestly i get some weird sense of pride when i end up "but what if i need it later"ing my masterball until there is no later to need it for
feels like a trophy to have gotten all available legendaries and still having it in my inventory
using your master ball on something stupid is better than not using it at all
as i usually do
I have a funny story with the evolution mistake. I first played pokemon back in 2016 on an emulator. I played silver first and i had a togepi in my team. After googling i learned that togepi is a three stage evolution, didnt check if that evolution was available in that generation or how it evolves. I used a togetic for the whole play through. Yes i have a level 100 togetic that i used even for the red battle.
0:01 How dare you! I am always stupid!
he then said "some of you might still be"
The starter being stronger is quite a fun thing, I also tought that, until my Dormanitan started destroying my oponnents, while the rest was just doing "Ok".
The soft lock also happened, I dont remenber which version of pokemon (I think it was gold & silver), but at that time, I did not undertood english at all (I mean, I'm not even close to be fluent now days, but I can communicate), so eventually, to progress you needed to do something that was not very straight fowards, and I never undertood what do to. At the time I tought it was a bug or glitch, and restart the game and my save profile multiple times, but I always got stuck at the same place everytime. Eventually, I gave up and accepeted that It was just broken. In fact, yet to this day I dont know how to progress any further, some time ago I tried to play it again, but the game itself was not working, I tried to resolve it, but I think time just coroded my games. All my games... Even black and white ;-;
Oh, and the "If status, then useless. So omega true" There were just 3 status moves I used at the time. One that put's the enemy on fire, toxic, and toxic spikes (but the last one much later, just when I found a way to teach my Garbodor that)
I even tried to use Sword Dance on my Samurot, but I felt like "bro, I'm wasting a intire turn to boost my attack, at this rate I'll be dead before I even attack" and then gave up
Oh, and similar to stats moves, I also did not undertood what the status of a pokemon meant. In fact, for a long time I tought that "sp attack was how much fast I would attack, so If I had high sp attack, the I would attack first, and speed was just for evasion chances... and dont ask me what sp defence would mean, I dont remember but I think my 7 years old brain was not even capable of processing such a thing.
BUT!!! I was not one of the ones who ruined their pokemons because of "cut" or anything like that. The first time I used that was on a "whatever pokemon" nothing that I cared, just there cus I had nothing else. So when I could not remove, whatever, who cares? But then I realised, if I cant remove, I dont want to teach this moves to my main cast.
But I got to an extreme that no one would have moves like that, so every time I needed to cut a single bush, or rock or anything. I needed to go all the way to a pokemon center, take my level 10 pokemon with that move, go all way back, cut the thing, see if there is another thing around, go all way back again to the pokemon center, get my True pokemon back, then go all way back to where I wanted to go, just to see that 2 scenes forwards there was another bush... And do it all again. But hey, my pokemon where just fine :D (that smile hides a imense amount of time loss and suffering... Sometimes I think how did I had so much time as a kid)
Oh, and one thing that I dont remember you saying, but that I tought was true back in the day. "If strong in anime, then must be good in game. If bad in anime, then must be trash". I did not affected wich pokemon I would get, since I never cared about their strenght, I just wanted to play with those that I liked... But it remained in my head for a good while.
Shine was also never a problen to me. Because I never found one. I never searched for one, because I did not care, and because Shines are, in my opinion, worst version of the normal pokemon. At least 90% of time. But any ways, I never got one :v
And well, the deleted save files was not really a mistake, I guess. Time just fucked me up, so I can not play again with my old save files or even my old games. :/
But hey, I never got problens with evolutions. I always could check how and who evolved into what, and even if I needed to trade, I had a friend that played the same game with me, so we could trade, no problens at all. We even would battle sometimes, I usually won the battles, but I must say that he had better pokemons then me. I just had counter element to his, so I could win. Well, what can I say? get outplayed nerd
Well, I guess that's all funny things I can remember now. But hey, even after all this, it defenitly was good times...
(And dont mind english mistakes, I know you can understand it)
My earliest childhood mistake, which to be fair, I was told this by someone else and I knew nothing of Pokemon at the time, was thinking the little green caterpillar (Caterpie) was able to shapeshift into any other creature.
At the time, Pokemon was still revatively new, it had only been released a couple of months prior, and I had no concept of Pokemon Evolution. I remember being so frustrated when I couldn't get the damn thing to change into anything, which led to a mix of excitement when it finally turned into a Metapod, and disappointment when that wasn't what I wanted it to turn into. I spend countless hours trying to figure out how to make it change into something else, eventually concluding that it was random and boxed it.
I don't remember who told me this, or whether he himself actually believed this or was just lying to me, but this has cemented itself into my brain even after all these years.
24:00 wait, didn't you have to kill a shiny sigylith in your Pokemon Sun/Moon no catching challenge? Wouldn't that count as "intentionally failing a shiny pokemon?"
But that would be under special circumstances, not a childhood mistake
@@NightmareZerogbs Fair enough.
Haha yeah he really wanted to catch it. Too bad he wanted to keep up the challenge of not catching a single mon.
@@changheartkey he could've caught it and just moved it out of that copy to bank to be put into home?
@ True, but I think Mike was trying to stay true to the challenge.
About two weeks ago I wanted to get a shiny Munchlax in Violet by breeding because it would be faster than trying to find it. I don't know HOW LONG TIME it took to try and breed Munchlax and Ditto (With sandwiches) before I found out why. You can't use baby Pokémon for breeding😭 That was a waste of time, money and sandwiches!
But after it became a Snorlax, I got a lot of eggs and egg number 180 was a shiny so that's cool💯
20:55 - I didn't realise saving was a thing at first. Pokemon Blue was my first vide game ever (and also taught me most of my early English language fundamentals)
I replayed the whole pallet town/viridian city segment like 5 times before learning saving was a thing, how it worked and what it did.
At least it was early on XD
@@Kalaphant Fortunately, yeah xD
24:50 I'll never forget running from that green Golbat.
20:40 Reminds me of the time I played through omega ruby until the point of Groudon, ko’d Groudon, got so scared that I missed it forever, and reset. It put me back to when May/Brendan teaches you about the tails in the grass. TURNS OUT I ONLY SAVED THEN AND NEVER AGAIN. I just relied on turning my 2ds into sleep mode and plugging it in instead of saving. I got so mad I hid the cartridge and forgot where I put it. I only found it a couple months ago.
Hiding the cartridge in your rage is iconic
I used to think that Farfetchd evolved into Doduo and then in Dodrio. Not only they were close in the pokedex, it made sense since, they were flying, with one two and three heads, but there was an Album with sticker cards in Italy that actually showed them as an evolutionary line.
But I never bother to catch a Farfetch'd
I made almost every mistake (except the last one, the starter deleting one and the ones not listed) on top of some others but my first few playthroughs were the worst. Mistakes included were Thinking Normal was Super Effective against Ghost because Ghost did nothing to Normal, Backtracking like crazy due to not knowing what Fly did, Having a Level 91 Samurott with Cut because I didn't know how to delete it, Thinking Evolution was luck based and could stop randomly when really I pressed B without knowing what it did, Thinking Throh evolved into Sawk, Thinking Gurdurr evolved by Level Up until it got past Level 60 and didn't, Thinking Pikachu was powerful and obtainable in Gen 5 then using it in Gen 6 because of the Anime, Thinking tons of Pokemon were stronger or weaker then they were because of Pokemon Conquest and worst of all Losing to Diantha and to this day I have no idea how that happened.
Her team is meh, but it can be deceptively strong
20:46 no that’s a real thing, I have done this before when I played heartgold because I didn’t know saving was a thing, I did know I could just close the DS top and bring it back up to continue, but I made the mistake of letting my DS die losing ALL of my progress
That was my thought. That kind of thing is not such a stretched on a DS type system.
One of my bigger mistakes were
1: not being warned about only 1 save file in pokemon black 2, I had attempted to make a new save file because I couldn't beat the champion, can't remember why
2: resetting save files, I wish I could go and see my level 100 vileplume again D:
On the topic of 'not saving...'
This isn't a pokemon game, but: Back in the day, my best friend and I were in love with Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles. We played that game for literally hundreds of hours. So, one day, we were playing a semi-new game, having just started 2 new characters to try out different races. We played for over 5 and a half hours straight without saving, because we were... like, 13, and weren't the smartest. And saving was a very obvious, out-of-the-way choice you had to make, no automatic saving or "do you want to save?" screens between things. We got all the way through a brutally rough dungeon, we were celebrating about it... when the power went out because a bunch of teenagers down the street hit the power lines with some fireworks on the 4th of July and put the entire neighborhood into a blackout. We were -devastated.-
How one can miss flash: the opponent closes its eyes
This video made me nostalgic for a time as a kid I used to think plusle and minun evolved into latias and latios because both were from hoenn, and bother were red and blue twins in a duo.
This video made me nostalgic for a time as a kid!
When I was a kid I thought Mew evolved into Mewtwo
26:09
That’s adorable.
I am actually glad I am completely over with these mistakes. But I slightly still have that 'non-damaging moves syndrome' in my blood.
Edit: Also I get it about the moves having secondary effects but I do still use Leech seed, Coil for my Serperior, Calm mind for my Psychic types and also used Hone claws & Power trip Corviknight in my Shield playthrough. There are more I am misremembering.
Im kinda there, but mostly cuz I have attacks that have effects.
Crunch, ShadowBall, ect. Deals damage and can lower stats.
My Y-playthrough I have a Pancham/Pangoro with Power-Up Punch. Decent move
Honestly, I still barely use status moves simply because in playthroughs, the battles aren't difficult enough to warrant it.
There’s enough damaging moves with useful secondary effects nowadays that they aren’t always necessary in playthroughs… like, why would I put a move on my Skeledirge that buffs its special attack when Torch Song already does that while also doing damage 😅
There are many times I have thought a pokemon was a certain type, only to be proven wrong. Some examples I remember are thinking Glalie is Ice/Dark, Suicune is Water/Ice (I'm sure that one is understandable) and thinking Wailord is Water/Flying. Probably the most egregious example though is thinking Empoleon is Ice/Steel rather than Water/Steel.
To be fair, those are valid typings they could be. Warlord is based off a blimp, what do you mean it's not flying type.
Glalie should totally be Ice/Dark or maybe Ice/Rock since its dex entries state that its body is made of rock covered by a protective layer of ice.
I used to constantly make the mistake sometimes that Pokémon having typings that only their evos have, like I thought Staryu was Water/Psychic and Seel was Water/Ice. And yes I always keep thinking the Psyduck line is part Psychic (IT SHOULD BE) and that Wobbuffet is part Water.
When I was 9 I was playing fire red and I had only 2 pkmn on my team venusaur and nidoking. They both pretty much swept the entire game because of being extremely overlevelled
"In case you don't know, physical moves involve physical strikes, usually with the Pokemon's body and special moves tend to be ranged energy-related attacks"
And then you have those fringe cases where an attack is physical, but doesn't make contact with the opponent, similar to a special attack. One example of this third case is Earthquake.
Edit: I choose to believe accuracy on moves is how obvious the move's "tell" is. The lower the move's accuracy, the more obvious the "tell" and thus the easier it is to dodge. Tackle? Not very obvious, so it has 95% accuracy. Zap Cannon? Very obvious, so it has only 50% accuracy. Horn Drill? So obvious you'd practically need to be blind to miss it, so 30% accuracy.
You never suspect the enemy to pull out Swift.
Yes, Flamethrower is so not obvious despite being a massive fire stream being shot at you.
@@amberknight7301 Caveat: some moves are so fast that they are incredibly hard, if not impossible, to dodge.
It's because you're still causing the earthquake with your actual muscles
Tackle is 100% accurate as of gen 5
8:01
Michael: "Rocket Money."
Grunty Boi: Team RR flashbacks...
My mistake was that I thought pressing B would help you catch pokemon.
I actually doesn't understand much about pokerus but for some reason almost all my pokemon has pokerus, it was like 2 to 3 that doesn't has pokerus. I thought it was just harmless glitch so I just let it without do anything
when I was like seven my friend told me the only way to catch mewtwo in pokemon go was to go outside during a thunderstorm on a specific bridge, pull my pants down, and then scream, “I summon thee, mewtwo!” I fell for it 😂
I'm sorry, WHAT? I've been lauging for the last 10 minutes
My mistake was sending my first Bibarical on the Wonder Trade in Ultra Sun. I know it’s a hated Mon, but I loved it and feel nostalgic for it. I miss it a lot even though I probably wouldn’t look at it much nowadays because of transitioning, and you not being able to change the trainer names.
Bold of you to assume I only have made 12 mistakes
I don’t know if I would consider this dumb because I’ve seen it happen to people much older than I was. But I was playing through pokemon black on a computer emulator and accidentally loaded a save state by pressing F5 thinking it would mute the game. I mean it has the volume symbol crossed out. But it loaded a save state from all the way back at the dreamyard. I was about to go to the elite four. I couldn’t live with the fact that 90% of my save data had been lost and half my team essentially dead. So I deleted the save file. To this day I still haven’t finished a playthrough of Pokemon black although this was only like a year ago. Yes, a year ago.
A friend of mine told me he met a shiny Sentret when he was a kid, but he killed it because he thought it was a glitch. It wasn't until several years later he realised it wasn't a glitch.
14:20 illymation flashback
Only we 2 notised?
Damn, lmao
"It's a flash of light. How do you miss?" You set the brightness to low, LoL
Or they blink
Low battery?
All good ways to dodge
People who said they get stuck at a place that clearly already being said in the story, is the literally dumb😂😂😂😂😂. That's why you should never skip the damn script because sometimes they have literally key for you to solve any problem without asking your mother
21:04 who didn't do that 😅😂
WHAT
I did not used to be stupid, that is simply untrue
I know! I've ALWAYS been stupid. Thank you very much
I just remembered when I was younger I thought that the only pokeballs you got were the ones you were given to you. I also did know that you could save for weeks.
The first video game I ever played was Pokémon Sapphire. When I ended up seeing a red eyed Aron, I thought "ah, that one must be female". I, uh.. I ran away from it.😅💀
In the situation of non-damaging moves being useless, this fact typically only applies to when you're fighting in-game trainers as opposed to actual human players because in the former, you don't even need a highly complicated battle strategy when you already know what your opponent will do beforehand and can just over-level your team whenever you want if necessary and at high enough levels, even type matchups won't matter if you can one-shot almost any opponent without even using super-effective moves. However in VGC, it's drastically different, as you know, it's like a combination of chess and poker, but obviously even more complex. Considering you're playing against another actual human player, you never know who your opponent will be and even if you do, you still don't know what pokemon they'll bring and the strategy they'll implement. But I digress, anyway because of the stat and level adjustments as per the format rules, non-damaging status moves usually tend to be the win condition if strategies centered around these play out correctly, though of course they can still backfire at any moment.
Yeah at most I keep all-damaging moves still, BUT of a move deals damage and has a secondary effect I'll keep it.
I'm even engaging in regular battles with a friend and am trying to teach him how to be better...but hed so STUPID about it. Case in point; he has a lvl98 Swampert with Surf and WATER GUN.... let that sink in. I even explained it as;
"I'm a beefy Swampert able to cause tsunamis and shake the ground with my bare hands....but I'm just gonna spit/pee on you."
My previous explanation of using a dollar-store squirt-gun vs a firehose didnt sink in enough.
Weve gotten to the point where hes redone his entire team FIVE TIMES and I'm still using my playthrough team... I've become a Gym Leader to him!
@@ryudragonuv Well if he's refusing to swap out Water Gun for Hydro Pump because of it frequently missing then I can understand. However, if he needs a much stronger STAB move then I would recommend Earthquake, which is STAB ground and never misses, and Liquidation (TM), assuming you're playing SV, as not only is it's damage output DOUBLE that of Water Gun, it also makes full use of Swampert's base 110 attack stat, which is far greater than its special attack by a decent margin.
In Let's go(my first game) my Snorlax had Outrage, Ice Beam, Flamethrower, and Thunderbolt and I couldn't figure out why Outrage always did so much more damage. Also almost all my Pokémon knew Toxic
27:48 I wiped my original Sword File because I just wanted to replay it. I spent 4 hours hunting a Shiny Politoed when it had boosted shiny odds. I got that Politoed first try after spending 4 Hours trying to find the den. I didn't transfer it to Home then reset. This decision still haunts me to this day 😭
I’m glad I realized I could just make another profile on my switch to have another save file without having to delete 🥲
there are several user slots on the switch why would you do this
*ahem* I once randomly found a Shiny Male Unfezent and I ADORED it I was playing shield and found it I'm a den.I named him Airforce and he helped alot with roost and feather dance stalling Leon's Haxorus and to a lesser extent Dragapult.I then reset that save file forgetting to add it to home.But never fear! I then met a Shiny female pikachu,evolved,put it in home and never touched her again.Her name is Sparky btw.
@@DrJose2014 Cuz idk how to add multiple switch accounts to the same Home account
I wiped multiple save files of Pokémon Red because the save button didn’t work 🫠
Yes, some of us did just close the ds and leave it plugged in, and proceed to get mad if your parents ruin that because then you have to start from the beginning
7:45 Did Grunty Boi get a new shirt? It looks nice and like it’s newly embossed with his Team Rocket logo
He had that for a while.
My dumb mistake... using my Master Ball on Kyogre in Alpha Sapphire because i thought it was the only Legendary in the game.... despite having Latias in my party (I didn't know it was a Legendary at the time), needless to say... i regretted it once i found Mesprit in the Nameless Cavern.
26:22 this is the best thing related to Pokémon I’ve ever heard 😂
I used to think that female Marowak evolved into Kangaskan
Would've been pretty cool.