Oh man i got emotional at the start. I was in that livestream, at that exact moment, and I was so young, and your content has accompanied me through so much... I so happy you've grown so much as a content creator, John.
@@PM7Plus On an unrelated note, when I play Kanto, I almost always try to get Nidoking by the time I"m at Mt. Moon. Because you get Dig in Cerulean, it wrecks Surge.
My first game was Pokemon Black and I chose Tepig as my starter. The game asked me if I wanted to give my Tepig a nickname and I didn’t know what a nickname was (English isn’t my first language), so when the keyboard appeared I got scared and wrote Tepig. Now I have a lvl 80 Emboar called Tepig.
I kept losing to N's Purrloin in Accumula Town, so I caught a Lillipup to fight it because I thought that Purrloin would be weak against Lillipup because dogs chase cats. :')
My first Pokemon game was heart gold. My brother told me that once you catch all of the unown, you unlock a secret room where giratina is. Being 9 years old I believed him, but due to a lack of internet access I had no idea where to catch different letters. I spent so many hours just trying to get all the unown before finally giving up, and I only learned that there was no hidden giratina room when bdsp came out because I finally bothered to google all the letter locations. It took me 11 goddamn years to figure this out.
When I played Soulsilver for the first time I didn’t know what a shiny was and I somehow found a full odds Gyarados, but because of the guaranteed red Gyarados event earlier in the game I thought it was just a different form and that I didn’t want another one 😭
My first ever shiny encounter was a deerling in black, and I talked to the scientists in the area. They told me it changes colors when the season changes, so i assumed it was just a different season and killed it. Everytime I see a deerling I wish I could go back and catch that one
When I first played omega ruby I assumed all pokemon evolved via level up so I ended up having like a level 100 kadabra in my game. Eventually I traded with someone to evolve it and they didn't give it back because we "didn't shake on it" so I had to catch another pokemon to trade them just to get my alakazam back. Needless to say I have some trust issues with trading after that
I've never failed a Shiny. I'm always VERY careful when one shows up, and I always carry around plenty of Pokeballs in case of randoms. I have, however, 'lost' a Shiny. My very first one. I was playing Emerald when it first came out, and since FireRed was my first game, I was not a newbie to things. However, I had never encountered a Shiny before, and didn't even know they existed. As I was grinding near the Daycare, I encountered an Oddish that was a weird color, and it sparkled. As I am essentially a bird and was attracted by the sparkles, I caught the Oddish and put it on my team, naming it Oddie, because I clearly was a creative child. I kept it on my team for the rest of the game, evolving it into a Vileplume, and was always mystified by its weird appearance and the sparkle animation. Through that entire time, my dumbass never figured out that this thing was RARE, and when I was bored one day, I reset the game and lost Oddie, thinking "Oh, I'll just catch another weird Oddish, no big deal". After Oddie was essentially killed, that was when I learned about Shinies, and yes, it still hurts.
I think the scariest things about my personal Pokémon mistakes are the ones that I don't even know about. Last year I went through my Pokémon Go Stash to transfer some Pokémon through Pokémon Home...there were 3 shinies that I never remembered catching. Makes me think about all of the Shinies I've passed up because I wasn't paying attention....
My main mistake is always not reading or not checking items 😅 my first ever play through I didn't know the existance of rivives or pp restore items... it made the Sinnoh elite 4 and Cynthia pretty hard 😱 luckily I found out later.
10:31 seeing that exact moment from Alpharad's first Nuzlocke video still had me thinking on what's going through that guy's head to think the built-in Focus Sash was also in Gen 3
When I was very little I was helping my brother complete the dex in Yellow. I kept telling him that the easiest way to get Doduo would be to evolve Farfetch'd. We kept grinding for hours until we realized that I was wrong. Another time when I was a bit older, I was playing Emerald for the first time, and my dumb ass wouldn't bother to read NPC dialogue. So there was this part where you had to go to Mt. Chimney to get to the Magma Hideout and I had no idea. I kept going in circles throughout the whole region over and over until I finally decided to read one of the NPCs who told me I had to go there. When I finally started progressing again, it had been days and my team was in their 70s. Luckily I haven't made big mistakes as an adult lol
During my Pokemon Y playthrough I found a strange pink sneasel on the snowy route (probably one of my fav pokemon). I fainted it for the precious experience as I wasn't aware of what shiny pokemon were, although it got me intrigued as to why it was pink. A quick google search later and I figured out my mistake :,) Luckily I was able to catch 2 shiny sneasels since then :)
14:08 Almost 100% sure this was made up, since the obedience check was never applied to Pokemon with your Trainer and Secret ID until LPA, and even then it only applies to the level you met them
Here’s a couple of mistakes and both were during my Nuzlockes bc I'm currently a Nuzlocker: 1. During my X Nuzlocke, I was battling Siebold, I had Gogoat out during this. When he was about to send out Gyarados, I was planned to switch to Charizard to set up Sunny Day, and then switch to Snorlax to tank a hit and use Thunderbolt. However, because I sped up the game, I accidentally misclicked, keeping Gogoat in. I then switched to Charizard, while Gyarados was setting up Dragon Dance. And then, he outspeeds Charizard, killing it. (this was the only death I experienced in this game) 2. I was nuzlocking Black 2, and this was during a time where I didn’t know you can delay evolutions. After defeating Elesa using only Drilbur, I accidentally let Drilbur evolve into Excadrill instead of delaying it. Why? Because I didn’t realize until too late that Drilbur learns Earthquake at level 33 and Excadrill learns it 3 levels later. Check your Pokémon's movesets guys!
When Red and Blue had first come out, my friend had Red version and I had both. I was playing my Blue Version at his house and we got to talking about it. He told me he was stuck in Cerulean City because he didn’t know he was supposed to leave through the house Team Rocket robs. So he just kept training in the grass north of the city. For a long time. We had a battle and he had a level 68 Charizard just from the wild Pokémon in that area.
I had a SHINY VILEPLUME ON MY SCREEN and... so I didn't have much enough balls so I had to run and bike my way to the pokemon center.it still haunts me to this day
I tortured a poor Feebas because, after failing to evolve it with all methods I could think of, as a last resort, I figured that maybe it evolves by hate since evolving it by friendship didn't work.
My first shiny ever was a Trapinch in Pokémon Y, I saw the sparkles and the different color and my mind immediately went to shiny. But my stupid 8y/o self had heard that Pokémon Go had just introduced shinies and I thought that shinies were only in Pokémon go, I think I caught it anyways but I deleted that save file thinking it was on my other game.
One of my biggest mistakes was when I got Celebi in Crystal through a special event, I released it, thinking it would appear in the game if I reset it. That was when I was under the age of ten. 😂
Mine was that when I was playing my first Pokemon game, Emerald, I thought the Pokeball icon on the side of the mon's name meant you had to catch it. I proceeded to catch about 10 wurmples
Not a "mistake" really, but it upset me greatly. I started replaying Pokemon X recently (this is the first run I intend to finish) and my first encounter on Route 4 was a female Combee. Feeling incredibly lucky to have her, I named her Emily, after Glitter Lucky from Glitter Force. When I got to the Professor's lab, the game crashed, and the last time I saved was right before the Gym.
I didn’t know what shiny Pokémon were back in the day so the first time I ran into a shiny Poliwag on the original Crystal I just killed it. I also accidentally reset on my version of SoulSilver that had all my shinies on it instead of starting a new game on the cartridge I specifically used for new games
I have a mistake from PLA. I had just got the Bravary ride and then I dodge rolled off the temple as I've dodge rolled into water and the a button to summon Baculegion always showed up. A to summon bravery didn't and I realized it too late and fainted for the first time in the game.
In my first pokemon game pokemon platinum I didn't know what a shiny is and thought it would be bugged and ran. I just remembered that moment last month and it wasn't that dramatic anymore after I caught a shiny Glaceon two days after remembering.
I have 2 Mistakes. Using a Master Ball on a Magneton in Y. I just thought that it was “just another ball to use to catch Pokémon” My other one was when I got Pokerus in Ultra Sun. I completely forgot for about an hour and then my game froze. Never saved. Lost my Pokerus.
In FireRed, I used my master ball to catch a cubone. I had already beaten the elite four but I never encountered a cubone in my playthrough so I really wanted one. After finding out where they are, I went searching in the tower for ~2 hours before I finally encountered one. I then realized that I didn’t have any regular poke balls in my bag and I didn’t want to try to find another cubone so I resorted to the master ball
All these fails made me go check on my Heart Gold save game where I had just recently gotten a random encounter shiny Ratatta (in Bellsprout Tower; near Escape Rope), this video made me check to see if I remembered to save; I named him Mickey. EDIT: He’s still there. I forgot that I had evolved him into a Raticatte Lol.
I have a story: A friend gave me Pokémon Black 2, so I used it to trade with my Pokémon Black 1 copy. One day I got bored and deleted the Black 2 save file so I could play it myself. Little did I know that the Black 2 save file had a Shiny Typhlosion on it. How did I know after I deleted it? I was checking my Black 1 save file many years later and looked in the National Dex and there it was, registered as seen. Kids, this is why you transfer Pokémon over to another save before deleting it.
In emrald i got a shiny castform first with the weahter institute but after beeting the game steven i forgot to trade the shiny and reseted it and lost the shiny forever
Second ever Pokémon play through, my (then undiagnosed) adhd ass playing through Alpha Sapphire for the first time and being very excited. I was sweeping through everything in an attempt to beat the game before I had to go back to school after winter break. I forgot to save before fighting Kyogre and accidentally KOed it, so of course I end up resetting to try and catch it. ….I hadn’t saved for two gyms
As soon as I saw what video the Alpharad one was I started laughing, I knew exactly what part they were talking about: "WHAT DID I SAY BRADEN! WHAY DID I SAY!"
When I played Pokemon for the first time in Black/White, I remember very little because I was a kid. I don’t even remember which starter I had! I do remember one thing way too clearly, however. I remember that for some weird reason, I used the Master ball on a Foongus. Not a special Foongus, mind you. I don’t believe that I got a shiny in that game.
In pokemon let's go pikachu, I was facing Bruno in the elite four and his onix set up stealth rocks at the start and I was down to his poliwrath. My only pokemon alive was moltres and it was at half health and I thought stealth rocks halfed your current health on flying type pokemon. I was super angry when my moltres died immediately and made me lose the battle.
im like 99% sure that i accidentally reset on shiny mewtwo in leaf green, i was on my sp in a dark room and wasnt paying enough attention, only realised when i saw the sparkles right before the screen reset
When I was about 10, while playing Platinum, I accidentally ran away from Giratina and then saved for some reason. And it took a few years before I learned that you can battle it again in Turnback Cave, so for several years, I felt really bad about that mistake.
I was a wee child, and me and my brother rented Pokepark at the library, and we didn’t know how to save. So every day, we would wake up to a new save file with all our data erased.
I read a book once about gen 1 pokemon, including all 8 eeveelutions. I thought the eeveelutions evolved into each other. During my play through in sword and shield, I wondered why a thunder stone didn't work on my Vaporeon.
On my first ever save of pokemon sword, I released my starter. I had gotten to the first wild area and I clicked the release button thinking it meant the pokemon would be sent out like a following pokemon. I had forgotten that there were autosaves earlier and I hadn't saved yet so I reset. At least this was near the start of the game. ._.
The thing about the console dying is relatable. The first game I played physically instead of on an emulator was Moon. I didn't know the game didn't autosave due to being used to Savestates. When I turned the game back on I had to do the entire first island again
A few days ago I decided to check what Pokémon I had in a Cherish ball in Ultra Moon, and I saw where I used my Master Ball. A malamar. It’s OT was Noah,(my name) and it was in a Master Ball. The only reason I can think of why I caught an Inkay in a master ball is because I liked the way it evolves.
One time, I was masuda method egg hunting shinies, and I was releasing the non-shinies and accidentally scrolled onto a shiny, competitively viable Dracovish I got. R.I.P. my boi.
Pokemon FireRed was my first game, and I didn't know you were supposed to save the Master Ball for legendary Pokemon or that legendary Pokemon had low catch rates (I was like 9 lol). So, I used the Master Ball to catch one of the Snorlax that was blocking the roads. I found Zapdos later and couldn't understand why I couldn't catch it lol
I got a shiny Beldum from the ORAS early purchase event, evolved it into Metagross and used it on my playthrough team. And then I *forgot to move it to Pokemon Bank before restarting the game.* I still hate myself to this day because of it.
When i was 10 i got my first pokemon game. It was ruby. I caught a machop, evolved it into machoke, and did not know you needed to trade to get machamp. The elite 4 didn't stand a chance against my lvl 80 machoke spamming revenge and sismic toss.
14:26 Hooooold up!! I just spent like 2 days trying to research and find validation in thinking that pokemon you caught could disobey you, only to find that that was only true for traded mons! How did this person have their STARTER disobey them!?!?
Okay, with the Machamp with Nidoking's head one, I feel like that kid had legitimately glitched out his game to the point that he lost his first Pokemon
My son mentioned that as a side note, Pokérus is in fact, a fatal disease, that will kill your Pokémon quicker than it just dying of old age, even though it gains EV's faster. Which is why the tombstones, inside the Poké-Tower make so much sense, when looking back on the original games
Thankfully I’ve never failed a shiny, but I do have 2 mistakes and 1 misconception. My first time with a main series Pokémon game was White when I was 10. I chose Oshawott and at the lab when Juniper asks if you want to nickname your Pokémon I accidentally clicked yes, and I didn’t know you could hit OK and it’d cancel so thought I could just name it its species and the game would think it didn’t have a nickname… I also didn’t know how to go lowercase. Guess who beat the game with an “OSHAWOTT”? Same game, same save, I had just gotten to route 10 and encountered a Bouffalant for the first time. That thing took every Pokéball I had (and I had a ton of Ultra Balls) so out of desperation I used the Master Ball on it. Quickly realizing my mistake, I bolted to the Opelucid Pokémon Center’s PC thinking if I released the Bouffalant then I could get the ball back. It was a slow sad walk back to route 10 to catch another Bouffalant… Way back, before I got into the main series, part of my main experience with the series was collecting the cards because I really liked the art. One night I asked my dad what HP meant. My dad, who works with lots of machinery, told me it meant “horse power”. So I went a good many years thinking the HP stat is what determined a Pokémon’s overall strength, because in my mind, that meant it was as strong as that many horses.
Wtf, my first game was white too, and the same things (wasting the masterball on a bouffalant and the nickname thing) happened to me too, although i chose snivy. No way
Holy cow! I just remembered that I too got stuck for a bit in Pokémon Ruby because I didn’t think I could go under the bike path! Wow, that’s wild. Can’t believe I forgot that.
Dumbest mistake happened recently - found a shiny cuffant, one I was excited for, only to accidentally click the picnic button... you can imagine my horror. And no, it was not there when I ended the picnic.
When I first played Pokémon Blue, I was trying to catch a level 3 Jigglypuff and I accidentally clicked on and used my one and only Master Ball instead of a poke ball.
ok, so a few things. One: I was shiny hunting in Moon for my second ever shiny, a bounsweet, that I was going to name Amythyst. I was doing the knock-out method and I didn't notice it was shiny until the point where I saw it faint. I did regain it though. Two: Later on, I lost that Moon version I had so many shinies (18) including my first ever shiny, a shiny Umbreon named Opal, and my first level 100 a non-shiny mimikyu named Jessie. Three: in that same moon game I used my master ball on the Lunala even though it has an easy catch. (i learned that with Sogaleo in sun) Bonus: Not exactly a "mistake" but I did spend 7 phases (well I found 12 shinies before it) and almost and about 9 months for a normal shiny sinistea with 33,473 total encounters, not including the shinies and the pokemon I didn't count in the hunts like nidoran (I was only counting the sinistea in the old graveyard) outside of that hunt in Shield. Including the other ones it was around 38,878 encounters not including the full odds aerodactyl that happened during one of the phases (but it wasn't part of my sinistea hunt so I didn't consider it a phase) and a mantyke and blaziken from Dynamax adventures. I also got pokerus if that helps with how long i was hunting. I named the sinistea iNSaNiTea for the pun and how this hunt drove me insane.
was well into my teens and familiar with pokemon and shinies. in xy, I was grinding levels for evolutions to complete the dex and I ran into a shiny altaria outside victory road. killed it with a crit.
In fire red, I thought you were supposed to stay on the boat in Vermilion City. When it would sail away, I restarted my game. I was young when this happened.
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Thinking about shiny alpha gardevoir
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i am the only youtuber to never make a dumb mistake in pokemon
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Raikou
It’s not a mistake if you act like it’s intentional.
"If you say a lie enough times it will eventually become the truth" Joseph Goebbels leading N*zi propogandist
Skiploom defeats acreus
Not knowing how toxic spikes work
Oh man i got emotional at the start. I was in that livestream, at that exact moment, and I was so young, and your content has accompanied me through so much... I so happy you've grown so much as a content creator, John.
Didn't even consider the possibility that people who watched that stream would still be around! This comment absolutely made my day
@@PM7Plus Well then, I guess we made each other's days!
I think Dawn is pathetic, I am much better lol
@Dark Shadow true
@@PM7Plus On an unrelated note, when I play Kanto, I almost always try to get Nidoking by the time I"m at Mt. Moon. Because you get Dig in Cerulean, it wrecks Surge.
My first game was Pokemon Black and I chose Tepig as my starter. The game asked me if I wanted to give my Tepig a nickname and I didn’t know what a nickname was (English isn’t my first language), so when the keyboard appeared I got scared and wrote Tepig. Now I have a lvl 80 Emboar called Tepig.
that is funny
thats hilarious 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
This is similar to how my rival in gen 2 was always called ??? Well that’s what he told me his name was!
I accidentally clicked yes when they made a nickname on Charmander and now I have a charizard named Charmander
I kept losing to N's Purrloin in Accumula Town, so I caught a Lillipup to fight it because I thought that Purrloin would be weak against Lillipup because dogs chase cats. :')
When I got my first game (pearl) I didn't know types so when the starlys attacked I chose Chimchar because I thought fire would burn feathers lol
But did you win?
@@brain_dead6877 I still kinda think that lol
This is how Pokemon SHOULD work.
Ok, did you win tho?
My first Pokemon game was heart gold. My brother told me that once you catch all of the unown, you unlock a secret room where giratina is. Being 9 years old I believed him, but due to a lack of internet access I had no idea where to catch different letters. I spent so many hours just trying to get all the unown before finally giving up, and I only learned that there was no hidden giratina room when bdsp came out because I finally bothered to google all the letter locations. It took me 11 goddamn years to figure this out.
When I played Soulsilver for the first time I didn’t know what a shiny was and I somehow found a full odds Gyarados, but because of the guaranteed red Gyarados event earlier in the game I thought it was just a different form and that I didn’t want another one 😭
My first ever shiny encounter was a deerling in black, and I talked to the scientists in the area. They told me it changes colors when the season changes, so i assumed it was just a different season and killed it. Everytime I see a deerling I wish I could go back and catch that one
When I first played omega ruby I assumed all pokemon evolved via level up so I ended up having like a level 100 kadabra in my game. Eventually I traded with someone to evolve it and they didn't give it back because we "didn't shake on it" so I had to catch another pokemon to trade them just to get my alakazam back. Needless to say I have some trust issues with trading after that
I've never failed a Shiny. I'm always VERY careful when one shows up, and I always carry around plenty of Pokeballs in case of randoms.
I have, however, 'lost' a Shiny. My very first one.
I was playing Emerald when it first came out, and since FireRed was my first game, I was not a newbie to things. However, I had never encountered a Shiny before, and didn't even know they existed. As I was grinding near the Daycare, I encountered an Oddish that was a weird color, and it sparkled. As I am essentially a bird and was attracted by the sparkles, I caught the Oddish and put it on my team, naming it Oddie, because I clearly was a creative child. I kept it on my team for the rest of the game, evolving it into a Vileplume, and was always mystified by its weird appearance and the sparkle animation. Through that entire time, my dumbass never figured out that this thing was RARE, and when I was bored one day, I reset the game and lost Oddie, thinking "Oh, I'll just catch another weird Oddish, no big deal".
After Oddie was essentially killed, that was when I learned about Shinies, and yes, it still hurts.
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At least Oddie’s memory will forever live in your heart
I think the scariest things about my personal Pokémon mistakes are the ones that I don't even know about. Last year I went through my Pokémon Go Stash to transfer some Pokémon through Pokémon Home...there were 3 shinies that I never remembered catching. Makes me think about all of the Shinies I've passed up because I wasn't paying attention....
My main mistake is always not reading or not checking items 😅 my first ever play through I didn't know the existance of rivives or pp restore items... it made the Sinnoh elite 4 and Cynthia pretty hard 😱 luckily I found out later.
My brother had the same issue playing yellow lol
Were those emojis really needed?
@@quaxolotl6509 yes 😒
10:31 seeing that exact moment from Alpharad's first Nuzlocke video still had me thinking on what's going through that guy's head to think the built-in Focus Sash was also in Gen 3
Same that was hilarious
When I was very little I was helping my brother complete the dex in Yellow. I kept telling him that the easiest way to get Doduo would be to evolve Farfetch'd. We kept grinding for hours until we realized that I was wrong.
Another time when I was a bit older, I was playing Emerald for the first time, and my dumb ass wouldn't bother to read NPC dialogue. So there was this part where you had to go to Mt. Chimney to get to the Magma Hideout and I had no idea. I kept going in circles throughout the whole region over and over until I finally decided to read one of the NPCs who told me I had to go there. When I finally started progressing again, it had been days and my team was in their 70s.
Luckily I haven't made big mistakes as an adult lol
Same thing happened to dobbs lol. He said that farfetch was his first first level 100 pokemon because he thought it evolved into duduo.
@@quaxolotl6509 lol Well we didn't grind to level 100, but 50-60 for sure
My first nuzlocke, fighting Iris I sent out Clockwork the Magnezone against her Haxorus. I didn't realize Mold Breaker means it breaks through Sturdy.
During my Pokemon Y playthrough I found a strange pink sneasel on the snowy route (probably one of my fav pokemon). I fainted it for the precious experience as I wasn't aware of what shiny pokemon were, although it got me intrigued as to why it was pink. A quick google search later and I figured out my mistake :,) Luckily I was able to catch 2 shiny sneasels since then :)
The redemption ark (its such a good shiny)
14:08 Almost 100% sure this was made up, since the obedience check was never applied to Pokemon with your Trainer and Secret ID until LPA, and even then it only applies to the level you met them
Also in yellow version Nidorino don't learn double kick
@@falconmain4207 Bulbapedia says Nidorino does learn double kick, at level 12 in Yellow
@@munromister777 no it doesn't
@@munromister777 12 in yellow 50 in red and blue my b
Here’s a couple of mistakes and both were during my Nuzlockes bc I'm currently a Nuzlocker:
1. During my X Nuzlocke, I was battling Siebold, I had Gogoat out during this. When he was about to send out Gyarados, I was planned to switch to Charizard to set up Sunny Day, and then switch to Snorlax to tank a hit and use Thunderbolt. However, because I sped up the game, I accidentally misclicked, keeping Gogoat in. I then switched to Charizard, while Gyarados was setting up Dragon Dance. And then, he outspeeds Charizard, killing it. (this was the only death I experienced in this game)
2. I was nuzlocking Black 2, and this was during a time where I didn’t know you can delay evolutions. After defeating Elesa using only Drilbur, I accidentally let Drilbur evolve into Excadrill instead of delaying it. Why? Because I didn’t realize until too late that Drilbur learns Earthquake at level 33 and Excadrill learns it 3 levels later. Check your Pokémon's movesets guys!
When Red and Blue had first come out, my friend had Red version and I had both. I was playing my Blue Version at his house and we got to talking about it. He told me he was stuck in Cerulean City because he didn’t know he was supposed to leave through the house Team Rocket robs. So he just kept training in the grass north of the city. For a long time. We had a battle and he had a level 68 Charizard just from the wild Pokémon in that area.
I had a SHINY VILEPLUME ON MY SCREEN and... so I didn't have much enough balls so I had to run and bike my way to the pokemon center.it still haunts me to this day
I tortured a poor Feebas because, after failing to evolve it with all methods I could think of, as a last resort, I figured that maybe it evolves by hate since evolving it by friendship didn't work.
my gosh...
Because of the anime with James hatefully kicking Magikarp into the water and then it evolving into a Gyarados..
I can see the leaps in logic here
My first shiny ever was a Trapinch in Pokémon Y, I saw the sparkles and the different color and my mind immediately went to shiny. But my stupid 8y/o self had heard that Pokémon Go had just introduced shinies and I thought that shinies were only in Pokémon go, I think I caught it anyways but I deleted that save file thinking it was on my other game.
One of my biggest mistakes was when I got Celebi in Crystal through a special event, I released it, thinking it would appear in the game if I reset it. That was when I was under the age of ten. 😂
I was once talking to my friends and was hunting Uxie. I found the shiny tossed a few pokeballs and then subconsciously hit the soft reset buttons.
Mine was that when I was playing my first Pokemon game, Emerald, I thought the Pokeball icon on the side of the mon's name meant you had to catch it. I proceeded to catch about 10 wurmples
I once found a shiny Rattata in gen 2 before Pokeballs, I laughed, cried a little, then ran from it
Not a "mistake" really, but it upset me greatly.
I started replaying Pokemon X recently (this is the first run I intend to finish) and my first encounter on Route 4 was a female Combee. Feeling incredibly lucky to have her, I named her Emily, after Glitter Lucky from Glitter Force. When I got to the Professor's lab, the game crashed, and the last time I saved was right before the Gym.
Naming a female combee after a glitter force character is the cutest thing
I didn’t know what shiny Pokémon were back in the day so the first time I ran into a shiny Poliwag on the original Crystal I just killed it. I also accidentally reset on my version of SoulSilver that had all my shinies on it instead of starting a new game on the cartridge I specifically used for new games
I have a mistake from PLA. I had just got the Bravary ride and then I dodge rolled off the temple as I've dodge rolled into water and the a button to summon Baculegion always showed up. A to summon bravery didn't and I realized it too late and fainted for the first time in the game.
My worst moment was probably when my little brother was doing dynamax adventures and he used a master ball on a mudsdale
One mistake I made was deleteing rock Throw, for Rock Smash, cuz I thought it was stronger. This was in Silver.
In my first pokemon game pokemon platinum I didn't know what a shiny is and thought it would be bugged and ran. I just remembered that moment last month and it wasn't that dramatic anymore after I caught a shiny Glaceon two days after remembering.
I have 2 Mistakes.
Using a Master Ball on a Magneton in Y. I just thought that it was “just another ball to use to catch Pokémon”
My other one was when I got Pokerus in Ultra Sun. I completely forgot for about an hour and then my game froze. Never saved. Lost my Pokerus.
In FireRed, I used my master ball to catch a cubone. I had already beaten the elite four but I never encountered a cubone in my playthrough so I really wanted one. After finding out where they are, I went searching in the tower for ~2 hours before I finally encountered one. I then realized that I didn’t have any regular poke balls in my bag and I didn’t want to try to find another cubone so I resorted to the master ball
All these fails made me go check on my Heart Gold save game where I had just recently gotten a random encounter shiny Ratatta (in Bellsprout Tower; near Escape Rope), this video made me check to see if I remembered to save; I named him Mickey.
EDIT: He’s still there. I forgot that I had evolved him into a Raticatte Lol.
I have a story:
A friend gave me Pokémon Black 2, so I used it to trade with my Pokémon Black 1 copy. One day I got bored and deleted the Black 2 save file so I could play it myself.
Little did I know that the Black 2 save file had a Shiny Typhlosion on it. How did I know after I deleted it? I was checking my Black 1 save file many years later and looked in the National Dex and there it was, registered as seen.
Kids, this is why you transfer Pokémon over to another save before deleting it.
In emrald i got a shiny castform first with the weahter institute but after beeting the game steven i forgot to trade the shiny and reseted it and lost the shiny forever
Second ever Pokémon play through, my (then undiagnosed) adhd ass playing through Alpha Sapphire for the first time and being very excited. I was sweeping through everything in an attempt to beat the game before I had to go back to school after winter break. I forgot to save before fighting Kyogre and accidentally KOed it, so of course I end up resetting to try and catch it.
….I hadn’t saved for two gyms
My biggest mistake was solely raising Pikachu in Yellow.
Guess how much fun I had with Brock and Giovanni.
I didn’t know STDs didn’t save in legends and when I found a shiny eevee I saved, it ran so I went to reset it and it wasn’t there
Hey John hope your doing just fine in the new office and hoping you have a great rest of the day! Also remember to tell your mom it’s Mother’s Day!
13:17 I DID THAT TOO!!! I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE!!! I was stuck there for days trying to figure out how to progress!
As soon as I saw what video the Alpharad one was I started laughing, I knew exactly what part they were talking about:
"WHAT DID I SAY BRADEN! WHAY DID I SAY!"
I gave my combusken an everstone in ruby and then was confused as to why it wouldn't evolve. Mind you I was like 6 or 7 at time
God speed scyther.
Edit: GUYS I FOUND ANOTHER SCYTHER YEARS LATER LETS GOOO!
When I played Pokemon for the first time in Black/White, I remember very little because I was a kid. I don’t even remember which starter I had! I do remember one thing way too clearly, however. I remember that for some weird reason, I used the Master ball on a Foongus. Not a special Foongus, mind you. I don’t believe that I got a shiny in that game.
I haven't been playing for long but I didn't use my ultra ball on Raikou. Instead I switched to a stronger pokemon and he fled.
7:17 “I had balls” yea ya did. You had the balls to run from that
In pokemon let's go pikachu, I was facing Bruno in the elite four and his onix set up stealth rocks at the start and I was down to his poliwrath. My only pokemon alive was moltres and it was at half health and I thought stealth rocks halfed your current health on flying type pokemon. I was super angry when my moltres died immediately and made me lose the battle.
Alpharad's Onix is hilarius
im like 99% sure that i accidentally reset on shiny mewtwo in leaf green, i was on my sp in a dark room and wasnt paying enough attention, only realised when i saw the sparkles right before the screen reset
At 10:43 he thought alpharad didn't listen to his friends advice, but he did, but his Brayden's advise backfired.
When I was about 10, while playing Platinum, I accidentally ran away from Giratina and then saved for some reason. And it took a few years before I learned that you can battle it again in Turnback Cave, so for several years, I felt really bad about that mistake.
I was a wee child, and me and my brother rented Pokepark at the library, and we didn’t know how to save. So every day, we would wake up to a new save file with all our data erased.
I used to think shiny Pachirisu was just the female version. Failed my first shiny.
I read a book once about gen 1 pokemon, including all 8 eeveelutions. I thought the eeveelutions evolved into each other. During my play through in sword and shield, I wondered why a thunder stone didn't work on my Vaporeon.
i accidently ran from a shiny hippopatas bcuz i wasnt paying attention
That cut where the power went out must've felt like the end of The Sopranos on stream.
On my first ever save of pokemon sword, I released my starter. I had gotten to the first wild area and I clicked the release button thinking it meant the pokemon would be sent out like a following pokemon. I had forgotten that there were autosaves earlier and I hadn't saved yet so I reset. At least this was near the start of the game. ._.
Teaching Dream Eater to a Haunter that didn't have any moves that could put Pokemon to sleep.
My worst fail was a first encounter full odds ditto in crystal... it struggled ko'd itself after breaking out of every ball I threw at it
I almost failed my 0.002% chance shiny beedrill in let’s go eevee because it had a run animation while I’m throwing regular poke balls
I needed this, I started a nuzlocke recently and managed to faint every flying type I can find. I can no longer use fly...
one time i found a shiny sylveon in a raid den and didnt catch it
The thing about the console dying is relatable. The first game I played physically instead of on an emulator was Moon. I didn't know the game didn't autosave due to being used to Savestates. When I turned the game back on I had to do the entire first island again
12:50 OH MY GOD, I MADE IT INTO THE VIDEO!
That's me right there!
At the very bottom cut off... 🤧
In my first play through if sun I didn’t know where you bought Pokéballs and used my master ball on an oricorio
A few days ago I decided to check what Pokémon I had in a Cherish ball in Ultra Moon, and I saw where I used my Master Ball. A malamar. It’s OT was Noah,(my name) and it was in a Master Ball. The only reason I can think of why I caught an Inkay in a master ball is because I liked the way it evolves.
2:00 i legitimately can't even wrap my head around and begin to understand this
when i was battling cynthia in shining pearl today and got to her second pokemon which is milotic i didnt know it had ice beam
One time, I was masuda method egg hunting shinies, and I was releasing the non-shinies and accidentally scrolled onto a shiny, competitively viable Dracovish I got. R.I.P. my boi.
dracovish cannot breed
@@samuelfaille-denis8098 no, I was hunting Omanyte, but a Dracovish was in the box.
I'll admit as a rookie on leafgreen, I deleted a green Bulbasaur thinking that my game was glitched:)
Pokemon FireRed was my first game, and I didn't know you were supposed to save the Master Ball for legendary Pokemon or that legendary Pokemon had low catch rates (I was like 9 lol). So, I used the Master Ball to catch one of the Snorlax that was blocking the roads. I found Zapdos later and couldn't understand why I couldn't catch it lol
I got a shiny Beldum from the ORAS early purchase event, evolved it into Metagross and used it on my playthrough team.
And then I *forgot to move it to Pokemon Bank before restarting the game.*
I still hate myself to this day because of it.
14:23 This hits me so hard man you have no Idea XD
Little me only used Pikachu, Pidgey and Rattata XD
The first time I ever found elgyem it was shiny, I was like ooooo new Pokémon, luckily I was paying attention and saw it sparkle
"You can't beat Onix with a Pikachu!" ...I'm looking at you Ash...
When i was 10 i got my first pokemon game. It was ruby. I caught a machop, evolved it into machoke, and did not know you needed to trade to get machamp. The elite 4 didn't stand a chance against my lvl 80 machoke spamming revenge and sismic toss.
14:26 Hooooold up!! I just spent like 2 days trying to research and find validation in thinking that pokemon you caught could disobey you, only to find that that was only true for traded mons! How did this person have their STARTER disobey them!?!?
Okay, with the Machamp with Nidoking's head one, I feel like that kid had legitimately glitched out his game to the point that he lost his first Pokemon
Generation one was a glitchy game so seems pretty reasonable
John:yay shiny
Wimpod:✌️
wow the shiny alpha gardevoir happened to you too? WILD COINCIDENCE
If you wait for day without going back to the village it comes back still shiny
My son mentioned that as a side note, Pokérus is in fact, a fatal disease, that will kill your Pokémon quicker than it just dying of old age, even though it gains EV's faster. Which is why the tombstones, inside the Poké-Tower make so much sense, when looking back on the original games
Funniest thing is I've never failed a single shiny XD
what's your most favorite shiny out of the ones you caught?
@@Dragonfly-in9uu my most favorite shiny is my shiny yanmega in pokemon legends arceus
@@Sub-ZeruGlace Nice
Glad you're back John!
Thankfully I’ve never failed a shiny, but I do have 2 mistakes and 1 misconception.
My first time with a main series Pokémon game was White when I was 10. I chose Oshawott and at the lab when Juniper asks if you want to nickname your Pokémon I accidentally clicked yes, and I didn’t know you could hit OK and it’d cancel so thought I could just name it its species and the game would think it didn’t have a nickname… I also didn’t know how to go lowercase. Guess who beat the game with an “OSHAWOTT”?
Same game, same save, I had just gotten to route 10 and encountered a Bouffalant for the first time. That thing took every Pokéball I had (and I had a ton of Ultra Balls) so out of desperation I used the Master Ball on it. Quickly realizing my mistake, I bolted to the Opelucid Pokémon Center’s PC thinking if I released the Bouffalant then I could get the ball back. It was a slow sad walk back to route 10 to catch another Bouffalant…
Way back, before I got into the main series, part of my main experience with the series was collecting the cards because I really liked the art. One night I asked my dad what HP meant. My dad, who works with lots of machinery, told me it meant “horse power”. So I went a good many years thinking the HP stat is what determined a Pokémon’s overall strength, because in my mind, that meant it was as strong as that many horses.
Wtf, my first game was white too, and the same things (wasting the masterball on a bouffalant and the nickname thing) happened to me too, although i chose snivy. No way
I named the snivy "Ivy" and it's still her nickname
I used to think status moves were pointless and made my Pokemon forget all ones they knew
Holy cow! I just remembered that I too got stuck for a bit in Pokémon Ruby because I didn’t think I could go under the bike path! Wow, that’s wild. Can’t believe I forgot that.
Purplecliffe has so many fails they would need a video of their own
The Onix clip from Alpharad's nuzlocke is iconic.
Dumbest mistake happened recently - found a shiny cuffant, one I was excited for, only to accidentally click the picnic button... you can imagine my horror. And no, it was not there when I ended the picnic.
Jesus that first clip pm7 already having owlton Johns hair lol
When I first played Pokémon Blue, I was trying to catch a level 3 Jigglypuff and I accidentally clicked on and used my one and only Master Ball instead of a poke ball.
i accidently threw a masterball on a shiny vannilite
ok, so a few things. One: I was shiny hunting in Moon for my second ever shiny, a bounsweet, that I was going to name Amythyst. I was doing the knock-out method and I didn't notice it was shiny until the point where I saw it faint. I did regain it though. Two: Later on, I lost that Moon version I had so many shinies (18) including my first ever shiny, a shiny Umbreon named Opal, and my first level 100 a non-shiny mimikyu named Jessie. Three: in that same moon game I used my master ball on the Lunala even though it has an easy catch. (i learned that with Sogaleo in sun)
Bonus: Not exactly a "mistake" but I did spend 7 phases (well I found 12 shinies before it) and almost and about 9 months for a normal shiny sinistea with 33,473 total encounters, not including the shinies and the pokemon I didn't count in the hunts like nidoran (I was only counting the sinistea in the old graveyard) outside of that hunt in Shield. Including the other ones it was around 38,878 encounters not including the full odds aerodactyl that happened during one of the phases (but it wasn't part of my sinistea hunt so I didn't consider it a phase) and a mantyke and blaziken from Dynamax adventures. I also got pokerus if that helps with how long i was hunting. I named the sinistea iNSaNiTea for the pun and how this hunt drove me insane.
was well into my teens and familiar with pokemon and shinies. in xy, I was grinding levels for evolutions to complete the dex and I ran into a shiny altaria outside victory road. killed it with a crit.
My greatest mistake was eating a chicken sandwich while shiny hunting and accidentally knocked out a shiny zigzagoon
Me, a 7y/o non native English speaker: not knowing what the release button does and testing it on my best and favorite Pokémon.
I also thought that who went first was by how fast I chose my move 😂
In fire red, I thought you were supposed to stay on the boat in Vermilion City. When it would sail away, I restarted my game. I was young when this happened.