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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
...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!!!
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.
Imagine what if these shinies were the following 1. You battle them at the start 2. You play the game 100% 3. The professor or rival gives you that shiny which would then have a special mark called the professors unlikely pet or that your rival has that shiny and gifts it to you with a badge called badge of friendship
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.
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 😅
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.
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”
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"
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.
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.-
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.
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 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.
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💯
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.
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
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 😅.
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
This is so recent that it's actually embarrassing. When Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee were new, I actually completely forgot that Weepinbell evolved with a leaf stone. I had it in my party trying to level it up until I asked my friend what level it evolved into Victreebell. He corrected me and said it needed a leaf stone.
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
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 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?
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
This one really isn't my fault but I found a shiny venonat and let's go... it was across the bridge where I happened to have not defeated all the trainers there yet💀
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.
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
No Mikey, you're not alone with that last one. I've INTENTONALLY wiped some old files and made new ones. And I feel disappointed in my younger self for doing such a thing
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
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.
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?"
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Actually, Mand... You're not alone on deleting your own save file. I deleted my Pokémon Violet file awhile ago, not knowing the dlc included so many legendaries and characters. I had already beaten the game at the point but since it was already deleted, I had to beat the game for a third time (I had already beaten Scarlet), just to reaccess the dlc stuff
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.
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:
I'm never gonna forget how I used to think Wooper and Suicune were related because they were both water types with some similar design choices (primarily blue bodies, purple horns/antlers).
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 😅
Out of all of these mistakes, the one I was not expecting to hear is MandJTV reset a beloved Ruby file in order to get all the starters in Sapphire. I, too, used to reset my older save files. From White, to Omega Ruby, I used to reset the games whenever I wanted to replay. The most painful realization of mine was when I had gained and lost my first ever shiny in White from that same reasoning. I found a shiny Liepard in a double battle with its non-shiny variant, caught it, and put it in a box. Sometime down the line, I reset the game because I just wanted to restart and replay the story with N. And to this very day, I still have yet to reclaim that shiny liepard....
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.
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.
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.
"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.
The friend deleting your save file is such a pokemon lesson because legit you get one save so the idea you could lend it out and not have your friend irreparably destroy your game if not start it over completely was basically impossible lol but I think most of us weren't that smart😂😂
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 😂
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
I can honestly say to this day, I never use non damage moves, but I also never play competitively or online. Going through, I use the mentality of 'if I can ko them before they do it to me, I can knock out this gym and get to exploring'. That's just how I have fun with them
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.
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.
Somehow I have always been able to beat the pokemon games when I was younger. I am norwegian, did not learn to read english until I was older, so I played through pokemon not know what ANYTHING said 😅 In the caves I always just followed the walls, and found my way out
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.
I got stuck in Slateport for literal days my first playthrough. I was so used to Gens 1&2 where you couldn't walk under bridges or buildings, so I assumed I couldn't walk under Cycling Road. Took me literal days to figure out I could walk under the bridge Edit: So glad I'm not the only one!
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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 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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
“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
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
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.
Imagine what if these shinies were the following
1. You battle them at the start 2. You play the game 100% 3. The professor or rival gives you that shiny which would then have a special mark called the professors unlikely pet or that your rival has that shiny and gifts it to you with a badge called badge of friendship
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.
“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
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 😅
I used my Masterball on Calyrex Ice Rider😂
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.
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”
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 love that Mikey decided that to make his og content again 😭😭 I missed these kind of videos
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"
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
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.-
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
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.
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
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💯
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
28:31 blame Grunty Boi Mikey - he was striking causing chaos long before you even knew he was there 😂
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
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
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 🔥
His uploads aren’t predictable but when they hit they are a banger
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
This is so recent that it's actually embarrassing. When Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee were new, I actually completely forgot that Weepinbell evolved with a leaf stone. I had it in my party trying to level it up until I asked my friend what level it evolved into Victreebell. He corrected me and said it needed a leaf stone.
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
“ROCKET Money?!” Oh chaos we’ve created a monster
Tell. Me. Everything!
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'm glad never got evolution wrong😂😂😂😂.
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?
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
This one really isn't my fault but I found a shiny venonat and let's go... it was across the bridge where I happened to have not defeated all the trainers there yet💀
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.
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
No Mikey, you're not alone with that last one.
I've INTENTONALLY wiped some old files and made new ones. And I feel disappointed in my younger self for doing such a thing
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
0:01 How dare you! I am always stupid!
he then said "some of you might still be"
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
Micheal Ive been wathching your videos for a few years now and I really love them, dont stop
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.
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.
24:50 I'll never forget running from that green Golbat.
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.
26:09
That’s adorable.
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
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.
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.
This video made me nostalgic for a time as a kid!
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.
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.
Actually, Mand... You're not alone on deleting your own save file. I deleted my Pokémon Violet file awhile ago, not knowing the dlc included so many legendaries and characters. I had already beaten the game at the point but since it was already deleted, I had to beat the game for a third time (I had already beaten Scarlet), just to reaccess the dlc stuff
How one can miss flash: the opponent closes its eyes
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
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:
I'm never gonna forget how I used to think Wooper and Suicune were related because they were both water types with some similar design choices (primarily blue bodies, purple horns/antlers).
14:20 illymation flashback
Only we 2 notised?
Damn, lmao
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 😂
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 😅
Out of all of these mistakes, the one I was not expecting to hear is MandJTV reset a beloved Ruby file in order to get all the starters in Sapphire.
I, too, used to reset my older save files. From White, to Omega Ruby, I used to reset the games whenever I wanted to replay. The most painful realization of mine was when I had gained and lost my first ever shiny in White from that same reasoning. I found a shiny Liepard in a double battle with its non-shiny variant, caught it, and put it in a box. Sometime down the line, I reset the game because I just wanted to restart and replay the story with N. And to this very day, I still have yet to reclaim that shiny liepard....
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
8:01
Michael: "Rocket Money."
Grunty Boi: Team RR flashbacks...
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.
27:28 theatre kid mikey
I wiped multiple save files of Pokémon Red because the save button didn’t work 🫠
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.
"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
The friend deleting your save file is such a pokemon lesson because legit you get one save so the idea you could lend it out and not have your friend irreparably destroy your game if not start it over completely was basically impossible lol but I think most of us weren't that smart😂😂
21:04 who didn't do that 😅😂
WHAT
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
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
I can honestly say to this day, I never use non damage moves, but I also never play competitively or online. Going through, I use the mentality of 'if I can ko them before they do it to me, I can knock out this gym and get to exploring'. That's just how I have fun with them
18:44 LOOK MOM THERE I AM
My mistake was that I thought pressing B would help you catch pokemon.
"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
this video was so fun :DD
i‘m definitely guilty of ignoring non-damaging moves and overusing STAB moves myself lmao
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.
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.
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.
3:13 ayy I had that poster too! And the kanto one!
Somehow I have always been able to beat the pokemon games when I was younger. I am norwegian, did not learn to read english until I was older, so I played through pokemon not know what ANYTHING said 😅 In the caves I always just followed the walls, and found my way out
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 got stuck in Slateport for literal days my first playthrough. I was so used to Gens 1&2 where you couldn't walk under bridges or buildings, so I assumed I couldn't walk under Cycling Road. Took me literal days to figure out I could walk under the bridge
Edit: So glad I'm not the only one!