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
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 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 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 😅
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
28:15 it's okay Mikey, I lost my first ever pokemon: Torterra because I softlocked myself by NOT READING THE DIALOG and didn't know I has to go to spear pillar on Mount Coronet. I got bored and deleted the save file to start all over, my level 92 Torterra, all its 0s and 1s, lost forever.
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.
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
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?
My first Pokemon game was Diamond, I got it when I was around 5, I wasn't able to beat it until I was about 11 because I had (still have) an issue with actually reading dialog in games. I just skipped over text and then was confused when I had no idea where I was supposed to go. I got all the way through 7 badges, but when I tried going to sunyshore city the guy blocked me saying there was a blackout. And because I didn't read the text I had no idea where I was supposed to go. So instead of looking it up, I just deleted that save and started a new one. Rinse and repeat that same process until after Black and White 2 came out when I beat those games, I went back and played through Diamond again, actually looking up what to do. Pokemon Diamond was the first video game I ever played, and I didn't beat it until nearly 7 years after I got it.
2:46 Imagine the anxiety this kid must have felt after PP stalling a Metapod and knocking it out, only to encounter a second one immediately and being unable to "recover" his lowered defence.
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.
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
For the very first one. I have done this before. I used to think 'if it doesn't damage, it's useless' but now, the only reason why I beat dondozo was because of a haunter that knew hypnosis and lick.
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.
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
well I wouldn't say it makes *more* sense, since at least Remoraid and Octillery still both live in the sea (and are both water types etc.) while Mandibuzz is a bird and lives in totally different areas than Electabuzz.
@@commanderredjonkks5268 True but tbf in the same series where a fish can evolve into an octopus and a shrew (Shroodle) can evolve into a lemur (Grafaiai) believing that Electabuzz can evolve into Mandibuzz isn't too far of a logical reach, especially for a kid, with the similar names that might be interpreted as a relation between them. And there might be other weird evolutions like that I may be forgetting at the moment
My first ever legit shiny (other than red Gyarados) back in the old games was a shiny golbat. I read online that if you ever caught a shiny it lowered your chance to ever get another shiny. And I didn’t like golbats shiny so I killed it. It still haunts me to this day.
"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.
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 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 😅
28:18 lol your not alone, i did it three times in pokemon sword just because i wanted to get them all. But the worst thing, I ALSO DID THAT FOR LETS GO EEVEE BECAUSE I WAS STUCK IN VICTORY ROAD. AND THAT SAVE FILE, HAD A MELMETAL! (This was before i knew about pokemon home and the three gift starters you get just for getting the game)
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.
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.
#12 is not that stupid, if you're just PvE, non-challenges. Pokemon is, and *ALWAYS HAS BEEN* stupidly easy. Why drag battles on with non-damaging moves if you're higher level and have an elemental advantage? Just bulldoze them with your best moves and have one or 2 slots for some coverage against "1st round surprises."
In the situation of non-damaging moves being useless, this fact typically only applies to when you're fighting in-game trainers as opposed to actual human players because in the former, you don't even need a highly complicated battle strategy when you already know what your opponent will do beforehand and can just over-level your team whenever you want if necessary and at high enough levels, even type matchups won't matter if you can one-shot almost any opponent without even using super-effective moves. However in VGC, it's drastically different, as you know, it's like a combination of chess and poker, but obviously even more complex. Considering you're playing against another actual human player, you never know who your opponent will be and even if you do, you still don't know what pokemon they'll bring and the strategy they'll implement. But I digress, anyway because of the stat and level adjustments as per the format rules, non-damaging status moves usually tend to be the win condition if strategies centered around these play out correctly, though of course they can still backfire at any moment.
Yeah at most I keep all-damaging moves still, BUT of a move deals damage and has a secondary effect I'll keep it. I'm even engaging in regular battles with a friend and am trying to teach him how to be better...but hed so STUPID about it. Case in point; he has a lvl98 Swampert with Surf and WATER GUN.... let that sink in. I even explained it as; "I'm a beefy Swampert able to cause tsunamis and shake the ground with my bare hands....but I'm just gonna spit/pee on you." My previous explanation of using a dollar-store squirt-gun vs a firehose didnt sink in enough. Weve gotten to the point where hes redone his entire team FIVE TIMES and I'm still using my playthrough team... I've become a Gym Leader to him!
@@ryudragonuv Well if he's refusing to swap out Water Gun for Hydro Pump because of it frequently missing then I can understand. However, if he needs a much stronger STAB move then I would recommend Liquidation (TM), assuming you're playing SV, as not only is it's damage output DOUBLE that of Water Gun, it also makes full use of Swampert's base 110 attack stat, which is far greater than its special attack by a decent margin.
The reason I hate using stat boosting moves is that it removes the fun and strategy of Pokémon to me. I will use some like effect ones or trap laying ones. I just feel that it’s more fun to just attack and also makes you think more strategically. I’ve also only ever played Pokémon: Brick Bronze as I don’t have devices like a Nintendo Switch and stuff like that. All I use are moves, revives and potions and that is its own strategy into itself.
Someone told me that a friend of hers found a shiny latias (the yellow one) on their first encounter they didn't know what to do and their chat told her to run from it and it will be back to normal. Talk about chat loyalty...😓😏
Mistakes of my Pokemon Black Run when I was 5: 1. Being a dumb child, I did not read any of the text therefore I did not save the game so I had multiple runs where I lost my progress and started from the beginning over and over until my dad showed me how to save. 2. During my first run of the “no save” games, I picked Snivy. I then fought the rivals and Snivy just sparkled. I played through and did not save the game. Years later did I finally realize my mistake. 3. The game I finally got a save file on, I chose Oshawott. I taught it Cut after the first gym to get into the dream yard. 4. My friend was watching me play and told me to catch a Sawk. He convinced me that Dewott was not cool and to release it. I released my starter. 5. Luckily that friend went home and I forgot to save the game. I only did it to appease him, however I knew if he saw I had it he might mad. I then decided to release my Dewott then save immediately after.
When I was a kid, my aun got me a brand new copy of Pokémon Diamond two days after being release , straight from Japan...So I played that game in JAPANESE. And I tried to do the Shaymin glitch, but got myself stock. Thought I ruined the game, so I sold the game to another kid for some pocket money...just to see him restarting the save file. I cannot describe the pain I feel thinking I sold a japanese copy of Diamond all these years after
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.
4:17 for some reason I accidentally made up a third evolution for minccino when playing black and white for the first time as i read “cinccino” as “chullaccino” somehow and spent several hours trying to evolve a cinccino somehow. This is worse as i knew about cinccino already so just in my head i convinced myself it evolved again
My first thought when I clicked on this video was "he's gonna talk about not having stat boosting/lowering moves" and it was the first thing you talked about😂
Evolution line: When I was little I thought Farfetch'd would evolve into Doduo. Not only do they appear in a row and share the same typing but also Farfetch'd as a bird with *one* head fits as Starting point for the line 😂
I also thought that when I was a kid. I also thought that Lapras was a spoit evolution of Magikarp or a Gyarados evolution due to pokédex order. And also thought that Slowking evolved from Slowbro.
@joress For the Magikarp Line it's even a good idea; based on happiness it could evolve to a friendly Water Taxi or a rampaging Water Onix 😁 (even though I condemn this Evolution method normally, my stuffed my Pichu with Rare Candies and it evolved at Level 56, causing it to have missed out on most good moves 😆 Also I treated a Golbat in Leaf Green too well, it tried to evolve around Vermillion City but couldn't because of Nationaldex Stuff) The Slowking line was confusing at first but thx to Stadium 2 Library I could learn pretty quickly the true Evolution constellation. 😁
Fun video, Mikey! Here’s a list of what I ended up with 1. Yes, I’ve done this before. 2. Nope 3. No, I haven’t. My first ever experience with Pokémon was an old file which had a full team of 6 attempting the Elite Four 4. Yes. I remember having a Gyarados with Hydro Pump and wondering why it wasn’t doing much damage not realising it’s a special move and Gyarados’s Special Attack is not that high. 5. Yes I’ve done this 6. Yes, I remember getting stuck not knowing how to open Sabrina’s gym in Fire Red because I didn’t know Team Rocket took over Silph Co. That was how I found out online walkthroughs existed. 7. Yes 8. Yes; I used my Master Ball on a Golduck in the Seafoam Islands because I didn’t understand how catch rates worked. 9. I remembered to save the game regularly, but I didn’t think to save in front of legendaries for a while. So that’s a yes. 10. Yes. Quite recently, in fact: I accidentally released the Hisuian Zoroark from pre-ordering the Scarlet & Violet DLC. And since it’s the modern games, I couldn’t get it back since it auto-saved. 11. Yes. I remember running into a shiny Pokémon in Pokemon Ruby (I think it was a Sandshrew) and running from it because I was trying to go from one place to another and didn’t know how special it was. I got my redemption for that at the start of this year by catching a shiny Sandshrew in Violet. 12. I’m lucky enough that it’s never happened to me by someone else. However, I have had my game wipe itself out before. A lot. I think my Fire Red cartridge was faulty because it almost always wiped my progress. Thankfully I got one playthrough where I beat the game. And then it wiped itself out again. 9/12 I wanted to add a mistake that I’m surprised didn’t get brought up: Not considering enemy coverage. I have brought Pokémon that resists the enemy’s STAB types only to have it killed by coverage too many times to count.
Speaking of the not saving thing I once was replaying alpha sapphire, accidentally reset and went from fighting Aqua admin Matt to right before Roxanne
I remember when I first played Pokémon (which was with Alpha Sapphire), I didn't know the concept of weakening a wild one before catching it, so I threw balls hoping they'd stay in them
To contribute a little, here are some things I did or thought as a child: -When I saw Seaking, I thought it was a strange fusion between Magikarp and Goldeen. -I only used a trio of Pokémon in battle, being the typical elemental trio. -I didn't know how to delete a save file of Heartgold, meaning I had to start everything from scratch every time my console turned off. I don't think I got over Morty until I figured out how to delete the old save file. -I thought that any released Pokémon could appear somewhere on the map to be faced again.
the last point, about releasing Pokemon, was a rumour I heard as a kid. Specifically I was told that Pokemon like starters could become an introduced species in an area if you released one, so they would be added to the list of wild Pokemon that the game could generate. I thought it would be really cool if it was true (and definitely a feature they should add at some point - imagine the potential for shiny hunting and such) but I was too nervous about losing my rare Pokemon that I never risked it.
on pokemon silver back in day durring kid i thught the delibird "present" mechanic was neat and was hard to catch so after a few trys i used the masterball on it.
Mike: *Saying how no one else had commented about deleting your own save file. And proceeding to explain how he deleted his own save to get all three starters in Sapphire.* Me: First time? Warning: Long comment ahead. Seriously though, what was I thinking? I forgot what play through it was, but I started a new one because I wanted to start a new file (pokemon black btw). So, as I went through the catching contest at the beginning, I caught a Patrat before going to look for a Lillipup. The very next encounter, I found a full odds shiny Patrat! Now, say what you will about Patrat, but I'll defend this pokemon with my life (and no, not just because of this encounter. They were charming in pokepark 2). And this was my first ever shiny (not counting the red Gyarados). So I was ecstatic, and so was my younger brother. But then, some time later, I wanted to start a new file...so I deleted the file with my evolved shiny Watchog. Even my younger brother was like "why?" (He also had a copy of pokemon black. So I could've traded it to him before deleting the save file. And my younger brother is the type who doesn't delete save files). So I lost my first ever shiny. I believe I was like 15/16, so I don't have the excuse of being a kid. Then, I deleted my first ever Sword file which had an event exclusive Pikachu that knew sing (I was in high school during this time. I believe Senior year too as I remember paying for the game myself. The school had me work as a janitor for a elementary school as part of a work experience class. So I got money and class credit). The reason? Because I wanted to start a new save. And this was before making a second account on the Switch. And finally, I deleted my first Legends Arceus save file. Same reason as the first two, I want to start a new file. I believe that I had graduated high school and started chilling at home. So I was 18. So, I lost the random shiny Stunky I found. And the shiny Hisuian Zorark mask they released as an event for the Hisuian Snow mini series. This was also before making a second file. So yeah, I have no idea why I deleted my files when I knew they had rare items/pokemon on them. But needless to say, I've learned my lesson and will forever be haunted by these mistakes. My pokemon violet file is safe. With event pokemon, my precious shines, and the trades you get from characters like Kieran and Arven. And I'll never delete it. (Aside from that, I intentionally killed a shiny Barbaracle in Ultra Moon from the wormholes cause it was ugly. I was in Junior High and 8th grade I believe. And recently, like a year or two ago, I intentionally failed a shiny Scatterbug in Violet because I was outbreak hunting to get a shiny Fidough for my main team. Beginning of the game btw (and a Fidough out break is pretty rare). But I did get the shiny Fidough in the end, so it's all good ^^)
So.... didn't know this video was coming i have a story... as a 4 year old I was given pokemon blue version. I literally was trapped in the starting house with my mom, I thought it was time based and I'd be put outside the house or that I had to interact with my mom or the TV or bed or something. I remember being stuck this way for literal months I would power on the game make laps around the house clicking on everything. I remember the day I finally got out of the house.... it was being your kids to work day my mother brought me into her work/ office for the day and I was sitting underneath her desk and running around doing laps in the house and I walked on top what I thought was like a welcome mat the black rectangle and just kept walking and instead of hitting the wall I went to the OUTSIDE WORLD!! I was soooo excited and happy to actually he able to play pokemon LMAO!! To be fair I don't know how this wasn't a more common issue and wasn't mentioned in this video.. as a young child who had never gamed other then like the original tetris for the OG gameboy how did any young kid know to just keep walking into the wall with a black rectangle. I genuinely thought it was just a mat on the floor for the longest time didn't realize it meant I could walk through the wall..😢😅
Oh good, I wasn't the only one to get stuck in the first house of the first game. I still feel dumb about that. To be fair, when you've never played ANY kind of RPG before as a small child, how are you supposed to know the tropes of the genre? You had way more patience than me, though. I only lasted about 30min before I asked my mom what this game expected me to do.
I think watching your channel and a few others before ever getting to play Sword as my first Pokémon game definitely helped me to not make most of the mistakes in this video. So uhhhh benefit of watching other people I guess??? Also I wasn’t 10 years old I was 12
I wiped out my first Pokemon X save file because I wanted to play the game again, but now I regret it cuz I had TONS of limited time gift pokemon and my team was all Lv. 100 😭😭 P.S. I was 10 and had a pc i could easily emulate the game on 💀
I never saw this post originally. I Bought both games in ORAS, both sun and moon games and both USUM games, because I thought they were all completely different games...
I remember once when I was struggling with the May fight below Cycling Road in Emerald, at some point I started spamming Guard Spec because I thought it was raising my evasion. Like using it would put me in a smokescreen and make me harder to hit. I can’t remember if I won or not, but I doubt it.
For the bit at the end: I've done this, several times actually. I have reset my save file on games multiple times, and then I remember what I had lost and feel terrible. I would try to catch the same pokemon I had before, but it just wasn't the same. You're not alone in this Mikey, we're all here for you
As much as i Hate to admit it you are not alone in wiping your own save file, I wiped my pokemon X save simply because i wanted to replay the game. the first save had the mystery gift diancie on it.
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.
To the point of overleveling one Pokémon, when I played White as a kid (my second game IIRC) I somehow basically solo'ed the game with a massively overleveled in-game trade Basculin for no discernible reason. I've always had a higher level of respect for Basculin than the average person for this reason.
26:27 I have told this story before (probably in the comments of one of his videos) my first Pokemon game was Gold. I also didn’t know how the Pc worked. I don’t think I even knew it existed. But I also didn’t know how to switch Pokemon in and out. So most of the game I had a level 7 Kacoona. that team was the most random and funny of all my childhood games
18:21 i was playing my baby sitters sons silver version when i was 5, and at the time i couldnt read, so when I ran into a lvl 4 geodude i clicked on the first ball in the ball menu and cought it, then saved, later that day i ran into a raikou and showed the sitters son, and he flipped when he noticed his masterball was gone
I deleted my save file before but on purpose for playthrough, or delete pokemon let's Go Eevee for Bulbasaur... It was for Pokemon sword and I was at the second gym in let's go I wasn't losing anything, and I wasn't getting my level 10 Pokemon to level 50 for a Bulbasaur!
Definitely relate to the stat boosting moves, only I used the moves on the wrong stats. I used Calm Mind on my Infernape that only used PHYSICAL moves in Platinum. As for evolutions, I used to think Luvdisc evolved into Alolammola.
infernape's base attack and special attack are equal, so that's not as bad. i've used one with flamethrower and close combat for stabs on multiple occasions.
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 recently rewatched the JMC season 2 video in which Mikey told PM7 about the dunsparce gligar thing. The mistake I made was giving my 'mon mostly stab moves instead of coverage moves, going by the logic that having physical and special stab moves or strong stab moves with low pp and weaker stab moves with more pp was simply smarter than having moves that didn't receive a boost
How did NO ONE say "oh speed is based off how fast you choose a battle option" I had so many bad mistakes on my first ever pokemon game (alpha sapphire) just because I DIDNT SLOW DOWN AND THINK
24:19 This section reminded me of the most tragic missed shiny opportunity I've ever witnessed. It happened to my younger brother; he had just started his first playthrough of Pokemon Ruby. He ran up to me, excited, and showed me his game: he'd encountered a shiny Poochyena! We both fully knew how rare shinies are, and were ecstatic that he found one so early in the game! Except that joy swiftly turned to dread as we both realized something: he'd encountered it TOO early in the game. He'd just gotten his starter, but had yet to be given any pokeballs. It was literally impossible for him to capture his first ever shiny encounter, because the early pokemon games always made you do some kind of pointless errand after giving you your starter before giving you access to pokeballs. My poor little bro had no choice but to KO the shiny and move on. I'm glad modern Pokemon games give you immediate access to pokeballs after receiving your starter - I like to think they started doing that precisely to prevent the tragedy my brother experienced from occurring to new generations of Pokemon fans.
This video made me laugh so much. People left some great stories, the "someone's PC" one was the most childlike thing in the BEST way. But just Mikey being such a pip and a half cracked me up too. After watching this, my spouse said, "I see he's still watching Dropout and Dimension 20" and... Yeah, fantastic Brennan Lee Mulligan energy. Mikey has great performance chops tbh!
Once while playing red I somehow softlocked myself. I wasn't able to make any progress. Thought its because I was low leveled. So I grinded levels in grass to the point my charmander had evolved into charmeleon and even charizard it also stopped obeying me.When I got older found that save file and realised I was softlocked I still was not able to find any way to make progress making this really dumb.
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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
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
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 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
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!
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 😅
"It's a flash of light, how do you miss?!" They blinked.
Lol
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.
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.
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
“Some of you might still be” is hilarious
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
4:34 I always thought Bouffalant evolved from Tauros and Slowking evolved from Slowbro instead of Slowpoke
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.
“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!
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
I remember having three fire moves to use ember on weak foes. Flame wheel on medium ones a d flamethrower on the strong ones. Swift for coverage on dragon mons. Good times
It makes sense if you're only using a single Pokémon.
@Cuculutu not really. Could have gotten roll out or any other set of moves for better coverage. If any ghost fire or water ghost were in early game I'd have been wrecked
Swift for coverage? it's a normal type move
i used to use only STAB moves, 2 from the same type and one from the other one and also only capture dual types or will become dual types, and the last move was status move. kinda lost this habit later on.
@@theamazingspooderman2697 for dragons and water types
28:15 it's okay Mikey, I lost my first ever pokemon: Torterra because I softlocked myself by NOT READING THE DIALOG and didn't know I has to go to spear pillar on Mount Coronet. I got bored and deleted the save file to start all over, my level 92 Torterra, all its 0s and 1s, lost forever.
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.
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
“ROCKET Money?!” Oh chaos we’ve created a monster
20:39 I would doubt this one more if it wasn't for the fact that I've heard this happening to multiple people.
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?
My first Pokemon game was Diamond, I got it when I was around 5, I wasn't able to beat it until I was about 11 because I had (still have) an issue with actually reading dialog in games. I just skipped over text and then was confused when I had no idea where I was supposed to go. I got all the way through 7 badges, but when I tried going to sunyshore city the guy blocked me saying there was a blackout. And because I didn't read the text I had no idea where I was supposed to go. So instead of looking it up, I just deleted that save and started a new one. Rinse and repeat that same process until after Black and White 2 came out when I beat those games, I went back and played through Diamond again, actually looking up what to do. Pokemon Diamond was the first video game I ever played, and I didn't beat it until nearly 7 years after I got it.
His uploads aren’t predictable but when they hit they are a banger
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.
0:01 How dare you! I am always stupid!
he then said "some of you might still be"
2:46 Imagine the anxiety this kid must have felt after PP stalling a Metapod and knocking it out, only to encounter a second one immediately and being unable to "recover" his lowered defence.
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
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
13:51 Based mom giving actually helpful advice despite probably not knowing anything about the game
For the very first one. I have done this before. I used to think 'if it doesn't damage, it's useless' but now, the only reason why I beat dondozo was because of a haunter that knew hypnosis and lick.
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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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
4:13 Evolving Electabuzz into Mandibuzz makes more sense than Remoraid evolving into Octillery
Remoraid evolves into Octillery because Remoraid is a glock while Octillery is a tank
@@charizardfan1017 I know about the weapon theming, still weird for a fish to evolve into an octopus though
well I wouldn't say it makes *more* sense, since at least Remoraid and Octillery still both live in the sea (and are both water types etc.) while Mandibuzz is a bird and lives in totally different areas than Electabuzz.
@@commanderredjonkks5268 True but tbf in the same series where a fish can evolve into an octopus and a shrew (Shroodle) can evolve into a lemur (Grafaiai) believing that Electabuzz can evolve into Mandibuzz isn't too far of a logical reach, especially for a kid, with the similar names that might be interpreted as a relation between them.
And there might be other weird evolutions like that I may be forgetting at the moment
My first ever legit shiny (other than red Gyarados) back in the old games was a shiny golbat. I read online that if you ever caught a shiny it lowered your chance to ever get another shiny. And I didn’t like golbats shiny so I killed it. It still haunts me to this day.
"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
18:01 Lottery?
]Inhale].........LETS GO GAMBLIIIIIIIIIING
How one can miss flash: the opponent closes its eyes
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
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 😅
28:18 lol your not alone, i did it three times in pokemon sword just because i wanted to get them all. But the worst thing, I ALSO DID THAT FOR LETS GO EEVEE BECAUSE I WAS STUCK IN VICTORY ROAD. AND THAT SAVE FILE, HAD A MELMETAL!
(This was before i knew about pokemon home and the three gift starters you get just for getting the game)
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.
I used to think swampert could evolve into mega swampert because I saw my sister playing oras and just thought it’s another evolution not a gimmick
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.
#12 is not that stupid, if you're just PvE, non-challenges. Pokemon is, and *ALWAYS HAS BEEN* stupidly easy. Why drag battles on with non-damaging moves if you're higher level and have an elemental advantage? Just bulldoze them with your best moves and have one or 2 slots for some coverage against "1st round surprises."
In the situation of non-damaging moves being useless, this fact typically only applies to when you're fighting in-game trainers as opposed to actual human players because in the former, you don't even need a highly complicated battle strategy when you already know what your opponent will do beforehand and can just over-level your team whenever you want if necessary and at high enough levels, even type matchups won't matter if you can one-shot almost any opponent without even using super-effective moves. However in VGC, it's drastically different, as you know, it's like a combination of chess and poker, but obviously even more complex. Considering you're playing against another actual human player, you never know who your opponent will be and even if you do, you still don't know what pokemon they'll bring and the strategy they'll implement. But I digress, anyway because of the stat and level adjustments as per the format rules, non-damaging status moves usually tend to be the win condition if strategies centered around these play out correctly, though of course they can still backfire at any moment.
Yeah at most I keep all-damaging moves still, BUT of a move deals damage and has a secondary effect I'll keep it.
I'm even engaging in regular battles with a friend and am trying to teach him how to be better...but hed so STUPID about it. Case in point; he has a lvl98 Swampert with Surf and WATER GUN.... let that sink in. I even explained it as;
"I'm a beefy Swampert able to cause tsunamis and shake the ground with my bare hands....but I'm just gonna spit/pee on you."
My previous explanation of using a dollar-store squirt-gun vs a firehose didnt sink in enough.
Weve gotten to the point where hes redone his entire team FIVE TIMES and I'm still using my playthrough team... I've become a Gym Leader to him!
@@ryudragonuv Well if he's refusing to swap out Water Gun for Hydro Pump because of it frequently missing then I can understand. However, if he needs a much stronger STAB move then I would recommend Liquidation (TM), assuming you're playing SV, as not only is it's damage output DOUBLE that of Water Gun, it also makes full use of Swampert's base 110 attack stat, which is far greater than its special attack by a decent margin.
The reason I hate using stat boosting moves is that it removes the fun and strategy of Pokémon to me. I will use some like effect ones or trap laying ones. I just feel that it’s more fun to just attack and also makes you think more strategically. I’ve also only ever played Pokémon: Brick Bronze as I don’t have devices like a Nintendo Switch and stuff like that. All I use are moves, revives and potions and that is its own strategy into itself.
"It's a flash of light. How do you miss?" You set the brightness to low, LoL
Or they blink
Surely no one has figured out how to get into that Cerulean City cave yet! I’m sure there’s nothing in it I missed!
Grunty Boi not knowing about Rocket Money is just so ironically hilarious lmao!
Someone told me that a friend of hers found a shiny latias (the yellow one) on their first encounter they didn't know what to do and their chat told her to run from it and it will be back to normal. Talk about chat loyalty...😓😏
Bold of you to assume I only have made 12 mistakes
Mistakes of my Pokemon Black Run when I was 5:
1. Being a dumb child, I did not read any of the text therefore I did not save the game so I had multiple runs where I lost my progress and started from the beginning over and over until my dad showed me how to save.
2. During my first run of the “no save” games, I picked Snivy. I then fought the rivals and Snivy just sparkled. I played through and did not save the game. Years later did I finally realize my mistake.
3. The game I finally got a save file on, I chose Oshawott. I taught it Cut after the first gym to get into the dream yard.
4. My friend was watching me play and told me to catch a Sawk. He convinced me that Dewott was not cool and to release it. I released my starter.
5. Luckily that friend went home and I forgot to save the game. I only did it to appease him, however I knew if he saw I had it he might mad. I then decided to release my Dewott then save immediately after.
3:46 I used to think Beartic evolved into Cryogonal like an idiot. 14:13 same it was ridiculous
I remember getting a shiny graveler post game in let’s go Pikachu, then didn’t realize I had to trade to evolve it until it was lvl 92!
The mistake all mom made
All pokemon are Pikachu and other are non existence
My mom has 8400 Pokémon in Pokémon Go, so she would never. But about 300 of them are Pikachu in different costumes.
When I was a kid, my aun got me a brand new copy of Pokémon Diamond two days after being release , straight from Japan...So I played that game in JAPANESE. And I tried to do the Shaymin glitch, but got myself stock. Thought I ruined the game, so I sold the game to another kid for some pocket money...just to see him restarting the save file. I cannot describe the pain I feel thinking I sold a japanese copy of Diamond all these years after
21:04 who didn't do that 😅😂
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.
I did not used to be stupid, that is simply untrue
I know! I've ALWAYS been stupid. Thank you very much
Mikey on his judgemental arc 😂
The scary part is that this is super relatable
4:17 for some reason I accidentally made up a third evolution for minccino when playing black and white for the first time as i read “cinccino” as “chullaccino” somehow and spent several hours trying to evolve a cinccino somehow. This is worse as i knew about cinccino already so just in my head i convinced myself it evolved again
My mistake was that I thought pressing B would help you catch pokemon.
My first thought when I clicked on this video was "he's gonna talk about not having stat boosting/lowering moves" and it was the first thing you talked about😂
Evolution line: When I was little I thought Farfetch'd would evolve into Doduo. Not only do they appear in a row and share the same typing but also Farfetch'd as a bird with *one* head fits as Starting point for the line 😂
I also thought that when I was a kid. I also thought that Lapras was a spoit evolution of Magikarp or a Gyarados evolution due to pokédex order. And also thought that Slowking evolved from Slowbro.
@joress For the Magikarp Line it's even a good idea; based on happiness it could evolve to a friendly Water Taxi or a rampaging Water Onix 😁 (even though I condemn this Evolution method normally, my stuffed my Pichu with Rare Candies and it evolved at Level 56, causing it to have missed out on most good moves 😆 Also I treated a Golbat in Leaf Green too well, it tried to evolve around Vermillion City but couldn't because of Nationaldex Stuff)
The Slowking line was confusing at first but thx to Stadium 2 Library I could learn pretty quickly the true Evolution constellation. 😁
Fun video, Mikey! Here’s a list of what I ended up with
1. Yes, I’ve done this before.
2. Nope
3. No, I haven’t. My first ever experience with Pokémon was an old file which had a full team of 6 attempting the Elite Four
4. Yes. I remember having a Gyarados with Hydro Pump and wondering why it wasn’t doing much damage not realising it’s a special move and Gyarados’s Special Attack is not that high.
5. Yes I’ve done this
6. Yes, I remember getting stuck not knowing how to open Sabrina’s gym in Fire Red because I didn’t know Team Rocket took over Silph Co. That was how I found out online walkthroughs existed.
7. Yes
8. Yes; I used my Master Ball on a Golduck in the Seafoam Islands because I didn’t understand how catch rates worked.
9. I remembered to save the game regularly, but I didn’t think to save in front of legendaries for a while. So that’s a yes.
10. Yes. Quite recently, in fact: I accidentally released the Hisuian Zoroark from pre-ordering the Scarlet & Violet DLC. And since it’s the modern games, I couldn’t get it back since it auto-saved.
11. Yes. I remember running into a shiny Pokémon in Pokemon Ruby (I think it was a Sandshrew) and running from it because I was trying to go from one place to another and didn’t know how special it was. I got my redemption for that at the start of this year by catching a shiny Sandshrew in Violet.
12. I’m lucky enough that it’s never happened to me by someone else. However, I have had my game wipe itself out before. A lot. I think my Fire Red cartridge was faulty because it almost always wiped my progress. Thankfully I got one playthrough where I beat the game. And then it wiped itself out again.
9/12
I wanted to add a mistake that I’m surprised didn’t get brought up: Not considering enemy coverage. I have brought Pokémon that resists the enemy’s STAB types only to have it killed by coverage too many times to count.
You deserve so many more subs!
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@@corneharteveld8498 1st comment on this channel and it’s a woman in a bikini
Speaking of the not saving thing
I once was replaying alpha sapphire, accidentally reset and went from fighting Aqua admin Matt to right before Roxanne
I can binge these videos for hours!
Who loves bots? No one.
I remember when I first played Pokémon (which was with Alpha Sapphire), I didn't know the concept of weakening a wild one before catching it, so I threw balls hoping they'd stay in them
To contribute a little, here are some things I did or thought as a child:
-When I saw Seaking, I thought it was a strange fusion between Magikarp and Goldeen.
-I only used a trio of Pokémon in battle, being the typical elemental trio.
-I didn't know how to delete a save file of Heartgold, meaning I had to start everything from scratch every time my console turned off. I don't think I got over Morty until I figured out how to delete the old save file.
-I thought that any released Pokémon could appear somewhere on the map to be faced again.
the last point, about releasing Pokemon, was a rumour I heard as a kid.
Specifically I was told that Pokemon like starters could become an introduced species in an area if you released one, so they would be added to the list of wild Pokemon that the game could generate.
I thought it would be really cool if it was true (and definitely a feature they should add at some point - imagine the potential for shiny hunting and such) but I was too nervous about losing my rare Pokemon that I never risked it.
on pokemon silver back in day durring kid i thught the delibird "present" mechanic was neat and was hard to catch so after a few trys i used the masterball on it.
Mike: *Saying how no one else had commented about deleting your own save file. And proceeding to explain how he deleted his own save to get all three starters in Sapphire.*
Me: First time?
Warning: Long comment ahead.
Seriously though, what was I thinking? I forgot what play through it was, but I started a new one because I wanted to start a new file (pokemon black btw). So, as I went through the catching contest at the beginning, I caught a Patrat before going to look for a Lillipup. The very next encounter, I found a full odds shiny Patrat! Now, say what you will about Patrat, but I'll defend this pokemon with my life (and no, not just because of this encounter. They were charming in pokepark 2). And this was my first ever shiny (not counting the red Gyarados). So I was ecstatic, and so was my younger brother. But then, some time later, I wanted to start a new file...so I deleted the file with my evolved shiny Watchog. Even my younger brother was like "why?" (He also had a copy of pokemon black. So I could've traded it to him before deleting the save file. And my younger brother is the type who doesn't delete save files). So I lost my first ever shiny. I believe I was like 15/16, so I don't have the excuse of being a kid.
Then, I deleted my first ever Sword file which had an event exclusive Pikachu that knew sing (I was in high school during this time. I believe Senior year too as I remember paying for the game myself. The school had me work as a janitor for a elementary school as part of a work experience class. So I got money and class credit). The reason? Because I wanted to start a new save. And this was before making a second account on the Switch.
And finally, I deleted my first Legends Arceus save file. Same reason as the first two, I want to start a new file. I believe that I had graduated high school and started chilling at home. So I was 18. So, I lost the random shiny Stunky I found. And the shiny Hisuian Zorark mask they released as an event for the Hisuian Snow mini series. This was also before making a second file.
So yeah, I have no idea why I deleted my files when I knew they had rare items/pokemon on them. But needless to say, I've learned my lesson and will forever be haunted by these mistakes. My pokemon violet file is safe. With event pokemon, my precious shines, and the trades you get from characters like Kieran and Arven. And I'll never delete it.
(Aside from that, I intentionally killed a shiny Barbaracle in Ultra Moon from the wormholes cause it was ugly. I was in Junior High and 8th grade I believe. And recently, like a year or two ago, I intentionally failed a shiny Scatterbug in Violet because I was outbreak hunting to get a shiny Fidough for my main team. Beginning of the game btw (and a Fidough out break is pretty rare). But I did get the shiny Fidough in the end, so it's all good ^^)
So.... didn't know this video was coming i have a story... as a 4 year old I was given pokemon blue version. I literally was trapped in the starting house with my mom, I thought it was time based and I'd be put outside the house or that I had to interact with my mom or the TV or bed or something. I remember being stuck this way for literal months I would power on the game make laps around the house clicking on everything. I remember the day I finally got out of the house.... it was being your kids to work day my mother brought me into her work/ office for the day and I was sitting underneath her desk and running around doing laps in the house and I walked on top what I thought was like a welcome mat the black rectangle and just kept walking and instead of hitting the wall I went to the OUTSIDE WORLD!! I was soooo excited and happy to actually he able to play pokemon LMAO!!
To be fair I don't know how this wasn't a more common issue and wasn't mentioned in this video.. as a young child who had never gamed other then like the original tetris for the OG gameboy how did any young kid know to just keep walking into the wall with a black rectangle. I genuinely thought it was just a mat on the floor for the longest time didn't realize it meant I could walk through the wall..😢😅
Oh good, I wasn't the only one to get stuck in the first house of the first game. I still feel dumb about that. To be fair, when you've never played ANY kind of RPG before as a small child, how are you supposed to know the tropes of the genre? You had way more patience than me, though. I only lasted about 30min before I asked my mom what this game expected me to do.
Ken Sugimori's dad also didnt know how to leave the house in the oringal pokemon games
I think watching your channel and a few others before ever getting to play Sword as my first Pokémon game definitely helped me to not make most of the mistakes in this video.
So uhhhh benefit of watching other people I guess???
Also I wasn’t 10 years old
I was 12
I wiped out my first Pokemon X save file because I wanted to play the game again, but now I regret it cuz I had TONS of limited time gift pokemon and my team was all Lv. 100 😭😭
P.S. I was 10 and had a pc i could easily emulate the game on 💀
I never saw this post originally. I Bought both games in ORAS, both sun and moon games and both USUM games, because I thought they were all completely different games...
I remember once when I was struggling with the May fight below Cycling Road in Emerald, at some point I started spamming Guard Spec because I thought it was raising my evasion. Like using it would put me in a smokescreen and make me harder to hit. I can’t remember if I won or not, but I doubt it.
Jokes on you my cousin taught me everything before i played
For the bit at the end: I've done this, several times actually. I have reset my save file on games multiple times, and then I remember what I had lost and feel terrible. I would try to catch the same pokemon I had before, but it just wasn't the same. You're not alone in this Mikey, we're all here for you
As much as i Hate to admit it you are not alone in wiping your own save file, I wiped my pokemon X save simply because i wanted to replay the game. the first save had the mystery gift diancie on it.
I think this is the first time that grunty boy being in team rocket has felt important to the sponsorship in any way shape form or fashion.
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.
"IT'S A FLASH OF LIGHT, HOW CAN IT MISS??" Freaking hilarious 😂😂
To the point of overleveling one Pokémon, when I played White as a kid (my second game IIRC) I somehow basically solo'ed the game with a massively overleveled in-game trade Basculin for no discernible reason. I've always had a higher level of respect for Basculin than the average person for this reason.
26:27 I have told this story before (probably in the comments of one of his videos) my first Pokemon game was Gold. I also didn’t know how the Pc worked. I don’t think I even knew it existed. But I also didn’t know how to switch Pokemon in and out. So most of the game I had a level 7 Kacoona. that team was the most random and funny of all my childhood games
18:21 i was playing my baby sitters sons silver version when i was 5, and at the time i couldnt read, so when I ran into a lvl 4 geodude i clicked on the first ball in the ball menu and cought it, then saved, later that day i ran into a raikou and showed the sitters son, and he flipped when he noticed his masterball was gone
I deleted my save file before but on purpose for playthrough, or delete pokemon let's Go Eevee for Bulbasaur... It was for Pokemon sword and I was at the second gym in let's go I wasn't losing anything, and I wasn't getting my level 10 Pokemon to level 50 for a Bulbasaur!
I used to leave my nintendo on all the time because I didn't know how to save.
Definitely relate to the stat boosting moves, only I used the moves on the wrong stats. I used Calm Mind on my Infernape that only used PHYSICAL moves in Platinum. As for evolutions, I used to think Luvdisc evolved into Alolammola.
infernape's base attack and special attack are equal, so that's not as bad. i've used one with flamethrower and close combat for stabs on multiple occasions.
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.
When is was a kid I thought that Alakazams name was Abrakadabra. Because Abra, kadabra, then abrakadabra. But nope
I recently rewatched the JMC season 2 video in which Mikey told PM7 about the dunsparce gligar thing.
The mistake I made was giving my 'mon mostly stab moves instead of coverage moves, going by the logic that having physical and special stab moves or strong stab moves with low pp and weaker stab moves with more pp was simply smarter than having moves that didn't receive a boost
How did NO ONE say "oh speed is based off how fast you choose a battle option"
I had so many bad mistakes on my first ever pokemon game (alpha sapphire) just because I DIDNT SLOW DOWN AND THINK
24:19 This section reminded me of the most tragic missed shiny opportunity I've ever witnessed. It happened to my younger brother; he had just started his first playthrough of Pokemon Ruby. He ran up to me, excited, and showed me his game: he'd encountered a shiny Poochyena! We both fully knew how rare shinies are, and were ecstatic that he found one so early in the game! Except that joy swiftly turned to dread as we both realized something: he'd encountered it TOO early in the game. He'd just gotten his starter, but had yet to be given any pokeballs. It was literally impossible for him to capture his first ever shiny encounter, because the early pokemon games always made you do some kind of pointless errand after giving you your starter before giving you access to pokeballs. My poor little bro had no choice but to KO the shiny and move on. I'm glad modern Pokemon games give you immediate access to pokeballs after receiving your starter - I like to think they started doing that precisely to prevent the tragedy my brother experienced from occurring to new generations of Pokemon fans.
0:05 that’s offensive CANCLE MAN DEJ TEEV
24:00 indigo disk part two, "(shiny) magnemite" walks away "excadrill!", I think that counts as you noticed the pokemon
This video made me laugh so much. People left some great stories, the "someone's PC" one was the most childlike thing in the BEST way. But just Mikey being such a pip and a half cracked me up too. After watching this, my spouse said, "I see he's still watching Dropout and Dimension 20" and... Yeah, fantastic Brennan Lee Mulligan energy. Mikey has great performance chops tbh!
Once while playing red I somehow softlocked myself. I wasn't able to make any progress. Thought its because I was low leveled. So I grinded levels in grass to the point my charmander had evolved into charmeleon and even charizard it also stopped obeying me.When I got older found that save file and realised I was softlocked I still was not able to find any way to make progress making this really dumb.