I named all my Pokemon sprinkles. other then that, I was a pretty good trainer.

I thought all Rock types weren't affected by Electric attacks, and I had no idea what to do about the thirsty guards, but I suppose those aren't huge mistakes.

One day, I had traded with this korean kid. I forget the trade, except I remember getting his snorlax. Now a few months pass and I hadn't seen the guy since. Then, one day, I get a knock on our front door.



"I want my snorlax back."



I stand there, dumbfounded. "What...?!" I respond, completely confused and kinda peeved.



"I want my snorlax back!" He quipped again, readjusting his weight and rolling his puffy lips against each other.



"No," I said. "It was a fair trade. Besides, the statute of limitations is up."



"But it's mine! It has *my* name on it!"



By now, he was screaming at the top of his lungs at me, his voice cracking, face red with anger and frustration.



"I told you, 'no.'" And with that, I quickly shut the door in his face and locked it. Thumps from his heavy fists sound through the foyer accompanied by the yelps and whines of his complaint.



My mom looked in from the kitchen.



"What was that?" She asked.



"No clue."

I never should have traded with that kid.

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Oh! As in mistakes made in game. Well, I remember playing Green version back when it came out. I didn't understand that my cousin had used a gameshark to allow you to steal other trainer's pokemon. So I tried that a lot, and I think I ended up wasting a master ball by accident doing that. But what can I say, I was barely 8.

(USER MADE A BAZILLION SPACES, WTF)

I wasnt really a bad trainer. In fact I was just slow about it. It took me forever or beat the game because i caught every single pokemon and trained each one. The only things I didnt know about that were that you can revive fossils. When i found that out Aerodactyl became my star pokemon. So cash.

The only time I was bad was when I played my first game, Silver, I had just gotten my Totodile and I couldn't figure out how to get to the next town "I can't remember why I didn't know" and by the time I finally reached Cherrygrove, I had a Lv. 23 Croconaw

>>1182
I've read that story before, probably on /po/. Mistakes outside game are just a fun to hear.

>>1180
Honestly, I still get a bit confused with rock vs electric. Common sense tells you that rocks don't conduct electricity, but you just have to remember 'ground' in an electric sense.

>>1183
Aerodactyl rocks. Shiny looks like a freakish Golbat.

I *still* sometimes think that electric is weak to fighting. I can't really remember why I thought this, but it had something to do with the anime.

friend thought he was totally gonna win when he used a kabutops against my raichu.

this was his first lesson in the difference between rock and ground.

There was a rumor that Mewtwo could only be caught in a Master ball. I believed it. I think I also only trained my starter and a Shellder that I never evolved.

I spent all of my money on shit.
Spent my days using a meowth's pay day to make ends meet.

I frequently avoided battles by everyone, and usually only managed to beat gym leaders with one last struggling pokemon. And since I never trained, if I caught a pokemon at a relatively high level, I'd ditch my lowest level pokemon for it.
I remember refusing to ever pick bulbasaur, for some unknown reason.
Also, I remember going to move the snorlax that blocked the cycling road, but I only had a Master ball with me, so I used it on that. It didn't occur to me that I couldn't get another one without cheats.

On Red, I was lost in Mt. Moon.

For, like, a month.
I was SO jazzed when I got to the exit, and then POKéMON TRAINERS WTF.

I caught mis€™sing҉̵̞̟̠̖̗̘̙ ҉̵̞̟̠̖̗̘̙ ҉̵̞̟̠̖̗̘̙҉̵̞, and then FREAKED OUT when I read (in Pojo magazine) about what it really was.

I also have trouble remembering that water is NOT weak to ice.

>>1565

Hahah, in my first run through of Blue, I had no escape ropes, no Flash, no antidotes and no idea where I was in Rock Tunnel with a poisoned Blastoise and very little else.

Took me a goddamn long time to get out. I also was deathly afraid of my whole team fainting, because I wasn't quite sure what would happen if they did.

>>1137
The first time I found mis€™sing҉̵̞̟̠̖̗̘̙ ҉̵̞̟̠̖̗̘̙ ҉̵̞̟̠̖̗̘̙҉̵̞ I tried to do the same exact thing that happened before and it worked. I thought it was a super rare pokemon and started my game over so I could try to catch it with my masterball. When I tried to catch it though it didn't work! The masterball didn't work on it and caused my blue to have only bar codes for all of the sprites basically making the game unplayable. Thats one of the major memories I had from blue.

When I was a kid, I got my Yellow version. I didn't read the instruction manuals to any games 'case I thought I was super badass.

Well, around the time I got to Mt. Moon, I decided to flip through. I saw the one part about "some Pokémon you only see once and after that you can never catch them again!" Obviously they were referring to legendary Pokémon like Zapdos and Mewtwo, but I was a dumb kid and didn't know that.

Went into Mt. Moon. "Wild Zubat appears!" Practically had a heart attack trying to catch it because I figured it was one of those once-in-a-lifetime-Pokémon.

And then I found out just how wrong I was.

Goddamn bats.

>>1574

>>1576

>>1576
>>1582

Yellow, 2000.

I had Pikachu, Caterpie, Rattata, Pidgey and and Metapod.

Made it to Brock's Gym.

Kept using Thundershock on Geodude. Didn't work. Tackles, did almost nothing. I got lucky with a few criticals, but still no dice.

I Lost like 6 times.

A year later, I found out Mankey and Butterfree could take those two out with no problem.

>>1586

Pretty much the same for me. In my first yellow game, I beat Brock with a Pidgey using quick attack and a metric fuckton of potions. I later found out that Butterfree using confusion or a Nidoran using double kick would pretty much rape and be a lot easier.

Although, on the bright side, I had a Pidgeot of doom for the rest of the game.

Haha, I can't remember which tunnel it was, maybe Mt.Moon, but pretty much the first tunnel you enter thats pitch black and you need to use flash to illuminate it. Yeah, I never knew about Flash, I ended up getting it after I beat the Elite Four. I remember that fucking tunnel, I somehow made it through by bumping into walls and just pushing onwards. Nowadays I wonder how the fuck my 8 year old self did that. I just thought the game was really hard and I had to do it in the darkness.

I caught a level 13 Onix with a master ball, Fuck yeah.

I was also hard headed when it came to taking on Brock with Pikachu. I watched the anime, so of course it must always work like that. I was also super pissed when I learned that you couldn't evolve your Pikachu.

When I first got Red a few months after release, I immediately began to play on my old Gameboy Pocket. I clearly remember starting with Charmander, but I was looking for Nidoran male, cause I was already in love with Nidoking. Charmander lasted me til Lt. Surge. Nidorino/Nidoking was my only pokemon aside from a Fearow for the rest of the game. Anything I saw I used Thrash, and almost everything died. If it didn't die, I used Surf or Strength. Was at 60 something at Cinnabar, proceeded to 'thrash' Gio and the Elite 4.


I will always love Nidoking. Eternal bro.

The Brock would like to fight

>>1137

Infinite bikes made me lol way too hard, for like 5 minutes.

I did several things in this thread, actually. I never chose Bulbasaur, except for once and I lost to Charmander because I just kept growling at it and decided to never use Bulbasaur again.

I didn't realise you could sell Nuggets until around the time I faced the Elite Four. I actually thought they were chicken nuggets for a while and didn't understand why chicken nuggets were laying around in caves and shit and why the people on Nugget Bridge really liked chicken nuggets.

Every time I saw '____'s defense rose,' I thought they summoned a gigantic rose (as in the flower) and it was defending them or something inane like that.

Oh, and the BEST part: My cousin told me about mis€™sing҉̵̞̟̠̖̗̘̙ ҉̵̞̟̠̖̗̘̙ ҉̵̞̟̠̖̗̘̙҉̵̞. one day, and I was psyched about it for some stupid reason. I thought having a glitchy, vaguely L-shaped Pokémon was the coolest thing ever. So what did I do? I caught one. And another. And another. I filled like 3 PC boxes with fucking mis€™sing҉̵̞̟̠̖̗̘̙ ҉̵̞̟̠̖̗̘̙ ҉̵̞̟̠̖̗̘̙҉̵̞. To this day, I can't figure out why I did that. It never froze my game, but it ruined my Hall of Fame stats and my Trainer Card.

Other than that, I was a GREAT trainer. I caught a lot of Pokémon, trained them well, had a well-balanced team. I only cheated a few times. Oh, and when I realised how stupid it was to have all three Legendary birds on my team, my fully-evolved starter, Mewtwo, and a Snorlax, all level 100 because of so many Rare Candies, I restarted and did it the right way.

Oh, and in my longest legit run of Silver back in the day (balanced team, all around level 85), I made my Red Gyarados an HM whore. Except for Hyper Beam, every move it knew was an HM move. Waterfall, Whirlpool, and Surf, if I remember correctly.

Good times.

>>1727
"I actually thought they were chicken nuggets for a while and didn't understand why chicken nuggets were laying around in caves and shit and why the people on Nugget Bridge really liked chicken nuggets. "
Holy shit, I just laughed so hard at this; that's actually sort of adorable.

SO
MUCH
NOSTALGIA

Sapphire version. Older brother who hacked. Access to a hacking device.

I HAD SO MANY GODDAMNED BERRIES AND SHINY MILOTICS AND GODDAMN

Those were dark days indeed.

>>1746

This

>>1801
And yet, no matter how many cheats you used, that goddamn Deoxys NEVER did what you told it...

>>1806
nah bro used deoxys I had me my shiny gardevoirs and milotics and mewtwos and every legendary ever

I was "that guy" who would only train one type. I had Primeape, Hitmonlee, Hitmonchan, Machamp and, because there weren't enough fighting types then to make a full team, Fearow. Mirror move was the only way I beat Lance and Agatha in the E4.

The battle with Bruno was always intense, though. I would refuse to switch to my Fearow, who would probably have taken out his fighting types easily. I would use my Hitmonlee to fight his Hitmonlee, my Hitmonchan to fight his Hitmonchan, and my Machamp to fight his Machamp.

I'd always lose to my rival (who I always name Kilroy) because of his goddamn Pidgeot. Fearow was always too weak after the Dragons. I didn't use potions, either.

The first Pkmn game I played was SIlver and that was about a year or so before Ruby/Saphire came out.
I struggled with most of teh gyms having to grind up my teams and my younger cousin (who had been playing since Red/Blue) had to keep coming round and beating the gym leaders for me until I got myself a decent team and had them levelled up to mid-thirties.
That's when I really got the hang of it lol

My old faithful Feraligator!

I didnt know about the thirsty dudes
I didnt understand the puzzle for the 3rd gym leader and thought you could only pass if you were on lv 50. mostly because I couldn't read.
so I beat the game with a Blastoits with stupid high levels

pokemon gold.
2000
"hoaw i catch teh pokemon?!"

Only real mistake I've ever made was on Gold.

>Bug beats Psychic
>Ghost also beats Psychic
>>implying Bug beats Ghost

I actually tried to beat Morty using Bug types.

I caught every single Pokemon and tried to raise them all equally. This includes the horrible ones. My gameplay hours were at 70 something and I was only on the second gym. : (

I also used a Master Ball on Articuno in R/B.

>>2870
Just like Green would do. For a while, through RSE, I would catch monsters and raise them for a little while to get an idea of their attacks. If they didn't get anything interesting within a few levels, I'd deposit it in a Box. If there were interesting attacks, or it evolved, I was more likely to add it to my permanent party.

>>1727
im playing crystal agian right now and my red garydos is an hm whore of the exact same moves. hes a great one
or she. i think all male magikarps turn into female garydos and visa verca

>>2870

I guess I should lock myself into the nickname Green, then.

I always train my Pokemon equally.

Weird thing is, I've had a grand total of SEVEN Pokemon above Level 80. And that's between Red, Blue, Yellow, Gold, Silver, Crystal, Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald, FireRed, Diamond, HeartGold and White.

13 games and only 7 Level 80+ between them.

And four are on White.

>>2921
I also am like this. I didn't get my first Pokémon to lvl 100 until Diamond. The only two I have actually; Noctowl and Quagsire.

I wasn't aware that the Bulbasaur line was Grass/Poison until GenIV. I started Red Version with Bulbasaur.

In blue I got scared when I took that guy's eevee. That freaked me out! And in ruby when Steven first used fly, I thought he got took.

I only used my started and plowed thure the whole game using an overlevled Blastoits

>STORY
>You are an 11-year old boy.

Heh, I wish they had made these games when I was a kid, so I could have hilarious stories like y'all. I was already 20 when R/B came out in the US and had been playing RPGs since the first Dragon Warrior, so this type of game was nothing new to me. Nothing new, that is, except for the INSANE number of possible party members (over 150? Damn..). I was a completest and tried to do EVERY possible quest and try EVERY character in every game I played. My philosophy was something like "I payed for the whole game, so I'm going to PLAY the whole game and see everything in it, dammit!" So I developed a system that, every time I visited a POKéMON center, I would deposit my highest-level POKéMON and replace it with my lowest-level one (only switching boxes once a day, so I wouldn't have to sort through every single POKéMON to find the lowest-level one). Naturally, this took forever. I even stuck to this method when it left me with a horribly unbalanced party (3 water types and 3 bug types? No problemo).
>>1137
I encountered missing number the first time by accident to. I just got to route 20 and was just cruising through, not looking for trouble. But as soon as I hit the coastline...BAM. I think I had regular potions in my 6th slot.
>>1727
>I didn't realise you could sell Nuggets
I realized right away they were meant to be gold nuggets, but I still never sold them, thinking they might have some other use, like there might be an NPC who would trade them for other rare items or something. I didn't really care about money, because I never used items. I'd just backtrack to the last POKéMON center if it looked like I wouldn't make it through an area in one go. Because of the method of play I described earlier, this usually meant going back after every trainer battle. -_-;

I mostly only trained my starter POKéMON (though I had maybe one or two other POKéMON that were strong enough to be useful). I also gave all my POKéMON stupid and vulgar names. I was 11.

>>3023
>So I developed a system that, every time I visited a POKéMON center, I would deposit my highest-level POKéMON and replace it with my lowest-level one (only switching boxes once a day, so I wouldn't have to sort through every single POKéMON to find the lowest-level one)
This is some kind of crazy nuzlocke-type rule. Also, I wish I'd been able to play Dragon Warrior when it released - what a cool background and perspective you have. Also cool picture.
Trying to do 100% on your first playthrough in any game is usually exhausting enough to ruin it, but in POKéMON I usually visit everywhere I can and talk to everybody before triggering the next event flag to continue the game.

For the longest time ever I thought that Psyduck didn't evolve and that Golduck was the final evolution form of Meowth/Persian.

I thought this because I saw it in a mag, obviuslt a miss print but being a kid I didn't relise.

I killed a shiny as a kid.
Am I a bad person?

Blaziken moveset. Blaze kick, Fire Blast, Overheat, Double Kick. I had a similar problem with my charizard, but I can't remember the exact moveset.