Share your beginner's mistakes

[Meowstic Royalty]

Simply post your miserable Pokemon game failures from years back for the laughs. I still look back in my failures and laugh at my stupidity.

For example, when I found Poison hurt your Pokemon out side of battle, the shake the screen did for effect made me think my DS was possessed by Giratina.

I also thought for two years that Fire had no effect on Ground. I also thought Grass was super effective on Steel and could never understand why a Razor Leaf did next to nothing to a Metagross.

I also used my Master Ball... ON A FREAKING BIDOOF.

Oh yes, I also spent all of my D/P/P money getting game corner coins. I eventually ended up with a quarter of the coins I started with. Genius.

I once clicked 'Release' on my Shiny Weavile because I thought it would come out of my DS and into the real world... Dammit, brain.

Yep. If any of you can beat THOSE... Wow.

[Wolstenholme]

My early pokemon techniques:

BLAST EVERYTHING WITH FLAMETHROWER/CHARIZARD/FIRE OMG IT'S SUPER EFFECTIVE AGAINST EVERYTHING WOOOOOOOOO.

BLAST EVERYTHING WITH HYDRO PUMP/BLASTOISE/WATER OMG IT'S SUPER EFFECTIVE AGAINST EVERYTHING WOOOOOOOOO.

BLAST EVERYTHING WITH RAZOR LEAF/VENUSAUR/GRASS OMG IT'S SUPER EFFECTIVE AGAINST EVERYTHING WOOOOOOOOO.

hahahahaha I was like.... 6 at this stage.

[Meowstic Royalty]

My early pokemon techniques:

BLAST EVERYTHING WITH FLAMETHROWER/CHARIZARD/FIRE OMG IT'S SUPER EFFECTIVE AGAINST EVERYTHING WOOOOOOOOO.

BLAST EVERYTHING WITH HYDRO PUMP/BLASTOISE/WATER OMG IT'S SUPER EFFECTIVE AGAINST EVERYTHING WOOOOOOOOO.

BLAST EVERYTHING WITH RAZOR LEAF/VENUSAUR/GRASS OMG IT'S SUPER EFFECTIVE AGAINST EVERYTHING WOOOOOOOOO.

hahahahaha I was like.... 6 at this stage.

I can fully relate to all of this...

[SirBlaziken]

I used to think that water would be super effective against dragon types.

[quack98]

I always thought Gyarados was dragon and Azurill was water.

But other than that I was smart xD

[sans the skeleton]

i used to think if you snapped your cartridge all of the pokemon would come out and be your friends

i tried to give my cousin loads of pokemon because they had pokemon blue with almost all of the pokemon and i just

hammered it in half trying to get her new friends

we both cried because we both knew what death was and we'd killed ALL OF THOSE POKEMON

[Reluctant Wailord]

I complained to my dad that I couldn't escape battles in Ruby.
He looked in the instruction manual and told me what I had to do.
It wasn't even a glitch or anything I just didn't see the massive "RUN" in the corner of the screen.

[lugia95]

I had to turn off the power every time I reached a double battle in Sapphire because I had no idea how to work them.

[SirBlaziken]

I used to think that dustox was bug/flying

[b1g]

one time I used a masterball on electabuzz, i'd spent hours looking for one and couldn't find it, and then found one only to have no balls left in my bag sans the master ball, and just went... "screw it, why not".

[Mr. Apple]

i had to keep starting over because i didnt know how to save...

[FM|Fire walk with me]

My earliest error was well on my very first playthrough of Red when I was 10 using my masterball on a Raticate, thinking I wouldn't regret it at all, fast forward a few days and I'm up against Mewtwo, all my pokemon except my Charizard where under leveled and my Charizards exact moveset was Ember, Fire spin, Fire blast and Flamethrower.

Needless to say Mewtwo wiped the floor with me so I restocked on items and was smart bringing along my friends Venusaur just to put it to sleep so I could actually hit the thing with balls, only to find it it was no longer there.

After this I began playing Gold due to disappointment and frustration. During this play through of gold I completely missed Entei, Raikou and Suicune and by the time I learnt about them, I'd already used the tm for rock smash and deleted the move from my Sudowoodo. I Immediately started a new game losing all my pokemon from Red and my lv 93 Feraligatr, only to find out the next day that you can buy Rock smash from one of the big department stores.

[sans the skeleton]

oh! another one! in gen I and II i didn't know how to exit doors and it took me half an hour to get down the first stairs from when you start the game and i had this problem in gen 3 for like 2 seconds but got used to a new strategy

just bump against the walls until you get out i guess

but thing is i couldn't even identify the exit tiles i thought they were just decorative rugs???

[lugia95]

^OMG I had that exact same problem when I first started playing Sapphire. It took me a whole day to get out of the truck at the beginning.

[Meowstic Royalty]

I used to think that dustox was bug/flying

It isn't? ._.