Share your beginner's mistakes

[Liam]

I think you've just discovered another beginner's mistake: leaving Torterra in against a Pokemon that knows ice shard.

[SirBlaziken]

Getting a chimchar from my brother.

I was such an idiot.

[Webby]

The first starter I raised to level 100 was a Blaziken. Why I ever thought to waste my time on it, I'll never know.
(I miss my level 100 Espeon and Milotic though )

[vegparcriddle]

I releases lombre with my only exp share damn
I tried to ask youngster timmy where do I go after taking on brock
I knocked out articuno
I droped my gameboy fighting lance and it glicthed
I named gary a cool ass name . I forgot What it was
I bought that magikarp from that guy for 5000$

[The Macintosh Ninja: SOH CAH TOA]

I bought that magikarp from that guy for 5000$

I always buy that Magikarp. Support local business!!

I would always get rid of stat boosting moves as a kid. Around the time of Diamond and Pearl I started realizing that they were very helpful.

[Meowstic Royalty]

I would always get rid of stat boosting moves as a kid. Around the time of Diamond and Pearl I started realizing that they were very helpful.

I thought Swords Dance and Nasty Plot just added two points to the stat, not doubling it... I thought the moves were for low level Pokemon or idiotic trainers. WHOOPS.

[SaRo|Rapidash]

I would always get rid of stat boosting moves as a kid. Around the time of Diamond and Pearl I started realizing that they were very helpful.

I still do this ingame xD

I used to always teach everything hyper beam (I still do occasionally!!) not realising it's not actually as powerful as a strong STAB move.

I used to think STAB was only *1.25 if you had two STABs (it was in the strategy guide for RSE!!! What a rip-off!)

[Mr. Apple]

It's bug/poison my friend.

what?!?!!???? i totally thought that was flying Dx

I thought Swords Dance and Nasty Plot just added two points to the stat, not doubling it... I thought the moves were for low level Pokemon or idiotic trainers. WHOOPS.

i also did that haha
I thought Swords Dance and Nasty Plot just added two points to the stat, not doubling it... I thought the moves were for low level Pokemon or idiotic trainers. WHOOPS.

[Sappy]

took the "mashing a for capture" thing to an extreme

one time i was so convinced, i mashed a and then i had this thing where i would like turn the gba or whatever handheld upside down as i thought not looking at it would raise my chances. then i turned my gbcolour upside down and slid it across a basketball court whilst battling lugia... actually caught it, too!

That's the best one.

G/S

1.

Very first time I played Pokemon and it was Pokemon Silver. Anyhow being 8 or 9 I spent probably 2 hours trying to get out of the house. I found the stairs fine, but I didn't know how on earth how to get out. I just thought the mat was one people lay out to make the place look pretty. Aren't I cool.

2.

Then I didn't know what saving was. I was such a game noob. Played like 3 times picking Totodile each time until my cousin showed me how to save.

3.

Masterball on Graveler, not cause it was an accident. I just really liked Golem at the time.

4.

Training Haunter to level 60 not realising it needed to be traded.

5.

Playing crystal I never knew about Mt. Silver. So for some reason I traveled victory road again, went to Pokemon League then saw; "OMG I CAN GO BEHIND HIM". So explored that, found Red. I shrugged and was like "oh it's me." (The sprite's the same). BAM BAM BAM. Oh.. these Pokemon are high levels. Thank god I have my Lv 100s on me and won ^^

6.

I didn't know Crobat existed. Raised a Zubat for a change on Crystal. Oh golly gosh, HOW IS THIS THING EVOLVING? GOLBATS DONT EVOLVE. OMG THAT IS SOOO COOOL.

7.

Struggled quite a lot in Kanto in Crystal.

8.

As a kid you heard about Lugia and Ho-oh, but I never knew how to actually get them. Stumbled across Lugia like; "Oh there it is. THAT'S SO COOL". Never found Ho-oh and to this day I've never caught a Ho-oh. I've got one through trades and events though ^^

9.

Forgot to fight Jasmine after doing the lighthouse quest.

R/S/E

R/S/E didn't have too many mess ups. But there's a few and being 12 with my friend was amazing.

1.

Tried to get Zangoose. Spend hours trying. Oh it's not in Sapphire... lovely.

2.

Picked Lileep when I loved Anorith

3.

Didn't what Rayquaza was. Climbed a tower for the hell of it.

4.

Didn't go to pacifilog town for well... ages.

5.

It's not really a mistake, but doing the braille for the Regi's was absolutely amazing fun. I think I caught Rock/Ice/Steel in that order. I remember sleeping round a friends house catching Regice and trying all the time in the world.

6.

I bought Pokemon Channel... did get a Jirachi tho.

7.

Actually made a team of Lv 30's for the union room. Lol.

8.

This one's actually IRL. I was at the 10th Anniversary event. It was amazing. Anyway, that day I got a Mew and  a Celebi I just went up to everyone asking if they wanted one (It wasn't giving them away at the event). I'd clone it for them and everything.

FUN FACT: My breeding partner (Please read that carefully ) was traded to me that day. A Shiny Camperupt with magma armour. I still use it even today. It's called Bluenumel because the kid was young.

9.

Went to an event with Lv 100s. Terrible idea.

Will do D/P, BW and XY in a bit.

[Ya-Yah]

Didn't anyone else think they would beat Brock with Pikachu in Yellow? I can't be the only one that got sucked in by the anime. Also I let my friend play and he fainted when fighting Team Rocket in Mt Moon and told me they took my Pikachu - I thought I'd have to hunt them down, only to find him KO'd in my party

Also, in Gen II, I wouldn't heal at Cherrygrove pokecentre before the first rival battle, so if I lost against him  I would be back in New Bark Town and wouldn't have to fight him again

[Xagor]

I somehow managed to beat the entire game of Yellow with a Pikachu. Not really sure how I got through Giovanni the first time, because when I tried redoing this I needed things like X Defense to stop him getting killed too easily by Earthquakes.

[PurplePurrloin]

I did the whole train-only-your starter thing in my first playthroughs of Pokemon games.
After I learned about balancing your team out and stuff I decided to catch every single Pokemon I came across and train EVERY SINGLE ONE.

[Kdintranet & Scizau]

Beginners mistake andddddd a mistakes I still do today.

1. I never use; X-Attack, Defense, Sp Def.... ect ect. I just don't see the point in them. I'm like Gary. If their not strong enough without these add-ons. They should not appear in my team. Nintendo should not be promoting Steroids! .

2. I never use Full Restore/Max Potion Ect in battle. I wait till after the battle to heal all my Pokemon, but then I don't go around the Marts to by all these amazing items. Why? you ask. Oh I don't know. Same as above. I just like to heal my Pokemon in the Pokemon Centre a lot & I like fainting. Strange one aren't I? I'll only use a healing item if I have found it in the wild.

I'll try and think of some more crazy things that I don't bother doing like the above.

[Turner]

I never understood registering with select. I thought 'SEL' was an abbreviated form of 'SELL' and would sell my Key items so I totally avoided that and I thought 'Register' had something to do with registering something on the internet (Which was relatively new and dial up back then) and I never touched it in fear of my mum getting a huge bill.

[Mr. Apple]

i didnt know what a shiny was and killed a shiny zubat in pearl

Beginners mistake andddddd a mistakes I still do today.

1. I never use; X-Attack, Defense, Sp Def.... ect ect. I just don't see the point in them. I'm like Gary. If their not strong enough without these add-ons. They should not appear in my team. Nintendo should not be promoting Steroids! .

ive never actually used one of those things to this day haha