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Most Embarrassing Pokemon Mistakes

D-ManBlue
D-ManBlue Member Posts: 383 ✭✭✭
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In your early Pokemon playing career, what is something you did or believed that you just look back and facepalm about.

For me, my first Master Ball catch was a Foongus. I don't really look back on it with that much embarrassment, as I had no real plans on what else to use it on, but it certainly shows how ignorant I was.

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  • cpm1
    cpm1 Member Posts: 374 ✭✭✭
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    being in pokeball tier in ranked battles.

  • Elberta
    Elberta Member Posts: 91 ✭✭
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    I deleted a Shiny in Pokemon Go by complete accident. It was a Shiny Gible, please don't hate me.

  • TheJeffers
    TheJeffers Member Posts: 1,310 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I can't really think of anything too embarrassing I did in the games themselves. Probably just brute forcing everything with my starter, as most kids did/do before I saw the value in training a team with decent type coverage.

    I went to the trouble of playing through Blue and trading a Pokémon with cut over from Red so that I could skip the SS Anne and come back with surf to use strength on the infamous truck and catch "Mewthree". In my defense this was before the days of a ubiquitous internet and I was a primary schooler. Plus Mew turned out to be real. So why not Mewthree?

    I think my most regrettable choice was trading away one of the two base set Charizards I opened in the TCG, and writing my name on the one I kept. I am much more cautious and protective of my trading cards these days.

  • Funboy35
    Funboy35 Member Posts: 62 ✭✭
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    During the Champion Cup battle against Hop, I called out Earthquake against his Corviknight. Of course Hop quipped about my mistake!

  • Beauchu
    Beauchu Member Posts: 43
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    I accidentally killed a shiny...

  • ItsMeLucas64
    ItsMeLucas64 Member Posts: 12
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    choosing blaze kick instead of pyro ball. to be honest i used to do that so much until i accidentally picked pyro ball and its kinda like venasaurs solar beam.

  • Eremas
    Eremas Member Posts: 983 ✭✭✭
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    Playing gen 2 I tricked my brother saying a pokemon has to stay in one turn to get EVs. It was a mistake because I still revert to thinking about it when I play.

  • TechHog
    TechHog Member Posts: 2,809 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Pokémon Trading Card Game Live

  • Ravenclawed1234
    Ravenclawed1234 Member Posts: 762 ✭✭✭✭
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    for years I thought Chansey was a fairy type and still get confused by it

  • Pokeplay219
    Pokeplay219 Member Posts: 32 ✭✭
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    I did not learn the difference between physical and special moves for probably a year into my first Pokémon game. I kept using flamethrower on my Incineroar and being confused when it didn’t do that much damage.