Well, You Thought Wrong

[blazheirio889]

Oh right, I've always thought until recently that Gyarados's name was spelled Gyrados. Y'know, the 'Gyr' part as in 'gyre'? Although, it does look better with an extra a...

 

[glitchedgamer]

I still like Gyarados' beta name better: Skulkraken >=). I named my Red Gyarados in Crystal that.

 

[Kabigon]

When I was little I thought Mew evolved Mewtwo and Mewtwo evolved into Mega-Mewtwo(Mewtwo with his suit from the movie). Yeah...

You're not the only one who thought Mega-Mewtwo was a real Pokemon!

I don't remember where I got it from.

I thought Salamence was a powerful unobtainable Pokemon. So I lied to my friend and told him that you could get it by training Bagon. Didn't know it was true.

 

[EddyOkapi]

I lied to my friend and told him that you could get it by training Bagon. Didn't know it was true.

XD Just.. awesome.

I used to think Electabuzz, Jynx and Magmar were legendaries at first. It's not until I saw lots of magmar and electabuzz in their respective catchable zones I realized those two weren't. I still thought Jynx was legendary because my friend had one, never told me how to get it, further fueling the thoughts of her being legendary. That was before I could get on the internet to check it, then facepalming.

Also took me a long time to know Gengar and Golem were only obtainable via trade. The only one I had was a Golem from a friend at level 36, again, fueling my thoughts that golems evolve at level 36 and that trading just acts like a level up, hence, making your pokemon evolve if you canceled the evolution. Yeah..

Then there's the whole aerodactyl being legendary for me back then. I think I was too disillusionnal and thought everything rare was legendary. Like Snorlax, since there were only two and I.. used... a masterball.. to catch my first in my very first playthough.

Of course, I never been the brightest bulb in the box and kept believing loads of things made up by myself. 8/

 

[Leviathan]

Like Snorlax, since there were only two and I.. used... a masterball.. to catch my first in my very first playthough.

I can top that (sadly).

I was introduced to Pokemon by my cousin; by that point he had gotten really far in Blue and was almost done with the pokedex. So I looked over his shoulder one day and saw him, apparently, buying Master Balls somewhere, then catching a bunch of stuff with them. When I got my copy of Red (and Yellow, which would then go unplayed forever), I assumed that I would be able to get as many Master Balls as I wanted, so I used it on a random Seadra I encountered on my way to the E4. After several months of looking for this mystical ball vendor, I asked my cousin how he had done it and he said he had no idea what I was talking about.

 

[Autumn]

I believed that Take Down was a Dark-type move for a while... until fairly recently, actually, when a Pokémon in my FireRed learned it and I was like "wait... Take Down's a Normal move?"

 

[Drowzee64]

When I was very little, I thought that Fire>Water because fire evaporates water.

I was the slow one.

 

[EddyOkapi]

When I was very little, I thought that Fire>Water because fire evaporates water.

I was the slow one.

Haw, you know, type-matching before the internet start hammering in my head was complicated. Ice isn't effective against Water type, not matter how much I thought it could freeze water. Yeah..

 

[glitchedgamer]

Don't worry, Eddy, I'm still convinced Electabuzz, Jynx, and Magmar were legends before they got replaced by Zapdos, Articuno, and Moltres. They are all human-shaped, and they were the only Pokemon to learn their respective elemental punches, so they could have been signature moves. Then Hitmonchan had to be created...

 

[Alexi]

Holy balls, Tate is a guy?!

Hm, interesting....

Recently, after playing Oblivion for waaay too long, I somehow got it into my head that you could kill a trainer and take their pokemon.

My sis told me I was fuckin crazy.

 

[nothing to see here]

From what I remember, Bugsy was the only character whose gender I couldn't figure out.

Never had any trouble at all with Roark, Tucker, Tate etc... usually the names are a pretty big giveaway. And I can't see how people are getting genders mixed up for the Team Galactic people... Saturn looks like a dude with a funny haircut, and Mars and Jupiter are pretty obviously girls.

Of course, maybe I'm just really good at figuring out people's genders...

 

[Mai]

Woah. I just figured out that skarmory and chinchou and generation 2 pokemon.
I didn't see them until rse!!! Wierd. That was silly. Anyone have something like that
happen to you?

 

[Spatz]

Origianly in Gold I thought that the secret potion was one of the best potions you could get, and would heal your entire team. Shame...

 

[Momoharu]

Lol when I was small and trying to catch a Vulpix, I ran out of balls so I threw my master

 

[The Hungry Goldfish]

Let's see...

-I once thought Charizard was a Fire/Flying/Dragon/Fighting type.
-Once, while playing a friend's Crystal, I came across Entei... and ran from it.
-When I saw the R/S Nosepass sprite: , I thought it didn't have any legs; I thought it was a head for a statue, the one foot on the ground was the neck, the one foot in the air was a tubelike mouth, and the arms were ears.
-I thought Golbats evolved into Crobat at Level 65.
-I thought the Soothe Bell was in Pokemon Gold.... until I looked it up.
And...
-I thought Ice-types were weak to Dark-type moves.

 

[Elliekat]

I thought the Grass-type was called Leaf-type until I met that girl in Emerald who gives you whatever if you have a Grass type. I was all, "What is this Grass type? Is she talking about Leaf type?"

And I thought if you pressed B when the Pokeball hit the "ground" and then did Right-Left-Right-Down, it would unfailingly catch a Pokemon. I still do that out of habit, even though I know better.

 

[jimmyboyacreman]

I always thought that pokemon raised from a lower level were stronger in red - in fact, i'm still not sure whether or not they are...

When I saw the R/S Nosepass sprite: , I thought it didn't have any legs; I thought it was a head for a statue, the one foot on the ground was the neck, the one foot in the air was a tubelike mouth, and the arms were ears.

it looks awesome when you think about it like that...

 

[Not Meowth]

-When I saw the R/S Nosepass sprite: , I thought it didn't have any legs; I thought it was a head for a statue, the one foot on the ground was the neck, the one foot in the air was a tubelike mouth, and the arms were ears.

I usually see those arms as ears anyway o_o

I think I once thought Butterfree could learn Fly in Pokémon Yellow, which I suppose isn't quite such a ridiculous misconception given that Pidgey, Spearow etc. learn it.

 

[blazheirio889]

And Dodrio can learn it in Gen I. Which is even more ridiculous, considering it doesn't have wings.
Charizard couldn't learn Fly in Gen I, either. Flawed logic yay~

 

[EddyOkapi]

-When I saw the R/S Nosepass sprite: , I thought it didn't have any legs; I thought it was a head for a statue, the one foot on the ground was the neck, the one foot in the air was a tubelike mouth, and the arms were ears.

I.. can't stop laughing at nosepass' sprite now. XD Tube-mouth.


The entei one reminds me that I used to think Lugia would be in the Tin Tower in Silver sinc eI had played Gold first and Ho-oh was there. Of course, I was young and couldn't read English properly so I didn't read what everyone said.

Which now chain-reminds me that the moonstone and sun stone would make Eevee evolve into Umbreon and Espeon for quite a long time. I still catch myself trying to get a leaf stone on eevee when trying to make it evolve into a Leafeon before I remember that they don't work that way. :c