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What's the most embarrassing thing you used to believe about the Pokémon games?

I don't really remember any truly embarrassing things I believed about the games for some reason. I do have one memory though: my first Pokémon game ever was Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness, and after reading about it online I genuinely believed you would start the game with a Salamence and even bragged about it to friends at school... Imagine my surprise and disappointment when that was only a cutscene and you get an Eevee instead. Still love the game though :wynaut:
 
I used to think that the emulator I played Pokemon Crystal on made it impossible to obtain shiny Pokemon. For some reason, I was sure it was impossible because I hadn't encountered any myself. At the time I must have thought shinies were less rare than they really on.

I used to think water was weak to ice-type Pokemon. I remember how salty I was when I realized it wasn't. I was playing SoulSilver and trying to beat Claire's Kingdra with my somewhat underleveled Dewgong. I was so frustrated because I thought Kingdra was 4x weak to Dewgong's ice type attacks because it was a Water/Dragon-type and it was like my hits were doing barely anything. To rub salt even more in the wound, when I looked it up I realized Kingdra was not only not 4x weak to the ice type attacks, it was damaged normally by them because the water negated that ice type weakness dragon types had. I was not happy.
 
Now that I think about it... I have never seen an RPG where Ice is strong against Water... You would have thought there would be a game with that, but no.

(I do agree that Water being weak against Ice would have been logical).
 
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After watching the corresponding episode in the anime, I actually believed you could catch Keckleon in Pokémon Crystal :wynaut: More specifically, I convinced myself that it was found in a headbutt tree near Olivine City and I kid you not I spent weeks trying to get that thing. I assume I just gave up at some point but man! I can't believe I managed to convince myself of that haha
 
To be fair, Diancie is a mutation of Carbink in-universe, just one that is unknown to humans, so the player can't trigger it. So your belief was actually not that far off.
I remember reading about that in one of those Pokémon handbooks, so that's probably where the belief came from.
 
As a kid, I noticed that the evolutions of a Pokemon appeared after the base stage in the Pokedex, and I mistakenly thought that consecutive single-stage Pokemon in the Pokedex evolved into each other too.

So in Sapphire, I ended up with a lv. 50-something Plusle, Lunatone and Volbeat as my party members. I assumed that they'd evolved into Minun, Solrock and Illumise eventually. Then I discovered Pokemon fansites like Bulbapedia and Serebii and learned I was just dumb. :wynaut:
 
Really stupid, but as a young kid I thought stat-lowering moves didn't do anything, since that Level 2 Pidgey's Tackle basically did the same damage before and after my Bulbasaur's Growl. For a long time, my partner's movesets consisted of outright damaging or non-stat related status moves.

Then I learned about stat stages the hard way courtesy of Winona and her Dragon Dance.
I used to believe that status were useless for the longest time too since I couldn't read English to infer their effects. However, when I eventually found out what they did and realised that Tail Whip lowered my Pokémon's defense, I became deadly afraid of every Rattata using it on my starter on Route 1 because I hadn't figured out the effect only lasted for a single battle. I thought that after going through Route 1 and repeatedly getting hit with Tail Whip would give a Rattata that used Tackle a super powerful hit into my lowered defense. Thankfully this never happened >_>
 
When the Sinnoh anime debuted I was 100% sure Dialga was a Dragon/Ice-type because in the first anime opening, it's shown standing on a glacier apparently using Blizzard, which it can learn, so when I got Diamond later in the summer I was a bit disappointed when I learned it's true typing. Ice is still my favorite type, Dialga is still one of my favorite Pokemon, and I still teach it Blizzard in every game just because of this.
 
An old friend of mine once told me it was possible to kill a low-level Pokemon (Read: KILL, not knock out) with a strong attack from a level 100 Pokemon in the original games, and that then cops would pursue you until you were caught and thrown in jail for the crime. I believed it.

I guess it was a tease.
 
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