"Wow, I was an IDIOT!" moments

[Royal_Qeca]

Back in the good ol' days I thought that Machop was Fighting/Steel and Pinsir was Bug/Steel. I also tried to get a Steelix in Pokémon Blue... Oh the memories.

 

[Silverwynde]

-Sending my poor Bisharp out against Nita's Wigglytuff. I completely forgot that Wigglytuff can learn Focus Blast. Sorry, Bisharp. (I still won the battle, though.)

-Spotting a brand new Ribbon on my Bisharp and Golurk and wondering just how in the name of Primus they earned a "Skillful Battler" ribbon...then I remembered the Battle Maison. Man, I is dumb sumtimes. :dumb:

 

[Daren]

Well, I messed up tonight. I was in the single battle Maison, around battle 17 or so, using Swampert, Gengar (with a Mega Stone), and Conkeldurr. Here's what happened:
*Gengar is facing a Gabite; I mega evolve but accidentally use Sludge Bomb instead of Shadow Ball.
*Gabite barely survives thanks to type advantage, than KO's MegaGengar with Earthquake.
*Conkeldurr takes out Gabite with Mach Punch.
*Enemy Carnvine comes and one hit KOs everyone (got a critical agaisnt Conkeldurr).

Argh. I went back in and defeated Nita after replacing Swampert with Salamence, but it was embarassing.

 

[Stratelier]

*Gengar is facing a Gabite; I mega evolve but accidentally use Sludge Bomb instead of Shadow Ball.
*Gabite barely survives thanks to type advantage, than KO's MegaGengar with Earthquake.

The ironic part is Gengar might have still been standing if you didn't mega-evolve.

 

[ShinyHunterDawn]

Any time I face a fairy type Pokemon that used to be a normal type, I'm sure to make an idiot of myself. ^^;

 

[#MegaKHRP]

Dumbest thing I've done? Oh god, there have been so many, especially in my WonderLocke...

Ooh I know!! It took me five years to beat Leafgreen because my Blastoise only knew moves with 5 PP and nothing else was strong enough..

 

[happymeal555]

Going into Restaurant LeWow with O Power to get extra money and extra experience, but not casting the O Power before I start battling…

 

[G50]

Choosing the wrong training bags for my Pokemon I was EV training, I had to reset a couple of times to avoid having to get a reset bag for Super Training

 

[Almonds]

During an online battle, I was down to my Aggron, and the opponent had Mega-Ampharos as their last.

I Mega-evolved my Aggron and aimed for Earthquake, but I accidentally clicked Iron Head. Gah, the M-Amapharos used a Focus Blast that missed and Iron Head didn't even do much damage ;_;

So basically

Mega-Amphy used Focus Blast!
It missed!
Mega-Aggron used Iron Head!
Little damage!
Mega-Amphy used Focus Blast!
Critical hit!
Aggron fainted!


...I lost that battle ;_; If only I had used Earthquake I could have won...

 

[Kyuuketsuki]

I just realised the Oval Charm and Shiny Charm are in X & Y; I thought they were cut out. I've been using the Masuda Method for months now...

 

[Derp-Derp2]

recently i have been re doing my dragonite to get one in a special pokeball. So i was like hmm 1% chance in black 2 50% of it being female. ok then. 4 days later oh ye dragonair in friend safarie

 

[Silverwynde]

Going into Restaurant LeWow with O Power to get extra money and extra experience, but not casting the O Power before I start battling…

I've done that too, but in the Battle Chateau. I'll stand in front of an E4 member and completely forget to activate the Prize Money O Power before hitting the A button. Each time I do that I kinda want to smack my head into the wall.

 

[happymeal555]

I've done that too, but in the Battle Chateau. I'll stand in front of an E4 member and completely forget to activate the Prize Money O Power before hitting the A button. Each time I do that I kinda want to smack my head into the wall.

I KNOW it's so annoying! It's a waste if I go to a place to accomplish something, and don't even do what I need to do to accomplish it xD

 

[BigBadBatter]

I had a brainfart and didn't kill the terrakion in a terracott set. Cue whole team owned except my meowstic, who KO's terrakion and (almost) a regigigas.

 

[Bladeheart111x]

I was an idiot during my first time encountering a shiny. I accidentally KO'ed a shiny Zubat that I encountered in Mt. Moon in LeafGreen with a Zapdos' drill peck, not knowing it was a shiny...

 

[shayminskyforme88]

I once spent 2 hours in Friend Safari trying to look for a Female Hidden Ability Braxien until I found one. After that, I thought to myself, why didn't I just use Cute Charm *Face Palm*

 

[Winterdaze]

I'd been giving my Pokemon trained for wifi 248 EVs in stats I wanted to max out, since I had read that at level 50 raising a Pokemon's stat by 1 takes 8 EVs (as opposed to 4 at level 100), so giving more than 248 would be a waste of EVs right?

It turns out that's not a hard and fast rule, as natures and variations in base stats can influence the EVs required to max a stat at level 50; sometimes it's 248, sometimes it's 252. So now most of my bred Pokemon are a few points short in vital stats (which is especially damning in Speed) until I get the reset bags required to train them again.

 

[phoen1x309]

Knowing your team can't do much against water/ground types (Quagsire) and not having a grass type on your team.

 

[WindBlast]

Tactically forgetting that Kanga is immune to ghost types. There go the turns spent on setting my Aegislash up

 

[Almonds]

I was breeding a Jigglypuff, but I got momentarily confused when Jigglypuff didn't hatch from the first egg.

I forgot about Igglybuff...