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[Anonymous No.3407210]

What mistakes did you make your first time playing through Pokemon?

>killed Articuno
>killed MewTwo
>used Master Ball on Zapdos

[Anonymous No.3407252]

>>3407210
>Gold version
>Holy fuck, look at the size of that Snorlax overworld sprite!
>This seems worthy of my masterball!

[Anonymous No.3407701]

>saving after literally every battle

>never using items

>never running from battles

>level 70 starter, rest of team level 20 max

>infinite rare candies to evolve anything

[Anonymous No.3407704]

>>3407701

The starter steamroller was the only way to play.

[Anonymous No.3407706]

> Used Master Ball on ditto

[Anonymous No.3407708]

>>3407701
Rare candy evolved pokemon were weaker. Better to use the trick on master balls.

[Anonymous No.3407725]

>>3407210
my big one was in red actually catching the missingno because my dumb ass thought it was some secret pokemon or some shit.
another one was trying to catch the ghosts in lavander tower.
pokemon blue this was.

[Anonymous No.3407728]

>>3407708
i legit never knew this, hell this is the first time i've ever heard of it, is there any proof on this?

[Anonymous No.3407730]

I didn't start Pokemon until gen 4. By the time I played Red and Silver I was experienced and thus made no major mistakes.

Anyone else do mistakes due to the anime? I fainted a Pokemon trying to cstch it because that's how the anime did it.

[Anonymous No.3407732]

>>3407728
http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Individual_values#Generation_I_and_II

This is the reason why trained pokemon are stronger than wild pokemon

[Anonymous No.3407738]

>>3407730
for me it wasn't so much mistake but my inner sperg breaking out before it matured over certain pokemon not being able to do the shit it could in the show, like pikachu could only learn 1/3rd of the things ash's pikachu can and has much shittier stats as well.

[Anonymous No.3407740]

>>3407732
http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Effort_values

Wrong link, my bad

[Anonymous No.3407835]

kek, the most retarded thing I remember is that I used the masterball in a Onyx. Good old times of innocence

[Anonymous No.3407873]

I made no mistakes, because I had the Power!

[Anonymous No.3407903]

>>3407873

I have that guide somewhere. I should dig it out - I love the old Pokemon art. I prefer it to the more refined style used today.

[Anonymous No.3407916]

The best target for the Master Ball is actually an Abra.

>Abras often flee right away making them very difficult to catch without Master Ball
>Abra evolves to Alakazam, the strongest non-legendary Pokemon

[Anonymous No.3407918]

>>3407728
Only makes a difference if your playing vs other fully trained pokemon,

[Anonymous No.3407932]

>>3407210
>didn't know what withdraw or deposits meant so I released a bunch of my Pokemon
>killed all legendaries
>used Master Ball on Ditto

[Anonymous No.3407946]

Tried to do a starter trade.
For some reason it didn't go through my head that the trade saving would overwrite my game file.
Realize I overwrote my save.
Meltdown.

[Anonymous No.3407965]

>>3407210
ive never played pokemon, plnnning to star with Fire Red emulated, it is a good idea? also, advice for not fucking up

[Anonymous No.3407976]

>>3407210
>be 7
>be too dense to notice footprints near officer Jenny lead to hole in wall
>play to that part three times before a friend casually says "go through there to keep going"

[Anonymous No.3407989]

>>3407965
It's impossible to beat a Pokemon game unless you have friends with the other edition to trade with.

[Anonymous No.3408037]

>>3407989
lol

[Anonymous No.3408049]

I used a masterball on ditto because I thought he was super rare.

[Anonymous No.3408051]

>use master ball on onix
>somehow win another one in the trainer id lotto
The game gave me a second chance.

[Anonymous No.3408087]

>>3407210
Assigning HM to my Gen 1 starter was a pretty big mistake. My SNES corrupted the file so I can least not make that mistake again I guess.

[Anonymous No.3408094]

Only trained Squirtle until the VERY end of the game.
Used master ball on Articuno
Killed Zapdos

I think that was it...

[Anonymous No.3408173]

>>3408037
It's true since you haven't beaten a game until you have catched 'em all.

[Anonymous No.3408174]

>>3407210
I felt badass in Yellow when a lady just gives you all 3 starters

[Anonymous No.3408184]

>>3407210

>used masterball on a fucking tangela
>one of my best pokemon was a machamp from my cousin, nicknamed "jerk(female)"

[Anonymous No.3408201]

A pokemon got poisoned once and i wasnt sure why i was walking and the screen flashed, i thought my game was broken and i cried to my mom about it until she took me to a pokecenter

[Anonymous No.3408234]

I too wasted my masterball.
But mine was TRULY wasted.
The guy tells you "Masterball can catch any pokemon!"
I'm playing blue version, go against a trainer who has Ekans.
"OMG! I have a ball that catches everything! That pokemon isn't even in this version!"

Use ball on trainers pokemon.
Doesn't catch him.

What a freaking waste.

[Anonymous No.3408246]

>>3408234
and you saved the game afterwards while bawling your eyes out, right? my condolences.

[Anonymous No.3408281]

>>3408246
I did save my game, but I assumed I would get more master balls.
Sorta like "Here's one for free, but you'll have to buy the rest."
It made sense in my 10 year old mind.

[Anonymous No.3408285]

>>3408281
>buy the rest
And you also failed to realize that there is only a finite amount of money optainable?

[Anonymous No.3408309]

>>3408285
Can you not get money from the elite four?

[Anonymous No.3408446]

I saved right after capturing Articuno in his cave, I had no potions and all my pokemo were pretty much dead.. long story short I died in that cave 27 times before I got lucky and managed to run away from every random encounter the last try I thought I was fucked for good

[Anonymous No.3408451]

>>3407873
I still have that but the pages are all falling out and most of the stickers are missing.

[Anonymous No.3408458]

>>3407708
You could circumvent this by loading and unloading them from a box. I can't remember the mechanics exactly. Also, I can't remember why boxes had to exist in the first place, nor why you had to save to exchange boxes. There was a shitty technical reason, but it's lost to me now.

[Anonymous No.3408482]

>>3407210
>Choose bulbasaur
>Fight everyone and everything
>Aimlessly wander my way to Pokemon League
>Win with level 100 Venusaur, 5 level 20 ish pidgeys used as revive slaves
>Kill all the legendary birds
>Never find mewtwo
>Use masterball on Muk

[Anonymous No.3408485]

>blue
>had overleveled starter
>everything else was a HM slave
>only had attack moves

>silver
>somehow got into a cave without light and saved in it

[Anonymous No.3408489]

>>3408201
That is the cutest thing ever.

[Anonymous No.3408493]

I asked for Pokemon Yellow instead of Red/Blue for Christmas

[Anonymous No.3408543]

>pokemon
>"killed"

[Anonymous No.3408551]

>>3407210
I didn't do any of that. I did a pretty good playthrough my first time when I was ~10.

[Anonymous No.3408552]

>>3407704
It's actually still the best way to play, too. I blasted through Pokemon Blue in two hours the other night with just Blastoise.

Mega Punch fucking rules.

[Anonymous No.3408554]

>>3407708
This is a myth. The only sense that they're weaker in is that you might not have maxed out their EVs, which is circumventable via box glitch, which can happen by accident.

In later gens, there is no downside to, say, using 95 Rare Candies to max out your starter before the first badge.

[Anonymous No.3408556]

>>3407916
>strongest non-legendary

[Anonymous No.3408567]

>>3407210
>didn't save for 3 hours
>get to moltres
>try to catch it
>didn't change boxes so there wasn't enough space in storage

The shittiest game design

[Anonymous No.3408594]

>>3408556
Wrong image?

[Anonymous No.3408637]

>>3408567
Tech limits, actually. Even though Pokemon looks simple, think about the sheer amount of data that a single savefile has to contain on that lackluster cartridge.

I do agree that if you filled a box, the game should've said "The box is full, would you like to change boxes now?"

[Anonymous No.3408641]

>>3407210
>>used Master Ball on Zapdos
that's what i usually do if i'm nuzlocking the game

zapdos is a fucking gamebreaker

[Anonymous No.3408653]

>>3408594
Both of y'all niggas is wrong.

>Super effective against every gym you can reasonably get her before except Sabrina and Blaine
>Resists Psychic so she's actually good against Sabrina
>you have to have a water type to even get to Blaine, let alone beat him
>STAB Psychic and Blizzard, easily the two best moves in the game
>Fastest most accurate non-spore sleep move
>Good against Bruno, Agatha and Lance
>Good against at least 4/6 of the champion's pokemon (Grass type and the three set ones) 5/6 if he has Charizard since Fire doesn't resist Ice in Gen I

Based LOLA.

[Anonymous No.3408769]

My friend wasted his Master Ball on Lance's Dragonite.

I remeber mistaking the guy in front of Oak's Lab for a Snorlax. I also got stuck in both Cerulean City and Vermilion City for a long ass time.

I was playing Yellow, and I often released my Pikachu just to hear the bitch cry. Then one time I accidentally saved by switching boxes right after, and Pikachu was by far my highest level Pokemon at that point.

[Anonymous No.3408828]

>didn't understand weakness and effectiveness at all
>never realized critical hits does more damage
>tossed all nuggets I found
>killed Mewtwo, saved for no reason
>only brought shitmons to battle Articuno, ended up running so I could heal and withdraw better Pokemons, assumed he would respawn when I came back
>used Master Ball on Meowth

[Anonymous No.3408842]

>>3408201
This, I almost pissed my pants the first time it happened

[Anonymous No.3408851]

I'm playing a Pokemon game for the very first time. Blue, to be specific.

I'm trying not to use a guide so I don't have the gameplay ruined for me on my first run, but is there anything especially important I should know? I know TMs can only be taught once so I've been afraid to give those to any Pokemon since there are stronger Pokemon later on in the game. I also know that evolving Pokemon ASAP isn't always the best idea due to early evolution stages learning moves faster. That's about it though.

I just got to Vermillion City (have two badges), and my team right now is a Bulbasaur, a Rattatta, a Spearow, a male Nidoran, and a Sandshrew. I have a female Nidoran tucked in a box. As of right now my Bulbasaur and Spearow are by far my most leveled Pokemon, and they've both been very useful. Sandshrew and Rattatta are pretty decent to. But the two Nidorans I have are fucking weak as shit despite being about he same level as the Sandshrew.

[Abidah Sevenleaf !AnVbXjgZco No.3408894]

>>3408285
You can fight the elite four as many times as you want; you can also use Payday if you have a meowth.

[Anonymous No.3408904]

My biggest mistake in Pokemon history is probably killing a shiny skarmory in Gold. I tried to use Thunder Wave and used Thunder Bolt by mistake.

[Anonymous No.3408924]

>>3408173
beaten!=100% completion

>>3408446
You return to the last Pokecenter when you "die", not your savepoint

>>3408493
>mistake

[Anonymous No.3408932]

>>3407210
I picked Bulbasaur/Squirtle and not Charmander as my starter

[Anonymous No.3408952]

>>3408851
It's a fucking video game meant for children. I'm sure that even a retard like you can struggle your way through it without having to get preemptive advice.

[Anonymous No.3408983]

>>3408932
Pokemon needs three save files. One for Charmander, one for Squirtle, one for your second Charmander.

[Anonymous No.3409063]

>>3408952
Wow dude you're such a tough guy, I bet you're so hax0r and kewl, probably even have an anarchist armband \m/

[Anonymous No.3409172]

>>3408904
Skarmory wasn't in gold anon

[Anonymous No.3409336]

>>3408851
I don't really want to spoil it too much for you, but just know that some types are just plain better than others, and the game is an unbalanced mess. It's a beautiful unbalanced mess, but it's an unbalanced mess nonetheless.

Also despite what the game says about Ghosts being good against Psychic pokemon, Ghost type attacks don't work on Psychic pokemon. It's probably a glitch/fuckup because every other form of media based on the first generation games (Anime, TCG, the stupid little TOPPs trading cards, etc.) has Ghosts being good against Psychics, but they just aren't.

Also if you're playing on an emulator, you can just download a rom of Red version and rename the save file to that version's filename and the game will run perfectly fine, but with that version's exclusives. They're essentially romhacks of each other.

[Anonymous No.3409345]

>>3409172
Yes it was...its pokedex number is 227.

[Anonymous No.3409347]

>>3409345
Skarmory was a Silver exclusive.

[Anonymous No.3409373]

>>3408556
>>3408594
>>3408653
>thunder punch
>ice punch
>fire punch
>psychic

Alakazam is best

>b-but you have to use GSC to get the punches

Do I need to remind you that it is the current year?

[Anonymous No.3409398]

>>3409373
That's a dumbass set. Ice Punch is redundant as fuck.

[Anonymous No.3409413]

>>3409373
Trading at all is essentially cheating.

[Anonymous No.3409416]

>>3409373

Alakazam has shit physical attack tho. Don't remember if elemental punches were special or physical in gen1

[Anonymous No.3409418]

>>3409416
Special.

[Anonymous No.3411008]

>Catch the epic lv 50 zapdos
>use TM to teach it thunder right away
>everyone at school tells me it learns thunder at lv 51

Well fuck.....
I wasted a shit ton of TMs on stupid things, but this one sticks out in my mind

[Anonymous No.3411243]

>load my old crystal save file after forgetting where the surf hm was and giving up
>try to give my typhlosion a held item
>he's already holding something from way back when
>take it and check it out
>X Special, an in-battle item
no wonder i didn't notice anything happening

[Anonymous No.3411398]

>>3409347
Okay, it was silver then. What's your point?

[Anonymous No.3411987]

the games itself were flawed

>HMs for 3 fucking water moves that are complete bullshit except for surf

[Anonymous No.3412025]

>>3407210
Killed Moltres

[Anonymous No.3412031]

>>3408653
You're all wrong. Meet the king of R/B's competitive metagame.

>fast, gets a lot of crits
>only one weakness to a type that's not terribly common
>not too frail
>STAB hyper beam
>Body Slam for dat paralysis
>Earthquake for Rock types
>Blizzard or Thunderbolt because fuck you is why

[Anonymous No.3412035]

>>3409416
Generations I-III all had the odd system where all moves of a particular type were either special or physical. This had weird results, since Gengar, a special attacker, was Ghost/Poison typing, meaning all of its STAB moves were physical.

Conversely, most Dark-type moves looked like physical moves (Bite, Crunch etc) but it was a Special type.

Anyways, the elemental punches were all Special types, so Alakazam could put them to good use.

[Anonymous No.3412274]

>>3412031
I think they were talking about in-game, not competitive.

[Anonymous No.3412302]

>>3407210
I entered mt. moon with a freshly evolved charmeleon. Kept getting lost and escape roping out, and by the time I made it through I had a charizard.

I made it through rock tunnel without Flash, which took about as long.

Fuck caves. All zubats must hang.

[Anonymous No.3412372]

>>3408851
*Catch more Pokémon.
*Rattata isn't great. It evolves early and learns Hyper Fang but it'll lag behind halfway through the game.
*Nidoran is probably worse than Sandslash because its moves aren't as good. Poison Sting has low power and Horn Attack doesn't get STAB, and it's also more frail than Sandshrew. That said, Nidoking is more useful overall than Sandslash. I'd recommend choosing one or the other, since they're both Ground types, but you can easily beat the game with either.
*Don't worry too much about evolving your Pokémon later. They might learn moves later but it really doesn't matter. The boost in power and survivability is usually worth more than learning a stronger move earlier.

You should experiment with a few Pokémon, although be aware that in gen I many of them are actually shit, such as Voltorb not learning any Electric-type moves and Scyther only learning Normal-type moves. Movesets in general are far better in Yellow, but the game tends to get more balance in gen II, unfortunately.

Also, get a water type. Not only do you need Surf eventually but you'll also need something that can use Ice Beam.

That said, the game is really not very hard. Even the Champion of the game uses Pokémon with extremely crappy movesets.

[Anonymous No.3412376]

>>3412302
>I entered mt. moon with a freshly evolved charmeleon. Kept getting lost and escape roping out, and by the time I made it through I had a charizard.

That's doubtful. Not only can you not afford that many escape ropes at that point in the game, Charmeleon evolves at level 36. Wild Pokémon in Mt. Moon go up to level 11 or 12.

[Anonymous No.3412396]

>>3412376
Because I'm bored, I calculated that you need to faint about 530 level 10 Zubats to level your lv. 16 Charmeleon to level 36.

[Anonymous No.3412418]

>>3412372

Nidoking is the best choice, because you can trade that fucker and get a traded nidoking/queen in game, which means that fucker will level up like a rocket and you can put earthquake and whatever poison move on that fucker for stab.

Nidoking is pure utility.

[Anonymous No.3412457]

>>3407210
I bought the game.

[Anonymous No.3412662]

>>3407210
>Chose Charmander as my starter, 'cause Charizard's my nigga
>Did not level ANYONE else up at all, ever.
>After countless pain-staking hours of trial and error, somehow managed to beat the game using only Charmander/Charmeleon/Charizard, and five other pokemon as meatshields.