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I remember pikachu with black tail yet not thick ziz-zaggy but thin smooth stripe at the very end of tail Also my biggest mistake was my 1st playthrough ever (B2) cuz i didn't know how replacing a move upon evolving works. Thx to roblox Brick Bronze, I learned how to play pokémon.
The kanto starters was just the way of the game's difficulty by bulbasaur being easy, squirtle medium and charizard hard so it's not a mistake picking him as your starter, it's a challenge
Fun fact: the first Italian pokemon sticker album actually said that farfertch'd evolves into doduo. It was never corrected and made children waste a lot of time training farfertch'ds. Anyway, when I was a kid I thought that luvdisc evolved into alomomola. They're both water-type, pink and heart-shaped afterall
I honestly believe Luvdisk and alolamola are related. They may be an example of two animals evolving similar attributes in separate environments. Or maybe they're unofficial regional variants. Idk. But theres something there and I want some flavour text to clear it up.
When I was a kid, the biggest mistake I made was when I was playing the original Gold and Silver: I believed a guy I talked to who told me that if you take Ho-oh and Lugia to the Daycare, they will eventually breed after a REALLY long time to create a Celebi, but that this a super-secret that almost nobody knows about. Well, you can guess how that turned out for me...
You're capping. I was six when the anime came out, and my mom got me a Pikachu toy that talked when you touched these sensors on the bottom. And Pikachu has always had a yellow tail with brown at the base.
He ain’t capping cause I remember him having a black and then changing to a brown tip aswell I also had a pikachu toy I completely remember it having a black tip at the top it’s crazy though 🤣🤣
unfortunately, it makes sense for grotle as well, given the overgrow ability. if we go by the "before its time" logic, lightning rod would empower pikachu as well
Don't make sense since Swellow changed color to gold and the same did for Pikachu. When Swellow took down Lunatone why did the color change back then? Nah Ash is hacking 100%
@@talds8500 using a thunderbolt on swellow with the most broken pikachu and Swellow SP Def is a joke I'm sure pikachu will one shot any swellow with one Thunderbolt
@@reykmorales8616 0% that thunder armor makes sense. Dobbs do not know what he is talking about when he mentioned thunder armor. You could clearly see that Swellow was NOT paralyzed...
@@ElFlores1984 A bit off topic, but I used to think only Eevee evolved with stones. I found a shiny stone and was wondering what evo it gets you. I probably thought Sylveon or Espeon, but idk.
Even if guts makes swellow have thunder armour, that doesn’t justify how Lunatone used light screen and reflected the attack when light screen only half’s the damage.
For the battle against Whitney in Goldenrod I just trained my Geodude to a high enough level and used the TM dig on him to teach him dig, I avoided pretty much all the attacks.
With my Quilava, I used smokescreen for 5 turns to make that Miltank less likely to hit me and then spammed fury cutter to rip it to shreds (My only mistake with that strat was using a potion after reaching low HP to be on the safe side, only to realize that it resets the fury cutter streak).
I started playing Pokemon in the Red and Blue days. I had Red Version. Well, there's a thing about Red Version. You're only likely to find a Dratini in the Rocket Game Corner for sale as a prize. So when I played through it the first time at about 10 or so I didn't even know Dragon Type was a thing. Well, I also got scammed into buying the Magikarp at Mt. Moon's pokemon center. I was so mad as a kid that I switch trained that thing until it evolved. I was so hype. I literally shouted, "I got a dragon!" Then I fought Lance and was like, "Oh, he has real dragons..."
My biggest mistake in Pokémon was accidentally not paying attention and throwing a master ball at a tentacle I was so ashamed that I forced myself to restart the entire game of Pokémon emerald
To make matters worse apparently while I was playing a mega ruby alpha sapphire I didn’t learn my lesson and made the exact same mistake only this time The master ball was a lot more obvious in these games
RIP, I just never use the master ball lol. If I don't use it, then I can save it for something else. Sadly, I often never find anything 'worthy' of the ball, and it just sits in my bag til I restart the game
When I was younger and starting out with Pokémon, I avoided using Rare Candies because I believed it would level up my pokémon with weaker stats than if they levelled up normally through battling. _Technically_ I was correct, but I wholly misunderstood why. Also, I worried every time my pokémon levelled or evolved from a battle where they had their stats reduced, like through _Growl,_ because I thought the game might interpret it wrong and give them weaker stat increases. Weirdly, I never thought stat _boosts_ from things like Swords Dance would be interpreted the same way.
To your first point, a lot of people felt that way because of an npc in the original games mentioning pokemon you level are stronger than those you get in other ways.
@@Edgso Ah! Right, so, each stat your pokémon has, (HP, Attack, Defense, etc) all have a hidden value called Effort Value or EV for short. These cap out at 252 EV per stat (255 in the older gens), and 510 total EV. Every time you gain experience from battling a pokémon, be it wild or trainer-owned, your pokémon will also earn a small amount of EV (usually 1 or 2) for a certain stat, depending on which pokémon you face. Vitamins like HP Up, Calcium, Carbos also increase these EVs. Now, every 4 of these EVs in a stat will boost that stat very slightly; not that noticeable at lower levels, but by the time you get to Lv100, you can absolutely see the difference between an EV-trained stat and an untrained stat. So, when you battle wild pokémon, you are essentially EV-training your stats, but when you're just playing the game the EV spread will usually be uniform between the stats until it caps out at 510 total EVs. Rare Candies don't offer EVs, obviously, so if you dump a bunch of Rare Candies on a pokémon you've never used, its stats _will_ be weaker than if you've used it. In the older gens, the EV boosts happen at level up, so if you get to Lv100 without fully EV Training, there wasn't much you could do about it. Luckily, these days stats get adjusted for EVs after each battle so there's no worries about using Rare Candies now.
@@Meteorite_Shower Wow, tysm for your patience and effort to explain that! So I don't need to feel insecure about using Rare Candies anymore, right? Good to know, and God bless you so much, happy new year btw!! ^^
Pikachu was my favorite to draw back then, and yes, I drew it with that black tip. Though, I remember the black tip being more like a portion of a circular spot at the tip. I even have a pikachu toy with the black tip and an old Pokémon pricing guide with an image of pikachu as having a black-tipped tail.
I also used to draw pikachu with a black tip for some reason, and at one point I ended up in a big debate with one of my friends over whether the tip was black or brown. I have no idea why I used to think Pikachu had a black tip at the top of his tail, but honestly I think it's kinda cool that so many other people can relate.
One of my favorite parts about sponsors is how different RU-vidrs approach how they bring them up. There are some serious comedic takes for making a sponsor sound more appealing and less frustrating to listen to before the main video, especially if that RU-vidr is able to find a way to spin the sponsor into being related to the main focus of their channel. I definitely do not want the Pokemon version of caterpillars invading my privacy.
i think the pikachu's tail is so weird because we had an toy or picture or something from bootleg source. i remember having a small pikachu figurine with black tipped tail and that was 100% not legit pokemon merch
Lorelei is just as much a water type as an ice type user; Agatha is really a poison type specialist & lance is a flying type specialist. I guess Bruno really is the only one who really fits their theme & has more fighting types than anything else.
@@The11thDimension91 Actually, Bruno has no more Fighting-types than Agatha has Ghost-types, thanks to his two Onix. So I guess everyone in the Kanto League is messing up.
The mistake regarding Charmander might not be so bad,considering Charizard is able to learn many different types of moves,like Thunder Punch,Dig,making it a jack-of-all trades
I knew knew it. I always remembered pikachu with a black tipped tail. I just assumed they changed it when they added the heart tail for female pikachu.
@@Vixen-debo yeah I do,luckily feraligatr basically sweeps the whole game even tho I have some unevolved Pokémon on my team and are about to face the elite 4 (my teams like lv 40s and my starter is in the mid 50s)
Same, the biggest reason I though is because I knew Giovanni was a ground type leader, so I was like, I guess Kansas khan is just too weak to use on his gym team.
@@DarthLiam-gd1wc I really think that may be it, but I specifically remember graveler being weak to psychic… I know my memory was wrong ahha but it feels so vivid
Me and my sister thought simultsniously tapping a+left then holding b+right would increase our chances of catching pokemon, it took me till diamond pearl and my bff asking me what I was doing to learn the truth lol then it was a hard habit to break and occasionally when I really want to catch a pokemon I inadvertently fall back on that old habit lol
6:46: unless it's depicting a ball breaking after a failed capture, then it makes perfect scence, the button is falling off, and prespective just makes it appear to be in the wrong spot.
I did something similar on my very first gen 3 playthrough. It wasn't with a Luvdisc though. I leveled up my Ninjask to level 64 because I was trying to evolve it into Shedinja. I'd later find out how to get Shedinja and I was mad that I spent so much time leveling up a Ninjask for nothing. 😆
I remember pikachu having the black tip on his tail and i have lots of drawing of pikachu with that black tip too. I also remember the tip being brown at some point and even colouring it brown
6:00 The only thing I’d argue against Moltres over Charizard is the fact that charizard learns flamethrower (a 15 use move and arguable the best fire type move in the game with 95 acc.) AND a better move pool such as learning dig,body slam & slash (always crits when speed > 64) which all work wonders on the elite four when used at the right times.
Reality is in Pokemon Yellow, I used Pikachu to sweep Lorelei and Butterfree actually destroyed Bruno and Agatha like flies. Charizard, Pigeot, Venusaur, and Blastoise pretty much was the other teammates I used against Lance and Gary.
Some of my mistakes: 1. I thought all fully evolved Pokemon had a Mega Evolution 2. Caught a female eevee, didn't nickname it. Released it because of that. I didn't realise that I could change its name. 3. Prepared for the Grass Trial with a female salandit. Evolved her into a salazzle and made a new file because I was nervous.
@@faznanbadri6854 But if I'm not mistaken, didn't Brock betray his good boi there by activating the gym's sprinklers, soaking the poor Onyx making the it vulnerable?
@@buenvidanadz1969 no. pikachu is the one who broke the sprinklers with thunderbolt. and the soaking is fainting blow. electricity still not affecting a soaked rock.
So here's my list while playing the Gen 1 games I believed: - rock pkmns were immune to electric types - psychic pkmns have no weaknesses - ghosts were weak to psychic - after defeating Lt. Sarge we need to wait for S.S.Anne ship to come back and take us to the next city 😂
20:31 I can relate to that. I originally thought Skitty evolved by level up at either level 22 or 23 as a kid. But then I discovered that it evolved through the usage of a Moon Stone some time after.
A smarter strategy on Ash’s part would’ve been to have Pikachu use Thunderwave on Swellow instead of Thunderbolt so that Swellow would’ve become paralyzed without taking any damage
@@eslwgpg1226 It does not Quick attack, iron tail, thunderbolt, volt tackle/thunder/electroball/electro web according to the gens when he can learns the move, during this battle he knows thunder, thunderbolt, quick attack and iron tail. I may be wrong about the 4th move but Pikachu dont know thunder wave
the fact that swellow who has a 2x weakness to electric and a low special defense survived a 110 base power (120 at the time) stab boosted move scares me.
Pikachu send a thunderbolt into a cloud, which for some reason send one back and hits Swellow, which turns them both a different color and makes them stronger. Dobbs: "IT mAKeS sENse if yoU thiNK abOUt It"
ikr, i almost use my master ball on that hippowdown, but i am lucky that remember shiny has to have some sparkle when going to battle, and that hippo dont
I used all my pokeballs (plus multiple resets) trying to catch the ghost marrowak of lavendar town because I thought it was just a % chance of working.
Fun fact. In red/blue I would do the weird glitch thing at the title screen, by mashing the dpad a and b buttons it would change the colors of the game. One was “negative” colors and I used that to clearly walk through rock tunnel
@@deadeyeddog He first said that he ran out of breath trying to say my name. To which I said the small lung thing. He then said that nature gave him small lung to compensate for something else that is massive. To which I said his ego?
I remember once when I was like 7 or 8, I decided to draw Pikachu, looked through one of my Pokemon books for a picture of Pikachu, saw it didn't have a black part on the end of it's tail, and *thought the book was wrong* and drew Pikachu with a black tip on its tail anyway.
When I was a bit younger I thought that Mew evolved into Mewtwo, after trying s bunch of things, I got it to level 73 and Nothing happened I soon learned that Mew and Mewtwo are COMPLETLY separate Pokemon
I actually went though rock tunnel with the pikachu shock when I first played yellow. I just happened to see if the little guy was happy or had anything cool to say and stumbled right into this trick. 😂
I made the mistake of choosing Tepig over Oshawott. I was like 8 or something, and I just started playing black and white then. Edit: I’ve also done other things: 1. Despite all that I’ve done with Pokémon for the past 9 years, I actually thought I caught a shiny Hippowdon in a dynamax den. Nope… just a female. She’s still pretty good, though. 2. When I first played Moon, I chose Poplio, and got a female (which is a 1/4 chance). I wanted to name her “Sirena” because it was a play on what Primarina was based on; a siren (water creature, not an alarm). However, me and my dumbass perfectionist brain screwed up spelling, and I didn’t know you could change it on Akala Island. So I reset the game, got a male Poplio, name him Sirena, got a Primarina out of him, and blitzed the Elite 4.
I made the mistake of choosing Tepig too, but I never regret it and I've loved Tepig ever since, but my real mistake was not even knowing that I could obtain that Elemental Monkey, and struggled beating Cress' Panpour for days. Only when I was halfway through the game did I return to the Dreamyard and find out I could have gotten it.
The biggest mistake I made as a kid was thinking that Kadabra evolved naturally... so I spent countless hours grinding it up to lv 100 and being confused af when it never evolved 😅
I did the same the first time I played Pokemon Crystal. I trained a Scyther all the way to level 100 hoping to evolve it. But found out later it needs to be traded holding a Metal Coat which I couldn't do back then cuz I didn't have anybody to trade with.
11:01 oh, we can blame the Pokemon company for that one too. In the official Pokemon sticker book, they have Farfetch'd as the first in the Doduo to Dodrio evolution line stickers. That messed with a lot of people, I can tell you. All kids in my primary school thought Farfetch'd evolved to Dpduo because of that sticker book
The reason why I think we all thought Pikachu had a black tip on its tail, was because Pichu has a black tail, so we immediately associate Pikachu evolving with a yellow/black tip hybrid, that was never there. (Or maybe the OG games has Pikachu with a black tip on the tail, and I just didn't see it.)
One of the errors i made as a kid is thinking one pokémon from a different Gen was from another,for example : i always thought that slugma was from Gen 3 and Lucario was from Gen 5
The mandela effect: proof that people would rather make up a ridiculous claim about coming from a different universe before admitting that they were mistaken.
Wait.....didnt the cloned pikachu from Mewtwo strikes back have a black tip tail? I know its ear tips were different but I think it had black on its tail to.
@@joshuabean7805 No, it's ears were the only think different. NO pikachu has had black on it's tail except cosplay pikachu of which is a black heart on the end.
I found a purple Spheal in Pokemon Ruby, I was grinding my Septile to fight the psychic gym. It was first shiny I had seen and my mate told me to NOT catch it or it might corrupt my game file XD I didn't listen to him and did manage to catch it. I also did dear evolve it for years cause I thought it would "stop being shiny" XD. But adult me is wiser and I now have a kick ass shiny Walrein. Other idiot mistake included taking Squirtle in first game as I thought I had to choose the one on the game box. This was why I had asked for Pokemon Red as a kid for Christmas as I wanted the big fire lizard. My dad surprised me with a copy of the game after open all other presents. I love I had the game but sad that it was the blue version. So there I went choosing to pick the blue turtle. I even called my first character Ash cause again I thought I had to. XD
Actually lugia not being water type makes sense, cause according to pokedex entries, lugia can destroy buildings with a single flap of wings, so it chose to live in the sea, away from humans. That means that lugia wasn’t originally water type
The only times I remember of me going through sinnoh's victory road I always had a bibarel will all the HMs and sure and water hall on a team member so I never actually made that mistake
" Who would use rock climb?!" Me: owo My younger self with a Torterra thinking it was a great move, and even so i thought the anime made it look cooler so i kept it.
It's better on a Normal-type like Tauros or Snorlax because of their high attack stat and the fact that they get STAB from it. Also, the fact that it's the same base stats as Take Down but with a 20% to cause confusion instead of taking 25% damage.
@@TheTakato122 Sure maybe I would use a Snorlax as I'm not a fan of most normal types, but again I was pointing out the fact that when I was younger I used the move as again, I did play Emerald and LeafGreen first, but Diamond was when I was getting into Pokemon so I really didn't know what the difference of what moves were good, I just threw things and rolled along with it. It was until Sun and Moon I started to put moves on a mon that would be reasonable coverage.
What i hate that nobody fails to remember is that when ash found it as a tailow it was a special tailow that could not lose to electric type moves at all. And throughout the series and after evolving it still had that special trait. So when people are like yes ash use thunder on your own swellow im just like does nobody remember it cant faint to electric moves
IMO what makes Charmander a somewhat poor choice of a starter isn’t its poor matchups against early gym leaders but more so its fire-type stab move options. While Squirtle and Bulbasaur have a decent number of options for stab moves, whether by level-up or TM’s (like Bubblebeam and Surf for Squirtle, and Razor Leaf and Mega Drain for Bulbasaur), Charmander only has Ember and it doesn’t learn any other fire-type moves until in the level 40’s.
When I played Heart Gold as a kid, I didn’t know I was supposed to name the rival. Not knowing the rival’s name, I just hit “OK” without typing in anything. This resulted in the officer saying “So Soul was his name.” Then I was like “Okay, I guess his name his Soul then.”
@@ethnictendo Go for it and see what happens! If nothing happens, then maybe I actually named my rival Soul. I know I named him that on Gold as a throwback to my childhood.
I made that “???” mistake with the rival in gold/silver. The creators should have let you name him when he actually tells you his name, rather than when the cop asks you what he had said.
I remember that's what most people did and it wasn't until HeartGold/SoulSilver we learned of his origins being Giovanni's son and ended up being named Silver, just another name after each version of their gen
When I first started playing pokemon I didn’t know what the pc was so I thought you could only ever have 6 Pokémon for the whole game. I restarted every time I saw a new Pokémon that I wanted
I think that some people remember Pikachu having a black tipped tail because the female Pikachu’s indeed do have a black tipped tail but shaped like a heart. Idk if this seems the case for some but it does make a little sense.
In GSC in particular, Miltank’s Stomp still out-damages Machop’s available Fighting-Type moves at around Lv. 20 while still outspeeding and benefitting from the 30% flinch roll of Stomp. Correct me if I’m wrong, but statistically, you have a higher chance of winning this matchup with the Geodude method thanks to the added Normal-Type resistance and Geodude’s own attacks.
Hey, not my fault - it was a Psychic type until 6th gen, so I figured it was simply floating using psychic energy with its mud flaps hanging down due to having lost its legs in evolution!
Explaining the black tip on Pikachu’s tail: in I think gen6 there was a trainer that gave you a Pikachu that had different forms and signature moves depending on the costume. The Pikachu did have a black tip on the tail so people think of that Pikachu
Definitely my worst mistake was thinking I'd get a ball back when I released a pokemon. Diamond was my first game, so I didn't know any better. I was told the Master Ball worked without fail, so I threw one at a wild Snover to test it. I got upset when I didn't get the Master Ball back :(
8:43 See, this is why I never took Thunder Wave off any of my Pikachu's whenever I played ORAS Well, not THIS, this isn't the reason, I just like Thunder Wave, but you know what I mean
i think it was because of the pikachu libre has a black tip and in the anime pikachu tail tip had been black in a couple of frames it was an error that is only in older episodes from the pokémon amine that was fixed
@@gus7807 you a genwunner? Or a sinohh stan ? Unova has the best storyline and music and if you say it has lame designs then a pile of sludge a penguin a monkey are unique?Nothing like Unova will be made again
Pikachu send a thunderbolt into a cloud, which for some reason send one back and hits Swellow, which turns them both a different color and makes them stronger. Dobbs: "IT mAKeS sENse if yoU thiNK abOUt It"
