Stupid things that you thought/did with pokemon as a kid

[QuietSnowdrop]

I used to think there was a secret to using Splash (like you had to use it underwater or something) and if you did it right, it would have the same effect as Sheer Cold or Fissure or whatnot... yeah. Nope.

[xXTwilight]

I used to think that shiny pokemon was a glitch,nya~ so I attacked them and didn't catch them
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But I learned that it wasn't I was like:facepalm...so stupid, nya~
^w^'

[trident20]

I used to think there was a secret to using Splash (like you had to use it underwater or something) and if you did it right, it would have the same effect as Sheer Cold or Fissure or whatnot... yeah. Nope.

that would be so awesome!

[McBatch]

too many and most have probly been said so ill just say one

i always thought there was a way to the grassy area by pallet town looked up online so many times one time believed you had to go through the power plant and etc

[xXTwilight]

I used to think that there was some sort of secret using Splash or something.
I think in the anime or game there was some reference that Magicarp can leap over waterfalls using Splash, nya~
=/

[Hibachi]

I remember I almost gave up playing silver version because I didn't know you had to get the Squirtbottle to get past Sudowoodo. Haha I thought I was trapped and got so frusterated.

[xXTwilight]

^^
Same, I almost spent two weeks...until I asked a friend
X3

[Mythicalzoe]

i thought magikarp evolved at level 30 so i kept in the daycare for about 6 weeks

[AphoticVoid]

Always thinking Pokémon evolved depending on how good the trainer was -___-

[Mythicalzoe]

i never could get past the guy who blocks the way out of froid gym town

[Kyro13]

In my first Pokemon game, I thought PP was directly proportional to power of the attack..

Yeah..

[Ice Car]

Hey this thread is basically about you guys writing about things that you thought or did relating to pokemon that when you think about it now is pretty stupid.
It could be you thinking that something did something if you pressed it or listening to something on the internet that turned out to be fake. Or maybe you thought a certain character in the show was a girl instead of a guy or a guy instead of a girl. Share your stories!

I'll start us off by saying this...
When i was young i used to hate getting my stats lowered by an opponent because i thought it actually took away your stats forever, not just lowering it during the battle.
If you dont understand, if you have an attack of 183 for example, and an opponent used growl and lowered your attack. I thought it went down to 182.

So share your stories on things that you did that you think weren't exactly smart.

I thought that too. Also, I thought that pressing a certain combination of buttons at a certain time increases the chance of catching a Pokemon. My cousin got me to believe this and I was too young to not realize it was an obvious lie.

[Unoin]

Trying to train a full team of Sunflora in Silver! Also not realising the underground warehouse switches in Goldenrod just went from left to right for ages. I restarted at least one game because of that

[Shayminlover123]

Thought lapras was a water-rock type

[Sinncrow]

I used to attack pokemon based on their color (if it was blue, I thought it was water so I would moves super effective against water). I always got so mad when I would attack Dragonair with a grass move and it wasn't super effective

[Shayminlover123]

I didn't know that bug type pokemon were weak against rock types(Untill now!)

[GildedScizor]

OMG, tons of stuff (Mostly due to a "nerdy" 6-year old friend who really did think all of this was true):

~ Magcargo evolved into Torkoal
~ Latios and Latias, when put in the daycare, made baby Lugias
~ Of course, the obligatory button-mashing-to-catch-a-Pokemon stuff.
~ There was a super-rare Pokemon that new all eight HM's in exactly one spot in R/S on a given time of the week.
~ Groudon and Kyogre were actually called Ruby and Sapphire.
~ The Trick Master, after you've completed all his challenges, hid in a secret passage in Victory road.
~ Female Hippowdon were shiny.
~ The first shiny Pokemon I ever found (a Linoone) was a glitch. So I slaughtered it with the strongest Pokemon in my arsenal.
~ The Scorched Slab held the secret to getting Mew in R/S.
~ Dragon-types were weak against water. The fire and such...
~ Gastly was a split-evolution that tied in with Cloyster.
~ Poliwhirl and Poliwrath were the same Pokemon.
~ If you got a team of six Pokemon to lvl. 100, they would all have a simultaneous evolution and merge into one ultimate Pokemon.
~ All the Pokegods were real, and each one could be obtained for every ten times you beat the Pokemon league.
~ The Ho-oh that flew over Ash in the first episode of the anime was not a Ho-oh, but rather a Fearow evolution named Leerow.
~ There was a way to obtain a custom-colored red, white, and blue Pikachu by some crazy means that involved leaving your game on and unattended for 24 hours straight. Needless to say, I stopped believing every single one of this kid's rumors after this.
~ And probably the coup de gras, ZapMolCuno (yes, that Team Rocket experiment in the manga) was apparently obtainable, by means of obtaining all three legendary birds in R/B and then trading them to R/S. Then they’d all fuse together. Yeah.

I did all the bold ones
I also:
- Didn't know that Kyogre in Sapphire could be caught, so I obliterated it.
- Assumed that something would eventually happen in Altering Cave.
- For a long time thought Water and Poison were super effective against Bug.
- Believed the Mossdeep Space Center theory, that with enough shuttle launches you could go to the moon and catch Jirachi.

[gamer_legend]

Let's see...

I thought Mew caught be caught from behind the SS Anne.
I thought Celebi could block the Master Ball.
I thought you could capture the Ghost of Marowak.
I thought Professor Oak was the Pokemon League Champion.
I thought Marrill was called Pikablue
and I thought Charizard and Alakazam had evolutions named Charcoal and Alakaboom.

[cantavanda]

I spent almost 15 rare candies trying to evolve a pokémon

[GildedScizor]

I always thought Ecruteak city was called You correct city.

OMG, I always thought it was called "You critique City"