I was looking up old pokemon mysteries and rumors and I figured it would be fun to have a thread about them. Bullshit theories and rumors have always been a big part of pokemon, but these days they only exist as leak wank since games can't hide secrets anymore.

Shout out to Mewthree.

Dang, I forgot I need to say something that can piss somebody off to start discussions here.

Pokemon has gone to shit since it lost the ability to have genuine mystery and a sense of discovery. These days everybody knows about most of the stuff to discover in the game before they even get released. No wonder people eat up Kanto so much, it was one of the last times we actually got to experience wonder at all.

Honestly I never heard a lot of rumors other than the classic Mew under the truck, Pokegods in Bill's backyard and fight Prof Oak after defeating the E4 an arbitrary number of times.

>telling your friends you could use the fabled mist stone to evolve your flareon into a crusty sprite of Ridley
simpler times

>>57918079
>Beat the Elite 4 twenty times with the same team
>Ensure the 4th Pokemon in your party is a level 82 Dragonite
>Talk to the Gym Leaders in alphabetical order
>Buy 34 Super Potions from the Pokemart in the same town as the final Gym Leader
>Walk, don't fly, to the Safari Zone
>Without using Repel, reach the tile furthest away from any zone boundary without encountering any Pokemon
>Save and restart the game
>Start to save again, but turn the console off before it completes
>Turn the game back on and a super rare Pokemon will appear

I swear the UK's Nintendo Official Magazine once wrote you could get Yoshi, though they might admittedly have immediately debunked it. That said, the Yoshi rumour was very prevalent online.

The staggered international release really fucked with fans because everyone had a million and one theories on how you could get characters who'd appeared in season two of the anime in Japan, or Ho-oh and Togepi or, lest we forget, the king of the playground rumour, PIKABLU.

>>57916651 (OP)
As a kid I saw a video of a romhack of Pokemon Ruby or Emerald showing a secret place in rustboro city that led to deoxyd or jirachi I forgot. I spent so much time trying to reproduce it

>>57916651 (OP)
I knew about the "X number of rocket launches in RSE Mossdeep City" one where eventually you were supposed to go to the moon, and then encounter Jirachi/Deoxys/etc.

As a kid, I had a dream about finding rare pokemon in a spooky basement, so after waking up I scoured the mansion in Gale of Darkness to no avail.

>>57916651 (OP)
>be me
> around 2001, summer.
>playground
>some kids I'm battling talks about getting Lugia in pokemon yellow
>me playing pokemon crystal and showing off my brother's charizards (transfered to my savefile)
>"tfw you mean? You can't backtransfer new pokemons!"

>older brother of this kid comes around explaining some sketchy rumor about going to the "zone of numbers" after exiting the safari zone and walking toward this "Navel made of rock" (as it was called in my language)
>call bullshit

>ff 5 years or so
>get more used to internet and find more and more about events never delivered
>find how in gen1 remake you can get to this "mount cord"
>ff almost 15 years since then, gotten much better with my English.
>go back munching pokemon games lore
>read the English and Japanese name of "Mount Cord"
>Naver Rock

What in the fuck was that!?

>>57920652
>>be me
Who else would you be?

>>57921761
I could be you.

*sprinkles Paras spores*

>>57918546
>I swear the UK's Nintendo Official Magazine once wrote you could get Yoshi, though they might admittedly have immediately debunked it
that was an april fools joke. it was written by J. Ester c'mon man...

>>57918494
I'm actually trying to compile a list of pokegods and junk and am trying to find some of the less well known ones. Mewthree and like Venustoise are the only ones I can think of off the top of my head.