What are some misconceptions you had as a kid?

I used to believe that if you use Dark Pulse or Hidden Power on an enemy and the little balls struck the enemy Pokemon's sprite, they would take extra damage from the attack.

Pressing B would increase the catch rates, also Pressing B during a enemy attack would lower the damage. B button was broken back then.

>>58038502 (OP)
anabel is a boy
tate is a girl

Thought the Gameboy games were based on the Anime, and not the other way around

Raising and lowering your stats in battle permanently changed them
I don't think I was completely in the wrong because I've heard other people had this problem too. Every game they can beat over the head with tutorials for the most simplest of mechanics but refuse to tell you anything important.
I didn't even know what natures were for and thought it was just for flair because the earliest games don't tell you what they actually do

>>58038502 (OP)
I thought that the secondary type had less impact (usually by half) on type effectiveness.
For example, with Lapras (Water/Ice), I thought that Electric moves would deal x2 but Fighting moves would deal only x1.5, meanwhile water moves would deal x0.5 and Ice moves x0.75.

>>58038502 (OP)
>DS
>childhood
I despise you.

>>58038644
*around x0.38 for Ice since Water also resists it, but you get the idea.

>>58038585
>Raising and lowering your stats in battle permanently changed them

I thought this too but then one time I decided to be "smart" and checked my stats before a battle. So then when my stats got lowered by an opponent I immediately went to my stats page, saw that they were exactly the same as before, and concluded that stat-altering moves actually do nothing so I should never worry about or use them again.

>>58038502 (OP)
Rock was resistant to Electric. In my defense Aerodactyl is the only gen 1 Rock-type you battle against that's not also Ground-type and I never cared to check Kabuto/Omanyte's types. In fact, it wasn't until gen III when I was bored and used Thunder Wave on a Nosepass that I learned it did normal damage.

>>58038502 (OP)
>What are some misconceptions you had as a kid?
I thought I was worthless because my mother would cry after getting abused by my father. I thought it was my fault.

>>58038512
B?
You gotta push A with the ball shakes for captures dude. Your childhood was a lie

>>58038652
Cope, Millenboomer

>>58038585
Yeah I'd say it's a UI problem. You're told you got weaker but most players will still be able to defeat enemies just fine and you aren't told exactly how much damage you did.
I really loved gen 7's addition where you can see your stat buffs and debuffs, so modern newer players shouldn't have this issue.

Thought that Onix was a evolution from Geodude

>>58039278
Suck my dick, zoom

>>58040237
Fuck me too.

>>58038502 (OP)
I think I've mentioned this in similar threads before, but when I was like 6 I could swear Rock was super-effective against Normal. My rationale was that Normal was closest to what humans are, and as a human, getting rocks thrown at you really fucking hurts.

>>58040237
Lol I thought so too for the longest time, was actually disappointed to find out Onix had no evolutions.

>>58039250
This

>>58038512
>>58039250
Same
Back in school there was the rumour that holding the down button while pressing A rapidly increases catch rate. We all damaged or destroyed our A button

>>58040693
Kaa! Sounds like a good idea!

>>58040693
I used to think that ICE was super effective against BUG because there were no mosquitoes during winter

>>58040693
As a kid, I thought that Flying was supereffective against Water, since birds eat fish.
Even though it never said “it's supereffective!” when I used a Flying attack against Water-types, I always assumed it was just “one of those times the game forgets to say it's supereffective” - I also thought that the game sometimes just... didn't report that an attack was supereffective, for some reason.

>>58039198
yeah but we're talking about misconceptions. it doesn't count if it's true.

>>58038502 (OP)
I thought psychic was super effective against grass because of all the grass/poison types in Gen 1.

>>58038502 (OP)
I thought Ice was super effective against bug because bugs can’t survive outside in the winter, and since a lot of bug types are flying type I was usually right for the wrong reason

i used to think that because ground was super effective against electric, that rock was too.
it's not

>>58041123
Very reasonable assumption. Insects do indeed not like the cold. I also second guess myself about it sometimes still.

Was convinced the pink butterfree from the anime was in GS because of that one npc at Lake of Rage who mentions it.

>>58038652
dude, people with a DS in their childhood can very easily be 25 by now.
you are genuinely too old to be here.

>>58041123
...ice isn't SE against bug?

>>58038502 (OP)
I thought that signature moves dealt 1.5 more damage. Like Lucario's Aura sphere was effectively 120 BP

I thought pressing down on the dpad helped catch Pokémon and because it didn't work I thought I wasn't pushing hard enough so I used the leg of a chair to smash the dpad of my DS whenever I threw an ultra ball at Uxie

>>58038502 (OP)
for some reason I thought Skarmory was a gen 3 pokemon

>>58041198
I had a shiny butterfree as a kid in Gold, it IS pinkish in that game.

>>58038502 (OP)
Not so much a misconception but I never realised that stat increases were multipliers, and thought that I just got +1 to my attack or whatever, so I thought that was basically useless and never bothered with stat moves.

>>58038585
>>58041477
It's kind of baffling how little the game explains about stat increases when it holds your hand over so many other things like type matchups. I think the majority of kids don't bother with stat increases at cause it's really unclear what they even do, so it seems dogshit compared to normal attacks.
I also had no idea what they even do until I looked up on the internet in like 2004.

>>58041587
>It's kind of baffling how little the game explains about stat increases
they hate giving you hard numbers probably because it ruins "the magic" or whatever. they do the same thing with EVs and IVs

>>58041591
Even games for adults do this, SMT will have one move that says it does "moderate" damage and one move that says it does "extreme" damage and then the moderate damage skill does more and the one that says it does "moderate" damage only says that because there's stronger moves in that category later and they want to use the same terminology for everything..

>>58041591
I think EVs and IVs can be explained in an immersive way - which they usually still don't do.

I think SV might be the first game to actually fully explain stat increases with the actual numbers, but it's in an optional class at the academy.

I thought RS would let you return to Johto in the postgame, was disappointed when it turned out you couldn't.

>>58041600
The thing is, with games like smt you see the damage you dealt displayed in numbers, so it's easier to gauge how effective things like buffs and type matchups are, in pokemon you only get to see the hp bar, so it's harder to notice if that growl had an effect at all.

I thought that Charizard valley (from the anime) was an actual location in Gen 2's Kanto and I just needed to unlock it

I had seriously no idea Milotic evolved from Feebas. They look so different, I never would've guessed its supposed to be an evolution line. I was like "what the FUCK" when I found out online. I thought they were both single stage mons.

Similar story with the Trapinch line. I missed that one trainer who uses a Vibrava, so I was wondering the whole time when I will finally get Flygon's prestage or if it was single stage. I had no idea Trapinch was the first stage cause it looks so different, and I had never heard of antlions before.

>>58038502 (OP)
for some fucking reason i thought that in PMD if you threw gummies at an enemy and had it eat them, then it'd boost your odds of recruiting them
i don't even remember where i heard it but i haven't been able to find any source backing it up

>>58040237
Its an alternate evolution pathway. An Onix merges from 15 Geodudes if you have them side-by-side in the same PC Box.

>>58038502 (OP)
It took me ages to work out how to get into Saffron City in Yellow.

>>58041587
Don't think me as one of the those people who are like "the kids game is too easy" but I really don't see much of a reason for people playing the campaign to do anything other than select the move the game tells you is super effective
Gamefreaks continued insistence on every challenge being based around a single type hasn't helped matters. You can just sweep through entire gyms with just one mon doing the same move over and over.
Personally I wonder if type effective moves shouldn't be a whole 2x damage.
>>58041620
>but it's in an optional class at the academy
Yeah there ain't a single kid who ever did the academy classes except for mashing through it when it forces you for the legendaries. I don't even know why I did them. I guess I thought they'd be fun but it was so damn boring. Anyone less committed would've dropped out of class long before finishing

>>58043563
>Don't think me as one of the those people who are like "the kids game is too easy" but I really don't see much of a reason for people playing the campaign to do anything other than select the move the game tells you is super effective
I know, but the game constantly forces you to interact with stat lowering or boosting moves. Literally every Pokémon learns them. At that point you might as well just tell the player what the fuck they do. You have to put conscious effort into ignoring them, and that's stupid.

Also, I'm pretty sure you can get the legendaries without doing the history class. The stakes are always available iirc.

>>58038502 (OP)
I thought water and fire cancelled each other out. With them both being to weak each other. I also thought Psyduck and Golduck were Psychic type and Sableye was Rock/Ghost.

>>58044164
>I also thought Psyduck and Golduck were Psychic type

Wait, they aren't? That's outrageous.

>>58041207
they could be 30 even

>>58044667
kek I did this

>>58041057
It's not true, asshole. Nice projection though.

>>58044164
>I also thought Psyduck and Golduck were Psychic type

>psyduck has constant headaches that may cause psychic ourbursts
>golduck's little head gem thingy glows when using psychic powers
>both learn psychic moves through level up, even though early generations didn't give everyone access to a million coverage moves (and some mons don't even learn stab moves through level up)
>literally psy in its name
>somehow a pure water type
Yeah, no wonder a lot of kids were confused (me included)

>>58038652
I'm almost 30, and the DS came out when I was in 4th grade

>>58041042
Honestly I still think that. Whenever I fight in Pokemon Go, flying types tend to destroy my water types so...

>>58041400
Kek