Worst Mistakes I've Made in Pokemon

So that kid actually saved this channel without knowing it

Can we just take a break and thank the kid who told Ron where to get surf

The first Pokemon game I owned when I was a kid was Ruby. I finally got the Master Ball and was walking around outside the treehouse city when I encountered an Absol. I thought it was so COOL looking that it must have been a legendary or a super rare Pokemon that I just HAD to catch right then and there. So I used the Master Ball on it. The very next Pokemon I encountered was another Absol. 8 year old me was FLOORED. Still love Absol though lmao

Now in Sword and Shield it's actually better to evolve stone evolutions early: the evolved form has all of its pre-evolution's level-up moves available through Move Reminder, meaning that as soon as you hatch a Growlithe, you can slap a Fire Stone on it and take it to the Move Reminder, who will provide you with a level 1 Arcanine that knows Flare Blitz, Play Rough, Crunch and Outrage.

I thought moves that did no damage like thunder wave were useless

When I first played Pokemon Firered I never knew that you can actually switch pokemon's order in which they first appear in battle and hence had a over leveled blastoise.

Ron: dude I need to know where surf is, or I’m not playing Pokémon anymore. 3rd grader: you get it from Wallys dad next to your dads gym. Ron: shut up loser, ugh 3rd graders are the worst amirite? Ron never played a Pokémon game again

I remember getting pokemon white and only using my starter. I would never train my other pokemon because my mind just couldnt comprehend it. I didnt realize it either when I first got soul silver and platinum. I only realize it in platinum, when I was fighting Barry the second time and my starter was down, and all I had was my starly still at level 3. I send it out and by pure luck, I bested Barry and my starly grew several levels, and this was when it occurred to me that I need to train my other pokemon too.

I once caught a Muk with a master ball... Honestly you can't really blame me though, it was purple and had an 'M' on it, perfect right?

4:30 or whats worse, not knowing STAB was a thing until 10 years of playing

“Evolve a growlith too early” Growlith: I LEARN FLAMETHROWER AT LEVEL 54

When I was 7 I saw my friend use cut with her Charizard. I thought ‘release’ let the Pokémon out of its pokeball. So I released my first starter Pokémon

One of my biggest mistakes when I was younger was wasting a master ball in gen 1, I thought I could get more than one back then, when I could've just used it on MewTwo

When I was a noob, I traded legenaries for starters because I thought they were just as rare as starters because I didn't know about breeding.

I love how back in the days everyone hated gen 5 and i actually loved it to now that more people begin to like it How Gen 5 has grown

I didn’t know you could catch legendaries and killed all the ones I encountered

“Fun Guy ;)” is the best nickname

I thought unknown evolved into sigilygh when gen 5 came out

In Pokemon Emerald, I spent hours trying to figure out how to get to the next town after Slateport city, not understanding you can walk UNDER the bridge up ahead because I thought it was a wall??? I spend SO MUCH TIME being lost, it was so sad.

for the longest time, i didn't know what sp. attack and sp. defense were, so i thought they were useless