To be fair, Deoxys has crap defenses even in normal mode. Most attacks would have OHKO'd it. Dragon Ascent with Mega Rayquaza is just like super overkill. The only way it would have been worse is if Deoxys was weak to flying
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The Most Facepalm Worthy Thing You Have Done in All of Pokémon
- Thread starter AHickey1995
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Fighting against a Gulpin in X with a Pickup Zigzagoon. I had forgotten to check, and since this is a Nuzlocke, just getting that poison healed was the first thing on my mind. I use my Full Heal on it. After the battle, I take off my Zigzagoon's item - and it was an Antidote.
There's also a gentleman on the route just before Lilycove (Walter? I can't remember right now) who gives you like 10K for defeating him. Prize Money power also helps.
I thought that Maxie and Roark were women... Maxie was mostly because it's a girl name to me, and he does look like a woman to me. Roark was mostly because the battle sprite in DP made it hard to tell. I thought he was a red-headed lady with a weird name and glasses.
Gender ambiguity is a common thing in Pokemon is seems. I've mostly heard it happening for Bugsy and Anabel.I thought that Maxie and Roark were women... Maxie was mostly because it's a girl name to me, and he does look like a woman to me. Roark was mostly because the battle sprite in DP made it hard to tell. I thought he was a red-headed lady with a weird name and glasses.
One's a boy and one's a girl...
Tucker also doesn't help matters. At least Anabel has the title Salon Maiden...Gender ambiguity is a common thing in Pokemon is seems. I've mostly heard it happening for Bugsy and Anabel.
One's a boy and one's a girl...
Wait, I can tell Bugsy is a guy because he doesn't have eyelashes.... but you can't tell with Anabel? Or is the opposite?
Repeatedly forgetting Sucker Punch only has +1 priority, and thus attempting to Sucker a Talonflame.
I was always able to tell the difference though as Detective Barricade pointed out the English translators are to thank for that. In Japan they had Anabel use a masculine personal pronoun (boku), even in the anime they have Ash & co. mistake Anabel for a boy. English doesn't have gender specific personal pronouns so there wasn't really any confusion.
As for Bugsy, Youtuber Chuggaaconroy during his Gen II playthrough said that he mistook Bugsy for a girl the first time he played. Now he may have been the only one, but hearing someone got confused about Bugsy's gender made me think it maybe wasn't as obvious as I thought it was.
And Tucker (as well as Wallace) aren't man or woman, they're just Tucker and Wallace. Let's just leave it at that.
I confused Bugsy with a women for a while myself. Can't remember when I first learned "she" was a he
I never thought Bugsy was female, though to be fair, I first encountered him in the anime since I didn't play the games until years later.
I played the game first and I never mistake him for a female too.
I was just going to say that! I was lucky and found the 1st and 2nd (8th and 9th) issues of Pokemon Adventures at the library, meaning the first two Gold and Silver, and I just read that part!
Left to right version. I know, I was confused too when I searched for it.
Left to right version. I know, I was confused too when I searched for it.
Ah man that's harsh. I would be devasted if that happened to me.
If that were my friend, they wouldn't be my friend anymore!
Today I did something really facepalm worthy. I had only one Pokemon left, while my opponent had five. I was setting up with my Moxie Gyarados and I had 4 Dragon Dances under my belt. I started wiping out my opponent's team and it came down to a 1v1. As soon as I saw it was a Raichu I pressed Earthquake, not realizing it was holding an Air Balloon...
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I keep cheating on my Nuzlocke... next one, I have to be more strict.
I'M NOT LOSING YOU TODAY RALTS! -Forgot Ralts is also Fairy type, sent in against Poison.
I'M NOT LOSING YOU TODAY RALTS! -Forgot Ralts is also Fairy type, sent in against Poison.
No, Psychic does not resist Poison. Not to mention how freaking frail Ralts is.
Along those lines, trying to sweep Grant with the Aerodactyl I'd just gotten. He's Rock/Flying, he'll be okay, right? Welp, turns out Rock does not resist itself.
(Somehow, he only went down once, and he actually put in some good work against Grant despite only being a few levels higher. Turns out even piss-weak Rock Smash can do a number in the right hands.)
Oh, yeah, I forgot about that time I used Hackmons in the Battle Subway Super Multi train about 3 years ago (with cpu trainer Hilda). I used Wonder Guard Spiritomb, a Slaking with Contrary or Wonder Guard, and a Regigigas I think with Wonder Guard. I lost battle 29...
TO A BLISSEY THAT SPAMMED SOFTBOILED!!! The other Pokemon I think had fighting type moves to wreck Slaking and Regigigas. Or Mold Breaker. Blissey tanked them too >.<
Here was the strategy of this Blissey...
Softboiled spam, Softboiled spam, continue spamming for a few more turns, uses Toxic in the middle of nowhere, Softboiled spam, uses other moves, Softboiled spam, cont.
To be fair, sadly I ran all special attack moves on Wonder Guard Spiritomb, not knowing what special attack did and was always trying to raise the Attack...
I was surprised that it didn't run out of Softboileds !_!
TO A BLISSEY THAT SPAMMED SOFTBOILED!!! The other Pokemon I think had fighting type moves to wreck Slaking and Regigigas. Or Mold Breaker. Blissey tanked them too >.<
Here was the strategy of this Blissey...
Softboiled spam, Softboiled spam, continue spamming for a few more turns, uses Toxic in the middle of nowhere, Softboiled spam, uses other moves, Softboiled spam, cont.
To be fair, sadly I ran all special attack moves on Wonder Guard Spiritomb, not knowing what special attack did and was always trying to raise the Attack...
I was surprised that it didn't run out of Softboileds !_!
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Trying to catch Palkia, I turned off my Exp. Share so that I could keep my Uxie pristine (I don't have a Reset Bag). After catching it, I went to go EV train my Darmanitan.
Guess who forgot to turn on the Exp. Share...
Guess who forgot to turn on the Exp. Share...
CTNC
Doesn't know how to attack
I've got one from the same gym. In a Nuzloke I was facing a random trainers Solrock which was Leech Seeded and had low enough health that it would faint next turn. I needed to switch to save my Skiddo so I thought about who could use the Exp.
"Butterfree could use the Exp and Solrock's been spamming Psywave so I don't think that it has a Rock Type Move" The opposing Solrock used Rock Throw. "Oh... I probably deserved that..."
the amount of times I've tried to ev train but forgot to turn the exp share back on... ;-;
For me it is the amount of times I train very specific EV spreads and forget to change power items.... ;_;