What is Your biggest mess-up in pokemon?

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Espeon(imported)
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Mine probably was the order of games I played. I wasn't born until 2000 so it isn't suprising i'm a Hoenn girl, but my first game was Blue. Then Pearl, Platinum, Ruby Emerald and Firered, Yellow Gold, Heartgold, Black, White. Stange, huh.

Also I brought Heartgold to the hotel at the beach and something I had had sand in it and RUINED IT!!! So I bought a new one off ebay with all idems
and i'm still working my but off trying to trade enough bidoff for darkri's.

post your mess-up here!
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In my yellow version I wanted to test out a rumour. So I started a new game with the understanding that I could go back to my existing save afterwards, named my character "PHANTOM" and checked the first box for a rare pokemon and saw nothing. So I switched my box. Then I realized that it was saving the game for this so I quickly restarted the game mid-save. I reloaded my save to find my save data mostly intact with the exception being that every box apart from box 1 had been wiped.

Though my biggest mess up was not backing up my silver version's save data when I had the chance instead of waiting around for the Retrode to support gbc sram dumping. I still regret that.
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Lol I bought a used Crystal and there was a egg and I hatched the egg, and a square hatched from it! I forgot you had to SAVE before you change boxes so I couldn't make it an egg again! Then I wasn't alould to take it out of my team, so I went to the day-care and thinkfully I could at least put it there. it borrows the last sprite used in battle (lol I sent out a girl) and in the day care it's two boys looking up and down.
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A lot of mine were back when I played Red Version and was therefore new at Pokémon. For example...

- I started out with Charmander and had no idea how type matchups worked. Naturally, I was wondering why Brock and Misty were so tough for me.
- My first Charizard had Fire Blast, Flamethrower, Cut, and Ember. How diverse!
- When I saw Articuno in Seafoam Islands, I didn't know that you only had one chance to catch it, so I talked to it, thinking it was like any other Pokémon on the field (like those in houses). Naturally, I wasn't well prepared and missed out on it. I didn't save before it, either.
-- When I found Zapdos, I recall underestimating it and probably only had a few Ultra Balls and not anything with sleep moves, and I didn't save beforehand.
-- When I found Moltres, I had more Ultra Balls, but when I fought it, it turned out the current box in the PC was full! No, I didn't save here either. How embarrassing...
-- I did catch Mewtwo though, since I did think to save this time and was lucky by catching it with a few Ultra Balls.
- When I played the first time, I used my only Master Ball (this was before I knew about the MissingNo. glitch) on some weak Pokémon. I think it was a male Nidoran, not knowing how valuable the Master Ball was. Oops.
- The first time that I played Crystal, in the Dragon Shrine, I answered one of the questions incorrectly (IIRC, when I was asked "What kind of Trainer do you wish to battle?", I answered "Tough person" instead of "anybody"). So, I sadly missed out on the Extremespeed Dratini :( Although, the second time I played, as well as when I played HeartGold, I was more careful to answer everything correctly.

Thankfully, I never believed in any of the rumors like using Strength on the truck, non-existent Pokémon like "Pikablu," or Pokégods. I was always skeptical about those because nobody could ever prove them to me. (Although, I didn't believe in MissingNo. either at first until someone did show the glitch to me.)
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About the Master Ball, on my Pearl I heard you can get more Master balls in that game, and I also thought Drifloon is a one time only Pokemon, well I through my Master ball at it thinking getting more would be easy... though I don't suggest using your Master ball on Palkia & Dailgia anyway because it has a catch rate of like a Chansey.
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my biggest screwup was when i had crystal i released my bayleef that really all i can think off
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On my Platinum I used a cheating device to go through walls (or people blocking the way) and that messed up the events of the game. That must be my only big screw up.
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This kinda is a mess-up. On my Platnium I put the exp. share on a geodude I just caught and left it on there and never used that Geodude and it leveled up and up til finally it was lvl. 40 I started using Gaveler, but I still didn't get rid of its idem so now it's lvl. 85 and it's holding a exp. share.
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my biggest mess up is trying do dud glitch (my friend show me on gold/silver) i tried it ON yellow. it worked, i end up got two flameron (fire eevee) and i lost staryu during it. (replaced) :/
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I wasted my Master Ball on a Skarmory in my first playthrough of Pokemon Silver.. was my first time seeing it, and I had no idea what it was, I thought it must be rare and awesome..

Then I ran into about a million more of them. >_<

Also, I let a friend borrow my Pokemon Emerald, with the event tickets from the store in NYC on it, and tons of EV trained/rare Pokemon. He's gone now and so is the game...
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