Things in Pokemon that bothered you.

[Bourne Endeavor]

*Trainer is born in *
Trainer: "Okay today I get to choose my first pokemon!"
Professor: "Uh... sorry, we are fresh out of pokemon."
Trainer: "Wha?!"
Professor: "Well... long story really..."
Trainer: "Professor, why is this Miltank brown and in some sauce?
Professor: "... no, no! This is a Chololate milk, Miltank! Yes he'll buy that."
Trainer: "... ooo kay, then why are there mouse traps on the floor?"
Professor: "You watch TV don't you? You saw the first episode, teach that rat some respect"
Trainer: "... what about the club next to the Seal?"
Professor: "Okay, time for you to venture out into the world!
Trainer: Wait, wait, I don't have a pokemon, and they're all really strong here!"
Professor: "You'll figure it out"
Trainer: "What about pokeballs?"
Professor: What am I made of money? Go gamble or something"
Trainer: Gamble is illegal though."
Professor: "Oh yeah because no one gambles on glorified dog fights around here..."

*many hours later and a subsequent near death later Trainer; by some miracle, catches a pokemon!"

Trainer: "I did it! Okay lets battle professor! Go , use
Pokemon: *takes a nap*
Trainer: "... what the hell?"
Professor: "Oh! Forgot to mention you need a certain amount of badges for high level pokemon to give a damn what you have to say."
*Professor sends out a level 100 Bidoof, proceeds to slaughter Trainer and his pokemon, who still refuses to listen.*
Professor: "Hahah, see how much of a failure you are for not being born in the first city!"
Trainer: "I hate pokemon!"
Professor: Good, good, now you can look forward to a career in standing around being completely useless for the remainder of your life."


Yes, I was bored, had too much time on my hands.

 

[slowpoke999]

How is it that Gastley doesn't doesn't have any mass? That doesn't make fucking sense! Good luck being a Physicist in that ass backward world.
Oh and Misingnom? It was actually the original Cuebone. Mine evolved into a fucking Kangaskhan!
ah this series pissed me off. I miss the digimon world games. All you had to do was sit back and cheer until your damn digimon evolved into a god....or a peice of poo.

I'm guessing the evolutionary line was meant to go:Cubone>Marowack>Kangaskhan, but Kangaskhan was changed to not have the 'bone' theme or something.

 

[Bat Vader]

I can get over Numel... I actually like dunsparce for some odd reason, and if I try hard, I don't flinch at lickiliki. But this? just no, thanks.
You can't honestly expect me to believe that this would actually happen, evolutionarily, let alone have an advantage in battle!
Is it too much to ask for some goddamned elbows? *insert interrobang here*

Why does it have a mustache? Why does it look Human?

On Topic: Nothing really ever bothered me about Pokemon except that no common sense is ever used most of the time. Everyone just solves their problems with a Pokemon battle. Kinda reminds me of another show where cards are mainly used.

 

[MissGinaKid]

How do the elderly move around the land without being attacked? Seriously if they want to say, Go shoping at the department store, How do they get there without being attacked? And why is there one 1 school in the games and it's for trainers only. And what about a high school or middle school?

 

[koeniginator]

WILD CATERPIE HAS APPEARED
WILD PIDGEY HAS APPEARED
WILD CATERPIE HAS APPEARED
WILD CATERPIE HAS APPEARED
WILD CATERPIE HAS APPEARED
WILD PIDGEY HAS APPEARED
WILD CATERPIE HAS APPEARED
WILD PIDGEY HAS APPEARED
WILD ABRA HAS APPEARED
RED THROWS A POKEBALL
IT APPEARED TO BE CAUGHT!
WILD ABRA USED TELEPORT
WILD CATERPIE HAS APPEARED...

Seriously, I don't understand how people can find this FUN.

 

[zohmbee]

-- Ribbons and pagents. Seriously, why? I get that Pokemon can be used for more than battling, but...really? I wouldn't have minded so much if the game didn't encourage it.

-- Getting eggs from the babysitting place because...I don't like imagining two Pokemon getting it on because then I have to imagine Pokemon genitals and...HOW IN THE HELL did they do it with a Ditto?

-- Growl and Leer are the most useless fucking attacks ever.

-- WHY COULD THE POKEMON DODGE IN THE ANIME AND I COULDN'T IN THE GAME? (This has always bothered me.)

-- What did throwing a rock at a Pokemon in the Safari Zone ever do that was useful? These things could KILL you if they wanted, you really wanna piss them off while you have no Pokemon? And while on the subject; Pokemon Red; gaining Surf to continue the game. I'm five steps from the house and 'BING BONG~'.

-- Have you seen the size charts? When I used Dialga in a Gym fight I was scared I was gonna break the ceiling with his face. But apparently it's just a smidge taller than my forced partner's Clefable or whatever at some later point in the game

And finally, caves. Step step ZUBAT run step GEODUDE run step step step ZUBAT run GEODUDE run--

EDIT: Trainers that moved! I try so hard to dodge them but they turn RIGHT as I decide to run.

 

[CommyGingerbreadMan]

Why am I the only ones people fight

One person said it, Why the hell was a graveyard replaced with a RADIO TOWER???

Going off the tower, you need the slyph scope to see the damn ghost pokemon didn't you? Magically this is an implant for everyone by Gold/Silver.

4 moves at one time. . . 4? Ok so 4 uniqely special? NOPE, so much for avg. Human intelligence, your charizard will forget how to breath fucking fire if you so wish.

HMs, just. . . what? How does my pokemon with claws the size of small children need an HM to teach it how to cut?

Meowth taught himself how to talk. TAUGHT HIMSELF. HOW. No why, the fuck has this not been done to other pokemon?

Evee is so genetically fucked up THAT IT BEING DAY OR NIGHT CAN ALTER IT'S DNA.

Happiness to evolve? Really?

Last note: Where did these new baby versions and evolved versions come from. Rhinecarrier? I had a level 100 Rhydon. . . was that not enough?

 

[Jingermanoo]

The distinct lack of any sort of agricultural or economic system and the lack of a government.
What do they eat? Where does it come from? The only sort of farm in any of the games was a milk one.

 

[Lord Krunk]

Well, never had much problems with the games. They were great fun.

The TV show, however, I had a lot of problems with. It had a lot of plot holes and the English voice acting was very annoying, the characterizations were paper thin, and it was very difficult to follow.

Blah.

My beef with it is that the Anime teased this city where we could fight a giant mind-raping Tentacruel. It's like Poke-Cthulhu!

And it never happened in-game...

 

[oppp7]

Why do trained gym leaders have low level Pokemon when there are Pokemon of the same species at much higher levels just a little later on?
Why is Victory Road full of people when you can only get there by beating all the gyms? I thought I was the only one.
Why does Mr. Mime exist?

 

[De Ronneman]

I read some posts here, and some stuff I'll be saying has allready been said, but I feel like I'm entitled to make a list of things here:
1)Why the hell does Ash het away with:
1a)Not evolving ANY of his pokemon? They solved that in the later series, but he always gets the worst pokemon, then chooses either to:
1a.1) Giving them away;
1a.2) Not evolving them.
1b)Destroying bikes? He still owes Misty one. The poor girl has to follow him through dreary filler episode after dreary filler episode, while she's a GYMLEADER! Beat the bastard, search his corps for some cash and scram!
1c)Not having a dad? Did he spontaniously synthesize out of thin air?
2) Why 6 pokemon whilst you have a pretty nifty backpack than can store 99 of ANY item, a collapsable bike, fossils(key items in the first games) and even have room to carry all sorts of colourfull berries without squashing them?
3a)Pikachu beataing even a BUTTMUNCHING RHYDON(!) with a simple THUNDERSHOCK, a move the little roddents learn on birth and regular people remove for something usefull by lvl 12...
3b)Pikachu never even ONCE missing a thunder? The damn attack has 70% accuracy, nooone's that lucky...
4)Not eating. I know it's "explained" somewhat, people eating Magikarp, clean bones and toss em in a river, then magically growing BACK into a new Magikarp(yeah, I lolled too...)
5)Brock, being the horny bastard he is, not getting laid a single time, poor guy...
6)Obviously promoting slavery.(relax, joke)
7a)Where the chuffing hell do the eggs come out of? Pokemon lay eggs. Okay, reproductionproblem solved, but please tell me, if you can, where do the eggs come out of when you're, say, a Ghastly?
7b)Where do legendary pokemon come from? There supposedly 1 of a kind and unbreedable? Did they pull an Ash Ketchum and Synthesize every once in a while?
7c)Why do pokemon like Tyranitar put up with being professionally fighting others of their kind, getting hurt beyond repair in the proces? Unconditional love has a limit...
8)How come they keep finding new species that don't migrate?
9)How come there were no Houndour in RBY in the patch outside of Saffron, but in GSC, 8 years later, there are?
10a)What happens to pokemontrainers that fail?
10b)What happens to pokemontrainers that get found by the school inspector? Ash is a dimwit, he is not excused from school on behalf of his endless geniusness...
10c)What irresponsible parent lets their kid run from city to city, sleeping god knows where, with god knows who, whilst never even making a usefull phonecall?
11)How come, say Brock is a gymleader with 2 pokemon sporting the massive levelage they do,
10 and 12?
12)How come I can enter ANY house, loot it and still be crowned hero of the day when I kick TR's ass?
13)How the hell does Team Rocket survive being shocked, kicked, punched, burned, broken, beaten and scarred(hey!)?
14)Why do some pokemon not live in the wild ANYWHERE, but still get handed out as starters?
15)Why is there a female Mr. Mime?
16)How come there are extinct pokemon, but anyone still uses them and noone raises an eyebrow to that?
17)Is there no library or something where you can update whatever pokemon you saw, so that poor old Prof. (fill in any tree, srsly, ANY) doesn't have to beg little boys to do it for him?
18)Why do pokemon stay neatly in grassy area's, water and caves?
19)How come people eat eggs without chickens? Eating any other egg would seem like murder(unconditional love and such?)
20)What about the milk?(don't answer, I don't wanna think about Miltank)
21a)When you lose, you lose contiousness, end up at a pokemoncenter, fully healed, but with exactly HALF your cash missing? Who stole your goods? Adrian Monk?
21b)Why not take any items? I'm usually carying some Ultra Balls, the freaking MASTERBALL, a bunch of nuggets I forgot to sell last time I went shopping and even a bike?
21c)Why not steal my pokemon? Ethics are there to be ignored...

Phew, quite the list. It's out of my system now...

 

[Who Said Pikachu]

One of my peeves though was that if you actually read the pokedex entries for the original pokemon EVERYTHING was carnivorous. Like seriously. The birds ate fish and insects, the plants ate anything smaller than them, the mammals ate all the other mammals, the fish ate fish.. Aside from maybe Tauros everything seemed to eat meat. Where were all the prey animals in this world?! No wonder they had no problems beating the crap out of each other. They were all predatory anyway and just thought they were gonna get a free meal if they knocked out their opponet.

Then there were caves.. Zubat and Geodude. I hate you so.

And thent here was how sloooooooooooooow it was.. I played emulated versions of the original games. No sound + button all the way.. Picking up the real game and having to do all that grinding at normal speed? Kill me now. I don't know how people did/do it.

..I kinda always wanted to when battling another human player, actually steal half their money if they lost like the people who beat you in the game did. This kinda annoyed me.

Living in Australia where we almost never get the friggin promotions. Or at least didn't until the last few years and wifi was readily available. Thank you Nintendo Australia who didn't care to have distrubution events so we could actually complete our pokedex!

..Also no free mew in the original games when completing your dex. Our English translations got gipped!

In relation to previous comments ~

People seem to forget the original game came out and if not started the whole linkcable thing, booted it out of the dirt and actually made it useful. The game was designed to be shared and played with others, the dude who created it even said so! So -that's- why you didn have them all in the one game! So you couldn't just be the lonely kid, you had to interact with others. Course, as one of the lonely kids.. this sucked.

Team Rocket DOES do other things. It's been mentioned more than once in the anime they're pretty much the useless deadbeats that are left to do what they want (chasing Ash and Pikachu or whateva) cause it keeps them out of the way. They've even been fired from Rocket a few times. Other Rockets do cool stuff! It's just mostly off camera and on the other side of the world where Ash and Co can't -do-anything about it. Or know about it I suppose..

Oh! And people were complaining about ages.
I remember reading in like, 'official handbook' things that Ash was 10, Misty 14, Brock 16 and Jessie/James were 18/19 or so. ..honestly, I can't imagine as a 14/16yr old being all that willing to hang around with a -10- year old constantly.. like, day and night, every day for months and months at a time.

 

[Willwillwritehiswill]

People only ever talk about pokemon in the game... never does anyone express any other desires apart from that revolving around the pocket monsters.

A minor niggle, but damn, if Game Freak wanted to create a better game world they could at least diversify.

 

[RamirezDoEverything]

not being able to skip through dialouge fast enough(battles especially) jus tends to make me want to throw the DS out of the car

 

[Robin-chan]

I agree with a lot of the points already made in this thread, such as Red/Ash/Insert-trainer's-name-here never going to school and being allowed to freely roam the world by themselves, as well as wondering how they made sushi and stuff, thinking that they probably just kill worthless Magikarp for that. I also hate that you can only carry six Pokemon, and I hate the fact that Team Rocket constantly gets pwned by a little boy/girl, then they just kinda storm off pouting instead of beating the crap out of you with their fists.

Other things that bother me:
- Team Rocket members are too dumb to live. "Whatever you do, don't look behind the poster at the Game Corner! There's no secret switch behind it or anything!" And also, "Oh no! I dropped the LIFT KEY!" *key is right next to him* I do kinda feel sorry for the grunts, because they don't get names. Ever.
- Why don't the members of Team Rocket use the Pokemon to beat up the trainer instead of the Pokemon? Like, have Pokemon that are good at hiding, then have them attack anyone who comes near their headquarters.
- Brock seems to enjoy talking about how rock-hard his Pokemon are. Freaking pedo.
- Those guards around Saffron City are morons. At first they're like, "Road's closed, go away." You give them a damn soda, and suddenly, it's cool for you to go into Mobster Town.
- Lt. Surge is said to be a war veteran. Question: WHAT WAR? Was there some epic Pokemon war not long ago? Did people actually kill others using their Pokemon? And it says he's the Lightning American. Where the hell is America in this world? Why do we only get to explore small regions of the world, assuming that those regions are in Japan, I guess?
- Suppose there was a Pokemon war. I'd like to play a game involving that. It would be so epic.
- I want to hear about Pokemon stories from the past. Y'know, before people had convenient Pokeballs and computers to magically transfer them anywhere. I wanna know how they caught and tamed those sumbitches. And how people managed to survive today while living with such insanely powerful creatures. (This refers back to the "why aren't Pokemon ruling the people" complaint.)
- Why can Pokemon only say their name? They're powerhouses in different shapes and sizes, and they can obliterate things with fire, ice, water, etc. But they can't learn to speak human languages, except for Team Rocket's stupid Meowth and a few of the legendary Pokemon.
- One more bone to pick with Team Rocket: why are they still running around? They should have died by now from all those blasting off moments, or at least they should've starved to death. I think Giovanni or SOMEONE should let them know that they're off the payroll, because I doubt that Giovanni would be dumb enough to keep paying them to screw up and stalk a group of kids.

Edit: Oh! One more here: I personally could not stand to travel around with the same two people for God knows how many years. And in the games, where do you sleep? It's like you're some kind of robot that never needs to sleep, eat, or anything like that. You're just some soulless Pokemon hunter.

 

[Cody211282]

Why are there so many HMs and why do they all suck so hard?

 

[Crysco]

Probably already mentioned but. . .

1) So many trainers looked the exact same in the games. With the exception of names they were the same, i.e. Hiker X and Hiker Y.
2) How the gym leaders get progressively harder. I mean, gym leaders are supposed to be top notch but Brock's Onix was like 13 or 14. They pale in comparison to run of the muck trainers like three or four routes ahead.
3) You can't catch fainted pokemon. Shouldn't that only make it easier?
4) There are level 4 Kakuna and Metapod. Weedle and Caterpie don't evolve until level 7?!?!
5) Baby pokemon weren't "discovered" until later generations. Did a Pikachu and Raichu eggs hatch into Pikachu and all of the suddenly hatch into Pichu once it was discovered?
6) How NO ONE ever moves except maybe the lucky few who move in a 2x2 area. Does no one have a life?
7) It didn't amaze or bother anyone that you possess pokemon that control space and time.
8) No one seems to question a ten year old walking around on his own.
9) WHY ONLY FOUR MOVES???
10) Splash
11) Why not catch Snorlax while it is sleeping? What is the point in waking it up, battling it, making it fall asleep again, and then proceeding to catch it?
12) In the anime, there were all of these fucking cool as pokemon wondering around from the get-go but in the game there are only freakin' Pidgey and Ratatta.
13) Rhydon being a ground AND rock type can learn surf.
14) What are all of Ash's other older pokemon doing during his new shenanigans?
15) You can jump down a presumably huge ledge but can't climb back up.
16) Trading in order to evolve. Doesn't that make you pokemon hate you?
17) Does everyone have to walk or ride a bike to get from point A to point B with there being no cars or roads? Or do they all just stay coofed up in their little Utopian town.
18) You can just waltz right into anyone's home and rather than freaking out and calling the cops on you they just give you some form of advice.
19) Flash and how you "need" it to progress.
20) Is there even such thing as wild Bulbasaur, Charmander, Squirtle, etc.? According to the show there are. . .not in the game.
21) Old people are either wise or bumbling idiots.
22) No black people. And I don't know what the hell Brock is.
23) Any pokemon can mate with any pokemon and hybrids don't form.
24) How bubbles. . .fucking bubbles. . .can take down an Onix.
25) Brock's Onix's size is not consistent in the anime.
26) The show feels like it must tell us during every battle "but an electric type doesn't affect a ground type!" or something of the works
27) With all of the advice that Ash has been told over the years, you would think that he would be the best by now.
28) Has Ash even used one of his 30 Tauros yet?
29) Why would an Abra challenge you only to flee teleport?
30) And finally, isn't it kind of weird that Brock is like 20 years old and he is walking around with a ten year old and presumably an eleven or twelve year old?

 

[Tyson765]

I find it disturbing that for the Pokeon versian of the olyimpics in Heart gold/Soul silver they introduce a mechanic where feeding you pokemon apricorn juice makes them better at a certain athletic feat...

drugs are good if you play sport anyone?
Chinese olympic swimming team anyone?

 

[Urgh76]

Well, with Heart Gold/Soul Silver coming out in a few days, I felt it was time to get all nostalgic about the freaky weird things in the Pokemon games of old. (Or Pokemon episodes of old, whatever works)

I for one always had issues with Nurse Joy, someone you only went to see when your Pokemon were hurt/unconscious, saying "We hope to see you again!"

Sadistic pink-haired witch.

Oh my god, WHERE DO I START?!?

1. Gary, when he always said "smell ya later" my 3 yr old mind was like "O.O he's gonna smell me?"

2. Nurse Joy as listed above

3. and this is a big one, literally [HEADING=1]HOW THE HELL HAVE THEY BEEN STUDYING POKEMON THEIR ENTIRE LIFE AND NOT KNOW ABOUT AT LEAST 300 MORE?!!?[/HEADING]

4. Trading pokemon to evolve them. My trading never worked out and i only got it to work once

5.The point of having a clock set in Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald where the sky doesn't even correspond to the time. I mean seriously? Do you think we're going to go ALL the way home JUST to see what time it is?!

6. Gym leader Erika who disobeys her own rules! Explanation: When you battle Misty, pokemon up to lv 30 obey you, but when you go to fight Erika (there were no more lv upgrade badges) she uses a lv 32!(or was it 31?)

[HEADING=1]PHEW[/HEADING]

EDIT: AND ANOTHER THING!!! how is it that everyone talks about being great and shit, yet there's only 2 trainers battling the gyms?!

EDIT:EDIT: lol, sparta post

 

[Shoggoth2588]

EDIT: Trainers that moved! I try so hard to dodge them but they turn RIGHT as I decide to run.

Trainers who look one way for 3 seconds, turn to look in another direction for 3 seconds and, keep this pattern up...until you try sneaking past them and they lock on to you. What really grinds my gears about this is how when you're first starting out, a non-battling person will tell you "Not everybody wants to battle but, if you lock eyes, you must!" I DIDN'T LOOK AT YOU BUDDY! LEAVE ME ALONE!!

On Topic:

Arceus = Pokemon equivalent of God...*throws master ball* I now have total control of God ^^ but I can't make it conjure up master balls, max revives, feebas or, anything really...thanks for nothing God!

Why bother having a move like Splash when it does nothing?