Your greatest failure in a game. (Pokemon related)

[r3dc0br4]

My biggest fail was in either Gold or Crystal, I cant quite remember. Using the duplication glitch I had an entire team of nothing but Kinglers from the 5th gym on. They wrecked everything they came up against, I didnt lose a singel battle for the rest of the game.

Until I got to the Elite Four. Will was no problem, Koga went down easy, Bruno didnt stand a chance. Then I got to Agatha, and it all went downhill because of one pokemon: her Gloom. The thing had magical leaf and could kill my entire team in one hit each. I know it was stupid enough to make a team entirely of one pokemon, but type problems had never effected me before because of the sheer power I was able to use.

I reloaded and re-fought her like 7 times before I just gave up and accepted defeat. The worst part was, I leveled them up like 2 more levels before I got an ice-type on one of them. Went back, beat her down, then cleared the Champion like he was nothing.

 

[Sexy Devil]

You challenged the league with level 44's? Id be impressed if you had won - I never go in without my whole team being at least level 50. And I usually have the money to get 20-30 hyper potions, 20-30 full restores, 50-60 revives and about 40 full heals - just so healing cannot be a problem!

Look at me, talking high and mighty - my greatest defeat was against an Elite Four member. Drake, although I cant remember what game it was... Ruby maybe? But his Salamence kept on trouncing me every time. I think I managed to K.O. it on one attempt but it took down 4 of mine in the process and far too many items. So I accepted defeat, trained a lot more, went back and opened up a can of whoop-ass on him X) The Champion wasn't a problem thankfully!

EDIT: This was probably the time I came up with the rules for myself "Whole team >lvl50" and "Sh*t load of items". They haven't failed me yet!

Taking on the elite 4 with a bunch of level 40s is nothing. In Soul Silver I beat Pokemon Trainer Red with one level 62, a level 53, 3 Pokemon between level 35 and 45, and a level 10.

Basically just used 5 of them as placeholders to fully heal the first one while I slowly whittled down his Pokemon. It took like 45 minutes to win.

 

[C2Ultima]

Let's see. I can't remember which game it was (I know it had to be 4th gen) but I was in the cave in which Heatran was located. As anyone who's played it will know, in the cave, you team up with some guy who uses a Claydol, and go through the cave with them.

So as we were going through the cave, we had a double encounter, and there it was. A shiny Macargo. My first shiny encounter ever.

You'll remember that you can't catch Pokemon in double encounters until you take out one of the two, so I attacked the other regular Macargo, who had a little sliver of health left, ready for my partner to take care of it.

The asshole uses Ancientpower on the shiny Macargo, which winds up being a critical hit. It's a one hit KO.

Every battle after that, I immediately attacked my partner's Claydol before turning on our opponents.

 

[DudeistBelieve]

I remember first facing the elite four in pokemon red. All I had was the lone Charizard I had been solely raising since the start of the game... He wasn't enough alone to beat all of them.

...Then I rare-candy cheated the fucker to 100 and took them out.

 

[Kouen]

Was the first time trying the Japanese transformers game on the NES that a friend talked me into trying out...

Didn't go well...

 

[jamjar]

From my first ME3 playthrough. Read on for the most epic canon fail in gaming history.

As everyone's well aware by now, the ideal scenario still ends pretty grimly, right? Everybody's stranded on Earth. Geth, Quarians, Asari, Turians... the Krogan and Salarians probably come out taking the least damage, right? Just their armies get stranded.

Cut to my playthrough: because I have Mordin, Wrex, and Eve, siding with the Salarians on Tuchanka seems nonsensical. So the Salarians, the ones least harmed by the conflict so far by staying out of the war while everyone else gets hammered, and I go our separate ways. Keep this in mind for later.

I get to Rannoch, where I can choose from three missions: save the admiral, destroy fighter squadron base, and take on the Reaper. I saved the admiral, but not realizing that doing the Reaper makes the other missions unavailable, I go and do the Reaper. I've looked up all the calculations since then, and what this means is I was still 1 point short of being able to convince the Quarians to see reason. I side with Legion, expecting the Quarians to come to their senses. Naturally, the entire Quarian race gets wiped out. Whoops. Still, I did the right thing, right? ...right?

Finally, the ending. I get to the space kid, he tells me I have three colors to choose between. I empty a clip's worth of bullets into his space face, then figure, what the hell? I came all this way to blow the Reapers up. There's only one option that lets me do that, kill the AI. It's what we came for, gang, let's do it.

Since BW was kind enough to not provide an epilogue, I only realized what had just happened after a couple of days of contemplation. To recap: the Quarians are dead because I sided with the Geth, the Geth are dead because I wiped out all AI, the Batarians have been imploded, the Turians and Asari are stranded on Earth, and the Salarians, those two-timing motherfuckers, they're on Sur'Kesh, which is PERFECTLY FINE. The most I could have possibly done to them would be to get their fleet stranded, and I didn't even manage that.

You know who else came out OK, apart from the Salarians? The Krogan, for the first time in ages not being under the effects of the Genophage. Cue me leaving no one else save the Genophage-happy Salarians alive in the universe... whoops!

Erm, the Salarians joins you after overruling the dalatrass because they dont care about politics, but you're right, that was a big fail for facing the reaper before everything else with the quarians, sounds like you don't know how to go through the game

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Biggest Pokemon failure?

The year was 1999. I was playing through Pokemon Yellow for the first time and was enjoying every moment of it. I was 8 at the time. Got the Master Ball.

What do I use it on?

An Onix.

Yes, I think I was a stupid kid.

 

[Calcium]

Well, Pokemon related I seem to remember the gyms in Gold/Silver being a lot, lot harder compared to Red/Blue. Particularly Whitney and her Miltank, the steel gym leader's Steelix and Claire's dragons...

Though the trainer that always knocked me down was Will from the elite four. Having an entire team that can use Psychic is just cruel.

If only my cartidge hadn't broken (it's unable to save progress) - I had a team of bug types which I was seeing how far I could take. I think I had just defeated the Ghost gym leader. Would have been a huge challenge getting past the Steel leaders team.

Spoiler: Bug Team

Scyther, Ariados, Parasect, Venonat, Butterfree, Yanma - Though I was considering Heracross/Pinsir/Pineco to replace Yanma.

 

[Davey Woo]

I get the same sense of anguish playing as a Warior in Guild Wars random arenas.
There is always a mesmer on the other team, he always has empathy...

(empathy is a skill that deals damage every time you attack, so when you're a warrior it pretty much shuts you down for the whole game)

 

[mew4ever23]

Well there's your problem - trying to take on the elite with 44s? You're insane. You want to be low-mid 50s at least before you try that.

Just the other day I lost a full stack of iron, a half stack of gold, some diamond and some lapus due to being under prepared and lost. I was on half a heart, nearly no hunger, I kept thinking that I would die at any moment. Then a spider pounced me and I did. Just when I was finally un-lost too.

 

[Optiluiz]

Back when I first played Silent Hill 4: The Room... Oh god I got the worst ending possible. To this day I feel guilty for having let that happen. I won't spoil it for you, but this is one of the worst 'downer' endings ever. Great game, though. Too bad it's not in the HD collection...

 

[Shockolate]

I have absolutely zero luck with nuzlocke runs.

My farthest got to Sabrina (Fire Red) but I lost before fighting her. So there I was, grinding my team so as not to be over-relient, when I freak critical hit killed my Growlithe, Mickey. For those who don't know, Growlithe is my favorite pokemon and I was lucky to catch it. I was completely devastated. That loss kicked off the string of reckless failures at grinding that led to the death of every 'Mon I had.

The attempt I made on Fire Red above was less heartbreaking, but more hilarious. Picked Squirtle and got critical hit'd in VERY FIRST battle against your rival. So close...

 

[scorptatious]

My only Question. lvl44 is high Enough for the Elite Four these days? I remember being like lvl 83 in red versions..... standards dropping or was I just extremely over leveled back then?

I think you may have been a tad overleveled. I was able to beat the elite four and the champion in the Red version with my Pokemon in their 50's.

Also Ruby came out almost ten years ago, so this kind of thing has probably happened before. XD

 

[Shakomaru]

Get yourself a MewTwo, a Zapdos, a Scizor, a Charizard, a Blastoise, and an Alakazam, all level 60 at least, and you'll do just fine. That's what I beat the game with last time I played through Sapphire.

But in all seriousness, as I bet most of the above mentioned pokemon will be out of your grasp, 44 is just way too low to try and beat the game. Go at least to 55. And even then it'll likely still be pretty tough.

I found out how to destroy the elite four in sapphire. Just use kyogre and blaziken/breloom with sky uppercut. Switch them out on each elite four member starting with kyogre, against Phoebe, blaziken against Sidney, blaziken against the ice one and kyogre against drake and both against whatshisname. Although it's key that kyogre knows ice beam hydro pump/surf and Thunder. Teach blaziken overheat too. I pretty much did this every time, got them both up to 99 while doing this.

 

[Prof. Monkeypox]

When I lost my beloved Porygon during a Nuzlocke challenge. Stupid critical hit explosion....


Actually, all of my biggest failures in Pokemon are Nuzlocke related. During normal playthroughs, it's rare for me to lose against any challenge.

 

[Prof. Monkeypox]

My only Question. lvl44 is high Enough for the Elite Four these days? I remember being like lvl 83 in red versions..... standards dropping or was I just extremely over leveled back then?

Overleveled for sure. I've always found 52 to be the best level to take on the Elite Four. Guaranteed win, with enough challenge to keep it interesting.

 

[Prof. Monkeypox]

So I heard you like fire types? Meet my lvl 14 unkillable Onyx. Boom, one hit my Charmander. Again. And again. And AGAIN.

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-

Edit: Never had any issues with the elite four though. In Blue, my Venisaur (first playthrough), Nidoqueen (first playthrough) or Charizard (second playthrough) could always do quite well. And in Emerald, apparently having Blaziken, Salamence, and Rayquaza is OP.

And yet my greatest triumph (when I was eight) was to finally beat Brock with just my Charmander.

 

[The White Hunter]

Also not pokemon related: Hey I have an Idea! I'll play DMC3 won Dante Must Die mode without using the sword!

...you get the drift...

Try Heaven or Hell without using guns @___@ I did it, but I lost a part of myself that day that is now lost to the depths of time...

OT: Um I don't think I've had an major tragedies in a pokemon game that weren't resolved by rebooting the save, never wasted a master ball because i just never use them, probably when I first started playing the game fighting Morty';s Gengar on Gold was just a nightmare for me. Being very young at the time and having no real understanding of the game mechanics.

Greatest pokemon win? Black/White against Ghetsis, last pokemon is Victini, his Bisharp is his last, it's just a bit faster and a couple levels higher. I'm there, stuck in a bit of a healing loop with no revives, I say fuck it, time to fall on my sword with honour. Just then, Bisharp used night slash! The foes attack missed!

Flamethrower was used. Victory was had. I fucking love brightpowder.

 

[TilMorrow]

A story of epic pokemon struggle against the Elite Four and that guy at the end in the Ruby-verse

Hmmm...

Wait a minute....

I tried using the Quick Claw on Swampert so he can use Earthquakes faster than he could hit me...

Ahhh well that was a wasted meme use...
[sub]I thought the general rule of thumb was to face the EF at level 50?[/sub]

OT: Greatest Failure? More like greatest failures:
Turning Shepard into Mr. Fantastic via a bug during the battle with the Matriarch in ME.
Unintentional suicide via forgotton explosives in F3 and NV.
Having Mischief Makers and getting stuck on the Olympics level for 6 years before learning about the technique of button bashing and win was tied to the yellow arrows.
Choosing Thief at the start of Dark Souls.
I could keep going.
Dark Chronicle was a pretty prominent failure. Got up to the stage after the costal town. Decided to start a new save if I could better my playthrough and derped when saving my game. I lost my progress. All that hardwork down the drain :'(.