The Pokemon games have a long and rich history; ask anyone whose ever played a Pokemon game
before, regardless of the generation, and they’ll probably tell you that they’ve
devoted hours to completing the game and uncovering all of its mysteries.
And when you have a franchise with a mythos as large as that, you’re bound to have a
handful of urban legends pop up over the years.
So today, we’re returning to a previous list of ours, the top 10 Pokemon Urban Legends,
part two!
Let’s dive in.
10 The Mew Glitch Let’s start off our list with the only urban
legend that’s actually been confirmed as true; the Mew Glitch.
Now, to be fair, back in the day, when it was rumoured that you could get Mew via a
sequence of events that brought you from Viridian city all the way to Cinnabar Island, many
a player wasted hours surfing along the island’s edges trying to capture this legendary Pokemon.
But in 2003, it was revealed that there were actually two methods of successfully making
this glitch work.
Each involves a series of specific steps, with one of them allowing the player to obtain
Mew fairly early on in the game.
9 Mewthree Mewthree is, you guessed it, a fake legendary
Pokemon.
It’s perhaps one of the earliest fakes, too.
This urban legendary spawned thanks to some screenshots of hacked games, that depicted
that there was an extra clone of Mews that hadn’t appeared in the original narrative
of the initial games.
There was also an official reference to a MewThree in the Pokemon manga, where Red’s
Clarify calls itself MewThree after it splices itself with MewTwo’s DNA.
Players attempting to make MewThree appear, but often just ended up accidentally erasing
their game’s saved data in the process.
8 Charizard Island There are many intriguing locations to be
discovered in the Pokemon games from all generations.
But during the days of Red, Blue and Yellow, some players were convinced that there was
one location hidden in the game that offered a whole lot of promise.
There was a rumour abound that a place called Charizard Island existed in the games, and
that it was home to Charmanders, Charmeleons and of course, Charizards.
While this has never proven to pan out, the anime actually integrated this idea into one
of it’s episodes, with Ash Ketchum going to Charicific Valley in Jhoto to train his
unruly Charizard.
7 Gengar and Clefable Take a look at Gengar.
Now take a look at Clefable.
Arguably, if you look at their silhouettes, they have a somewhat similar shape.
Not spot on, mind you, but it is similar.
This urban legend suggests that Gengar is the shadow of Clefable.
Originating as a creepy pasta, some observant fans put together some quite reasonable evidence
to suggest that it’s an idea that isn’t entirely implausible; the two have the same
hands, ears, and feet.
Gengar is listed as a shadow pokemon, and as many players have pointed out, that suggests
that Gengar is the shadow of something or someone, and that because one is a normal
type and the other a ghost type, neither can hit the other with STAB attacks, since they’d
be immune to one another.
Plus, Clefairy was originally supposed to be one of the Pokemon mascots before it was
decided that Pikachu was a better fit, so it has some merit for being important and
having an interesting back story like this.
Yet, this has never be proven to be true.
6 The Jump HM HMs have always played an important role in
the games.
From Fly to Surf to Strength to Cut, they’re all integral to completing your quest of becoming
a Pokemon master, and unlocking all of the areas of a game’s map.
But at one point, there was an urban legend that suggested that initially, Game Freak
had created a HM that was ultimately left out of the final games, called Jump.
Jump could be used to scale obstacles.
This is because there are parts of Kanto where tall grass exists but is ultimately unreachable.
This got many players thinking; what could be in there?
Rare items?
Rare pokemon?
There had to have been a way to reach that tall grass; surely, it wasn’t decorative.
And that’s where this mysterious Jump HM comes in, despite never having been proven
to actually exist.
Well, that actually brings us to our next number-
5 Wild Starters Back in Pokemon Red and Blue, there was a
rumour that you didn’t have to settle on just one starter Pokemon; you could catch
them all, and just outside of Pallet Town to boot.
But the trick was, you needed to force the game to glitch to let you get outside of the
walls of Pallet Town (you know, those little square-esque blockades that restricted you
to the playable map).
Players who used walk-through-walls glitches managed to get out there, but to their sad
discovery, the game would simply crash rather than give them their coveted starter Pokemon.
Yet for years, this rumour was rather persistent.
4 Down + B Back in the early days of Pokemon games, there
was a rampant urban legend that if you held the down button and the B button, you’d
be able to catch Pokemon better.
It was a rumoured tactic that, if you held down these buttons at just the right time
when your Pokeball was closing, was meant to ensure that your catch would be solidified.
This, my friends, is a dirty lie.
It didn’t increase your chances whatsoever.
Although some players still swear by it as a good luck charm.
To each their own, I suppose!
3 Magikarp’s Splash Magikarp has a reputation of being rather
useless.
This is all thanks to it’s signature move, Splash.
Splash is defined as a move that involves only flapping and splashing around in front
of your opponent, and has no effect whatsoever.
HOW IS SPLASH SO USELESS??
IT MUST DO SOMETHING, RIGHT?
Enter the fan theories.
There was an urban legend brewed up back in the days of Red and Blue that suggested Splash
had some sort of hidden ability, and that depending on the circumstances or what Pokemon
it was used on, it would have some sort of effect.
One theory was that it was secretly just as powerful as Hyper Beam.
Yeah, right.
Well, if splash has some sort of hidden secret ability or affects a certain pokemon in a
certain way, it’s yet to be discovered.
And considering Magikarp is a generation one Pokemon, it’s safe to say that Splash is
pretty much exactly what it appears to be; a harmless, useless move that you must endure
if you really want to level up your Magikarp into a Garaydos.
Whatever happened to just accepting that as a cruel, but hilarious joke of Game Freaks’?
2 Ditto’s Origins Ditto is a fascinating gen one Pokemon.
It’s a literal pink blob, with the versatile ability of transforming into whatever opponent
it faces, which at times, can be quite beneficial, if not at least a decent defense tactic.
But because of it’s appearance, Ditto spawned an urban legend that it in fact had a tie
to legendary Pokemon Mew, and that it was one of the failed attempts to clone Mew in
the process that brought upon MewTwo.
In addition to this, in Pokemon Yellow, Ditto can be found at the Pokemon Mansion, the birth
site of MewTwo and those Mew experiments.
1 Ghost Girl Ever since her first appearance in the Gen
6 games, Ghost Girl has been a bit of a question mark to many a player.
So who is she?
For starters, she first appears in Pokemon X and Y in Lumoise City, appearing after a
flash of light, and then stating “no, you’re not the one…” only to disappear a moment
later.
While this spawned many different fan theories, one in particular is that “the one” she’s
looking for hinges on a certain Trainer ID number.
If that number is yours, something will happen.
What exactly is highly debated, since, you know, this has never actually happened to
anyone, or at least anyone who has reported it online.
Game Freak has remained rather silent about it.
Realistically though, Ghost Girl has only proven to be an Easter Egg in Pokemon X, Y,
Alpha Sapphire and Omega Ruby.
There we have it friends!
What other Pokemon urban legends can you think of?
Which ones from our past two lists were your favourites?
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