Thread: Game Guide Mess ups

The seed thing I can understand (them being Seed Pokemon, after all), but the other three mess-ups are just goddamn hilarious.

In one guide i got (i forrget witch on it was but it was on LG/FR) it seid that jynx can be a male and slowbro/slowpoke is male only.

Also in some other guide witch i foget whta for it seid that dragonite evolved into Charizard WTF and that charizard is dragon/fire type and that dragonite is dragon/fire type too and that ghost is super efftive agenst normal types.

my friends guide book told us that you had to evolve ninjask into shedinja, i spent many long battles in the pokemon league trying to level that bloody ninjask up, it was the second level 100 i got on emerald, this is before i discovered the internet

I got a Diamond and Pearl pokedex book from scholastic that got many evolutions wrong. For example:
Drifloon=>Drifblim
Glalie=>Froslass
Hitmonlee=>Hitmontop/Hitmonchan
Nothing=>Politoed
In the Golbat family,the images of Zubat and Crowbat were switched. In the Pupitar family, the images of Larvitar and Tyranitar are switched. The images of Porygon and Porygon2 are switched throughout the book.

Originally Posted by Dodger Jazz

I got a Diamond and Pearl pokedex book from scholastic that got many evolutions wrong. For example:
Drifloon=>Drifblim
Glalie=>Froslass
Hitmonlee=>Hitmontop/Hitmonchan
Nothing=>Politoed
In the Golbat family,the images of Zubat and Crowbat were switched. In the Pupitar family, the images of Larvitar and Tyranitar are switched. The images of Porygon and Porygon2 are switched throughout the book.

You do realize that Drifloon actually does evolve into Drifblim, right?

With a mustache.

Originally Posted by Missingno. Master

You do realize that Drifloon actually does evolve into Drifblim, right?

With a mustache.

You are right. I looked at it again and saw that they got the pictures backwards and it got me confused. It is not the first time the book confused me.
One more thing about the book, it has an article of every eeveelution but not one for Eevee itself.

In a guide I got, it said that "There are one Unown for all the 29 letters in the alphabet". It was in Norwegian, and the Norwegian alphabet does have 29 letters, but the games don't use Æ, Ø or Å, since those letters are not used in modern English, I spend ages searching for Æ, Ø and Å. I hate that guide. I got all the other Unowns though.

While I can't remember a clear example off the top of my head, the Pokemon Annuals (in the UK) have several errors when they do a written version of an anime episode. This isn't actually an example (the episode hadn't run in the UK at the time) but it would do something like saying Ash's Chimchar evolved into Infernape, even when the picture shows Monferno.

I've collected tons of strategy guides for Pokemon games over the years. Each one has its fair share of typos and mistakes, and a few in particular are swarmed with them.

I think my favorite one is actually neither a typo nor a mistake. It's from the official Diamond and Pearl guide - there's a picture of the stats page of a Manaphy egg, and guess where the stats page claim it was found from? The Mystery Zone. XD

(NOTE: I looked at the rules, and didn't find anything on bumping topics. Tell me if what I'm doing is bad)

Black and White have been out for a few weeks, so different types of guides should be out by now. + errors.

I noticed in the guide made by the Pokemon Company International that Bulk Up is HM08. (The B/W Guide)

Go look in a gs guide and you notice Chikorita learns fly

I was appalled by the amount of mistakes in the Diamond/Pearl Guide. I can't remember specifics but I remember it was really bad.

Originally Posted by Battaman

In a guide I got, it said that "There are one Unown for all the 29 letters in the alphabet". It was in Norwegian, and the Norwegian alphabet does have 29 letters, but the games don't use Æ, Ø or Å, since those letters are not used in modern English, I spend ages searching for Æ, Ø and Å. I hate that guide. I got all the other Unowns though.

you know there is unown ! and unown ?

Originally Posted by Rotom Robot

you know there is unown ! and unown ?

Not in gen2 there weren't.

In the COllector's Edition Black and White Guide, the second time I fight Shauntal's Jellicent, the move I should watch out for is Hydro Pump Ball!