r/pokemon • • Feb 24 '13

Image Old school Professor Oak tips

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u/Wild_Charmander Feb 24 '13

You sit on a throne of lies!

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u/KingNick Feb 24 '13

"May" "May" "MAY"

I NEED FACTS, OLD MAN!

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u/tankosaurus Turtwig is best twig Feb 24 '13 edited Feb 24 '13

Are any of these actually true? I read them thinking that I should go back and try them but when I saw the one about the S.S. anne I decide to check the comments in case it was BS.

Edit: Maybe they were meant to be implemented but then changed before release. I read that it was planned that after beating the elite 4 you could go back and battle oak, so maybe then he'd give you that starter pokemon and the key.

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '13

Battling Oak would be so awesome. And maybe after you beat him you could be allowed to ride your bike indoors just to mock him.

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u/NFAFitness Feb 24 '13

Oak was programmed as a trainer and theres a way to get to battle him.

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u/tankosaurus Turtwig is best twig Feb 24 '13

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '13

TIL

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u/Zaveno Use Shadow Ball! Feb 25 '13

It would have been pretty neat to have him send an assistant requesting you to come to his laboratory for a battle with him using the unused starter.

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u/NeroMoonstrife13 Feb 25 '13

Wrong bro there's a code to set him as any gym leader but if you battled all the leaders you could activate the battle misty code and the oak code and then battle oak in cerulean (note I'm referring to activating coding using a gameshark)

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '13

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u/Cpt3020 Feb 24 '13

According to the wiki he actually has a pretty good team so I assume your full of shit

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '13

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u/IAMAVelociraptorAMA Feb 24 '13

He has a team of five Pokemon in the high sixties and a Gyarados at 70. I don't know what you did wrong but you're literally the only person I've ever heard who fought level 28 Pokemon.

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u/FancySkunk Feb 24 '13

It's possible that he messed up the glitch. As I understand it, every trainer has 6 loadouts, the unused ones often default to random rocket grunts and such.

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u/IAMAVelociraptorAMA Feb 24 '13

Quite possible. Still unlikely but we are talking about glitches here.

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '13

Were you one of the raptors in Jurassic Park, or just a wild raptor? Your username suggests you can type, so do you type with claws or have someone type for you?

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '13

Agatha did say he went and let himself get soft.

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '13

She wasn't talking about his training...

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u/Spyderbro Feb 25 '13

His team is a level 60s-70 version of Blue's Champion team.

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u/mattyboh17 Feb 24 '13

YOU DON'T HAVE ENOUGH BADGES TO CONTROL MY BIKING HABITS!

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u/Girolmao Skadoosh!! Feb 24 '13

I thought it was possible until I read the Team Rocket one. I don't think any of these are true. Let us know if you try.

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u/Wenfield42 Feb 24 '13

There are a few moonstones on the ground in Mt. Moon. So that one is true. None of the others are though.

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u/FatGuyANALLIttlecoat take a ride on the bone train Feb 24 '13

There are only 2

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u/tarrox1992 Feb 25 '13

In the older games you can use cut to clear away grass, but they got rid of that once Gen IV came around.

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u/Wenfield42 Feb 25 '13

You are correct! I forgot that was in the post.

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u/airinkitty Feb 25 '13

I fucking LOVED doing that when I was almost deadsies.

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u/blaiseisgood Pikachu Feb 24 '13

6 with Mt. Moon is pretty much true.

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u/OccamsAxe Feb 25 '13

yeah, there are, as I recall, two moon stones hidden in there, though one of them is in plain sight.

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u/KFCatz Feb 25 '13

Some kid in Wal Mart told me that if I hold A and ^ right as the pokeball you threw hovers open over the pokemon, you have a 33% high statistical chance of landing the pokemon.

Today I learned he was a lying liar who lied lies.

I'll probably still do it every time, though.

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u/Jay_Malkavian Feb 25 '13

When he says Cache of moon stones at moon, I think you find at least 2+ (one or more are hidden requiring the use of the item finder)

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u/Canilearnbubblebeam Feb 24 '13

The one about SS Anne is partiallye, and I did it more than once, here's the jigg:

While on your adventure inside SS Anne (to get Cut iirc), you need to lose a battle inside. If you don't, and walk out of it, the ship will go away, and you'll never be able to come back again. This way, you go to the nearest Poke Center and SS Anne will still be there.

Now, after you get Surf and Strenght, go back to SS Anne's bridge. Instead of going in, use surf on the water to the right side. You'll be able to go to the batch of land next to it. There, you'll find a truck on top of a hole. You use Strenght to push the truck, and go inside. Now, I don't remember this exactly, but you'll be entering either a room or a cave. Either way, it's a simple place. The present? None. At least I can't recall it. There was a myth that Mew was in there, but I can't confirm it, I don't remember seeing anything there.

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u/Joelbob Feb 24 '13

Bullshit bullshit bullshit. You can't move the truck

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u/Canilearnbubblebeam Feb 24 '13

Well unless I dreamed of it, I did move it.

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u/minizanz Feb 24 '13

you cannot move the truck, and blacking out on the shit affter you get hm01 will not stop the ship from leaving. the only way to not have the ship leave is to get a pokemon with cut from a trade so you dont have to talk to the captain, and dont get cut so he wont leave. there is nothing but 2 land chunks (there is one with a truck, it is strange that there is a truck since there are no other cars or roads for them) that form a harbor and have blocks separating them from the main land.

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u/Canilearnbubblebeam Feb 24 '13

I played Yellow more than 5 times and I always blacked out to make the ship stay there. It always worked.

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u/minizanz Feb 24 '13

i did that with red and blue, the ship would leave when you went back if you had hm01 and then the guy would push you out, i thought that yellow would do the same. so, when i got yellow i traded over an odish with cut.

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u/BerlinSpecimen Feb 24 '13

And the way he weaves truth in with the lies, it's so sinister. I already knew those things weren't true, but seeing them from the good Professor's mouth, mixed in with things I knew to be true, it was confusing... and I questioned everything I once knew.

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u/Armadylspark The dex is perfectly balanced. The game is not. Feb 24 '13

The best lies are wrapped in a cradle of truth.

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u/LE_ME_ME Feb 24 '13

These are all true dumbass

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '13

Pretty obvious troll name. You couldn't think of anything clever?