What did you waste your first master ball on?

[Exavold]

Haha, better get that shiny magikarp! How else will you ever get a shiny Gyrados?

I was a kiddo ok ?! X'D

 

[grossaffe]

I was a kiddo ok ?! X'D

It's okay, I understand the excitement of seeing a wild shiny. I was trying to find a houndour for an hour or so before finally spotting one... and it was shiny! You better believe I pulled out all the stops to get him! And, as I mentioned earlier in the thread, I wasted my master ball on a Doduo back in my younger days. It sure was a different time in the 90s with the internet still finding its feet. All Pokemon info was gleaned through TV and friends. Or Nintendo Power, probably, if you had a subscription.

 

[KarlslandOtaku]

My first time playing Red & Blue (I have both since age 6 in 1998 as well as yellow when it came out. But I believe I got blue first.)
I kept it for the Cerulean Cave after hearing from the guy in front of it earlier on that I would need to become the champion first.

As I was getting ready to go in (saving & about to use surf) I encountered a Caterpie & being tired at the time I figured I would catch it.
So I accidentally used the master ball when I meant to use a normal one. I'm glad I saved beforehand...

 

[Jiro2]

I'm more than old enough to have played Pokemon RB when they came out but I never did. I played Blue in 2008 and tried to avoid using guides for everything except the Mew glitch. I probably did use the Master Ball on Mewtwo, but I don't have any way to check now. (Also, first playing the game after the Mew Glitch was discovered put me in the odd position of using a Charizard as an HM slave on Crystal--got it using the glitch and traded it.)
Crystal: I think it was on a roaming dog. I did catch all three of them.
Emerald: roaming Latias
Colosseum: Everything (Master Ball glitch). After finishing, I traded the Master Ball to Emerald, then to Platinum, and used it on a roaming bird.
XD: Lugia
Platinum: Another roaming bird

I haven't played B/W or X/Y. I did play Omega Ruby and I don't remember which legendary I used it on. The game doesn't have anything roaming in it.

 

[nxwing]

I wasted it on a Primeape.

 

[keven3477]

A shadow skarmory in pokemon colloseum. I did not find the masterball in ruby wich was my first pm game, so I did not know about its 100% catch rate when I first used it.

 

[The Real Jdbye]

I used it on the first legendary bird I saw in Red/Blue, not sure which one that was anymore as it's been a long time.
Not a complete waste, but catching Mewtwo would have been easier had I saved it.

 

[Deleted User]

on moltres, was so stupid back then. pokemon fire-red (GBA). since then never used.

 

[Blaze163]

Articuno, way back in Red. This was before I got the internet. In fact I only knew about Pokemon because it was mentioned in a cheat book and I thought it was a new Final Fantasy game. So I knew nothing of Mewtwo, I thought that Articuno being the only pokemon who was visible outside of battle meant he was the strongest in the game. After numerous failed attempts I finally used my one and only Master Ball on it.

Funny story, I then discovered the vastly superior Mewtwo, had it at optimum catching status, threw all my Ultra Balls at it to no avail, it then used Recover, I was out of PP and on my last Pokemon, do or die time, I threw the last ball I had on me, a lowly Poke Ball, and caught him. Of course now I understand it was just sheer luck but back then I was strutting around the house like a legend. I caught Mewtwo with a regular pokeball, said I. Bow down beneath my mighty gaming prowess.

Yeah, I was a twat back then. Haven't changed much.