Random: Did You Know That Pokémon's HM 'Cut' Could Be Used On Tall Grass?

Yes I knew, I thought this was common knowledge?!
I used to do it a lot when playing emerald.

I knew you could cut grass, but I didn't know hyper cutter extended the range. There again, I haven't had much experience with emerald.

I did it if I was in a dire situation and didn't want to risk a battle.

Yeah, I knew this, although I hadn't thought about it in forever, and never really cared to use it.

Considering how many fans would be too young for Gen 3 and earlier, I guess it makes sense that lots of people wouldn't know.

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Dammit, I'm too young to feel this old!

Wait people didn't know?

Not that it mattered, simply mowing through pokemobs in grass was faster than enter menu -> pokemon -> scroll to HM slave -> cut every inch of the land

Yes, I did know. I don't think I ever tried it as a kid but learned about it later.

I am not a young Pokémon player — my first game was Pokémon Gold — and I did not know this

Yep, remember going a bit crazy with it and cutting every piece of grass on one of the routes. Think that was back in Red. Rarely used it after that though. Selecting Cut over and over again was a lot more tedious than just dealing with the random encounters.

I never found it out on my own but I was made aware back when the games first came out. It also took forever and I never used it. Lol.

This is as old as my soul. You have to use cut twice on the National Park for the very tall grass

I was disappointed when they stopped doing that

I've known about the grass cutting mechanic in the earlier games for years. Kid me would sometimes mow down full routes. Oh to be that bored again....

To be fair, I didn't know about the Hyper Cutter enhancement though.

I did not know this was thing, to be honest. Just felt like one of those things that, now as an adult, would be a pointless mechanic to be implemented by a lazy developer like GF.

But as a kid? Never considered it because I think the description of the move mentioned cutting down trees, not grass. Guess I was a lot less imaginative than I thought as a kid.

Thought this was common knowledge too. But of course everyone discovered it by accident.

I had absolutely no idea that this was a thing.

I knew this but oddly enough since I never found it that useful I never knew before now that they REMOVED the feature after Gen 3.

Also I didn’t know about Hyper Cutter affecting it.

Literally knew this since Yellow. I did discover it by accident, though.

So, I feel like this is something I once knew and have since forgotten as I didn't keep up with the franchise (play the odd game here and there).

The More You Know

Damn, I feel a bit stupid for not even once having thought of that xD it seems so obvious now >.<

Yeah I knew of it, I was a kid back then so I had time to experiment and try out dumb stuff like this. Donno if I ever really used it to avoid battles specifically though.

Yes I figured that out myself when I was a child. Ruby was my first game ever and therefore I wasn't knowledgeable about what usually works and what not in a video game therefore I simply thought "It just makes sense to be able to use cut on grass"

No I didn't. But my life hasn't been changed. So no, I won't vote. I've played a lot of red, blue, and yellow, later gold and crystal and some others, and heartgold and soulsilver but I never knew. I did know how to get 2 Mews though. Did, as in don't ask me how it went now.

How did people NOT know this?

I found it really fun to cut all the grass in a route, leave, arrive back with it all regrown, and do it all again. It was always so satisfying, and a major shame it never returned from Gen 4 onwards.

Looking at my garden, you'd think I didn't even know "Cut" worked on the grass IRL either.

Common knowledge but we're also in a time where the continue in Mario 1 is considered a mind-blowing secret, so common knowledge apparently dried up somewhere along the way.

I've been playing since fan-translated ROMs of gen 1 and I had no idea about this.

Yeah i knew and discovered it by accident in Silver, don't why i decided to try it on grass but its something i've always been aware off.

I'm of an age where I played Pokémon blue on my Gameboy colour upon release, so it shames me to learn of this feature which would have saved me so many annoying random encounters!

I had no idea, nor have I ever heard rumors of this. This is like when you find out you can do pull-ups in Metal Gear Solid 2 to increase grip level. This is game changing. Thanks, NL!

@ComfyAko
Actually cut could be added to the select button so you can keep cutting. I used to do it all the time

I never knew this, and my god that picture is so cursed. Who knew that some missing grass could be this offputting.

I remember doing that back in Red/Blue/Yellow. Those were the days, back before the internet, when you were so bored that you would mess around and find that kind of thing out for yourself. lol

Yes, I knew this since I figured it out in Gen 1 when I was like 7 or 8. Common knowledge.

@Hopeful_Cynic I did the same shizz in a little known brick breaker DS indie gem called Alpha Bounce; I would choose my next level by making sure I “surrounded” the proverbial enemy’s planet from all sides, and pretend their main base is at the center or wherever. It always felt like higher stakes when I took their “base”.

Sometimes you have to use your imagination to fill in all those meandering seconds of video game minutiae you take for granted

I knew about Cut, but not Hyper Cutter. Nice attention to detail by the developers.

Even if I had known about Cut's alternate effect when actively playing the games, I strongly doubt that I ever would have made us of it. It seems more like a novelty than a feature that one would actively use.

@Yaycandy Yeah, but it was still slower, plus no exp. Maybe it's just my overthinking nature to make things as efficient as possible

It's acutally good when your last mon is BRN and you really cannot afford to enter a battle tho, if that were to ever happen!

C'mon, you've not walked to a patch a grass, and thought- "If I can cut trees, can I cut grass?"and gave it a try? Seems so obvious..

The Hyper Cutter trick is new to me but I did know of the cut trick. It just takes so much time going into menus to clear grass out of the way I gave up on it.

It was missed opportunity though, for you to be able to get a side job in-game mowing lawns for cash.

Wow, I had no idea! That could've been useful at certain times, lol!

What? I hafta go try this right now!

Yeah, I knew this. I just didn't know that they took out that feature starting in Gen 4, as I never bothered to actually do it.

@Yaycandy The Select button was better used for more useful commands like the Item Finder or your current best Fishing Rod.