I had my own (still do it when a Pokémon gets hard to catch): As soon as the Ball starts flying towards the Pokémon (not before the trainer throws it in later gens) hold Up+A+B, pressing the buttons VERY FAST (almost at the same time) but making sure you press them in that order. Then depending on the Generation you are playing: Gen 1: When the Ball hits the Pokémon, release and quickly press and hold Down+A+B until it's caught. Gen 2 onwards: While the Ball opens and the Pokémon gets in, keep holding Up+A+B until the moment the Ball starts to fall to the ground. Then release, and, as quick as possible, press and hold Down, then A+B for each time the Ball bounces before it stays on the ground and starts wobbling. The last time the Ball is going down before wobbling, just hold down the three buttons and don't touch anything else.

@Mcheetah Because Spore is a 100% accuracy move. Sleep Powder is only 75% accurate.

Wasn't there a problem with statuses not working as intended? Like Poison or Burn didn't affect like it was supposed to?

My schoolyard trick: Missingno :) That's it. I always checked the Hall of Fame with a valid pokemon to prevent it from corrupting my Hall of Fame data. I'm on a Glitch pokemon spree because I want to make a tier list for glitch pokemon

The trick that I still use to this day (I am 23, for the record) is pressing a directional button for each ball shake. When the ball connects, I may press left. After the first shake, I may press up. Second shake, left again. Third shake, down. It is completely random which combination I use each time I throw a ball, as I have a figurative 25% chance of guessing correctly. In that sense, it basically becomes a QTE with RNG involved, as I have to immediately decide which button to press next in that moment. Or maybe it’s just my autism coming to the surface trying to alleviate the tension of catching and the boredom of extended sessions. Yeah that’s probably it

closely guarded trade secret? more like fast spreading bullshit lmao, pokemon playground knowledge had the scientific accuracy of anti vaxxers.

“Talk into the DS microphone at a steady volume” was mine. Worked well.

I don't... what... but the mic... huh?

"Alternate A and B rhythmically to their cry" was mine. Definitely made me pay way more attention than I would have otherwise.

Holding down down and B starting at the second bounce of the ball

My strategy was to put a pokemon card of the pokemon I was trying to catch between the game cart and the gameboy color. Did less than nothing, probably, but it never failed for me.

It was b for me

I felt like I was the only one who did this, everyone else just held it

Thought had to hold B when u threw it lol

I want to say some people who actually know the mechanics deep enough *DO* press A or B to try and manipulate the values for the pseudorandom number generators when trying to catch

When the DS games came out and the DS had a microphone in it, the schoolyard rumor was that saying certain phrases (like "Gotcha!" or just screaming really loud) would help boost catch rates. Clearly the mistake was we weren't sniffing

I used to close my eyes and my ears when catching legendaries and I remember I had 4 pokeballs left because I forgot to restock on ultra balls and I had encountered shiny lugia. It had 1hp and it was asleep, I threw a pokeball and ran into another room and closed my eyes and ears, around 2 minutes later I saw the screen say "give a nickname?" or whatever it said; I had the best reaction ever.

@@MythixcalSky lucky, i paralyzed a moltres and got it to 1 hp and it still drained 14 ultra balls so i just reset (heartgold)

these methods are all wrong u can't move u can't even blink or breath

Nope, you have to Hold in B, hold in [Up] and sacrifice a newborn goat into a burning oven. We all know doing this gives always a 99.9% catchrate.

If by "sky" you mean a power plant or a cave, then yes it already sounds a bit easier

I love the fact that that exists, because writing '

@@ARandomMinecraftVillager The early Pokemon games are littered with this kind of jank. When a move is used on a pokemon with dual typing, damage calculation will be done properly, but the check for what text appears only checks the first type. So a Poison move used on a Grass/Poison Pokemon will show the Super Effective text even though it did neutral damage.

@@Acre00 Not exactly. They check the type interactions in the order they're coded into the game. So for instance, it would still show as super effective against a Poison/Grass-type.

Bide and Transform also bypass accuracy. And fun fact, Swift actually doesn't bypass accuracy in the Japanese version, but it does if used against a Substitute.

@@ARandomMinecraftVillager To be fair, I was curious if this would be as obvious of a mistake to make on the Gameboy (since assembly languages, as far as I know, don't really use

Sleep was such an insanely good status in Gen 1, it's no wonder it was nerfed later on (along with freeze). It was the best status for catching (as freeze could not be reliably induced), but for battling, it was even better because it could last up to 7 turns, and you wasted a turn waking up. So you could set up an awful loop of put the target to sleep, let them wake up, put them to sleep again.

If you want to capture Pokemon from the Safari zone in gen 1 go into the Safari zone then turn around and go back out tell the guy yes you're sure leave the building fly back to the area with the guy who had his coffee to initiate missing no trick Pokemon found in that area will be either missing no water Pokemon typically found in that water and Pokemon from the last area you were in just don't catch missing no and make sure no key items are in the sixth position

Im impressed you realized all those

Yeah your brother totally pranked you 😂

Aw

Ye

All you had to do was hold b and up....

The person who programmed the mew glitch into Pokemon Red and Blue did not even know that it was possible for it to be used to catch other pokemon until someone literally showed him in person. He knew already of the other pokemon hex values, he just did not have the time to test them himself. He did talk about this publicly somewhere online. He also admitted that he coded it into the game by a complete accident. He did not have much coding experience when he making Pokemon Red and Blue. It had all been figured out already how to catch all of the pokemon in the game this way via this method, I guess based on what other people have commented about it as well. A complete table with information regarding which trainer gives which pokemon must have been available for at least 4 years now to find online(?) Perhaps included at the bottom of the page of interview with him talking about hex values at least directly(?) Another interview that I found included the complete table of everything that the person playing the game needed to know about at the very bottom of the page. I might have found actually found it considering that I clearly recall a line of him saying that someone interested in this topic will have to refer to this chart for future reference for easier access than hunting around for it online.

Big brother is usually right about games, unfortunately

@@gregoryford2532 if they are asleep (or frozen). if he and his brother didnt use status ailments on the legendarys then it makes sense why the great ball was better

This is how they expect the people playing the games to struggle to catch the legendary pokemon when there is actually a proven method to catch pokemon most of the time. I am not sure on how much I can safely say here considering that I am not fully aware of some of the exact levels of specification values myself on this particular topic matter. I still wasted more pokeballs on Victini even though I clearly knew the health range to catch easier at. Nintendo already stated their viewpoint of this particular situation already, I cannot remember exactly they talked it about, though. I am relieved that I am finally get this thoguht out of my head, since I have known this for at least 5 years now. I have known about the Victini health range ever since the Liberty Ticket event was made available for Pokemon Black and White, and definitely even before the games came out. I must have been practicing it way back in Pokemon Red and Blue somehow maybe knowing what the future would be. I swore I was literally talking about what the Liberty Ticket event was going to be in an upcoming game that they were going to be making the future. I believe that Nintendo can take down notes as they feel as appropriate based on the text in Pokemon Crystal about referencing the run that I did during Pokemon Silver about making Celebi gaureented shiny at the earliest possible convience.

I might have gave them some of the ideas for the music of the city that the island would eventually be granting you access to as well, if I think I am remembering correctly. Whatever I did end up talking about, I think that gave them permission to use it as they fit. That might potentially explain why the city functions the way that it does in the game as well, I very clearly remember talking about the minor details that they might not do if they choose to create the city in the future game. They might have planned it to be an event location along considering that they said that knew the event location would be a lot easier to access in the future as well. There own message did not mention anything related to minor in game events occurring in the city either, I do not believe that any of them did; I could be incorrect here, however. They are also using their own notes for reference for Pokemon Home as well to stabilize and triple check the functionality of the specific functions.

I did not however mention anything about the Zorua event inside of the city, or anything of the affiliated details; it must have been added in by a Nintendo employee suggesting the idea. That would likely explain the need to transfer the event celebi into the game via the in game method required to unlock Zorua the correct and legal way. Cheating the event celebi inside of the game does not really count in my opinion, although it is likely a whole lot easier to do. It is probably coming out spare boxes that Nintendo made intentionally expecting players to eventually cheat the game. I am not sure if other legally acquired celebi would also trigger the event since other people have commented that legally acquired shiny pixhu also worked successfully as a trigger for the Pikachu Colored Pichu event in Pokemon Heart Gold and Soul Silver. I know that Nintendo plans ahead and makes sure that anything the player base might eventually do in the future will eventually work out in the end if they potentially aware of it. They even fully finish their own ideas, even unfinalized ideas, and make them available for the public on the internet with them fully explaining themselves. I am not crazy here look at the Gen 3 Lost Content video to get a better grasp at least of what I am talking about. The people commenting on the video knows what they are talking about, despite the comments themselves looking like they were insane when they were writing them out.

Oh my god, this is so cute! I love it :'D

I did the same with confusion my lord. :""D

I'm still convinced that spamming A leads to confusion more often than not! LOL

youre onto something

YES!! When I really wanted to catch a Pokemon I would very gently put the Gameboy/DS down and make sure to stay as still as possible and not speak. 🤣 I swear it seemed like it worked.

Physical attackers have a higher chance of hitting themselves.

I remember thinking aron would snap out of confusion faster than normal because one it broke confusion quickly 3 times in a row. Children are not good at understanding probability and the fact you are probably seeing an edgecase vs a new mechanic. (I also remember facing a rain team in XD and being confused about how thunder wasn't missing and not catching on that thunder always hits in the rain)

@@blanblam8427 Not true.

It’s called confirmation bias in case you’re not already aware

It's OK. I played pokemon blue before I could read and I managed to brute my way thru.

I am glad to learn you have enjoyed the video! From the very beginning, my goal was to NOT go too deep and start explaining mechanics in-depth. I purposefully glossed over several elements (the intro algorithm, the HP formula, the strange RNG interaction...) because what is the point of making a 40 minute movie if the audience is bored 5 minutes in. Hopefully I achieved my goal of getting the conclusions across while being "technically" correct :') And yeah, I had people pointing out the Master Ball miss in the Gen 2 catching video, so I felt I should check and set the record straight!

Remember tho, Master Ball has a guaranteed miss on ghost pokemon.

It is actually possible to somehow catch the Ghost Maroak in Pokemon Tower. I managed to do probably only a couple times back when I was playing the game a while ago. The game is coded already to respond back to this specific action as well, that much I can probably only recall.

The ghost pokemon is also catchable in the state prior to being available in the game in forms registered in the pokedex as well,as I very clearly recall as well. I would assume that Nintendo made the footage available online to watch considering what the AI was saying about it as well. Nintendo definitely mentioned that they programmed the ghosts to be catchable while originally programming the tower for game, and intentionally left it inside of the game for the people going to play the game to eventually figure out how to do it in the future. I forgot where exactly I read it at probably shortly after I eventually located and read the exact message that they wrote about it.

@@joshernsteen2066 ok

And I watched this part 15 times too... Thank you for pointing it out!

is 12 or 8 better in this case?

@@superlocke 8, because it divides by it to get an "HP threshold value" of sorts. The higher that value, the more likely you are to catch the Pokémon.

Ok Oscar

@@awesomelink2347 oh thats interesting, thanks for clarifying!

Im worse then amature and it sounds horrible.

Based on an interview in English, the series creator said that he always wanted to make a game series that anyone can relate to. It all started because he was really interested in catching bugs as a child. I DO NOT HAVE THE INTERVIEW TO SHOW YOU!!!! He also explained the whole game of A Bug Fable in a few sentences way before they even thoguht of the idea. It also might be the reason that Yanmega was added into Pokemon Diamond and Pearl. They were probably debating about it at first until they realized that the pokemon series series creator talked about it, and that gave them the permission to put it into the game.

Maybe Tangrowrh was added eventually in a similar matter, but I found absolutely nothing to back up this claim with at all. The company does in fact view anything that the pokemon series creator talks about as a form of ultimate gaureented permission or something along those lines. He also knows exactly what he is talking about as well.

Look man, GameFreak never was, and still isn't a decent team of programmers. They can't seem to optimize anything, seeing as every cutscene in Sun and Moon has it's own sperate models, yes 10 separate identical models of Lillie, and they had to get help to squeeze 2 regions into Gen 2.

@@The_Big_Jayare you sure they weren’t solid at all even during the mid-2000s? I can totally see why they suck now, but gens 3-5 seem fine

You ALMOST had it right. You can LITERALLY glitch the game by pressing and holding A the INSTANT the pokemon goes inside. While continuing to hold A, press left and right on the d-pad in PERFECT SYNC with the pokeball on screen. It gives your normal pokeball 100% catch rate, and ive actually tested it.

@@puregameplay7916 sounds (and is) one of those totally legit things I would always try

@@puregameplay7916 Amount of tests: 1 Science is beautiful, isn't it?

​@@vez3834im not sure if it's this exact glitch but there was something similar that speedrunners use to always catch pokemon at full hp

Even advancing RNG doesn't really do anything. You might advance it to a favorable position or you might move it away from one. Without knowing its state, you don't know if you're making it better or worse, so on average, it makes no difference.

@@renakunisaki This is probably why when you use save states in an emulator, if you keep doing the same thing at the same timing you usually get the same result, but if you move the cursor around in the menu or wait longer to press the button you might get a different result.

This is the most profitable franchise in all of recorded history btw gen 1 feels like it's one of those unstable elements that scientists make in laboratories Gen 1 is a neutron star that is kept from exploding by a tupperware box whose lid isn't the original one

you can also make another case for them since you can buy more of them comparatively

I personally don't like using false swipe because of take down, brave bird, and other recoil moves.

Getting a bonus for getting them into the red is fun, it just shouldn't have to be 1 HP on the nose. 😖

It's definitely important to scope out the moves that species knows at that level before you go in for the catch.

Also that the Pokemon can dodge balls. Way more realistic.

They should just make it more powerful if they actually want people to use it, 100 power would be fine cause you won't OHKO the Pokémon anyway

Nintendo did infact talk about it somewhat in detail involving certain things of Gen 1, and information involving Pokemon Gold and Silver Ball catching mechanics but it is not really bought up that much at least from the company directly. I had to literally find all of the information myself with no one helping me out at all. They were already well aware of the future that was going to occur involving these concepts and they already prepared their responses in advance to address them specifically if they felt like they had to interject on it. They even said that already knew what videos would be uploaded in the future regarding these concepts, and specifically talked about points that they knew would be missing from them.

They even knew that this specific video would be uploaded roughly in the future as well when they were interviewed about with them clearly stating something regarding to proceed after the video was finished and uploaded. Nintendo was way ahead of its time, that is for sure. They even had instructions for Austin John Plays on what to upload specifically to his KZfaq channel as well. I could not make this up even if I tried to. It definitely caught my attention when I first came across it, and knew that it at least partly had to be real.

Both of my previous statements are 100% accurate and actually stated by Nintendo. I believe that want someone to talk about the comments directly in a video if they have them since they really will not bring them up that much myself. They definitely talked about this in some form of word play as well. It is perfectly fine if you do not believe me, it was difficult to track them down way back then when the internet was not so clogged with other information.

The Pokemon games were very vague about how most of their mechanics worked until recently. Gen 6 and the Super Training feature from 2013 was more or less the first time the existence of IVs and base stats were even alluded to in any sort of modifiable way. The restrictions on vitamins only working up to the first 100 EVs was only removed last gen, in 2019. It took a very long time for the series to finally make it trivially easy to create competitive Pokemon. It seems the whole aspect of "Pokemon are just special and some have different stats than others" has gone away. That's a good thing.

this very video tells you that it's best to use Ultra Balls for the legendaries though, assuming you're using status...

Did you know you can use certain glitch pokemon in battle? L M 4 can be used in battle as its a stable hybrid of Poliwrath. It's also the most harmless glitch of all

@@Kali_Krause No I actually did not know about that. Tbh I used mostly tame glitches like Skipping Brock, Getting Mew, Skipping Snorlax and using the Doll in Lavender Town.

Glitchy speedruns are a ton of fun. Especially if you use the glitches for something really tame, I used to fly straight from victory road to cinnabar island and surf along the coast so I could level grind in walking distance of a pokemon centre.

If you do this perfectly, it actually works. I did this as well and was perfect at it, literally captured every single pokemon in cerulean cave with my first pokeball at full health, including mewtwo.

@@puregameplay7916 thats not how its coded though lol, you are just imposing an explanation on your lucky technique that does nothing in reality.

​@@charg1nmalaz0r51Nah, it works, can confirm.

Nintendo expected videoes to be made of certain topics covering the original games sometime in the future covering certain topics that I believe they even said that would almost complete minus hearing out what they have to say regarding the information. They might have even said to comment this exactly in a video covering this exact concept as well. They knew exactly what would happen in the future regarding these concepts as well, I believe that they could possibly have mentioned as well.

Nintendo can write better than Genious Seniority considering that they had to resort to them writing one particular line in one of the GameCube games once they ultimately have their best effort and attempts. The line relates to something that you probably never even triggered in the game at all, something related to you cannot catch completely all of the shadow pokemon in the whole entire game; if you wanted to.

They probably even wanted these two previous comments posted on this particular video idea as well. I might have read something by Genious Senority at least mentioning something related to two these previous comments, and this exact video thumbnail as well. I somehow knew barely the information related the line that Nintendo had to literally step in for prior to finding out the information directly from them.

They also mentioned something inside of one of the GameCube games not to mention anywhere online which involves something related to catching pokemon, that is all I probably can legally say online regarding it. It also strangely mentioned that they knew that we already knew how to do it for a long time already even prior to the game coming out or something along those lines.

​@joshernsteen2066 I know it's been a year but I've read about 10 of your comments on this video and I'm enthralled by your insane pokemon conspiracy theories about how they know everything that will happen in the future and all these vague references to interviews and statements.

... Damn

Shoutout to the Blaine Ball that has a higher success of catching Pokemon that evolve via Burn Heal. Hah!

I thought it was an upside-down U

Yep, Super Ball and Hyper Ball in French too. I am so glad they kept Ball and didn't translate it to Boule EDIT: In the English version it's Hyper Potion, not Ultra Potion, right? Odd they decided to break the pattern

i thought it was Down and B

@@robZzdaboss different “cheats” for different playgrounds I guess. At my school it was Up + B

Using sleep, lowering health, and choosing the right ball are all strategic decisions.

Bigger scale strategy. Like is it better to buy a ton of poke balls and spam, or just a few ultra balls and really try to make them count? Or whether you should bring sleep-inducers to boost your catch rate or just tank the damage while spamming a ball. Turns out the best strategy is to just use Great balls because they're busted good.

I never knew this

I also hate how they changed the wobbling, i liked it more in gen 1

I would like a video of it even if it is all good to go

@@thiagoveloso7610 Yeah maybe a video just explaining how ti works in gen3 would be cool even if nothing is broken.

an adjusted version of the gen 3 catching alg is still used today

Not sure I agree with him on that, I used a lookup table throwing bait in certain patterns and caught everything in the safari zone in a few hours. Watch Professor Rex’s safari zone guide if you’re interested

@@Shockwave224 The math for them simply doesn't add up to be worthwhile. 10 balls has a higher overall chance of catching compared to bait+ball 5 times.

Indeed! Final Fantasy 7 is another great example of a popular game riddled with glitches and mistakes in the code leading to core aspects not working properly.

It also means ash is the luckiest guy on the face of the earth.