So while I understand, that Munchlax in DPPT is super tedious to aquire, I believe Beldum is equally as bad imo. Beldum's swarms are much more tedious to find since its a random route once a day to get a swarm for plus you'd need the swarm to be Route 228. If anything, Sinnoh could have been a tie entry for both Munch and Beldum. Both are equally really annoying lol.

The fact Tree Munchlax wasn't on this list is shocking.

Mystic. You forgot D/P/PT munchlax. It has a feebas factor for honey trees. 4/21 honey trees have a 1% chance to spawn one, and these trees spawn a pokemon every 6 hours in real time

In gen 1 you can actually catch Chansey in the Cerulean Cave as well really easy. So I would say for gen 1 the hardest pokemon to catch would be Tauros with that insane high run rate after every turn.

Spiritomb, whose method of encountering depends on how many friends you have, did not appear for Sinnoh

I caught a Chansey holding a lucky egg in Fire Red quiet recently ! It was like finding a shiny almost lol

Relicanth was never a problem to find to me. Now Chimeco. That was a hell of a hunt. I got 3 shinys on his area before find a chimeco.

I remember doing a Water-Type Only run of Emerald some years ago, and fishing for a Feebas took literally two hours as i went through every single water tile on that route until i found one and just chucked a Premier Ball out of sheer delight and the "useless ball" actually worked.

Are we all forgetting about the Feebas pond in DPPt? You gotta go through cave after cave probably lost as hell dealing with tough high level wild Pokemon. Then there is the room itself: Just 4 tiles where it has a chance to spawn, and they change every day? Ouch. At least in BW and BW2, you had a rare chance to find a whole Milotic on Route 1 if you fish in the rippling water and not deal with Feebas' bullcrap, who also is on Route 1 in the ripples. I hit the jackpot when I found a shiny Milotic down there in Black 1. Oh Jewels... You were worth it.

I never found that feebas💀

I was one of these people who knew about the 6 tiles Feebas from the internet and went to look for it; checking every individual tile I managed to find the tile eventually 😅

7:14 in Sword&Shield Crown Tundra you can find Beldum Metang and Metagross in the grass JUST USES SLEEP POWDER ON THEM 😭 THEY’RE SUCH A PAIN

I know Ralts isnt hard to catch when you encounter it in gen 3 and the remakes but it has 1% encounter rate and can only be found on route 102. Easy to catch when found but damn did it give me trouble actually finding it

Every play through of Silver, I ran Skarmory every time, possibly my favorite non legendary bird like Pokémon. And I don’t remember ever having issues catching him

I remember finally catching Chansey in Leafgreen and being utterly shocked to find that it was holding a Lucky Egg. The first and only time I ever caught one, and it was holding an extremely rare item. Those are freaking shiny odds.

Finding any of these Pokemon with a rare chance of 1% is difficult as it is, but not as much as finding them as a shiny makes it worth even more problematic. The most of anything is a Sinistea that's both authentic & a shiny Pokemon, god bless anyone that has/was able to catch 1 of those in Sword & Shield. Also now looking back at older generation games from gen 1-5, as much as we fans tend to critized Gamefreaks direction in the newer Pokemon games with it's artstyle and gameplay, it makes it much easier to able catch Pokemon and do things that we cannot do in the older games. Such as leveling up our team faster with Rare Cadies/Exp candies, able to switch our Pokemon abilities,earn money faster and so on.

In Pokémon Yellow, you can catch Chansey in Mewtwo's cave, so in Yellow it's not Chansey the hardest Pokémon to get.

Id argue Salamence would be hardest gen 7. You have a 1% on route one to find bagon, and a 1% chance on top of that to encounter salamence thru SOS. Although its level 4 or so, its catch rate is not only pretty low, but youre most likely to be early game when you encounter it (somehow) and only have pokeballs.

I didn't know about feebas factor until about 3 years ago. Which means I was incredibly lucky when I managed to find one in sapphire. I kept changing spots as I have always done that, but I found it in less than half an hour.

13:15 it's "Sinistea", not "Sinisteia"

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13:30 Not necessarily true about not knowing the form of Sinistea until after you caught it. You can just run into a bunch and then run from them. Once you encounter the antique form and run, you’ll get a message saying that your Pokedex has been updated. Then you just re-encounter the one you ran from. *** That said, this only works the first time you encounter one.

The memory from my gameplays of Pokémon that were hard to find/catch were the Pidgeotto in Viridian Forest, Teddiursa in Dark Cave, Phanpy on Route 46, and Heracross in the headbutt trees. I rmb those being painful.

Because I didn't bother exploring the safari zone and you rarely ever saw one being used in the games, I didn't even know Kangaskhan was a pokemon until many years later, when its mega evolution was rampant in online play.

While completing the pokedex in PLA I found myself struggling to catch a munchlax (about an hour of walking to its spawn, going back to base and sleeping until it finally appeared), and if you want to 100% the pokedex (as in, have every entry be rank 10), Shieldon was by far the pokemon that took me the longest to complete, as it has a small chance of spawning in space rifts specifically in coronet highlands, and you need to catch at least TWO to be able to get the rank 10. I spent three days on-and-off until I finally caught the second one.

Chansey is definitely harder to obtain in frlg than in rbgy. Chansey could also be found in Cerulean Cave in rbgy, but not in the remakes.

In gen 2 I ran across and caught plenty of skarmory over my play throughs. Most difficult to catch for me was definitely Aipom

Beldum was a gifted Pokémon in gen3 or that's where I'd get mine but then dreams radar gave me allot... I've never heard of the lvl100 gyrodos but i remember in those games there was a place rumored to have a lvl100 magikarp and i fished awhile looking for that...

Chansey can also appear in the Cerulian Cave in gen 1 so it’s definitely not the hardest pokemon to catch in the game. I also want to mention that Chansey has a 4% encounter rate in the Kanto Remakes in area 3 of the Safari Zone. But i think its probably the hardest Pokémon to catch in the remakes since it can only be found in the safari zone in these Games and the other former gen 1 1% encounters also have a 4% encounter rate in each of the other areas.

Personally, I always found Kangaskhan much harder to catch in gen 7 then Dhelmise. That kangaroo thing can only be encountered in a very specific location, and only has a 1% chance of being encountered in the first place. I distinctly remember that it took a while for me to even find it, as opposed to Dhelmise.

With the Chansey I found if you use the old mam glitch, you can leave the safari zone and surf along the cinnibar shore to get those mons

I just got into pokemon and this channel has been the biggest help so far

A fun thing to note, there are two fully evolved Pokemon in existence that can hit ghost type Pokemon with False Swipe, those being Scrappy Pangoro and Hisuian Decidueye. So technically it could be easier to catch ghost types from Gen 6 onwards on this list if you pick up a hidden ability Pangoro.

One thing I appreciate about Antique form Sinistee is that finding one in Paldea is less tedious due to the camera function.

Ah yes feebas spending 3 hours to find at least 1 of the 6 tiles he spawns on.

Me and my friend were playing emerald back in the days on our GBA and wasted about 4 Duracell batteries and still didn’t catch feebas 😅😅 the days

The way you pronounce Sinistea made me want to thrown my phone at the wall.

In 25 years of being a pokemon fan. I have only maneged to catch Cansey in the generation 1 safari zone once

I thought I was dreaming and no one believed me when I said I fished up a level 100 gyarados. Thank you for proving me sane.

Sinistea is easier to find in the Crown Tundra, however you have to be extra careful because they have Memento

The hardest Pokemon to catch for me, BY FAR, was the rare encounter Metagross found at Giant Chasm in BW. It was the first time I legitimately lost my patience and abandoned trying to catch a Pokemon. Mind you that this is the same location where I caught Kyurem with relative ease

In Yellow, was Chansey in the Unknown Dungeon?

Thank you so much for all videos you made. You are one of my absolutely best youtubers ever. Greetings from Czech Republic. Jsi borec. Mám moc rád tvoji tvorbu. Zdraví Nogy. Posílám pozdrav z Ústeckého kraje.

I remember trying to find a feebas in emerald and fishing in every spot on that river twice. I didn't get it, which means I must've lost that 50:50 12 times in a row o.o I encountered many hundreds of carvanhas while doing that, one of them even being shiny which I ended up catching as one of my first ever shinies. Still never managed to find one in emerald though.

I agree Beldum is cringe to catch with its really low Catch Rate, but Munchlax is so much worse to get than Beldum in DPP.

"Legendaries will be banned, because you usually use your masterball" Meanwhile pokefluteplayer catching hoopa in one ball in radical red randomizer: 0-0

Mystic, you surprised me. In Gen I and II, I would have said Dratini was the hardest to catch, since that is rare to catch in the Safari Zone, in and in Gen II, it becomes on par with the legendary beasts, which I can say are easier to catch, except Entei. The other reason for Dratini is because you have only to places to catch it. Chansey, Skarmory, and Misdreavus were easy to catch for me.

I think that for S/M and US/UM, Politoed is more difficult to catch for more difficult requirement you need for you to encounter it. The only way you can got it is either evolve your Poliwhirl by trafing, which doesn't count, and the SOS battle in Malie Garden. Although it can spawn with any Pokemon and the catch rate is higher than Dhelmise with 45, you need to setup rain to encounter it at night with only 1% to spawn. It is already frustrating to get the Politoed to spawn, it got Perish Song, which you either used Taunt, or hope that it doesn't use one or even hope that you can catch it before the count down ended. So, you need a Rain setter with Taunt and False Swipe (to keep one Pokemon alive for calling allies), otherwise, it is very difficult. Mr Mime with Soundproof, Skill Swap (but it can also learn Taunt, which is better) and Rain Dance can do too but it doesn't have False Swipe. I actually got a shiny Poliwag and got my Pokemon infected by Pokérus because of that.

In gen 1; if you visit the safari zone before you start all the steps to do the missing no. glitch, as soon as your at the part where you’re swimming up and down the missing no coast, all safari zone Pokémon will spawn at their original levels and you can weaken them as you do with wild Pokémon. Or if you encounter missing no and multiply the master ball, you can just catch them that way too.

Misdreavus really outshines Skarmory in Johto, because it's only available after 16 badges, instead of Skarmory's 7. Though I guess with the remakes you can just grab it in the Safari Zone. For Kalos, my second Flabebe ever was a White Flower. It's now a Florges that's part of my living dex.

Scott Steiner would go nuts at all the percent chances in this vid

Yeah. I remeber hunting forever for a feebass. I don’t even want to think about how long it took lol

You been in your bag dropping bangers

Id argue feebas is the hardest to catch in SV. Finding that one water cave is crazy difficult to start with in Kitakami, but then once you do find it, Feebas only has a 1% spawn rate, AND all the spawns will be clogged by barboaches, Whiscashes, and all the other cave pokemon. Even if you make a water encounter sandwich, you still have to deal with all the stupid Barchoaches that’ll spawn before Feebas does. Plus, Feebas can spawn under the water, in the dark cave, so there are chance you won’t even see it when it does spawn. Feebas will always be a pain. But I guess you could just get it from a raid den.

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I didn’t know way back when how lucky I was that I even came across Skarmory but I remember being so stressed catching it lol

I like to imagine Feebas is rare to find because it thinks itself ugly

You been dropping bangers faster 😵‍💫

Fluttermane isn't that difficult. Considering you can run and just rebattle the exact pokemon in front of you. Quickball is also the best ball. Have a steel type lead and you're good.

4:05 Sturdy doesn’t work like that until Gen 5

Chansey can be found in Cerulean Cave, which I'd say invalidates it. Someone else did a similar list and decided it was Dodrio...but in Yellow only.

Getting a Beldum is a Nightmare. Especially when I caught it in Ultra Moon.

You mentioned using a fire or electric move to check for Sturdy on Skatmory. Sturdy didn't act like a focus sash until gen 5. Good luck knocking out that Skatmory every time.

*Laughs nervously in lv 221 Snorlax from missigno glitch*

This one seems like an honorable mention. Golisopod I was going to capture one that was frozen, but its emergency exit still allowed it to leave the battle.

Bagon in Ruby and Sapphire was ridiculous.

Nobody remembers the Platinum Mount Coronet Feebas. I gave up on fishing it after two weeks trying.

2 notes, checking for Sturdy on Skarmory in gen 4 would kill the Skarmory regardless cuz sturdy didn't become a Focus Sash until gen 5. Also to make Skarmory even more annoying to catch, its version exclusive in Johto games. It doesn't appear naturally in either Gold or Heart Gold! Though imo I don't think Skarm was ever that hard to catch to begin with...but maybe I'm just lucky.

Spiritomb or a certain letter Alpha Unown for Legends Arceus

Ive had skarmory be my first encounter at route 45 in soulsilver and i also remember it was extremely easy to catch. It was like "oh a Skarmory ill just catch that real quick and move on".

You got a few things wrong. First, I think you shouldve gone with either Kangaskhan or Tauros for Gen 1, since you can just buy Scyther and Pinsir with coins, and can Catch Chansey in Cerulean Cave where you can actually weaken it. In addition,The level 100 Gyarados in the Nature Reserve is actually the second instance of being able to catch a level 100 Pokemon in the wild. Not sure if its possible in Diamond, Pearl, or BDSP, but in Platinum its possible to fish up Magikarp of any level, 1-100, but only in the Resort Area. Finally, Munchlax should have tied with Beldum for gen 4 Sinnoh.

Crazy Fact, My first Sinistea was the antique form. Poltchageist Antique form was the Second I caught.

Literally while watching this vid, without even trying for encounters, i ran into a Relicanth😅

8:10 caught it after several tries in my LP of Pokémon Black Version

You may have forgotten but on gen 1 you could catch chansey in the mewtwo cave as well (lv 56 if i remember correctly)

forgot pokemon go not counting raid pokemon we have ,galar moltres not only comes from dayli incense wich is once a day for 15 min but has a 1 pokeball trow and from the 3 birds has the rarest weather boost to help it spawn being fog , and tied with moltres is the lake trio wich have the same restriction on 1 ball toss on top of being a 1 minute spawn and only spawning near "big" lakes wich is very subjective for pokemon go .

Aren’t chansey catchable in cerulean cave in gen 1? I thought it would be Tauros

Dunsparce or Tandemaus that will evolve into their rare forms. You can't even know which ones will until you catch them AND evolve them

Btw - not every tile within the river is a possible Feebas tile. I believe its something like 50 tiles which of those, 6 are actuve based on the catchy phrase (theres maps and even tool you can use to look it up tiles). If the goal is no outside tool assistance, then the tile maps themselves are sufficient to reduce the time to a couple hours. It only becomes hard if you don't know anything about the possible locations (ie the ones that have the possibility of being active) vs not possible. Of course if the condition is a total novice at the game figuring it out without some help or the internet, good luck (but realisticly, limiting knowledge is not really a fair metric)

Funny, I didn't know white Flabebe was that rare, I managed to catch a Shiny back when XY was new

I feel like chansey is a lot easier to get than tauros/kangaskhan because you can find it in cerulean cave

Hardest pokemon to catch for me in violet was applin... pre dlc of course. It took me like 5 houra of smacking into trees for one to drop. My wife thought i was going insane because i was begging for it to appear every time a smacked a tree.

How dare you assume I use the masterball at all. I sometimes use it on a Pidgey or Rattata BECAUSE I stopped using it all together after Emerald 😂

For Johto it can be true that skarmory have lowest catch rate and quite low encounter rate, but it only have lvl 27 encounter while other pokemon are 22-25 so using repel can easly boost that to 100% with lvl 26 mon leading party

Kangaskahn in first gen is the hardest pokemon to catch. I've played Pokémon Blue more than any other video game probably haha

for beldum, heal and pain split to stop it from killing itself. mismagius with pain split is ghost-type, so take down wouldn’t hit anyway. still a pain to catch, but there’s no timer on it anymore. the rarest pokemon in DPPt is probably either feebas or munchlax, although personally I’ve had more luck finding munchlax than heracross. Munchlax is 1% on honey trees and feebas is similar to in Hoenn except deep in a mountain

Ooh, yeah, some of these would be nightmares, I bet.

It's hard to argue any pokemon being difficult to catch in Scarlet and Violet in my opinion. Throw quick ball, and bam easy catch most times.

I stopped after the 1st reveal in Kanto. Chansey can be caught very easy in the Cerulean Cave. Tauros and Kangaskhan are the hardest Pokemon to catch in Kanto. With Tauros beeing slightly Number 1, because you need more Steps to go the Area, where Tauros has the highest encounter rate.

Flutter Mane is technically only able to spawn at night or in Union Circles due to a glitch in the spawning mechanics, except for shiny Flutter Mane which can spawn at any time of day without issue, which is actually fantastic for shiny hunting.

Wait I thought you could catch Chansey in Cerulean Cave

Laughs in quickball 😂

Though Beldum is tough, you can change the time for the Beldum swarm however if you try and change the time for honey trees it resets them and locks them for 24 hours. There is no way to find out which 4 trees Munchlax is one and on top of that it is a 1% encounter. It also has a decently low catchrate of 50. All of these factors to me say that it is far harder than Beldum. I would honestly go as far to say that Munchlax in Gen 4 is the hardest pokemon to find and catch in the entire series.

I called Beldum being on here. I caught one in Ultra Sun personality. I also got Metang in White 2. Used both on my main teams.

In gen3 the feebas can always be caught under the bridge near the the weather station, guaranteed

I got a feebas then hatched a shiny one on my copy of emerald last year! I started from the top then went down each tile 😢😂

I used to think skarmory was gen 3 Pokémon just because I never come across it during play through

Keep up the awesome work and videos love the video

I think that the pokemon that is hardest in scarlet and violet is wo-chien, as any encounters that aren't statics can be boosted by sandwiches, wo-chien is the hardest of the static pokemon to catch as it has recovery in the form of giga drain and can half your hp with ruination and is a grass type so spore wont work to sleep wo-chien, not to mention lowering your attack by 25%

I think the reasoning for not covering legendary Pokemon has a hole in it. You only get one Master Ball and getting another is difficult without glitches or RNG manipulation. As such, it would be cool to have a list covering that, but giving a number one and number two entry for each game, since one of them will likely have to be caught without a Master Ball. Or, it could be a trio if their difficulty to obtain is similar. Example: Roaming Legendaries, Johto.