Me neither to be honest. It's kind of life draining but for some reason I wanna be the very best.

@@TheExcellentPokedex like no one ever was

still a good game,pokemon go is kinda timeless

to complete the dex, pretty fun for it too

I like to integrate a game while I’m walking

quaxly is typing….

@@fatcatjinglebellI have wasted so many balls on Quax and Rowlet!

yup

@@fatcatjinglebellit has a really low capture rate so it’s not one of those pokemon easy to catch lol not even in the slightest😂

Thanks for watching and the kinds words. :)

Super useful for raids and shadows that attack a lot!

@@TheExcellentPokedex My thoughts exactly!

Oh man you've been missing out big time. It's a life saver for catching tier 5 and mega raid pokemon

It's kind of random but after I thought of it I had to throw it in. :)

Thank you! Trying to make the nerdy technical stuff that I want to see in the world. :)

I appreciate you! KZfaq algorithm seems to have picked it up a bit and is giving it some love.

I thought others would appreciate answers to the questions I was thinking. :)

Gotta get the answers.

I appreciate you too. :)

Thanks for watching and the kind words! :)

The hype is real.

@@TheExcellentPokedex Even tho it is kinda useless its really cool to realize that it works

:)

Thanks for watching. :)

These are great ideas!

Beldum in GO is about as easy as any other pseudo (i.e., only a tiny bit harder than average)

@@Neogeddon True, just looked up the catch rates, at a glance i believe it would work on most of the 5% catch rate mons, and then at a glance only saw legendaries with a lower rate. So maybe there'd be no new information to gather from that idea.

Sadly I doubt it will work for Lake Trio, but I don't have direct evidence of that. I do agree there could be some niche cases where it comes in handy.

Yeah, since I made this video, I have some confirmed "perfects" on Shadow Raikou and Tyranitar that don't result in critical catches. Just doesn't work on pseudo-legendaries or legendaries it seems.

Oh yeah, timing after an attack when using circle lock is really tricky and definitely differs for every Pokemon. It's one of the main values that we can get from studying throws on raid bosses.

I appreciate the kind words. Not sure how to gather data on the meaning of life though. 🤔

42?

My perspective is, what's the point of a Master Ball if not to catch a Galarian bird? You don't *really* need them for anything else, except maybe last ball on hundo legendaries. I just wish there were 3 Master balls so I didn't need to choose which bird to skip. Same though, haven't seen a Galarian bird in ages.

​@@TheExcellentPokedex I agree with you, but I hold the belief that as soon as I use my master ball, a legendary I truly want will come and I'll never be able to get it 😂

Weird coincidence! I love Sentret. It's like a walking bullseye.

You're welcome. Thanks for watching!

I think nothing skill based works on speed cap, not even a shiny legendary that supposely guaranteed catch once the ball hit it. It's like a mechanism of game so it probably override everything else.

I think I agree with @3enjamin, I doubt it would make a difference.

@@3enjamin Thanks so much:)

You get the animation with 1% probability for ANY throw. But it's only guaranteed for a perfect throw on certain Pokemon.

One of those thoughtworms that can't not make it into the video.

You are correct, but catch rate also increases the smaller the catch circle is when your ball hits the Pokemon, as long as it's inside the colorful circle. Less than 13.5% (of grey circle diameter) is a "perfect" Excellent throw, less than 30% is Excellent, less than 70% is Great, and any larger is Nice.

@@TheExcellentPokedex yeap that is true

Nice! I tried to make it reasonably entertaining. :)

Yeah, I wish they were a little more creative with rewards for throwing. I really like the events where you get extra candy or candy XL chance for Nice/Great/Excellent throws.

Definitely there is a tradeoff with efficiency though. For community days I usually quick catch with excellents as fast as I can, and trying for the smallest circle generally takes more time. If I'm just going for candy, I'll just throw immediately without even bothering with excellents.

:)

Thanks for watching. :)

It didn't run away, it just escaped the ball. I caught it on a later throw. (So it wasn't speed locked if that's what you mean)

Appreciate you. :)

power of arceus?

no bruh, I am Prasing you@@TheExcellentPokedex

The ball needs to land inside the colorful circle. As long as you're definitely inside this circle it will count. Practice this on larger and closer Pokemon first, like Slowpoke, Furfrou, Ponyta, etc. Sometimes you may feel like you hit the small circle but in reality you didn't. You could try taking screen recordings and watching them back in slow motion. I can say that very likely you landed just outside.

@@TheExcellentPokedex thanks but sorry dude it is not helpful reply. It is like people saying let the circle be small %. So to explain as far as I see my ball hits the circle and lands in it and even if small inner circle I am not get excellent, so if the inner circle is tiny when my ball contacts I can only conclude it must be this part of ball needs to land at this point in the circle for that to work not just it needs to be hitting and landing somewhere in the small circle! I have played eight years I no clue how to record my screen to show people but I visually see nothing different between excellent shots and nothing shots. Telling me to practice I find deeply hilarious dude I have been trying for years I have played since fhe start. No way I can easily get screen shots beyond my abilities I am stuck level 49 trying to get 999 excellent shots! I think its my dyslexia it is so annoying because I do not understand the mechanics of this and believe me I have tried. People who can do it often can not explain how they just make stupid remarks like wait the circle is small or the ball needs to land in the circle so to ask again because clearly you did not understand my struggle which part of the ball needs to be where for this to be excellent.

That's useful! I've collected a bunch of data on this and found it works WAY more often for me without native refresh rate, but is still only 50% success rate there. Probably depends heavily on device - maybe it needs what you say there. It also depends a lot on the Pokemon you're doing it on. For example, for some reason Charmander seems much less likely to work.

No, I have the whole video and it just breaks out and then I later catch it normally. Really good suggestion though.

I don't think we really know when they were added. They just got popularized recently, and maybe no one noticed explicitly before.

Yeah, it happens. For legendaries the perfect throw doesn't guarantee a catch so it'll pop out a lot.

It's in Android developer options and is called "Pointer location". Not a separate app.

you see this when the app is open? does it help catching? @@TheExcellentPokedex

Yes I can see it. I don't think it really helps that much - if anything it's distracting visual noise. I just permanently have it on for when I record videos, since it's useful for studying the throw path for my excellent throw guide videos.

@@TheExcellentPokedex I was looking at it from the perspective of how i threw my last ball and how I could correct my throw for a better throw. After using it for a bit, i wish there was a quick toggle to turn on it instead of going all the way down in the menu.

Yeah, those definitely help.

Honestly, the only correct way of using it.

I agree!

Haha, I'm definitely a "they did the math" person.

If you mean the "catch circle is at its smallest possible point", it's taken from the OP of the Reddit post: www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/18ros80/confirmed_critical_catches/

@@TheExcellentPokedex I meant at 00:50 swapped the seconds of the total video with where it was :E

Ah, the thing with the Pokeball in the middle? It's actually an AI generated image from DALL-E 3 (the ChatGPT-4 image generator)@@antiphet3696

Tbh I think that's just coincidence. Catch probabilities are pretty well understood now. Best is definitely that curve + excellent + golden razzberry. That said, if you can't consistently hit Excellents then going for Greats is still decently good catch odds. Note also that every ball in a raid has slightly increased catch chances. So your first ball is your worst, last ball is the best. I can never rule out anything though.

@@TheExcellentPokedex This coincidence happened far too often for me now. At this point (when it comes to Legendaries) I don't care for excellent throws anymore. I do care if it is for a task or to get extra XP. Which is why I'm wondering if this has changed now. My tinfoilhat theory is that Niantic doesn't want people level up too fast. LOL Didn't know about the first vs last ball-catch chances.

I don't disagree but even with optimal throw the catch rates on some are so low that there's only something like an 85% chance of a catch after 10-15 balls, or something like that (better analysis is available elsewhere). I don't think there's such a thing as a "guaranteed flee", it's just bad luck. I do think that it should let you keep throwing until you at least miss an Excellent though. It sucks to do it perfectly and still miss out.

would be nice to have a catch percentage multiplier in this case. for each consecutive excellent throw, you increase the catch rate.

There are both. Guaranteed critical catch occurs on normal Pokemon when the circle is very tiny. Tons of people, not just me, have observed this to be consistently true. Badges are also a thing, but a separate phenomenon.

​@@TheExcellentPokedex also there are smaller circles and some takes more than 2 seconds, I believe it depends on the distance and size of the pokemon (they could appear on catch screen very close or very far).

@@Isaac-bv5wy They vary in size but the full cycle always appears to take 2 seconds and the relative sizes (e.g. 30% for Excellent) is constant across all Pokemon. If you have a counterexample in mind I can check it out though.

@@TheExcellentPokedex try on bigger mons like finale evolutions from daily incencense or rare wild spwans, but I pretty sure some pokemon have more tiny circles (I ll take notes).

It doesn't lmao. Niantic wants to reward you for being skilled by allowing you to instantly catch Sneasel but not anything useful like Legendaries that can instantly flee 🤣

Maybe there was? But if there was, no one published the information publicly anywhere. There are definitely hacked clients out there but I wanted to get this information as legit as possible.

They are, partially. Most criticals will be the random 1% chance unless you're specifically going for tiny catch circles.