At this point I'm convinced that the Kurt balls are intentionally programmed wrong

It's insane to me that there's 3 balls dedicated to water types and none for any other type yet (aside from net being for bug too). They really gotta start making balls that are good for catching other types. Or even give some of the existing balls a secondary effect, like the moonball could be good on dark types and the duskball could be good on ghost, etc. I just think it'd be great to have balls that match the pokemon types and dont know why they haven't done this yet.

So there isn't a single pokemon game where all the pokeballs function as intended

Love the idea that Kurt balls are just consistently either bad or faulty

My favorite is probably the Premier Ball just because it's kind of a status symbol. It's like, yeah, I could have used an Ultra Ball, but instead I decided to use a more expensive ball with a worse catch rate, just because it looks nice.

I just wish we could transfer Pokémon to different balls after the fact, so you didn't have to decide between aesthetics and efficiency when catching.

The cool thing about Scarlet/Violet is that when you use them in a den they have a 100% catch rate meaning the Beast Ball is useable.

3:40 i love how they accidentally made all pokemon gay (or, yk, at least attracted to the same sex)

I think the Lotto of Blueberry Academy succeeds where the Cramomatic failed: making a commodity of gambling with it.

Luxury ball, woooo! Such style, plus the flex of being stubborn enough to use it to catch everything.

26:43 They actually fixed the Lure Ball in Scarlet/Violet in an update at some point.

The best ball? There is no competition. It's the Luxury Ball!

If you think about it, Pokémon GO! _is_ the final Safari Zone.

I dont understand why they create a "artificial scarcity" with the pokeballs if there's still a chance of pokemon breaking out of them

Your descriptions of the Pokeball appearances are great for low vision and blind people, great video. Looking forward to the Pokeballs they’ll have in Legends A-Z

love ball is 8x only against wild pokemon of the same gender AND species as they active pokemon in gen II, with it switching to opposite gender as intended in HG/SS

Quickball gang, rise up!

Anyone else catch basically everything in gen 4 in a dusk ball cause they stayed up all night playing? I know I can’t be the only one

At this point I'm convinced nobody making the games actually knows how to program

I think the multiples of 10 premier ball purchase gift has been modified in recent games to grant you multiple premier balls at once

i hope we get the park ball back, we’re severely lacking a mainly yellow pokeball option

my favorite is the Quick Ball, it's just so handy

pronouncing "decal" as "deckle" and not "dee-cal" gives me major Trailer Park Boys vibes. "Check out these sick decnals, Bubs!"

I hope that the Hisui balls properly display in Legends Z-A and beyond. I can sort of understand using the Strange Ball for now since the art for the Hisui Balls might not have been finished during SV's development, but I hope they remember to fix it. They should know how cool it is to have a unique, antique Pokeball on some of your Pokemon, instead of a placeholder.

Back in my day we crafted our own Poke Balls

Samson’s weird old pokéball is one that sticks out in memory

I'm surprised you didn't make at least slight reference to Ball Capsules and Seals in generation 4!

My favorite pokeballs are the Dusk and Netball, not only because of how they look, but the effects when the pokemon comes out (specially the the Duskball)

They updated the Parkballs game Art Work for Scarlet and Violet for SOME REASON so I’m kinda wondering if they are going to make it a useable ball at some point… because why make the icon… I know it exists I have the image in my PC and its a Scarlet Sprite so…. Why

OMG dude straight out forgot about the smoke ball..... 😮

The Beast Ball is my favorite.

glad u made this , pokeballs were always a small fascination of mine in the games with the cherish one being my all time favorite

Apriballs had their existence justified when they came back in HGSS and could be used for style rather than their actual catching benefits.

"Everyone has their own favorite, for me, I don't like balls with protrusions" Meanwhile for me; my signature pokemon is a Shiny Smeargle in a Beast Ball, because I'm a masochist!

The next thing they could do is to introduce more balls that give advantages for different types. We basically have 3(!) different balls to help catching Water-types. So what gives, where are other type-specific balls?

I used to be a "pokeballs only" trainer (big flex having hard to catch pokemon in them) but then when I stopped taking the game so seriously I switched up to an ~aesthetic over everything~ trainer now all my mon match the balls they are in and it's really cute :) (also catching pokemon in beast balls who are not ultra beasts is the biggest mf flex)

good video, consistent audio quality, good topic, and just in depth enough

Great video! I am a fan of how in depth you went, and I agree, the Ball is one of the most important parts of Pokémon and deserves more love

never really stopped to consider how many new pokèball variations there have been, great vid!!

The extreme rarity of the apriballs has allowed many collectors to attempt to collect as many Pokemon in as many apriballs as possible. Beast Balls and Dream Balls are usually counted as an apriball too. I think that's really cool, personally, keep an eye out for these "aprimon" in Wonder Trade!

Im having the weirdest mandella effect. I played gen 3 more than any other game and i couldve sworn dusk and quick balls were available in gen 3

I remember seeing images of Poké balls inspiring a craze of mine, where I would design Poké balls of my own, draw them, give them unique (if niche) effects, and meticulously store the pages in a binder to send to Game Freak. Dad made me save up my own money for postage, and I did actually get to mail it, but I never heard back or got a return. I can't even remember what little Amber thought was good Poké ball design, but I hope whatever concoctions were in there inspired someone at the company, hahaha!

My favorites has to be some of the Kurt Balls like the Moon Ball, Fast Ball, Heavy Ball and Level Ball. As for Pokéballs available normally in Marts, the Luxury Ball, Premier Ball and Dusk Ball are my top favorites, both in terms of design and how they look when you either sent your Pokémon out or when you try to catch them.

I always felt like the Gold, Silver and "Crystal" colors on the gen 4 pal park balls was a hint at the upcoming gen 2 remakes but it's probably just a coincidence :P

At least in the last few generations the number of premier balls you receive is based on the number of sets of 10. If you were to buy 99 pokeballs all at once you receive 9 premier balls.

i think it was important to mention that prior to gen 3 we didn't have actual images of the pokeballs so balls that didn't make a return in later generations didn't have an official design, aka the original park ball, and the one shown was the anime version, which doesn't always translates to the games, for example the anime Safari Ball, season 1, being a simple green top with a white bottom and a s on top of the "power" button compare to its camo in-game counter part

Love the video, surprised you didnt mention the pokeball seals from gen 4, I love those

I feel crazy, I always thought Premier ball had a high catch rate for shiny Pokémon. Even though it doesn’t, it still feels cool to catch a discolored Pokémon in a discolored pokeball.

Why do I have a feeling we'll get Strange Ball back in Legends Z-A? 😅 But anyway, great video. I really appreciate all the time you did researching for it. That's a dedication. Oh, and Quick Ball and Dusk Ball are my most favourite Balls. They are just so usefull.

24:27 I had always hoped early on that the heavy ball line would use the better multiplier in battle, but I figured it wouldn’t considering they’ll have spotted you except maybe the first turn of battle if you caught them off guard, but I’m glad to know they’re just always awesome! If only they weren’t hard to throw accurately on Basculegion

Customizable Poke Balls need to be a thing in the future

It's crazy to me that the Quick Ball, already one of the best balls in the game out the gate due to its massive modifier and not being limited to specific pokemon, got a *buff* the following generation. 4x was big enough and they buffed it to *5* ???

I like the way you says pokeball, it scratches a part of my brain in ways I cannot explain!!

Subbed and am going through the vids now. You’re pretty good at this

One of my favorite Pokeball designs is from the early days of the franchise where the pokeballs were sort of see through so you can see the pokemon inside of it like the Gachapon capsules the game was designed after. This only appeared in some artwork or manga, but it honestly just looks so neat.

Pokeballs are a fashion statement

Another great video! The history of the Kurt Balls is crazy and its so strange how many mistakes happen with them even to this day!

This is the first time I've seen your channel, and I'm on board! This was a fascinating breakdown full of interesting information, with there being even some things that I didn't know about. I know your bio says you're not exclusively a Pokemon channel, but I'll definitely be looking forward to more Pokemon videos if you feel like making them! Until then, I'll go check out your other Pokemon videos. :^)

I love the Premier Ball. The white with a red stripe is so clean

I love the luxury Ball visually, but my fave is the Quick ball. Really helpful for end game collecting and breeding.

I really want the Cherish ball as a regular pokeball, or even have a pokeball customization option in future games, so we can pick the look of the pokeball.

un-obtaina-ball

You can also find them randomly on the ground.

You know they're putting more effort in rn to ensure every pokeball is available in the game than they are ensuring every Pokémon is in the game lmao

I loved the video, Thanks for sharing my same feeling with the pokeballs

It's a bit basic, but I've always loved the Ultra Ball. The black and yellow design just looks so sleek and classy. And it's just such a solid workhorse ball having best catch rate of the original big three. I actually got a tattoo of an Ultra Ball wreathed in flowers on my shoulder the day I hit level 40 in Pokemon Go. I scheduled it specifically so I could be sitting in the chair getting inked while I leveled up.

Excluding the Master Ball, Poké Ball (sort of), Sport Ball/Park Ball, Friend Ball, Lure Ball, and Heavy Ball (except in Crystal), every Poké Ball introduced in Gens I & II worked very oddly in the Gens they were introduced. In Gen I, because of how the catch formula worked (very oddly), nonvolatile status conditions (sleep, freeze, paralysis, poison, and burn) increased the catch rate of Pokémon by a flat amount based on the Poké Ball used and status condition (for sleeping or frozen Pokémon, it’s 25 out of 256 for Poké Balls, 25 out of 201 for Great Balls, and 25 out of 151 for Ultra Balls and Safari Balls; for the others, it’s 12 out of 256 for Poké Balls, 12 out of 201 for Great Balls, and 12 out of 151 for Ultra Balls and Safari Balls) rather than multiplicatively like in later generations. This causes Ultra Balls and Safari Balls to significantly overperform for Pokémon with low catch rates and status conditions or low HP (especially status conditions) but greatly underperform for perfectly healthy Pokémon and Pokémon with high catch rates, while the Great Ball vastly overperforms for Pokémon with high catch rates and against healthy Pokémon with low catch rates. (This means that the Safari Ball, which only in Gen I is coded to work like an Ultra Ball instead of a Great Ball, is the worst Poké Ball to use against the Pokémon in the Safari Zone as you cannot inflict status conditions or lower HP in the Safari Zone… but that’s the only Poké Ball you _can_ use in the Safari Zone, and that’s the only place Safari Balls can typically be used, which is a major reason why the Safari Zone is so terrible in those games.) In Gen II, in addition to the fact that paralysis, poison, and burn don’t affect the catch rate at all due to another error, several of the Apricorn Balls are improperly coded. The Fast Ball is supposed to have a 4× chance against Pokémon with a chance to flee, but due to a bug, it only does against the first three of them in the table: Magnemite, Grimer (why does _this_ Pokémon have a chance to flee, anyways?), and Tangela. The Level Ball works better against Pokémon with a lower level than yours, and it does, but due to an error, it ignores all other factors like HP and status conditions. The Love Ball is supposed to have an 8× multiplier when used on Pokémon of the same species but opposite gender of your current Pokémon, but it instead has an 8× multiplier when used on Pokémon of the same species and the _same_ gender as your current Pokémon, the exact opposite of how it’s supposed to work! The Heavy Ball works properly in Gold and Silver and for most Pokémon in Crystal, having increased odds against heavy Pokémon and reduced odds against lighter Pokémon (and it’s a flat increase or decrease, though intentionally so in this case). However, in Crystal, if used specifically against Kadabra, Tauros, and Subflora, instead of using their weights, the game looks at junk data instead that makes them appear to have massive weights, causing the Heavy Ball to work way better than it should on them. Finally, the Moon Ball is supposed to have a 4× multiplier when used on Pokémon that evolve by Moon Stone (which, in Gen II, would be Clefairy, Jigglypuff, Nidorina, and Nidorino), but because they changed the index numbers for several items (including the Moon Stone) when going from Gen I to Gen II but did not update the reference used for the Moon Ball’s code, it instead has a 4× multiplier only when used on Pokémon which evolve with a *Burn Heal* (which would be none of them). Of the new Balls in Gen II, only the Park/Sport Ball (which was basically just a fancy-looking Great Ball for use in (and only in) Bug-Catching Contests), Lure Ball (3× multiplier while fishing), and Friend Ball (1× multiplier (same as a regular Poké Ball), but sets the caught Pokémon’s friendship to 200 instead of the usual 70) work exactly as intended in all three Gen II games. (That said, the Lure Ball did have an error in Scarlet and Violet, which caused it to always have a 1× multiplier instead of the boosted 4× multiplier on Pokémon in or on water it was supposed to.) The Master Ball has also always worked exactly as intended, skipping all other checks and just guaranteeing the capture every single time. All of these would be fixed in later gens, but it is still crazy how broken they all were when first introduced.

In german, french and apparently korean it's also the Hyperball, in fact the Ultraball is the Beast Ball in english from gen7 afaik.

The Bug Catching contest balls described in the video are from the anime and manga. In the games it never had a full design until Generation IV. The Love Ball's glitch is actually 8x specifically only against the same species and gender, not just gender.

Personally I really like the design of the luxury Ball.

I think it's worth noting that since only the female pokemon can pass down its ball when bred, you couldn't get any of the newly introduced pokemon in newer balls since the female always decides the species of the baby. Ditto is the only case when this is bypassed, letting the male pass down its ball and species (which still isn't helpful in getting Kalos/Alola mons in Kurtballs)

I've had consistently good luck with legendries when using the heal ball so it's become my favorite

I finished my Violet dex before doing the Indigo Disk story so when it came time to capture Terapogos and I had that Beast Ball in my inventory it felt so cool to capture such a visually striking Pokemon in a rare and cool ball. Definitely a highlight moment for me for Gen 9.

Gen 4 balls will always be my favourite cause its the gen Glaceon was brought in and dusk is pretty cool in its release anination lol

I'm sure I'm not the only one that color coordinates the balls with the pokemon in them. Umbreon and the Ultra Ball go so perfectly together. Uxie, Azelf, and Mespirit fit pretty well with the Ultra, Poke, and Great balls respectively which is pleasing (other than their order in the pokedex being different from the order of the balls they match).

This is a cool video. My favorite balls are the moon and Beast balls for aesthetic. I have a mimikyu in a moon ball which is one of my favs, and a teddiursa in a beast ball. Vaporeon is also my favorite pokemon so I like the dive balls cause they match so well.

Net Ball is so underrated, absolutely my favourite Pokeball

I have a habit of using premier balls early game for low encounter rate pokemon to make em extra special, this is to say I've caught many a ralts and a few abra in em over my various replays of gens 3 and 4

great video!! subscribed.

Minor note: The Dream Ball is the ball that all Pokemon caught in Dream Radar will be in upon transfer to BW2.

Premier ball for me. Minimalism is my favorite design language, and "all white with only a stripe of red" is about as minimal as you can make a Pokeball.

"deck-el" What the flying fuck?

Me looking at my entire Pokédex in quickballs. I think this one might be my favorite

Been working on a Luxury-Dex all pokemon in every form that's possible to transfer to HOME, all in Luxury Balls. Some things are currently impossible to get into Lux balls, but I'm working on getting everything I can. Not having access to the older Gens+Bank are making it a little more difficult. lol

I’m a big quick ball and premier ball fan. Almost all my Pokémon in a standard play through are caught with those

I really like the information you have in the video, your audio is very clear, I have one thought though...I wasn't expecting this to be as long as it was and the way you speak is very monotone and it felt like you were speaking one long sentence with no pauses or breaks, I started to almost zone out because it was a constant stream of words.

Man, what a wonderful video to relax to! Your voice is so gentle that it felt comfortable even though I had a migraine a few hours ago Also, your rant about the Kurt-balls was hilarious, 10/10 would rant again

I do really love the design of the heal ball,love ball, and moon ball, although they are three that are typically not very useful

In the SV dlc Perrin gives u the sport ball as a reward for getting the paradox legendaries

I hope Gen 10 brings Ball Recolour, let us change what colours are on different sections of the Ball. It would let people breed for the design and release effect instead of mainly colour when trying to match.

there's also a master ball failing for the first time during story mode in sv dlc 2.

Great video! Good job, keep it up!

i LOVE the outrage at apricorn balls

i try as hard as possible to catch/breed all my shinies in Premier balls; i just think it looks nice. other than that, my favorite ball has always been the Luxury ball.. the black, red, and gold is just *chef's kiss*

Take a shot every time he says “pokeball”

Clicked on this so fast , interesting topic my friend

The Fast Ball was meant to be specialized for catching the new roaming legendaries, I'd assume. Kind of as a thing where to catch these elusive legendaries you find apricorns and get custom-made balls just for the purpose...I could see it working. Y'know, if the ball itself did.

The crafting your own PokeBalls was probably lifted from the Minecraft Pokemon mod lol

How was this the first time I’ve heard of the ultra ball being the “Hyper ball”?? I always thought it was weird that there was two u’s bottom to bottom😂

Visually I love the Dusk Ball the most even tho the Master Ball is my fav colours. But mechanically I probably used the Net Ball the most other than standard Pokéballs or the Ultra Balls