Paralysis gives a much lower number, so sleep moves are preferred.
It is best to use either Timer or Ultra Balls when going for the legendaries.Īs you can see, sleep is your best bet due to the lack of reliable freeze moves. The Nest Ball has a BallRate of 1 against any legendary in RSE, as the lowest level of any legendary found in Ruby, Sapphire, or Emerald is 30. Net Balls are only useful for Kyogre, as it is the only Water-type legendary available in Sapphire and Emerald. Therefore, Timer Balls have the highest BallRate of any Ball other than the Master Ball. Timer Balls begin at 1 and increase every 10 turns, with a cap of 4. Additionally, they can be won from the daily lottery held at the Lilycove Dept.
(( 1 + ( MaxHP × 3 - CurrentHP × 2 ) × CatchRate × BallRate × Status# ) ÷ ( MaxHP × 3 )) ÷ 256 Note that you must always round down should you get a decimal. While the actual in-game formula is quite complex, Community Member X-Act has made a formula that produces nearly exact results. The Catch Rate is plugged into a formula, which determines whether the Pokémon will be captured or not. Essentially, the higher the Catch Rate, the higher the chance to capture. Putting it all together, you had roughly a one in five chance at getting a 1 in 100 chance at encountering Munchlax, every six hours.Each legendary is assigned a numerical catch rate, as are all wild Pokémon. The trees were based on your trainer ID, too, but we didn’t know that at the time. You couldn’t manipulate the DS’ clock, either. You also had to wait six hours to find out if you even got that 5% chance at an encounter. That’s already terrible.īut when you consider that it only appeared on four of the 21 potential honey trees around the region, it gets a bit tougher. Well, you only had a 1% chance of encountering it. In Munchlax’s first appearance, you could only encounter it by slathering honey on the honey trees dotted around the region. These days, getting a Munchlax requires your Snorlax to smoke up before getting its freak on. Ask anyone what the hardest Pokémon of all time to catch is, and chances are they’ll tell you it’s this. I spent an infuriatingly long amount of time capturing one, which was admittedly a nice change of pace from how easy Crown Tundra ultimately was. Plus, you need to reset every time you fight this guy, and you have to play some stupid guessing game with him every reset. In case you need me to spell that out for you: No. Where that hail does damage to it every turn. You encounter Galarian Articuno on the slopes of a mountain. But the regional variant is not it’s psychic. Grab a bunch of dusk balls, your false swiper, and your status condition user, and get to work… except no.
Meaning you need to come with your everyday capturing kit. You see, Galarian Articuno has your usual legendary capture rate. Yes, not every single entry on this list has to be a dinosaur.Įven if Pokémon has gotten easier these days, Game Freak overlooked a few things when introducing this legendary bird reskin.