Don't you hate when you can't catch an easy Pokemon?

[Somari]

I found a Lvl. 12 Golduck in Silver, just now, but I couldn't catch him. I paralyzed him but my Pokemon are too high a level to attack him without KO'ing him.
I recalled my Noctowl knows Hypnosis, but since he was paralyzed it didn't effect him. The only Pokeballs I had on me are a Moon-ball, 2 Great-balls, some Ultra-Balls and a Master-Ball. I eventually just knocked him out.

At times it just seems like you can't catch easy to catch Pokemon. It's especially harsh when you're Pokemon are too high a level to hit it without knocking them out.

Or when you want to catch a legendary but you can't. That's the problem with Pokemon that run away too.

Anyone had any notable experiences of this kind?

 

[Mr. Slowpoke]

It took me 14 Pokéballs and my patience to capture a lvl 3 Pikachu in LeafGreen...
Strangly, when I first saw Latias in Pokémon Emerald I just used an Ultra Ball in the first turn and caught it.

 

[Buoy]

You bet.

Stupid Moltres & Mesprit in Platinum.

You can't even see their health, but yet they still escape from everything that you have.

And I remember this Lv. 16 Caterpie, that refused to be caught... I mean, a CATERPIE?

 

[GAMEBOY]

i always got my high leveled zigzagon with me one the lead. cannot miss any pokemon.

 

[Falconwing]

Oh yes. Which is why when I go Pikachu hunting in the Viridian Forest, I take all necessary precautions.

 

[Data_Error]

Had issues with a Butterfree in the Bug Contest the other day...

Not as bad a Regice, though. That thing hates me. I exhausted a supply of sixty balls with it paralyzed and False-swiped before it knocked itself out with Struggle the first time on Sapphire. The second time it finally caught after being in similar health for forty-something balls. No other legendary has been that resistant.

 

[Pidgeot]

I'm can't catch weak pokemon very well, but I'm amazing at catching legendaries. Odd.

 

[Spiny]

I couldn't catch Swellow on platinum. It was only level 12. I got it down to low yellow in one hit and didn't risk attacking, so I just hucked Ultra Balls until I ran out, then I switched the Great Balls, which eventually finished it.

 

[DCM]

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