What Button Do You Press?

[EdelsteinBraginski_]

I speed-smash the A button or shake the DS.

On my original Game Boy (in the old days, haha ) I would speed-smash the Start button. XD

 

[Porygawn]

^ This occasionally.

 

[Zuruzukin]

This may sound weird, but it seems to work. I 'talk' to them. I tell them that they will be awesome etc. And they believe me and spend the rest of their lives cooped up in a computer.

For some reason, this made me laugh.

 

[Missingno. Master]

^ This occasionally.

That was all us at one point, and there's no use in denying it.

Including me. I'd do everything. B+up, A+down, A+B+down, tapping the Poké Ball on the touch screen, whispering "Gotcha!" into the DS's microphone, you name it. Sometimes I still do hold down A or something out of habit.

With an A+B+down mustache.

 

[Aisling]

I hold down the A button. Sometimes if I'm really nervous about a catch I'll unintentionally grip my DS lite awkwardly (and I've accidentally flicked the power switch off a few times.. :sweat.

 

[MuddyMudkip]

Oh, I used to hold down various buttons randomly. Though, I did make sure I did not press wrong button. You know what I mean.
The button I pressed the most would probably be the A+B+DOWN combo. Now, I don't, okay sometimes I do, that anymore.

 

[Noivern]

No? I don't do it anymore. Since Gen III. Before that, I tried to push random buttons, and sometimes end up with "A+B+Start+Select", aka soft reset.

 

[Troggy]

It's generally more entertaining to use A + Down or A + B + Down when you are catching something difficult, even though it doesn't help at all.

 

[MegaCharr]

i used to rapid press the A button but not anymore because it did not help with the legundarys at all,now i just shake my ds like the pokeball on the screen.

 

[Alex800]

I just hold my breath

 

[NotANewProfile]

Y...Y...Y...Y dammit it didn't work!

 

[Giustizia]

In the gamecube games, I'd always clamp down L+R when the player grabbed the ball, then tap A really quickly after he threw it, then start spinning the control stick when the ball started shaking! Always works, still does!

 

[edeneh]

I stroke the speaker quickly XD

 

[Variant]

I like to either rapidly press A or hold both A and B as soon as the ball struck. I still do it for nostalgia purposes.

 

[glow]

None. I simply glare menacingly at the thrown ball.

 

[Mr.Munchlax]

Hmmm... I heard that pressing the Y button whenever the ball is supposed to shake helps, and sometimes I do that.

 

[Kenshi]

It doesn't help one bit; it's mostly done as a countermeasure against the otherwise boring method of sitting on your ass as the balls shakes, lol.

(I did use to believe it helped [when I was 12], though)

 

[BlackwaterPark]

I always press L + R + A + Down. I know it doesn't do anything, but it just feels right.

 

[Polekia]

I don't press a button during catching.
However, I do press one of the control pad buttons when attacked and my HP is going down. I press and hold the > one if my HP is going down, and hold the < one if an enemy's HP is going down.


I dunno why.

 

[Strato Lucario]

I speed-smash the A button.

That's what I do. It makes me feel like I'm doing something to aid the catching of the Pokemon rather than just chucking the Ultra Ball and hoping for the best.