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Pressing A Repeatedly When Catching Pokemon

Deleted member 4034

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Oct 25, 2017
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Look I know, but I FEEL like the shit actually works tho.

Playing a lot of Pokemon White 2 today. Trying to get a Lapras with a Modest or Neutral nature, not only are these to come by, they love using Perish Song. Tapping A was my only comfort when it came down to the wire, but it worked each time. Worked with the Cobalion I caught earlier.

Anyone still rely on this for the pre 3DS era games?

Got a Bashful Lapras with Water Absorb. IVs are middle of the road. I normally don't care about IVs, but the Lapras I settled on first did next to no damage when it used surf on a Magmar that was only a few levels higher and then putting those stats into a calculator sent me down this rabbit hole. Literally had 0-2 Special Attack IVs. Gonna keep going.
 
BasilZero

BasilZero

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For me, pressing and holding the "B" button feels like I will catch it.

Edit: Sometimes Down button+Press/Hold B too.
 
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Skyfireblaze

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Oct 25, 2017
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It's mashing A+B! I have foolproof evidence, a friend was trying to catch a Mew via the Mew Glitch on his Red Edition before and after half an hour it always escaped. I took his GameBoy, threw his last ball and mashed A+B, the Mew got caught :P
 
--R

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Holding Down + B was the real thing. 100% placebo but it worked when I caught Rayquaza with a Pokéball on Emerald, so I kept doing it all the time.
 
ZZMitch

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Always mashed the A button when I was kid, probably will do again next time I play Pokemon. Muscle memory at this point lol
 
Wamb0wneD

Wamb0wneD

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I did all sorts of shit that incorporated not only the a button but the b one as well and the d-pad.
 
Verelios

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BasilZero said:
For me, pressing and holding the "B" button feels like I will catch it.

Edit: Sometimes Down button+Press/Hold B too.
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Illusion said:
Down + B immediately after the ball closes.
I still do it today.
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antitrop said:
Holding B was the rumor with Pokemon Red and Blue back in the day.
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The Living Tribunal said:
This.
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Phalk said:
This. I have always used this stragegy.
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Lexxism said:
It was holding "B" for me. I press down sometimes
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--R said:
Holding Down + B was the real thing. 100% placebo but it worked when I caught Rayquaza with a Pokéball on Emerald, so I kept doing it all the time.
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These guys got it. I still do this even in modern pokemon and I swear it works.
 
TheCthultist

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Oct 27, 2017
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Wait, A? Fuck, I've been mashing and/or holding B all these years!

EDIT: Ah good, not crazy, just incapable of reading passed the first post apparently.
 
LAM09

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Oct 25, 2017
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Holding A+B+Down just as the ball is about to close is something I still do today.
 
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Deleted member 4034

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Brock Reiher said:
You're supposed to hold B, not press A
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It fucking works. Level 40 Lapras, my first two attacks miss, the thing uses Perish Song. I get off a single Shadow Ball and barely does shit, I get in one Ultra Ball, I close my eyes and mash A and boom, it stays in. It fucking works.

Edit: Jolly with perfect Special Attack IV. Find me in the alphs.
 
Tidalwaves

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I never did this. Instead, from a young age I realized that my personal luck was so bad that I figured, hey maybe if I didn't look after I threw the pokeball, then the Pokemon wouldn't know it wasnt me that was trying to catch it. It worked for the most part.
 
Momo

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Oct 25, 2017
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YES!

I also held my breath until I catch the Pokémon.

*instantly flashbacks*
...fucking Lugia in Silver...
 
entremet

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Aren't these games datamined to heck by now. What's the verdict? Does it work? What about critical captures?
 

Deleted member 864

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I almost always just hold the A button down, I doubt it does anything but to me it feels like it helps lol.
 
Raijinto

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I press and hold the 'A' button almost all the time.

I swear by it, it really does work.

Never really considered mashing the button instead. I've been doing it this way for far too long to change now.
 

Deleted member 36622

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Yeah i don't know if it actually works but i used it all the time back in the days.

Urban legends on Pokémon were the best: i can't remember which game was but i do remember there was one in my school where people thought if you do like 50 laps in front of a specific home you got teleported somewhere else, i didn't actually have the game and pretty sure it was fake but i loved the creativity kids had for such things lol
 
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