4th Gen How long did it take you to capture Ho-Oh/Lugia?

Sheep · Apr 17, 2015

Ho-Oh was an absolute pain in the butt to capture for me.. but at least I had a good battle theme to listen to while I killed my arms chucking all of those Ultra Balls, right? >_>; How long did it take you to capture these guys? What Pokeball did you use? Did you have to reset and retry?

esperance · Apr 18, 2015

It took me forever to capture Ho-oh. I had to restart the battle a couple times, and I went through like 30 Ultra Balls before I finally caught it.
If only I had taken the time to toughen my team up a bit before the battle, because I was super under-leveled.

Kitrigar · Apr 18, 2015

I got really lucky with Ho-Oh with just a single quick ball!
Lugia, however was a pain. I probably reset around 5 times using all my balls each time.
I have always had trouble with Lugia back in the original GSC games.

Guardian · Apr 19, 2015

I caught Lugia fairly easily. I still havent caught Ho-Oh though, I like it when they're free. Plus Im lazy :D

Sefuree · Apr 19, 2015

I always caught Ho-Oh and Lugia after about 15 ultra balls! I guess i'm lucky!

Scotash! · Apr 21, 2015

I got Lugia after two Ultra Balls. Ho-Oh, on the other hand, is an absolute annoyance. Always takes me like 20-25, but I decided this time round (on Soul Silver) I'll just Master Ball it.

AquaMarine8 · Apr 23, 2015

I caught Ho-oh easily, within ten Ultra Balls. Lugia in Soul Silver was more of an annoyance. I think I used almost all 30 of my Ultra Balls.

Pendraflare · Apr 23, 2015

It's been a long time, so I don't really remember. Last I caught them for myself was probably in 2011 or 2012, and in that I managed to catch it within a few Heavy Balls I think. Given how massive that thing is it made catching it easier.

Sydian · Apr 25, 2015

Um...who knows. I remember I had to reset my game quite often for both of them. ;(

Drayton · Apr 27, 2015

:I Masterball *derp*

BahamutZero · Apr 30, 2015

I caught Ho-Oh after, what, 30 Ultra Balls? I didn't have to reset, I came ready.

curiousnathan · May 2, 2015

They didn't take too long surprisingly! I'm quite lucky when it comes to capturing Legendaries (except for Uxie, Azelf and Mesprit in Diamond @_@). Proof would be that I've captured all my Legendaries in simple Pokeballs (aside from Mewtwo)!

Hikamaru · Jun 17, 2015

I just decided to be lazy and use the Master Ball on Lugia. Nothing else I could have really thought to use it on anyway, at least at the time I was playing.

punkysaur · Jun 17, 2015

I caught ho-oh easily but it took a heck of time for me to reach it's place.

TheGhosteon · Jul 1, 2015

I just used the Master Ball on Ho-oh.
Catching Lugia, on the other hand, required three resets from either Struggle recoil or a stray Critical. I didn't catch it until my 4th attempt.

DyingWillFlareon · Jul 1, 2015

For Lugia I had it struggle to death the first time, so I reset and used the Masterball. :P I haven't tried to catch Ho-oh yet though.

Sun · Jul 2, 2015

I'm not sure if I'm lucky or what, it took me for less than 10 Ultra Balls to capture Lugia. Lugia's HP was low and he was asleep too though, the same technique was applied to Ho-Oh long ago and funnily it didn't work so well that time.

TwilightBlade · Jul 3, 2015

I recall fainting the Ho-oh in HeartGold so that I could later soft reset or RNG abuse for a good one. I never went back to it. I'm a procrastinator when it comes to legendaries!

Rousch · Jul 3, 2015

Agh i used the master. Ball to get ho-oh quickly then found rikou. I messed up!

Dedenne1 · Jul 3, 2015

Ho-Oh hard crazy really i battled him 3 times to catch him and ended up running out of pokeballs the first time and killing him on the second haha so that was bad
Lugia was easy took about 4-5 turns after i got it in red haha

4th Gen How long did it take you to capture Ho-Oh/Lugia?

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Sheep

esperance

Kitrigar

Butt Puncher

Guardian

Sefuree

Canada Goose

Scotash!

AquaMarine8

One less, one less problem~

Pendraflare

Sydian

fake your death.

Drayton

Chilled Dude of The Elite Four

BahamutZero

curiousnathan

Starry-eyed

Hikamaru

punkysaur

TheGhosteon

Geeeetttt dunked on!!

DyingWillFlareon

Burning Candle

Sun

When the sun goes down...

TwilightBlade

All dreams are but another reality.

Rousch

Dedenne1

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