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Hardest legendary to catch?
I am sure most of you have had a hard time catching a legendary pokemon in Diamond, Pearl and/or Platinum. Which one was the hardest one for you to catch?
I would have to say Giratina and Mesprit. Giratina was pretty strong for me to handle, and Mesprit just kept moving all over the place. |
Well for me it was Girantina. I caught Dialga with ease with a ultra ball. Quick ball for two of the Fairies. Masterball for mesprit, Cressila. Girantina i used about 30 ultra balls, 25 timer balls, then it finally came down to Dusk balls and it took me like 10. I hated catching that thing.
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Dialga--Cynthia heals you in Pt before Giratina. IIRC, there's no way to heal after Cyrus in DP, so, if Cyrus tore your team apart, you don't have much to use when tackling Dialga. That's why I found it hard. Same deal for Palkia (in Pearl), I guess-
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Heatran.
Giratina, I got freeze hacks, it froze for like 20 turns with a sliver of hp left. Lucky :D Azelf, same thing. Freeze hacks, sliver of hp. Heatran was a pain in the ass to catch. Took too many tries. |
Heatran.
In Diamond it took me over 300 Ultra balls no joke. o.O |
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Cresselia was very hard to catch as well because of how it just kept moving all over the place, just like Mesprit. |
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Mesprit and Cresselia I caught in like 3 Ultra balls. I caught Mesprit on the second time I found him. I caught Cressalia on the 1st. ^^ |
you should add zapdos, moltres, and articuno to this list
EDIT: oh and regice, regirock, and registeel lol |
I think the Birds win this. So hard now.
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Anyways, Articuno was very hard to catch in Platinum I can assure you. I didn't get to that part but I know someone who has, and it was very tough. |
Articuno
I haven't tackled on regigigas yet, but since it is level 1 I'm sure I can catch it with a nest ball. |
I think it was Giratina in Pt. it was annoying. I caught Mesprit with only 1 Dusk Ball.^^ Maybe I´ll catch the Legendaries that I left out in the next days.
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Rotom. A Ghost/Electric type is not something I could've prepared for. Add in the fact that it is a low level, and yeah, so hard not to ko....
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Giratina origin forme. Omygosh. I had it's HP to like...a millimeter. I used about 40 Ultra Balls. >.>
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azlef &+ mespirit.
uxie was easy xD |
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That said, my answer is Azelf as well. Quote:
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For me, it was Giratina in Platinum & the birds. Giratina I ran ran out of pokeballs and made me use my masterball. Then for the birds, I accidentally poisoned all of them (*looks towards my Crobat...*) and had to use some masterballs from a friend and from my copy of diamond.
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Diagla. Right after battling Cyrus, my pokemon's Hp were low, so I was forced to use masterball...too bad for me
It was easy to pin Entei down. All I had to do was tell my Crobat to use Mean Look (Job done) and it was an easy capture |
The running legendaries.
Cresselia, Mesprit etc. It's just you don't expect it to come up, you're doing your 'thing' and then that music starts.. and you're like : Woah! |
Nothing really was hard for me to catch in the 4th Gen. Always below 20 Ultraballs, as for Cresselia and Mesprit, I got a trick for that, they will come to you, really EASY. So if you guys want to know how, pm me
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Giratina was difficult on platinum, its moves didnt have much PP and so i'd get it to low HP and it'd use struggle & therefore kill itself >____<
after 6 tries i just threw my masterball at it straight away. and azelf is so hard to catch :| its hard enough surviving it, after it uses nasty plot about 469747956 times then uses either uproar or future sight, you're done for. i caught it shiny in the end, cos i'd attempted its capture about 20 times and i put it to sleep the first turn and used a quick ball the 2nd :3 (just realised how lucky i was to get that now) |
Cresellia By Far, In Platinum ,Still Havent Caght It After A Month
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Giratina :3 Even i used many Ultra Balls still won't.. But i prayed.. Then Boom!.. Caught :3
-Yasumin |
on my experience on pearl it was azelf, giratina, regigigas and heatran that almost drain out the pokeballs i have. catching legendaries is just mainly measure of luck you have, just my opinion.
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It had to be Mesprit/Cresseilia for me. Pretty annoying pokémon...
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Regigigas was really hard to catch for me. It probably took me around thirty ultra balls just for me to finally catch it.
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They were all equally easy. Most of them have a catch rate of 3, so yeah.
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For some reason, Azelf is being ridiculously hard to catch D: This whole week I've been trying to catch him in my platinum but refuses to be caught! I want to get on with the game already! haha
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Giratnia was actually pretty easy for me got it second time, first time he struggled himself to death lol. For me it was Mesprit, took so many times of just resetting my game because he either wiped out my team from using so many nasty plots, or just wouldn't catch and I ran out. Took me a good 15 times lol. So ya my vote goes to that little guy :D
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Pearl: Mesprit, took me two WHOLE months to catch, when I first caught up with it I nearly fainted it, but lucky it got down to around about 10 hp left, again tried catching it, finally caught it near Lake Vercity (I think).
Platium: Azelf + Uxie, between them I have used like 100 dusk, ultra and timer balls on them, I finally caught them though (phew) |
haha definitley mesprit took quite a while for me to catch
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For me it would probably be Uxie. He was hard to catch.
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well none of them when u have master balls lolz.
i just got platinum 3 days ago and it was released 3 days before that on the 22nd MAY... I wen to Oak and then started chasing down the 3 legendary birds... i got Articuno and Moltres i just need Zapdos... THEN cressila decides to join... it ran away on fullmoon island... them to a causing me REAL TRouble! |
Well I;ve only had the game for a couple days but in Platinum Mesprit is the hardest for me to catch. Just because it always runs when you fail to catch it :[
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giratina in platinum was hard as i needed hondoom to thunder fang it till it got paralysed and then used floatzels surf till it had very little hp and threw ultra balls
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When I was younger, I always raged in frustration from 'runners'.
Talk about PITA. |
Diagla, it was really painfull for me, I had low amount of ultra balls and I was not going to go through all that again just to get more ultra balls and my pokemon where hurt from the battles against Team Galactic.
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Argh. Romaing legendary. Mespirirt, Moltres, Zapdos. I haven't seen Articuno yet, but still.
I don't have Pokemon with the Shadow Tag so I can't trap them. Argh. ;; |
Heatran, no questions asked.
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I struggled really hard with Heatran. I kept using all my Ultra Balls or defeating it by accident. T_T
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stupid dumb Cresselia and stupid dumb Mespirt. Those stupid dumb things, they always run away
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Darkrai cos it can turn into a shadow before you catch it.I think...
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it haves to be mesprit i can even find it yet on my platinum
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You're awesome for not putting Palkia or Dialga on the list. Azelf was the most frustrating for me. I ended up wasting my Master Ball on it.
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giratina was easy as hell.
ultra ball, i used fake out over and ovre, then Hypnosis |
Cresselia. I used my masterball on Mesprit, then Cresselia was the hardest to catch before it ran.
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heatran was annoying, but azlef was a pest too.
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Giratina or Mesprit. I threw approximately 40 Dusk Balls at each, and they kept breaking out. It got frustrating after awhile.
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On Diamond, it was Giratina, and on Pearl, it was Heatran - he just didn't want to stay in the darn ball!
I've only got Rotom so far in Platinum, but I have a sneaky suspicion Giratina will cause me problems when I get to the beast... |
I think it was Giratina, for mesprit i did only have to use 1 quick ball!!!
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Mesprit, because I had to look all over for it. xP
And it always seems to show up when I'm training my weaker Pokemon, so I never inflict enough damage in order to catch it. xP |
I was able to track down Mespirit easily, but
catching it was another matter. I had about 50 ultra balls on me and it broke through them all. I got so frustrated I just used my master ball on it. |
no legendaries were hard for me to catch. i don't know why, but my pokeballs work like master balls and i don't have an action replay
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Regigigas for me, took aaaages.
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Probably. Giratina. I usually spent alot of many pokeballs. I think i caught giratina for 1 hour?
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Cressilia was the hardest one to catch for me especially when you have to chase after it lol it just gets frustrating going after her through the whole map I know they have the legendary birds do this in platinum but ill catch them eventually so as cressilia I have one from diamond so im going for my next one
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there is no " hardest legedery pokemon to chatch" from my point of view,
they all got a catch rate of 3 which makes them different from everyone else, so they are all hard to catch, its all about luck (but for some reason they made dialga and parkia ridiculously easy to catch in platinum, with a catch rate of 30!! equal to a chatot) but to be honest the hardest one was uxie, i dont know why but it took me 3 day to catch it |
I see no Mewtwo or Rayquaza. They were a pain because they could actually hurt me.
Mesprit and Cresselia I caught in pokeballs. |
My hardest to catch was Azelf. >.<
Three hours at that thing just to get it. |
for it is regigigas for one reason, you HAVE to have the regi's, which arent very helpful, on your team
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I have to say Regigigas in Platinum. that level 1 thing really threw me off, i still haven't caught him yet...
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Giratina I dont know how many times i battled it b4 i finally caught it
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Rotom, because I couldn't use False Swipe on it. xD
Actually, the hardest for me was Cress. Even after I Mean Look + Baton Passed with Umbreon, it took me over 50 Luxury Balls to get it. |
I caught Giratina in 8 Dusk Balls, Azelf in 1 Dusk Ball, Uxie in 1 Dusk Ball, and Mesprit and Cresselia with a Masterball. Didn't feel like bothering with trying to use Mean Look strategy. :/
I didn't get to catch the rest, since I haven't bothered. |
Latias was a pain. The ones that flew around were really hard.
I also hated those freaky blind embryo things (mesprit, azelf, etc.) |
f***ing Cresselia...I was able to catch Diagla, Palkia, Giratina, Uxie, Azelf, Regigigas, & Heatran with Pokeballs (about 20-30 for each one...after a False Swipe & Thunderwave of course), Hell I even tossed a Great Ball at Mespririt and was able to get 'em, but Cresselia >_> I had to use a Master Ball on her...
EDIT: I forgot that I had to use an Icy Wind on Giratina...(I hate it's duel Ghost type) |
as for me giratinia it was too strong
and it kept on using shadow force which wiped out most of my pokemon in 1 hit!! but i managed to chatch it with a great ball |
The hardest legendary to catch for me was Arceus, it took me nearly 500 ultra balls to catch him.
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Rotom- no false swipe and such low level, but easier on Platinum since you could catch before national dex
Giratina- Even when it was frozen at red hp it still would get captured |
Giratina is powerful for me to handle,so i couldn't catch it. DX
And Uxie made me hit my head on the wall. X.x I used like 48 Ultra Balls!And,in the end,i didn't catch it,so it was a waste of time. Regigigas was difficult too,cause i had to fight it with three useless regi's. |
I think it depends on your luck to catch a legendary pokemon. But for me the hardest was Heatran in Pokemon Diamond and Pearl. i took 40 Ultra balls i guess :3 ^^
~Fairytales |
For me it was Giratina. That thing hated me. So many dusk and ultra balls to catch that thing at like 3 HP.
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I remember trying to catch Giritina. Somehow my gyrados managed to freeze him or something like that, then I ran out of pokeballs (shame on me). Then I tried burning for lack of a pokemon to put him to sleep. After trying that to an almost successful point... I decided to catch a gloom (I think) After putting him to sleep I caught him right away.
As for azelf It kept using uproar and nasty plot-that is what killed me. To this day I refuse to try catching it on Pt. |
for me giratina, without doubt
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Mesprit is a little bit hard. But Cresselia is much harder. I almost spent 1 hour for catching these Lunar Pokemon ~_~.
~Fairytales. |
For me (and sure for many others) roaming Pokemon are always and again hard to catch. Because even when you trap them with Wobbuffet' Shadow Tag or Mean Look, they are hard to catch and then, piece for piece, they will defeat your Wobbuffet or your Pokemon with Mean Look.
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Giratina. Azelf used to give me a huge problem until I stopped using Ultra Balls on it and started using Dusk Balls.
I always end up using Master Balls on the Roamers just because it's easier. |
Uxie is being a pain in the ass.. even though it's night and I'm using Dust Balls xD
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For me it was Uxie. No matter how many Ultra Balls and Dusk Balls I threw, the stupid thing kept popping out. Espically right before the Poke Ball locks for a successful capture. That happened so many times to me I decided to get one from my friend instead.
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Azelf. It kept useing Nasty Plot on me so its attack was so high it would ko my LV 50 Infernape with Swift. Seriously.
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I've gotten Mesprit near down to half health, I throw a quick ball, Ultra, or a heal ball. When it breaks out, It flees. The next time I encounter it, I'll have a master ball thanks to my Pokemon Emerald.
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According to the legendary one more difficult to capture it is Regigigas.
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For me right now Uxie.IN fact,I'm trying to catch it waiting for other pages of the site to come up.
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Giratina for sure. It's the only legendary in Platinum I used a masterball on. I caught all the roamings in Quick balls (I let them roam around so they wouldn't run out of PP) when I slowly got them all down to one HP with false swipe and to sleep. I caught heatran with a lot of luck, I was wasting some ultra balls on it so I could use a timer ball, and what do you know one caught it! Dialga wasn't the easiest for me to catch, it was being mean. :P But I caught Palkia in a Quick ball.
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out of those legends, heateran, but overall, its mewtwo and latias
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Giratina by a long shot. I was trying to catch it for two hours yesterday in Pearl. It was False Swiped completely, paralyzed, and I was using Dusk Balls. Oh Giratina, you're silly.
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Any of the roaming Pokemon. Take the pain that is a normal legendary battle and add the Pokemon fleeing after one turn and having to search for it again and again and again...
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Azelf, I had like 1 ultra ball left.
And of course the roaming pokémon. |
Giratina.
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It really depends. Mesprite was awful on both my Diamond and my Platinum, but on the latter it took three very long time to catch. Personally, they were both pretty bad if you ask me!
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Azelf ftw, giratina only took 30 ultra balls, 5 dusk balls, and 1 timer ball. If you ask me giratina was easy money
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The lake Pokémon, Cresselia, & Heatran. They were the Pokémon I used the most Ultra Balls & various other types of PokéBalls on. D:
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I really hate Mesprit... It took me about 68 tries to catch it. And Cresselia took me about 15 tries. Those were the hardest for me.
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Mesprit, just because it was a roaming Pokemon
And Giratina in Diamond, it took so many Ultra Balls to get that thing. |
wasn't even a legendary. took 10 dusk balls, 13 timer balls and 20 ultras to get a steelix
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the hardest on my diamond are heatran, giratina, cressilia(i took like 20 times to catch cressialia, heatran like 8 times and giratina 2 times but i caught it after 50 dusk balls) alot people said that azelf was difficult but i think it was easy cos i used 1 quick ball and CAPTURE
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