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Zelda May 26th, 2009 4:46 PM

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.

Gusxx1 May 26th, 2009 4:48 PM

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.

templekeeper May 26th, 2009 4:50 PM

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-

Mages4ever May 26th, 2009 5:00 PM

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.

Mōnštȝr¿ May 26th, 2009 5:01 PM

Heatran.
In Diamond it took me over 300 Ultra balls no joke. o.O

Zelda May 26th, 2009 5:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ochitsuite (Post 4681583)
Heatran.
In Diamond it took me over 300 Ultra balls no joke. o.O

That sure is a lot. It was pretty easy for me to catch Heatran, but it was a bit hard.

Cresselia was very hard to catch as well because of how it just kept moving all over the place, just like Mesprit.

Mōnštȝr¿ May 26th, 2009 5:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ~Morning Bliss~ (Post 4681593)
That sure is a lot. It was pretty easy for me to catch Heatran, but it was a bit hard.

Cresselia was very hard to catch as well because of how it just kept moving all over the place, just like Mesprit.

lol.
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. ^^

i1337 May 26th, 2009 5:16 PM

you should add zapdos, moltres, and articuno to this list

EDIT: oh and regice, regirock, and registeel lol

sirboulevard May 26th, 2009 5:19 PM

I think the Birds win this. So hard now.

Zelda May 26th, 2009 5:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by i1337 (Post 4681645)
you should add zapdos, moltres, and articuno to this list

EDIT: oh and regice, regirock, and registeel lol

Well I didn't want to list every single one, so I put Other instead. You should look back and check and you'll see it there.

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.

PokemonFanatic2 May 26th, 2009 5:43 PM

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.

Breaker May 26th, 2009 5:58 PM

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.

Beloved May 26th, 2009 6:02 PM

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....

Nnoitra Jiruga May 26th, 2009 6:16 PM

Giratina origin forme. Omygosh. I had it's HP to like...a millimeter. I used about 40 Ultra Balls. >.>

Kotone May 26th, 2009 6:26 PM

azlef &+ mespirit.
uxie was easy xD

The Red Chain May 26th, 2009 8:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Twilight Sky (Post 4681509)
Azelf.

>________>

I'm still taking the risk of attempting to get a shiny Azelf. It's fun. XD

Tell me about it, it took me almost an hour to catch that evil little pixie.. thank heaven for Timer Balls. >_>
That said, my answer is Azelf as well.

Quote:

Originally Posted by xxkaylabby (Post 4681903)
uxie was easy xD

5 Dusk Balls before capture for me. ;D

Fallujah May 26th, 2009 9:08 PM

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.

rnstyip May 26th, 2009 11:54 PM

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

Alexithymia~ May 27th, 2009 12:00 AM

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!

Jollyrancher May 27th, 2009 12:06 AM

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

Ryanniny May 27th, 2009 12:10 AM

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)

rainbow May 27th, 2009 12:10 AM

Cresellia By Far, In Platinum ,Still Havent Caght It After A Month

Sweet Jasmine May 27th, 2009 12:42 AM

Giratina :3 Even i used many Ultra Balls still won't.. But i prayed.. Then Boom!.. Caught :3

-Yasumin

joelogs May 27th, 2009 2:18 AM

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.

Imagine. May 27th, 2009 9:46 AM

It had to be Mesprit/Cresseilia for me. Pretty annoying pokémon...

Zelda May 27th, 2009 1:34 PM

Regigigas was really hard to catch for me. It probably took me around thirty ultra balls just for me to finally catch it.

Tinhead Bruce May 27th, 2009 3:12 PM

They were all equally easy. Most of them have a catch rate of 3, so yeah.

SooHee May 27th, 2009 3:15 PM

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

Lt_Nite May 27th, 2009 5:51 PM

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

sez1992 May 27th, 2009 7:45 PM

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)

LoversEnd May 27th, 2009 7:58 PM

haha definitley mesprit took quite a while for me to catch

shaymin dude May 27th, 2009 9:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ~Morning Bliss~ (Post 4681495)
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.

mine too main because i didnt want to use the master ball on them

kissing. raindrops May 27th, 2009 9:16 PM

For me it would probably be Uxie. He was hard to catch.

Jas_66 May 27th, 2009 10:33 PM

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!

iCeDrAgOn01 May 28th, 2009 1:32 PM

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 :[

Inferno1 May 28th, 2009 9:47 PM

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

Missingno Baby May 28th, 2009 9:49 PM

When I was younger, I always raged in frustration from 'runners'.

Talk about PITA.

Raykon May 28th, 2009 9:53 PM

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.

RYOUKI May 28th, 2009 10:31 PM

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. ;;

Dark--Pikachu May 29th, 2009 12:24 AM

Heatran, no questions asked.

Zelda May 29th, 2009 9:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SooHee (Post 4685356)
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

I don't know why but Azelf is hard to catch. I believe it's because it uses Nasty Plot a lot but I am not sure. Even Uxie was a bit easier to catch than Azelf.

Snerd May 29th, 2009 10:30 AM

I struggled really hard with Heatran. I kept using all my Ultra Balls or defeating it by accident. T_T

~*!*~Tatsujin Gosuto~*!*~ May 29th, 2009 5:30 PM

stupid dumb Cresselia and stupid dumb Mespirt. Those stupid dumb things, they always run away


:t354:TG

Wonderskitty May 30th, 2009 2:16 PM

Darkrai cos it can turn into a shadow before you catch it.I think...

MikeSalZap May 30th, 2009 4:18 PM

it haves to be mesprit i can even find it yet on my platinum

jigglyppuff8 May 30th, 2009 4:21 PM

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.

Calvo819 May 30th, 2009 4:29 PM

giratina was easy as hell.

ultra ball, i used fake out over and ovre, then Hypnosis

cheese rox! May 30th, 2009 4:30 PM

Cresselia. I used my masterball on Mesprit, then Cresselia was the hardest to catch before it ran.

Primal_Dialga May 30th, 2009 4:44 PM

heatran was annoying, but azlef was a pest too.

Ayano Hana May 30th, 2009 4:59 PM

Giratina or Mesprit. I threw approximately 40 Dusk Balls at each, and they kept breaking out. It got frustrating after awhile.

deliriouspurple May 31st, 2009 4:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mages4ever (Post 4681577)
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.

LOL yes, I've got tired catching them and spend my money on dusk balls/ultra balls/etc...

.Ozymandias May 31st, 2009 5:06 AM

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...

Pokerad May 31st, 2009 5:15 AM

I think it was Giratina, for mesprit i did only have to use 1 quick ball!!!

OokamiShipper May 31st, 2009 9:11 AM

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

Ayselipera May 31st, 2009 9:18 AM

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.

andyb9274 May 31st, 2009 9:36 AM

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

Jimmyray May 31st, 2009 9:45 AM

Regigigas for me, took aaaages.

Isabelle May 31st, 2009 10:13 AM

Probably. Giratina. I usually spent alot of many pokeballs. I think i caught giratina for 1 hour?

titodsik1 May 31st, 2009 10:24 AM

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

redragon94 May 31st, 2009 11:05 AM

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

Justout May 31st, 2009 1:50 PM

I see no Mewtwo or Rayquaza. They were a pain because they could actually hurt me.

Mesprit and Cresselia I caught in pokeballs.

Cold Fusion May 31st, 2009 1:58 PM

My hardest to catch was Azelf. >.<
Three hours at that thing just to get it.

Cardwell74 June 3rd, 2009 4:05 PM

for it is regigigas for one reason, you HAVE to have the regi's, which arent very helpful, on your team

Shem June 3rd, 2009 4:35 PM

I have to say Regigigas in Platinum. that level 1 thing really threw me off, i still haven't caught him yet...

SPEEDIE June 3rd, 2009 4:42 PM

Giratina I dont know how many times i battled it b4 i finally caught it

§ June 3rd, 2009 4:42 PM

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.

Yuuko June 3rd, 2009 5:09 PM

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.

Zetsu_69 June 3rd, 2009 7:46 PM

Latias was a pain. The ones that flew around were really hard.
I also hated those freaky blind embryo things (mesprit, azelf, etc.)

KnilShadowLink June 4th, 2009 3:27 PM

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)

dragonarche June 4th, 2009 8:02 PM

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

Fire Eagle June 4th, 2009 9:47 PM

The hardest legendary to catch for me was Arceus, it took me nearly 500 ultra balls to catch him.

Wings Don't Cry June 4th, 2009 10:19 PM

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

Ray Maverick June 4th, 2009 11:13 PM

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.

Alec_ June 5th, 2009 6:16 AM

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

Giraffes? Giraffes! June 5th, 2009 6:20 AM

For me it was Giratina. That thing hated me. So many dusk and ultra balls to catch that thing at like 3 HP.

a.new.bent June 5th, 2009 6:22 AM

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.

gblbf June 5th, 2009 8:07 AM

for me giratina, without doubt

Alec_ June 6th, 2009 1:29 AM

Mesprit is a little bit hard. But Cresselia is much harder. I almost spent 1 hour for catching these Lunar Pokemon ~_~.

~Fairytales.

TERRA#493 June 6th, 2009 7:29 AM

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.

Pikadance14 June 6th, 2009 7:32 AM

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.

Intuition June 7th, 2009 6:45 AM

Uxie is being a pain in the ass.. even though it's night and I'm using Dust Balls xD

Sweet Candace June 7th, 2009 9:26 AM

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.

kevinkjb81 June 7th, 2009 9:50 AM

Azelf. It kept useing Nasty Plot on me so its attack was so high it would ko my LV 50 Infernape with Swift. Seriously.

Burzes June 7th, 2009 10:15 AM

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.

Sebastien Loeb June 7th, 2009 10:53 AM

According to the legendary one more difficult to capture it is Regigigas.

Blaziquaza June 7th, 2009 5:43 PM

For me right now Uxie.IN fact,I'm trying to catch it waiting for other pages of the site to come up.

AmazingPiplup June 8th, 2009 4:45 PM

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.

NoMasterBallsNeeded4Legends June 8th, 2009 4:50 PM

out of those legends, heateran, but overall, its mewtwo and latias

nightwish June 9th, 2009 1:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ~Morning Bliss~ (Post 4681495)
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.

i would say asseas, ho ho, and shadow lugia

.little monster June 9th, 2009 1:29 PM

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.

"Shadow Lugia" June 9th, 2009 1:30 PM

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...

Pyrax June 9th, 2009 1:36 PM

Azelf, I had like 1 ultra ball left.
And of course the roaming pokémon.

Elena June 10th, 2009 2:35 PM

Giratina.
Fillllllllllllller

Skitty19 June 10th, 2009 5:17 PM

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!

AuburnTigers June 10th, 2009 5:46 PM

Azelf ftw, giratina only took 30 ultra balls, 5 dusk balls, and 1 timer ball. If you ask me giratina was easy money

SparklingMistral June 10th, 2009 5:51 PM

The lake Pokémon, Cresselia, & Heatran. They were the Pokémon I used the most Ultra Balls & various other types of PokéBalls on. D:

JaggedMan June 10th, 2009 6:11 PM

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.

JoltIce June 10th, 2009 6:26 PM

Mesprit, just because it was a roaming Pokemon

And Giratina in Diamond, it took so many Ultra Balls to get that thing.

whodathunk June 10th, 2009 6:38 PM

wasn't even a legendary. took 10 dusk balls, 13 timer balls and 20 ultras to get a steelix

Pikachuuu June 10th, 2009 8:00 PM

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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