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Lugia was easy to catch for me, I just used an Ultra Ball. Ho-Oh, however, took forever and I ended up giving up and just using my Master Ball after my 2948329743rd reset.
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I Was On Fire!
I had to use my Master Ball :disappoin. I raised an entire team of Feraligatr, Pidgeot, Ninetales, Espeon, Forretress, and Nidoking. They were all only in their early thirties by the time I got to the Whirl Islands, and Lugia was tearing through them. I decided I wasn't going to be catching it without serious amounts of luck, so I just used my Master Ball on it.
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Lugia - Like 5hp, paralyzed, and like 10 dusk balls
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Lugia- Asleep, 1hp and like a thousand dusk balls xD
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Used a Master Ball. It's just too hard to catch.
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Ho-oh was a pain to catch, used god knows how many ultra balls and a few resets before finally catching it.
As for Lugia, it was strangely very easy. Paralysed, down to little HP, caught with about 3-4 heavy balls. |
I do not have Pokemon HeartGold Version yet, but I plan to catch both Lugia and Ho-oh with Master Balls, as I designate the usage of them for the mascot legendaries (sans Suicune, who I will probably catch with either a Fast Ball or an Ultra Ball, the latter of which I reserve for the trios).
Plus, the Master Ball release animation in Generation III looked epic IMO: a grand, triumphant shower of stars. Fitting for a powerful legendary Pokemon. :D :t249: :t250: |
Ho-oh was one of the hardest Pokemon to catch in my whole life as a Pokemon trainer: I tried it like twenty times (without the accidental faints) and although I had it down to like 5 hp everytime, it never wanted to stay in my Ultra Balls and just ended up beating itself with Struggle every singe try...^^ Then, mad as I was (was a hard day for me before when I tried it), I just threw my Master Ball!^^
Lugia was quite the opposite: I weakened it like I did it with Ho-oh but unlike Ho-oh, it stayed in the fifth Dusk Ball... And I used to think capturing Lugia will be hell after that with Ho-oh...^^ It's really strange, it seems to be like that with lots of guys here in the thread... Wonder why... |
i used gyardos to use waterfall hooh down to abot less than 10 4 ultraballs and whatcha i caught him
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Masterball, I was in a rush!
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Ultraball. I still have a Masterball. I'll trade it if someone wants it.
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I have HG, so Ho-Oh came first.
Ho-Oh: Ultra Ball (burned through many of them) Lugia: Dusk Ball Now, I have a friend who had great luck using a Heavy Ball on Lugia as well. |
I have HG. For Ho-oH I used the Master Ball. For Lugia I used Dusk Ball when he was about half health
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I always gotta catch my pokemon with normal pokeball its just a habbit i don't use any of the other balls
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Always try to use different Pokeballs to catch the legendaries, especially the Game's mascot. I have Heart Gold, but I knocked out Ho-oH during our first battle. I captured it later after beating the Elite Four, using the Master Ball (even through, it was at 1 HP, paralyzed, under the effects of Atraction and after 3 or 4 Flashes from my Hypno. But I got out of Dusk Balls and Ultra Balls).
As for Lugia, I came much more loaded (hundreds of pokeballs. Many types xD). Ended up catching it with Heavy Ball, but I was pretty afraid. Had only 5 more Heavy balls and then I would have to use Heal Balls. FUUUUU, that was close xD |
I tried getting my ho-oh and wasted all my great,ultra,heavy,love,quick,fast and even net and nest balls.
I swear i used about 40 balls. Then my little brother comes, throws 1 premier ball and then the catchy caught song comes up What the Heck!! |
Caught Ho-Oh using an Ultra Ball on the second try.
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I always use ultraballs for the legendaries..too lazy/impatient to try one of the more complicated pokeballs.
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since I play most often at night, I use dusk balls on all legendaries and weak wild pokemon in kanto
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I tend to use Ultra Balls when catching legendaries on any game (Mewtwo with Ultra Ball on Red = Win).
Ho-oh was captured with an Ultra Ball as usual. Lugia, however, was captured in a Nest Ball. Yeah, try and explain that one. :\ |
For Lugia only one Ultra Ball and for Ho-oh seven.
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Fast ball for Ho-oh!
Dusk ball for Lugia! That took me a ridiculously long time... |
Lugia: Master Ball
Ho-oh: Ultra Ball |
Master ball for Lugia. It may have been wasted (better used for Mewtwo?), but meh. I didn't care enough to try.
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For Ho-oh I caught it in a fast ball (I think), for Lugia I just 50 ultra balls and caught it on number 39 or summit, Kyogre took ages but I eventually got it in a heavy ball, Raiku and Entei both in ultra balls, Mewtwo in the master ball and I have caught Latias yet.
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First try on Lugia 50+ ultra balls and I failed to catch it and it eventually fainted due to struggle. >:(
But on my second try, I caught it with my first ultra ball. Yay! :D |
I caught Lugia with a Duskball, after using up many Pokéballs & ultra balls.
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I caught Lugia with a Dive Ball and Ho-Oh with a Luxury Ball. I tried to go with balls that fit their colour scheme and general appearance. I failed in Ho-Oh's case, in the end I went for a Luxury ball to compliment Ho-Oh's grand-ish appearance.
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haha i caught them both with the old fashioned way, with a good toss of the old ultra ball lol
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i caught them both in dusk balls since my 30 ultraballs didnt work on anyone
and im having a little trouble catching entei and raiku i hate them for fleeing such cowards |
A video on youtube inspired me to try capturing all of the legendaries with Poke Balls. I have captured Mewtwo, Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres, the Regi Trio, Kyogre, and Rayquaza with Pokeballs.
I caught Lugia and Suicune with Pokeballs, and Ho-oh with an ultra ball (Grr, that guy was so annoying) |
I caught ho-oh in a luxury ball after a couple of times throwing a quick ball then luxury ball and resetting if it didn't work (only a couple!)
I caught entei and suicune with quick balls, using a total of eight for both (weakening them and putting them to sleep, then letting them escape, then throwing balls on next encounter) in diamond (want to mention this because this is when I realized the awesomeness of quick balls) I used a quick ball for dialga. only one. no resetting. .................................. in my opinion, poke balls, great balls,and ultra balls are stupid, when it comes to hard-to-catch pokemon. you need so many of them, and so much time is wasted. quick balls are far more efficient, the best if you're willing to reset a few times. and they're especially good for roamers. and so are other balls, like (to my surprise, I didn't think this would work for ho-oh, at full health) the luxury ball. then there's the heavy ball and the timer ball and etc... but ultra balls: no. a waste in game memory, imo (well maybe not, they're ok for regular wild pokemon, but you get what I mean) |
I bought about 40 Dusk Balls to catch Lugia with, but I ended up catching it on the 2nd ball. O_o'
For Ho-oh, I think I got SUPER lucky when catching it. After getting it down to 1HP with False Swipe, I put it asleep and threw about 7 Ultra Balls before I decided to try something else. I threw a Premier Ball at it and caught it. :D |
I caught Ho-Oh in a Fast Ball. It doesn't run away in battle, I wonder why it worked?
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i used an ultra ball caught it on my 5th ball :D
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The infamous Masterball. I cloned it several times to make obtaining the legendaries a smooth process.
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I buy about a thousand pokeballs and just keep throwing them. Caught giratina with one at full health
Lugia and Ho-Oh I caught with pokeballs |
Lugia - Dusk Ball
Ho-oh - Timer Ball? (I don't remember now) |
Pretty sure I used a Great Ball. I remember I caught Ho-Oh during the song "I Made It", so I named the Ho-Oh "Success". XD; I didn't really wanna catch it cause I enjoyed the cutscene, though. Lugia, I can't really remember, though probably a Great Ball, too, because I hate using Ultra Balls and I wouldn't waste a Master Ball on it~
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all the legendaries i caught so far was with dusk balls. saving my masterball for mewtwo ^^
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I think I used an Ultra Ball, I'm going to restart my game so I'll probably try using Pokéballs this time. :P
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I caught mine with an ultra ball. Though in the original silver I caught ho-Oh with the first pokeball I threw. I was so happy!
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Amazingly enough, I caught Lugia with a pokeball and Ho-Oh with a dusk ball. :p
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I caught Lugia with a masterball. (I still dont know why I did that) I got lucky and caught Ho-Oh with a great ball. I had thrown every other ball I had and was like D= but it worked.
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Caught Ho-Oh with an Ultra-ball at the 3rd try :b What aa luck :D
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I caught them both with Heavy Ball.
I try not to catch anything with the master ball. >.> I save it for harder-to-catch things later in the game. |
My thread still lives?! XD.
Um, I just captured Lugia with a Heavy Ball. It. Was. HARD DX. That thing would not stay in, even after being super weak from False Swipe and being asleep. WHAT'S GOING ON HERE. It took me an hour :o |
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Oh, I caught Entei in a Ultra Ball, and Raikou in a Dusk Ball. I'd tell ya 'bout my legends on pearl, but this thread is'nt in that section. |
After paralyzing it (and it seemed like it was on it's last HP) and throwing ball after ball after ball and i could never get Lugia. I was soft reseting for a while and after maybe the 20th time i just said, 'screw this,' and used the Masterball. I have no perseverance. =/
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Shiny Ho-oh in an ultra ball. I wish I would've used a fast ball or something though....
I haven't taken the time to try for shiny lugia yet |
After many restarts, I captured Ho-oh with a love ball. Which makes really no sense seeing as it doesn't have a gender, but.. okay?
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I just got Lugia, Entei, and Raikou in Dusk Balls in the last half hour, all on pretty low HP but no statuses. Considering I spent about 4 hours today trying to catch the latter two, I just threw a dusk ball at each of them in the next encounter after I got Lugia and caught them :|
Go figure. |
Soul silver - throw around 10 ultra balls then 2,3 premier balls..i caught mewtwo just 3 or 4 ultra balls...lucky..
Heart gold - throw 8 ultra balls, 6 premier balls then 1 master ball.... |
Yeah Mewtwo has always been around 3-7 in all Pokemon games. But i caught My Ho-oh with an Ultra ball on like the 10th throw after restarting twice. It was such a relief.
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master ball to lugia... I was in a hurry but I wanted to catch it so I threw a master ball.
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Ultra Ball Lugia
Ultra Ball Ho-oh Ultra Ball Mewtwo Quickball Entei Quickball Raikou Pokeball Suicune Masterball Latios |
Used Mew on lugia, down to ounce, ultra ball POOF! Caught.
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I used a bunch of ultra balls and great balls, and caught it in an Ultra Ball.
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I catch all my legends in premier balls.
I like the release animation. |
Ultra Ball XD Typical. Used my Master Ball on a Shiny Moltres I found.
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I used a Master Ball for Ho-Oh. 8D / lazy
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An Ultra Ball on Lugia. And it was only my second one.
As for Ho-oh, It struggled itself to death the first time. The second time, I caught it with an Ultra Ball, on the 20 something try. |
I cheated master balls and hence used them like hell on every Pokemon. XD So yeah, I caught both Lugia and Ho-Oh with Master balls.
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I think I went into the battle at night and used lots and lots of Dusk Balls for Ho-Oh. As for Lugia, well, since it's in a cave... Dusk Balls all the way!
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I used a ultra ball for Ho-Oh. Haven't captured Lugia yet.
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I've caught all of my legendaries legit with just an Ultra Ball. I still have my 1 Master Ball!! xD
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I caught Ho-oh in a Heal Ball
and was lazy and just used the Masterball on Lugia |
I got tired of Lugia popping out of my Ultra and apicorn balls, so I just threw my Master Ball at it because I did not want to leave the Whirl Islands just to get 80 more balls to then run back to get more because stupid Lugia does not want to stay inside of its ball
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A pokeball.. I always use pokeballs c8 I like the challenge xD And I'm cheap as heck >x> I just thunder punched lugia with my ampharos and it went down to like.. 10hp and got paralyzed and I caught it after 5 or 6 pokeballs.
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Timer balls ^.^ Always catch my legendaries in them
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I caught the best Pokemon ever, A.K.A. Ho-Oh, in a Master Ball, it just DESTROYED my team. So I hadno choice. Lugia? I killed him in one shot with my Ho-Oh's Thunder XD. One less Lugia to deal with.
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I caught Lugia with a Master ball. I went after Ho-Oh later on and had caught it with a Ultra ball. Ho-Oh was annoying to catch though.
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Just caught Lugia with 2 ultra balls. His HP was just barely in the red too.
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caught Ho-oh with a timerball
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Caught Lugia in hg!
So get this i caught lugia in hg with one poke ball!! Anyone else have this kinda luck (also to find luglia in hg go to whirlpool islands first then look up the rest online srry cant remember off the top of my head) Lugia is level 70 it knows safeguard,aeroblast,punishment,and ancient power.You might also want to bring a fast pokemon that can paralyze,poison,or make it sleep ;)
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^Well we have a thread asking what ball one used to catch Lugia/Ho-oh, so merged yours with that one.
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pokeball after my... 59th try? for lugia. As for ho-ho, 21st/22nd(cannot remember) try?
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Yeah, I SR'd for shiny Lugia. Only took about a week. But, I failed to realize I was low on good moves to use on it and Poke Balls. So, well, go Master Ball! Not happening for Suicune, though.
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I caught them both with ultra balls very annoying
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9 ultra balls for lugia
??? ultra balls for ho-oh |
luxury ball :D I hate using ultra balls on legendaries, they're such a waste. quick balls are usually the best but I threw a quick ball at ho oh and it didn't catch. so I threw a luxury for the heck of it and it was caught. **full health
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Heavy ball for Lugia. Ultra ball for Ho-oh. Ho-oh took only 3 tries too. :]
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I used a MASTER BALL on Ho-oh. I don't mind, I don't care, and the following paragraphs will explain why:
You see, I bought HeartGold because of the new breeding mechanic that helps in IV Breeding. I told myself that once I beat the Elite Four, I'll start breeding. I really wanted to get my Water Team ready as soon as possible, especially since I stopped breeding for a few months so that I could go wait for HeartGold. ... Sure, when I played HeartGold, I took my time. I rushed Gold version back then, so I wanted to savor the adventure this time with HeartGold. I even spent some time trying out that card flip game in the game corner. Managed to get to the highest level, I think. But anyway, I lost all my patience when I got to Ho-oh. Seriously, it wouldn't stay inside the ball! So there. I used that Master Ball on him. Do I care? No. I've kept my patience ever since I started the game. Using that Master Ball was a small price to pay for everlasting sanity. Did I ever finish breeding my Water Team? Yeah. Pretty much. (Now, if only the 5th Gen came later... But oh well...) |
I was lazy and used a Masterball. I also didn't soft-reset. I like Ho-oh as it is.
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I catch them with a plain Poké Ball. I just paralyzed it, dwindled its HP to red, and reduced its accuracy. I don't soft-reset for a shiny and I don't plan on using a legendary in any battle.
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I was lazy, just used the Master Ball on Ho-oh, and I think I caught Lugia in an Ultra Ball.
I have never soft reset to get a shiny legendary... I wish I had the patience to though. |
The first time, I caught Ho-oh in a great ball, second time, I just used a master ball because I was lazy. I caught Lugia in an ultra, because it was a higher level for me than Ho-oh.
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I used Masterball on Lugia, but I've not used any ball for Ho-oh.. I can't catch the damned thing..
What a wretched Pokemon. |
Master Ball since I hate it how you are forced to battle it, and forgot about the rematch thing and just wanted to get to the e4 asap.
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i tried using my ultra balls but i got too sick of waiting and used a master ball instead. i reset the game like 10 over times trying to get lugia wasting about 1hr
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A large amount of Pokeballs as I was being too cheap to buy others. Haha.
Probably was more than 50 Pokeballs trying to catch Lugia. |
I got Lugia with a Masterball, and Ho-oh with a Great Ball.
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I caught my lugia in SS recently with a pokeball, YES A POKEBALL. I literally just went down the list of different "balls" after I ran out of ultra and luckily I caught one with a pokeball.
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I didn't feel like any long battles and caught them both in Master Balls
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caught a Bold Lugia in a Master Ball level 40 or 45 whichever it is the 1st encounter. the Master Ball seemed like a good idea at the time... at the time hehe
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Caught Lugia about an hour ago on my first turn using a Heavy Ball ^_^ Was dead happy that I got it on my first turn and without using a Master Ball.
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Um lets see, I used my masterball to catch Ho-oh, the one you get from Professor Elm. Then I cloned a few (alot lol) of masterballs on emerald and transferred them to Heartgold to catch the rest of the legendaries. NO THIS IS NOT CHEATING! It was a legit glitch in emerald. sue me. xD But I did manage to catch Suicune in a great ball!
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in ss i used tons of ultra balls to lugia and then with my first dusk ball he was caught for ho-oh i bought 70 ultra balls but he was caught with fourth or fifth ultra ball
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Let's see I used a Dusk Ball to catch Ho-oh because it was night time and a Heavy Ball to catch Lugia.
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