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プラチナ・ベルリッツ October 30th, 2010 3:38 AM

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

SiReNzZ October 30th, 2010 12:54 PM

I caught Lugia with a Duskball, after using up many Pokéballs & ultra balls.

Blue Nocturne October 30th, 2010 1:14 PM

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.

dyenguard October 30th, 2010 3:07 PM

haha i caught them both with the old fashioned way, with a good toss of the old ultra ball lol

efropg November 3rd, 2010 1:11 PM

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

Musician of Literature November 3rd, 2010 1:57 PM

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)

mrunner4home November 3rd, 2010 2:28 PM

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)

AntiZero November 3rd, 2010 5:32 PM

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

vinylscratchp0n3 November 3rd, 2010 5:32 PM

I caught Ho-Oh in a Fast Ball. It doesn't run away in battle, I wonder why it worked?

unique sound November 4th, 2010 1:55 PM

i used an ultra ball caught it on my 5th ball :D

Skylands November 4th, 2010 5:37 PM

The infamous Masterball. I cloned it several times to make obtaining the legendaries a smooth process.

M4 November 4th, 2010 7:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Skylands (Post 6269453)
The infamous Masterball. I cloned it several times to make obtaining the legendaries a smooth process.

"Satoshi Tajiri wants to smack the **** out of your Nintendo DS!"

GOG TOXIC November 4th, 2010 9:07 PM

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

Porygon Z November 4th, 2010 11:03 PM

Lugia - Dusk Ball
Ho-oh - Timer Ball? (I don't remember now)

Ho-Oh November 6th, 2010 6:57 AM

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~

shadowmoon November 7th, 2010 5:30 PM

all the legendaries i caught so far was with dusk balls. saving my masterball for mewtwo ^^

xPsychosocial November 8th, 2010 1:14 PM

I think I used an Ultra Ball, I'm going to restart my game so I'll probably try using Pokéballs this time. :P

DAWJ November 8th, 2010 1:57 PM

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!

Pyrax November 8th, 2010 1:57 PM

Amazingly enough, I caught Lugia with a pokeball and Ho-Oh with a dusk ball. :p

chiperoo November 9th, 2010 2:24 AM

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.

Bliss23 November 9th, 2010 11:14 AM

Caught Ho-Oh with an Ultra-ball at the 3rd try :b What aa luck :D

Chaltier November 9th, 2010 11:52 AM

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.

インフェルノの津波 November 28th, 2010 12:50 PM

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

dragonite149 November 28th, 2010 1:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by インフェルノの津波 (Post 6314084)
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

I caught Lugia in a Dusk Ball, and the second one at that XD! It had about 23% of its Hit points, and no statuses. I must be lucky. Or I was playing SS.
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.

DialgaDiamond November 28th, 2010 2:10 PM

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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