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View Poll Results: What was your hardest legendary to catch?
Giratina 105 36%
Mesprit 115 40%
Heatran 52 18%
Dialga 11 4%
Palkia 6 2%
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Old November 19th, 2008 (1:22 PM).
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Old November 19th, 2008 (1:25 PM).
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The hardest thing for me to catch was Mespirit.
It kept running away!
For some reason Cresselia was easier though.
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Old November 19th, 2008 (1:27 PM).
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dratini cause its like 5 % chance
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Giratina for me. Took me about 2-3 hours (on and off) to get it, and it usually doesn't take me that long to catch a legendary. ~_~
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My hardest was Giritina, I had no Masterballs and after throwing at least 40 Ultra and 15 Dusk, I caught it with a Luxury ball after throwing 10 of them.
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Well...

- Giratina has a catch rate of 3.
- Mesprit has a catch rate of 3.
- Heatran has a catch rate of 3.
- Dialga has a catch rate of 30.
- Palkia has a catch rate of 30.

So technically, Gir., Mes., and Heat. should be equally difficult to capture. Funny thing to note is that Dialga's/Palkia's catch rate is equivalent to Chatot's catch rate... haha. Based on the capture circumstances, however, I'd have to go with Mesprit. It flees from battle right away unless there is some factor used to lock it in/Quick Ball is able to catch it first try.
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Old November 21st, 2008 (6:11 PM).
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Old November 21st, 2008 (9:42 PM).
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I always kept atleast 45 ultra balls and that was my habit from fire red and i cannot carry more than that and the pokemon that refuses 45 balls then I usually reset my console bcoz then it will be caught in less than that but the difficult was azelf to catch i had to reset my console 14 times and it took 2 days to catch
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Hello there. Since the basics of my knowledge, the hardest Pokemon there is that will be hard to catch is Giratina because you just can tell by looking at catch rate on serebii.
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Admittedly, I found Cresselia kind of the hardest to catch. It runs all over the map, unlike most other legendaries, (Groudon, Mewtwo, Dialga, e.t.c.) and it's really bulky. That means you have to find it, and then proceed to hammer it with all you've got. Cresselia has base 120 / 130 / 130 defenses, while Mesprit has 80 / 105 / 105, so no lol.
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Hello there. Since the basics of my knowledge, the hardest Pokemon there is that will be hard to catch is Giratina because you just can tell by looking at catch rate on serebii.
It is one of the hardest. Its catch rate is equal to Mesprit and Heatran as stated via my last post. Now, looking at the bigger picture (beyond the poll options):

- Articuno/Zapdos/Moltres have a catch rate of 3.
- Mewtwo has a catch rate of 3.
- Mew has a catch rate of 45.
- Raikou/Entei/Suicune have a catch rate of 3.
- Lugia/Ho-oh have a catch rate of 3.
- Celebi has a catch rate of 45.
- Regirock/Regice/Registeel have a catch rate of 3.
- Latias/Latios have a catch rate of 3.
- Kyogre/Groudon have a catch rate of 5.
- Rayquaza has a catch rate of 3.
- Jirachi has a catch rate of 3.
- Deoxys/A/D/S have a catch rate of 3.
- Uxie/Azelf have a catch rate of 3.
- Regigigas has a catch rate of 3.
- Cresselia has a catch rate of 3.
- Phione has a catch rate of 30.
- Manaphy has a catch rate of 3.
- Darkrai has a catch rate of 3.
- Shaymin/S have a catch rate of 45.
- Arceus has a catch rate of 3.

Looking at this data along with my prior data, I'd have to conclude that Cresselia is harder to catch than Mesprit based not only the capture circumstances, but the fact that Cresselia has higher HP/Def/Sp.Def as noted by Lalapizzame. And yes, I realize that not all of these Poke's are not (yet) catchable/obtainable. Btw, these are just the catch rate's of legendaries (some pseudo) - IIRC, Dratini, Larvitar, Bagon, and Gible have catch rates's of 45, making them as hard to catch as Mew, Celebi, and Shaymin/S.
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I had some serious trouble with Azelf. Even though it didn't attempt to flee, I wasted the biggest amount of Ultra Balls I've ever used on one Pokémon on it. Didn't really help how I was low on Ultra Balls after catching Uxie, not having bothered to restock and how I caught it before attempting the Elite 4, with my strongest Pokémon being at Level 70 or so.

I seriously don't know why, Azelf's catch rate is the same as that of many other legendaries. I just happened to have some terrible luck.

Out of the poll options, Mesprit. It was my last legendary to be captured, and for a good reason.
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Mesprit! Damn thing kept running away! And my brother was yelling at me so it made it harder!
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Old November 25th, 2008 (2:12 AM).
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Heatran... you wank!! j/k :D

Dailga is heck easy to catch :cool:
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The hardest Pokemon for me to catch which wasn't a Legendary was Beldum. Whenever I went to the area where they would swarm, I'd chuck a ton of Ultra and Timer Balls at them, but to no avail... even when their health is RED!!! RED!!! They would always die on me after, either due to their Take Down attack or when they're forced to use Struggle.

You can imagine the amount of cursing and hair ripping I went through trying to catch the little *cough*
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I second Beldum as a difficult non-Legendary.

As for Legendaries that I've caught, I went through the most Ultra and Dusk Balls with Regigigas. The fact that three of my party members were lv. 40 Regis from Hoenn did not help matters.

Cresellia continues to elude me... I have yet to encounter the thing in the wild, much less chuck a Quick Ball at it...
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I think Mesprit was the hardest, only because it runs away after one move.
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Mesprit IMo, its catch rate of 3 and the fact that it runs around the whole region makes it hard to catch.
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Not sure. Either Giratina or Dialga. Oh wait, it was Azelf. Stupid little bugger.
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mine would have to be a Pacharisu in Diamond i took six pokeballs at IIRC 15 hp

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Beldum is the hardest damn thing to catch in D/P. It has the same catch rate as the hardest legendaries (3) and the damn things keep killing themselves with take down. And if you try Ghosts, it often runs out of Take Downs before you catch it and still kills itself with Struggle.
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I thought that Girantina was hard to catch. It took me five tries.Heatran was easiest to me, it only took 2 Ultra Balls.
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I'd have to say that Mesprit was the hardest to capture from that list. The fact that it is a runaway Pokemon always annoyed me, and even after you trap it you still have to battle it. Capture it with Ultra Balls instead of what I usually use to catch legends (dusk balls). It's pretty hard.
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