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View Poll Results: hardest to capture
Zapdos 19 23%
Articuno 30 37%
Moltres 22 27%
Neither 11 13%
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Old July 13th, 2011 (5:03 PM).
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Articuno, probably just my game trolling me because it was my favourite bird and it was always the one i wasted all my balls on >.<
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Old July 13th, 2011 (6:45 PM).
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Articuno and Zapdos were a piece of cake! But MOLTRES! It took me three resets with 99 Ultra Balls to catch it, it was low health and paralyzed, I never want to catch one again...
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Old August 4th, 2011 (7:53 PM).
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Zapdos, because every time i catch it, when i try to sleep or paralyze it, uses thunder wave, detect and with pressure, it's a little annoying.
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They have same catch-rate, but to me Moltres was always hardest to catch for some reason.
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Old August 4th, 2011 (8:41 PM).
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I don't know why, but for me it was Moltres. It was really easy to get down to low health because of Endure, and I just Paralyzed it after that. Yet, it still took at least one reset each time I tried to catch it. It just wouldn't go inside the Poké Ball.
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For me it was Zapdos. I don't know why, it just always broke free.
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Old August 5th, 2011 (11:46 PM).
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Zapdos,not only took me whole lot of Ultra Balls to catch it,but its offensive stats are high and its attack always inflict paralysis on me!
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Old August 6th, 2011 (12:00 AM).
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Moltres, usually. Articuno might run out of PP if it wakes up.

Darn Pressure ability. Thank goodness for Skill Swap.
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Old August 9th, 2011 (1:10 AM).
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Moltres!! >O It scarred my Parasect for life!! Without my Parasect, I couldn't land a single status on it and ended up using up all my balls. (Master Ball was in storage, I never use such balls x/)

Zapdos and Articuno were pretty easy to me. I had Articuno paralyzed with a red health bar after an attack from Jolteon. :) Zapdos was nabbed swiftly when Parasect gave a good Spore (that didn't miss for once! XD)
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Old August 9th, 2011 (3:10 AM).
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I would have to go with Articuno. Had to use some many ultra balls.
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Old August 9th, 2011 (5:32 AM).
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I used false swipe and sleep powder on all three of them, so none of them were really a huge bother, but for some reason Articuno took a lot longer to catch than the others. If I recall correctly I actually had to reset once or twice on Articuno, which I'm sure I didn't have to for Zapdos or Moltres.
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Old August 9th, 2011 (7:30 AM).
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Moltres. It always takes forever to catch it in whatever game it is in...
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I've always found Articuno a breeze, Zapdos average and Moltres an absolute pain to catch.
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Old August 9th, 2011 (8:02 AM).
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I didn't like navigating the Seafoam Islands for Articuno, but Zapdos was the hardest for me.

I can't remember exact numbers, but it kept breaking out of everything. :<
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Old August 9th, 2011 (9:29 AM).
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I vividly recall my Moltres battle lasting for ages. I don't even know how or why. I just remember using tons of ultra balls, and it like constantly using endure and whatnot.
It was maddening.
Though, in the end, it was mine!
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Old August 12th, 2011 (6:57 AM).
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Articuno was both the hardest to find and the hardest to catch. My gamer's rage that day was not pretty.
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Old August 12th, 2011 (11:10 AM).
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I've always found them to have equal difficulty. It makes sense, since they all have the same catch rate. I catch them by using Thunder Wave, bringing them down to red health, then tossing Ultra Balls.
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Old August 15th, 2011 (5:20 PM).
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I found articuno the hardest considering the fact i can't remember the last time i caught it (i was young but i'm replaying atm.) Zaptos was easy and Moltries was semi-hard to get.
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Old August 15th, 2011 (5:40 PM).
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Articuno was extremely stubborn to catch; the others were fine. I remember spending a good 100+ Ultra balls on it. ;-;
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Articuno was the hardest it made me retreat about 6 times
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I never had a problem with Articuno... I caught it with ~3 Great Balls. Moltres on the other hand...
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Old August 18th, 2011 (9:48 PM).
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Articuno for me because it killed 5 of my pokemon because i didnt bring healing items and just ultra balls. then on my final pokemon charizard i was sure i could just kill it and try again but the game had other plans. you want to know what happened? Sheer Cold happened.i hit ko it attacked first and on the first turn. BAM.i hate Articuno
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Articuno and Zapdos were a piece of cake! But MOLTRES! It took me three resets with 99 Ultra Balls to catch it, it was low health and paralyzed, I never want to catch one again...
I actually started playing Firered again, I got up to Moltres, I froze it and lowered its HP, I caught it with the first Pokeball! :P
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