1st Gen R/B/Y: Mewtwo and the Master Ball Rumor

Started by deoxys121 January 15th, 2012 3:32 PM
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When I was first playing these games, I was young. Thus, I believed silly rumors. I had heard a rumor that it was impossible to catch Mewtwo without the Master Ball. Thus, I always saved it for him. But, when I got into the technical details of the games, I realized Mewtwo is no harder to catch than the Legendary Birds. How about you guys? Did you guys ever hear this rumor, and did you believe it?

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Those are the same people who think pressing a button increases the chance of a capture. They are unaware that both the capture rate is at 3 and that that "method" is farfetched(no pun intended). Little kids believe a lot of stuff, like when we all started out back in 98 playing Red/Blue me and my friends used to believe stuff.

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I never used to think this, my brother and I used to actually think it was easier to catch legendaries in Poké Balls rather than Ultra Balls for some reason. I suppose seeing that you can't trade the Master Ball with Pokémon Stadium, you may as well use it on what is probably the most frustrating Pokémon to catch.

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I heard of this rumour and I think everyone did and believed it at some point because what else would you use the Masterball for?

I always found him easier than the Legendary Birds. For some reason every time I use Ice Beam on him with Articuno he freezes and one Pokeball was all you needed on frozen Pokemon back then.

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I never actually knew that Mewtwo was no harder to catch than the Legendary Birds :O
And no, I haven't heard of such rumors because I've seen people catch Mewtwo with Ultra Balls before (although I always use Master Balls on it, being too lazy to reserve it for the Roaming Legends). But I guess I'll try doing something else: I'll try catching all the legends in FRLG with an Ultra Ball and save my Master Ball for Magikarp.
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When I first heard that, I thought it was really necessary to catch Mewtwo with the Master Ball. Then I read on Bulbapedia that Mewtwo, the Kanto legendary birds, and most other one-of-a-kind legendary Pokémon have the same catch rate, 3 (0.4%), the lowest possible. This means all Pokémon with that low a catch rate are just as equally hard to catch.

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I never heard that before, but I always saved my masterball for mewtwo anyways.

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I didn't hear this rumor, though I do think I saved my Master Ball for him, because I was afraid to even fight it haha. The only rumor I remember regarding Mewtwo was that he was wandering around Cinnabar Mansion, so I remember walking around there a lot, looking for him. And I'd be like "I swear I just saw him float by!" Stupid me. :(
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Those are the same people who think pressing a button increases the chance of a capture.
Waitwaitwaitwaitwaitwait... that didn't work? You mean all those times I was pressing B and Up was just a waste of time? Wow, you really do learn something new every day.

But, no. I never heard of this particular rumour. The only RBY one I heard - and subsequently didn't believe - was the Mew glitch. I guess I assumed Mewtwo would have been really hard to capture (and probably did end up using the Master Ball all those years ago).
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Those are the same people who think pressing a button increases the chance of a capture. They are unaware that both the capture rate is at 3 and that that "method" is farfetched(no pun intended).

I so much believed that pressing the B button gave to a Pokéball the same effect than a Master Ball when I was younger, that now I still do that stupid thing when I catch a Pokémon, by reflex :pink_tongue:

And to answer to the thread, no, I never heard anything about this rumour...
But I heard a lot of other rumours. For example, if you let a Magikarp in the DayCare until it reaches the level 100, the guy would give you a "Pikablu". It's for that reason that when GSC wasn't released in Europa yet, me and some friends were believing that Marill was this famous Pikablu and that the rumour wasn't a lie :pink_smile:
There was also many rumours about ways to get Mew, so many that I don't even remember them ^^'

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lol. Back then, I used to do that "turn a PokéBall into a master ball" thing that didn't really exist, where you throw the PokéBall at the Pokémon, press and hold B, release it, and then hold A+B... or something like that. It didn't work most of the time. I convinced myself that it was just because I pressed it at the wrong time. XD

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Those are the same people who think pressing a button increases the chance of a capture. They are unaware that both the capture rate is at 3 and that that "method" is farfetched(no pun intended). Little kids believe a lot of stuff, like when we all started out back in 98 playing Red/Blue me and my friends used to believe stuff.
It's true that all of them have 3 as the catch rate.
But it's no way related to "A button thing". Has anyone proved that it doesn't do a thing?

I often keep pressing A button myself while trying to catch a pokemon although I believe it won't help. However, nothing would have prevented the game makers to make a code for checking whether A button is pressed at certain time when the pokemon is for example about to go inside the ball.

"If pressed"
--> Increase the byte that determines whether the pokemon will stay inside or not
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I caught Mewtwo in heart gold without the Master ball. I mean, i got, lucky, but I don't think you need the master ball to catch it.
Although, you're talking about r/b/y, which I am not familiar with, but I would think that it would be odd if you had to catch it with a Master.
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hahaha!i just played rby on ROM,and did catching mewtwo w/ a masterball coz of sheer annoyance that he always dodges every ball i throw even on very low hp,and yeah,my friend told me that mewtwo is very hard to catch and holding up + a or b would make catching easy,sadly,i was doing it for years,:-(,hahahaha!

hahaha!i just played rby on ROM,and did catching mewtwo w/ a masterball coz of sheer annoyance that he always dodges every ball i throw even on very low hp,and yeah,my friend told me that mewtwo is very hard to catch and holding up + a or b would make catching easy,sadly,i was doing it for years,:-(,hahahaha!
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I caught Mewtwon in LG with only 6 Ultra Balls. He was a piece of cake. He was harder in FR for some reason though. He was kind of hard in HG too.:)
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