Go Master Ball!

Started by LegendChu July 3rd, 2016 7:25 AM
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Sheep

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Australia
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16.6 Years
Always on roamers. I have such bad memories of leveling up a Mean Look Golbat or Haunter in GSC to catch the legendary dogs, it took forever. Having to encounter them again and again is always exhausting. Thank you Master Ball. :D

Mister Coffee

Blathering Fool

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Seen November 7th, 2020
Posted June 12th, 2019
992 posts
11.7 Years
Is it weird that I kind of look at the Master Ball as a trophy, so I don't really like using it?
I catch all of my Legendary pokemon with either the Great Ball, Ultra Ball, Premier Ball, or the Luxury Ball.
Plus I feel like, having all the Legendary pokemon without having to ever use your Master Ball is sort of swag. lol
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DarkraiDragon

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Posted November 8th, 2020
86 posts
7 Years
I use mine on Deoxys.
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Lunar

Age 24
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Seen September 16th, 2020
Posted September 15th, 2020
I'll never forget in my first ever Pokemon game playthrough I used it on a Oddish, I never really understood the significance of the Master Ball and it made capturing the roaming legendaries trickier later on.

Nowadays I don't tend to use it as much, apart from on a legendary I really want even though legendary Pokemon are super easy to catch since Gen 6 - I always found Moltres back in FireRed the hardest to catch for some reason, maybe I was just unlucky.

Flower

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Ontario, Canada♥
Seen October 30th, 2016
Posted August 25th, 2016
418 posts
7.9 Years
Hmm.. I really don't tend to use the Master Ball much, thinking about it! I prefer to use it on Roaming Legendaries, however— they're super annoying to catch and all. Mesprit in D/P/Pl is quite frankly the one I'd always instantly chuck it at. >__>'

If I find a shiny getting to too low of health, and I have a Master Ball— definitely gonna chuck it then too. I've had to do so before in Pearl back when I owned it, believe it was a shiny Starly? I don't remember, unfortunately I don't have that shiny anymore. ;w;'

LegendChu

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Posted October 21st, 2017
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9.1 Years
I only remember using the Master Ball on a Shiny once (I usually always reserve it for roamers).

I was lucky enough to run into a shiny Plusle twice (in Emerald) within a span of about 2-3 minutes (is that rare or what :P), the first time I stupidly fainted it, but the second time time, I just chucked my Master Ball at it & viola, shiny Plusle in the bag.

Palamon

Silence is Purple.

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Snezhnaya, Teyvat.
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14.3 Years
One time I used it on an Unown Z. :D

<_<

But, most of the time, I just use it on stubborn legendary Pokemon I can't catch in a Pokeball. I'm hardcore.

Hikamaru

Age 30
Female
Australia
Seen January 24th, 2019
Posted September 4th, 2018
50,214 posts
12.2 Years
I mostly tend to use it on a hard-to-catch legendary, or the mascot legendary. Depends if the mascot is forced to be captured to progress or not.
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AkameTheBulbasaur

Akame Marukawa of Iyotono

Age 25
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Posted January 11th, 2023
408 posts
10 Years
In Pokemon Pearl (my first game) I used it on Palkia, which I ended up kind of regretting because Cresselia was such a pain to catch. (I caught it with an Ultra Ball when it was my last Poke Ball. It was very exciting).

In FireRed and LeafGreen I used it on Mewtwo. I cloned the Master Ball in Emerald and sent it to Fire Red to use on the roaming legendary. It's a good thing I did because I didn't know about the Roar Glitch, so I could have easily lost my roaming legendary if I hadn't used it then.

In Emerald I cloned it a bunch of times so I could use it on legendaries. I only ended up using it on Kyogre though.

In Gold I cloned the masterball again. This time I used it on all the legendaries (Ho-oh, Lugia, Entei, Raikou and Suicune).

In White 2 I used it on Reshiram.

Omega Ruby I think I used it on Deoxys.
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Socratic

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Hoenn
Seen September 15th, 2022
Posted August 19th, 2016
462 posts
6.8 Years
I tend to sit on it forever, as well, but the only reason you *truly* need to use it is if you come across a shiny Abra or Graveler. Anything else you can throw Ultra/Dusk/Quick balls at.
(I catch all my roamers using Quick balls anymore.)
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