What was your hardest catch?

Started by starseed galaxy auticorn July 7th, 2016 4:33 PM
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starseed galaxy auticorn

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Mine was Zubat. Like omg... I wasted so many pokeballs catching one! My second was Growlithe, but I kind of blame that on the wonky servers lately. :c In the end, the servers ended up making me miss out on getting it. ;____;

So, what has been your hardest catch so far?

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I dont know how i got a Pidgeotto but it was hard to catch i missed some pokeballs and the pokeballs which even hit, it broke out of pokeball! Instead of green circle it had yellow circle and this makes it hard to catch

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starseed galaxy auticorn

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that dam Zubat for sure. And I need to catch more for it's evolution like seriously and my friend has a Golbat.
Yeah, Zubat is hard to catch. I think because it's small and moves around too much. :c
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I was driving with my buddies and we all saw an abra pop up but before i could stop it had cleared out, so i did a u turn parked on the side of the road and we walked around for a half hour, long story short no one could find that abra again, we gave up and started hitting a bunch of poke stops, all three of my buddies phones die and then my son ran into an abra lol caught that pokemon and called it a good day, (none of my buddies got it though lol)

Hiidoran

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Jynx. :|

I found one earlier today on my way to work and almost crashed my car turning around to try and snag it - I was too late. I was walking around downtown this evening and I finally found another one!

I spent something around 10 Pok Balls! She just wouldn't go in there!

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The Zubats are for sure the ones I had the most trouble with. Zubat was the first Pokemon I encountered after getting my starter, and I threw like 5 Pokeballs at it before giving up because I thought I was doing something wrong/not understanding how to throw a ball in a straight line. :P Then I talked to some friends and they also had a bit of trouble with Zubat, so I knew it wasn't just me being an idiot.

I caught one after for the sake of the Pokedex, but I ignore every Zubat I see now - not worth it, haha.

Aside from that, I encountered a couple Pokemon that escaped the Pokeball a few times - but it's a different kind of "hard to catch" since it's not me missing with my throws, they were just stronger and kept breaking free. I think my Kingler took about 4 successful throws to get.

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Mine was Hypno, appeared outta nowhere and then just wouldn't go in the ball, only Pokemon to date that I've encountered and haven't successfully caught.

My Clefairy was a close second though, it was a real struggle to get it to go in.
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hey question though guys i dont know about you but back on the handheld pokemon games i always smashed the a button over and over while a pokemon was in the ball i know it didnt do anything but it felt nice and it seemed i had more luck getting em to stay in SOOOOOOOOOOOOO flash forward to go and now i find my self spam tapping the pokeball whenever the pokemon goes in lolol i dont think it ACTUALLY helps but hey it might

LilyGardy

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Zubat. I missed it a bunch of times, it managed to break out of its Pokeball then took a few more balls. Not worth it one iota.

Also had a Kingler run away from me after breaking out of 2 Pokeballs and Raticate running away after breaking out of 1.
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Circuit

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Zubat for sure lmao. You'd expect some higher level pokemon to trump it but nope, Zubat takes gold for most frustrating to catch there is. I've not spent more than 4 on one, but even then it was annoying lol.

A surprising catch for me which should have been tough was the CP399 Starmie I caught first try earlier. That was something else.
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I was trying to catch this caterpie earlier in the backseat of a car. For whatever reason, he kept breaking out. He had pretty low CP, too- I think I wasted 4-5 pokeballs before he ran away. :B


I have haven't battled a zubat yet, though. For whatever reason they just never turn up in my area.

Iceman3k

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16.4 Years
Pidgeot. We were going at it for like 5 minutes inside of a mall.
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Chuck Palahniuk

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Spearow are really hard to catch for me. Every time I try I use at least 5 Pokeballs. Also, recently, I caught a Seaking that was double my already caught Pokemon's CP so that was pretty hard too
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