is it just me or did they make catching the legendary birds on FR a LOT easier?
i caught...
-articuno with 20 ultra balls
-moltres with 13 ultra balls
-zapdos with ONE ultra ball
and every time i used a lv40+ alakazam to weaken them. one psychic and a few secret power was all it took. i took advantage of moltres' endure and paralyzed zapdos with my secret power.
incidentally, i just caught latias this past weekend. took my in-game jynx (aka 'zynx') from FireRed, traded it, and leveled it up to 35. then i caught up with latias; one mean look, one ice punch, several doubleslaps, many lovely kisses and 30 ultra balls later, i had my very own latias. ^_^ it did run off once when i ran out of ultra balls (only had 13 at the time -_-).
EDIT (9/8): seriously, is it just me or did they make catching ALL the legendaries in FR/LG a lot faster?
i just caught mewtwo yesterday. i only used FOUR ULTRA BALLS.
NO, i did not inflict status on it.
NO, i did not have a higher-level pokemon. my highest was level 54.
i DID, however, make it run out of psychic so it could keep using swift on my lv54 golem. its EQ did the job.
besides, every time i caught it with my master ball, it had a nature that i didn't approve of. so i reset it every time.
but when i caught it with an ultra ball, it was timid. so i'm happy. :D