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guide for catching rares/oddball pokemon

Spykron

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    im not looking for a guide on how to catch them all, but what i would like is a guide that explains which pokemon have oddball rules involved when catching them. for example i know you only get one chance to catch mewtwo. also, some you might not be able to catch after reaching a certain point in the story of the game.

    i want to eventally be able to catch them all without having to play through multiple times, and without having to babysit a strategy guide while playing.

    thanks for any help!
     
    I think on Bulbapedia, there's something like that if you search for "Rarity", But the website is down at the moment...
     
    Well, for starters - what Pokemon game are you planing to play?

    At any rate though, I shall throw various links at you. First off, each handheld game gives you a choice of one between three starter Pokemon. So if you want each of those, you'd have to restart the game 3 times and trade each one to another game before doing so, or trade with other people. (This is less of an issue if you have the 4th gen games and Wi-Fi).

    As for game-specific legendaries/one-offs:

    https://www.serebii.net/pokemon_advance/legends.shtml - Legendaries in Ruby and Sapphire.

    https://www.serebii.net/emerald/oneoff.shtml - Emerald. Note that a fair few double up from R/S, and some of these are Event-only Pokemon (require a 'ticket' item), which have stopped long ago.

    https://www.serebii.net/red_green/legendary.shtml - Fire Red/Leaf Green

    As for the 3rd-gen Gamecube games - Colosseum has the three 'Johto' starters (all of them - one during the main storyline, and the other two from side quests following the main storyline - you get lead to them, basically), and the Johto legendary beasts (Suicune/Raikou/Entei) - during the main storyline and unlimited chances (albeit they're very hard to get outside of these games). Also, Ho-oh, which is only obtainable from beating Colosseum, purifying each Shadow Pokemon, and then taking on Mt Battle (a 100 trainer challenge) with a registered team from start to finish after you do so. Upon defeating that you get Ho-oh.

    And XD: Gale of Darkness has the Kanto legendary birds, and Lugia - again, unlimited chances for these.

    As for 4th gen games - Diamond and Pearl: https://www.serebii.net/diamondpearl/legendaries.shtml

    Platinum: https://www.serebii.net/platinum/legends.shtml

    One other to mention is Feebas (and it's evolution) - a notable rare Pokemon that is hard to find without knowing how to. https://www.serebii.net/games/feebas.shtml

    That should do for starters. Others are ones that evolve only by trading, or evolving with a set move, and so forth. There's serebii.net's dex for that, I suppose, and also bulbapedia as mentioned by Flex_S.

    Hope that helps.
     
    that website you linked me was pretty helpful. im not worried about the ones that you have to evolve while trading or need a stone or something. i can do all that stuff after ive played through it. i just dont want to miss any opportunities that would require me to stat a new game file.
     
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