New Pokeball ideas.

[HeroLinik]

This has been something that's been on my mind all day, so I decided: why not share it with PC?

Imagine you could create another Pokeball that had the style, effect and name of your choice. If you were able to do that, what would you name it, what would it look like (art is welcome, if possible!) and what are the special effects that pertain to this ball that set it apart from the others? I have a rather nifty one off the bat.

Name: TF-109 "Flare Ball"
In-game description: An experimental Poké Ball developed by Team Flare. The true function still remains unknown.
Description: A failed experiment by Xerosic of Team Flare, the Flare Ball has a 3x capture rate when used against wild Pokémon. However, on each shake there is a chance that, along with the Pokémon breaking out, this ball will explode and KO the Pokémon inside, even if the Pokémon has the Sturdy ability. Should this happen, the battle immediately ends and no EXP is given, regardless of level. However, Pokémon caught by this ball will receive 2x as much EXP and EVs per battle, and these effects are stackable with other modifiers.

 

[Sonata]

I've always wondered about Pokeballs that are made from legendary pokemon items and when the related pokemon is captured with it, it changes that pokemon's form. Like say there's a legendary pokemon that has two horns and one of them is broken off for some reason or other. If you find that horn before you go to capture the pokemon, you could make it into a ball and use it to capture the pokemon, giving it back its full power and turning it into its actual non-weakened form. But the horn by itself would be just like any other held item normally.

 

[Ho-Oh]

I like the idea of the Flare Ball, mainly because we have the Beast Ball - so it totally suits!

What came to mind for me is like... a rainbow ball. Imagine a Pokeball that, each day, changes a type. So say one day it increases chance of catching water types, another day... fire types, etc, all based on the colours of the rainbow. Definitely would be a fun ball to stock up on C:

 

[Ogu]

Devolve Ball - Pokemon caught with this Ball will devolve fully despite their level if able to devolve
Evolve Ball - Pokemon caught with this Ball will evolve to their next stage immediately if they evolve by level and have no branch evolution

 

[miragespot]

Candy Ball - This ball functions like a Rare Candy and raises the level of the newly caught Pokemon once.

 

[Brendino]

I'd like to see Balls that are more effective in weather conditions (or at least during hail, so we could have a Snow Ball), maybe giving a 3.5x effectiveness like when using a Dusk Ball at night or in a cave. It'd be nice to see some more type-specific balls as well, but I think I like Nica's idea of a Rainbow Ball better.

 

[Damien.aspiring.fandev]

I'm personally good with all the poké spheres we have,
one thing I'd enjoy seeing (perhaps in a fan-game) would be the customization
of said pokéballs...
Aside the good ol' capsules and seals, wouldn't it be nice if you could paint over
the ball or give it other interesting edits?
Hm, let's see... *miniremo noises*

Spoiler:

In the animated series we do, see from time to time customized balls :
in the first episode, Samuel Oak has three having each the name of the starter written
atop them, in green, orange and azure, then we have the one with the lightning mark
Ash's pikachu was into. And again, we have a gold-painted ball that contained a
magikarp from the infamous salesman, a nurse Joy's PIA ball, the diamonds-encrusted
ball Meowzie used to be into, Ritchie's star-marked balls, and the list goes on,
including movies, card game and also the manga series... actually, here, have this

Spoiler:

Hm, I wonder if the sports ball and the gen2 park ball are things on their own
or they're just regular balls with customizations...
Anyway, I'd personally enjoy seeing customized pokéballs used by teams as well as
orderly forces [police, fire-fighters, rangers(no, not the styler ones, the trainer ones)],
bringing the uniform colours and insignias. There could also be pokéballs with colours
and insignias of sport teams (actual sports, maybe the trainer is fond of a sports team like
Casey in the anime, or maybe also pokémon-involving games, pretty much like baccer).
Or maybe pokéballs bearing the logos of enterprises that require pokémon in their daily
tasks(remember the moving truck, Hoennian trumpeteers and players of the Kalosian horn?).
And, dulcis in fundo, pokéballs could have patterns based off the actual pokémon, quite like
the ones we often see around the internet.
But how would such a thing work? Well, of course a full, manual customization would be a
bit dreamy for a fan-game, but we can make everything simpler by giving players options instead,
with an array of possible patterns personally made by the fan-dev or based off other patterns.
However, the fact paint needs a while to dry would require the player to leave the pokémon
out of their team for a while... unless, instead of direct paint there were appliable capsule-like
structures... or if the proper good old gen4 capsule itself was customized...
In some places there could be NPCs skilled with brushes who can offer us the customization
for a few denarii and some waiting time or people selling customized capsules...
Still, there could be yet more customizations one could think of... for example, pokéballs
are generally thrown, so what if they had attached jags that whistled as the balls is thrown?
Uhm, thinking about it... what would've happened if one shrinked the customized ball?

 

[Lord Flamingo]

I'd like to see a Poké Ball that increases the catch rate for every time the Pokémon in the front line receives an attack. I don't know if there should be a proportion between the Pokémon's HP and the catch rate.

 

[PageEmp]

I would like to see balls that increase the stats of the mon that was caught in it when the mon is trained. Example, like a mon caught in an attack ball would raise it's attack and a defense ball that raises defense. I mean most balls are only there to capture the mons and that's it, only the freindship balls make the mon more friendly towards you but everything else don't do anything to what's inside, wpuld be cool if there were balls that could change the stats of the mon inside.