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Red pressed A+B+Down!

Åzurε

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    [PokeCommunity.com] Red pressed A+B+Down!


    Very simple questions, I'll add my own stuff after a post or two ten. How much stock do you put in things like buttons improving your chances of catching a Pokemon? Do you do it? Have any stories about this kind of thing?
     
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    I dunno about pressing buttons. Everyone tells me different things D: UP+B NO LEFTRIGHTLR NO DOWN+A NO KONAMICODE NO EVERY SINGLE BUTTON /EVER/

    I've always just like looked away and pretend I forgot about it though. A watched pot never boils~ :'D
     
    No, you're doing it wrong, Red! It's 540 degree rotation of the D-Pad in clockwise movement starting at Up. THEN you hit A+B once you hit Down.

    This is a habit. It doesn't help me at all, but I just can't stop myself from doing it.
     
    When I was young I would press the B button as many times as I could when trying to catch a Pokemon in Silver version.

    But after I found out that pressing buttons had no effect and whether I caught a Pokemon or not was decided the moment I throw the PokeBall by a mathematical equation I stopped.
     
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    For me, I simply held "A". I still do it to this day, out of habit (and luck, I guess).
     
    I've never mashed any buttons or anything.
    Everyone said it helped, but... How would that even be possible? o-o''
     
    Coin said:
    I've never mashed any buttons or anything.
    Everyone said it helped, but... How would that even be possible? o-o''
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    Keep in mind this is the same game where ridiculous rumors came from. Like Mew being under a truck. But then again, most of us were children who were naive. PLUS! How could we not believe those rumors when the game also had a glitch were you get infinite items from fighting a blocky abomination, and to fight this demon you had to talk to the man who teaches how to catch Pokemon. I think it goes without saying that if that story was true then anything in the game could be possible.
     
    Yeah.
    You make a good point there.

    Anything can happen in the world of Pokemon. LOL
     
    I used to try some sort of pressing button thing to catch pokemon i thought it worked on LG when i cought Zapdos first try with ultra ball but it was only luck cuz my bro turned off the Game Cube before i saved the game and had to catch Zapdos again it made me so angry.
     
    Theodore Bruno said:
    Keep in mind this is the same game where ridiculous rumors came from. Like Mew being under a truck. But then again, most of us were children who were naive. PLUS! How could we not believe those rumors when the game also had a glitch were you get infinite items from fighting a blocky abomination, and to fight this demon you had to talk to the man who teaches how to catch Pokemon. I think it goes without saying that if that story was true then anything in the game could be possible.
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    Yes, but that has a logical part...once you learn how the game works ten years later. Far enough, I guess. xD

    I naturally hold/tap A.

    But that's because I do it to speed through text.
     
    hahaha!! i remember doing this. I tried all sorts of things that people did, and then started experimenting on my own. I remember vsing some legendary and did the soft reset keys.
     
    I have the rapidly-tapping-A habit and I just...can't get away from it.

    Force of habit, I do it every single time I try to catch a Pokemon, ESPECIALLY if it is a legendary.
     
    I still mash A out of habit. :P

    When I was a kid, I had heard that Up+B would turn any Great Ball into a Master Ball, so I was stuck on that for awhile. XD
     
    I always did the hold A and rock the D-Pad left and right in time with the Pokéball shaking thing as a kid, took me ages to break out of the habit but I forced myself to do it. Nowadays I just leave it and hope. I do have a habit of switching to a higher leveled 'mon if things aren't going my way though, granted this does work with nest balls but AFAIK it doesn't have an effect on other balls, but I like to try and 'scare' the 'mon into staying in the ball so he doesn't get Aura Sphered by a Lv. 100 or something. Silly, I know. :3
     
    I completely mashed the A button until I either jump up and down happily or throw it against the wall in dissapointment and annoyment. :P Its a habit.
     
    I used to use B+Down myself. And I seemed to think that the harder I pressed it the better it would work :P. I stopped doing it when I got back into Pokémon at the 4th generation and learnt about the mathematical equations behind catch rates :P. This randomness was proved to me recently, when it took me around 5 goes and ~100 Ultra Balls a go to catch Cresselia (with Mean Look, False Swipe and Hypnosis), then Dialga got in the first Ultra Ball using the same strategy (minus Mean Look obviously) on Platinum.
     
    To this day I still hold B + down. One hell of a habit to break lol.
     
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