Red pressed A+B+Down!

[Åzurε]

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?

 

[Zeta Sukuna]

I know it doesn't help, now, but I am so used to doing it that I still do it. I have no stories, because I always did it, really. Nothing too spectacular with mine, unfortunately.

(I caught a Suicune on HGSS with five Ultra Balls, but that's not that hard, is it?)

 

[Asgard]

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

 

[Theodore Bruno]

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.

 

[.Vaati]

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.

 

[Aureol]

For me, I simply held "A". I still do it to this day, out of habit (and luck, I guess).

 

[Coin]

I've never mashed any buttons or anything.
Everyone said it helped, but... How would that even be possible? o-o''

 

[Theodore Bruno]

I've never mashed any buttons or anything.
Everyone said it helped, but... How would that even be possible? o-o''

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.

 

[Coin]

Yeah.
You make a good point there.

Anything can happen in the world of Pokemon. LOL

 

[Bug Maniac]

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.

 

[Ninja Caterpie]

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.

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.

 

[vibratingcat]

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.

 

[CrashSmAshley]

I still do the up + A and B haha. Habit :P

 

[Signomi]

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.

 

[Timbjerr]

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

 

[Sneeze]

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

 

[perfectmonster]

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.

 

[akamichi]

I also got the A button habit I can't seem to get rid of xd

 

[leonfei]

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.

 

[JP]

To this day I still hold B + down. One hell of a habit to break lol.