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Anyone else other than me so frustrated that the capture balls in this Generation, especially the standard three variants (Poké, Great, and Ultra) are considerably weaker than they were in Generation I?
I'm on the route east of New Bark Town, and tried to catch an Arbok. Had it down to 1 HP, and lost my Scyther and Lapras to poisoning. I had 9 Great Balls, but couldn't catch it in ANY of them. I had used three PokéBalls, and was unsuccessful this time too before I restarted the game.
In fact, using the calculator at https://www.dragonflycave.com/calculators/gen-ii-catch-rate shows I would have had a 52% chance of catching 1HP Arbok in Great Balls with no status, which, of course, is overly optimistic, since the capture formula rarely works to the player's advantage.
I've also had situations where I had catch-rate 255 Pokémon such as Zubat and Pidgey down to 1 HP, and it took me THREE Pokéballs in such situations to capture them. To add insult to injury, these exact same circumstances in Generation I would have all but guaranteed capture (in fact, I would have gotten them with as much as 1/3 HP left, given the way the capture algorithm worked back then).
In fact, my frustration with the capture balls being ridiculously weak in Generation I is one of the reasons why I gave up on Pokémon gaming back in 2006.
All of this makes me wonder why GameFreak changed the catch formula starting in G/S/C, when the formula from Generation I worked fairly well in comparison. (Perhaps there were game-breaking glitches involved with the Gen. I formula, besides the well known quirk of Great Balls being better than Ultra Balls in certain situations?)
I'm on the route east of New Bark Town, and tried to catch an Arbok. Had it down to 1 HP, and lost my Scyther and Lapras to poisoning. I had 9 Great Balls, but couldn't catch it in ANY of them. I had used three PokéBalls, and was unsuccessful this time too before I restarted the game.
In fact, using the calculator at https://www.dragonflycave.com/calculators/gen-ii-catch-rate shows I would have had a 52% chance of catching 1HP Arbok in Great Balls with no status, which, of course, is overly optimistic, since the capture formula rarely works to the player's advantage.
I've also had situations where I had catch-rate 255 Pokémon such as Zubat and Pidgey down to 1 HP, and it took me THREE Pokéballs in such situations to capture them. To add insult to injury, these exact same circumstances in Generation I would have all but guaranteed capture (in fact, I would have gotten them with as much as 1/3 HP left, given the way the capture algorithm worked back then).
In fact, my frustration with the capture balls being ridiculously weak in Generation I is one of the reasons why I gave up on Pokémon gaming back in 2006.
All of this makes me wonder why GameFreak changed the catch formula starting in G/S/C, when the formula from Generation I worked fairly well in comparison. (Perhaps there were game-breaking glitches involved with the Gen. I formula, besides the well known quirk of Great Balls being better than Ultra Balls in certain situations?)
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