Topic: Your ORAS Game triumphs/struggles

[Lord Raven]

Struggle: Took 30 Ultra Balls to catch Cresslia.

Use Dusk Balls.

[Captain Jigglypuff]

^I ran out. I had 50 of them and they all failed. Then I used Ultra Balls.

[Neotenens]

I start with a Quick ball, then use Hunter, my trusty Watchog, to whittle them down, and then I use Dusks, and if that doesn't work, I use a few of my hundreds of standard pokeballs to draw it out, then I use a timer.

[Lord Raven]

^I ran out. I had 50 of them and they all failed. Then I used Ultra Balls.

It took 80 balls to catch Cresselia?  Was Cresselia at full health or something?  Because like at 5% HP and with sleep or something you end up with like a 7-10% chance of capture (not including critical captures) if you keep chucking Dusk Balls.

That scenario has literally anywhere from a .02 to a .3% chance of happening.  In fact you should have, on average, caught it anywhere from 5.6 to 8 times by the time you chucked 80 balls at it.

Ultra Ball is SOMEWHAT understandable because it's like 4/7 the Dusk Ball in terms of catch rate, but Cresselia would've struggled to death by then or you would've run out of PP for sleep.

[Captain Jigglypuff]

^I got it down VERY low with Hold Back and kept throwing Balls at it and it refused to be caught.

[Neotenens]

And thus is the virtue of timer balls. And yes, whilst logic dictates that you should have caught it, I had Groudon down to 1% with false swipe, and asleep, it still took me 59 Ultras, 3 timers, and 34 dusk balls before I caught him.

[Shaymin]

i wasted like twenty ultra balls tryin to catch deoxys at low health, it healed up w/ recover so i just sighed and kept throwing ultra balls and caught it on full heath [squinting]

[Raphetty]

And thus is the virtue of timer balls. And yes, whilst logic dictates that you should have caught it, I had Groudon down to 1% with false swipe, and asleep, it still took me 59 Ultras, 3 timers, and 34 dusk balls before I caught him.

If he wasn't using Sleep or Paralysis, that would have reduced his chances considerably. Sleep is better, but Paralysis is useful as it never goes away and moves that inflict it are more common.

[E.C.A.M.B.S.]

Struggles:

- Abandoning 2 of my Pokemon was a huge mistake. The ones I've tried to train to replace them aren't nearly as strong.

- No one is willing to trade with me so I can evolve my Graveler

[Captain Jigglypuff]

Struggles:

- Abandoning 2 of my Pokemon was a huge mistake. The ones I've tried to train to replace them aren't nearly as strong.

- No one is willing to trade with me so I can evolve my Graveler

I'll trade with you! What would you like to trade for?

[Richard and Blaziken]

TRIUMPH: 416 Soft Resets for shiny Reshiram
Struggle: Synchronize didn't work and it's Impish nature xD

[Makoto Niijima]

Struggle: spending a few hours chain fishing, and keep acidentaly breaking my chains

Triumph: catching my first ORAS shiny, a Magikarp

[Inferna]

Struggle: Wattson was a pain to beat, 3 of my pokemon were weak to his electric or steel attacks lmao, so they all died.

Triumph: my grovyle beat him! I also caught a brave bird skarmory which was pretty cool.

[Neotenens]

Triumph: Work on my Gym has Begun!

Struggle: None.

[Raphetty]

Resetting for Latios with a good nature and IV combination has been a struggle, what with not being able to use Synchronize and the long cut scenes. Had some which were quite decent but I rejected because they were missing key stats. It's been nearly 2 days so far.