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What kind of Poké Balls have you caught things in?
Just looking at my SoulSilver team and noticed some of them were in kind of unusual Poké Balls... so I got the idea for this.
Most of the critters I've actually trained are in plain Pokéballs, since most of them are from early in the game, a couple of them came from the Pokéwalker, and one (a Gastrodon) was traded over from my sister's Pearl game. But there's also a few in different kinds:
Lardytard (Tyranitar) -- Dusk Ball. Pretty normal I guess.
Slippity (Dragonite) -- Dive Ball. Now that's an odd one. Do Dive Balls even have any added effect in HG/SS?
Dilos (Arbok) -- Heal Ball. I think I actually did this one on purpose, so I could immediately start training the Ekans I caught without rushing back to a Pokémon Center first.
Gandalf (Alakazam) -- Safari Ball. Yeah, I didn't catch an Abra until I got to the Safari Zone. XD
And also some legendaries:
Gloonk (Suicune) -- A regular Poké Ball. I ran through pretty much all of my special balls trying to catch the thing, and then eventually was down to nothing but standard Poké Balls and something else (Lure Balls, if I remember right, and one useless Moon Ball.) The third time I threw a regular Poké Ball, it actually caught it.
Yamamoto (Ho-Oh) -- Great Ball. Reminds me of Red/Blue, where I never wasted my money on Ultra Balls because sleep + Great Ball seemed to be pretty much guaranteed to catch anything.
Padoingo (Latios) -- Timer Ball. Apparently, every individual fight with the running-around-on-the-map Pokémon counts as part of the same battle now, because the Timer Balls' "better if used later in the battle" effect was definitely working.
Yammy (Groudon) -- Heavy Ball. Very appropriate ball for a Groudon to be in.
I also have Unowns in all sorts of really strange balls, since they're so easy to catch that it doesn't really matter what kind you use. "Crack" is in a Fast Ball, "Klingon," "Pants," "Xombie," and "Vampire" are all in Lure Balls, "Alpo" and "Emo" are in Heal Balls, "Oh No!" is in a Timer Ball, and "Noob" is in a Moon Ball. (Yeah, they're all named something random starting with the same letter... except for the ! and ?, which are named "Ooga Booga" and "Fnrrf?")
Just looking at my SoulSilver team and noticed some of them were in kind of unusual Poké Balls... so I got the idea for this.
Most of the critters I've actually trained are in plain Pokéballs, since most of them are from early in the game, a couple of them came from the Pokéwalker, and one (a Gastrodon) was traded over from my sister's Pearl game. But there's also a few in different kinds:
Lardytard (Tyranitar) -- Dusk Ball. Pretty normal I guess.
Slippity (Dragonite) -- Dive Ball. Now that's an odd one. Do Dive Balls even have any added effect in HG/SS?
Dilos (Arbok) -- Heal Ball. I think I actually did this one on purpose, so I could immediately start training the Ekans I caught without rushing back to a Pokémon Center first.
Gandalf (Alakazam) -- Safari Ball. Yeah, I didn't catch an Abra until I got to the Safari Zone. XD
And also some legendaries:
Gloonk (Suicune) -- A regular Poké Ball. I ran through pretty much all of my special balls trying to catch the thing, and then eventually was down to nothing but standard Poké Balls and something else (Lure Balls, if I remember right, and one useless Moon Ball.) The third time I threw a regular Poké Ball, it actually caught it.
Yamamoto (Ho-Oh) -- Great Ball. Reminds me of Red/Blue, where I never wasted my money on Ultra Balls because sleep + Great Ball seemed to be pretty much guaranteed to catch anything.
Padoingo (Latios) -- Timer Ball. Apparently, every individual fight with the running-around-on-the-map Pokémon counts as part of the same battle now, because the Timer Balls' "better if used later in the battle" effect was definitely working.
Yammy (Groudon) -- Heavy Ball. Very appropriate ball for a Groudon to be in.
I also have Unowns in all sorts of really strange balls, since they're so easy to catch that it doesn't really matter what kind you use. "Crack" is in a Fast Ball, "Klingon," "Pants," "Xombie," and "Vampire" are all in Lure Balls, "Alpo" and "Emo" are in Heal Balls, "Oh No!" is in a Timer Ball, and "Noob" is in a Moon Ball. (Yeah, they're all named something random starting with the same letter... except for the ! and ?, which are named "Ooga Booga" and "Fnrrf?")
