Do you furiously tap the a button when you go to catch a pokemon?

[Patar]

I have various methods. First when I get pissed at it, I start talking to it(Yes, I'm weird). Then I throw the Pokeball and when it flashes, I tap A. i just tap A for every wiggle. Usually works.

 

[Yarnchu]

I press Up+B when I throw the ball, then furiously mash A+B while making circles around the D-pad. I even mash A when I'm attacking and B when the enemy is attacking/to prevent my Pokemon to hit itself in confusion.

Dude, it is pratically superstition with me. It does nothing, but I can't imagine playing the game without doing it. Button mashing is part of the experiance of a Pokemon game for me.

 

[Blastoise Fortooate]

In the Safari Zone I tell the Poké I'm trying to catch the clever nickname I'm going to give it.

It works.

 

[Patar]

Of course talking to your Pokemon works! They like it! Also I tell people to not stare at the Pokemon because it needs its privacy in order to be caught.

 

[Diz]

I even mash A when I'm attacking and B when the enemy is attacking/to prevent my Pokemon to hit itself in confusion.

Dude, it is pratically superstition with me. It does nothing, but I can't imagine playing the game without doing it. Button mashing is part of the experiance of a Pokemon game for me.

This.

I do this too, and I don't think I could ever play the game differently.

 

[Shadow Serenity]

I don't tap any buttons, however I do have an old habit. Since the days of Red/Blue, I had heard that if you hold the B button and "up" on the control pad at the same time as the Pokemon disappears into the Pokeball, it supposedly made it easier to catch. I don't believe this really works, though I find myself doing it every time I try to catch something anyway.

 

[Mango]

Whenever I throw a Pokeball, I take off all my clothes and dance around my Gameboy chanting as loudly as I can.

I sometimes just hold B. Usually that.

 

[Minish]

I'm a Down+B girl.
I think I used to press Down+B until it hit the ground, though, and then I would press B for each time it moved (hopefully three). XD

I remember everyone at my primary school had these superstitions... I couldn't imagine playing Pokemon without doing it now. :3

 

[Adriane]

It doesn't work, so I don't.

 

[Rex]

I press my stylus to the top of the Pokeball when I play a DS game so that the pokemon "can't get out". Works pretty well actually, even though the top screen of the DS isn;t even a touch screen.

On GBA games I don't do anything.

 

[Ether's Bane]

I used to tap A. Now I go for Down-B.

Yes, I have an in-game superstition, like all of you.

 

[Munchkin]

When capturing a Pokémon, I usually just start by throwing the ball and paying minimum attention. When I begin to grow frustrated, I furiously press the A button.

After that, I give the Pokémon what I call my "death glare". I look it right in the eye(s) and, when it's in the ball, I death glare the Pokéball button. After several times of that, I reduce to begging the Pokémon to be caught. Since I play on my DS, I always seem to think that the microphone actually lets the Pokémon hear you speak. So I speak to my Pokémon sometimes too =x

 

[speedblader03]

I used to, but lately I've been just staring at the screen with my eyes wide open, and start to talk to it if it takes a few tries.

 

[Minish]

It doesn't work, so I don't.

How clever of you to realise. The fact that it doesn't really work isn't the point; most people in this thread have acknowledged they don't believe it works.

 

[Mustardear]

I mash the A button for the first few Pokeballs then, if I'm failing, I look away from the screen and turn the sound off so that my bad luck doesn't influence the game. When that doesn't work I deliberately do the opposite. I also furiously tap the A button during a battle if I want to speed it up (eg. on the bus 5 minutes away from school, fighting Lance), even when it's in the middle of an attack animation.

 

[Butterfree]

I used to have some superstitions ages ago, but it's been years and ever since I learned definitively that there really is nothing like this programmed into the game, I just throw the ball and watch it wobble.

 

[Starly]

I press A repeatedly, even though I know it does not help, it's kinda a habit XD...

 

[SonicNintendo]

no, but I stab at the little pokeball on the touch screen.
EDIT: Mustardear made a good point. I do the same thing. I'll shut off the sound and look away. I do it with a lot of intese battles (usually WiFi, theyre more intese than the in-game ones.)

 

[RespectTheBlade]

I press A rapidly out of habit, especially after a Pokeball is thrown. this some times leads to me using the wrong attack during a battle. also, I know a friend who pressed L+R+Start+Select when he threw a pokeball, and lost half of his game (soft reset), he hadn't saved in over three hours.

 

[Lili]

I'm scared that if I press any button, it'll cause me to lose the Pokemon. So I usually just freeze in place and stare at the screen intently.