need help catching articuno
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Ultra ball. Great ball at the minimum. Pokeball will not cut it.
Oh, and bring lots of ice heals.
Oh, and bring lots of ice heals.
Sleep is your friend. It provides the greatest boost to catch rate of all the status effects. False Swipe can only be picked up by leveling/breeding in Gen III (useful list of Pokemon here [http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/False_Swipe#Generation_III]) will always leave the target with at least 1 HP, so you can't KO anything with it. Once you whittle it down and put it to sleep, just toss Ultra Balls at it like they're going out of style. It'll stay in sooner or later.
useing the moded gen II catch rate might help
The modified catch rate a is calculated in Generation III as follows:
Where
HPmax is the number of hit points the Pokémon has at full health,
HPcurrent is the number of hit points the Pokémon has at the moment,
rate is the catch rate of the Pokémon (which may have been previously modified from the use of the Heavy Ball or Safari Zone modifiers),
bonusball is the multiplier for the Poké Ball used, and
bonusstatus is the multiplier for any status ailment the Pokémon has (2 for sleep and freeze, 1.5 for paralyze, poison and burn, and 1 otherwise).
Given this formula, the maximum value for a (if the Pokémon could have 0 HP) would be catch rate × bonusball × bonusstatus. The minimum value for a (for a Pokémon with full health) would be ⅓ × catch rate.
if you can deciper the techincinal aspecets it may help also save before you fight it and just try,try,try again
The modified catch rate a is calculated in Generation III as follows:
Where
HPmax is the number of hit points the Pokémon has at full health,
HPcurrent is the number of hit points the Pokémon has at the moment,
rate is the catch rate of the Pokémon (which may have been previously modified from the use of the Heavy Ball or Safari Zone modifiers),
bonusball is the multiplier for the Poké Ball used, and
bonusstatus is the multiplier for any status ailment the Pokémon has (2 for sleep and freeze, 1.5 for paralyze, poison and burn, and 1 otherwise).
Given this formula, the maximum value for a (if the Pokémon could have 0 HP) would be catch rate × bonusball × bonusstatus. The minimum value for a (for a Pokémon with full health) would be ⅓ × catch rate.
if you can deciper the techincinal aspecets it may help also save before you fight it and just try,try,try again
Haha I totally remember having such a hard time with Articuo as a kid playing red version. Yeah, sleep it (or paralyze as a plan b) hurt it, and throw ultra balls at it.
You really need a pokemon with Hypnosis, Sing, or at least Thunderwave to make your life easier when catching most legendaries including Articuo. One of favorite pokemon that I always used on my team for this, general traveling, and just because it was my favorite, was Lapras with: Sing, Ice Beam, Surf, Dream Eater. You might need one like that with the right status affect, and a fairly varied move pool, to help you.