Pokemon Catch Rates can be a little confusing at first. To make things simple – freezing or putting a Pokemon to sleep will make it easier to catch than paralyzing, burning or poisoning it. Freezing a Pokemon gives a ×2 multiplier, while paralyzing it only gives a ×1.5 multiplier to the catch rate equation. If paralyzing Zapdos wasn’t going to work, then freezing it with Articuno’s Ice Beam should help increase the catch rate, especially since I’m only using a normal Pokeball with a ×1 rate, not an Ultra Ball that has a ×3 rate. “Catching Articuno should make things easier when going up against Zapdos,” I thought. Tired of Zapdos, I flew to Fuchsia City and surfed to the Seafoam Islands. At this point in time, I had 144 Pokeballs on hand. Another hard reset, and I stormed out of the Power Plant and flew to Pewter City to buy 99 more Pokeballs. Forty-five Pokeballs later, I did a hard reset to try again, hoping that I can catch it with some luck … but nothing. Now, I knew going into this that I wasn’t going to catch the legendary Thunderbird within the first few throws or even the first twenty throws. I paralyzed the Zapdos with my Dratini’s Thunder Wave, then brought down its HP. I started by heading to the Power Plant to catch Zapdos, since I was too lazy to wander around the Seafoam Islands moving boulders around.
Of course, I know that using an Ultra Ball would be the smart thing to do, but there is just something about a classic Pokeball that just looks right. Let me just tell you that I like catching legendary Pokemon in a normal Pokeball whenever possible. I started to get bored and decided to try to catch the two legendary birds that are currently accessible to me in the Kanto region – Articuno and Zapdos. I just defeated both Koga and Sabrina and I’m doing a little grinding, trying to get my Pokemon team all to level 50 before officially tackling Cinnabar Island. Sadly, I’m still playing through Leaf Green and progressing slower than a Slowpoke trying to pull a hungry Snorlax away from an all-you-can-eat buffet. I’ve been recently trying to catch up on the All Region Tour Challenge that I talked about a few months ago.
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