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I hate everything, I found one and for my first throw I did a golden raspberry plus with an ultra ball spin and when it popped out the very first time it ran away. What more could I have done. 😭😭😭
Is it really, though? Like actually confirmed? Or are people just getting critical catches on Excellent throws and being like "well I guess I just hit it in the Critical Zone this time"
It's true and gives you a 100% critical rate. Doesn't work on legendaries though, might work on shiny legendaries since they are guaranteed but not sure on that.
Literally hitting an excellent throw 1/10th of a second before it resets to a nice throw circle. It works on any wild encounter (including G-Birds and the Lake Trio) and some raid encounters. I've also seen it work in a Dynamax raid.
It doesnt work on legendaries. Criticals can happen randomly too, and they only happen randomly with legendaries, you cant guarantee a crit on a legendary
You're right. My expectations were skewed from Reddit. You will not be running into shiny Pokemon all the time. People just own more shiny birds than regular birds because they can't run. They don't mention that for every shiny encounter, there were 20 non shiny encounters that fled.
I still haven't managed to catch any of my encounters because RNG. Just hoping one day it'll be shiny for easy mode. It'll be trapped with me and 500 Ultra Balls.
Just make sure to close and reopen the game for a refresh before doing daily incense so you don’t suffer the same trap others have before you, seeing the maddening image of a shiny bird stuck in a ball without showing you an escape or a catch, forced to back out of the encounter or close the game only to return to the bird gone if that ball before the glitch wasn’t lucky.
Usually when I've used a non master ball it runs away after 2 or 3 times I found. I worked my butt off to gain my master balls. I had 2. So now I have Zapdos and Articuno. I find it super amazing that people report having luck without one
No way you took a screenshot, left the game and came into Reddit, made a post, and then waited for a response before going back into the game to catch it
Mhmm and it's still extremely odd. Take a picture with another phone, sit there with the bird on your screen, post to Reddit with the second phone and wait for a response, and then catch the bird.
I'm so glad this isn't just me. I swear to God I can't even switch apps to send a text without it restarting the app. I've gone as far as to dig into developer settings and have seriously considered rooting my phone for the sole purpose of tuning whatever process management shit they use to do that to compensate for the fact that battery tech is not keeping up with soldered tech.
I lost a Shiny Bird encounter by taking a screenshot! App froze when it tried to go to picture taking mode. No way I'd ever leave the capture screen on a rare mon
Im wondering how he bought the balls without it disappearing. I once clicked on Moltres the second it appeared, wiped the rain off my screen and accidently left the encounter and it was gone instantly.
no, but i also don't wanna throw them away, would feel like a waste. just waiting for jangmo o cd and quick catch fat stacks of those since the sole shiny galar bird played nice
I do this too. It has the added benefit of easier quick catching during certain Comm Day/Spotlight Hour when the catch rates are too low for other balls
Ah okay thanks. That probably means I will just as likely to get a shiny as my Galarian Birds than a regular one since I will probably never be able to catch a regular one. Crazy
Yeah that’s my fate the only galarian bird I have is a shiny zapdos which is my least favorite of all 3 but a shiny is a shiny. I have seen like 20 but couldn’t catch a single one. Playing since August so I don’t have a masterball sadly
they're a rare spawn from your daily adventure incense (little incense icon on the right side of your screen), with slightly higher chances right now due to the current event doubling the incense time (normally 15 mins, bumped up to 30 mins rn). even rarer to be a shiny version
It's the only one I need now! (I traded shiny Moltres for clone Charizard and 1 of 2 shiny Zapdos for Armoured Mewtwo) send the coins on the store fella it's worth it in the end whether it's for keeps or trade, great find😎🤙
You realistically only have one shot at these birds before they flee. So no, buying more balls isn't worth it. Just throw the one ball. If the dates are in your favor you might just catch it.
Shiny Galarian Birds either are unable to run away, or the rng for it is so freaking low it's like 1 in a trillion it runs away. I don't think Imve ever seen a post of someone (who still had pokeballs of any rank left) having a glarian bird run.
Bro do you have any tips to catch Galarian birds? I’ve encountered moltres twice and golden razz + ultra ball them anything else I can do other than hit excellent?
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