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Does no. of shaking before broke free matter?

It seems to me that the harder to catch a Pokémon, the less times the ball shakes before the Pokémon breaks free...
I remembered that when I was catching a wild Charizard during the event, at several times he broke free out of the ball before the ball even shakes! Same goes for Dragonite.
And normally a Pidgey/Weedle/Caterpie breaks free after 2 shaking (what a waste of time).
So I think there might be a formula in determining the number of shaking should it fail to catch. Say, the difference between the Final Catch Rate and the random number sent from the server.
Anyone with the same experience? Has anyone or GamePress conducted relevant research in such topic?

Asked by bioweapon8 years 3 months ago

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I see it as how close you were to catching it.

When you throw a ball, and the game's determining whether you caught the Pokemon or not, I think of it like a number out of 100 that you need to roll higher than, and the number of shakes is how close you were.

So if you've got a 20% chance to catch a Pokemon, then you need to get 81 or above. If for example you roll a 2, then it'd break out immediately, as if to say "not even close". However if you were to roll 75, then it'd shake 3 times before breaking out, but it's purely visual. I've had the app crash during a Pokemon catch and still end up catching the Pokemon.

Yep, the result is determined right after the ball hits the Pokémon, that we know. The question is how the "visual" is determined? Does it following a pattern or just purely random?

https://pokemongo.gamepress.gg/catch-mechanics
"To check if a pokemon is caught, the game generates a random number between 0 and 1. If that number is lower than the value given by the equation, you caught the pokemon!"

I would guess that the number of shakes before a pokemon breaks out is related to how close the RNG is to the value from the catch equation.

There is a number of different factors involved in how many shakes before escaping, including mood which is a big one here in my opinion. Pokémon mood is the colour of the ring you see with dark red being angry and bright green being happy.

I thought the colored rings indicated the level of mon you are trying to catch? Hence all high CP (as relative to its max CP) mons show red rings

Some call it mood, some call it ball catch rate as the colour changes based on which ball you use. Screen capture from here.. https://pokemongo.gamepress.gg/catch-mechanics