Are you Excellent?

i just throw and hope it connects :)

10% excellent is pretty good.

All my Excellents are accidental, but I've learned to throw a decent Curveball, even if I miss with a few balls it's less annoying/time consuming than see a 'mon break free several times.

I don't think I've got an excellent more than a few times on purpose, not that I've tried a whole lot. 10% sounds good, 5% would even be good considering how finicky it is. I don't know if curveballs throw it off but it would look dead center and not count.

Comparing the difficulty of "great" and "excellent" the bonus needs to be bumped way up.

The best way to get the most xp per catch is to aim for great. I can get more than 70% great throws without trouble, while excellent requires 2 hands and more concentration, most times I have to almost stop walking while I can do a great throw with one hand while running. Don't try the running throw if you need 2 hands to throw your throws, you will end up getting yourself hurt, trust me I know=/

I could get about 25% of my throws to be excellent throwing all balls with curve (exclude weedle, pidgey). This doesn't off set the extra XP of 4 Great throws versus 1 excellent.

Therefore I keep consistent throwing great throws. The only Pokemon I aim for excellent are the ones that start with a big circle such as the starters of Gen1 and Raticate.

I have unsurprisingly found that each species of mon has it's own excellent range. I can throw excellent on slowpoke 100% of the time. So far its the only sweet spot I've found.