GP's Catch Calculator
I love this calculator! I saw this last night and decided to focus harder on great curve balls for each ball thrown and had huge success in catching Moltres today. Thank you GP!
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Yeah, I've been doing the set circle thing since I've seen it. It doesn't work on Lugia for me, but against Articuno and Moltres, I seem to be getting hits at least of near 100%...All the misses are from dropped balls or lag/throw going way off so 23/25 of my balls actually hit the darn boss. Even hitting 23 times, those are 3 bosses that ran away so odds are still pretty low even if you hit them...
Best tip I think is don't rush...step AWAY from the raid group...I could be there tossing for the bird to drop back down for like 5 minutes...
Best of luck to everyone.
Seeing that the overal catch rate was a lot higher than I thought made me focus harder on each ball thrown. I stopped going for excellent throws because I was very inconsistent in hitting the target. All day today I went for great throws instead because the overall catch rate is still pretty high and it's a lot easier to hit great curve balls consistently than excellent curve balls.
Yeah, my weakest part of my game was ball throwing but these raids made me focus on a skill set I've overlooked all year.
Edit: it's crazy how the meta changed. My best skill was battling gyms (old gyms). Now that I'm doing more raids than gyms it's all about the ball throwing skills. Got to git gud.
Yeah, every ball counts with how hard they are to catch...One reason to split in team groups if you have a lot of people...It'll help everyone get +3 team bonus balls.
With more patience, my last raid was 7 great/curved throws out of 8 balls (1 lagged and just was way off)...still ran...
Only so much you can do really, but unless you really want to go for excellent throws, at least eventually, the RNG will probably go in your favor again.
I used to think that way too but ended up with 0/8 on Lugia, 0/4 on Articuno and 0/2 with Moltres with more than 8 Great Throws + Golden Berries. Now I just throw a straight ball and Nanab Berry without aiming for Great Throw. Till now, I managed to catch 2 Lugia, 2 Articuno and 2 Moltres.. Way better rate than Curve Great Throw and Golden Berries... But that's for me.. LOL
