Critical catch?
What's the point of it?
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yes, it is an amazing abbreviated relief. but what is the point? of course you bypass all flee rates, you caught it! whenever a regular catch happens, you have bypassed flee rates by definition of catching it. I still don't know what it does. I thought it was telling me that I had caught a mon of awesomeness IV, but alas, no. I have seen it quite a few times.
i have had two legendaries do it and it is almost orgasmic.
That would be a bit too overpowered IMO. So, instead of adding triggerable critical catches just add small multipliers to Capture Rate for each escaped attempt.
So, like:
Great Throw + Escape = +.025% Capture Rate
Excellent Throw + Escape = +.05% Capture Rate
These would stack as well, so let's say the target was hit twice with ETs and twice with GTs, then there would be a base increase of +.15% Capture Rate for the next attempt. I don't think this would be too overpowered and would just be a good mechanism to add to the game, like a Nice/Great/Excellent streak-bonus, or something.
Sounds nice, but no, while I don't consider an excellent+curve is by any means "easy", I personally still get them far too often to consider that as a fair automatic catch condition, particularly where legends are concerned. Though it would certainly have saved me time on that Lugia I hit with 7 excellent+curves out of 9 balls (caught it on a mere curve, not even nice, go figure).
each attempt, has a fixed chance of beign a critical catch, no matter what the catch rate of the pokemon is, in regular games, critical catch may fail to catch a pokemon (but that catch has a much higer catch rate) i don't know if a crictical catch can miss in po go, because it only shows that is a critical catch only when you get it, so we can't know if sometimes the game triggered a failed critical catch
Also, if you get a critical catch on your last pokeball vs. a Legendary you will catch it. The last ball otherwise being a wasted effort.
I have not had a critical catch on a Legendary yet and nIve caught about 35 Legends. But I do know a number of people who crit caught Legends. So it's got a purpose. Just a little more RNG to make things fun.
