I thought I have enough great and ultra balls to meet the event, but ...
I started with 300 great balls and 220 ultra balls. On Day One, I already spent 80 blues and 30 black balls in catching 4 charmanders, 4 squirtles and 8 bulbasaur. Looks like I need to purchase a few gold boxes before the event comes to an end. Niantic is smart in choosing these starters especially to a poor thrower like myself. Do you folks have a strategy?
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I have some strategy to catch some difficult to catch pokemon with "RED CIRCLE" and base in my experienced it works. Even in a High CP Mons...
1. Use Poke Ball (if failed)
2. Use Great Ball (if failed)
3. Apply Berry + Poke/Great Ball...
With this strategy I can say 90% successful for my experienced. Sometimes no need for ULTRA BALL... I hope it will works for you... Good Luck!
For rare to spawn mons, I'd suggest just going straight to berries/ultra immediately. Wife/son playing since July and have only seen ONE Snorlax 2 Dratini and 0 Lapras, you don't want to take the risk of it running. Just give yourself the best chance to catch the rare.
You can always restock balls/berries so hope for the best and throw a curve, great throw (I rarely try for excellent since the circle is too small).
You really need to improve you throwing skills. The goal is to make as many curved great throw as possible. All states are pretty easy to hit with great throw. Just practice.
Then you will need a average of only 2 balls for every starters.
0-300 PC pokeball
300-500 PC super ball
500-600 PC berry+ superball
600+ PC berry+ hyper
50pc lower for charmeleon
I do use curve balls and 90% of my throws are either great or nice. But what I discover is some mons (same species) take straight balls than curve ones. Some like berries and some don't. In general, excellent throws have the lowest percentage of success and great throws have the highest. Sometimes i wonder if Niantic purposely does this to make it harder to get double XP on one throw.
Donguding,
-Certain mons get three throws at the most, then I "run away".
-If a mon escapes immediately after the catch, I immediately run away.
Sometimes I "run away", then catch a different mon, then come back and catch the mon that I "ran away" from.
I enjoy alternating my throws from curve to straight. It is fun for me.
Depending on my raspberry inventory, I might include a raspberry.
With the starters I always use a berry (rarely use them with anything else). Up to 150cp a standard ball, 150-300 a Great Ball, Ultra balls for higher.
If I really screw up my first or second shot then I run away and try again (missed shots seem to increase difficulty for later shots in my experience). I'm not great at throwing curve balls, but they do help. Stopping, taking time and aiming for a 'Great' works best for me. Starters generally seem to take me 3 balls.
Come on folks. Don't you see what Niantic is up to? They increase the spawn rate of starters so you can mindlessly throw crapload of balls at it, then they shove the shiny little boxes full of balls for us to buy. Unless you're in desperate need of filling your dex with evolved forms of starters it is a waste of time, effort, and balls. I ignore over half the starters I see. How often you see a Blastoise or Raichu in a gym?
