Increased difficulty in catching Event Pokemon?
Has anyone else noticed a large increase in the difficulty to catch Event Pokémon in the past 2 days? I've found that catching any of the Event Pokémon (particularly Shuppet, Duskull, Sableye and Houndour/Houndoom) are taking 3x as many balls and often requiring a Razzberry to catch for even the lower level Mons, even with hitting them with Great throws and Curveballs. (I spent the first 5 or so days of the event figuring out how to hit them reliably with Curveballs and I'm pretty accurate now... except for Duskulls. Can't quite figure out how to get the curveball to hit the edge of the screen on purpose yet.)
But since Halloween, it seems like everything is jumping out of the first 2 balls regardless of what I hit it with. Even got a few Excellents with Curveballs on Shuppets - which they promptly jumped out of.
Pidgeys, Spinaraks, even Weedles aren't giving me any trouble at all. No non-event Pokémon is giving me any unusual trouble. (Drowzee's may or may not be, I've seem to run into only CP 18 or lower Drowzee's in the past 2 days. And Muck Furkrows.) Anyone else noticing this, or is this just the game randomly being a dick to me?
Answers
Duskull is a dick. It will always move left or right just as you throw your ball. It's definitely a bit more evil than gen1/2 pokemon from my experience. Plus, his other non-attack animation is him laughing at you as you waste ball after ball.
My biggest pet peeve has been catching anything that requires two hands. It's been rainy here for the past week and it's frustrating to have to balance the umbrella on my shoulder while trying to 2-hand catch Shuppet (I can hit him with one hand but i'm more likely to miss and waste balls), and of course Zubat; F that.
Weirdly, Zubat's seem to be almost impossible NOT to catch if I hit it. (I've also seen less Zubats than I've seen Houndooms in this event to the point where I totally forgot they were part of this event when I made my first post.)
I've been using Nanab berries just because I've had like 40 of them and I need the room in my bag, and even if I completely miss even a Nice throw, as long as it's in the Pokeball, I'm catching the Zubat.
