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Possible way to guarantee a legendary catch

First and foremost, forgive me if someone already brought this up. I've been busy with work the last couple of weeks so I haven't monitored the Q&A section.

I've caught five legendarues in the last week and for the most part I've had to throw a lot of balls and use a lot of Golden raspberries to catch them. It gets really nerve racking when you get down to that last ball and you still haven't caught them!

One of the Articuno if I caught was on the first throw. I used a golden raspberry but didn't get a throw bonus because I just missed outside an excellent circle. I was very surprised to see that I caught him!

It just so happened that he was my first catch of the day on my 7 day streak. Obviously I can't replicate these results until six days from now, but I'm very curious to see what happens.

Has anybody else noticed this?

Asked by clrinetwiz7 years 7 months ago
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by I3L4zE 7 years 7 months ago

A coincidence, you just got lucky.

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by pipjay 7 years 7 months ago

It gets really nerve racking when you get down to that last ball and you still haven't caught them!

Just in case you don't know, there is a bug in raids that makes it impossible to catch with the very last ball.

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Not impossible, you can get a critical catch on last ball-- highly unlikely though.

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I didn't know this. So if it breaks out on the second to last, there would be zero benefit to using a Golden Razz on the last throw?

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There actually has been no evidence that a critical catch on the last ball is possible. That idea was just put forward to appease the people that were adamant that they totally heard that a friend saw someone catch a raid boss with the last ball.

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A coincidence. I just caught an Articuno today as my first catch on my 7 day streak as well. But guess what - it wasn't on my first ball. Infact, it was on something like my 7th or 8th, if not even later (I think I had 12 balls in total). I remember, because I was starting to be sure that I wouldn't catch it since it just kept breaking out of the balls.

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First three moltres' i did caught first ball. No special trick, just coincidence. I have caught and missed my fair share since then as with all the legendaries.

Coincidences do sometimes happen.

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by gibell 7 years 7 months ago

Two weeks ago I had a stretch where I failed to catch 9 Moltres in a row! That sucked! But the last two days I've done 9 raids and caught all 9: 3 Moltres, 3 Articuno, 2 Zapdos and 1 Tyranitar. Bad luck and then good luck?

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