What is the best ball to catch Articuno in?

Answer 1

You need to have about 50 ultra balls on you, and a Pokemon capable of putting up either Paralysis or SLEEP on the legendary bird. Make sure you have a secondary paralysis or sleep move on a different Pokemon, ESPECIALLY if your primary status effecter is weak to the legendary bird type.

1. SAVE YOUR GAME before engaging the legendary bird(but after you've cleared its dungeon). This will allow you multiple attempts to capture the bird should you accidentally kill them.

2. Engage the bird with moves/Pokemon that are resistant(or immune) to it's elemental attacks(So a ground type against zapdos, a fire/water/steel type against articuno, and a fire/rock/dragon/water type against moltres). However, this is only to prevent you from taking lots of damage. You should avoid using moves that are super effective against the bird, simply because should they CRIT you will probably lose your bird and have to retry. Use normal moves, or moves that only do 1x damage.

If you still have it: DO NOT USE LEECH SEED. See step 3.

3. Once your bird's HP is whittled down to a mere sliver, put a status effect on it(Do NOT use poison or leech seed or anything that will DAMAGE THE BIRD EACH TURN). Paralysis and sleep are your best bets(Personally, I prefer sleep). Keep that status effect up every time you throw an ultra ball at it. DONT WASTE ULTRA BALLS IF IT DOESNT HAVE A STATUS EFFECT UP, it will break out most of the time unless you're the luckiest person alive!

4. Toss ultra balls until all hope is lost or you capture the Pokemon :3

5. SAVE YOUR GAME IMMEDIATELY D: or you'll have to do that crap all over again!

Good luck :3

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look it completely depends on your starter. and i also believe they should be caught in sequence.

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first if you started with charizard, catch Articuno because he is super weak against fire then use articuno against zapdos because zapdos is weak against ice, then go to one island and catch moltres while using zapdos cause moltres is weak against electric. as far as pokeballs go use ultraballs only you could use a step-up method which means you would use weaker balls the step-up to the ultraball. personally i wouldn't because it's a waste of money.

you can use the same method with all starters just catch a good fire type like; grolithe or vulpix ( both evolved ) or trade over a charizard. so don't go waste your money and time just do it the easy way. trust me i have every Pokemon in the pokedex at level 100 even an oddish ( don't ask why ) in Pokemon ss try using a quick ball i caught entei and ho oh wit a quick ball in Pokemon ss

tbh just get like 50 or more ultra balls and some pokemon that are like 3 or 2 levels lower than the birds. ( they're level 50).
Zapdos is found in the power plant you can reach there from the route where rock tunnel is you need Surf to reach the power plant.

Answer 2

Master ball is usually the best ball for catching legendary Pokemon ( because it never fails, ) but this answer usually doesn't matter. if you don't have a master ball, go with your instinct's. the second best pokeball for catching legendary Pokemon would be the ultra ball.

Answer 3

I suggest an Ultra Ball after you've weakened and paralyzed it. It has a catch rate of 3 (basically means it's very hard to catch) so make sure you save the game before interacting with it. I wasted 50 ultra balls on my first try, then captured it with my first ultra ball on my second try.

Answer 4

Dusk Balls and Timer Balls would work well. Since you encounter it in a cave, Dusk Balls work well because they have a higher catch rate during the nighttime and in caves, and Timer Balls work well if the battle goes on for a while. Though if you're talking about Red/Blue/Yellow, then Great Balls are the next best thing (Dusk Balls and Timer Balls didn't exist in those games).

Answer 5

It depends. If you want to catch it without a problem,use a masterball. I wouldnt reccamend it though unless you have more.

Answer 6

Any kind will do, if Articuno is weak enough. fast asleep, waeker than your Pokemon in level, etc,etc,etc.

Answer 7

a master ball