Where do the legendary Pokemon in Pokemon Platinum teleport to?

Answer 1

Catching a Teleporting Pokemon ranges from easy to difficult. For Abra, once you have Duskballs you can generally throw one at it right at the start and catch it as long as your playing between 7:00PM and 4:00AM, or most of the time you can just toss an Ultra Ball at it and it'll stay in there no problem. If your Pokemon is faster than it, you can use a move to put it to sleep first, which ensures pretty much anything but a Poke Ball will catch it without fail.

To catch roaming Pokemon that flee from battle like Latios, Latias, Creselia, etc., you can use you Master Ball to catch one without fail. The other(s) you'll need to dwindle their HP down before you'll be able to catch them.

There's a few ways you can do this. First, you can put the Pokemon asleep with a Pokemon that's faster than the roaming one and get a few hits in before it wakes up and runs away. Rinse and repeat until you have it's HP down low enough for False Swipe to get it at exactly 1 HP, at which point you can start putting it asleep and throwing Poke Balls at it.

Second, you can use a move like Mean Look, Spider Web, or Block, or a Pokemon with the abilities Magnet Pull, Arena Trap, or Shadow Tag to keep the Pokemon from fleeing. After that, you can fight it as normal. The catch is that once the flee prevention has been set up the only way to switch your Pokemon in battle and maintain the effects is if you used one of the moves to gain the effect, and then used the move Baton Pass to switch Pokemon. In the case of the flee prevention abilities, there is no way to switch and maintain the effect since Baton Pass does not transfer ability effects to Pokemon.

When determining the type of ball to use keep the following in mind:

Poke Ball = 1x catch rate

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Ultra Ball = 2x catch rate

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Fast Ball (Gen. II/HeartGold and SoulSilver) = 4× if used on a Pokémon that can flee from battle(Gold/Silver/Crystal)

4× if used on a Pokémon with a base Speed of at least 100 (HG/SS)

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Level Ball (Gen.II/HeartGold and SoulSilver) = 1× if the player's Pokémon is the same level as or a lower level than the wild Pokémon

2× if the player's Pokémon is at a higher level than the wild Pokémon but less than double it

4× if the player's Pokémon is more than double but less than four times the level of the wild Pokémon

8× if the player's Pokémon is of a level four times or more than that of the wild Pokémon

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Timer Ball (Gen. III/Gen. IV) = (number of turns passed in battle + 10) / 10)×, maximum 4×

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Net Ball (Gen. III/Gen. IV) = 3× if used on a Water-type or Bug-type Pokémon

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Dive Ball (Gen. III/Gen. IV) = 3.5× if used while underwater (Ruby/Saphire/Emerald)

3.5× if used on a water-dwelling Pokémon (Fire Red/Leaf Green/Gen. IV)

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Quick Ball (Gen. IV) = 4× if used on the first turn of a battle

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Dusk Ball (Gen. IV) = 3.5× if used in a cave or at night