Sadly, one Cresselia got away, breaking my perfect catch rate for it. Let’s see if we can improve my Kyogre Catch Rate over this week.
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Might be helpful for peace of mind to remember these catch rates are per-encounter, not per-throw. The vast majority of throws at a Legendary will fail to produce a catch. Even Great or Excellent throws are more likely to be escaped than to make the catch.
Oh, I know. It was just such a long streak of it being perfect. I was 35 for 35 until number 36 got away.
Congratulations on the 35 for 36 ! Way better than most, I bet.
Newb question: how/where does one gather this information on?
By using what data we have in our dex
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Go to the Pokédex, find the Pokémon you want to see the catch rate for, Then see how many of it you have seen and how many of it you have caught. Then your catch rate is number seen over number caught.
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Cool! I will start there.
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Bear in mind, if you raid with a group and somebody in the group has a legendary in the battle team active during your raid, your pokédex will count that as one seen for that type, although you never even had a chance to try to catch it. Same with non-legendaries you see in a gym whose enclosed stop you spin (even if you don’t battle it).
So the numbers from the dex are often one or two off, which can make a difference for pokémon for which your numbers seen are very low.
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That is absolutely not true. I saw Garchomp in a Raid Battle, but it didn’t count towards my Dex, and it was before I could register it.
Anything you see in the Raid System doesn’t count towards the Pokedex. The only time it counts in the Dex is if you saw it in the catch screen (catching it or failing to will count towards “seen” either way) or if it was put into a Gym (which is not possible for Legendaries but IS possible for Melmetal).
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Thank you for all the input. It’s still Greek to me but I’m learning!
Hm. I’ve seen it absolutely happen multiple times to my own dex, and you’ve absolutely seen it not happen. I’ll concede, in deference to your greater body of experience, and carry with me the distressing awareness that I’ve experienced something that, according to more-authoritative experience, absolutely does not happen.
That can be tested simple enough.
Number 367, Huntail. 0 times seen. Its not even a shade of a picture yet. All i see is the number.
Ill ask at the next raid if someone can put it in their team. Then we will know.
All I have is a year-old recollection of functional behavior noticed twice in passing - not exactly admissible evidence. Seeing the actual code would be more convincing; but that would still reveal the intended behavior, at best. Empirical observation, systematically collected through controlled tests, would give the actual behavior, though it would take a large number of tests to infer with confidence what it’s supposed to do.
I look forward to the results of your test. Knowing what it does is more valuable to me than verifying that my sloppy recall of something I wasn’t deliberately watching for was accurate.
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Seeing someone battling with a Pokémon that’s only known as a number in your Pokédex does not count towards your Pokédex. I still see the number 150, even though I have seen I don’t know how many Mewtwo in battles. Same with Groudon.
@Arem1771 @vorgriff3 @Robdebobrob
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True. Doesn’t it change the number to a gray-filled shape of the Pokémon in question when you see it, but don’t actually encounter it for catching or running away?
Like the Heracross entry. I’ve never been to its part of the world; but I saw one that was being used to attack a raid by somebody who had caught it in Mexico City and brought it back. The dex entry is gray, the detail page shows the fully colored image, but incomplete data:
Another that’s from out of this region that I haven’t seen at all is Corsola, which shows as number 222 and its detail page is not just incomplete, it’s not available at all.
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That’s because nobody puts it in a gym. Hopefully the Gen 2-3 regionals get unlocked during event like we had with the Gen 1s
I saw Heracross in a gym. It wasn’t until someone traded me it for an extra Kangaskhan I had–from the Ultra Bonus Event from last year–when I finally got one.
If youve battled it in a gym i think it counts as 1 seen. Only happens for the first 1 though.
Either that or when youre in a gym with 1 from your own team.
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