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The Excellent Pokédex
Canada
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 14 พ.ย. 2023
Is the "ball trick" real in Pokemon Go? Answers from research!
I explain research looking into the question of whether the catch rate of Premier balls increases with every throw, and analyze the practical effects of this bonus.
The Silph Road article: web.archive.org/web/20230325083958/thesilphroad.com/science/raid-bosses-easier-catch-later-encounter
@bmenrigh_pogo tweets:
- Curveballs: x.com/bmenrigh_pogo/status/1685040762629881856
- Premier ball boost: x.com/bmenrigh_pogo/status/1685097751007440896
- Premier ball boost minor correction: x.com/bmenrigh_pogo/status/1685099901754261505
- Comparison with The Silph Road analysis: x.com/bmenrigh_pogo/status/1685475383502929920
Malte's site (currently not functional): rocket.malte.im
The Silph Road article: web.archive.org/web/20230325083958/thesilphroad.com/science/raid-bosses-easier-catch-later-encounter
@bmenrigh_pogo tweets:
- Curveballs: x.com/bmenrigh_pogo/status/1685040762629881856
- Premier ball boost: x.com/bmenrigh_pogo/status/1685097751007440896
- Premier ball boost minor correction: x.com/bmenrigh_pogo/status/1685099901754261505
- Comparison with The Silph Road analysis: x.com/bmenrigh_pogo/status/1685475383502929920
Malte's site (currently not functional): rocket.malte.im
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Sewaddle Community Day (Oct 5!): Excellent Curveball Throw Analysis
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How to RELIABLY Fast Catch again after Niantic broke it
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Are shiny Galarian Birds actually less rare than regular ones?
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How to Get Excellent Throws on ALL Released Dynamax Pokemon
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“There’s nothing I love more than being corrected on the internet.” Well said!
Hi : ) I only play for 2 months and I wanted to perfect my throws by looking at your video (thank you so much for your content btw). Is there an other recent change in excellent throws? After the pokemon attack, the excellent circle is going back to a larger size, resulting in the incapacity of using the technic of waiting for the end of his attack to get an excellent throw. Am I right? But, on the other side, for a beginner like me, it really helps adjusting a second throw since we are now able to throws the second ball in a really short time and making the adjustments needed without having to wait a full turn of circle. Hope I can make me understood, I'm french and writting english is much more difficult than listening 😓
Its funny how TheKruseShip started this whole trend of trying/debunking the ball trick myth
Thank u
Were the final numbers on the average number of throws to catch the shiny based on regular throws without Golden Raz and Ultra Ball? Or was it including those?
I plug a GameBoy into my phone and hold down + B, works half the time all the time :p
This is quite useful to know tbh, great video!
I appreciate that you cite your sources and link to them!
Why the sad song at the end of the video?
Always wondered why that last ball catch even if I flubbed an excellent and got a great throw felt like odds were boosted.
I knew it!!! Thanks 🙏
This is fantastic. Thanking the algorithm for suggesting this
this channel is going to blow. Investing at 3.73k subs I expect to see 10k in 2 months and 50k by halfway through 2025
i did this with a zapdos and got it. but the next time i tried no luck
Interesting. I always thought this was the case but never knew there was research into it. I am curious, though. Does it matter if the ball hits the pokemon? If you miss a throw, does your catch chance still increase on the next ball?
The increased catch rate of Premier Balls is consistent with my experience when catching Shadow Pokémon from Rocket teams. However, I wonder if the boost correlates with effective throws (even if the catch fails) or all throws (including those where the ball doesn’t hit the target and is wasted). Either way, the best practice would be to use the circle lock technique and avoid wasting any available balls.
The dedication! Hope you make a video on how to get excellent throw on galarian birds too. Since shinies just got released, I am sure people will start looking for an excellent throw guide.
Nice video. I have a question, I´ve heard that making an excellent throw with the 1° ball (in legendary raids at least) increases your chances to catch in the final ball. Is that true?
Best chanel out
K so why am I still failing the goddamn legends from raids it’s not fair
I've found that a regular throw right after an excellent throw is often more effective than the excellent throw itself
"...any magic incantation..." 😂🤣 This channel is gold! This topic was totally new to me. Thanks so much!!
I've caught 4 Galarian birds with this method so I thought it must've had at least SOME truth to it. Interesting! Guess I just got lucky.
Hey I mean, keep doing it if it works. 😅
Can i ado people to add me here ?
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That was an enjoyable and informatice watch. I thought it was going to segue into research done for Galarian Birds though
Maybe this video is helpful? th-cam.com/video/oUiErrVwZy8/w-d-xo.html
@@TheExcellentPokedex That was equally helpful! I guess since the question of throwing balls away to increase odds against G. Birds was brought up, I thought there would be an answer. But I guess success is anecdotal and, as you said, confirmation bias at best. Not sure if data on the matter could be collected without taking a lot of time or being organized between multiple players.
Most of the videos about community days etc are all the same. Thank you for something different
I still lost my hundo Groudon.
Great video! I really like these where you actually calculate the exact chance. I knew this trick existed but there was literally no evidence and it always could have beed just luck
I wouldn’t say throwing away balls for regular encounters has no effect, it actually looks like it may go down.
That's what the average of the graph looks like but the error bars are massive and include "it doesn't change at all" near the center, so I think it's pretty reasonable to think that the chance doesn't change at all.
What about the platnium metal +4 catch bonus?
Platinum medal gives 1.4x multiplier (that's what "+4 bonus" actually means). I included it in my example calculation. Is there somewhere else I should have mentioned it?
It’s been a while. So happy to see you getting the recognition from the community. Long may it continue 🫶🏽
Thanks so much! You're an OG. 😎
Great video
Worked for me today.
Nice! I mean, there isn't really that much cost to trying. It's not hard to get 20 Pokeballs to throw away. So why not try?
Great video!
To sum it up and leave all the math out; are the shiny birds rarer? Yes. Will we consider them rarer? Probably not since with good enough preparation they will never flee but the regular ones still will. Ironic really
I have tried the wasting ball method 3 times on galarian birds. I caught the bird the first time I tried it. The next 2 wasting attempts failed and the bird ran.
I mean honestly there isn't really a cost to doing it since who cares about a few wasted balls, even if maybe it doesn't do anything. The evidence equally shows that it doesn't hurt.
My experience was similar to the other commenter. I used throwing away balls for both my daughter's and my own accounts. We caught the first one but it didn't work again. I had assumed that it did work but Niantic nerfed it once they became aware of it.@@TheExcellentPokedex
Excellent analysis. I knew about the improving chances on premier balls, and have heard folks saying that the same mechanic applies to regular encounters(just with the risk of the pokemon fleeing if it goes in the ball) and hence to toss away balls deliberately for Galarian birds in an attempt to emulate that. I've even thrown away a handful of pokeballs and great balls before trying to catch them too. Thus far, to no success! Will discontinue that thanks to this video.
yeah, to be totally honest I wasn't sure if it was true or not until I saw the chart in the Silph Road study. It's been out for 3 years now and I hadn't actually seen the source until recently. Doesn't help that the site is down now!
Mind blowing!! Outstanding information.
Excellent video
Dude i also think this channel is a hidden gem you will grow so much you are like one of the few people i listen when i play pogo! Love how you prove everything with numbers
I aim to only talk about things where I can provide some analysis beyond what is normally talked about. I'm glad that this kind of thing has an audience!
swipe the berries straight up
Good to know that wasting balls isn't a viable option to increase catch rate.
Thank you so much for making this useful information (even more) public!
I couldn't believe that this information wasn't everywhere already. I had to dig to find it, and there are so many rumours around. Even most raid catch calculators don't seem to have the right information.
This channel is a hidden gem. You're gonna catch on fast. Enjoy being small-time while you can, cus I'm sure it'll be gone sooner than you know it! ❤
I agree
Thank you! I appreciate the kind words, even if slightly ominous. XD
Incense pokemon have an insanely high aggression and flee percentage. No idea why everyone is saying a shiny galarian bird won’t flee unless it’s not on incense
Great info, and thanks for providing the links too!
I want to give as much credit as I can to the people who actually discovered this! The kind of scale of data collection needed for this analysis is beyond the scope of what I can do myself.
(galarian) birds arent real.
I caught an articuno 3000cp hundo😂 feeling like im some wizard after watching this vid
Dang dude. That's some luck!
Thx for the clarification. I haven't tried throwing away balls, but it's nice to know it doesn't effect anything.
It's funny - I almost didn't include the "it doesn't do anything" part in the video, but the Silph Road analysis had this afterthought of a chart at the bottom of it that actually quantified that question. I'm glad, because there's so much speculation out there around this.
It used to, thats how I caught mine and a bunch of people I know caught theirs, pretty sure they fixed it once too many people starting catching the birds