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Punnyz posted...

Yea Quick balls ain't workin

I caught up to Raidog

they're not rocking

Now I acknowledge the visual representation of a Pokeball failing may not have anything to do with the behind the scenes calculations

afterall, how could you show "the calculations say no, but like, you were close!" when its number crunching?
You land on the mark or you don't

but still man, it feels bad when that ball doesn't rock lol

It actually is related to the behind the scenes calculations. Here's how catching works:

Each Pokmon has an innate catch rate. This catch rate is then modified by things like percentage of health remaining, status conditions, what ball you're using, and so on. Anyway, there's a bunch of math, and it'll eventually produce a target number. Then the RNG will pull four times and each of these numbers will be compared to the target number. If each of the four numbers was lower than the target, you'll successfully catch the Pokmon. If some of them weren't? The ball will shake once for each one that was, and then the Pokmon will escape.

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