Recent content by Rolken

It's all probability. You can catch a full-strength Mewtwo with a single pokeball if you get lucky; you can miss with 100 duskballs in a row if get really unlucky. Picking the outlier cases from 50-100+ hours of gameplay is going to give you weird results almost by definition. Regarding an...

Well I did some testing, and I can verify with 98% confidence that if the above formulas are correct, Quick Balls have a 4x multiplier. I gave the formulas a sanity check by tossing 50 ordinary pokeballs at untouched 255 catch rate pogeys. One would expect a 1/3 success rate, and I got 19/50...

Assuming all this is correct, it can be massively simplified. Make a slight round from 16711680 -> 16777216 and 1048560 -> 1048576 (both powers of 2 - I'm inclined to say that those are the real numbers and somebody screwed up somewhere, but who knows), and the second formula magically folds...

This is the formula I always see, and it's just plain wrong; any pokemon with a catch rate >127 would be caught 100% of the time, which is obviously nonsense. Has anyone actually looked at the code or are people making this stuff up?