Butterfree
Admin
Website: The Cave of Dragonflies
Commenting on: /calculators/gen-i-catch-rate

The Ultra Ball has a lower catch rate than the Great Ball under certain conditions, such as when the Pokémon is at full health or has a high catch rate. Under other conditions, Ultra Balls are better. You can see the Gen I Capture Mechanics page for an explanation of how it works and the ability to generate graphs of how the odds of capture change for the different balls as you lower the Pokémon's HP.

[05/12/2024 18:23:52]

CatGamesNL
Commenting on: /calculators/gen-i-catch-rate

So the ultra ball has a lower catch rate than the great ball in gen 1? or is it miswritten?

[05/12/2024 05:32:44]

Butterfree
Admin
Website: The Cave of Dragonflies
Commenting on: /mechanics/gen-i-safari-zone

@Steven Mattero: In FR/LG, the mechanics work a little bit differently; in particular, the effects of bait and rocks are no longer nearly as drastic. You can find more info on Bulbapedia. I haven't yet actually made a page or calculator for that version of the Safari Zone - it might be interesting to do so.

[29/11/2024 18:17:28]

Steven Mattero
Commenting on: /mechanics/gen-i-safari-zone

Do you know if the overall strategy would differ for Gen III (FR/LG)? You mentioned that the Safari ball rng was messed up for Gen I, but I'm not sure if that would alter the optimal strategies or just improve your odds overall.

[29/11/2024 00:09:43]

Steven Mattero
Commenting on: /calculators/gen-iii-iv-catch-rate

Found your page, u can just delete both these comments.
Btw you rock! Thank you for this!

[28/11/2024 23:54:46]

Steven Mattero
Commenting on: /calculators/gen-iii-iv-catch-rate

Hi im wondering how the Safari Zone Machanics affect the catch rate? Would throwing a rock be equivalent to HP of 50% ? But throwing bait and no rock is having the opposite affect I believe. I couldn't find any precise info on this…

[28/11/2024 23:46:51]

Laura
Commenting on: /fan-fiction/go

This reminds me of the Detective Pikachu games, the Pokemon Stadium games, and fostering a pet. I'm kind of surprised the narrator didn't give the Pidgey a nickname, though - she's just Pidgey.

[28/11/2024 16:41:45]

Muuja
Commenting on: /essays/my-glitched-jolteon

Similar thing happened playing a legit copy of HeartGold. The button for the radio on the Pokégear disappeared completely after obtaining the expansion card from Lavender Town's Radio Tower. Tapped the spot where it would be and nothing happened. The worst part was I didn't realize it had happened until I went to wake up the Snorlax outside of Vermillion City, since I never thought to check after finishing the Radio Tower shenanigans.

Now I feel the urge to dig through old Discord messages to find out if I took any photos.

[27/11/2024 17:20:09]

Butterfree
Admin
Website: The Cave of Dragonflies

The Icelandic news has followed the adventures of Iceland the supermarket chain trying to trademark the name of our country, yeah. It's all a bit absurd.

[20/11/2024 14:33:45]

Ben

Have you heard about a supermarket chain that keeps trying to trademark the word "Iceland"? They trademarked it temporarily in 2016, before it got removed. But the supermarket chain are still trying to get the trademark back?

Does this story make the news in Iceland regularly?

[20/11/2024 10:13:53]

Laura
Commenting on: /opinions-theories/english-names

One of the few English names of Gen 4 Pokemon I dislike is Gible - it's more logical to spell it Gibble, as in nibble. I keep instinctually wanting to pronounce Gible with a long I sound.

[19/11/2024 17:14:21]

Butterfree
Admin
Website: The Cave of Dragonflies
Commenting on: /calculators/gen-ix-catch-rate

They aren't - however, failed critical captures are no longer animated to be distinguishable from a failed non-critical capture. The capture mechanics page explains this.

[19/11/2024 13:31:15]

Blok
Commenting on: /calculators/gen-ix-catch-rate

Crit captured in gen 9 are 100% cr

[19/11/2024 11:49:34]

anon

this website reminds me of what the internet used to feel like. This is the website equivalent of walking into a warmly lit front room with a roaring fire after trudging through miles of arctic snow in jeans and new balance runners. Thanks

[15/11/2024 08:20:24]

Trevor
Commenting on: /calculators/gen-iii-iv-catch-rate

I like the catch rate calculator

[14/11/2024 18:51:14]

Malonlon
Commenting on: /fake-pokemon

These are damn cool

[14/11/2024 10:52:12]

Butterfree
Admin
Website: The Cave of Dragonflies
Commenting on: /aap/is-pokemon-childish

Glad you enjoyed!

Bots these days can easily solve math problems, unfortunately. Naming that Pokémon has the advantage of being very specialized and thus unlikely to be solved by mass spambots, while also being generally fairly solvable by the website's actual target audience but not bot farming.

I might one day swap it out for a general third-party solution like reCAPTCHA, if the custom-built verification stops being effective, but in the meantime, you can click the "Don't know it" link until you get a Pokémon you recognize.

[11/11/2024 12:48:13]

Dylan
Website: dylan.at
Commenting on: /aap/is-pokemon-childish

Really nice blog post. I can see why many people are into Pokémon as, at least to my knowledge, there doesn't seem to be a better fantasy animal collection game. I personally don't think that the games are childish at least, however I do sort of think the anime / films are more childish than any other of the media that is associated with the Pokémon brand. It's really nice to hear your opinion about this.

Keep up the good work.
~ Dylan (dylan.at)

P.s. Could you change the Pokemon captcha out for something else? Maybe a maths question? I am bloody terrible at naming these Pokémon, haha!

[11/11/2024 11:14:56]

zdpk
Commenting on: /sinnoh/platinum-vs-seeker

Worth noting that, for HP EVs, Tuber Jared shares a screen with Tuber Chelsea with a single Azumarill (3 HP EVs). She had a Bibarel in D/P.

[08/11/2024 11:38:31]

CulturCos
Commenting on: 11-02-24

Just wanted to say thank you for keeping this going, ive been using it for about a year now and its been very helpful. Looking forward to the next year with everyone!

[06/11/2024 02:49:05]