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What is the best Pokemon for catching other Pokemon?

What are the most important things when trying to catch a Pokémon?

  • Reducing it’s life to 1hp
  • Putting it asleep or freezing it
  • Preventing it from fleeing, if it can
  • Not dying while doing it

How does one achieve that?

  • False Swipe
  • Spore, Hypnosis, Sing or any other sleep only inducing move (as there is no freeze only move)
  • Trapping via Ability(Arena Trap, Shadow Tag, Magnet Pull) or Moves (Mean Look, Block, Spider Web)
  • Bulky Pokémon, fast and precise Sleep Users

What are the problems with that?

  • Ghosts (as False Swipe is normal)
  • Pokémon with Vital Spirit and since Gen VI Plants in the case of Spore
  • Ghost and Normal Pokémon ignore some of these
  • Strong Offensive Pokémon and Legendaries e.g. Rayquaza

How does one solve these problems?

  • Type changing abilities (Aerilate) or type changing moves (Soak)
  • Abilty changing Moves like Entrainment or Ability ignoring Abilities like Mold Breaker
  • Spider Web
  • More Bulk, Evasion and Sleep

Now after the theory, lets see which Pokémon can fullfill these requirements best:

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Smeargle

Pro: Can learn all Moves to fullfill the Requirements, Easily Obtainable

Con: Terrible stats require it to be a much higher level than the target to live long enough to catch the target. (Lv 70 Wild Rayquaza kills Level 100 Smeargle in 2 hits)

Mandatory Moves:

  • False Swipe
  • Spore

Optional Moves:

  • Soak (To hit anything with False Swipe)
  • Spider Web (For trapping of fleeing enemies like Teleport Users and Roaming Legendaries)
  • Skill Swap (For Vital Spirit Users)
  • Double Team (to decrease risk of taking damage and recoil-damage users to kill themselves)
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Gallade

Pro: Relatively bulky on the Special side

Con: Problems with Ghosts

Mandatory Moves:

  • False Swipe
  • Hypnosis

Optional Moves:

  • Mean Lock (for Trapping)
  • Skill Swap
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Mew

Pro: Great stats overall give it a good bulk and make it a relatively fast sleep user

Con: No Trapping and problem with Ghosts,hHardest to aquire as Hypnosis on Mew is only available via Pokémon XD, and the optional Seismic Toss also in 3rd gen.

Mandatory Moves:

  • False Swipe
  • Hypnosis

Optional Moves:

  • Skill Swap
  • Seismic Toss (To start weaken 4x resistant Pokémon, to prevent the risk of running out of False Swipe AP)
  • Double Team
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Mega Pinsir

Pro: Physical Bulky, Strongest False Swipe User that can hit everything, as his False Swipe becomes type Flying

Con: No Sleep inducing and Trapping, Requires Megastone

Mandatory Moves:

  • False Swipe

Optional Moves:

  • Seismic Toss
  • Double Team
  • Iron Defense (to increase Bulk especially aggainst Pokémon with Rock type moves)

Personal Conclusion:

I’ve used Gallade as my personal go-to Catch Pokémon especcially for the roaming Legendaries since Gen IV, excluding Gen VII, where I just used my Parasect with False Swipe and Spore to catch all obtainabe Pokémon.

So in my Pokémon catching history it has definitively been Gallade.

Di Andee

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