How To: Catch Pokémon

Hey Pokémon Fans!

It has been a while since I have last posted, but I will be updating more frequently now and I hope to inform you about new upcoming things soon. I'm going to kick start my blog off with a quick How To for beginning Pokémon fans and I will soon escalate to more advanced things, so please stay tuned!

This tutorial is going to be about one of the many different ways you can catch Pokémon. I'm using the game Pokémon Black for this tutorial, and I will be showing you guys how to attack and capture a wild Purloin with a Poké Ball. I hope you like this little tutorial and learn a couple of things from it as well. Enjoy!

P.S. Please don't pay much attention to the low quality pictures, my camera broke and I had to resort to using my iPhone's camera who, as you can see, takes very poor pictures. Hopefully you guys can follow along and still get an understanding of the situation.

1. NOTE: When you're first starting the match, it is always important to see if you can define your opponent's type. For example, Purloin is a Normal type, so Fighting type moves would be very effective against it. Effective moves are very powerful in lowering your opponent's health points (HP), helping aid your capture rate because your opponent is weak and unable to retaliate the Poké Ball as effectively. It is also a good thing to note your opponent's level as well. The higher the level, the harder it is to beat. It is always a good thing to have a Pokémon with a higher level to fight your opponent because it makes your opponent easier to damage. 

2. ATTACK: Click the "Fight" button in the middle of your screen, and use moves to lower your opponent's speed, attack, defense, and health. Dictate your moves, and use attacks that have an advantage over your opponent. In this case, using Fighting type moves against the Normal type opponent would decrease its health a lot more than any other move.

Since I did not have a Fighting type Pokémon, I used Lillipup instead. I used the move Tackle twice and lowered Purrloin's health just enough to make him easier to capture. You will know when your opponent has low HP when its health bar is no longer green, but yellow or red.

3. CHOOSE: Once you have lowered your opponent's HP, click the "Bag" button on the bottom left half of your screen. Then, select the Pokéball that would aid you the most in capturing your opponent. In this case, I used a regular Poké Ball.

4. WAIT AND HOPE: After you have chosen the Poké Ball you wanted, use it to capture your opponent. The Poké Ball will tilt back and forth for a while because your opponent is trying to fight back against the Poké Ball. Pokémon can sometimes escape the Poké Ball and you will have to try again, so hope that that never happens. Gratefully, I successfully captured the wild Purloin the first time and now he is resting peacefully in my PC.

So there you guys go! I hope you enjoyed my small tutorial, and I hope to update soon with more Pokémon tips and tricks. 

- The Pokémon Master