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Wait, so you're saying jamming "ABABABAB..." doesn't make it more likely? How could all my 5th grade friends be wrong!
by habosa 12y ago
Wait, so you're saying jamming "ABABABAB..." doesn't make it more likely? How could all my 5th grade friends be wrong!
- withdavidli 12y agoI always held the down arrow. It worked about 30-70% of the time.
- sebastianavina 12y agoit worked about 10 or 90% of the time for me
- NicoJuicy 12y agoI held the arrow down, the moment the poké ball went open and stopped pushing it before the pokéball was closed again (so yeah, just a tiny window)
- r4pha 12y agoIn 60% of the time, it worked every time. - From http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0357413/quotes http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0357413/quotes
- mvanotti 12y agoMaybe it messes with the random number generator.. somehow. Awesome article, but I suspect that something is wrong. If we see Mewtwo, lvl 70, full hp, frozen solid it says that -on average- we need 6 ultra balls. That is FAR from true. I always freezed all the legendaries to capture them easier, and it took always more than 10 balls to capture them.
- rafd 12y agoWe can get a more useful translation than "you need approximately 6 balls on average", here's how: The process of capturing is a Bernoulli process [0]: each time you throw the ball, there is a P chance of catching it, and it is independent of subsequent throws. Chance of catching, given 1 ball = P Chance of not-catching, give 1 ball = (1 - P) Chance of not-catching, given 6 balls = (1 - P)^6 For P = 17.5%, the chance that you don't catch your Mewtwo with 6 balls is 31% (which agrees with your observation that it often took more than 6 balls). Let's try for 10 balls: (1-0.175)^10 = 0.15 (still a 15% chance of not catching it). It's never certain! Even with 100 balls, there's a very slim chance you won't catch it. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernoulli_process https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernoulli_process