1st Gen Zapdos - Pokemon Red

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    I am having trouble capturing Zapdos in Pokemon Red , I have found it in the power plant and I have saved the game before I confront it. My problem is that I get it's health down to a minimum and then I throw an ultra ball at it and the a message comes up saying that the I missed it, what am I doing wrong , please help me somebody.
     
    Yeah, that happens a lot, just keep throwing lots of Ultra Balls, one will bag the Zapdos eventually.
     
    Toothache said:
    Yeah, that happens a lot, just keep throwing lots of Ultra Balls, one will bag the Zapdos eventually.
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    I am using a level 56 blastoise , do you think i need to catch a pokemon that can put Zapdos to sleep?.
     
    yeah, you want status probs like sleep, paralysis, frozen solid if zapdos is at 1HP all others will destroy it(i think)
     
    yeah that happens if you dont weaken the pokemon enough.try to put it to sleep or get it down to 1 hp.
     
    Sleep/Freeze are the best catching modifiers, while PAR does help a bit, if you have something.
     
    If you got something with Sand-Attack, that can help for catching Pokemon as well. Lower their accuracy enough, and they'll almost never hit you, and while they are wasting their PP you get a lot safer chance to catch Pokemon. Struggle is also affected by accuracy, BTW, so it won't KO itself to death after it runs out of PP easily either. I found this trick to be effective on Pokemon Colosseum (with all the Pokemon that like to KO themselves after using Shadow Rush, I found it to be necessary for some Pokemon).
     
    And if you want, you could also lower it's other stats. I think it helps a bit. First accuracy, but if you lower its attacks, even if it hits you, you won't faint. I found out on Silver when I lowered a Wild Lugia's ATK and accuracy until it couldn't be lowered anymore and I caught it with 1 Pokeball.
     
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