Fuck. This. Pokemon.
>trying to catch Comfey and Passimian in Lush Jungle
>after 30 minutes finally run into a wild Passimian
>get it down to 25% health
>it calls for help
>kill the help
>calls for help again
>kill the help
>calls for help again... repeat about 15 times
>finally it doesn't call for help, I send out my mon to paralyze it
>it misses
>Passimian kills that mon
>calls for help
>heal my paralyzer, then kill help
>calls for help again
>send in paralyzer again
>miss again with status
>gets killed
>Passimian calls for help
>repeat this game forever
>finally get a turn to paralyze it again and it works
>doesn't call for help so I toss a ball
>breaks free
>calls for help
>kill the help
>calls for help
>repeat again and again
>string of several turns where it doesn't call for help, but breaks free of every single ball I send at it
>finally decide to get its health lower
>my weakest fucking move comes out
>IT MISSES
>Passimian calls for help
>decide to hit Passimian anyway
>CRITICAL HIT
>Passimian dies
>its help just sits there, laughing at me
I'm just trading for this little shit now.
Who the fuck thought every fight being a SOS battle was a good idea?
>>30215680
>Fuck. This. Pokemon.
Gladly
>>30215680
Para or sleep so it doesn't call for help
False swipe so you don't kill it
Git gud
>>30215680
Put up a Pikipek on the GTS. Ask for level 1 Passimian. Make message "I want to fill my Pokedex" and tell me your IGN.
>>30215680
>thunder wave on the first turn
wow that was hard
Thought I was the only one. Trying to catch this is what killed SOS for me.
>>finally get a turn to paralyze it again and it works
>>calls for help
They can't call for help when paralysed. Thanks for lying to make yourself seem relatable on the internet though. Upvoted.
>>30216037
>>30216295
These
Literally get good.
Do you people still not know that you can disable allies with ANY fucking status.
You know...that thing you use whenever you catch a pokemon, you know...that thing you have on every PvE team ever for the purpose of utility and making catching pokemon easier, you know...that thing you should have used the moment you saw a Passimian and thus never would have had this problem.
You know Sun and Moon gets a lot of flak for being easy in certain parts, but one's definitely sure - you will get punished and abused for being a retard that ignores basic mechanics, on that front there is no handholding, enjoy your reinforcements and bad RNG rolls you refuse to control with the 20 different potential ways the game gives you.
Keep that shit up, catch the one called for help and get a potential shiny and 4 IV max
>having to status a pokemon to catch it
the autism in this board is amazing... just throw a fucking pokeball at it, odds are you'll catch it!!
>>30215680
Nope, you're just stupid.
SOS is great for rare pokemon if you know what you're doing.
>Finally find a Feebas
>Male
>Pre-S/M: whoops, better have a ditto or you're fucked
>S/M: SOS battle until a female shows up, and if you put in your due diligence, it might even have its HA, and would make a great breeding specimen.
Even though, I don't think anyone runs Cute Charm Milotic.
It amazes me that /vp/ is so full of saints who aren't even the least bit annoyed by SOS bs when they try to catch Pokémon.
>>30218916
Half my team runs sleep or paralysis.
>>30218916
I don't catch pokemon unless I'm going to use them, and I rarely found any pokemon I wanted to use since the encounter rates for everything int his game are so shit