Which of the 5 statuses help more to catch pokemon? I feel like

>>33452986
forgot to mention frozen, which is kinda useless to me now since I don't have yet any pokemon that can freeze

>>33452986
>Sleep
>Random
Back to genwun

Pretty much any non-legendary catchrate Pokemon is fine with paralyzation.

Legendaries you can just save and reset if you run outta balls anyway.

>>33453008
yeah, also forgot to mention i'm replaying yellow, sorry about that

https://www.dragonflycave.com/rbycapturecalc.aspx

>>33453012
In which case just mash b a bunch of times to advance the primitive PRNG and you'll catch it eventually.

>>33453012
>yellow
I recall something about a bug in RBY causing status effects to be useless if you're using ultra balls.

>>33452986
It is easiest to use one of the permanent statuses, like Burn, Poison or Paralyzed. All of them increases the catch rate of 1.5 and Paralyze is the clearly best choice since you don't want the pokémon to actually faint.

Sleep and Freeze doubles the catch rate, but they're temporary and takes much more effort to keep inflicted. Sleep is better for the sole reason that you can't reliably inflict Freeze, especially without hurting the pokémon.

Also helps the most, but paralysis is best for long term catches ie legendaries

>>33453498
Sleep*
Butterfree is most useful for this

But mew also works too ;^)

>>33453504
Nah m8, Parasect with Spore and False Swipe

>>33452986
paralysis is my favorite for catching.
Doesn't do damage, increases catch rate, permanent, can cause opponent to miss turns.