Hardest Pokemon to Catch in Every Game

Hardest Pokemon to Catch in Every Game
Heartgold Randomizer Hardcore Nuzlocke:
• What a Fantastic Start...
Music Used:
Intro - Lilycove City Pokemon RSE
Kanto - Safari Zone Pkmn Ruby & Sapphire
Johto - Route 47 & 48 HG SS
Hoenn - Dive Theme Pokemon Emerald
Sinnoh - Route 205 Pokemon Diamond
Unova - Relic Castle Pokemon BW
Unova 2 - Aspertia City Pokemon BW2
Kalos - Route 15 Pokemon XY
Alola - Welcome to the Alola Region Pokemon Sun and Moon
Galar - Glimwood Tangle Pokémon Sword and Shield
Hisui - Firespit Island Pokémon Legends Arceus
Paldea - Pokémon Scarlet & Violet Legendary Quartet Battle Music

[@MysticUmbreon]

So while I understand, that Munchlax in DPPT is super tedious to aquire, I believe Beldum is equally as bad imo. Beldum's swarms are much more tedious to find since its a random route once a day to get a swarm for plus you'd need the swarm to be Route 228. If anything, Sinnoh could have been a tie entry for both Munch and Beldum. Both are equally really annoying lol.

[@joaocarvalho5157]

You can change the time on the ds to get the beldum swarm but for munchlax you need to find out where your special trees are then wait 6 hours for every encounter to have a 1% chance to get munchlax

[@Mymainelife87]

What about chansey in cerulean cave. That makes it much easier to catch

[@majesticespeon3126]

@@Mymainelife87 That’s only in the let’s go games

[@Mymainelife87]

@@majesticespeon3126 nope it’s all the way in gen 1 as well

[@zdude0127]

Ehh.... Can't really agree. Like you said before that once you get the swarm, you have a rather generous encounter rate. Munchlax has essentially an entire college thesis behind getting one. BDSP does allow you to find Munchlax in the Underground though.

[@zdude0127]

The fact Tree Munchlax wasn't on this list is shocking.

[@Kil000999]

That’s the first Pokémon I thought about when I saw the video.

[@Nocoslim]

Wats that

[@zephyrzeus5500]

​@@Nocoslimthe one that you need to put honey on trees?

[@Lockerft]

Yes and it's like two trees and a very low spawn and catch rate

[@silversalamence10]

I was also expecting Munchlax as well, considering you can manipulate swarms.

[@roninwarriorsfan]

Mystic. You forgot D/P/PT munchlax. It has a feebas factor for honey trees. 4/21 honey trees have a 1% chance to spawn one, and these trees spawn a pokemon every 6 hours in real time

[@Wailerman]

Spiritomb, whose method of encountering depends on how many friends you have, did not appear for Sinnoh

[@SpecsJigglypuff]

It was easier to make friends at the time than to get the munchlax for example Depends too on if we’re talking about in the games lifecycle or now

[@billybobbobson3797]

You can just go up and down with a single friend relative or 2nd ds. It wasn't that hard

[@zdude0127]

Spiritomb is definitely more accessible than Tree Munchlax.

[@Muriuki34]

​@billybobbobson3797 Talk for yourself, some of us never had a DS, the games, and a relative with the same, at the same time, or ever.

[@primortje-]

In gen 1 you can actually catch Chansey in the Cerulean Cave as well really easy. So I would say for gen 1 the hardest pokemon to catch would be Tauros with that insane high run rate after every turn.

[@killthehero5031]

Fr Chansey was always a easy catch

[@theconnected7234]

You should've named yourself Ash Ketchum since the catch rate turns stupid easy for him

[@Tom21369]

Yeah and in the Konto remakes Chansey has a 4% chance to encounter in area 3 of the safari zone. This dude didnt even quick check bulbapedia for Chansey lmao what a joke

[@Anders0429]

Thought the exact same thing. Chansey is immensely easier to catch than Tauros because it won't run from you in Cerulean Cave.

[@christianwilliams8967]

If we talking safari zone though I’ve caught countless Tauros but only 1 chansey ever and I’ve only seen 3

[@kosakukawajiri5007]

Are we all forgetting about the Feebas pond in DPPt? You gotta go through cave after cave probably lost as hell dealing with tough high level wild Pokemon. Then there is the room itself: Just 4 tiles where it has a chance to spawn, and they change every day? Ouch. At least in BW and BW2, you had a rare chance to find a whole Milotic on Route 1 if you fish in the rippling water and not deal with Feebas' bullcrap, who also is on Route 1 in the ripples. I hit the jackpot when I found a shiny Milotic down there in Black 1. Oh Jewels... You were worth it.

[@Delaretro_]

I caught a Chansey holding a lucky egg in Fire Red quiet recently ! It was like finding a shiny almost lol

[@pokeperson1000]

Congrats! What challenge are you gonna hunt for next? Maybe a shiny Chansey holding a lucky egg?

[@Delaretro_]

@@pokeperson1000 thank you brother ! I’m working on a shiny Dratini from the game corner lol wish me luck 😂 (I just love love love Gen 3-5 aesthetic)

[@Jake-fe5yt]

Still working on getting lucky egg. Been months!

[@ryanmills892]

I remember doing a Water-Type Only run of Emerald some years ago, and fishing for a Feebas took literally two hours as i went through every single water tile on that route until i found one and just chucked a Premier Ball out of sheer delight and the "useless ball" actually worked.

[@thiagoguilhermedeoliveira4835]

Relicanth was never a problem to find to me. Now Chimeco. That was a hell of a hunt. I got 3 shinys on his area before find a chimeco.

[@chrisrejon2872]

I never found that feebas💀

[@newtonnicholas4836]

The pain is real 😅

[@ItsFireTiger]

I only found a Feebas in Pokemon White It was either surfing or fishing in the darker water on RT 1 & then had to get the Prism Scale to evolve it.

[@_G50_]

I got lucky and got it on the first place I checked lol. Evolving it was another story though in gen 3...

[@MHFelem]

I was one of these people who knew about the 6 tiles Feebas from the internet and went to look for it; checking every individual tile I managed to find the tile eventually 😅

[@newtonnicholas4836]

Lucky bastered 😅😅 we envy you 😅

[@onetallpheeesh]

How many encounters before you would move on?

[@MHFelem]

@@onetallpheeesh I used the Old Rod to limit the encounters just on Magikarps. Started from the very north of route 119, Every tile I check 3-5 times then move forward to next tile (since Feebas have high encounter rate on its special tile, 3 times are enough; unless you are unlucky). Effectively found it after 18 hours using that way.

[@unclephillymya]

7:14 in Sword&Shield Crown Tundra you can find Beldum Metang and Metagross in the grass JUST USES SLEEP POWDER ON THEM 😭 THEY’RE SUCH A PAIN

[@mikeskis7887]

Every play through of Silver, I ran Skarmory every time, possibly my favorite non legendary bird like Pokémon. And I don’t remember ever having issues catching him

[@dasbooooost3305]

Yea, every playthrough of the 2nd gen games I think I had a Skarmory. I also don't recall it being that difficult to encounter or catch.

[@manakixiv8690]

Mystic Out here feeding us good quality content on the daily fr 🔥

[@c.w.simpsonproductions1230]

I remember finally catching Chansey in Leafgreen and being utterly shocked to find that it was holding a Lucky Egg. The first and only time I ever caught one, and it was holding an extremely rare item. Those are freaking shiny odds.

[@hey_its_branden]

I know Ralts isnt hard to catch when you encounter it in gen 3 and the remakes but it has 1% encounter rate and can only be found on route 102. Easy to catch when found but damn did it give me trouble actually finding it

[@lj3830]

"But it has 1% encounter rate" Actually ralts has a 4% encounter rate.

[@hey_its_branden]

@@lj3830 according to Pokemon Data base in gen 6 the encounter rate is 1% the horde encounter is 5%

[@sammisomara]

In my first Ruby playthrough Ralts was the first pokemon I caught so I didn’t know how rare it was…until I decided I wanted it to be the first pokemon I caught in EVERY Gen 3 playthrough. I distinctly remember at least one time my rng was so bad that I literally had a Blaziken before catching any other pokemon

[@lj3830]

@@hey_its_branden Really? I could have sworn that ralts has a 4% encounter rate since that was what the bulbapedia said.

[@hey_its_branden]

@@lj3830 yea on bulbapedia it says 4% for the orginal and remakes but on PokemonDB it says 1% idk which one is true tho

[@groudonvert7286]

In Pokémon Yellow, you can catch Chansey in Mewtwo's cave, so in Yellow it's not Chansey the hardest Pokémon to get.

[@oliverleonard7730]

Or in Red and Blue you can just exit the safari zone and fly to Cinnabar Island and catch it.

[@Mymainelife87]

It is also there in red and blue. He must have forgotten that part

[@majesticespeon3126]

You’re thinking about let’s go Pikachu and Eevee

[@Lokear]

​@@majesticespeon3126Nope, it does appear in Cerulean Cave in all of gen 1 as well.

[@majesticespeon3126]

@@Lokear After looking it up you are correct I am sorry I did not realize that lol

[@akilcharles3473]

Finding any of these Pokemon with a rare chance of 1% is difficult as it is, but not as much as finding them as a shiny makes it worth even more problematic. The most of anything is a Sinistea that's both authentic & a shiny Pokemon, god bless anyone that has/was able to catch 1 of those in Sword & Shield. Also now looking back at older generation games from gen 1-5, as much as we fans tend to critized Gamefreaks direction in the newer Pokemon games with it's artstyle and gameplay, it makes it much easier to able catch Pokemon and do things that we cannot do in the older games. Such as leveling up our team faster with Rare Cadies/Exp candies, able to switch our Pokemon abilities,earn money faster and so on.

[@Spizzles]

Id argue Salamence would be hardest gen 7. You have a 1% on route one to find bagon, and a 1% chance on top of that to encounter salamence thru SOS. Although its level 4 or so, its catch rate is not only pretty low, but youre most likely to be early game when you encounter it (somehow) and only have pokeballs.

[@springcheese3642]

I’m surprised he didn’t mention this even though he mentioned the level 100 Gyarados.

[@mrwateva123]

The memory from my gameplays of Pokémon that were hard to find/catch were the Pidgeotto in Viridian Forest, Teddiursa in Dark Cave, Phanpy on Route 46, and Heracross in the headbutt trees. I rmb those being painful.

[@geoffstonehouse5829]

I didn't know about feebas factor until about 3 years ago. Which means I was incredibly lucky when I managed to find one in sapphire. I kept changing spots as I have always done that, but I found it in less than half an hour.

[@kdaviper]

It's not too bad really with a systematic approach. You don't have to search every tile since the area it is in is contiguous. You can go in a grid skipping every other tile. Still a pain in the ass but not as bad as trying every single tile

[@JimFaindel]

Because I didn't bother exploring the safari zone and you rarely ever saw one being used in the games, I didn't even know Kangaskhan was a pokemon until many years later, when its mega evolution was rampant in online play.

[@crawdaddy2004]

13:30 Not necessarily true about not knowing the form of Sinistea until after you caught it. You can just run into a bunch and then run from them. Once you encounter the antique form and run, you’ll get a message saying that your Pokedex has been updated. Then you just re-encounter the one you ran from. *** That said, this only works the first time you encounter one.

[@TrejonJohnson-bx2ls]

I have caught 3 in scarlet🤠 within a week

[@GoliathZ13]

While completing the pokedex in PLA I found myself struggling to catch a munchlax (about an hour of walking to its spawn, going back to base and sleeping until it finally appeared), and if you want to 100% the pokedex (as in, have every entry be rank 10), Shieldon was by far the pokemon that took me the longest to complete, as it has a small chance of spawning in space rifts specifically in coronet highlands, and you need to catch at least TWO to be able to get the rank 10. I spent three days on-and-off until I finally caught the second one.

[@johnnypollack3243]

Keep up the awesome work and videos love the video

[@ducklinmo]

You been in your bag dropping bangers

[@Barricade912]

In gen 2 I ran across and caught plenty of skarmory over my play throughs. Most difficult to catch for me was definitely Aipom

[@ArchLightning001]

With the Chansey I found if you use the old mam glitch, you can leave the safari zone and surf along the cinnibar shore to get those mons

[@rngo333]

You been dropping bangers faster 😵‍💫

[@monstersmike4585]

Beldum was a gifted Pokémon in gen3 or that's where I'd get mine but then dreams radar gave me allot... I've never heard of the lvl100 gyrodos but i remember in those games there was a place rumored to have a lvl100 magikarp and i fished awhile looking for that...

[@rdrummer2]

I just got into pokemon and this channel has been the biggest help so far

[@jaidamwhi4589]

I suggest also checking out lockstin and gnoggin and bird keeper toby

[@whisperingwooper1763]

I also suggest them they are both great!

[@rdrummer2]

@@jaidamwhi4589 I'll check them out :) Thank you for suggesting them!

[@jaidamwhi4589]

@@rdrummer2 no problem my guy

[@Vantoxify]

great video man

[@Hiccupanda]

Chansey is definitely harder to obtain in frlg than in rbgy. Chansey could also be found in Cerulean Cave in rbgy, but not in the remakes.

[@Tom21369]

Chansey can also appear in the Cerulian Cave in gen 1 so it’s definitely not the hardest pokemon to catch in the game. I also want to mention that Chansey has a 4% encounter rate in the Kanto Remakes in area 3 of the Safari Zone. But i think its probably the hardest Pokémon to catch in the remakes since it can only be found in the safari zone in these Games and the other former gen 1 1% encounters also have a 4% encounter rate in each of the other areas.

[@newtonnicholas4836]

Just loving the contents… 😇😇😇

[@5Porygon]

Thank you so much for all videos you made. You are one of my absolutely best youtubers ever. Greetings from Czech Republic. Jsi borec. Mám moc rád tvoji tvorbu. Zdraví Nogy. Posílám pozdrav z Ústeckého kraje.

[@silversalamence10]

One thing I appreciate about Antique form Sinistee is that finding one in Paldea is less tedious due to the camera function.

[@Colin91809]

and the fact that you can get outbreaks of them

[@BS_Included]

A fun thing to note, there are two fully evolved Pokemon in existence that can hit ghost type Pokemon with False Swipe, those being Scrappy Pangoro and Hisuian Decidueye. So technically it could be easier to catch ghost types from Gen 6 onwards on this list if you pick up a hidden ability Pangoro.

[@edgarhernandez4234]

In gen 1; if you visit the safari zone before you start all the steps to do the missing no. glitch, as soon as your at the part where you’re swimming up and down the missing no coast, all safari zone Pokémon will spawn at their original levels and you can weaken them as you do with wild Pokémon. Or if you encounter missing no and multiply the master ball, you can just catch them that way too.

[@maximvandepoll3008]

Personally, I always found Kangaskhan much harder to catch in gen 7 then Dhelmise. That kangaroo thing can only be encountered in a very specific location, and only has a 1% chance of being encountered in the first place. I distinctly remember that it took a while for me to even find it, as opposed to Dhelmise.

[@whitethunder9064]

Yeah, for some reason I never found Dhelmise hard to find. Maybe I just got lucky.

[@sctkarter1111]

I didn’t know way back when how lucky I was that I even came across Skarmory but I remember being so stressed catching it lol

[@Alex901028]

In 25 years of being a pokemon fan. I have only maneged to catch Cansey in the generation 1 safari zone once

[@newtonnicholas4836]

Me and my friend were playing emerald back in the days on our GBA and wasted about 4 Duracell batteries and still didn’t catch feebas 😅😅 the days

[@christopherlemanski4560]

Man that takes me back. I did the same thing with a friend of mine. We played for 16 hours straight before he finally found one, as did I shortly after. Nowadays I couldn’t even try to stay up that late

[@LucyKosaki]

I remember trying to find a feebas in emerald and fishing in every spot on that river twice. I didn't get it, which means I must've lost that 50:50 12 times in a row o.o I encountered many hundreds of carvanhas while doing that, one of them even being shiny which I ended up catching as one of my first ever shinies. Still never managed to find one in emerald though.

[@devonbrock6772]

You mentioned using a fire or electric move to check for Sturdy on Skatmory. Sturdy didn't act like a focus sash until gen 5. Good luck knocking out that Skatmory every time.

[@TKnHappyNess]

Sinistea is easier to find in the Crown Tundra, however you have to be extra careful because they have Memento

[@senator_pancake1603]

Ive had skarmory be my first encounter at route 45 in soulsilver and i also remember it was extremely easy to catch. It was like "oh a Skarmory ill just catch that real quick and move on".

[@spencerbowden2979]

Ah yes feebas spending 3 hours to find at least 1 of the 6 tiles he spawns on.

[@randydodson1570]

This one seems like an honorable mention. Golisopod I was going to capture one that was frozen, but its emergency exit still allowed it to leave the battle.

[@lucasinexile4396]

I think that for S/M and US/UM, Politoed is more difficult to catch for more difficult requirement you need for you to encounter it. The only way you can got it is either evolve your Poliwhirl by trafing, which doesn't count, and the SOS battle in Malie Garden. Although it can spawn with any Pokemon and the catch rate is higher than Dhelmise with 45, you need to setup rain to encounter it at night with only 1% to spawn. It is already frustrating to get the Politoed to spawn, it got Perish Song, which you either used Taunt, or hope that it doesn't use one or even hope that you can catch it before the count down ended. So, you need a Rain setter with Taunt and False Swipe (to keep one Pokemon alive for calling allies), otherwise, it is very difficult. Mr Mime with Soundproof, Skill Swap (but it can also learn Taunt, which is better) and Rain Dance can do too but it doesn't have False Swipe. I actually got a shiny Poliwag and got my Pokemon infected by Pokérus because of that.

[@anthonyanglemyer]

Ooh, yeah, some of these would be nightmares, I bet.

[@josh1234857]

Yeah. I remeber hunting forever for a feebass. I don’t even want to think about how long it took lol

[@imamoronand9199]

for beldum, heal and pain split to stop it from killing itself. mismagius with pain split is ghost-type, so take down wouldn’t hit anyway. still a pain to catch, but there’s no timer on it anymore. the rarest pokemon in DPPt is probably either feebas or munchlax, although personally I’ve had more luck finding munchlax than heracross. Munchlax is 1% on honey trees and feebas is similar to in Hoenn except deep in a mountain

[@RioluLucario1994]

The hardest Pokemon to catch for me, BY FAR, was the rare encounter Metagross found at Giant Chasm in BW. It was the first time I legitimately lost my patience and abandoned trying to catch a Pokemon. Mind you that this is the same location where I caught Kyurem with relative ease

[@whisperingwooper1763]

Same here! Such a hard catch!

[@amandadaley4182]

I actually was able to catch a shiny antique form of sinistea, mind you it was during an outbreak in Pokemon Violet. It was a pleasant surprise for me. ❤

[@theconnected7234]

Scott Steiner would go nuts at all the percent chances in this vid

[@rachelmayes3064]

Iirc in Sword and Shield theres a certain idle Sinistea can do where it spins, allowing you to see the bottom at some angles.

[@katchupwizard]

you can flash/thunder wave Beldum to lengthen the encounter. not a super unknown combo, but one I've had success with

[@CrossoverFan4life]

I called Beldum being on here. I caught one in Ultra Sun personality. I also got Metang in White 2. Used both on my main teams.

[@Ajamaharis]

For Johto it can be true that skarmory have lowest catch rate and quite low encounter rate, but it only have lvl 27 encounter while other pokemon are 22-25 so using repel can easly boost that to 100% with lvl 26 mon leading party

[@psyxypher3881]

Chansey can be found in Cerulean Cave, which I'd say invalidates it. Someone else did a similar list and decided it was Dodrio...but in Yellow only.

[@gloweye]

Misdreavus really outshines Skarmory in Johto, because it's only available after 16 badges, instead of Skarmory's 7. Though I guess with the remakes you can just grab it in the Safari Zone. For Kalos, my second Flabebe ever was a White Flower. It's now a Florges that's part of my living dex.

[@davipassarinho2927]

You could make a video of the best late game unova team for pokemon black and white. That would be great. And I kind of need it since I chose snivy as the starter.

[@Rytex-nh7pm]

I think that the pokemon that is hardest in scarlet and violet is wo-chien, as any encounters that aren't statics can be boosted by sandwiches, wo-chien is the hardest of the static pokemon to catch as it has recovery in the form of giga drain and can half your hp with ruination and is a grass type so spore wont work to sleep wo-chien, not to mention lowering your attack by 25%

[@Shimatzu95]

You may have forgotten but on gen 1 you could catch chansey in the mewtwo cave as well (lv 56 if i remember correctly)

[@oohFrittata]

I feel like chansey is a lot easier to get than tauros/kangaskhan because you can find it in cerulean cave

[@Achampnator]

8:10 caught it after several tries in my LP of Pokémon Black Version

[@Rncfbnx]

Skarmory was fairly easy for me. I saw a handful bc I was grinding in that area 😅

[@pokemontrainerthink9045]

I literally got a dhelmise last night on my first time fishing on poni island lol

[@estabravo]

*Laughs nervously in lv 221 Snorlax from missigno glitch*

[@JohnSmith-fe3di]

Chansey only has a 1% encounter rate in the center area of the safari zone, in area 2 it is 4% in r/b, and center area east in yellow it’s 4%.

[@DjHumanity]

I try catch Chancy in Cerulean cave. It has a low appearance but at least you can put to sleep

[@rafaelscott3310]

Nobody remembers the Platinum Mount Coronet Feebas. I gave up on fishing it after two weeks trying.

[@groudonvert7286]

I agree Beldum is cringe to catch with its really low Catch Rate, but Munchlax is so much worse to get than Beldum in DPP.

[@smoxch5444]

The way you pronounce Sinistea made me want to thrown my phone at the wall.

[@pedroportela5322]

forgot pokemon go not counting raid pokemon we have ,galar moltres not only comes from dayli incense wich is once a day for 15 min but has a 1 pokeball trow and from the 3 birds has the rarest weather boost to help it spawn being fog , and tied with moltres is the lake trio wich have the same restriction on 1 ball toss on top of being a 1 minute spawn and only spawning near "big" lakes wich is very subjective for pokemon go .

[@XAllelujahXxx]

I thought I was dreaming and no one believed me when I said I fished up a level 100 gyarados. Thank you for proving me sane.

[@MrDarkness1119]

Hey @MysticUmbreon, I’ve been a fan of your channel for a few years now and I have used your best teams in various playthroughs of Pokémon. Now, I come to you with a challenge. Can you make a best team, Generation 6 and above, with Pokémon exclusive to their respective region? Just trying to give you some ideas for more awesome content.

[@darrylkristovich7815]

I got a feebas then hatched a shiny one on my copy of emerald last year! I started from the top then went down each tile 😢😂

[@LuisCarlos-qy7nq]

Funny, I didn't know white Flabebe was that rare, I managed to catch a Shiny back when XY was new

[@shadowdragon714]

In gen 9, best catching method is quick ball, run, re-encounter, quick ball again. So no need to eat all of fluttermains atks. 😁

[@mikeburnette2190]

Mystic, you surprised me. In Gen I and II, I would have said Dratini was the hardest to catch, since that is rare to catch in the Safari Zone, in and in Gen II, it becomes on par with the legendary beasts, which I can say are easier to catch, except Entei. The other reason for Dratini is because you have only to places to catch it. Chansey, Skarmory, and Misdreavus were easy to catch for me.

[@SantosOverlord]

you can easly buy a Dratini though, probably why it isnt included

[@TheSwimmoney]

You can get dratini from the goldenrod game corner

[@yamiswife101]

It’s a guarantee if you use a super rod on Saturday at the lake on the Mountain Rd below Blackthorn. Plus it respawns every week

[@oliverleonard7730]

You get given a Dratini at the Dragon's Den as well.

[@mirayzie]

Dragonair was actually worse for me then dratini but I do agree on skarmory I don’t think I saw one playing silver

[@rayelvonquade9121]

"Legendaries will be banned, because you usually use your masterball" Meanwhile pokefluteplayer catching hoopa in one ball in radical red randomizer: 0-0

[@Lapshark]

I have the SOS call Salamence from sun and moon. It was a weird release day find

[@SeiPR727]

Dunsparce or Tandemaus that will evolve into their rare forms. You can't even know which ones will until you catch them AND evolve them

[@shawngallagher8764]

I’d say Chansey is actually harder to obtain in the remakes cause if you know what to do, you can at least use the Mew glitch in the og games to spawn a level 7 one that won’t flee

[@there4you19]

Getting a Beldum is a Nightmare. Especially when I caught it in Ultra Moon.

[@Pmass89]

Literally while watching this vid, without even trying for encounters, i ran into a Relicanth😅

[@mcmlxciseaton8651]

Ik a specific phrase to use in dewford town to find feebas. I experimented and now whenever I play ik the general area to find one.😅

[@axels3188]

I think that all your choices were good.

[@takoyakiiii]

I like to imagine Feebas is rare to find because it thinks itself ugly

[@metalsonic8888]

Probably the pokemon that don't normally appear in the wild. Like, Alakazam is pretty hard to catch. Got to use a lot of glitches to make him appear. Then of course with the post 3DS games you get to the really difficult ones. Blitzle is pretty darn hard to catch in Sword and Shield for example. Personally I still haven't even managed it

[@WiltingFlowerss]

Bagon in Ruby and Sapphire was ridiculous.

[@4MonsterhunterStory]

Quickball goes brrr

[@CTR211]

Took me like 3 days looking for feebas back in the day. I was aiming for a shiny but managed only 2 normal feebas

[@plebausaurusrex]

In my last play through of sapphire it actually took me like 5 tiles before finding a feebas tile 😂 I need a mathematician to know how lucky i was!

[@a0040pc]

In Yellow, was Chansey in the Unknown Dungeon?

[@gabrielm925]

I can’t believe a feast for diamond and Pearl is not on this list either because that one’s hard as fuck

[@joeb6750]

Btw - not every tile within the river is a possible Feebas tile. I believe its something like 50 tiles which of those, 6 are actuve based on the catchy phrase (theres maps and even tool you can use to look it up tiles). If the goal is no outside tool assistance, then the tile maps themselves are sufficient to reduce the time to a couple hours. It only becomes hard if you don't know anything about the possible locations (ie the ones that have the possibility of being active) vs not possible. Of course if the condition is a total novice at the game figuring it out without some help or the internet, good luck (but realisticly, limiting knowledge is not really a fair metric)

[@monstersmike4585]

I'm watching to see if i recognize anything from my Pokémon life, but ima say many of these become reduntantly easy to obtain in other games.