What ball is most effective for catching Necrozma?

Question

Aside from the Master Ball and the Beast Ball, because I want to save my Master Ball, and the Beast Balls are useless.

Comments

Why are you saving your masterball? Necrozma is the last legendary you catch in sun & moon. Unless your saving the ball for a shiny just use it.

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Necrozma is not technically a UB, so the Beast Balls won't work on it.

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Dude you won't believe it but I caught it with one ultra ball

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I caught him with a Greatball on the sixth try... No masterballs (1HP)

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I caught mine oddly with a heavy ball, same thing I caught Lunala in a heavy ball in pokemon moon a few months back, and this is in Ultra Moon just in case no one knows what I am talking about

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i caught it in a pokeball fifth try no joke

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i caught necrozma in a beast ball no joke. seriously how many people caught necrozma in a beast ball?

Answer 1

You could use Timer Balls. Beast Balls won't work as Necrozma isn't an Ultra Beast.

HOWEVER, I highly recommend you use your Master Ball. Necrozma is one of the hardest legendaries to catch in Sun and Moon. Furthermore, it is the last legendary you CAN catch in-game. What are you saving your Master Ball for? With Timer Balls and a good stealthy team you could catch it after 20/30 tries (with low HP and a status aliment). Make sure you have potions in hand.

P.S. You can get Timer Balls at Royal Avenue's Thrifty Megamart for 1000 PokeDollars each.

Comments

I did that, too.

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Again, sometimes the shiny Pokemon know roar or self destruct, so stuff that aren't master balls tend to be more risky.

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After throwing about 10 Ultra Balls and a couple of Beast Ball at it, I threw a Great Ball at it and it went in. Also, it was at low health. :3

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i caught necrozma in a beast ball so it is possible

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I legit caught it with an Ultra Ball on the first try, at about a quarter of its HP!

Answer 2

Master Ball is the best way to go, since Necrozma is one of the hardest Pokemon to catch. However, I wasted mine on Tapu Koko. I would recommend using timer balls and ultra balls. I caught my first Necrozma in an ultra ball, then when I restarted, I caught Necrozma in an timer ball

Comments

isn´t master ball the best at catching anything?

Answer 3

I used ultra balls and timer balls at first. However, I ran out of timer balls and the ultra balls were not working. So I though, what the heck and I threw a beast ball at it. I caught it with the beast ball first try. Just thought I should throw that out there. Also, I had already used my master ball on tape lele.

Comments

That's almost certainly just weird luck. Everyone's pretty sure that Necrozma doesn't get an increased catch rate with beast balls.

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I actually caught it in my fisrt go with beast ball not knowing that it will work

Answer 4

Well so, I looked this up because in Ultra Sun And Ultra Moon where you get Necrozma, I had my starter Pokemon Litten's final evolution, used his exclusive move, Necrozma went to half health, but there was hail so I didnt want to attack it again, so I panicked and used an ultra ball (with it being at half health) and it got captured on the first try. Lucky I guess? unless catch rate changed

Comments

yeah, his catch rate became MUCH higher in ultra sun and ultra moon. in SM, his catch rate was 3, the same as mewtwo and a few other legendaries. in USUM, his catch rate is.... 255... the same as early pokemon like caterpie and pidgey... i don't think a SINGLE legendary has been given that catch rate except necrozma...

Answer 5

Just caught it first try in a Premier Ball (I catch all my legendaries in those but otherwise exclusively use Pokéballs); the Roto Catch power is helpful no matter what ball you use, so pairing it with a Timer Ball if it takes you a while to whittle it down and paralyze/sleep it, or maybe an Ultra ball if it only takes a few, should provide the highest capture rate.

Comments

The question was tagged "sun-moon". Necrozma is 85 times harder to catch in SM than it is in USUM, so good methods in USUM (like the ones you mentioned) don't work in SM.

Answer 6

What I did is that I used a Lunala lvl66 with the moves, Moongeist beam, Psychic, Night Daze, and Ice beam. My Lunala had the nature Naive and what I did to catch Necrozma was to use Moongeist beam oonce, then physic once. THen, I started Using Ultra balls then once in a while using a Timer ball or just use your masterball if you want.