Is there anyone with Sun/Moon who has not captured most of their UBs yet and does not have them registered as caught, and is willing to waste some time to help me test a theory?
I’ve been trying not to catch mine with Beast Balls, and I noticed that Nihilego and my first Buzzwole took way more time and effort to catch than their respective catch rates indicated they should have. However, the time it took for my second Buzzwole was more in line with its catch rate; this was consistent over multiple attempts. I have a theory that the UBs have two different catch rates depending on whether or not the Pokedex has identified them as Pokemon (read: registered them as caught). This would both be consistent with the lore explaining why non-Beast Balls are so ineffective, and would explain the discrepancy I noticed with the stated and actual catch rates for the first two I encountered.
Basically I want people to chuck some non-Beast Balls at UBs both before and after the Pokedex has registered them, over several attempts each, and record their results. The Gen 7 capture formula hasn’t been published yet, but I don’t believe it should be significantly different than Gen 6′s; therefore, this calculator can be used to give an extremely rough estimate of how many balls each one should take. If you select a Pokemon with the same catch rate as the beast you’re going for, input the same level and HP values, and specify the ball as a normal Poke Ball, you’ll probably have a close idea of how long it should take for the stated catch rates. The national Pokedex bit is only relevant for critical captures, so it can be safely ignored. If my theory holds weight, the calculator will only be accurate if you’re catching an UB you’ve caught before.
Requested anonymously (many times. more times than Nebby escapes the bag.)
It is a truth universally acknowledged that Nebby refuses to stay in the bag. If you’ve played Pokémon Sun or Moon, or seen the recent uprising of Nebby memes, you know this all too well.
This begs the question (or maybe, ‘bags’ the question): How does Nebby keep escaping the bag? Nebby constantly leaves the bag to go on adventures or to the Ancient Ruins, or sometimes just to defy Lillie. Sometimes Nebby is able to do it without Lillie noticing, and sometimes without even having the zipper open. As a Cosmog, Nebby does know the move Teleport, but that looks much different than what it does when leaving the bag:
Nebby seems to pass right through the fabric of the bag. We know Nebby has a gaseous form, since Cosmog is the “Nebula Pokemon”. As we found out in our Cosmog Analysis, Cosmog is most like a molecular cloud, which have a density of about 100 particles per cubic centimeter. For reference, sea-level atmosphere air contains about 2.53×1016 molecules per cubic centimeter (or (0.0012 g/cm3): more than a million billion times as much as a molecular cloud. Using Nebby’s height and weight from the pokedex, we find that Cosmog is even more dense than air: 0.024 g/cm3.
Cosmoem, Nebby’s evolution, is even more dense: 1909.7 g/cm3. If Nebby, a Cosmog, compressed itself into the density of a Cosmoem, Nebby would only have a radius of only 0.23 millilimeters, or roughly 4350 times smaller than it was previously.
Depending on the fabric that the bag is made of, 0.23 mm is most likely small enough to slip between the stitches at the seam, or maybe through the spaces in the zipper.
So what evidence do we have that Nebby can collapse itself into such small sizes? Well, that’s what nebula do. Molecular clouds collapse to create stars, just like Cosmog (the Nebula Pokemon) evolves into Cosmoem (the Protostar Pokemon). Usually, nebulae do this because of gravity: Cosmog is too small to collapse from its own gravity, but we still know it can collapse. Why? Look at its arms: it’s already forming little stars. Cosmog must have the ability to compress itself to form these tiny stars. This ability isn’t unusual for psychic pokémon: Gardevoir, for example, can compress air into black holes. Since Nebby can compress itself, unless the bag is perfectly sealed Nebby will easily escape.
Nebby can compress itself into tiny sizes, slipping through the seams of the bag as it pleases.
Lillie: My first pokemon turned into the moon.
Gladion: That’s rough buddy.
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