I see these kind of things as meaningless n00b gimmicks. Pressing A or B or select or whatever has NO EFFECT on whether the ball will catch the Pokemon or not. If you actually believe it does, the real button you should be pressing on your DS is the Power button.

Pokemon is all data and databases. The game uses algorithms to decide the probability of a Pokemon breaking out of a ball versus the probability of it being caught successfully, depending on several variables such as the target's "capture rate" (a hidden number assigned to each Pokemon that determines its catching difficulty) and the remaining HP of the target, plus what kind of status conditions it's retaining, and lastly, what kind of balls are used. All the rest is down to the roll of the die, so to speak. It took me like 20 Dusk Balls to catch Azelf and only TWO to catch Uxie.

This kind of stuff bugs me to see people say "I press the A button and it WORKS!" Dude, you just got lucky. Anyone ever catch Abra with a normal Pokeball and without weakening it first? I have. It's all luck; you have a small chance of it working and a large chance of it not working, and it just so happened that you scored with the odds against you. It's not because you pressed the A button at the right time or held the Up button or looked at the screen from a certain angle. Don't go there.

Forgive my flippantness; my intent isn't to offend anyone, but I do have strong opinions on this subject so it comes off a little harsh to some of you. Just so we're all on the same level. =)

But to me it's more than a game. I hope to actually make money off of official tournaments someday. =)

I dance the hamster dance and press A button lots. Currently the pokemon like my hamster dance and mostly get caught. ._.;;

I stare at my DS intimidatingly, daring it to disobey me. It works.