I've been sitting here for an hour, trying to catch a Beldum because I was thinking, "Hey, it'll be easier than breeding for one, right?" Wrong. I'm on my third or fourth Beldum and I think my supply of Ultra Balls is running dangerously low. I can't remember the last time I ran out of Ultra-balls and these Beldum only know Take Down (or struggle) and the knock themselves out before I get frustrated and do it myself! And all for a Beldum that's already at lvl 53...

What is the most time you've spent trying to catch a Pokémon? How many Poké-balls did you use up? Did you catch them in the end?

I wouldn't equate using many pokeballs or spending a lot of time to catch something with wastefulness. A legendary usually takes many balls and a few tries to catch. I believe I used over 40 ultra balls before I caught groudon in sapphire. I didn't ever use him, but I really like having all the legendaries.

Haha, true. I guess I just occasionally notice how much each of those balls cost and I feel like I'm just watching money go down the drain.....

Legend: Azelf.
Non-Legend: Not sure, probably Bagon or Gible.

But I had a lot of trouble with the three Pixies (or whatever the **** they are).

I used a ton on Giratina in pearl, but it wasn't really a waste of pokeballs as much as a waste of time, cause i turned the game off every once in a while, and eventually just used a masterball.

Legendary: O my god. Mew2 two used everyone of my 99 Ultra Balls. I just eventually used my MasterBall.

Regular: I dunno, probably Larvitar in the safarizone in hgss

lapras in safari zone on heartgold
got it with the 5th ball on 5 trip in

didnt know it could be found there

looking back over the years i now realize i am 2 pokemon from getting every pokemon in blue. needing elecebuzz from my red version(can get easily) and tauros. i have spent thousands of pokemoney whatever its called attempting to SEE one, am yet to see one much less catch it. even worse is that i had one the first time i played through.

And I thought that dumb Kricketot was a waste of pokeballs, seriously took me like 10.

...gotta catch em all, right? *sigh*

Yeah when i caught it threw 30 Ultra balls straight didnt catch then threw 1 great ball caught it. i thought to myself "I cant believe this." i think its determined on catch rate and luck.

Well, this wasn't a waste of Pokeballs... In fact its just the opposite, but I kind of wanted to brag about it. Just recently I got MEGA lucky and caught a non-paralyzed/sleeping/burned/etc, in the orange health, level 70 Lugia with a single Ultra ball while having only a level 52 out on the battlefield. Btw, I don't know if that last one matters, I was told I while ago that the stronger your pokemon is in comparison to the one you want to catch the higher the catch rate. Is their any truth to that or was that a myth? Also, it has a Quirky Nature. I know it doesn't effect any of his stats... but I'm not certain if thats a good thing or a bad thing yet...

But anyways, back on topic... Uhm, the biggest waste of Pokeballs that I ever tried to catch was probably actually Ryhorn back in the Red/Blue/Yellow days in the Safari Zone. Finding one, then trying to catch it was a pain. I used all the steps in the safari zone just tring to find one of those guys. And in the end, when I caught one, I never used it anyways.

I used 72 ultra balls and 19 or 20 dusk balls on Giratina in Platinum. Catching Kyogre in Emerald was easy, i did it with a poke ball, catching Groudon was HORRIBLE. it took me days.........but i guess it was worth it.

The worst legendary I've tried to catch is raiku. I've paralyzed him, got him down to so little HP that the meter is barely visible, then got my trusty crobat to use mean look.
Then wasted almost 50 ultra balls before the effin' thing used roar.

The worst non-legendary would probably be chansy. Spent all of my ultra balls, ran out of those, and caught it with a love ball. Sometimes I feel like ultraballs are no better than pokeballs when it comes to catching.