Why is it so hard to catch a sleeping Pokemon?! I don’t care if it’s legendary, it’s just sitting there passed out! GET IN THE DAMN BALL ARTICUNO!
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1 HP.
Paralyzed.
46th Ultra Ball used.
It was pretending to be caught.
I don't know why he bothered dumping it out at the PokeCenter.
I mean, it was already in the box.
Trainer is soon arrested by Off. Jenny for Pokemon abuse.
Articuno comes to visit the trainer in jail
And laughs.
Well see it was paralyzed that was your problem there. I mean don't you know when you use status effects you're supposed to put it to sleep. Although I think that trainer is considering burning the Articuno for some barbecued chicken.
At least it doesn't run away when it's still asleep.
Only using Pokeballs? Well there's your problem.
So true, it hurts.
500 pokeballs and 100,000 poke-dollars later…
Yeah, but I hate putting them to sleep over and over again.
You only need to screw with their nervous system ONCE.
It's funny how the trainer's nose changes shape every panel
Whereas Platinum made it too simple at one point.
Oh, why, hello there Dialga, TAKE THIS QUICK BALL TO DA FACE!
You caught Dialga!
Oh, Palkia, you're here too? POKEBALL
You caught Palkia!
I kid you not.
I'd say try to capture it after it faints.
But then it mysteriously disappears and can never be found again.
Years ago, in a fabled land where handhelds were still using non rechargeable batteries, there was a lone kid, playing Silver version, attempting to finally catch Ho-oh.
It was an epic struggle, one that involved the sacrifice of many (5) pokemon.
Near the end, the boy only had 10 pokeballs left, and was riding on low hope.
He threw that last pokeball, and mashed that A button like you wouldn't believe, and, lo and behold, he caught it.
Based on the events of a true story.
That sounds familiar:
http://i.neoseeker.com/mgv/467261-Slash/261/24/fa…
CURSE YOU LEGENDARY DOGS!!!
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they made me lose out on precious sleep time
Wanna know who caught it on the first try at full hp?
Gary Motherfucking Oak.
Can't let you catch that.
This needs to be novelized and then made into a movie. STAT.
Equally familiar: http://www.awkwardzombie.com/index.php?page=0&…
This happened to me with Mewtwo, 'til i used thunder and killed him. My problem was solved though.
I guess you could say this Trainer was thinking…
-shades-
…outside the box.
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Who needs poke-balls? All you need is duct tape… And NOTHING ELSE.
i c wut u did there
Still better than Rayquaza.
Outrage -> Rayquaza hurt itself in its confusion, Rayquaza fainted!
37 fricken times……
Master Balls FTW
HA!
FALSE SWIPE!!!!
the wild DIALGA fainted
WTF HOW!!???
Wait…
WHO USES NORMAL POKE BALLS ON A LEGENDARY!?!?!?!
Gary MotherFucking Oak.
THAT'S BESIDE THE POINT!
The artist is Justin Hall, who goes by JHALLpokemon on DeviantArt.
I'm surprised there isn't more of his stuff on here, he's got a wonderful sense of humor related to Pokemon.
All the cool kids are doing it.
Too mainstream for the hipsters though.
At least Nintendo hasn't made a legendary with Sleep Talk and Self Dest….On second thought, I'm not finishing that sentence.
With a Pokeball.
Gary Motherfucking Oak catches whatever the hell he wants with Poke Balls. At full health.
They aren't dogs, they're beasts.
If at first you don't succeed, duct tape.
But wasn't it inside of a box?
Thank goodness for Critical Capture in B/W.
But then there was this other boy who went up to every legendary in the Kanto region and caught them all at full health using nothing but one pokeball for each one. You want to know who that boy was? He was Gary Fucking Oak!
Dude, I caught Mewtwo with a great ball. It was awesome. My friend caught Dialga with a premier ball.
Gary Motherfucking Oak's pokéballs always transform into master balls…always.
They aren't beasts, they're hamsters.
Nah, they're totally cats. Here kitty kitty…ZAP!!!
I'm just gonna leave this here
Shiny Palkia. Pokeball.
The end.
nurse joy doesn't seem to suprised. this must happen alot.
Did that with Tornadus. LMAO Saved my Master Ball for him though!!! (I caught Reshiram with a critical capture Ultra Ball!!!)
Never caught the Regis?
That's probably because they're so underground.
I always wanted to do a comic where a trainer poured cement on top of the ball and then the pokemon burst out of it. It would be like SHOOP DA WHOOP's LAZER being unleashed. It would be hysterical.
How? Save & reset?
Gary MOTHERFUCKING Oak doesn't need to buy Master Balls. He's already got a pair.
Am I the only person who's never had a problem catching the harder pokemon? I'm seriously not trolling, I'm asking this legitimately. I swear on my unborn son that I've never had a problem catching anything legendary or whatnot. Am I just the luckiest damn trainer alive or something?
it's not so amazing this time I caught a zekrom in a premier ball on my second try after successfully catching it in an ultra ball on the first
did anybody else notice that his hats logo changed to "fuck" for one panel?
did anybody else find this to be the most hillarious panel?
furthermore why does nobody comment on the size of the articuno? Halolz I am very dissapoint.
It just blacks out and wakes up at a random Pokemon center.
You're secretly Gary Motherfucking Oak.
Love how shawn put tips & tricks as a tag for this.
But that means he can only catch two at a 100% ra- Ohhh, wait. We're not talking about portable creature trapping devices anymore, are we?
He found in a cave.
Inside a box of scraps.
Not at all. I remember catching Groudon at about 2/3 HP with a Pokeball. It might have had a status ailment, but I don't remember.
Duct tape solves all problems.
Duct tape fixes EVERYTHING!
There must be a lot of "Legendary and rare" Pokémon out there then…
Can't catch this!
*does the dance with oversized funny pants*
You win some, you lose some. Now that's when you bring out the duct tape.
+1 internets to whomever got that reference.
this wouldn't happen to be made in light of brainscratchcomms's pokemon playthrough would it?
YOU CANNOT IGNORE THEIR GIRTH
THIS MAN IS BRILLIANT.
Can I be Joey then? :<
Because you FINISH IT OFF WITH A FALSE SWIPE.
40 Ultraballs and 60 Pokeballs fail to catch a Ho-oh on low hp while he's asleep and confused.
One great ball later, bam, catch.
Isn't a certain series so consistent.
It was taped so I guess he was kinda cheating.
STOP!
Gary time!
OH WOAH, OAAAH WOAAAH.
etc.
I caught Mewtwo with a Moon Ball… A MOON BALL… It was my last ball other than Master (WILL. NOT. USE.)
I nicknamed it Moon C:
…one pokeball for
each oneall of them.Fix'd
reshiram is easy too he was in yellow i didnt had lvl adventage and he didnt have any status and i used 1 ultra ball
GARy Oak is how.
no what the game dont want you to know is that gary motherfucking oak throw a pokeball from the other side of the world when the pokemon faint
I can smell his rage :|
But if you paralyze articuno it can't use fly anymore, it's in a wheelchair.
A+B? Puh-lease, we all know it's DOWN+B.
A+B… That's crazy talk.
Inside said cave, he found wild Dragonites and Tyranitars.
Duct tape sail boat. 'Nuff said.
The Artist is called JHALLpokemon http://jhallpokemon.deviantart.com/
All of them.
"Nurse, heal my genetically-altered psychic cat!"
"Nurse, heal my legendary bird of rainbows!"
"Nurse, heal my embodiment of the North Wind!"
"Nurse, heal my time-travelling plant-imp-thing!"
"Nurse, heal my creator of the seas!"
"Nurse, heal my master of time!"
"Nurse, heal my poke-god!"
They've seen it all.
No, i just figured why catch him when i had something more powerful? But i still miss him though, i was gonna name him…..Two-ey.
Similar thing happen to me when I tried to catch Rotom in Platinum. I figured that a level 20 Pokemon would stay in a great ball easily. Nope. After using just about every ball I had, I finally caught the thing a heal ball, which is just about as effective as a regular pokeball.
Not as epic as Alpar's story though.
In a row?
considering your avatar is Naked Snake (Big Boss) that makes this comment even more epic
Oh really?
<img src="http://www.vgcats.com/super/images/080619.gif">
Pfff, Poké Balls? Articuno politely asked to be his slave.
He would travel inside his backpack if necessary.
BUT WE'VE GOT THE BIGGEST BALLS OF THEM ALL!!!
I caught a Articuno with a great ball, a Moltres with a Pokeball and Zapdos with an ultra ball… I color coordinated them
On diamond I caught Dialga with a single ultraball.
I then done it again with platinum
Seriously, that thing LOVES ultraballs
When pokemon "faint," it actual means they've been vaporized.
Pokecenters just give you new ones in return for the ashes (which have a wide variety of industrial uses)
Where it then starts a catching frenzy And Pokeballs fly EVERYWHERE.
9th panel: I know it's horrible, but all I could think of was "I need an adult! I need an adult!"
But no Geodudes. Even the dude knows not to mess with Oak.
This happened to me once, i only had 10 fucking pokeballs and articuno had 1 hp and was asleep. That was fucking bullshit until i caught him with the last ball. No shit
TalkingBidoof used Epic Joke.
It's super effective!
Fellow Halolzers lol'ed!
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too late
in generation 6 theres going to be a super powerful version of voltorb that only knows selfdestruct and explosion
in the 1st 2 gens, I'd hit B, A, Left, Left in order as fast as I could. Since the GBA, I replaced Left with hitting L
Pokemon trainers like that have no soul…
I mean, him, Silver…
BTW
young pokemon trainer… learn from the best… use an UltraBall, or one of these:
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and don't forget the RedBall
Would you mind letting me… "borrow" your Tornadus >_> I kinda want Landorus. :D I'll let you… "borrow" my Thundurus afterwards (totallynotascam)
THAT'S MY RATTATA! *canned laughter*
MY MEWTWO!
FfffffffPICCOLOOOOO! *shake fist*
I try to not hit anything at all. It's so difficult!!! I think it works though… :P In my mind at least.
Who sends Poke-balls to fight me?
In other news, your avatars text is "I is smart".
Now everyone knows.
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How can it be a big fat phony if it is neither big nor fat? anyways mmmm chicken…
wait what? Easier captures? I now am going to buy that game! If I really wanted a challenge I'd play some other series…
This is by JHallpokemon on deviantart. It was bugging me that I had seen this somewhere before so i had to go searching for it :P
I thought they were Gerbils
Is it just me, or are today's legendaries getting easier to catch? I mean, I caught Victini with a Great Ball,. and Reshiram with an Ultra Ball. No hax, no a+b+down.
THIS SLAPS ME ON THE KNEE
Oak and Articunee?
actually the best one to use is poison but there are obvious risk factors involved in that.
I just got called out as an epic troll. you can have Joey. Here are your regulation Rattata-shades.
If he's so brilliant, why is his avatar currently wearing a dunce hat instead of a 69-regulation top hat and monocle!?
I guess you…
*sunglasses*
Just got mooned!
YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Is he in total comatose, staring blankly, twitching his head and only groaning and mumbling to himself?
Quick! Get his girlfriend and toss them into a rift oozing with the planets life force!
HE IS SO SMALL, IS FUNNY TO ME!
There, you happy now?
I loves me some chicken. Especially before a disastrous dungeon raid!
You'd think a fail that hard is atleast 1HP worth of damage.
TO THE PC OF GODLY STORAGE POWER!
But of course, a Legendary deserves only the most FAGULOUS-errrrr, FABULOUS balls! Non-matching colors are so TACKY"
Even Skeletor thinks so!
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Don't forget the smoke ball
They can heal gods from the brink of death, yet they cannot cure cancer.
It's a sad world.
I like the Slime and Sentry balls best. =3
Though I thought they were called turrets in the game?
The mechanised motion sensing sonic speed bullet dispensers, not the foul language disorder.
Gary Motherfucking Oak could go to the Safari Zone and catch Pokemon by throwing rocks at them.
So I guess they are
*sunglasses*
Balls of steel.
KICKASSANDCHEWBUBBLEGUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUM!
I do… on ALL of them. Still working on Latias…
You'll need balls of steel to speed catch Legendaries.
That Articuno is so small, it is funny to me.
Wait…
Someone already did that joke…
…
I'm dead inside.
Because he hasn't been appropriately welcomed into the leagues of gentlemen.
Welcome and congratulations our good friend, TalkingBidoof.
That's right. Gary Oak mastered the tapping A then pressing B+down glitch.
Relevant.
And it increased the quantity of his entire inventory…just to keep him sweet.
Not really a fan of giving my capture success a time limit. I bought 99 Ultra Balls for a reason.
Artist is JHALLpokemon (JHALLpokemon.deviantart.com).
I knew I'd get to do something good today… :P
Ladies, get your Quagsire's out, it's about to get Damp up in here!
oh sure scientist can create pokemon like castform and porygon but when comes to capturing pokemon they make us use unreliable orbs that break when it fails to catch the pokemon. also after 5 generations how come nobody mass produces master balls?
It seems like a lot of people don't wear the top hat and monocle these days…
I'd give Professor Layton a monocle but then he'd just look silly.
moltres was my hardest pokemon to catch for me… after about 2 hours of reseting (yes i saved and then reset over and over!) i finally got moltres after getting it down to about 3hp, asleep, and paralyzed. and having like 3 of my pokemon knocked out
how many times did i run out of pokeballs, accidentally kill it, die because i played it safe… ugh!
The reason the legendaries are there for you to catch is because he released the ones that he thought were too weak.
I love you. (Chugga?)
DM has ascended to Troll godhood…
*wipes away tear*
I'm so proud!
Ever notice how pokeball manufacturing companies have huge buildings? Pokemon is run by the pokeball manufacturing industry. BigBall engineers its products to fail so trainers spend all their money on new ones. They also have patents on Masterballs but refuse to make them because they would be shooting themselves in the foot economically. It is a pokeconspiricy if you ask me.
I am reminded of the time I sought to capture a Ditto in FireRed. I'd tried catching it in Mewtwo's cave, with the three legendary birds to fight off anything I didn't want and to weaken any Ditto that did appear. Two hours and a couple hundred Ultra Balls later, I had no luck.
I tried relocating to the Cinnabar Mansion, thinking that I would have an easier time catching a lower-level Ditto. Again, an hour passed and Ultra Balls were wasted. I caught absolutely nothing in there.
With that failure, I had a sudden thought. Ditto takes on all the properties of the pokemon it transforms into right?
I facepalmed very hard, multiple times, and switched out Moltres for a Rattata. Boom, I had one in less than 5 minutes.
beats balls of fruit, or nuts or whatever the hell apricorns are
Apricot + Acorn
Besides, we already have berries as fruit.
because "you know who" buys 'em all and uses 'em for every pokemon, he gives the professors one to use but keeps the rest, although they cost 1,000,000 pokedollars anyway, so it'd be impossible to buy
even the hardest pokemon have less than 1 in 100 to catch at 1 hp and thats with a pokeball and no status effect, Dialga/Palkia/Reshiram/Zekrom are much easier because they are a required battle.
I on the other hand are artistically incapable of giving ol' Grandpa Engie a tophat and monocle. Poor dood.
Not until I have 100p. THEN I have.
i caught it in one try, using a regular pokeball…
BECAUSE IM GARY MOTHER FUCKING OAK!!!
I know this pain all too well. Also this is by JHALLpokemon on deviantart
Would you rather me call them the legendary cats?
Yes, I've heard people call them that. No, I do not understand it either.
DAMN STRAIGHT.
Friend code plz? 5200-1737-5666
Just send me a PM with yours.
Sabretooth Tiger = Raikou (Teeth)
Lion = Entei (Face mane)
Cheetah/Leopard = Suicune (Long, slender legs)
That's my deduction. It's elementary my dear JesterJoe.
It's all because of that free Poke-Bama care.
Good god that was horrid.
When I set out to capture Latias in Saphire I bought 198ultra balls and 99 timer balls. Fuck status effects. I used persistence.
I'm not Gary Oak, but once, I caught Suicune with his half health no stat effect with POKEBALL!!!
psh no
That's not the only tapping Mr. Motherfucking Oak gets up to in his free time.
Or if you're Brock, Blue Balls.
It worked in DooM 3 mods.
That's right. GOD is not enough for Gary Motherfucking Oak.
Or if you're Steve Napierski, The rest of the Pokeballs.
Well, he didn't capture Articuno in a pokeball…
*puts on sunglasses*
but he DID capture it "on tape".
YEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
But it even says in the official hand book that they are dogs. D:
You want the ladies to get damp too, huh?
I'll send it to you later. (I actually still have to catch the sucker… Not that it will take long, but.) My game is at home, I'm at school, u do the math :P
If pokemon trainer A is traveling at approximately 2 miles per hour and trainer B is stationary, how long will it take for them to battle?
Answer: Depends on if they make eye contact.
…and they say that the CAKE is a lie…
*Looks at ePeen*
Sir, I don't think you are qualified to give out internets.
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B-b-b-but that can't be possible!?!
Your balls were inert?
FfffffffffJIMMYYYYYY! *shake fist*
Thanks! I'll update it now!
then i guess i am gary motherfucking oak because i did this with EVERY legendary pkmn, Even arceus
me i always succed with reg pokeballs on legends, even the roaming ones
i caught both in reg pokeballs and reshiram and zekrom both have higher catch rates because its part of the storyline
So thats what happened when i captured tropius XD
i caught all legends in reg pokeballs w/o weaking em
Ace=me
*Wild Pokemon encounter
*A wild Raikou appeared
*Ace go Furrent
*Furrent used Ice Beam
*Wild Raikou is Frozen
*Wild Railou fled
me: How is that even possible?!
Zapdos in a net ball
What?!