{"id":102367,"date":"2016-08-29T09:09:25","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T07:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=102367"},"modified":"2016-08-29T09:11:44","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T07:11:44","slug":"here-are-the-pokemon-that-are-hardest-to-catch-in-pokemon-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/nintendo\/102367-here-are-the-pokemon-that-are-hardest-to-catch-in-pokemon-go","title":{"rendered":"Here are the Pok\u00e9mon that are hardest to catch in Pok\u00e9mon Go"},"content":{"rendered":"

While Pok\u00e9mon Go has not officially launched in South Africa, that hasn\u2019t stopped people from downloading and playing the game here.<\/p>\n

Many have noticed that some Pok\u00e9mon are just more difficult to catch than others.<\/p>\n

Pok\u00e9mon Go fans have gone through the game\u2019s code, and analysed the data<\/a><\/strong> being sent back and forth between the server and client, to discover which Pok\u00e9mon have the lowest chance of being caught.<\/p>\n

There are 5 Pok\u00e9mon with a 0% base capture rate. These are Legendary Pok\u00e9mon which have not appeared in the game yet, though Niantic has hinted that they will make an appearance during special events.<\/p>\n

The 5 Legendary Pok\u00e9mon are: Articuno, Mew, Mewtwo, Moltres, and Zapdos.<\/p>\n

Of the Pok\u00e9mon you can actually catch, the following 14 have the lowest base capture rates.<\/p>\n

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Blastoise \u2014 4% base catch rate<\/h3>\n

\"Blastoise\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Charizard \u2014 4% base catch rate<\/h3>\n

\"Charizard\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Dragonite \u2014 4% base catch rate<\/h3>\n

\"Dragonite\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Venusaur \u2014 4% base catch rate<\/h3>\n

\"Venusaur\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Arcanine \u2014 8% base catch rate<\/h3>\n

\"Arcanine\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Charmeleon \u2014 8% base catch rate<\/h3>\n

\"Charmeleon\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Clefable \u2014 8% base catch rate<\/h3>\n

\"Clefable\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Dragonair \u2014 8% base catch rate<\/h3>\n

\"Dragonair\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Gengar \u2014 8% base catch rate<\/h3>\n

\"Gengar\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Gyarados \u2014 8% base catch rate<\/h3>\n

\"Gyrados\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Ivysaur \u2014 8% base catch rate<\/h3>\n

\"Ivysaur\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Ninetales \u2014 8% base catch rate<\/h3>\n

\"Ninetales\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Raichu \u2014 8% base catch rate<\/h3>\n

\"Raichu\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Wartortle \u2014 8% base catch rate<\/h3>\n

\"Wartortle\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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More on Pok\u00e9mon Go<\/h3>\n

South Africa\u2019s massive Pokemon GO community and where to find them<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

This is how much Pokemon GO will cost in South Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The best places to play Pokemon GO in South Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Pok\u00e9mon GO Plus \u2013 South African pricing and release date<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

How you can download Pokemon Go in South Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some Pok\u00e9mon are just harder to catch than others, and this is reflected in their base catch rate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":100066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2226,6],"tags":[20314],"class_list":["post-102367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","category-nintendo","tag-pokemon-go"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}