Legendary Phase 1 Post-Mortem

Good topic. Don't have time right now for a full report, but I just wanted to write that I had planned to go out with a bang yesterday, given that I still didn't have a strong Lugia or Articuno despite catching plenty. Had been really unlucky with IV's.

Result: Did 7 legendary raids yesterday - most with a group of more than 100 people - caught only one. ONE! I couldn't believe it. I wasn't throwing bad or anything. Always got 9-12 balls. Hit almost everything. Usually nice throw or better. Always curved. Almost always golden razz. Oh, and the one I got? A low IV Moltres. Doh!

Anyway, I will power up my best of each of the four birds over the coming days/weeks depending on how fast I want to spend my dust.

My overall catchrate has been pretty poor. Was just below 50% before yesterdays catch-disaster. Have caught something like 30 legendaries in total.

your catch rates are pretty impressive. moltres was the worst one for me too, though lugia was very difficult as well.

articuno- caught 9/17 53%. | Best: A15/D13/S15 95IV

i consider this a success because i failed to catch my first three of these as i was throwing nervously since it was the first legendary i was going for.

Lugia- caught 6/14 for 43% | Best: A15/D11/S10 80IV

( I have others with higher IVs but its 15 attack puts its CP higher than the 82 and 87 ones i have). This mon to me was the one I cared least to catch as i am a gen 1 guy,

Moltres- caught 7/21 33% | Best: A14/D13/S15 93IV

I have one moltres with 15att, but its overall IVs are only 82. moltres was a disaster for me personally as i could never find a formula to predict its movements which always resulted in wasted balls. he was by far the hardest for me to catch in addition because he would stay high a lot and pop out A LOT. one interesting story however is that the last moltres i caught was the 93iv one and it was today. and to debunk the last throw theory, i actually caught him on my very last throw. go figure as the mon who tortured me the most out of the 4 gave me a bit of luck at the end.

zapdos- caught 9/13 69% | Best: A15/D13/S14 93IV

zapdos to me was the easiest to catch (though articuno became a lot easier for me as time went on). if it wasnt for yesterday. where i went 1/4 on zapdos raids, my % would be in the high 80s. but he got away from me yesterday and my numbers dipped. oh well. one good story here is that zapdos is my only critical catch for the legendary raids, and i believe raids in general. i got this critical catch on the last zapdos i caught earlier today. go figure as two unlikely things happened to me today in this game, the very last day these birds were available. now onto the beasts...

TOTALS: 31/65 for 48% :/

My tally wasn't very good. Being in a rural area I only saw a handful of the birds in raids and the couple of times I did there was no one around to help. I did manage to be in a populated area for one day when the event first started so I did manage a couple:

Final tally:

Articuno - caught 2 of 2
Zapdos - 0 of 0
Motres - 0 of 0
Lugia 1 of 1

Total 3 of 3 (100%)

At least I can say I have a perfect catch rate up until now but I hope they come back and be added to the rotation again at some point so I have another shot at them.

I'm still seeing the birds here in Japan. Only one Suicune so far.

I have a 100%Lugia - that will be good enough for me. My catch rate was good for Lugia till I started using Razz and Nanap - drop like crazy.

Articuno and Lugia were the difficult ones for me to catch, made worse by several raids that errored me out and didn't let me try to catch them.

Articuno: 5 out of 14 (2 glitched); 2x 93% IVs, 15/14/13 and 14/14/14 (a 98% got away)
Moltres: 5 out of 8; 15/14/14
Zapdos: 7 out of 8; 2x 91% IVs, 15/11/15 and 13/14/14
Lugia: 3 out of 12 (1 glitched, plus the 2nd best I saw errored out with 5 throws left); 15/14/14

Total, 20 out of 42, or 20 out of 39 if you discount the 3 that glitched out.

It's a little odd that the one I caught the most of was also the one with the lowest IVs. I even caught some of those Zapdos and Moltres with pinap berries, so they were just far more cooperative. I still haven't seen a 100% come up after a raid boss of any kind.

I've been getting TMs sparsely but pretty evenly, so I have about 6 of each right now. Also, Raikou was slow to arrive here, wasn't even one in the entire area for its first day.

Articuno 9 of 21 (43%) Best: 15/13/15
Zapdos 8 of 16 (50%) Best: 15/12/13
Moltres 8 of 16 (50%) Best: 15/14/13
Lugia 8 of 22 (36%) Best: 15/12/11

Overall 44%. I've got to admit my overall catch rate went way down over the last 2 weeks, when I did raids mainly for candy, golden razz, and TM's. If I already had a much higher IV bird, I often used only pinaps or no berries at all.

Lugia was by far my biggest PITA. It was my first legendary raid, and I caught it with the first ball; 84% IV with ex/fs. I thought, naively, that Legendaries would be a piece of cake; I'd never failed to catch a non-legendary raid boss before that (missed lots of Tyranitars since). Of course, Lugia was all downhill after my first, both catch rate and IV. I finally caught a 67% 10/10/10 one, just to rub salt in my wounds.

My final results:
Articuno: 1/2
Zapdos: 2/3
Moltres 0/4
Lugia 0/2

I completely agree with Moltres being a huge pain to catch.

My final scores:
Articuno 11/23 (best 96%)
Zapdos 19/20 (best 98%, also two 96%)
Moltres 15/29 (best 91%)
Lugia 12/34 (best 89%)
Overall 57/106 = 54%

So it's fair to say Zapdos is my friend and Lugia is my nemesis :-)

Articuno - caught 6 out of 9 (67%). Best: A15/D15/S13 96IV
Zapdos - caught 6 out of 12 (50%). Best: A15/D14/S10 87IV
Moltres - caught 5 out of 16 (31%). Best: A15/D11/S13 87IV
Lugia - caught 2 out of 9. (22%) Best: A13/D15/S14 93IV

Total 19/46 (41%). I am more than satisfied with my catch rate, considering I didn't master curved balls until the last few weeks where all birds were available (new player and misunderstood the curved ball bonus initially) and we had a hard time getting enough people together to do anything in my small town at that point (reward changes + people hoping for different birds to spawn + small group of players = very few days we actually raided ). I did have 10+ balls available at every raid and always used golden raz, which helped.

Moltres 9 from 19 (best 95.6)
Zapdos 7 from 12 (95.6)
Articuno 4 from 8 (91.1)
Lugia 2 from 7 (86.7)
As my record reflects I found Lugia the most difficult and in fact was one of them that I had a critical catch on.
That's also the only Bird I've powered up to 3141 which was done in a fit of determination to not let a machamp solo fail (lowest iv lol but at least I could solo machamp).

Articuno 5/10 | 95.6%
Zapdos 7/8 | 100%
Moltres 18/28 | 95.6%
Lugia 7/20 | 88.9%

Total 37/66

Cuno - 6/12 Best 15/13/14
Molt - 6/8 Best 15/14/14
Zap - 21/27 Best 15/15/12
Lugia - 7/12 Best 15/15/14

Total 40/59 (67.7%)

Not bad i guess. Had +3 catch bonus badge for all except Cuno (+2 ice)

Articuno - 7/16 - 44% - 12/14/14 (89%) IV
Zapdos - 11/12 - 92% - 15/15/15 (100%) IV
Moltres - 13/27 - 48% - 15/15/15(100%) IV
Lugia - 7/18 - 39% - 14/15/12 (91%) IV

Nice note: both my perfect ones came in consecutive raids in 2 consecutive days, towards the final days when I was doing at most 2 raids per day. Before than best IV were multiple 93 for the same two birds.

Articuno 16/40 iv96%
Zapdos 14/21 iv91%
Moltres 11/24 iv91%
Lugia 14/30 iv93%

Total 55/115 48%
Last 2 days 2/2, 3/3 100% catch with more straight balls!

I live in a pretty rural area without many players, but my new job takes me to a somewhat larger town so I got a few raids in. Got my first moltres last night!

Lugia - 1/1
Moltres - 1/1 (got it on a critical last-ball catch!)
Zapdos - 3/3
Articuno - 1/1

Not a single one of them over 80% IV, but eh, I'll take it. And yes, perfect catch rate

Still haven't seen a raid group near me. Still waiting for a game mechanic that doesn't involve driving around for hours just to stand/sit in place for 10+ minutes at a time.

My final tally:
Articuno: 0/0
Zapdos: 0/0
Moltres: 0/0
Lugia: 0/0
Total: 0/0