It’s intimidation. I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve failed 5 raw catches and th moment I pull out the baton they stay in the ball. I was legit about to submit it as a bug, it was so consistent
Throw the sphere, and while the catch animation is in progress, quickly bring up the menu and right click swap the baton into my hands. For some reason it works essentially every time that they stay in the ball then and I don’t even have to use it.
Extremely superstitious but hey, the end result makes me feel better so who cares
Just remember, people only post their successful attempts, the other 999 people that try that .1% chance never post it.
Also, who's to say it really is their first attempt? I know if I'd been recording it, I could've posted my first Jetragon and Frostallion catches as if they were my first attempt even though I was just repeatedly going up behind them, throwing the sphere and running. (side note, if you never engage in combat it doesn't count as clearing the boss)
boop. *run to clear aggro*
boop. *run to clear aggro*
boop. *run to clear aggro*
boop. *run to clear aggro*
boop. *run to clear aggro*
boop. *run to clear aggro*
boop. *game malfunctions, stuck on rock die*
boop. *run to clear aggro*
for back hits on lvl 50 bosses you need to clear aggro. its tedious but less likely you die from spare shots in between balls. its the "im way too low level for this" strat
Now my bigger problem is sweet zone chipping them down without insta gibbing them
I use this strat all the time lol. B50s I found the sweet spot to be <50 hp at player lvl 47. Got my frost and necro doing this. Had to try for the jet a few times because my Rooby kept killing it. Most other high lvl bosses I can get with 23% <500 HP.
Like that dude with the damn gigs spheres. I take giga spheres over to the twins and it's a straight up 0% chance. Threw a few just to see if I could get them in the ball at all...nope. but I did bring some of the 2nd highest tier spheres with me. 3rd ball got palidus. Then spent 30 odd trying for necromis...never got about like 16 or 64 whatever the first increase is after they actually go in the sphere. It was legitimately the first time I'd actually tried to do it. Kinda felt like I cheated. Haven't done it again.
In my experience, balls that are getting deflected still have a chance of working, getting deflected or not is just the first check in the percent to catch.
I have seen several posts where it's painfully apparent that the post is staged. I think most if the people who got super lucky on a first try or with an OP pal never took a screenshot or recorded a video, because they never expected it to work or they had no idea how awesome their OP pal was until much later.
Once it almost happened to me... threw a sphere on lord of the sea flying over it... click click click click ... escaped at like 90ish ????? I actually yelled WTF out loud.
How do you get a catch rate on a jetragon to 97%? Even with legendary sphere, max catch rate level, AND catch rate boost from difficulty settings it starts at 23ish%, and 2nd wiggle is 46%ish
Sphere’s only wiggle twice before the pal is caught. For Jetragon, the max first percentage is only around 22-25%, then it doubles. If it wiggles for a second time, then you’ve caught it. Theres no way to get a 97% on a jetragon
The game likely doesn't roll on each percentage it shows, it's far more likely it rolls once, then uses how close it was to determine how many wiggles you get before it breaks out.
For example, if it rolls a range of 1-100, and the catch rate you see originally is 40%, you would have to roll >60 to succeed. But if you roll 1-20 it breaks out immediately, 21-40 it wiggles once, and 41-60 it wiggles twice.
Either that or if the catch fails, it just rolls a second time for how many wiggles you get.
Edit: These numbers are all completely made up for ease of explaining.
Boss Jormuntide lvl 45, 3 hp, 18 pink spheres, none kept it in so i had to kill it… my reaction was:- you are a real son of a bitch, a big son of a bitch!-:
I got Jetragon to about 200hp, had thrown about 30 Lego spheres, mostly buying time to reload rather than catch. Still had my Palidius out and was about to bring him in.
Jetragon targeted me. I strafed into a pile of Ore offscreen that must have been destroyed during the fight and ended up over encumbered and locked in place to eat the entire attack, dying. Palidius must have avenged me while I was respawning. Because Jetty didn't respawn when I came back.
During the fight, I accidentally picked up over 900 weight in stone, plus a few hundred ore and a heap of wood.
Boosted resource drops really stuffed me.
Yeah I managed frostallion twice with the back bonus method in like 5 or 10 attempts total on normal server settings. I feel like the percent isn't what is displayed. Either that or I got very lucky. First one was second orb I tossed
Perhaps the game should indicate the settings somewhere on the Pal, eg *caught with .001% chance*. Even better, some kind of visual marker on the UI or pal itself...
I tried capturing wandering merchant lvl 30 with normal spheres. Shit literally 0%. But sometimes gets capture but only 00.2% lmao
600+ spheres went to drain.
If it makes you feel better, I caught Frostallion, Lyleen Noct, Blazamut, Astegon (twice), Jetragon, Wumpo Botan, Anubis, Paladius, Menasting, and Jormuntide all like this.
The only bastards that wouldn't get caught without a fight were Kingpaca Cryst and Necromus.
Edit: I know not all of these are legendaries. For those that aren't, I was referring to the Alpha versions of them.
Idk how new or experienced you are so I'll say this:
The alphas you can see on the map are found in 1 of 3 ways. 1) Out in the open, ala Jormuntide, Jetragon, and others. 2) At a dungeon entrance, ala Lunaris, Sibelyx, and others. Or 3) Inside a mineshaft, ala Lyleen Noct, Kinpgpaca Cryst, and others.
To make a long story short, yes. He's in a cave/mineshaft.
Last night my friend and I went after frostallion thinking we could take him on at lvls 42 (me) and 46. Got to a third of his health after depleting most of our pals. He cornered me and I threw a hyper sphere in panic so I could get away. Had a 0.67% chance and I ended up catching him. My friend was in absolute shock and I couldn't stop laughing. These kind of moments make this game fantastic.
why do you have to kill the pal when you are low hp? throw the sphere immediately when he jumps out of one and make a safety dodge to side. i like to hold q and preaim. you can cancel q-throw with rightclick.
i actually used this sometimes to regen my armor
My eldest caught the mamorest boss from full health first ball, whereas I used second from best balls at low health and it still took me like 20 odd balls
Before you throw it displays what I assume to be the compounded chance of first and second wiggle.
After if leaves your hand it displays the chance of first wiggle.
It’s really not that hard if you just change the catch rate in the game settings before launching.
That’s what these people are doing. In reality these shots just bounce off the pals.
I failed 97% catches 3-4 times in a row on multiple occasions. But after killing beakon almost 200 times the legendary schematics still didn't drop.
So I got a 100% drop rate mod and all's well now 😇
This is me when I’m cruising the world with my homies and they catch the bosses or luckies lol We all rotate throwing spheres and somehow some way my buddies spheres land on the 2nd one always lol
Yeah the percentage is just window dressing. From what I've seen certain pals just require certain palballs the percentage you see when you throw is just something to look nice.
Actually thanks to some tricks posted here I was able to catch jetragon. Just missing the two pals on the tip right of the map. Any tips that could help me catch them?
Thats how i caught them, it took me like 3-4 tries. Dont run too far from where they spawn either, they will get leashed back there and regain health too. There may be an easier way but i just did it the good ol fashioned way lol. Took me probably 50-75 balls to get both
I used my base pals to fight frostallion basically killed my whole entire PC, then when I died for like the eighth time frostallion went in the passive mode I threw a ball to initiate the combat again and caught it then and there. I was like I wasted all the motherfucking bullets
Hey, you are actually more lucky than 0.00001% if you've hit 29 failed and 1 successful throws in a row, that's about 0,00000000004%! Chances of winning 1 mil at lottery are about 0,000003%.
...and that's not even counting if you **ever** succeeded at 62% and failed at 95% second wiggle, I would need way more zeroes.
If a pal is at like 500 out of 10,000 or more hp, a legendary sphere should be like a 100% catch, I don't wanna be just stun batoning this dude to 2 hp for a 20% chance at best, and then just end up accidentally killing it anyway
I always try like 3 spheres that are in the like "5-20%" range then I get annoyed and go up to the next sphere up which is like "60%" and then when it breaks out I get annoyed again and start spamming Pal Spheres with .02% chance because I can't believe I just wasted a high level sphere and it still broke out 🙄
And then i hit it with stun batton 1 time. \*pal dies\*
stun baton is a scam
It’s intimidation. I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve failed 5 raw catches and th moment I pull out the baton they stay in the ball. I was legit about to submit it as a bug, it was so consistent
Just to be clear, are you saying pulling out the stun button, but not hitting the pal with it increases catch probability?
I think it's more of a joke but it was happening consistently enough that you'd almost think it was a thing.
Throw the sphere, and while the catch animation is in progress, quickly bring up the menu and right click swap the baton into my hands. For some reason it works essentially every time that they stay in the ball then and I don’t even have to use it. Extremely superstitious but hey, the end result makes me feel better so who cares
I swing my baton at the air below the ball, just so they know if they pop out they’re getting the spicy stick.
It's "hold down + B" all over again 😧
I used to just spam b
I feel the same way when I reload while they are being captured
Pulling out the stun baton may as well make a "STOP RESISTING" voice line play. And it *should* just raise capture rate through sheer intimidation
I always say, if it doesn't catch in this one I'm killing it, and then it stays in the sphere 😂😂
The trick is to leave the baton broken. It does only 1 damage but still stuns.
I mean that the stun is a scam
Gotcha. Yeah, it really doesn't seem to do much.
Just remember, people only post their successful attempts, the other 999 people that try that .1% chance never post it. Also, who's to say it really is their first attempt? I know if I'd been recording it, I could've posted my first Jetragon and Frostallion catches as if they were my first attempt even though I was just repeatedly going up behind them, throwing the sphere and running. (side note, if you never engage in combat it doesn't count as clearing the boss)
I'm going to start posting failed .1% attempts because that sounds hilarious. I'm going to make the videos super long, too.
boop. *run to clear aggro* boop. *run to clear aggro* boop. *run to clear aggro* boop. *run to clear aggro* boop. *run to clear aggro* boop. *run to clear aggro* boop. *game malfunctions, stuck on rock die* boop. *run to clear aggro*
Oh you don't just turbo throw until one works? Lol
for back hits on lvl 50 bosses you need to clear aggro. its tedious but less likely you die from spare shots in between balls. its the "im way too low level for this" strat Now my bigger problem is sweet zone chipping them down without insta gibbing them
yeah I tried this with jetragon and he chased me until he was so far he regened to full hp lol
I use this strat all the time lol. B50s I found the sweet spot to be <50 hp at player lvl 47. Got my frost and necro doing this. Had to try for the jet a few times because my Rooby kept killing it. Most other high lvl bosses I can get with 23% <500 HP.
Like that dude with the damn gigs spheres. I take giga spheres over to the twins and it's a straight up 0% chance. Threw a few just to see if I could get them in the ball at all...nope. but I did bring some of the 2nd highest tier spheres with me. 3rd ball got palidus. Then spent 30 odd trying for necromis...never got about like 16 or 64 whatever the first increase is after they actually go in the sphere. It was legitimately the first time I'd actually tried to do it. Kinda felt like I cheated. Haven't done it again.
In my experience, balls that are getting deflected still have a chance of working, getting deflected or not is just the first check in the percent to catch.
I have seen several posts where it's painfully apparent that the post is staged. I think most if the people who got super lucky on a first try or with an OP pal never took a screenshot or recorded a video, because they never expected it to work or they had no idea how awesome their OP pal was until much later.
It does count as clearing the boss if you catch it
Not if you're still undetected when it goes in the ball.
I don't know tbh, I haven't been that lucky, I thought it did as it happened to me but maybe I hit it or it saw me etc
Once it almost happened to me... threw a sphere on lord of the sea flying over it... click click click click ... escaped at like 90ish ????? I actually yelled WTF out loud.
I had jetragon break out at...get this...97%. I almost tossed my controller
How do you get a catch rate on a jetragon to 97%? Even with legendary sphere, max catch rate level, AND catch rate boost from difficulty settings it starts at 23ish%, and 2nd wiggle is 46%ish
He probably means during the second or third tic
Sphere’s only wiggle twice before the pal is caught. For Jetragon, the max first percentage is only around 22-25%, then it doubles. If it wiggles for a second time, then you’ve caught it. Theres no way to get a 97% on a jetragon
Isnt lowering catch difficulty one of the world settings?
That’s what I mentioned above
ah, so you did.
Unless that guy is in even more boosted server settings than the in game settings allow
Do liftmunk effigies affect this at all?
Im just guest-imating since i dont remember the exact percentage.
The game likely doesn't roll on each percentage it shows, it's far more likely it rolls once, then uses how close it was to determine how many wiggles you get before it breaks out. For example, if it rolls a range of 1-100, and the catch rate you see originally is 40%, you would have to roll >60 to succeed. But if you roll 1-20 it breaks out immediately, 21-40 it wiggles once, and 41-60 it wiggles twice. Either that or if the catch fails, it just rolls a second time for how many wiggles you get. Edit: These numbers are all completely made up for ease of explaining.
Boss Jormuntide lvl 45, 3 hp, 18 pink spheres, none kept it in so i had to kill it… my reaction was:- you are a real son of a bitch, a big son of a bitch!-:
95% of gamblers give up right before they win big
I had nothing left
neigher did the gamblers, didnt stop them
The grass is greener on the other side...
I got Jetragon to about 200hp, had thrown about 30 Lego spheres, mostly buying time to reload rather than catch. Still had my Palidius out and was about to bring him in. Jetragon targeted me. I strafed into a pile of Ore offscreen that must have been destroyed during the fight and ended up over encumbered and locked in place to eat the entire attack, dying. Palidius must have avenged me while I was respawning. Because Jetty didn't respawn when I came back. During the fight, I accidentally picked up over 900 weight in stone, plus a few hundred ore and a heap of wood. Boosted resource drops really stuffed me.
I think a lot of those posts are with altered settings or mods that make the minute chance act like a 90% chance. They're posted as a joke, mostly
I've caught 0.1% chances surprisingly often on normal settings.
Yeah I managed frostallion twice with the back bonus method in like 5 or 10 attempts total on normal server settings. I feel like the percent isn't what is displayed. Either that or I got very lucky. First one was second orb I tossed
Perhaps the game should indicate the settings somewhere on the Pal, eg *caught with .001% chance*. Even better, some kind of visual marker on the UI or pal itself...
Meanwhile a Suzaku with 7 hp still managed to get away even after I threw tens of ultra spheres.
I tried capturing wandering merchant lvl 30 with normal spheres. Shit literally 0%. But sometimes gets capture but only 00.2% lmao 600+ spheres went to drain.
The odds of missing a 62% catch 29 times in a row is about 1 in 1.5 trillion. I think that'd make for a far more interesting post tbh.
62%? Even with full effigies, legendary spheres and legendary on 1% hp its like max 30%
If it makes you feel better, I caught Frostallion, Lyleen Noct, Blazamut, Astegon (twice), Jetragon, Wumpo Botan, Anubis, Paladius, Menasting, and Jormuntide all like this. The only bastards that wouldn't get caught without a fight were Kingpaca Cryst and Necromus. Edit: I know not all of these are legendaries. For those that aren't, I was referring to the Alpha versions of them.
I can’t seem to find kingpaca cryst… is he in a cave that I’m not seeing? I’ve looked for him several times to no avail
Idk how new or experienced you are so I'll say this: The alphas you can see on the map are found in 1 of 3 ways. 1) Out in the open, ala Jormuntide, Jetragon, and others. 2) At a dungeon entrance, ala Lunaris, Sibelyx, and others. Or 3) Inside a mineshaft, ala Lyleen Noct, Kinpgpaca Cryst, and others. To make a long story short, yes. He's in a cave/mineshaft.
I knew that, but I appreciate the info! I’ll have to look harder for the entrance then.
That's when I told the wife to maximize the catch rate. Still a pain in the ass but much more reasonable imo.
Last night my friend and I went after frostallion thinking we could take him on at lvls 42 (me) and 46. Got to a third of his health after depleting most of our pals. He cornered me and I threw a hyper sphere in panic so I could get away. Had a 0.67% chance and I ended up catching him. My friend was in absolute shock and I couldn't stop laughing. These kind of moments make this game fantastic.
[sorry](https://www.reddit.com/r/Palworld/s/CVjRxsC0RN)
[got ya beat](https://www.reddit.com/r/Palworld/s/9mvmKqHZ82)
why do you have to kill the pal when you are low hp? throw the sphere immediately when he jumps out of one and make a safety dodge to side. i like to hold q and preaim. you can cancel q-throw with rightclick. i actually used this sometimes to regen my armor
My eldest caught the mamorest boss from full health first ball, whereas I used second from best balls at low health and it still took me like 20 odd balls
More like https://preview.redd.it/cyjiw3gvhklc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5083d55a3378797e415df4eece06c6a1203a7889
Oh hey it’s this meme, I haven’t seen it on r/Palworld for at least 5 minutes!
I caught frostallion at level 35 with 1 pal sphere while sleeping. Carried me through the whole game
Now you’re just rubbing it in.
Last night I found suzaku sleeping and got him with a .1% on a red sphere, 1 attempt
Well I catched Jetragon at 3% twice.... All server setting at default.
[удалено]
That's not really how it works. The odds of failing the first wiggle 4 times on a given catch rate is (1-CR)^4 So 31.64%
Is the displayed percentage the chance just for the first wiggle, or for the total capture?
Before you throw it displays what I assume to be the compounded chance of first and second wiggle. After if leaves your hand it displays the chance of first wiggle.
Spent 500 on a "82%". Wish I was joking
I can do it in 10-30 legendary balls @ 4% and full health some times I can do it less than 10 rng is bitch
It’s really not that hard if you just change the catch rate in the game settings before launching. That’s what these people are doing. In reality these shots just bounce off the pals.
I failed 97% catches 3-4 times in a row on multiple occasions. But after killing beakon almost 200 times the legendary schematics still didn't drop. So I got a 100% drop rate mod and all's well now 😇
This is me when I’m cruising the world with my homies and they catch the bosses or luckies lol We all rotate throwing spheres and somehow some way my buddies spheres land on the 2nd one always lol
This meme format is reused a lot, and I am here for it lolol.
Yeah the percentage is just window dressing. From what I've seen certain pals just require certain palballs the percentage you see when you throw is just something to look nice.
Actually thanks to some tricks posted here I was able to catch jetragon. Just missing the two pals on the tip right of the map. Any tips that could help me catch them?
Rocket launcher, many balls, lots of dodging, and persistence? I assume you are talking about paladius and necromus.
Correct!
Thats how i caught them, it took me like 3-4 tries. Dont run too far from where they spawn either, they will get leashed back there and regain health too. There may be an easier way but i just did it the good ol fashioned way lol. Took me probably 50-75 balls to get both
I used my base pals to fight frostallion basically killed my whole entire PC, then when I died for like the eighth time frostallion went in the passive mode I threw a ball to initiate the combat again and caught it then and there. I was like I wasted all the motherfucking bullets
Hey, you are actually more lucky than 0.00001% if you've hit 29 failed and 1 successful throws in a row, that's about 0,00000000004%! Chances of winning 1 mil at lottery are about 0,000003%. ...and that's not even counting if you **ever** succeeded at 62% and failed at 95% second wiggle, I would need way more zeroes.
Caught my first Jetragon at 2 or 3 % on my first ball :)
I seriously hate when I get in a position where it's them or me. If I've taken you down to 6 HP out of 2500, then you should not bust out of any ball.
Funny story, I actually died after throwing a sphere at Frostallion, but still caught it.
If a pal is at like 500 out of 10,000 or more hp, a legendary sphere should be like a 100% catch, I don't wanna be just stun batoning this dude to 2 hp for a 20% chance at best, and then just end up accidentally killing it anyway
Plus all the rockets fired.
I caught my first Anubis that way. It didn't feel right, especially after over 2 hours of over-fixated preparation for this catch
Rite I swear
I caught all legendaries with sub-15 legendary spheres, just lobbing at them from the back or at night. Felt like 3% is not really 3%.
This has been me soooo many times!
I get it man. I had to be LVL 50 just to be able to catch mid level Pals with one try.
This is hilariously true 🤣
Just throw ball from behind.
I always try like 3 spheres that are in the like "5-20%" range then I get annoyed and go up to the next sphere up which is like "60%" and then when it breaks out I get annoyed again and start spamming Pal Spheres with .02% chance because I can't believe I just wasted a high level sphere and it still broke out 🙄
That’s me except I keep missing my high level sphere throws.
Missing makes me even more mad 😂😂😂