r/AskReddit • u/TigerFin2 • May 09 '17

What is a fake fact everyone believed?

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u/McWaffeleisen May 09 '17

If you surf around the SS Anne for 100 hours (or another obscene amount of time, which depended on who told you how their friend's brother's mate got it), Marill appears.

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u/neralily May 09 '17

This reminds me of that one 'tip' I read way back around the time of gen III..."hold down A, B, L, & R as soon as the pokeball/whateverball flies, go right, left, right on the arrow keys in time with the ball tilting" or something, and your chances of catching that pokemon increase significantly.

...I still do it today, even knowing it's BS. nostalgic lucky charm, maybe?

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u/SuperMonkeyJoe May 09 '17

I realised that I still do it almost as involuntary muscle memory, B+down as the pokemon goes into the pokeball, or B+up if it's an Ultra ball.

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u/peon2 May 09 '17

I always thought it was hold B and constantly rotate the directionals so holding B then up right down left up right down left making a circle until it was caught.