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How many of you Pokemon players still have a habit of pressing A+B+Down when catching Pokemon?

For those of you who don't know, the whole A+B+Down trend arose during the early days of Pokemon, back during Red, Green/Blue, and Yellow. Given certain conditions, either before the Poke'Ball is thrown or before it hits the Poke'mon, jamming A+B+Down or a similar button combination would supposedly increase your chances of capturing the Poke'mon or according to some in the earlier days, turn the Poke'Ball into a Master Ball. However, even though it's been proven that pressing A+B+Down does absolutely nothing, many people still do it.

I still tend to do it very often, even though I know for a fact that it does practically nothing. But for some strange reason it still FEELS like it actually helps.

I've found that Ultra Balls in Platinum are the worst balls in the game.

I actually never did that... Although where I live, they simply held down A or mashed it, thinking it would heighten their chances... I never understood why that would be logical, so I never did it.

Here it was mashing either A and B alternately, or just B.

I did that until a while ago, but once in a while I'll press it if I get impatient or I really want the Pokemon.

I've done it once or twice before in R/B, and strangely, they worked each time.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who does it, even in these later gens.

And speaking of a Premier Ball, that danged Sudowoodo near national Park ate up all of the other balls I had on hand, and yet the one Premier Ball I checked managed to snag it.

I always tapped A in time with the movement of the Pokeball.

I didn't notice until someone asked me why I was doing it, and I had to answer "I...I've no idea." xd

I actually yell "Gotcha!" right before the pokeball closes. Unless someone else is in the room. That would be a bit awkward.