While Soft Resetting for a competitive IV'd Terrakion, I noticed that in its movepool contained Swords Dance. So with that, I decided to use a little shenanagins to make my captures a little easier.
I happen to have a Spinda with Skill Swap and Trick, and it also has the Contrary Ability, so what better way to mess with a legendary then to Skill Swap Contrary onto Terrakion making it so that every time it decided to Swords dance to lower its own Attack by 2 stages, but my shenanigans didn't end there. I also used Trick to put my Choice Scarf onto it so that it can only use Swords dance. Just have to use trick a few times till it decided to get stuck in a never ending loop of Dances. But once it was it was game over for the poor Terrakion.
Granted this method may take a bit longer, I feel it makes things much safer then trying to throw pokeballs at a +6 Terrakion attaking with Sacred Sword and Retaliate.
I hope this helps everyone make trying to catch this popular VGC15 pokemon a little easier
I happen to have a Spinda with Skill Swap and Trick, and it also has the Contrary Ability, so what better way to mess with a legendary then to Skill Swap Contrary onto Terrakion making it so that every time it decided to Swords dance to lower its own Attack by 2 stages, but my shenanigans didn't end there. I also used Trick to put my Choice Scarf onto it so that it can only use Swords dance. Just have to use trick a few times till it decided to get stuck in a never ending loop of Dances. But once it was it was game over for the poor Terrakion.
Granted this method may take a bit longer, I feel it makes things much safer then trying to throw pokeballs at a +6 Terrakion attaking with Sacred Sword and Retaliate.
I hope this helps everyone make trying to catch this popular VGC15 pokemon a little easier
