Here are some tips on how to catch a wild Caterpie in the wild.
1. Caterpie’s capabilities.
Caterpie is a pretty easy Pokemon to catch in games. Bring flying-types and fire-types to cover against him and always try to make sure you have a fake slide to help bring his HP, hit points down to one very easily.
2. Use status effects like Sleep Powder etc.
One of the best ways to catch Pokemon is by using status effect moves on them. Catch a Pokemon like Butterfree or Venasaur and use moves like Sleep Powder on them so you can easily put them to sleep. You can also use other Pokemon to help put them to sleep as such. Things like Hypnosis can be used by Pokémon named Gastly, Hypno, Gengar, etc. Stun Spore is also a great move to use and use on a Pokémon to help catch it more easily in the wild while playing Pokémon. A better move that has the same effect as Stun Spore that causes paralysis is a move called Thunder Wave. Many Pokemon can learn this move like Alakazam, Ampharos, Pikachu, Jolteon, etc. If you are able to stun and paralyze your opponent, the act of capturing them becomes child’s play at that point. The chances of catching and catching Pokémon are increased significantly. The last possible decent method of capture is possibly poison and maybe frozen here and there. Poison is generally not always recommended, as this increases the chance that the Pokémon may lose and pass out before you can capture it. The frozen status condition is very rare and difficult/difficult to achieve, so I wouldn’t rely on this condition to inflict a good and useful status condition on the Pokemon you want to catch.
Bring many unique Pokeballs and in quantity.
Make sure you always buy a lot of Poké Balls to keep moving forward in catching the Pokémon you want to catch. Fastballs are always useful to cast on the first turn of a battle, as that’s the highest use success rate for them. Next, you can always spam Pokeballs for cheap to test the waters and see how hard this particular Pokemon is to catch. Ultra balls and Great balls are always the best option for a high hit rate of any Pokémon in any general area. If it’s at night or in a cave, Dusk Balls are the way to go. And other good options are like net balls for water and bug types and heavy balls for heavy Pokemon as well.
Those are the best tips for catching Caterpie and other Pokémon in general. Feel free to manage and catch Pokémon to the best of your ability and always have fun with Nintendo and playing Pokémon no matter what.
