Why Was the Luxury Ball SO RARE in Pokémon Emerald? 

Never realized Luxury Balls are that rare in Gen 3, and I've played those games so much. Don't think I've ever actually used the one I've probably gotten in them either

As someone who farmed, and I am not kidding, 105 luxary balls for my ribbon master shiny rayquaza, yes, it is nightmarish.

I forgot about the luxury ball in emerald. But you could also use the Battle Tower cloning glitch to farm luxury balls outside of the traditional ways to get them.

In order to increase your chances of catching Rayquaza, you can use a Grumpig or Spinda with Skill Swap to give Rayquaza Own Tempo. That way you don't have to worry about confusion from Outrage and you can bring it down to 1 HP.

At least cloning the luxury ball exists in Emerald.

There was a dude who had a legit living Orre dex all caught in luxury balls. He beat the entire two GameCube games without catching a single Pokémon until after the post game and went back and forth in FireRed to get more luxury balls, trade them on Pokémon to Colosseum and XD and then started catching them. It took him literal weeks as he didn't want to just clone those balls in Emerald.

For Rayquaza I taught skill swap to a Smeargle so it can swap own tempo to avoid the outrage confusion. The other three moves are ingrain, false swipe, and spore.

8:09 A sleeping lv 70 Rayquaza at full health will break out of 100 Luxury Balls 43% of the time, and 150 Luxury Balls 29% of the time. RNG manipulation for faster Shiny Rayquazas is the way to go

I was so preoccupied with how annoying it was to separately grab Premier Balls that I never noticed how rare Luxury Balls were.

I remember finding this in Emerald as a kid some 20 years ago and assuming it was a sort of second Master Ball based on name, rarity and appearance. I used it to catch Rayqaza (1st try, 1st throw). I spent years of my life with this false assumption till I stumbled upon the Bulbapedia page one day and found out it's just a glorified Pokeball... I was both disappointed and proud

I recently got a Sapphire to match my Ruby, and I was looking into a Luxury Ball for an easier Crobat. But since I don't have any link cable to trade my Firered Luxury Balls over with, I had to see other methods. I then learned about how being an Egg Mon and levelling up gains you friendship, so I had two Zubats breed, and switch trained the offspring until I had a Golbat, and 4 levels later a Crobat. The whole thing only took me like an hour. I love being older and wiser.

This is some runescape level rng grind bullshit

Idk why but the Adamant Nature really adds to the aesthetic somehow 🤷‍♂️

I actually caught shadow lugia in a luxury ball, thought the ball color matched the shadow design really well and was even more on board when I realized there was only one and I couldn't trade for them until after capturing them x3 Actually got really lucky and managed to catch them in way less attempts then I expected, I thought that was pretty cool.

I caught it shiny in a luxury ball, but I cheated them in with GameShark. Rayquaza was legitimately hunted tho

As long as you have access to most of the Pokemon you’ve “seen” in your dex, Resort Gorgeous is definitely the best option for farming luxury balls legitimately in Gen 3. If you have all the individual Pokémon you’ve seen, you can potentially get another luxury ball every 2 minutes. After getting a reward from Selphy, exit the house and reenter to have her request another Pokemon. If you don’t have the Pokemon she wants, ride your bike from one side of her island to the other 10 times and she’ll request a different one. It’s still very tedious to do, but can be much faster than the contest method.

The only hard part about getting shiny rayquaza on a Luxury ball is actually getting the Luxury Balls Once you have the Lucury Balls, all you have to do is some Arbitrary Code Execution to spawn a shiny rayquaza and then just spam luxury balls until one works Getting shinies in Gen 3 is super easy

9:25 I have a life

I caught a shiny raquaza in a luxury ball a while back. Here is how I did it: 1. Get a luxury ball 2. Use a duplication glitch to dupe it a LOT (having multiple copies of the game can help with speed) 3. RNG manipulate the shiny raquaza (it’s a static pokemon) (this requires knowing your SID, and thankfully I had found a shiny before and used that to help figure out my SID) 4. Catch it (if you run out of balls, reset and RNG manip another one) If that is too much work for you, you could always just get a shiny raquaza and use ACE to change the Pokeball that it is in.

He wasn't holding the down button

8:05 Well. . . That's an unfortunate name for a Pokemon LMAO

Luxury Balls are one of the only balls in Pokemon that has a lasting effect after using it. It is rare because of that. Hell, it's in the name: it is a luxury. Of course they're rare

Knowing this info now, it blows my mind that i caught Rayquaza with it back in the day when all my ultra balls failed.

I farmed about 100 luxury balls in FireRed and caught my shiny Mewtwo in it simply because I figured he'd be cozier in there (which reminds me I need to transfer him up before 3DS online servers explode in about a week) edit: I do wanna clarify that the rich lady is farmable, you just have to walk a certain amount of steps for her to ask for another pokemon! since I was completing the living dex in my game as well, it was easy to just grab the pokemon I needed from the pokemon center and bring it to her! (it did take several hours to get all the balls I wanted though)

You forgot to mention you can the Pokémon cloning glitch in the battle frontier to get more Luxury Balls, which I did and subsequently found shiny Rayquaza in 15 SRs the same day! Caught it in 5 Luxury Balls.

I was so surprised at how small your channel is! I love this video and you've got great presentation skills! I can't wait to watch this channel grow!

For those who want to farm tons of luxury balls (or any other items), you can consider using the Battle Tower Cloning glitch. It is an extremely simple glitch to execute that can save you all the grinding in the contest. This video demonstrates how to do so: [ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PRq7rJ7E7hU.html&ab_channel=CandyEvie]. In addition, there exists an even faster glitch, known as the Fast Cloning glitch which allows you to duplicate up to a whole box of Pokémon per iteration (instead of the usual five per iteration by the Battle Tower Cloning glitch). However there is a slight catch: it takes some efforts to setup the glitch as you'll need to carry out the Pomeg Berry glitch which is slightly complicated and time-consuming (took me around 2 hours) but imo it's totally worth it since 1) you're speeding up the process by almost six times, 2) once you've done the setup, you can easily perform the cloning glitch over and over again at anytime in the future and 3) it allows you to perform many other glitches that are also very useful. This video demonstrates how to perform the Fast Cloning (and Decloning) glitch: [ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Sa9nEZBU3DI.html&ab_channel=Sleipnir17]. The method to perform the Pomeg Berry glitch is also in that video's description (or just look it up on yt as there's many videos showcasing how to do it). Personally I used this glitch to duplicate max amount of each type of ball for my shiny hunting (rn I'm doing the Lati@s glitch to shiny hunt in the Battle Tower). Hopefully this info is useful for some of you!

Because if it was widespreadly available it would not be as rare and luxurious ?

This reminded me of a similar challenge: shiny Distortion World Giratina in a dive ball. 4th gen dive balls were a similar scarcity, but for literally no canon reason lol. Giratina in the Distortion World was also never caught in a non masterball until the same year i did that challenge. So i feel the flex of color matching in balls and rarity. Love the video, bro!

Catching legends i find to be easier with paralysis, it constantly works, steals turns half the time and has a decent multiplier without constant damage.

in emerald contests are not so bad, smeargle is basically made for those and easy to get. also you could do the emerald clone glitch to get more luxury balls if you like them so much

This video is cool as heck ! I didn't realize how rare a luxuryball im gen 3 is I assumed they could be brought somewhere eventually in the game. It was also very neat to see the other methods of obtaining one while it does seem grinding it makes it that much cooler to obtain in gen 3. Very fun video !

It's pretty fascinating that the newer Gen Pokémon games are so irrelevant that people are and have been practically data mining all of the old generation Pokémon games and we are discovering things we never even realized or thought of existing, goes to show how much love and thought was put into the older generation games.

I used tons of ultraballs against Groudon. I threw the luxury ball for the jokes and it fucking stayed in.

Meanwhile, me as a kid who used it on a Growlithe/Arcanine: But in all seriousness, Luxury Balls are more of a status symbol than anything else. I use them exclusively for shinies I've been hoarding, unless I can use a Lure Ball on various Water Pokemon. No idea why GameFreak nerfed them from 1k a piece to 3k a piece, lmao.

why don't propose this challenge to smallant? it could be funny to see him try. Also great presentation

I actually caught a zubat with the luxury ball for that reason because I became obsessed with Crobat in Pokemon gold. Zuzu became a lifelong partner.

Best strategy ? Use Own Tempo Pokémon and skill swap the ability to Rayquaza so he can never be confused. Spoink has both. Then, use a Smeargle with both Spore, False Swipe and Trick (@leppa berry) so that even with pp waste it cannot struggle to death. Easy.

just want to say this video has one of the cleanest, nicest thumbnails I've ever seen

The timing! When I feel like doing an Emerald replay, the algorithm blesses me with this recent upload! Oh the coincidence!

I'd say use an Electrode with Spore for the sleep setup. 😈

Fantastic Video, man, I played through Gen 3 the most and completely forgot that the Luxury Ball was even in the game

I was so confused when i started this video because i never had a problem with luxury balls when i played because contests were cool too, you could get your party members to have ribbons and it made me feel like they were unique

If you're that scared of confusion damage, you can always just give the rayquaza -6 attack

Great video! Hope this challenge catches on

Wasting hours of your life brute forcing RNG: what an amazing challenge.

0:45 what really baffles me how people intentionally ignore items on the ground

I got shadow Lugia in the one luxury ball available, it took literal days. The kicker, I got it with a friend after watching the Zeraora movie. We we screaming ‘Pokémon power!’ in harmony and pushed the A button together and actually caught it. It had no effect on the shadow effect tho. Also caught Groudon and Rayquaza in the single lixury balls of their respective games before I discovered that I could farm them in Firered. Now I have multiple full odds shinies in these balls and I am as proud as ever

I just flat out really enjoyed this video! splendid job!

Just be a chad and throw a single luxury ball at shiny Rayquaza and capture it on the first try.

I'm not quite insane enough to try this, but maybe one day.

video title had me scratching my head. i was like "are they really that hard to get? can't you just get them from winning contests or something"

Wait, luxury balls are only as good as normal balls? My entire life feels like a lie

I caught my rng manipulated shiny rayquaza in a luxury ball and it was a satisfying catch just took so long to finally keep him in that ball lol

Bro, it's wild that as a person who went out of his way to shiny hunt Rayquaza in Emerald(and was insanely lucky to find it within 4 hours of starting), the one ball that would be PERFECT for it is so tedious to farm that it's objectively not worth doing.

Playing an Emerald hack and thankfully the Luxury Ball shows up in a store depending on gym badges (it's 5k tho 😅). Thankfully they also made it useful by having 100% catch rate on shinys.

Glad to see someone ACTUALLY is doing an entire video on this.. because I did this with my Action Replay back in 06' and it... was... ABSOLUTELY BANANAS!!! 😭💯

my first thought is getting a pokemon that knows Spite to use it after Rayquaza uses Outrage, then after it snaps out of confusion, you can weaken it and then put it to sleep and catch it.

I feel called out, I’ve been hunting a farfetch’d in leafgreen for almost a year, 22,500 eggs hatched.

Sorry, can’t do this challenge, too busy trying to catch Arceus in a Level Ball in BDSP. Did I mention that not only does the shiny charm not work, Level Balls are a pre order exclusive item in that game?

here is an even greater challenge. Getting the entire weather trio as shinies in the luxury ball and move them up to at least Omega Ruby/Alpha Saphire and have Groudon and Kyogre hold the red and blue orbs respectively. Full black shiny weather trio

Had no idea luxary balls were this rare but i caught my mewtwo with ine. It was my last pokeball and i had already used my masterball . It does look cool i remeber thinking lol

Didn't even know they were rare af in gen 3. I caught my Kyogre in a luxury and since then I'd always catch legendaries in Lux balls

What's the song playing at the end?

i just checked my old childhood file. 148 luxury balls. Im pretty sure from contests, i loved those. i didn't realize how much i loved those till now, casue i remember useing luxury balls like they were going out of fashion.

"Most likely rayquaza wont struggle knock itself out" He did it twice for me before i managed to get him. I was shiny hunting and grtting legends in luxury balls for awhile now but i didnt realize how low the catch rate was till i tried to do it emerald Also there is the smeargle method of false swipe and spore.

I got my shiny Rayquaza in 2 luxury ball throws at 1624 encounters. my strategy was a level 100 smeargle with superfang, false swipe, spore, and recover. easily my favorite shiny that I have

Smeargle @ Leftovers Ability: Own Tempo EVs: 20 Spe at least if its 0 IVs on Spe to outspeed lvl 70 Ray with 31 IVs on Spe. Serious Nature - Spore - False Swipe - Skill Swap - Recover This is all you need I think.

This video was fun! I used a Luxury Ball to catch my shiny Mew last week! If it transforms it copies catch rate, so I crossed my fingers that it would copy my Zigzagoon, and not metronome explode, and once I false swiped it and put it to sleep it would give it a 100% catch rate. I still farmed up 4 extra Luxury balls from contests just in case, but I obviously caught it on the first ball!

Yesterday I tried catching a shiny Rayquaza (Mild with good IVs) with a luxury ball using Pokefinder and Eon timer. He appears on frame 41,872 for my trainer secret ID, which is an attempt every 11minutes. The only thing that wasn't legit was that I gave myself 35 luxury balls....and then I accidentally crit him with Alakazam. After a few more attempts I found him again today and I just threw a masterball, didn't wanna hunt him down again after realizing just how difficult it was.

i never knew what it did, i just really liked how it looked lol

Now farm a bunch of those luxury balls and encounter a shiny Rayquaza and catch it with the upmost swagger

Funny enough, I did just this. I got a lot of Luxury Balls (cloning the one from the ship) and shiny hunted all the legendary's in emerald. It was a challenge, but a doable challenge.

IIRC, you change the Lilycove Lady you have by record mixing with a player with a different type of Lady.

Its funny how i caught a goldbat with the luxury ball when i was a kid but i didnt know that back in the day xD

Wait… so my Flygon that I used forever in Battle Frontier as a kid, that was caught in a Luxury Ball as a Trapinch, was actually something I may not remember at all as it turns out I probably only had one and just got lucky? 😅

hilariously enough in HGSS I have a kyogre in a Luxury Ball I whittled it down like basically to 1HP and threw my hyper balls, in the mean time it also used aqua ring and by the time I ran out of the hyper balls it was back to like half HP, and I just Hail Mary'd a single Luxury ball which happened to catch it

As the proud owner of a shiny Rayquaza caught in Emerald with a luxury ball and a trainer ID of 42069, nice video :p

I didn't even know it was that rare, like I knew it was in gen 3 but I never thought to buy one cause I don't really use them. Like the only thing you could catch in RSE that evolves with Friendship is Zubat/Golbat, you'd need to breed to get the baby mon that need it, and those hatch in regular Pokeballs anyway. And then Chansey is only in FRLG and in the Safari Zone. But I guess I do love that it could just be a flex. Like it's a great looking Ball. And then immediately the next Gen they're available to buy

Use 6 flashes to get him to miss outrage and minimize confusion

As a kid I found the luxury ball and fell I love with how pretty it is and to this day it’s still my favorite ball. I used mine on an absol ❤

Never been a fan of other pokeballs, so much so that when ORAS came out I got an entire living dex entirely in normal pokeballs

I never knew how rare they were as a kid compared to the master ball, but then again, I KO'd and saved over defeating both Groudon and Kyogre when I first played Emerald so my thoughts as a kid don't count.

I only use luxury balls to catch shiny pokemon. It looks great and it does give off the rare feeling.

If you have Emerald and have access to the Battle Frontier then you can just clone a ton of Luxury Balls using that Battle Tower cloning glitch. Just defeat Rayquaza when you first encounter it, then it'll respawn after you beat the Elite Four and you can try for it after you've gotten the balls.

I'd watch that deep dive on Pokemon contests :D

Can't you catch a Ditto with a Luxury Ball and pass it down to a billion babies? I thought Pokeballs were inherited in gen 3. I haven't played post-gen 2 games since gen 8 dropped though.

Im trying to remember what i spent my luxury ball on. Skarmory on accident, i think. I think i caught kyogre in a heal ball.

Modern Pokémon Players probably don't realize just how good they got it in terms of convenience. From wild Pokémon encounters to the availability of items as gens 1-3 were real stingy about certain items with the Luxury Ball being I think the most widely ignored item. Since you wouldn't normally encounter it in a shop nor see other trainers use it. A detail I wish the company would have used more often.

Catching Shadow Lugia in a Luxury Ball was a challenge.. don't even know how many resets I did but was worth it! I went in with 3 Luxury Balls.

I hunted a single shiny ray before. And I actually enjoy doing pokemon contests. I think im up for the challenge...

Doing this challenge with the Battle Tower duplication glitch, arbitrary code execution and RNG manipulation, it might not be that time consuming and could be doable in a day. I hope someone tries it!

What’s the location at 6:18 ? Edit: found it! Faraway island. I was wondering why I didn’t recognize it. Cool.

I think the best «catcher» pokemon in the Game is Smeargle with Substitute, Spore, Agility and False Swipe. Grind down Raqyuaza to 1 hp and put it to sleep in order to prevent Outrage to cause confusion damage. After 3 pumps of agility Smeargle should outspeed Raquaza. This enables you to use Spore before Raquaza uses Outrage after it wakes up from sleep and destroys your sub on the prior turn

... My little brother did this when we were kids on his Ruby cartridge that we replaced the battery for. That was a lot of fun. He was a lucky bastard but he item duped the one you get for free. He did use a Snorlax

i mainly try to catch my shinnies in luxury balls and whenever i catch eevee or ditto

We have this situation with the kurt balls in current gens lol. Also, i have caught Rayquaza in a luxury ball already. Emerald has a really abusable RNG manipulation strategy. I'm working on making it a ribbon master but i already have my hands full with a few other pokemon. Mostly a Kirlia, Shiny shaymin in a nest ball, shiny Giratina in a luxury ball and a level 1 shiny Giratina i am working on getting from Sinjoh ruins... his name is Silverfish :)

Damn, i did this just a couple of weeks ago. Rng'd rayquaza and then spent 3 weeks throwing balls :3 I did get a skill swap smeargle for own tempo, which is a must for this challenge

Magneton with thunderwave and lefttovers should be enough, it can resist fly and extreme speed, rayquaza cant do rest if not damage itself with outrage, take out the possibility to do that attack because its paralyzed, after that you just throw all the pokeballs you want, i catch mine yesterday with a premier ball :D

Something you could do to alleviate Rayquaza's Outrage confusion is use a Slowbro to Skill Swap Own Tempo onto it. And yes, this works.