what's going on everyone austin john place here and today i'm going to be going over all the new
and various balls you're going to be using in pokemon legends rcs
now that the embargo for this game is lifted and while i don't have a nintendo sponsored copy i
managed to get myself an early copy and everything you're going to be seeing here today falls within
the embargo guidelines set by nintendo before launch which is going to be tomorrow at i think
10 a.m eastern standard time basically australian release all the pokeballs you currently know about
are probably not in the game everything that was fun before like fastballs and things like that
those are absent because they were made by selfco a man-made company and now uh these pokeballs are
also man-made except you're the man or woman or non-binary person who's going to be creating these
balls great these are the balls that we are going to be looking at you're probably familiar with the
pokeball the great ball and the ultra ball but there's new two new classes of balls so after
you progress your star ranking you're going to be getting access to the heavy ball a ball that
is too heavy to fly far or high but it is highly effective if you manage to hit an unsuspecting
pokemon now while the exact information on what is unsuspecting is a little vague i have a pretty
good idea on what exactly is being talked about here so here we are in the beginning area and you
see these shanks over here this shanks it has the little ellipses and he kind of sees me but kind of
doesn't however in this game if the pokemon is facing away from you you could get uh i forgot
the exact term but i think it's called a back shot however shinkson is an aggressive oh he's sleeping
perfect thanks guy here's the heavy ball and as i approach the pokemon you're gonna see a little
cursor hover over above the shanks just like that if i hold down zr which is the throw button
i could choose to hold down zl which is to target the pokemon you're now going to see
that green arrow going up and you're going to see that it's it's green which means there's a
very good chance i'm going to catch it however the pokeball is not going to reach if i were to switch
to a regular pokeball it will reach but the heavy ball is not going to reach however as i get closer
if you watch the crosshair in the middle see how it just expanded that means i'm now within range
that the heavy ball is going to work i like to aim up a little bit also let's go to the left
so we could get the back shot to the back of the head it's the largest part of the pokemon's model
and i missed they really don't fly far okay let's get even closer let's aim all the way up
got it now the pokemon was unsuspecting there's a very good chance it's gonna be caught and it was
great now this shanks over here is kind of looking at me he's a little suspicious on what's going on
and if i highlight the regular pokeball and let's just aim up a little bit
and see how much farther that flies there's a good reason for that and we caught shinx
fantastic the great ball does the exact same thing as the pokeball same distance
and everything else however increased catch rate ultra ball even better catch rate the
third class of pokeball is called the feather ball the in-game text reads a ball that flies
fast and true ideal for catching nimble pokemon or pokemon that fly high in the air now i don't
know the specific catch rates on the feather ball versus the heavy ball versus the pokeball
however my theory on this just a game theory is that the heavy ball and the feather ball have the
exact same base catch rate as the pokeball however if the pokemon is unsuspecting it's probably
going to be a little bit more effective as far as the feather ball i think only flying pokemon it's
going to have that increased catch rate but what's really neat about it is there are some pokemon who
are going to notice you much further away than that shinx can all right so there's the shanks all
the way over there and if i were to go to target it with the feather ball can't even target it yet
however i can let's crouch down by the way this is the galactic outfit that you get if you have
a brilliant diamond shining pearl save data again not allowed to lock onto the pokemon right
but if we aim just right we could boop them right in the face and this thing flies very far
there's gonna be some pokemon that are much more intimidating that are very far away
and this is a pokeball that can cover that distance so while i think the heavy ball
provides an increased catch rate for pokemon that you can get close to i feel as though the feather
ball mostly provides more utility except for some pokemon that are flying in the air and there's not
a lot of them in the game but it's impossible to reach them with anything other than the feather
ball as far as the progression of the pokeballs when you start the game off at a zero star rank
you're going to only have access to the pokeball however after completing the tutorial and catching
a small amount of pokemon thereafter you're going to be getting access to the heavy ball
as you increase your star rank you are going to be able to get these additional pokeballs by crafting
and via other means later on you're going to be able to get the feather ball and then after that
you unlock the great ball after that you get the legend ball after that you get the wing ball the
leading ball is an improved version of the heavy ball the wing ball is an improved version of the
feather ball and then you're going to unlock the ultra ball the gigaton ball which is an improved
version of the legend ball and the jet ball which is approved version of the wing ball oh look at
that design the jet ball and the gigaton ball are two beautifully looking crafted pokeballs like
look at there in the hot bar that's the gigaton ball and let me tell you if you get a back shot
on a pokemon with a gigaton ball the actual weight that the game feels like when you successfully do
it i don't know if it's the exact same as the heavy ball but it feels like it has so much
gravity to it all right so these weren't pull over here they're not gonna run i'm gonna throw a berry
go go get the berry go get the berry guy go get it i'm gonna walk right behind him he's unsuspecting
oh so powerful let's let's compare that to the heavy ball
back shot i guess it's the same but i don't know it just feels cooler with the gigaton ball
as far as crafting these pokeballs they all generally require the same sort of items
all of them require a base capricorn which you're going to be getting everywhere the pokeballs are
going to be needing the red tumble stones the variety of heavy balls you're going to be needing
the black tumble stones a variety of feather balls you're going to be needing the blue tumble stones
and all of them require increasing amounts of iron chunks iron chunks i i feel like with your star
rank getting higher iron chunks just drop more often every time that you're farming materials
and also there's various ways for you to just buy specific materials i'm going to be making
a full crafting guide going over you know the things that you should buy and things you should
not buy there's weasel over here weasels have a very far view distance i don't know exactly why
also they could be a little difficult to uh to deal with so if i throw this feather ball
i actually threw it too low and it bounced off of the earth too high and it landed in the water
because i have that little bit of a hill there the feather balls require like real precise aiming and
you're probably gonna burn through them quite a bit this guy's not easy to throw at uh let's go
for the middle tier the wing ball which has the exact same properties as far as travel distance
and that time i actually managed to to reach it so that's like throwing a great ball but from far
away i feel like again these are not backed up by numbers or anything else just over 100 hours
of experience playing the game in the beginning of the game you're gonna be juggling all three balls
you're gonna be finding a balance that works well for them however once you're getting into the mid
and the late game the wing balls are gonna be very helpful when trying to catch alpha pokemon because
they have just quite a long range of set of sense they can see you from very far away if you're not
in grass you you are going to be seen but from right here there is a chance this wing ball is
actually going to cover this distance you see how it did that little clock that means that even
though it did make contact with the pokemon you're actually outside of the throwing range even though
the ball is technically the the right ball for the job you have to get a little bit closer for
the ball to respond not exactly too sure why it does that also just to let you know when you
start off the game you are not going to be able to catch these alpha pokemon until you level up
a little bit someone sees me i don't think it's this guy though got him oh he sees me
so we did not catch that pokemon now i got this little shanks to deal with shanks go away oh you
you actively see me so i'm not going to be able to throw a ball at you dude i'm doing a video
really really you got it you got to be like that goku lava good job cool lava you're a good boy
okay where was i back in the grass hey there buddy so i'm going to wait for him to turn around we're
going to go for that back shot because i think the back shot is going to have a slightly better
chance to catch him than if i just throw it at his face okay running out of patience let's throw
a berry over there so that he gets distracted by the berry and presents his back to me thank you
i'm also gonna dodge a little bit away
and fantastic that was able to catch him i think that's gonna be the exact same catch right as if
i threw a regular great ball but that little bit of distance goes a long way i also plan on
releasing a video going over very helpful items for different catching strategies because there's
lots of different ways you could play the game and i can't wait for you to experience it so
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rcs content i'm austin john until next time i'll i'll see you next time i try changing the outro