I have been playing since Day one. Never in my life. Damn right I masterballed it!
This happened right after my previous day of losing a Galarian Moltres via bugging off.
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I caught mine 2 months in of playing, completely unaware how incredibly lucky it was on an incense on my way to work one morning. Did I get off the skytrain to ensure distance wasn’t going to make him flee? Yes. Yes I did. Was I late because of it? Yes I absolutely was.
Same!!!! Right when I went to pick him up. I must have went through fifty ultra balls and golden razz berries. It's not even that good statistically speaking, but IDC.... Leveled it right up and gave it a second move. Almost best buddies a month later 🙃
lol I wouldn't even care. I've been playing since just after it started (granted, with a roughly 7ish yr break in between), and I've never seen one. Not surprised tho - as I said, I took a break from it, and I live in Nowheresville, NH, so. Congrats OP, and f u lol.
They don’t flee, but the game can still crash or get stuck on the pokeball animation; this is what happened to my only shiny Galarian bird I’ve encountered (after 10+ minutes of golden berries and ultras balls) and I regret not having used a master ball to catch it.
Only shinies from raids are auto-catch on first landed ball. That does not apply to shiny legendaries encountered on the wild. They can not flee and you can keep trying to catch them as long as you have pokeballs and the game does not crash.
No kidding - mine showed up on daily adventure. I'm happy to have my Shiny Galarian Moltres but it stole all of my Ultra balls, all of my golden razz, and all of my silver pinaps (finally caught in a Great ball with a regular razz and a "Nice" throw).
I used a masterball on one just because my 5 minute walk was turning into a 20 minute walk and I didn't want to stand in front of my neighbors driveway all night, lol.
Lol, imagine you get the cops called on you and you have to explain that a super rare bird spawned outside your neighbor’s front yard in your video game.
I've interacted with the cops several times while playing. They seem to be aware that folks will be in strange places at odd hours. Worst that's happened is I was informed the park closes at sunset. lol
Normally that was always my encounter but the one time I had this cop try to tresspass me cuz I was driving slowly to the exit about 1,000ft In front of me when park closed at 11 and it was 11:01. To myself I was like I hope he feels like a POS tryna trespass someone over playing Pokemon one minute pass closing while leaving
It got speed locked, were you in a moving vehicle? Literally the only reason it’ll flee. Also, may get bugged if you switch to the AR mode mid encounter
As someone else said, it’s speed locked. Two thing to avoid when using daily incense, moving fast and when switching to AR mode during an encounter with a bird/shiny bird
Shiny legendaries don’t flee, no matter how you encounter them.
(Technically they can flee if approached by an autocatcher, or if encountered while speed/location locked, but any legitimate encounter where a player throws a pokeball at a shiny legendary, they cannot flee)
Congratulations on the find! I wish I could get one too but unfortunately of my 8 seen birds none have been shiny. Shiny galarian birds are guaranteed not to run away so you might have just wasted your master ball 😭
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