From the gameboy to the 3DS, this urban legend prevails. You know what I'm talking about: the saying that if you hold the A/B buttons or mash them while throwing a pokeball, you increase the chances of catching pokemon. This poll isn't about whether it's true or not. I wanna know if it's so prevalent that to this day does anyone do this out of habit?

I find myself switching all the time from mashing the A button to holding it down in a rhythmic pattern for some reason.

I always threw the pokeball, then threw my gameboy away until i gathered the courage to see whether or not it was successful. I didnt fuck around with my pokemon games.

I don't push the buttons, I wiggle the dpad to the rythm that the ball is shaking in. I know it doesn't work but it makes me feel more comfortable :P

I found myself alternating between the a and b button timing it according to the rocking of the Pokeball. Did it help? No idea. But it did help to relieve tension.

I always used to shake my Game Boy up and down like an idiot when I used a pokeball.
Now, I like I draw little circles around the ball in the DS games.

Being the hardcore Pokemon fan, I know that it doesn't do anything at all. For some weird reason though, I find myself doing exactly that. I'm not sure why.

I've never owned a Gameboy. I've only ever played on my PC, on an emulator. And I've never mashed my buttons for that.

i used to shake my gameboy side to side or mash B

I would just sit there and just cross my fingers hoping that i got it :p

I would constantly press the a button.

Mash the A button. It may be because of my childhood tendency or belief that it worked.

I mash the select button.... It works at least i got darkai on the platinum one.

I've always felt that it was completely pointless to mash the buttons, whether it's the A, B, D-pad, touch screen, etc.

But I won't lie, I've noticed here and there when I get really excited about my chances of catching (especially since I only catch legendaries with poke-balls), my thumbs will just start mashing on their own.

Well this also happens at my cousins,when they tap the buttons they believe it will higher the chance of what they doing,I was wondering why they doing that and where they know about that.