Self-destructing Baltoy!? Are you kidding me?.

[TheSilentSerenade]

So, I encounter a shiny Baltoy, purely by soft-resetting and pure chance, and when I throw a Great Ball at it to capture it, it wiggles three times, breaks free of the Ball and blows itself up.

I could catch a non-shiny Baltoy, but I'm certain that I won't be able to breed it to hatch a shiny from its offspring and I really want a shiny Baltoy.

I encounter a second shiny Baltoy.

It uses Stealth Rock and then it self-destructs...again. Talk about dejavu.

Why it had to be given Self Destruct as a move, I'll never know. What should I do? I keep re-encountering it, but it keeps being suicidal.

I had the idea to use Corey's Nidorina's Disable against Baltoy, but that does not work, because I can only Disable a move after it has been used.

I swear that my shiny Electrode encounter and my capture of my shiny Electrode (which I had to encounter five times before I caught it, because of its love of exploding mere moments before I could capture it) was far less difficult than shiny Baltoy is being.

Edited October 4, 2015 by TheSilentSerenade

[mde2001]

You can try catching a pokemon with the ability damp which will stop it from exploding on you. This might help you.

List of pokemon with the ability damp here: http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Damp_(Ability)#Pok.C3.A9mon_with_Damp

[TheSilentSerenade]

Thankyou, mde. I will capture a Pokémon with the ability Damp to prevent Baltoy from self-destructing.

[TimTim]

Or you can just simply put it to sleep with sleep powder~why GF keeps those troll moves is beyond me~

[TheSilentSerenade]

True - I hadn't considered that option. I will catch a backup Pokémon that has Damp ability and I will try to put Baltoy to Sleep. Thanks, TimTim.

EDIT: I CAUGHT a shiny Baltoy from the Rhodocrine Jungle Grotto totem pole! I used Yawn on my first turn against it, then it used Power Trick, then on my second turn, I used a Great Ball and I caught it! Thankyou for your tremendous assistance, TimTim and mde2001.

Edited October 4, 2015 by TheSilentSerenade

[Simon]

Well, seeing as how this issue was solved, locking.