Here are some tips on how to catch a wild Caterpie in the wild.
1. Caterpie’s capabilities.
Caterpie is a pretty easy Pokemon to catch in games. Bring in flying-types and fire-types to cover against him and always try to make sure you have a fake slide to help bring his HP, hit points down to one very easily.
2. Use status effects like Sleep Powder etc.
One of the best ways to capture Pokemon is by using status effect moves on them. Capture a Pokemon like Butterfree or Venasaur and use moves like Sleep Powder on them so you can easily put them to sleep. You can also use other Pokemon to help put them to sleep as such. Things like Hypnosis can be used by Pokemon called Gastly, Hypno, Gengar, etc. Stun Spore is also a great move to use and use on a Pokemon to help capture it more easily in the wild while playing Pokemon. A better move that has the same effect as Stun Spore that causes paralysis is a move called Thunder Wave. Many Pokemon can learn this move like Alakazam, Ampharos, Pikachu, Jolteon, etc. If you’re able to stun and paralyze your opponent, the act of capturing them becomes child’s play at that point. The chances of catching and catching Pokemon are significantly increased. The last possible decent method for capture is possibly poison and maybe frozen here and there. Poison is generally not always recommended, as this increases the chance that the Pokemon could lose and faint before you can catch it. The frozen status condition is very rare and hard/difficult to achieve, so I wouldn’t rely on this condition to inflict a good and useful status condition on the Pokemon you want to capture.
It brings many unique and quantity Pokeballs.
Make sure you always buy plenty of Pokéballs to keep progressing in catching the Pokémon you want to catch. Fastballs are always useful to throw in the first turn of a battle, as that is the highest use success rate for them. Next, you can always spam Pokeballs for cheap to test the waters and see how hard this particular Pokemon is to catch. Ultra balls and Great balls are always the best option for a high success rate from any Pokemon in any general area. If it’s at night or in a cave, Dusk balls are the way to go. And other good options are like net balls for water and bug types and heavy balls for heavy pokemon too.
Those are the best tips for catching Caterpie and other Pokemon in general. Feel free to manage and capture Pokémon to the best of your ability and always have fun with Nintendo and playing Pokémon no matter what.