Ooh, good thread. I've got some stories to tell. And they're worth the read.
Okay, so the first story I've got to tell is from my Ruby Version. This happened a long time, so I don't remember it exactly. So, I was a little maybe, 8 year old kid with my Ruby. I didn't know much avout Pokemon at the time, but I knew a little bit, like what was legendary and so on. To put it plainly, I was a n00b. So, I had actually beaten the Elite Four, and had a Lv. 100 Swampert. I was pretty proud. I was wandering though Mauville City for no apparent reason. Now, this is the strange part. I encountered a Pokemon. In Mauville City. There is no grass there. And being the n00b I was, I had no idea about events, Acrion Replays, cheat codes, and all that jazz. So that was just strange. And that's not all. It was a Jirachi. Yes, a Jirachi. I caught it. However, I was too young to realize that catching a Pokemon in Mauville City was extremely rare, and a Jirachi even more. However, a while later, I RESTARTED my game. I can't believe that I did that. However, restarting wasn't completely worthless. And that brings me to my second story.
Well, I was playing my Ruby, the one I restarted. At that point in time, I REALLY wanted a Wailord. I don't even know why. So, I was surfing and fishing, hoping that the small chance I had to find a Wailord would show itself. I ran into a Pokemon. I looked away for a second. When I looked back, I saw just another Wailmer, looking at me, and the screen waiting for me to chose an option. I was about to click the "RUN" button, but then I hesitated. The Wailmer looked a little darker. I thought it was a trick of the light. However, I thought that it might be holding a special item or something. I decided to catch it. It took me a while, but eventually, I did. Guess what? It was shiny! I had missed the glint. Thank Arceus I caught it, though. Now, on to my third story.
Fast-forward to SoulSilver. I had my team all planed out. Typhosion. Crobat. Kingdra. Ampharos. Scizor. Tyranitar. At the moment, I was in the Whirl Islands, looking for a Horsea. I ran into a wild Pokemon. My friend said something (he was over), and I looked away. When I turned back to the screen, I was about to click "RUN" when I looked at the Pokemon. It was a Tentacruel. With green jelly blobs. Another shiny. I caught it in a heavy ball. It was pretty cool. I have another story about SoulSilver, showing my love of a particular Poke Ball.
My absolute favorite Poke Ball is the… Dusk Ball. I use it all the time. It makes it easy to catch some of the harder Pokemon. In SoulSilver, I caught Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres, Lugia, and Ho-oh in them. The five legendary birds. Speaking of dark, lets go to Black Version.
Black Version. The most insane of the Pokemon Games, in my opinion. After Black and White came out in Japan, I stopped getting spoilers. Black and White were going to be completely new to me. It was going to be awesome. And it was. When I got past the Elite Four, the game took a crazy turn. I never expected it. Still, I got to the point where I had to catch Reshiram. It was cool. The animation was amazing. So, the battle started. I'm like, "Oh, forget this." I threw a Quick Ball. One shake. Two. Three. I held my breath. It broke free. I got it down into the red, paralyzed it. I caught it in an Ultra Ball. I was extremely happy, because the last main story game (Platinum), Giratina was near impossible to catch without a Master Ball. I was expecting it to be hard.
Continuing on Black Version. I beat N, he was actually pretty easy. Then came Ghestis. I got to his Eelektross. I sent out my Sawk, who I have another story about. Anyway, I taught my Sawk Dig. So, I sent it out against Ghestis. I used Dig. And then, "Levitate prevents Eelektross from being damaged by Ground-type moves!" What? How does that Electric Fish have Levitate? How does that make sense?
My Sawk has an interesting story. It starts from the second Gym Leader. A Normal type Gym. I needed a Fighting type, because I had a Roggenrola with a Fighting type move, but it wasn't powerful enough. So, I did what my friend did. I went looking for a Timburr. However, while looking for one, I encountered a Sawk. I was like, "Oh, I'll catch that instead." And I did. And it blew through the Second Gym for me. Fast-forward to TCG League one day. I was on the eighth Gym. I asked a person at league for a team check. He looked at it and exclaimed, "Wow. Did you breed for this or something?" I looked over and saw him looking at Sawk. I replied, "No, why?" He said back, "It has a perfect [I don't know what its called. IV?] I looked. Proud of its power. I asked, "What does that do?" He said, "That maxes out its attack. It should have about 300 base by Level one hundred." I replied, awed, "Without EV training?" He nodded. To right now, my Sawk is Lv. 46 and a powerhouse.
Well, that's about it for now.