The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Excellent Throws | Excellent Throw Guide for Pokemon Go

This video covers the what, why, and how of curveball Excellent throws in Pokemon Go, in more technical detail than you need.

Chapters:

00:00 - Intro
01:39 - Part 1: What are Excellent throws?
04:55 - Part 2: Why make Excellent throws?
11:34 - Part 3: How to get good at Excellent throws
14:18 - Excellent throw technique
17:05 - Adjusting throws
18:25 - Throw archetypes
19:14 - Using the Excellent Pokedex
20:25 - Outro

References:

[EpicPredator]

I dont know what this video game is but I'll do it for Bidoof

[giveittomebaybe]

I logged on halfway thru this video and got a shiny shadow bagon. I will watch all your videos now.

[stupidwb]

damn this channel finna become a huge resource for go players

[Anomalous]

This was simply incredible. Felt like a documentary on a mystery revealed.
I appreciate all the time and work you're putting into these and all the future vids, especially for the raid bosses!

[satrickptar]

Don’t forget that an excellent throw can activate critical catches (100% catch rate). It only happens when you hit the center when the circle is about to reset back to nice. It doesn’t work on Galarian birds, so beware.

[andrewkain]

I am commenting because I would love to see an in depth pokemon archetypes video categorizing the different throws. Awesome video by the way.

[kr_l]

This is exactly the type of channel I've been looking for. I am obsessed with landing excellent curveballs as well! Great video, please keep making more of them.

[colinhillson]

I figured this excellent poem deserved being typed out 👌

An Ode to Excellence -
by the Excellent Pokedex

With a flick of the wrist,
it takes to the sky.
A Sphere of dreams soaring,
aiming high.
Gliding through air,
with grace it flies.
Destined for greatness,
where victory lies.

In the heart of the circle,
it finds its place.
A testament to perseverance,
more than just grace.
In that moment,
hope and skill entwine.
A perfect throw,
where dreams align.

More than perfect perhaps,
but excellent.

[marcushanlin]

you doing the professors work good man, searched dozens of videos looking for one like this

[overthetip]

This is exactly what made me level up to lvl 50 so fast.

[cel]

Great content man. I did not know about the throw archetypes. That would be the easiest method to group pokemons in the same throw archetype. I think you're the only one I know who ever talked about this.

[Temposfera]

I highly support these excellent throw videos, keep it up!

[CaseyBradshaw-xoig]

Before I came to your video, I have come to a lot of the same conclusions. It’s validation to see someone else who had/has the same thoughts and conclusions as me, but you definitely did teach me a few things I didn’t consider or know about such as the catch rate multiplier.

This is a very well done video with technical explanations of everything one can and should consider about getting good at excellent throws. Gonna go through more of your videos now.

I’m pretty consistent with achieving quite a lot of great throws and my excellent throw rate is going up along with it due to approaching it technically the same way as you have.

I agree that starting to go for great throws was the best way to go for me and to work my way up to excellent throws from there by just getting an intuitive grasp on the general mechanics of throwing and distance of all Pokemon. Great, no, EXCELLENT video! 🍻

[BushRat]

I totally agree about excellent throws being more important on non-raid pokemon. I'll circle lock those every time. I don't have the time to circle lock every other random pokemon so I've been struggling with excellent catches on the normies! Thanks for the content!

[GracideaC]

I consider myself pretty good at the game, but you caught this Veevee with an excellent throw!

[joshuachan]

It really is incredibly satisfying to hit excellent throws. It’s also easier to hit them on raid bosses or to say larger Pokémon because there’s more distance and the circle feels larger (somewhat). I also hit two crit throws in a row from the tiny catch circle on Amoura.

[Frederatormusic]

I've NEVER gotten an Excellent on Scatterbug and was convinced it's impossible. This is blowing my mind

[brandonhood]

Incredibly well made video! Very informative and fun to watch, even as someone who has played the game since release.

[TheRealMonkeyrogue]

Nice breakdown, good research. Lag is now my greatest threat.

[nemanjarakic]

Great video! Continue like this and you will most definitely make it!