>>26559847I dunno man. In gen 2, it took like 1 or 2 heavyballs at most to catch Snorlax or Lugia.
Currently SRing for a decent Lugia in HG, and lemme say, while I can usually catch Lugia before I hit 15 heavyballs, I've run out about 25% of the time. If I run out of heavyballs, I usually just reset. Ultraballs are useless against it. If I dip into those, I'll have tossed out 35 or more before it kills itself with Struggle, so why bother?
The point is, stuff is hard to catch in HGSS in general.