Weakening the Pokémon
Reduce the Pokémon's HP to 33% percent or lower. The trick is to get its health below that percentage without letting it faint. Use a combination of weak and medium power attacks to do this. See the numbers after each technique? These are called the Power Points or PP. Generally, the higher the PP, the weaker the attack. In these games putting Pokémon below 33% HP does not increase the catch rate further.
Use status ailments. Poisoning or burning the wild Pokémon will cause its HP to gradually deplete, making it easier to catch, but increasing the risk of causing it to faint. Putting it to sleep or paralyzing it are more reliable methods, however sleep only lasts a few turns and paralysis still allows it to fight back sometimes. If you can freeze a Pokémon, you can catch a Pokémon very easily, because in Generation 1 (Red, Blue and Yellow) the only way to thaw a Pokémon is to hit with a Fire-type attack.
Glitch method
Use this at your own risk. This only works in the original Pokémon Red, Blue, and Yellow versions.
If you would like to render yourself a 100 percent chance of catching a Pokémon, take your Master Ball, if you still have it.
Place it in the sixth slot of your inventory. Use Select to move the items around.
Go to Viridian City and ask the old man who blocked the way in the beginning of the game to demonstrate how to catch a Pokémon.
After the demonstration, fly to Cinnabar Island. Surf alongside the coast of the island. Soon, you may find glitched Pokémon called MissingNo, or 'M'.
If you decide to catch it, then be careful! It will glitch the current Hall of Fame data at the very least. Upon encountering it, you will suddenly have 128 Master Balls. The game uses glitch characters/tiles to show that the number is over 99, as the game was programmed with the assumption that you're only able to obtain 99 items in a stack.
Safari Zone
Visit the Safari Zone in Fuchsia City. You are given Safari Balls, which have the same catching power as Great Balls.
Use rocks to make Pokémon easier to catch, but they will become more likely to flee.
Use bait to do the opposite. They will be less likely to flee, but they will also be harder to catch.
If you catch a Tauros or a Chansey and raise it up, few enemies will stand up to you.
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