Andrea is an editor at GameRant, where she has been writing professionally about video games for nearly five years. She became a gamer for life at 8, thanks to a copy of Pokemon Red and her Game Boy.

Catching Pokemon is supposed to be the whole point of the franchise, but Game Freak has made some of them nearly impossible ...

Pokémon's rare catches make the games all the more exciting, and Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald have some exciting Pokemon like Lugia, Ho-Oh, and Deoxys.