This list shows the hardest and rarest Pokémon to catch in the game

If you want to be a Pokémon master, you've Gotta Catch Em All, according to the classic cartoon theme tune.

Millions of people are still out there in the world doing just that - trying to catch all 145 of the elusive little blighters. News is already filtering through of a couple of Pokémon nuts who have managed to bag every one of the creatures and finish the game. If you've played the game yourselves you'll probably see the same Pokemon popping up on your radar every single time you're out hunting. Just like when '90s Ipswich star John Wark used to pop up in every pack of fucking Panini football stickers you ever bought, there's some Pokemon that you're just sick of the sight of. But obviously some sightings are rarer than others - you only have to see the reaction of gamers when a Gyarados reared its head in Central Park, New York. Some Pokemon are also a lot harder to catch than others, as you've also probably discovered when lobbing augmented reality Pokeballs around with heartbreaking futility. But Redditor Jordansw has put together a supposedly definitive chart showing some of the hardest Pokémon to catch and some which are as rare as rockinghorse shite. You're probably not going to be surprised to see that ones like Pidgey and Zubat popping up more often than the latest Paul Pogba rumour. But in terms of rarity the likes of Meowth (0.39 per cent), Ponyta and Machop (o.46 per cent) are among the hardest to find. But there's one Pokemon above all others that's an absolute swine to catch... if you ever find one that is. Not only does Jordansw claim that it has a 0.36 per cent chance of coming across one, but then it has an infuriating 99% flee rate. As he points out you could throw a pokeball at one 100 times and only catch one once. Good luck with that one...

TIL Abra has a Flee % of 99. That means 99 out of 100 times if Abra breaks free from your pokeball, it's going to run from pokemongo