How does one capture Mimog?

[Fennec E Fox]

TLDR Mimog too fast, how catch?

I gotta say, Mimog's giving me fits. Don't misunderstand, I've caught mimogs before. In fact, I've started two playthroughs - one starting fresh for the update but cutting the other off early - and both go-arounds see me having the requisite twelve for the XP boost.

Thing is, I'm not sure how to go about catching them reliably.

For a good part of both runs, what usually happens is I fire, hit Mimog, reload and while I'm reloading Mimog takes off down the road at 0.095 C and I never see that individual again. I've recently taken to chasing it on my Direhowl, but that didn't improve my odds of keeping on it much.

Later on when I acquired either the automaic rifle (pre update) or now that I have the the Semi-auto rifle (post-update), I have more success, and that's generally when I get lucky enough to start sometimes catching one or two. Still, my reaction time is... subpar, so what usually happens is I fire my equipped weapon until Mimog is low-health, reach for the palsphere key and- oh look there he goes under the horizon.

I'm really only in it for the needed Dog coins to get the fourth accessory slot at this point so I don't mind blasting away, but I've gotten the impression that you get more resources for a capture (especially with an accompanying Katress) meaning you don't need to hunt as many Mimogs meaning I can then do other things sooner. Am I right on that?

[tag545]

the trip wire trap is the early way to keep them stuck in place, building a wall around them works too. you can build the trap practically touch it so it gets stuck hanging there before you even start attacking.

they ignore explosive attacks as well but without a full on wall they can still run after a failed capture attempt same with the trap.

[Nekochan]

low level ones plus capture bonuses from various sources and you get them at full health, level them using scrolls if you need to, high level ones I just one hit smash for coins

[MrZero]

shock them, shoot em down with mercy ring and sphere to the face.

[gon]

early on use a trap, you can build a small trap so close it catches them when its finished.
Later in the game i sit on my beakon using its attacks, it never runs away, then at 1hp i use a sphere with high %.

Both of these ways give you one shot at catching them, if you fail its most likely gone.
Ive had some get trapped by terrain but that is rare.

[Estellese]

Early on I just built walls around it.

Then eventually I unlocked better spheres. So now when I see one I just fling a sphere at it without hitting it and catch it -most- of the time.

[Kai]

Build defense walls around it before you attack. You can trap it in a box with defensive walls so it can't run away.
You can also build a hanging trap under them and it will hold them in place while you whittle them down. The problem with this though is the sphere will free them from the trap so you have to be pretty sure you're gonna catch it if you choose the trap method over the walls method.

[Fennec E Fox]

Thanks for all these guys. It's good to know for any future runs, but as I'm only hunting them for the dog coins for the inventory slot and:

"You get the same resources for killing as you do for capturing, with the exception that you can butcher the pal for their resources again, with the additional exception that Mimog doesn't give dog coins when butchered." - Suzaku

... then with that in mind, I'mma just start blasting em.