I know very late to the topic, but have an interesting addition I wanted to add if anyone else randomly pulls this up in the future. I've had great luck with the nightshade/seismic toss abilities that scale with your level. It does the same damage regardless of their def stats and I consistently just found many pokemon I was hunting be chunked right into deep red zones while stuck at level cap early in games. It's a good tool for your toolbelt if you can't breed better utility catchers like breloom/smeargles or just want someone decent at catching from within your own team