The Love Ball (ラブラブボール Love Love Ball) should be used on a Pokémon of the same species and opposite gender as the player's Pokémon. If these statistics are followed, then the ball is known to be 8x more effective in catching the wild Pokémon than would a regular Poké Ball. If another Pokémon is a different species than or the same gender as the player's Pokémon, then it will only be as effective as a normal Poké Ball. The ball is also found to not work when a Pokémon has no gender, or is genderless. In this situation, the Love Ball will then take after the characteristics of an ordinary Poké Ball. It is characterized by a pink top with a white heart going up the middle.