The Problem with Catching A Ditto

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Ditto, the Pokemon the had more theories of how the critter would be introduced into the game. Maybe it was already in the game? Maybe it will be a regional Pokemon? The beginning of Thanksgiving update proved us all wrong. The Pokemon community was in an uproar, everyone thought pictures were fake, or that they had caught the very first ditto; I believed that myself too, there wasn't anything about people catching Dittos when I did, which was on its release date.

It all began when my mom was trying to catch a Rattata for her "Youngster" achievement. She was outside with my brother at the time, showing him all the Christmas lights; he was on break from college. Not paying attention to her phone until they return inside, she noticed that it was a Ditto, nor a Rattata.

Ditto

Pidge

A few days go where we don't catch any around our house, though we wasted several Pokeballs in the process. In the photos above, you will see a Ditto and Pidgey. I bet you can't tell which is which, without looking at the caption. 

In the Pokemon Snap game, to get a Ditto we have to "disturb" a Bulbasaur before it will finally transform back into its original form. In the anime, it's first seen not able to fully copy Pokemon, and in the other Nintendo games, it's just itself, meaning that in all the other Pokemon games, Ditto can clearly be seen as Ditto, or abused into showing it's true form before any Pokeballs are "wasted". 

A simple tap frenzy on the confirmed Ditto disguises would be something interest to add, that way People don't have to participate in Niantic's money thirst scheme, buying Pokeballs because stops no longer drop many, and now trying to catch a Pokemon that might not actually be there.

I Caught A Ditto!

It all started when my mom was showing my brother; of whom is on vacation as he is in college, our Christmas lights we decided to set up early this year while the weather was warm. The Thanksgiving event is in place right now so my mom decided to catch a Rattata for the event bonuses, and hopefully a recorded breaking tiny Rattata for the badge. 

Moments later she looks at her screen to see if the Rattata was small enough to count toward the achievement and this happened! 

I am not sure of and strategies of coming across one of these because it looked like any other Rattata, there wasn't anything off about it. The best/ fastest way of getting one of these long sought for failed experiments is simply by catching everything you come across. 

Please let me know if you have or know of someone who also has a Ditto. This is the first of even hearing about it, and I'm glad to say that I too am one who actually has a Ditto, maybe one of few?

Pokemon known to transform thus far:

Rattata 

Pidgey

Magikarp

Zubat

Theories About Finding Ditto

Theory From the anime: 

This theory of them all seems to be the most believed of them all. The anime "Ditto's Mysterious Mansion" which is the 36th episode reveals Ditto. Ditto and it's trainer Duplica are masters of disguises. Starting off Ditto is first seen as a Pikachu, though is noticeable different from Ashes because it's eyes and mouth didn't transform. When the 2 trainers battled, Ditto transforms into Ashes Bulbasaur, again with the missing facial features.

Team Rocket, of course, intrudes on the trainers later on in the episode, though they weren't there for Pikachu, they were after Duplica's  Ditto with the intention of forcing Ditto to evolve into a Dragonair. After a few attempts, Team Rockets deems the Pokemon is useless, though transforms into  Meowth, again it's face didn't transform. Team Rocket not happy with that, they threaten the poor thing to make its face look like Meowths, and it worked. 

Ditto transformed into 3 different Pokemon in the Anime, Pikachu, Bulbasaur, and Meowth. Pikachu and Bulbasaur's transformation both had the Ditto facial features, while Meowth's did at first, but later on Ditto finally got the whole transforming technique down. The theory is there will be an encounterable Pokemon with Ditto's face which will then transform back into its original form somehow. Some believe the only Pokemon you will find this from are Pikachu and Bulbasaur, though there hasn't been much talk over Meowth.

Regional Pokemon Theory: 

Many of us know that Ditto is a Mew experiment gone wrong. Ditto then escapes or is released into the jungles of South America. I am unsure if Niantic plans on releasing the game in South America, but if they do then it would make sense why Ditto has a catch rate but has yet to be caught. Making Ditto regional Pokemon overall makes the most sense, mostly because no one has solved the "easter egg" yet and everything or just about everything has been done to try and find this unique Pokemon.

Yes Ditto has been determined and it is said to have a catch rate, doesn't mean that it is currently catchable. Not knowing what the catch rate is, or the other regional Pokemon's catch rates, they more than likely will be similar. Why can't Ditto be hatched from 5k eggs like the other 4 regional Pokemon? It isn't in the game yet, it would only make sense to give South America a regional exclusive Pokemon, but that can't be done, unless it's Ditto.

Don't know how to implement it:

Another less common theory is, the developers may not know how to put the Pokemon in the game. When you think about it, how would a Ditto work when dueling other players when the feature is added to the game or taking over/defending gyms. The Pokemon of course, would transform and assumption is that Ditto would know the opposing Pokemon's move set. 

There is a glitch in the game now after the recent update, not many have brought to the conclusion could they be testing or could the coding for Ditto's transform somehow got in the game? The glitch happens after catching a Pokemon, you could be catching a Pikachu one second and the next after it's been caught it could be a Weedle, or it could be a Dragonite. The Pokemon "transforms" into something other than the actual Pokemon.