An Undiscovered Easter Egg

                      

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After choosing your starter Pokemon; Squirtle, Charmander, or Bulbasaur, from Professor Oak. You then proceed on into the wild where you encounter wild Pokemon. Route 1 is the first area in the game you will encounter Pokemon, which are just Pidgey and Rattatas in the original Red and Blue games.

From there you will find yourself in Viridian City, which will eventually get you to route 2. Route 2 is the home of Caterpie, Weedle, Pidgey, and Rattata until you get to Viridian's forest; you can add Metapod, Kakuna, and Pikachu to the list. These are the Pokemon that again, show up in the Red and Blue games.

After doing a short tutorial on how to catch Pokemon in Pewter City, and a quick exploration of the town, trying to get into the gym you forgot was owned by the 8th gym leader; route 3 is just east of the city.

Home to Pidgey, Spearow, and Jigglypuff, some may already see where I'm going with this. The only Pokemon we are missing so far would be Geodude, Zubat, and Clefairy.

After completing route 3; defeating all the trainers and making it to the other side so you can heal your Pokemon, you will find yourself standing with what appears to be, nowhere to go. Don't worry, though, that little black dot is to a cave, Mt. Moon.

Those missing few Pokemon can all be found here, plus Paras. I'm not sure why Niantic didn't include Paras in the same egg group, or maybe what I came across is just a mere coincidence, but I don't believe so. The odds of the developers making all these wild Pokemon in the Red and Blue games; found before and in Mt. Moon, being nothing more than luck just doesn't cut it for me.

  There is a reason I believe this to be an easter egg, only involving the Pokemon Red and Blue games. I did quite a bit of research. At first I suspected it might have been the first Pokemon Ash registered in his Pokedex. A few episodes in I noticed Ash registered a bug trainers Pinser in his Pokedex, so I went on to believe that maybe it was only wild Pokemon. 10 Pokemon into the theory, Ash Catches a Krabby, busting the theory and putting my semi-hard work to shame.

  I don't remember why I decided to research all the Pokemon that spawn in the games, Red, Blue, and Yellow, but I did. I started getting a little disappointed when I saw that Sandshrew could be caught in Mt. Moon. At the time I was just skimming the bulbapedia articles, only later to catch on that I found what I was looking for. Until Niantic confirms this, which I doubt they will see it, I'm still not 100% sure this was intended.  

If it wasn't for that one extra Pokemon, Paras. I would feel more comfortable about saying this is, in fact, an easter egg. Aside from Paras though, all the Pokemon caught up until this point are the same Pokemon we can hatch from 2km eggs. My biggest question about the 2km eggs was, why do we hatch, out of all the other Pokemon, Geodude from 2km eggs? I told myself I wouldn't stop until I found an answer and I did! The thing about Magikarp being hatching from 2km eggs is because of the amount of candies it takes to evolve.

Why We Don't Battle Before Catching Pokemon

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We can thank Pokemon's mascot Pikachu for allowing us to catch Pokemon in Pokemon Go without the hassle of battling them first. I personally liked that part of encountering and catching Pokemon but it's kool... it's kool. This isn't a confirmed easter egg, though if Niantic included this scene from the anime into the game, it would be an easter egg. 

If you haven't watched the anime, then hold up before reading the rest of this post. It may contain spoilers. If you don't wish to watch the anime, and or spoilers don't matter to you, then go right ahead and continue reading.  

This scene begins with Ash stumbling upon everyone's "favorite" Pokemon to catch, Pidgey. Ash demands Pikachu to attack, which instead of listening to his trainer, Pikachu decides to find itself a limb to climb on and lay down. Ash, being the stubborn trainer he is, decided he doesn't need Pikachu's help, he can just catch the famous Pokemon by simply throwing a Pokeball at it.



This can also be done in the games; not weakening a Pokemon before trying to catch it. Ash isn't the only stubborn master. It is more plausible that this feature was put in the game to speed gameplay up a bit. The main objective is to "catch'em all". But... it's more fun to believe this was an easter egg intended to be found. Niantic confirmed a while ago, there were still several unfound easter eggs within the coding. I'm unsure of how to find out for sure, we all know Niantic won't respond, but I may have found other easter eggs in the game, so I will be covering what I have found over the next few days.

One thing that would have been nice for Niantic to do; like in the first episode of the anime, Ask doesn't catch Pidgey and it ends up fleeing. Did Ash lose his Pokeball? No! But It's okay that's not a very important feature. Who knows maybe you don't lose a Pokeball after a Pidgey flees, I sure haven't been paying attention to that. 

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

How to Increase the Chances of Hatching Pokemon you Want

As far as I am aware, this is still a theory but it deals with the biome weather dependency and biome exclusive trails. For those who aren't sure what a biome is; it is a fairly new term used to describe the different habitats such as forests and tundras. I'm not sure of what biomes are in Pokemon go other than a water and grass biome, mostly because of where I live.

Well, what does any of this have to do with hatching eggs? About a week ago, it was cold damp and rainy for a few days in which I was able to hatch eggs still, though it wasn't my common fire or grass types. It was literally water Pokemon one after the other. It is safe to say however that Water Pokemon do spawn more when it rains because that was practically the only thing spawning. I'm still working on testing this, but I believe it to be true because there is a spot I normally walk to get a good sum of water types. I normally end up with 10-20 within the route, nor included what I get from eggs.

I didn't think much of the Pokemon I got out of eggs I hatched while walking this route, mostly because I thought it was by chance. Well the more I started hatching, the most water Pokemon I got, this was also when it was raining a bit though it was clear at the time I walked. I realized what was happening after hatching several eggs, which most were, of course, water type.

Have any 10km eggs you hope to become one of the one of the few water types you can get from them? Well, I would hold off hatching them until it's either cold damp and rainy unless you live near a water biome spawn. This could greatly increase your chances of getting Dratini's if you are still after that Dragonite (like me). Remember, though you have a (possibly) higher chance of getting water types when conditions are right, doesn't mean A) you will get a water type 100% of the time and B) you will get the Pokemon you long sought for and C) this is still speculation in which I hope to get hard evidence for, before I say rather or not it's legit. 

Though this theory makes sense doesn't mean it is true, that's why it is merely a theory. If you wish to be a part of testing this theory, please don't hesitate to let me know your data.

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.