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Ditto (Pokmon) | olspan="2" align="center"| Lapras (#131) - Ditto - Eevee (#133) | | olspan="2" bgcolor="#ffbfff"|General | | a href="/encyclopedia/List-of-Pokmon-by-Name" title="List of Pokmon by Name">Name (Japanese), Number | Ditto (Metamon), 132 | | a href="/encyclopedia/List-of-Pokmon-by-Stage" title="List of Pokmon by Stage">Stage | Basic | | olspan="2" bgcolor="#ffbfff"|Video game base stats¹ | | it points | 48 | | ttack | 48 | | efense | 48 | | peed | 48 | | pecial attack² | 48 | | pecial defense² | 48 | | pecial³ | 48 | | olspan="2" bgcolor="#ffbfff"|Biological | | pecies | Transform Pokmon | | ypes | Normal | | eight | 1'0" (0.3 m) | | eight | 9 lb (4 kg) | | ignature Attack | Transform | | okdex Color | Purple | | hiny color | Light Blue | | ender distribution | Genderless | olspan="2"|¹ Stats for trading card versions may vary.
² Pokmon Gold/Silver/Crystal
³ Pokmon Red/Blue/Yellow | The Pokmon Ditto has the ability to transform into the opponent's Pokmon via the move Transform, a move that only it and Mew are capable of learning. However, unlike Mew (which can't breed), it is also capable of breeding with any Pokmon that can breed, a trait which has made it very valuable to many players. Its number is #132 in National Pokdex order. When not in the shape of another Pokmon (or live being, or inanimate object as the Pokmon Anime shows it can do), Ditto takes the form of an amorphous pink blob. Although its only move in unmodified form is Transform (without cheating), Ditto can use moves of any of the other Pokmon species once it has transformed. Name Origin "Ditto" is a slang word related to the Latin "dictum." Its use implies copying or reiterating an idea. Its Japanese name is Metamon, probably related to the word "metamorphose." Its English name might also come from the word ditto, meaning "I agree". Blue Ditto Because of Ditto's ability to breed with almost any Pokmon, and also the fact that a Pokmon with a shiny parent of the opposite gender (or a shiny Ditto parent) has a 1 in 64 chance of being shiny in Gold, Silver and Crystal, shiny Ditto can be quite useful for breeding other shiny Pokmon. However, because the baby will always be in the evolutionary line of the non-Ditto Pokmon, shiny Ditto cannot be bred, so one would normally have to resort to finding one in the wild. However, because of a glitch in the programming of Red, Blue, and Yellow often referred to as the "Blue Ditto glitch", it is possible to generate a shiny Ditto without much effort. The glitch is as follows: - Take the shiny Red Gyarados from the Lake of Rage (any shiny Pokmon that can learn Mimic and can be traded to Red/Blue/Yellow will work, but Gyarados is the only one you're guaranteed to see), and trade it to Red, Blue or Yellow. Teach it Mimic using the TM.
- Trade it back to Gold/Silver/Crystal and delete all moves except Mimic using the Move Deleter in Blackthorn City. Trade back to Red/Blue/Yellow.
- Battle a Ditto, and use Mimic on Transform before it attacks. Use Transform again (so that it's used Transform twice), and catch it.
In the anime Ditto is a Pokmon used by the trainer Duplica, a Pokmon entertainer. Her first Ditto originally did incomplete transformations (it could not copy a Pokmon's face), but because of Team Rocket, it learned to transform perfectly. Duplica's second Ditto, nicknamed Mini-Dit, can transform into small Pokmon normally, but transforms into miniature versions of larger Pokmon. However, its attack power was unaffected. Ditto is also a team member of the former Orange League champion and Pummelo Gym Leader Drake. Glitches For some reason, Ditto seems to have connections in the Red and Blue versions to the glitch Pokmon Missingno. and 'M. After an 'M is caught in the game during a battle, there will be an invisible Pokmon that will still be battling your Pokmon. When that is caught, the screen will say "you caught Ditto". (It might be another 'M.) Once it is caught it won't be invisible anymore. If a player-controlled Ditto uses Transform to change into the invisible Ditto, its image will turn into a Missingno's image, but it will actually still be a Ditto. Also, in Pokmon Stadium 2, any Missingno or 'M that are uploaded to the game will get turned into Dittos. A Missingno that becomes Ditto will be a normal shade of pink but an 'M that becomes Ditto will have a slightly different color. A famous glitch in Pokmon Gold and Silver can be used to Transform a Ditto into a Smeargle, allowing it to use Sketch to permanently replace Transform with almost any other attack. Ditto makes an official appearance of sorts in Super Smash Bros. Melee. In the VS Tournament mode (either winner out or loser out) you can scroll through charachters before starting your next battle. But, by pressing L and R, you change your charachter to "Random" which is represented by a Ditto (as if it transforms into whatever charachter you end up using). It can appear in Pokballs using a cheat for debug mode, but was taken out of the final due to the GameCube's limitations. External Links
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