So far Ditto is the only non-legendary pokemon that no one has captured yet. It has also been confirmed recently that there are additional easter eggs similar to the eeveloution easter egg. Please post your thoughts. suggestions, and experiments here so that we can solve this as a community.Here are my possible theories:
- Ditto in the game Pokemon Snap is disguised as a bulbasaur. We might have to switch to the camera view when we encounter bulbasaur and attempt to take a picture of him, similar to the game Pokemon Snap.
- Ditto makes it's first appearance in the episode "Ditto's Mysterious Mansion" as a Pikachu. What is interesting is that he is unable to fully transform in the beginning, and so it says "Pikacha"/"Pikachan". I believe there may be something related to this, and will try to rename pikachu to these.
- Ditto master's transformation when he tries to imitate Meowth. I will attempt to rename Meowth to Ditto and evolve him.
- During the episode, Team Rocket attempted to have Ditto evolve into Dratini. May be somehow linked to the easter egg in unlocking Ditto.
If you have tried any of these experiments and they have failed, please let us know. I am going to attempt to try out my Bulbasaur theory the next time I encounter one.
EDIT: It is currently very late here in Los Angeles. I will update this post later on with a more complete list of all the attempted methods.
Tested Theories that Didn't Work
- Snapping a picture of Bulbasaur However, we did not rapidly tap/tickle the Bulbasaur in Camera mode. Someone please try to tap spam/tickle it in Camera Mode.
- Naming Meowth to Ditto and powering up/evolving it.
- Naming Dratini to Ditto and powering up/evolving it.
- Naming Dratini to Duplica and powering up/evolving it.
- Naming Bulbasaur to Ditto and powering up/evolving it.
- Naming Bulbasaur to Duplica and powering up/evolving it.
- Naming Pikachu to Duplica and powering up/evolving it.
- Unlocking the Pester ball to get Bulbasaur to change to Ditto. The Pester ball was not found in the code.
- It is believed that the Ditto has a weight of 4kg and a height of 0.3m and that it does not change size when transforming. Evolving a Pokemon (a Ratatata) with these exact stats failed. It did not maintain the same weight and height after evolution. The Pokemon was named Ditto before evolving.
Theories Yet to Test
- Ditto may be a South American exclusive Pokemon. Dittos owner is named Duplica which is Spanish for duplicate. Can someone confirm this?
- Pickachu makes a unique sound when pressed. Perhaps Ditto is a pickachu with a different sound byte.
- Ditto is said to untransform when laughing. Tickle the Pokemon(Pikachu, Bulbasaur, Meowth, Dratini) in Camera mode.
- Ditto does not change its height and weight. Check for a Pokemon with the following weight and height.(Source is from a code dump)
- PokedexHeightM: 0.3
- PokedexWeightKg: 4
- HeightStdDev: 0.0375
- WeightStdDev: 0.5
- Naming your Pokemon using the Ditto Mark (Semi-tested. Currently getting more details on this experiment.)
- Attempt gym battles with Pokemon named Ditto.
