The Transform Pokémon Ditto is an invaluable resource to Pokémon breeding! So, where is Ditto and what’s the best way to get a Ditto with high IVs or a variety of natures?
In The Wild
After you’ve obtained your 8th badge, you will be strong enough to capture Ditto in the Wild Area. You’ll find it roaming the Over World at Lake Outrage 10% of the time in all weather. You’ll also find it as a surprise encounter in the grass during Normal Weather 2% of the time.
If you need Ditto specifically for a nature, it might be best to search here with a Synchronize Pokémon.
In Max Raids
North of the Nursery in the Wild Area, you’ll find an area called the Stony Wilderness. The Stony Wilderness has mountains lining its Eastern border. If you travel into the area and hug the Eastern wall, you’ll find a small patch of grass with a den behind it. This out-of-the-way den has a secret. The Rare Dens have a 100% chance of having a Ditto. Furthermore, all Raid based Pokémon have a chance at max IVs. Making it perfect for breeding!
When you encounter Ditto, consider setting a friend code by pressing “+” and keeping it exclusive to your friends. Or! Recruit help from the community and leave it open. Whatever you decide, before you dive in, there are two critical components you’ll want to consider.
Repeat Balls
Remember that higher star values also mean the Pokémon will be harder to capture. Before you lob another Ultra Ball at Ditto, consider a Repeat Ball.
Ultra Balls increase your catch chance by x 2. However, if the Pokémon is already in your Pokédex, the Repeat Ball increases your chances of capturing by x 3.5. That increase is almost double! You can buy Repeat Balls for 1,000$ in Wyndon’s central Pokémon Center!
Ditto Transforms
Before you select your favorite Pokémon with great coverage moves, consider that Ditto can transform into any of its four opposing Pokémon, given that they are able to dynamax.
Pokémon who cannot dynamax are the legendary Pokémon Zacian, Zamazenta, and Eternatus. Therefore, if you bring these three Pokémon to Ditto raids, Ditto will already be Dynamaxed and will not be able to assume their form–as they cannot Dynamax. If all four trainers bring legendary Pokémon, Ditto will fail to transform endlessly. Go ahead and chip away at its HP in an easy encounter.
Shout out to our friends Paul (IG @puccello27), JT (IG @jayt491), and Nick Schwerdtfeger for the ground-breaking field research using legendary Pokémon against Ditto!
I didn’t know before now that the legendaries can’t Dynamax. I feel kind of dumb now because I waited for one of the two Eternatus to do it in a raid once…
Anybody have a sobble, grookey and G.Ponyta they would like to trade with me to help me complete the dex?
I have spares of all 3.
Ever wonder if you should use the Dmax or Gmax or a ‘Mon? Well, it all comes down to the Gmax Move, and I’m here to tell you which is better! This is mostly for Smogon singles, although I may touch upon VGC.
Welcome to D or G: Part 1 of 6!
Charizard:Dynamax
Charizard has never been the best competitively without unique forms, but its unique form this Gen arguably doesn’t help at all. G-Max Wildfire could be good for chipping down walls, continuing to do damage for four turns, but seeing as they can just switch and Charizard isn’t bulky it’s not the best idea.
Instead, Charizard more naturally synergies with Max Flare. Max Flare allows it to use Solar Beam after Dynamaxing if you time it right, probably alternating with Airstream for Speed and Overgrowth for threats, and also powers up its Fire moves. And even further, all of its attacks become stronger with Solar Power, basically a sun triggered Life Orb. Charizard won’t work super well this Gen, but if you’re trying desperately to make it work just go for the Dynamax as Sun will do more for it and its team than extra chip damage.
Butterfree:Gigantamax
Even weaker than Charizard, Gmax Butterfree can at least enjoy its new breath of life as an option. Max Flutterby isn’t terrible, but Butterfree isn’t great at tanking hits even with the enemy down a stage or two of Sp. Attack and the secondary effect may as well not exist against physical attackers. Butterfree can also just raise its own Sp. Defense with Quiver Dance for the same effect, and QD is the only way it’ll be a threat anyway. Opponents being able to switch out against your weak ‘Mon makes the stat drop, the worst of the three Max Move effect categories, even worse.
G-Max Befuddle is a bit RNG reliant, but inflicting status 100% of the time even if its a random one is a fantastic crippling tool. Especially if you Quiver Danced first, because it makes it extremely hard for anything to switch in as they must hope they’re Poisoned to avoid any move prevention from Sleep or Paralysis. It’s only three turns however, and if you’re using Butterfree to sweep the rest of your team is probably in bad shape, so they could try wait it out and send their counter out later which would probably then decimate your team. Still miles better than Max Flutterby though. It’s even less of a competition in VGC, where crippling both foes at once is invaluable and you’re more likely to cripple all four foes within three turns.
Machamp:Dynamax
G-Max Chi Strike is fun. Increasing Machamp’s crit ratio by one is tempting when you can No Guard Cross Chop/Stone Edge/Cross Poison with either Focus Energy or Scope Lens, as even if G-Max Chi Strike raises crit ratio by only one any combination of these will lead in always crits. However, Focus Energy and these crit ratio attacks will already always be crits, and whilst this sounds promising crit ratio resetting on the switch makes it a lot worse than it sounds. Its still a fun gimmicky wallbreaker set, and G-Max Chi Strike stacked with Focus Energy can make non-crit ratio moves always crit, whilst G-Max Chi Strike and Scope Lens make crit moves always crit and non-crit moves crit half of the time. It’s just not consistent enough compared to other D/Gmaxes, and even against Dynamax Machamp.
Max Knuckle is a Machamp’s bread and butter. Whilst it only caps out at 100 Power due to its Attack raising side-effect, it’s this effect that Machamp loves. One use of Max Knuckle has it at 1.5x, already above crit levels, and repeat uses are strictly better than critting alone unless the foe has set up defensive buffs of their own. Max Knuckle allows Machamp to use its wide coverage to dent holes in teams if they’re unprepared or your team has set up for it, either boosting the power of weaker accurate coverage or turning less accurate powerful coverage into nukes. As for teammates, crits and attack buffs are appreciated, but Attack buffs stack higher and are more consistent. Max Knuckle wins this showdown.
Gengar:Gigantamax
It’s a special attacker, so it doesn’t love Max Phantasm lowering physical defense. It could be useful for teammates, but as a frail glass cannon/set-up sweeper, Gengar doesn’t want to swap out too much as it wants to apply continuous pressure or keep its stat boosts. So, Max Phantasm does nothing for it in a situation where it isn’t switching a lot, and seeing as Gengar is so frail and EQ weak I doubt it’ll have a ton of VGC use where its Max Move will be more useful.
G-Max Terror lives up to its name. As it’s not a trapping ability and rather a move, it’s a bit less potent, but one wrong move and the foe has either let Gengar set up with Nasty Plot or its other Max Moves such as the fabulous Max Ooze (Sp. Attack buff) depending on how far through Gigantamax it is. Seeing as this one actually does something directly for Gengar, even if trapping with a move rather than an ability isn’t as great on a frail Mon, it’s the obvious choice between the two. Bonus points for emulating Mega Gengar.
Considering how I’ve nearly captured at least a hundred Dittos Repeat Balls should be Master Balls at this point
Ever since Austin John Plays made that video on how to force Dens to referesh with clock manipulation, I just see my feed getting spammed with some kid or other continuosly reseting a Den and not letting me do anything. I hope they patch out that exploit tbh.
I think its pretty stupid. I’d only do it if I got really pissed off looking for a super rare specific raid *cough cough* G-Max Kingler *cough*
To be fair making Gigantamaxes only appear at stupidly rare intervals at specific places that require asinine levels of luck to even make one spawn in isn’t exactly the peak of gaming design
I feel like an absolute noob now, I had to soft reset to avoid losing to marnie before the 3rd gym. Her morpeko flinched me worse than iron head Jiranchi (I swear it was like seven times in a row)
Toxitricity is an absolute beast. I gave mine the throat spray too and it’s a killer
I got my oval charm and my brand new Female Coalossal for my egg nanny which i’ve appropriately named “Hestia” which is like a Goddess of Hearth or something but it works perfectly hopefully she’ll incinerate anything that tries to bug me when hatching eggs
Just prepping y’all, there’s a very likely chance Dynamaxing is getting banned for singles.
VGC folk? You good. It was balanced around that anyways
But literally the entirety of smogon is losing their minds over dynamaxing because there’s like five or six mons where it’s like if they dynamax and set up (which is extraordinarily easy on them) you basically just lose. Counter dynamaxing doesn’t save you, so you kinda just…
Die
Not offering my opinion on the subject, but I’m just saying that I’m like 90% sure it’ll be banned in singles before January
I had forgoten that Prankster boosted status moves don’t work on dark types. Completely blew a raid.
Sandconda reminds me of a double barreled shotgun
One thing that always kinda treasure is the pokemon you’ve acquired post game that you end up using on your daily travels
Haxorus my False Swipe hunter
Muchie the pick-upper Munchlax
Cha-Ching Money Making Meowth
Good Boy the Yamper Ball Fetcher
Hestia Egg Nanny Coalossal
My Nature Ditto and Indeedee army
All i need is a name for my stupid Trace Gardevoir something mystical like Grace or Majesty or Debbie
Any of you guys have these utility mons?
Man these dragons level up very slowly.. this playthrough may take awhile!
use the exp candies if you have them
My dreepy finally just evolved! But honestly I think it should’ve become a Drakloak maybe at like 40 or 45 because now it’s just levelling up too fast and I cant really enjoy this new stage before it evolves again
If you breed the Event GMax Meowth without the ever stone, you can get an easy supply of Perfect IV Galarian Meowth.
Want to do a Poison mono using only new Poison-types!
Toxtricity
Weezing
Umm
Low Key Toxtricity?
Both Pokemon I stanned despite being unpopular turned out so good, Impidimp and Duraludon.
I swear if Team Rocket don’t catch a Impidimp in the new series i will do something
Even though i hate the stupid damon it’s just the best possible capture for Team Rocket
Jessie Hatenna and James Impidimp
Biggest surprise is the sheer lack of new Flying types. Corvi and Cramorant isn’t a lot. Even XY had 3 flying lines.
… I should have traded over some TRs…
I noticed that my Toxel has the light blue (I think it’s light blue) coloring on it’s chest and dots, and it’s Bashful nature so it’s evolving into Low Key mode. Does the one that evolves in Amp’ed mode have yellowing on it?
Named my mono dragon trainer Daenerys!
….game of thrones why did you betray me?
🙁
Hey @Monkeyfuzz:disqus i’m almost done with this raid battle if you’re ready for those trades?
So i just got to the Ice gym city and my team is *all level 46*:
Falinks
Inteleon
Corviknight
Toxtricity
Centiskorch
Grimmsnarl
Im thinking of getting rid of Corviknight or either Mr. Rime/Dreepy. Thoughts?
I like Corviknight.
Did they remove dual chip? Axew is supposed to learn it at lv.13…
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Why did they remove the GTS???? 🙁 making trade requests for specific Pokemon was such a great feature.
The GTS was horrible, so many easily obtainable pokemon being put up for legends
It had an easy to apply filter.
It was way easier to do the ‘dex
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2LpQ8eH1BI
I’ve gushed about Kamen Rider here before (And I posted this trailer in a previous article), bu I feel like talking about it again. As I said before, I’m so excited for this special. The Geiz Majesty suit looks amazing (Aside from maybe the Ridewatches plastered on him.), Another DiEnd looks cool, and this has the return of some fan favorite Secondary Riders. I’m so looking forward to this and Reiwa: The First Generation (Especially with the new suits in that movie).