Give Ditto its Imposter ability (

[rain mist]

I completely agree on this! Give ditto its only purpose of life! I dunno how it would work with currently existing dittos, with moves like metronome, etc (that would make ditto the only pokemon unable to use metronome, so banned from metronome tournament xD ) but it is the meaning of its entire life, having the only move transform in him.

I know this could lead to questioning about these others mon's ability then:
mimikyu
eiscue
zoroark
zorua
shedinja

but personally I think Ditto with transform would be amazingly good and a new breath to pcg OwO we could even make a PCG ditto to celebrate this change!

[upper scroll]

if this was implemented, then ditto's moves need to have only 5 pp max, just like in the real games.

but overall im not a fan of giving just one pokemon an ability essentially, while all the others get nothing

[red stream]

This is not about the move transform, the move would be completely pointless since Ditto would just get oneshot 12/10 times

[rain mist]

yep I understand that. What I mean is, would it still have 4 moves then? Even though its moves would change to the opponent set of moves? 👀

[red stream]

It would still have 4 moves but you would never actually see them

[rain mist]

yep exactly, so you could technically join a metronome tourney and would end up using opponent's moves including the metronome.

So would ditto become the only pokemon in PCG you can't use an empty disc on? (i mean you could but it would be pointless after the change, so might as well code it so that it can't be used)

Also I'm curious how the ability would be displayed. Would it be written in the dex entry or somewhere in the details tab?

[tepid saddle]

I must say, @rain mist, you are wrong on something here: moves on a Ditto are not irrelevant as a Ditto coming on another Ditto (already transformed or not) would fail to transform, hence would have to use its own moves

[upper scroll]

Which might become a very common situation if this gets implemented and every team will start running a ditto

[rain mist]

yep I thought about this situation. thus at first I thought ditto would only have 1 move, transform and nothing else, but since it's not the case, yes this situation might become frequent xD

[grand swan]

ditto is just bad no reason to try to make it viable. tbh

and also if ranked cant handle entrys what makes u think it can handle 2 pseudos? cuz i will jsut copy every1s psuedo and hear them cry about that.

[tidal trench]

Might as well give Shedinja Wonder Guard too at that point

Ditto would be on every team. You have a mon set up with Power up punch baton pass? Lemme bring out my ditto and hope I win the speed tie. Or you have a Healing ferrothorn with night shade? Lemme imposter ditto that. It’s a bit cringe. Reminds me of VGC era where Imposter Choice Scarf ditto was on every team lol

[narrow nebula]

With the nature of PCG your opponent always has better mons, or at least you should assume so, so i'm afraid it means that ditto will be obligatory on every single team

But i mean it can still be added for one season and then banned indefinitely :3

[clear mica]

it will end up in every match as switch in on the 600 bst mon... like a must have wild card for pokemon you could not handle as well...

[wooden canyon]

Just add all abilities and shake the game up

[grizzled thistle]

Ditto would be way too op and universal given the 1 600 bst slot, since you get something that can at minimum be a 2nd pseudo, but in reality is way more versatile and copy and neutralize many setup mons.

[final sphinx]

Have we considered just making it copy the opponents stats/typing and having it keep its own moves? I think this would be easier to program while potentially giving it a niche that isn’t super abusable.
That being said I don’t think there is a particular need for ditto to be useable, there are plenty of useless mons in pcg, and ditto could see use if we ever implement a breeding mechanic (wink wink )

[eternal oracle]

tbf if you're using a strat that's just banned from standard than can you REALLY complain if your opponent is doing something to counter that where as right now there is no way to handle that outside of gimping your team?