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brightknightie) wrote2016-11-24 05:17 pm
brightknightie) wrote2016-11-24 05:17 pm
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caught 3 dittos!
This afternoon, before the rain returns tomorrow, I went to a park confirmed on Silph Road as an oddish nest. In addition to enough oddishes for the candies to fully power up my double-S.T.A.B. vileplume with solar beam (my current favorite pokémon), an exeggcute, a totally random jynx (you never see jynxes here; my previous jynx was hatched), and assorted ordinary catches, I happened upon 3 dittos! The release is real!
2 were disguised as ratattas; the other as a pidgey. (I strongly suspect that some zubats that got away from me were also dittos in disguise, and probably some other ratattas and pidgies that got away.) Stats do differ; they're not clones. All 3 of mine came in between 51% and 64% IVs (usually, I send anything under 82% to the professor, but not a new entry in the pokédex, obviously).
Given that ditto has catch and flee rates on par with the starters, my guess is that any relentlessly ordinary pokémon (e.g. ratatta, pidgey, zubat, ekans, krabby, paras, caterpie) that show surprising catch resistance now have a fair chance of being ditto in disguise. Or they may just be strong ordinary pokemon, and a waste of your razz berries and great balls: impossible to know! :-)
Anybody else snag a ditto yet?
2 were disguised as ratattas; the other as a pidgey. (I strongly suspect that some zubats that got away from me were also dittos in disguise, and probably some other ratattas and pidgies that got away.) Stats do differ; they're not clones. All 3 of mine came in between 51% and 64% IVs (usually, I send anything under 82% to the professor, but not a new entry in the pokédex, obviously).
Given that ditto has catch and flee rates on par with the starters, my guess is that any relentlessly ordinary pokémon (e.g. ratatta, pidgey, zubat, ekans, krabby, paras, caterpie) that show surprising catch resistance now have a fair chance of being ditto in disguise. Or they may just be strong ordinary pokemon, and a waste of your razz berries and great balls: impossible to know! :-)
Anybody else snag a ditto yet?
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I have 4 or 5 dittos. I've been catching the most common pokemon to use as fodder with a lucky egg. It's helped my ditto-catching also.
actually 2 moves with STAB, not double STAB on a single move
I meant that both of my pet vileplume's moves benefit from Same Type Attack Bonus (STAB), not that either of her moves somehow garners 2 piled installments of STAB.
You probably know about STAB and were only bewildered by my poor phrasing! I learned about STAB for the first time from TrainerTipsNick (YouTube video) (Wikipedia: "A pokémon with the same type as the move it uses will receive a 50% bonus to its damage, referred to as a "Same-Type Attack Bonus" (STAB) in game jargon"). I never played the previous pokémon games -- just watched the cartoon a little -- so I'm learning about type advantages from scratch now.
For attacking, I find that I like my pokémon to have 2 moves of the same type, preferably with STAB, the easier for me to leverage type advantages. (I've coded their move types into their nicknames for reference, e.g. my vileplume is "87p Gy Gy a1." ~grin~) I have the GoPress app on my phone, so I can look up defenders' "Weakness/Resistance Chart"s and pick my attackers to maximize damage, experience, and prestige. :-) (As you know, when you defeat a pokémon with a pokémon of half or less of its CP, you get extra prestige and experience. Leveraging STAB -- and dodging! -- is the only way I know how to do that.)
Congratulations on all your dittos! Good luck with your lucky-egg spamming! I've decided that every normal-type pokémon that gets away from me from now on is secretly a ditto. ;-)