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How to catch a good IV'd Ditto
So, Sun and Moon has been out for... like 2 weeks? And of course, everyone wants good IV'd Pokémon
We now have Bottle Caps, but having a good IVd Ditto is always nice to avoid spending that many Bottle Caps
So, what will you need?
(Keep in mind that a few of these Pokémon will not be avaliable until Pokébank is released)
Non Automatic method:
An Item that "wastes turns" (Using an Antidote against a non-poisoned mon works)
Now, once you have everything, what do you have to do:
Pre battle: Give the Leppa Berry to the Pokémon with Trick and put the Pokémon with Recycle in the lead of your party (Turning off the animations helps too)
Once you find Ditto:
1.- Waste the first turn and let Ditto transform into the Recycle Pokémon
2.- Switch into your Trick user and trick the leppa berry
3.- Switch into your False Swiper and drop Ditto's HP to 1
(If a ditto appears and transforms into your False Swiper, kill it)
4.- Just keep killing Dittos until you have chained about 30, while the first Ditto nevers wastes PP thanks to Recycle/Harvest
Once you think that is enough chained Ditto, or once you find a shiny one, you can kill the recycling Ditto, and catch
Pre battle: Give the Leppa Berry to the Pokémon with Trick and put the Pokémon with Recycle in the lead of your party (Turning off the animations helps too)
Once you find Ditto:
1.- Waste the first turn and let Ditto transform into the Recycle Pokémon
2.- Switch into your Trick user and trick the leppa berry
3.- Switch into your False Swiper and drop Ditto's HP to 1
(If a ditto appears and transforms into your False Swiper, kill it)
4.- Just keep killing Dittos until you have chained about 30, while the first Ditto nevers wastes PP thanks to Recycle/Harvest
Once you think that is enough chained Ditto, or once you find a shiny one, you can kill the recycling Ditto, and catch
Semi-Automatic Method:
or
An Item that "wastes turns" (Using an Antidote with a non-poisoned mon works)
Important stuff (PB=You need to wait until Pokébank to get it):
Now, once you have everything, what do you have to do:
Pre battle: Give the Leppa Berry to the Pokémon with Trick and put the Pokémon with Recycle/Phantump in the lead of your party (Turning off the animations helps too)
Once you find Ditto:
1.- Waste the first turn and let Ditto transform into the Recycle Pokémon/Phantump
2.- Switch into your Trick user and trick the leppa berry
3.- Switch into your False Swiper and drop Ditto's HP to 1
(If a ditto appears and transforms into your False Swiper, kill it)
4.- Bring your Explosive Ghost when there is not a second Ditto, or when the second Ditto is not transformed yet
5.- Start wasting turns while the summoned Dittos transform into your Ghost Pokémon and explode, damaging no one, while the first Ditto nevers wastes PP thanks to Recycle/Harvest
Once you think that is enough chained Ditto, or once you find a shiny one, you can switch out, kill the recycling Ditto, and catch
But there is a problem...
You see, chained Pokémon not only get more IVs, they also can get hidden abilities.
Meaning that, if a shiny ditto with HA appears, it will transform inmediatly into your exploding Pokémon, and using explosion before you can even kill the original Ditto and try to catch it.
Don't worry tho, there is something you can do!! If there is a Pokémon in the field with Damp, no one can use Explosion.
So, in the case that the Ditto you want to catch has already transformed into the Exploding Pokémon, you can still catch it by switching into your Damp Pokémon.
And that's the full tutorial. Rigth now, we don't know the chances of getting a shiny Pokémon or a high IV'd Pokémon by chaining.
Between the 30th-255th chained Pokémon, the 4IVs are guaranteed.
Perfect IVs
- Chain length 0 to 4: No guaranteed perfect IVs
- Chain length of 5 to 9: 1 guaranteed perfect IV
- Chain length of 10 to 19: 2 guaranteed perfect IVs
- Chain length of 20 to 29: 3 guaranteed perfect IVs
- Chain length of 30 to 255*: 4 guaranteed perfect IVs
*The game uses an 8-bit counter to count chain length, so it only goes up to a maximum of 0xFF (255), after which it rolls over to 0 again. What this means is that it is possible to chain up to 280, for example, and only catch a Pokemon with 3 perfect IVs.
So, with a chain of 30 Dittos:
The chances of getting a Ditto with at least 4IVs is 100%
The chances of getting a Ditto with at least 5IVs is 3.125% (1/32)
The chances of getting a 6IVs Ditto is %0.09765625 (1/1024)
To put in perspective, the chances of getting a 6IVs Ditto are the same chances as getting a shiny in the Safari Zone in XY
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