Talk:Ditto (Pokémon): Difference between revisions

I have no hard scientific evidence to contradict this, but personal anecdotal evidence suggests that this may not be true (at least in Pokémon Crystal). I tried catching probably two dozen wild level 10 Dittos on Route 34 that I allowed to transform into an untrained level 10 Magikarp before putting them to sleep and reducing their HP to 1 with False Swipe. According to [http://www.dragonflycave.com/gen2capturecalc.aspx Cave of the Dragonflies' catch rate calculator], a sleeping level 10 Magikarp with 1 HP should have a 100% chance of capture with a standard Poké Ball. My understanding is that, if the above quote from the Trivia section is accurate, the transformed Dittos should also have a 100% chance of capture (whereas, untransformed, the chance of capture under the same conditions would be ~17%). And yet I repeatedly had to use multiple Poké–, Great– and Ultra Balls in order to catch the transformed Dittos (suggesting that I was actually dealing with Ditto's 35 catch rate rather than Magikarp's 255—in spite of the transformation).