Belated Free-for-All!

[inkstone]

Hello trainers!

I hope you're enjoying the double XP/stardust event and that, if you live in the US, you had a lovely Thanksgiving.

The current in-game event + Ditto + CP rebalancing seems to have stolen a lot of attention, so not much in the way of news. I did find this little piece about how PokeGo can be used to encourage interest in conservation efforts. I thought it was a nice change of pace from all the "POKEGO IS DESTROYING OUR PARKS!!" articles, which -- if you do enough digging -- a not-insignificant number seem to stem from affluent people freaking out over the riff-raff.

Since it's been a while, how are y'all doing? Enjoying the in-game event? Struggling to find a ditto? Mad about the CP rebalancing? Let's chat.

Comments

[healingmirth]

I have a fair number of clefables and wigglytuffs that are in the top tier, but I've never bothered checking into their IVs beyond that. My usual pattern is to save anything in that tier and evolve it, and for those two species I don't have a ton of extra candy saved up, so, like, 1 in 13 or so, if I did that math right?

But! They're low enough in the pokedex that the early ones could have been held down by the attack IV weirdness. (I can dig up a link if you hadn't heard about it, but I don't know if it was meant to be a feature or a bug, and it's since been changed) So, relative to eevees, over the life of the game, there would have been fewer 80+ clefairies and jigglypuffs, and could help explain what seems like relative bad luck. Does that help at all?

And apparently I'm going in reverse order here, but: the one hitmonlee and hitmonchan I have were total random catches in residential areas, though I've very recently hatched another hitmonchan. Literally never even sighted another, in that area or anywhere else.

Ditto will transform into whatever it fights first, and stay that way through the end of the battle. It definitely goes back to ditto-form and will transform again next battle, and I *think* it transforms using it's own level/IVs to transfer into an appropriate CP for what it transforms into, but I don't remember if there's research into that or not yet. I trained in a two ditto gym the other day, but wasn't quite on the ball enough to test it.

ditto mechanics

[brightknightie]

>"I *think* it transforms using its own level/IVs to transfer into an appropriate CP for what it transforms into"

That's what I'm seeing asserted around the Internet by usually reliable sources, fwiw. I haven't tried any dittos in gyms yet, myself, though.

Here's the GamePress "Ditto Mechanics" rundown, including a video of a ditto v. ditto gym fight ("cute but kind of pointless," they say).