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The most obvious and glaring consequence of Ditto’s unique breeding prowess is its use to quickly breed Pokémon. For collectors, it aids in quickly obtaining new Pokémon and completing the Pokédex by allowing for the breeding of missing species instead of catching or trading for all of them. Competitive players may have several Ditto available with a variety of abilities and useful {{bp|Individual values|IV}} spreads. Shiny hunters may even go one further and obtain a foreign Ditto so as to utilize the {{bp|Masuda method}} for breeding shinies. [http://www.reddit.com/r/BreedingDittos/ Communities have even popped up surrounding the sharing and obtaining of Ditto with useful traits for breedings]. Given its utility, one has to wonder that if Game Freak allowed for the tracking of genealogy, what percentage of Pokémon entered in official tournaments would have a Ditto in their ancestry? | The most obvious and glaring consequence of Ditto’s unique breeding prowess is its use to quickly breed Pokémon. For collectors, it aids in quickly obtaining new Pokémon and completing the Pokédex by allowing for the breeding of missing species instead of catching or trading for all of them. Competitive players may have several Ditto available with a variety of abilities and useful {{bp|Individual values|IV}} spreads. Shiny hunters may even go one further and obtain a foreign Ditto so as to utilize the {{bp|Masuda method}} for breeding shinies. [http://www.reddit.com/r/BreedingDittos/ Communities have even popped up surrounding the sharing and obtaining of Ditto with useful traits for breedings]. Given its utility, one has to wonder that if Game Freak allowed for the tracking of genealogy, what percentage of Pokémon entered in official tournaments would have a Ditto in their ancestry? | ||
Not all memes need to be creative to be memes. There is a meme that Ditto is valuable because of its breeding status and not because of its battle capability, just as there is a meme that shinies are valuable, or that you can flick your headlights as a warning to cars that have forgotten to turn theirs on. However we are talking about the Pokémon fandom and even mundane details like Sycamore’s | Not all memes need to be creative to be memes. There is a meme that Ditto is valuable because of its breeding status and not because of its battle capability, just as there is a meme that shinies are valuable, or that you can flick your headlights as a warning to cars that have forgotten to turn theirs on. However we are talking about the Pokémon fandom and even mundane details like {{bp|Professor Sycamore|Sycamore’s Letter}} can become memes. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that there has been a creative twist added to this meme as well. | ||
To quickly go over the premises of the creative memes, let’s look once more at the key facts: Ditto can transform into seemingly anything, and it is capable of breeding with almost every Pokémon. Cue the sex jokes, because that is where it leads. There are comics and concepts galore of Ditto interacting with people like {{bp|Professor Oak}} and {{bp|Brock}}, to Pokémon like {{p|Gardevoir}}. Most interestingly, Ditto is often personified as either gender neutral or as the opposite gender of the Pokémon it is interacting with, which results in a variety of themes and motifs for how Ditto is “dressed up” for its attire. | To quickly go over the premises of the creative memes, let’s look once more at the key facts: Ditto can transform into seemingly anything, and it is capable of breeding with almost every Pokémon. Cue the sex jokes, because that is where it leads. There are comics and concepts galore of Ditto interacting with people like {{bp|Professor Oak}} and {{bp|Brock}}, to Pokémon like {{p|Gardevoir}}. Most interestingly, Ditto is often personified as either gender neutral or as the opposite gender of the Pokémon it is interacting with, which results in a variety of themes and motifs for how Ditto is “dressed up” for its attire. | ||