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Is Ditto still in the game?!?

Since I advanced the Special Research Quest to catch Ditto I have spent the past six straight days catching everything Ditto-possible; Rattatta, Pidgey, Whismur (I HATE these, lol!), Taillow, etc. Well over SIX HUNDRED so far to date and over 30 hours of playing; using lures, incense(worthless I know). Of course I have yet to catch Ditto, which I knew would be the hardest part of this whole thing since it is 100% based on random luck. I wouldn't be so frustrated/despondent if for the fact that at least six of my friends so far said they all caught theirs within a few hours on the first day after receiving the quest. In the past it would take me about two months to catch one but then I wasn't trying to catch everything Ditto-possible; so maybe I got one every 50-100 from Ditto-fodder. Has anyone else had such horrible luck or did all of you catch your Ditto in a few hours too? Just curious how much longer before I should give up hope, lol.

Asked by Rykion7 years 3 months ago
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Well, to make you feel better, i caught Ditto faster than 10 ghost in this part. Took me like 40 mins after receiving quest. It was Zigzagoon :)

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It took me less than a day to get the ditto too and 5 days in and I have 2 ghosts only. Right now I have 3 on the radar buts it's 2am and I'm off to bed. No radar for ditto though

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Boooo, lol! Man I must have the worst luck...good for you though.

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I am experiencing the same thing. It is truly frustrating. I would assume that with all these changes happening, they need ways to keep people spending time/money. Lowering the appearance rate of ditto would serve this nicely (was not high to begin with), forcing everyone to waste their items on the common pokemon. I had a pretty good stash built up, but it is emptying quickly. I do not think I have done quite as much as you have, but I'm sure that I am in the hundreds by now as well. I actually spent all morning working on it as well, I guess we will just need to stick with it! If your friends (and some of mine) have gotten ditto then he must still be out there.

What upsets me even more than ditto is evolving a gyardos. I literally evolved my second a couple days before research came out. Now I am starting on those 400 candies from scratch :((((

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I made the same mistake there too....didn't want to read any spoilers so I evolved my Magikarp two days before I found out. Luckily I live close to a lake so getting enough for another Gyarados will only take another week or so...still probably won't have Ditto by then, lol.

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ah I wish I lived close to water! But yes I have been walking a lot and managed to catch a couple. Already got to 50 candies or so, so hopefully will not take more than a 7 or 8 days to get there. The whole scenario is just so unfortunate, I actually caught a ditto (i have not gotten many, perhaps this was my 8th since he was released into the game) maybe a week before evolving that second gyarados...if only we could shift everything back a week it would have been perfect!

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I laughed hard at the title of this because I asked myself the same thing a couple days ago. It took me 500+ catches to finally get mine.

Fast forward to today, I was hardcore Magikarp hunting and got another Ditto I wasn't even trying for. Magikarp is now my Ditto

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Been there mate. The fact that it’s only luck dependent just killed me until I got it. Now stuck at the carp too, but at least that one I can walk it to exhaustion. Keep trying, ask for help to local players, that played a key role with some of my fellow raiders (Discord FTW).

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Thank you that is good advice. My friends are on the lookout for me...but then again...they're not trying to catch Ditto anymore, lol!

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I feel your pain. Now that I don't need one anymore, I caught two in a row today.

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by Rykion 7 years 3 months ago

Looking at my Pokedex I've caught 34 Dittos since July 2016 without even trying...if the same rate holds up...at most I should catch another in two more weeks worst case! :-)

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I was curious to know how many I caught, so I checked and I've caught exactly 150.

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by PFP1 7 years 3 months ago

It took me 3 days to catch Ditto and it was the task that took me longer. Luckily I had a Duskull nest nearby and more than enough candy to evolve one karp. The fun thing is that after I caught it I found another one within 24 hours!!

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i feel so lucky i caught mine at the second pidgey

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by YodaJi 7 years 3 months ago

Caught 2 in the past 3 days

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my ditto came from a notification in a group, it was on a subway station 10 minuts from where i live, was easy, and i had no problem with gyarados, i was on 200 candies already, 3 hours grinding on the beach to reach the 400. we also had a gastly and a duskull nest going on

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Even before they upped the spawn rate of ditto for these research tasks I was catching at least 2 a day. Now, it’s annoying that I have to waste ultra balls on 191CP “pidgeys” every other hour. 600 commons is what I catch by hand in two days, keep going you’ll get it.

And if some piece of crap mon pops out of an excellent/great curve 2 times in a row you better switch to better balls cuz it’s a ditto.

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Yep...I might have lost one because it fled after the first throw a few days back.

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The morning after completing the previous step I decided to open the app and catch all the Pokemon around me. I caught a Hoothoot that was not really a Hoothoot, so I got it pretty easily.

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by hkn 7 years 3 months ago

Just keep catching commons for the stardust and XP. Ditto will come when you forget about it (at least, that was the case for me).

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It took me 3 days to find ditto. On Friday I caught 4 in an hour. Granted I was in a different area.

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I feel like a jerk but I did the 20 evolutions one morning before work, completing that round of research, then 15 minutes later on the way to work caught a ditto.

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by Rykion 7 years 3 months ago

Just a quick update....STILL HAVEN"T CAUGHT ONE! Well over 700+ ditto-fodder caught now. It's getting tougher because now the only ditto-fodder I see is Ghastly's. No luck with over 75+ of them caught so far.

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