Is there any logical point to "the best ditto"?

They’re doing an event in which you can get ditto with high stats. But the only thing it’s useful for changes it’s stats. So what is the point of ditto with high stats, if transformation copies the enemy’s stats?

Pleaselog inorregisterto add a comment.

It is the combination of the Destiny Knot item and the way IVs are bred down that makes a high IV Ditto a sought after entity.

When one of the parent Pokemon in a breeding pair is holding the Destiny Knot, the IVs of the child will be determined from the collective IVs of the parents. The Destiny Knot will choose 5 of the 6 stats of the child Pokemon, then for each of those 5 stats will pick the IV from one of the parents in the corresponding stat to give to the child. The 6th and final IV will be determined as random, like they normally are. When a child with more IVs is obtained, you swap it out for the non-Ditto parent and continue.

Ditto is favorable for this because it can breed with any Pokemon capable of breeding. Male, female, genderless, it doesn’t matter. So if you have a Ditto with high IVs, you’re greatly reducing the number of generations you need to go through to get the desired IV spread.

This is further incentivized by Shiny Pokemon and the Masuda Method. When breeding a Pokemon from your own language with a Pokemon of a different language, the odds of the offspring being Shiny are increased substantially. Since Ditto can breed with anything that is breedable, you are eliminating a long and arduous international trading process to obtain the desired Pokemon from a foreign language cartridge.