Tuesday, February 22, 2011

No. 132: Ditto

No, it's not silly putty. You can't eat it.

Ditto has a cool gimmick, and it works pretty well. That is, if your Ditto has a higher HP stat than the opposing Pokemon. And Ditto doesn't take a hit transforming. And you can win your speed ties.

So actually Transform sucks in battle, but it's still hella cool.

But the most useful ability of Ditto is that it can breed with any pokemon that can produce eggs. Want a baby Charmander? Have Charizard knock Ditto up. Want a baby Magnamite? Hell, Ditto can make that happen too, despite the fact that Magnemite have no gender and can't even mate with eachother as far as I know. And waitaminute, Ditto takes the exact form of another Pokemon, right?

So if you tell it to mate with a male, then it'll have to turn into a male, right? So how does that even work? Or maybe Ditto doesn't take the shape at all. I mean, who doesn't like sex jelly? Maybe Ditto just oils up your Pokemon, and that attracts a mate, and the Ditto facilitates conception.

Or at least, egg-happening.

Since I've never seen a pregnant Pokemon.

Where do those eggs come from, anyway? The day-care people always seem so surprised to find them, and it took scientists like 5 years to figure out that Pokemon even have babies at all.

Children's collectable battling monster video game, I doubt the verisimilitude of your procreation biology!

Overall: 6/10

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